Sky Island.
The sky is ten thousand meters above the Grand Line, composed of water clouds and islands.
This particular Sky Island, located directly above the island of Jaya, is called Skypiea.
Somewhere off the coast of Skypiea, several girls were hard at work, with small snow-white wings on their backs and several baskets made of dense clouds.
The inhabitants of the Sky islands, as well as the inhabitants of the ordinary islands of the blue sea, must engage in fishing, in order to obtain food.
But the gathering of crabs, shellfish and other living creatures was done only in passing, because the main purpose was different kinds of shells that could satisfy a variety of domestic needs.
The daily routine fishing in the sea of clouds is quite capable of satisfying basic human needs, and if you are lucky enough to catch some rare shells, you can even sell them at an excellent price and enjoy a comfortable life for a while.
The brown-haired girl bent down, picked up some sort of Sea Shell from the murky sand and ran to the nearest companion when she got a better look at it.
"Kaya! Look!"
"Wow, is this really a Dial? you're really lucky today!"
The golden-haired girl looked enviously at the Dial, then sighed and growled, "I feel like my luck shouldn't be any worse today!"
The Dial, which has a combat use, has a rather high price, relative to other types of Dial.
The income from selling one of these shells is equivalent to the usual income for the whole day, so after finding a seashell, the rest of the income will be an additional bonus.
"Do your best!"
The brown-haired girl smiled at her companion, carefully removing the Dial.
Kaya vigorously rubbed her cheeks with her hands and began to explore the cloud bank, but in the end she only found a simple Dial without any function and another one that at first seemed special, but after careful consideration it turned out that this too was a completely ordinary seashell.
Kaya pouted and gnashed her teeth, throwing another ordinary projectile into the sea of clouds.
"You don't have enough patience, hahaha."
The other girls couldn't help but giggle at Nolte's behavior.
But just at the moment when the girls were still laughing sweetly, it was at the spot where the discarded shell landed that stormy waves suddenly rose up.
In the next moment.
Boom!!!
The sea of clouds exploded with force and a powerful aura rose into the sky, scattering many water-like clouds in all directions.
Water-like clouds fell onto the shore, soaking Nolte's and the others' clothes.
All the girls looked in shock in the direction of the sea of clouds, interrupting their business, and were surprised to find that a large sailboat appeared and ran aground just in front of the shore.
"This is..."
Kaya recovered from her fright faster than the others and exclaimed in surprise, "... a ship of the blue sea!"
The Sky Islands have some contact with the blue sea, even though they are ten thousand meters above sea level.
There are several ways to get from the blue sea to the heavenly islands, one of which is to 'fly' with the help of an updraft.
These girls were quite young, only about sixteen or seventeen years old, but even they had already encountered the wreckage of ships washed ashore by the current of the sea of clouds several times.
But it was the first time they had seen such a large ship, which was also in perfect condition.
After a few seconds of silence, the girls moved away from the fright and began to carefully examine a large ship that ran aground near the shore.
"Since the ship is in perfect condition... shouldn't there be survivors on it?"
"Then why isn't there a single living soul on her deck..."
The girls whispered something, looking at the ship from afar, until they came to a consensus.
They must examine it!
In the cloudy sea, it was considered a great success to come across a surviving ship from the blue sea, because on those ships you can always find things that are not on the celestial islands and sell them for a decent price, so even simple wrecks and wreckage of ships usually attract the attention of the inhabitants of the celestial island.
Although the ship was in perfect condition, for some reason, there was not a soul on deck, which made it very attractive to the girls on the shore.
After all, if you are lucky enough to find something very valuable on this ship, you will no longer have to spend all day doing this boring shell collection on the shore.
You can even open your own store!
But more importantly, this sudden appearance of a large ship will soon attract other residents of the island of Heaven!
Therefore, they should look for him as soon as possible!!!!!
The girls ran towards the ship.
It was very difficult to get on this big ship, even considering that it ran aground, so the girls had to resort to some tools.
Whew!
Kaya pulled out a shell, from which small clouds began to emerge after activation.
These clouds overlapped each other until they reached the deck of the ship.
Several girls began to touch the clouds on the folded island, making sure they were strong enough, and began to slowly climb them.
But Kaya first called out politely, not rushing up to the deck.
"Is anyone there?!"
"..."
Silence.
The girls poked their heads out and carefully examined the deck, but found not a single living soul.
The ship was completely empty and silent, but at the same time it was in excellent condition.
This strange and unnatural picture gave Kaya and the others an eerie feeling.
"Is there really not a soul on the ship...? it's all strange..."
"The ship seems to be intact, but at the same time there is no one on it Did the entire crew fall off the deck when they arrived here in the updraft?"
Kaya said thoughtfully, rubbing her chin with her hand.
The Nolte, bolder and bolder, waved her hand and headed straight for the entrance to the cabins, "Let's go in and find out!"
"Is anyone there?! We'll disturb you!"
He looked toward the entrance of the huts and shouted loudly, already about to enter.
But just at the moment Nolte took a step.
Whew!!!
The quiet, still deck of the ship suddenly began to shake.
Several ropes rushed over Nolte at high speed, quickly tying her up and pulling her out of the corridor leading to the cabins.
"Uaaaaaaaa!!!"
Nolte screamed in fear.
It was obvious that there were no other people here and the ropes were moving on their own.
Kaya and the others also screamed in fear at the sight of this strange and creepy scene.
Some of the girls ran away in panic and others tried to save Nolte, but in the end they too were tied up with ropes.
Whoosh! whoosh! whoosh! whoosh!!!!!
A few seconds later.
Six girls were tied with ropes.
They were all tied in different poses, showing amazing flexibility, and carefully dangled directly under the sail of the boat.
"mmmm.... mmmm..."
The girls tried to call for help, but the ropes themselves tied several knots and gagged them, after which only a confused murmur was heard from the ship's deck.
After a while, when Loya and the other girls began to cry in despair, a beautiful silver-haired young man, dressed in a loose-fitting short-sleeved shirt, came out of the cabin onto the deck.
It was Yeruashi.
He tied his belt and involuntarily burst out laughing, looking at what was happening on the deck of his ship, "Hey, since when did you guys get interested in the art of bondage? Let them go."
"Yes!"
The ropes responded in unison and were immediately untied.
The young women fell to the deck one after the other and immediately tried to get up, but due to the weakness and numbness caused by the bondage, they were breathing rapidly and falling back to the deck, with each attempt to get up.
Robin appeared behind Yeruashi, slightly flushed, and calmly said, looking thoughtfully at Loya and the others, "People living at such a height above sea level are very different from us..."
"Yes, the body structure is really different."
Yeruashi nodded.