In a bustling port town in 1710, where cobblestone streets buzzed with merchants and sailors, and the salty scent of the sea hung in the air, lived a girl named Nami. She was twelve, with a tangle of chestnut curls and eyes that sparkled like the ocean under a noon sun. Nami wasn’t like other kids in Orange Town… she didn’t dream of fancy dresses or grand adventures on pirate ships. Her heart belonged to maps. She’d spend hours in her father’s tiny shop, Straw Hat’s Charts, tracing the curling lines of coastlines and whispering the names of far-off places like Sky Ocean and The White Sea.

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