Silence always followed the clamor.
Three days later.
Everyone drank until they were drunk, yet none said goodbye.
After coming all this way, they were only one step away from success, but taking that step would be as difficult as reaching the heavens.
Shane was the last to leave.
They had to attack ninety-nine percent of the enemy with one percent of the troops.
And they had a year at most, or Imu would reduce this world to ashes.
Shane had spent two years taking this one percent of the world, yet now he had to take ninety-nine times as much territory in half the time.
So his crew and every fleet under his command had to put in over a hundred times the effort they had before.
When they met again a year later, more of them would stand at the summit.
As the last person to leave Hachinosu, Shane sailed alone aboard the phantom-like Black Pearl.
Invisible, airborne, propelled by the Paw-Paw Fruit, and able to pass through all things with the Door-Door Fruit.
In ordinary people's eyes, this ship was like a ghost.
On this journey, Shane would travel throughout the world, supporting every battlefield and leaving marks everywhere, so he could use the Paw-Paw Fruit to reach every corner of the world.
He would also awaken more Devil Fruits, contributing to the eventual submission of the Dark-Dark Demonic Will.
The first stop on this journey would be an uninhabited island.
Shane headed straight for the location in his memory: West Blue!
It had already become a forbidden zone for ordinary people, with chaotic magnetic fields around it, abnormal weather, and not a blade of grass growing.
Poison gas filled the island, where only statues remained standing.
Starting from God Valley, Shane would complete this voyage around