Ye Chuan and Robin sailed into the legendary Florian Triangle.
Their surroundings were instantly shrouded in an impenetrably thick black fog. Visibility plummeted, and not even the midday sunlight could pierce it.
The entire sea lay in darkness, terrifyingly silent save for the monotonous sound of their ship cutting through the water, and... the occasional eerie howl from deep within the fog.
"What an... unpleasant place."
Robin stood at the bow, her delicate brows slightly furrowed. She could feel that even the air in these waters seemed to carry a cold, damp scent of decay.
Ye Chuan had already spread his Observation Haki. He could clearly sense what seemed to be countless barely perceptible gazes hidden within the thick fog, watching their ship-the prey that had strayed into this place-from every direction.
Their ship continued sailing through the thick fog for an unknown length of time. Just as Robin was beginning to question her life, an unimaginably enormous shadow finally began to slowly part the dense mist ahead.
It was a ship.
A colossal ship so unimaginably large that it resembled a moving island!
Its bow was a gaping, bloodthirsty maw like a monster's, and three enormous masts towered into the clouds like mountain peaks, clearly visible even through the thick fog.
Sinister Gothic castles and graveyards stood upon its hull, and a massive iron chain hung from its bow like a monster's fang.
Thriller Bark, the largest pirate ship in the world, was so enormous that it rivaled a small island.
It was the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of over a hundred ships in the Florian Triangle every year.
Its current master was one of the Shichibukai, the wielder of the Shadow-Shadow Fruit-Gecko Moria.
He used this mobile fortress to capture every passing ship, then stole the victims'