Chapter 15: Flowery Haki-chan, Here Comes Watashi! >3<

Life at sea, of course, is a long, winding voyage.

Don't be fooled by how quickly Monkey D. Luffy seemed to have circled the globe in just a few months—unlike him, the Roger Pirates didn't have such a clear-cut itinerary. Most of their time was still spent on the move, with no map to guide them and no script to follow.

In truth, if anyone deserved to be called the true "Chosen One," it was Roger himself. He didn't race through the world guided by fate; he stumbled, laughed, and bled his way through it—yet somehow, he managed to gather all the pieces needed to reach the final island, almost by accident.

As for those pirates less blessed by luck? Some of them spent their entire lives scouring the seas and still never once glimpsed a single Poneglyph, let alone found someone who could read one.

And just like that, a year slipped by.