(It wasn't Salted Fish speeding up time. In One Piece's timeline, Luffy really did go all the damn way
from Dressrosa to Onigashima in a month and a half-and finished the fight, too! Otherwise, Doflamingo wouldn't have laughed his head off reading the newspaper.)
The battle on Onigashima had already begun. Meanwhile, the pirate island of Hachinosu experienced an unprecedented upheaval that day.
It wasn't a Marine fleet laying siege, nor the fallout from a clash between the Four Emperors. It came from an old man's fury
and the simple, brutal "Iron Fist" he had wielded all his life.
Garp had arrived.
No battleships cleared his path. No army descended upon the island.
There was only one warship, with a handful of people on deck-Garp himself and several elite members of SWORD.
Their goal was clear and direct: rescue Koby.
From the outset, Garp's "leave of absence" had never been mere talk.
He couldn't stand by and watch Kuzan stray farther down the wrong path, nor could he tolerate the thought of Koby, whom he had once held in high regard,
but who had grown increasingly radical since the Neo Marines became independent, even showing faint signs of separatist tendencies,
falling into Blackbeard's or Kuzan's hands as a bargaining chip or puppet.
He would bring these two wayward "pupils" back himself-beat some sense into one and drag the other home.
According to the intelligence, Blackbeard had already set out for an island in the New World,
hoping to snatch a prize from the chaos between two Emperors and the Worst Generation by lying in wait for the three captains leaving Wano Country. He probably hadn't expected Luo to be the one he ended up facing.
That meant the forces guarding Hachinosu were led by the newly recruited "Aokiji," Kuzan, supported