Sea Circle Calendar, year 1523.
After three years of settling and cleanup, the volcanic ash blanketing the entire planet's skies had finally had its impact on the world reduced to a minimum.
Countries and islands around the world began enjoying warm sunlight again, one after another.
Those flagged as potential threats were also dying inexplicably, at an unbelievable rate.
Since the Marines returned in the first half of the year, the whole world had become like an efficiently running machine, undergoing enormous changes every day.
The corresponding policies were also put into effect.
As troops gradually took up stations on the islands and established base stations, communications around the world began to recover.
People who had gone without news for so long eagerly picked up their long-neglected Den Den Mushi and called those they longed to see but could not...
Sphinx Island, Whitebeard's hometown.
Dilapidated houses ringed the island, making it look like an uninhabited wasteland.
In truth, there was more to it. To escape the Heavenly Tribute and pirate raids, the residents had hidden in a valley, cut off from the world, with Marco secretly protecting them.
As an island on the Grand Line, it had long been marked on the Marines' positioning charts.
It was also among the first islands to regain communications and receive the Marines' policies.
And with the Marines' arrival...
The residents of Sphinx Island had returned to live out in the open.
At that moment...
In town...
The ruined houses were already gone, replaced by level ground, where the former village chief marked out each family's plot.
Once the plots were assigned...
A group of clerks in Marine uniforms began work, carrying numbered blueprints and leading a Jinbe Seraphim no taller than an ordinary person.
They took out three canisters of special green