Secrets

"What exactly is Imu trying to do?" Swain asked.

"How do you know about him?" The smile froze on Vegapunk's face.

"I launched a major attack on the Holy Land before. More than once, actually. I also sent people to raid their food transports," Swain said, dropping the revelation without warning.

Vegapunk was speechless. He hadn't expected Swain to be even more reckless than he'd thought.

Swain had dared attack the Holy Land—and survived.

"Why did you choose me?" Vegapunk asked.

"I want to change this world and overthrow Imu's rule."

"And you're someone I can trust," Swain said sincerely.

Their conversation had been hurried, but people who shared an ideal would eventually find themselves on the same path.

Vegapunk fell silent. After a moment, he said, "I only have a few theories."

Swain was thrilled. After working for the World Government for so many years, Vegapunk was bound to know some secrets.

"It starts with the Red Line..."

The Red Line was the highest geographical point in the world of One Piece. Setting aside Sky Island, it was the highest place most people could reach.

If the sea level truly kept rising, the Red Line would be the last place left above water, even after the rest of the world was submerged.

Perhaps that was the real reason Imu and the Celestial Dragons had chosen to live there.

But Mary Geoise still depended on supplies from the islands below.

The raids Swain had sent the Red Earl to carry out against transport ships had been enough to cause a food crisis for the Celestial Dragons. Imu must have considered how the Holy Land would be supplied after the world's destruction when he moved there.

The colossal bridge-building project had begun seven hundred years ago and consumed untold labor and