One Piece: Your Emperor Has Returned

In the Sea Circle Calendar year 685, the great emperor and Ascended One Azir descended upon this world.

In the Sea Circle Calendar year 695, he met the Nefertari siblings, transformed and strengthened the Sand-Sand Fruit, and built a desert disk that blotted out the sky.

In the Sea Circle Calendar year 700, witnessed by a million sand soldiers, he founded the Alabastan Empire. That same year, he completed a voyage around the world aboard a battleship of Ancient Weapon Pluton class.

"In the Sea Circle Calendar year 715, he accepted a great many disciples and bestowed the surname D upon them. That same year, he went to war with the alliance of nineteen nations and emerged victorious."

"In the Sea Circle Calendar year 719, the desert emperor Azir began his ascension ritual. It failed, and he fell asleep here.

Eight hundred years later.

Crocodile and Ron broke into the forbidden grounds, and the Ascended One Azir awoke!

That day, a million sand soldiers advanced on Marineford. A desert disk blotting out the sky locked onto the nineteen nations!

"The world is a desert, and I am its oasis!"

"I am the dawn of Alabasta!"

At that moment, Azir's voice rang throughout the world:

"Your emperor has returned!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.