Many years later.
A member of the Sky Pirate Crew who survived is telling his grandson about his sea adventures.
But when he gets to the big fight in the scary triangle area, the Sky Pirate Crew member stops.
After thinking for a while, the old Sky Pirate Crew member smiles helplessly and shakes his head, saying, "Forget it, I won't talk about it."
"Grandpa, tell me! Tell me!"
"No, even if I wanted to, it seems impossible..."
The old man explains with a bitter smile, "How can I describe the situation back then? Even we didn't know what was happening!"
"Huh? Why?"
"Because there was fog." The old man says, "Very, very thick fog, so thick you couldn't even see your friends on the same deck!"
"If that's the case, how did the two people Grandpa mentioned fight?"
"Hahahaha, if Grandpa really understood that, he wouldn't have quit being a pirate when he was just an intern."
The old man quietly remembers the past, and says to himself:
"At that moment, I understood something. The 'top' of this sea, that so-called 'world of the strong,' is an area I can never reach in my life..."
Despite the feeling, the grandson still doesn't understand his grandfather's description.
Why couldn't even the people in the fight describe what happened?
Was it really just because of the so-called "fog"?
...
Yes.
The scary triangle area is feared by people at sea mainly because of the "unknown" things in it.
And one of the reasons for that scary "unknown" is the fog that never goes away!
It's because of that fog that the fight became a scene that the world will never know.
Even the people on the Sky Pirate Crew ships or the Four Seas Alliance ships couldn't see what happened!
But they had a feeling.
What feeling?
They remember camping on a deserted island once.
At midnight, all the people sleeping in the camp suddenly woke up at the same time for no reason.
But what made them curious was that the lookout hadn't sounded an alarm, and there were no strange noises around.
Suddenly, a strange "presence" showed up in their minds.
The next day, when they went deep into the island to explore, they found two dead wild animals far away.
These two wild animals were covered in wounds, obviously after a terrible fight, and ended up killing each other.
Thinking about it now, the strange "presence" from last night was probably the amazing power that came from the wild animals fighting to the death!
This is one of the many natural abilities of living things.
It was like that then, and it's like that now!
...
In the fog of the scary triangle area.
Several big and small things are falling fast from high in the sky!
They can be divided into three main groups.
First, there are the Sky Pirate Crew ships and several small floating islands.
For some reason, the floating power that Golden Lion gave them disappeared, and the Sky Pirate ships and floating islands became normal ships and small islands again.
Without power, they fall straight down.
Second, there are the Four Seas Alliance ships.
After feeling that his floating islands and ships had lost the floating power, Golden Lion knew he didn't have time to add the power again.
"I can't just let my little guys fall, can I? Come on down with me!"
Thinking this, Golden Lion also removed the floating power from the Four Seas Alliance ships.
The Four Seas Alliance ships then start to fall.
Third, and the most important part of these falling things.
There are only two people!
After removing the power from the Four Seas Alliance ships, Golden Lion jumped, planning to go back to his own ship and add the floating power to it again.
After all, those floating islands are just deserted islands, so he doesn't care if they get broken.
And he really wanted to see how the man who knocked down all his floating islands and ships would deal with falling from 10,000 meters in the air!
But Golden Lion didn't expect that as soon as he left, Rowan's black gun came after him from the front!
"Ugh!"
Golden Lion suddenly stopped in the air.
Turning his head, he saw Rowan also jump, landing near Golden Lion and catching the black gun he had just thrown.
This guy wants to keep fighting?!
Golden Lion's surprise lasted less than half a second.
What followed was a strange feeling of excitement.
"Tsk hahahahaha, if you want to fight, I'll play with you!"
Golden Lion twists his body in the air and uses the two swords under his feet to block the falling black gun.
Clang!
Dark strong fighting energy hits the two famous swords, causing sparks to fly.
...
The Sky Pirate Crew and the Four Seas Alliance people saw the sparks in the fog, so they knew where Rowan and Golden Lion were.
The Sky Pirate Crew gunners tried to turn their cannons to help their captain, but were stopped by another person.
"The fog is so thick, do you want to blow up our captain? Besides, the captain's opponent has a natural power of a devil fruit, so cannons won't work!"
On the other side.
The people on the Four Seas Alliance ships were also worried.
Tiger frowned and said in a deep voice, "Should we help?"
"Help?"
Crocodile, with a cigar in his mouth and sand swirling around him, smiled darkly, "Brother, you're a fish-man, not a bird-man. You want to fly or something?"
As he speaks, Crocodile's sand has spread to the entire Four Seas Alliance ship.
Using the sand-sand fruit's power on such a large area is really tiring for Crocodile.
"Tsk, the way I develop my fruit power is different from you old thing..."
Crocodile clenches his teeth, opens his arms wide, his veins popping out, and locks all ten fingers tightly.
Whoosh!
At that moment, a sand "curtain" rises from under the Four Seas Alliance ship, like a parachute, slowing down the ship's fall.
But it only slows it down.
Crocodile isn't Rowan, and can't make wings that can glide.
But that's enough!
That moment of slowing down makes the Four Seas Alliance ship fall much slower than the floating islands.
Boom!
One of the floating islands falls into the sea first, making huge waves and dust.
And in that dust, a giant sand soldier rises up, reaching out a sand hand and catching the falling Four Seas Alliance ship!
Crackling...
The giant sand soldier's body makes cracking sounds, and then gently places the Four Seas Alliance ship on the sea.
At the same time, Golden Lion takes the opportunity to touch his own ship, and the floating power is added back to the Sky Pirate Crew ships.
The Sky Pirate Crew ships then lightly fall onto the sea.
...
From then on, the situation at sea is divided into two sides.
On one side are several floating islands that Golden Lion has put back under his power.
On the other side is a small island with sand soldiers standing on it that Golden Lion hasn't put back under his power.
After their short fight, the two landed on their own places.
Golden Lion stands on his swords and looks down at the sea.
Rowan stands on the ground and looks up at the sky.
They can't see each other.
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