Shiki, I'll go down and take a look!
Kazan uttered these words and immediately took to the air.
He always believed that everything had a reason, even if it's metaphysical.
And as soon as Kazan soared into the sky, he instantly felt a wave of resistance!
It seemed like an invisible hand was pulling him back!
— The wind is changing...
Muttering, Kazan struggled against this resistance, relying on his physical strength and precise control over the Float Fruit.
He headed down to the boat.
When he reached the bottom of the vessel, Kazan scrutinized the ship's position, looking up, down, left, and right, but found nothing unusual, so he immediately descended to the sea's surface to assess the situation, to understand the law of action between the waves, and realized that the waves were only a bit larger than usual—nothing remarkable.
He was ascending to a height of 3,000 meters when the sight before him struck him!
On the sea's surface lay a round red-yellow island.
The round island was surrounded by completely calm seas with mirror-blue water.
Kazan instantly realized that in this maritime area, there were no waves—this was purely an island phenomenon of calmness!
The blue sea and red-yellow island formed a large circle with a small one in the center!
However, that wasn't all—besides these two circles, there existed a third!
Kazan noticed that around the circular sea was a ring resembling a hoop, and the sea inside this circle churned clockwise, the waves were significantly stronger than in the usual part of the New World's sea outside the circle.
— Shhh—! I see!
— It's actually a regular circular wind!
— No wonder our ships sailed for so long without noticing movement, it turns out the military ship was sailing in the wind belt and circling the island!
— I always used the island as a reference point, and it looked very round, left and right, everything appeared the same, like a space station orbiting the equator; no matter how many times they rotated in space, the view of the land remained the same!
The Grand Line definitely lives up to its name.
Sometimes you encounter an island with unique geographic and even meteorological conditions.
Kazan admired this internally and headed for the military ship below.
Such an intriguing place sparked his curiosity, and he decided to take Shiki with him to see the world.
— Let's go! Let's check out the island!
As soon as Shiki, who was amusing himself with a blade, heard this, his mood instantly improved.
In the morning, he had suggested exploring the island, but Kazan asked him to focus on sharpening the knife.
Now, after several hours of work, the island was still there.
Isn't that destiny?
— Hahaha! I'll adjust the sails right away! — said Shiki with a smile.
However, Kazan knew that their ships had been flying for six hours, and before he realized it, they had circled the island numerous times, relying on the sails but unable to exit this "wind belt," only getting caught in an endless loop.
So Kazan said:
— Take down the sails and use your abilities to steer the ship sideways!
— Something's wrong!
Shiki had just used his ability and immediately frowned:
— My powers seem to be pulling on something!
— What?
In response to Kazan's questions, he also tried to use the float abilities.
As Shiki mentioned, when attempting to steer the ship using the Float Fruit, there was indeed some mysterious force invisibly resisting, as if someone was preventing the military ship from docking on the island.
After twenty minutes of testing, both brothers completely gave up.
They realized that the wind in this wind belt seemed to be governed by some law; as soon as large objects like ships entered, they got stuck in a hunting mode.
Here, like slime on a spider's web, flying insects immediately stick, and the same goes for ships.
This invisible force changes in accordance with the strength of the opposition; when the two of them exert force, this force simultaneously increases, and in such a struggle, even if they both exert all their efforts at the same time, they cannot escape the ring-shaped wind belt.
What is this power?
It's truly strange!
Kazan suggested that the sea surface and the sky in the toroidal space are one.
It doesn't matter if the sea enters the ship or the sky enters the ship.
They are all captured by the wind belts!
Caught in an inevitable endless cycle!
Perhaps the size of a human body and the ship is different; Kazan had experimented before and knew that if more effort was exerted, he could still fly out.
But unfortunately...
The military ship will likely have to remain here forever.
Day after day, it will continue its rotations until it decays.
Not wanting to think about it any further, Kazan decided to go to the island and check out the situation, considering the events were too strange.
He said cautiously:
— Shiki, stay on the ship, I'll go to the island first, if anything happens, I'll return!
With these words, Kazan flew toward the central island.
— Hiss——!
The resistance is really immense!
...
On the other side, just a few minutes earlier.
In the same wind belt where Kazan is located, on the perimeter.
On the ordinary seas of the New World.
Another military ship had furled its sails, stopping on the sea and bobbing up and down.
— Hey, it's really tough earning money for baby formula!
Looking at the man in front of him, who had removed his shirt, showing off his muscles,
Another stocky man added in a dissatisfied tone:
— Damn it, Garp, Dragon has only just learned to walk, he's only half a year old! You just left the child in the East blue. Do you want to raise your hand and swear to God that you really care about your children?
Cap threw his shirt on the deck, and immediately a soldier came over to pick it up.
— Major General Garp, I'll take care of it!
Garp looked at Sengoku.
— Hey, hey, hey! Soldier, you rarely take a vacation. I'm just complaining, what's wrong with taking a bath? Don't you want to come along?
— I've got a migrain! — Sengoku held his forehead.
These two were marine supernovas who took on the mission "intercept the Kazan brothers" from Headquarters: Monkey D. Garp and Sengoku.
Their ship was heading swiftly towards the waters near the Land of Wano, but after a week of waiting for their prey, they found no trace of them.
Finally, this group of useless spies said:
— Oh! Oh, two generals! Sorry! Their ships can fly! They're gone! You'd better return the same way!
This group of slackers enraged Cap!
So, during the mission, Garp temporarily turned it into a vacation.
Prepared to have some fun and return to Marineford, Garp, being a soldier but not Sengoku, allowed his relationship with colleagues to refuse the invitation.
And so, on the way back, Garp picked up a chest drifting in the sea.
Opening it, he found a treasure map inside!
The map detailed an island.
This island is called Whirlpool Island!
The treasure map also included warnings about landing on the island, such as the peculiarities of the sea's geographical environment—
But the key information recorded on the treasure map was about a devil fruit with "the greatest disaster power in history"!
The greatest disaster in history?
Is it really that terrible?
When Garp saw this news, he actually didn't feel any excitement—he was not at all interested in the Devil Fruit, but he thought that the Devil Fruit was a secret treasure of the sea that he could trade for berries to make money for baby milk, and that intrigued him.
The true reason for his actions was in his thoughts at the time.
Garp was actually tricked by this group of dogs into a mission in the New World or dealing with two eighteen-year-old punks, even forced to release the spy pigeons, and immediately decided to return to Marino and never come back.
Devil Fruit? The greatest disaster power in history?
Garp indeed wasn't worried.
— Eh! I'll just have some fun!
I should go to the island and stay there for a few days!
So Garp came here, took off his shirt, and remained without it.
— Dry duck, dry duck!
— Hahahaha!!!
With loud laughter, Garp jumped straight into the sea.
Like a rapid arrow, he swam toward Whirlpool Island!
Watching Garp's back as he headed toward the waves, Sengoku just shook his head:
...
Back to the present.
Almost at the same moment, four streams of sight and heart opened in these magical waters simultaneously!!
Bzzz——!
Bzzz——!
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