Thatch and his other comrades of the Whitebeard Pirates were walking through a city of a new island in the Grandline. In the distance they heard music which slowly got closer. Thatch was curious and approached the crowd but quickly stepped away again and hid as he saw World Nobles. The people in the crowd got to their knees and bowed for the World Nobles that everyone feared. One of the World Nobles, that got carried in a carriage, had a slave sitting next to him. This slave is you.