Ten days!
Only ten days remained until the Rainbow Country Alliance conference, yet their other protagonist, Ace, had only just arrived at the Sabaody Archipelago with his companions and the Spade Pirates.
"Wow... so this is the Sabaody Archipelago?"
"It's so beautiful!"
Unlike the other crew members, who were making a fuss, Masked Deuce, the Spade Pirates' vice-captain and Ace's first companion recruited in the East Blue, worriedly asked Robin beside him.
"Um, is this really all right, Miss Robin?"
He had long learned from Captain Ace that Ace had to enter the New World and reach Wenmikudan Island by the appointed time.
"It's fine!"
Robin looked at Ace, who stood at the bow with a grave expression, and smiled gently.
"If the captain thinks it's fine, then it must be fine."
"You're so kind, Miss Robin."
Robin's air of a wise, dependable older sister won over everyone in the Spade Pirates.
Hearing that, Ace turned around and looked at the companions he had personally recruited, speaking confidently.
"Don't rush. As long as we get there by that day, isn't that enough?"
"That's true, but..."
"All right, Deuce, when did you become such a worrywart? Trust our companions. After all, the two of us built this together."
As Ace spoke, he patted the pirate ship beneath his feet.
After deciding to leave Angel Island and set out to sea, Ace's first destination had been Loguetown in the East Blue.
The place where his father, Gol D. Roger, had been executed.
But he had never expected to encounter a storm. His original pirate ship, along with himself, had been swept by the storm to an island, where he met Deuce.
Together, they rebuilt their pirate ship and formed the Spade Pirates.
It could be said that this pirate ship was the