The number of pirates on Hachinosu was staggering.
It could be called a place where everyone was a pirate. Even a tavern owner or a shipwright at the port was a pirate with a bounty.
If someone could conquer Hachinosu single-handedly, the bounties alone would be enough to bury him in mountains of gold and silver.
But people with that kind of strength were exceedingly rare on the seas.
Most importantly, their strength varied wildly.
Loyalty was even less possible. Their collective submission during Rocks's era had been more like worship of absolute power and ambition.
Every characteristic of a pirate had been embodied in Rocks to the fullest.
He had been a madman, an ambitious schemer, and a monster with outrageous luck.
He had been the equivalent of a combination of Blackbeard and Thousand Coins the Clown, Buggy the Clown.
Lucky and powerful!
His very existence had seemed like an accident.
Since Rocks's death, many had not even dared to mention his existence.
Hachinosu was nominally under Wang Zhi's control.
But in reality, the place where he truly held dominance was Rocky Port.
The pirates elsewhere merely feared his strength and did not dare express their dissatisfaction openly.
Living somewhere controlled by an Island-Island Fruit user, they had no choice but to learn to keep things hidden.
Golden Lion could not possibly want this place.
In his view, rather than join forces with a bunch who loved slaughter yet dared not leave Hachinosu, even calling it a pirate paradise...
He would rather establish his own force and recruit pirates who already had reputations, fighting strength, and ambition!
A powerless rabble was destined never to board Golden Lion's Flying Pirate Crew.
As for this place, it was no different from the other islands that had flown into the sky.
Therefore.