Birka, an island nestled ten thousand meters above the Blue Sea, embraced by the White Sea, making it a challenging place for outsiders to reach. While Birka and Angel Island have long been renowned in the White Sea, Birka's mystery and isolation make it even more enigmatic than Angel Island.
Even more curiously, Birka rarely receives visitors, especially people from the Blue Sea, who are a true rarity. The residents of Birka reject all who don't possess wings, considering themselves the people of God, and their pristine white wings are the ultimate symbol. Of course, the most tormented and infamous figure in Birka is Enel. His life on Birka could be described as living hell!
"This is the ninety-ninth time! You damn devils, remember this! I'll remember everything you've done to me! One day, I'll destroy this place and make you howl in hell!"
A young man with a peculiar, lady-like hairstyle and long earlobes reaching his chest was huddled on the ground, seething with rage. His injuries were visible to the naked eye, covered in bruises, looking utterly miserable. The young man struggled to rise from the ground. Though his head remained bowed, his tightly clenched fists betrayed his terrible state of mind. His nails dug into his flesh unnoticed, and blood slowly seeped from his knuckles, soaking the ground.
This young man was Enel, the tragic protagonist of Birka. Born without wings, he was ostracized by Birka's inhabitants. To them, who prided themselves on being the people of God, wings were a divine gift. What was Enel, wingless, but a monster? Everyone discriminated against Enel, and even his parents were affected, deemed harbingers of ill omen.
Enel's childhood was marked by this misfortune. In the past, he had his parents' protection, and even when mocked and discriminated against by others, he didn't care much, for he had a warm home, and his parents' tenderness made him very happy. But misfortune always comes accompanied by greater misfortune, and even the happiness he had found was destroyed. Enel's only safe haven was not spared, and his home was also gone.
Perhaps weary of the mockery and discrimination from others, perhaps liberated, Enel's parents departed lightly, without resentment or struggle, only with concern for Enel's future.
Constantly mocked and discriminated against by others, Enel's parents had no income and found it hard to get food. So that Enel wouldn't starve, the two could only survive deep within Birka's forest, foraging for wild fruits so that Enel could eat. However, wild fruits weren't that abundant, and while Enel ate his fill, his parents often went hungry. Perhaps that was the cause of their premature deaths!
Enel watched his parents, overcome by hunger, die. He shed no tears, nor did he feel sadness. After personally burying his parents, the demon within him grew relentlessly. The love that once existed had long vanished, and his heart was filled with hatred.
In this hopeless Birka, Enel harbored only deep resentment and hatred for its residents. He hated everything. He craved revenge, revenge against those who scorned him. They were the ones who killed his parents, who made him suffer discrimination since childhood, who made him frequently go hungry. The culprit was never him, Enel. The culprits were those self-righteous and arrogant inhabitants of Birka.
Destruction, annihilation.
Enel's mind was filled with violent thoughts. Even if he was beaten, mocked, and discriminated against, his eyes never lost hope, nor despair for life. He didn't want to die, he couldn't die. He still hadn't seen the fate of those damned people.
No matter what, Enel endured everything with this tenacity. Even if he had to die, he would drag them with him, so that everyone would go to hell together. This was Enel in dire straits.
The discrimination and mockery of Birka's inhabitants, their arrogance and presumption, all affected Enel. Enduring all this, Enel, harboring hatred for them, after acquiring the Goro Goro no Mi, transformed into the Enel who became the "god" in the anime's story: arrogant, presumptuous, but seemingly lazy and, in truth, cruel.
After obtaining immense power, to get revenge on the people of Birka, Enel didn't hesitate to use the power of the Goro Goro no Mi to destroy Birka, his homeland. Perhaps Enel didn't even recognize Birka as his homeland.
After all, this place was full of his unhappiness, and it was better that it be destroyed. Thus, no one would know of his shameful past, no one would know how miserable and humiliating his childhood was, no one would know where he came from. His past would be unknown, and people would only know him as a god, as a deity, controlling the power of thunder. Yes, he gained power and a new life, becoming an arrogant god, adored and feared by the world, the only true god.
Having destroyed Birka, Enel naturally wasn't content with that. He wanted the world to behold his divine form, and all the hardships he had suffered would be avenged one by one. Although Birka no longer existed, there were other Sky Islands, other winged inhabitants of the Sky Sea. He would make those who once oppressed him experience what fear truly was.
So, Enel went to Angel Island, defeated the supposed god, and imposed a reign of terror. Since then, the people of Sky Island have suffered terribly.
People like Enel, who are in desperate situations, are not few in this world. However, many of them are completely defeated, living a life worse than death, like soulless husks, without hope and without resentment against the world.
But there are also many who are unyielding and resentful. If given the chance to obtain power, they will certainly take revenge, avenge themselves on the world, and make those who once considered themselves superior also experience everything they suffered. Their eyes are filled with vengeful rage and a desire for freedom. They will never give up the hope of living. They are waiting for an opportunity, a chance to turn the tables, a chance to shock the world.
Doflamingo was also one of them, which is why he deeply understood all that Enel had suffered. All the world's misfortunes are caused by the lack of capability of the people involved.
Enel, collecting himself, unclenched his hands. Pain, to him, was commonplace. What good was resentment now? Without power, he could do nothing.
He picked up the turban that had been thrown on the ground and covered his hairstyle. At first, Enel was only mocked for not having wings, but later his unique hairstyle also became a source of ridicule from everyone. Even if he himself disliked the hairstyle and covered it with the turban, they would pull it off to mock him again.
Each time he picked up his turban, it was one more time his dignity was trampled. Enel deeply hated this feeling of powerlessness, detested the feeling that his own destiny could not be controlled. Yet, in reality, he truly had no power and dared not resist.
Amidst repeated beatings and insults, Enel also thought of fleeing from there. He wanted to go to the sacred land in his heart – the Endless Land – because there he certainly wouldn't be discriminated against. That was his best refuge.
With the seed of dreams and hopes in his heart, Enel stumbled back to his small, dilapidated cabin, licking his wounds alone.
It was night, another sleepless night. Enel stared blankly at the sky, thinking and pondering: when would he finally be able to go to the Endless Land?
However, what Enel didn't know is that his destiny was about to change!
At this crossroads of fate, every choice will influence the future!