Sea Circle Calendar year 1521, the second year of the Great Cataclysm.
After Tesoro acquired the Smoke-Smoke Fruit ability of Smoker, who had died fighting in the New World,
he used the advantages of a Logia to rise from a slave trader to the ruler of six surrounding islands in just one year.
He established Slave Island and proclaimed himself the Slave King.
The Great Cataclysm gave countless ambitious men their chance, but it was also their last wild celebration...
Slave Island, in the first half of the Grand Line.
The once-prosperous island looked somewhat dilapidated now, yet it was bustling with activity.
Everywhere one looked, there were people...
Slave overseers as vicious as pirates patrolled with whips in hand.
Slaves packed the island, wearing collars, chains, and shackles.
Regardless of their age, they all hauled stone and building materials from the docks toward the center of the island. They were residents of the six surrounding islands.
From a distance,
a colossal statue of a woman could be seen slowly taking shape at the island's center.
This was where Tesoro had made his start, and where he had first met Stella...
After acquiring his Devil Fruit ability, he immediately spent a fortune recruiting men and seized the island. The slave trader who had once watched the two of them for his own amusement had long since died at Tesoro's hands.
The former slave shop became the center of the enormous female statue, with construction spreading outward from that spot.
He finally had money, power, and authority, yet he could never bring her back...
This was the only way he could express the anguish in his heart...
Across from the colossal statue stood a castle.
On the terrace atop the castle, Tesoro stood in a suit and polished shoes, holding