Originally posted by Slowymobile@Jun 26 2005, 08:26 AM
If you think about it, the end of the Grandline should be just away from the start of the Grandline, thats if the world is round and i think it is. So technically you could sail the other way ud get the the One piece really quick…
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It doesn't work that way actually.
We see two clear views of the layout of Reverse Mountain way back in Chapter 101 and both depictions show that the Reverse entrance is a one way street; the four currents from the Blues each come in and merge into a single main current, which then leaves Reverse Mountain. It's shaped basically like a five pointed star, with one point in each Blue, the last point being aimed at Raftel, and all of the area between the points being solid rock. You can't sail to Raftel from Reverse Mountain without crossing the entire Grand Line first.
My unfounded suspicion is that Raftel is actually under Reverse Mountain; if so, it's impossible to access it without being near sea level. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the entrance, or the island if it isn't under the Red Line, isn't perpetually fog-shrouded anyway (and would thus be invisible from the air) and the only way to reach it is by following the Log Pose from whatever the last island before it is. I doubt it's even that easy though. Gold Roger and his crew are supposedly the only people known to have found it according to Crocus; if it were easy to find, then somebody else would have found it by now.
Now, if you want a shorter route, then you could always enter the Grand Line via Mariejoa like Norland. I wouldn't recommend that to any pirates seeking the One Piece of course.