"You've changed, Ann."
"It's not that I want to change, Sengoku! It's the world that makes me like this! I have things I want to protect, and people I want to protect! I couldn't do this before! I don't want to see anything I cherish disappear again! This kind of me allows me to achieve my purpose! I can erase everything! I can kill anyone! I don't have to lose it anymore!"
Gol D. An, the daughter of the Pirate King, is the last person in the world who is related to him by blood that Porthas D. Ace never knew.
She protected everything she cherished, but found that because of her powerlessness, the one she loved could only leave him. An witnessed with her own eyes how her father was put on the execution platform and died with a smile; she saw with her own eyes that the old woman and grandfather who adopted her were shot to death in order to protect her from being taken away by the navy——
The world changed her, turning a child who was once simple, bold, cheerful, and gentle into another person.