Soon, they arrived in front of a snowdrift. He looked at the empty snowdrift.
Bexi scratched his head in confusion and looked at Milim: "There's clearly nothing here."
"Hehe!" Milim jumped off Bexi, wagging her finger proudly. "Don't underestimate my eyes. I know everything that exists on this island."
As she spoke, Milim dug into the snowdrift, revealing a strange fruit from within.
She picked up the fruit and handed it to Bexi. "I happen to have read the Devil Fruit encyclopedia. This fruit is the legendary Logia-type, the Cloud-Cloud Fruit! And according to the records, this fruit lets you fly!!"
"You're just giving it to me like that?" Bexi asked hesitantly, even though Milim had already said the fruit was a gift for him.
But this was a precious Logia-type. To give it away so easily still felt like a dream.
"Of course! I, Milim, always keep my word. Besides, you're one of us now. I'm always generous to my own people." Milim's expression was completely genuine.
"But..." Bexi wanted to say more, but Milim wouldn't hear it.
"I told you to eat it, so eat it. Stop with the nonsense."
With a leap, Milim shoved the Devil Fruit in her hand directly into Bexi's mouth!
Bexi subconsciously took a bite. Instantly, a taste so disgusting it made his whole body tremble spread through him, and he instinctively wanted to spit the Devil Fruit out.
But how could Milim let Bexi give up halfway?
She grabbed Bexi's large snout with both hands, clamping his mouth shut so he couldn't even spit. In the end, he could only swallow the fruit in his mouth.
Seeing that Bexi had finally swallowed the Devil Fruit, Milim let go, satisfied.
Bexi lay on the ground, his tongue hanging out, looking as if he were about to die.
"It's so disgusting!"
"Damn it! The moment it entered my mouth, I thought I heard my mother's voice calling—even bad taste should have a limit!!" Bexi's eyes were filled with tears. The taste was so bad he had just seen his life flash before his eyes.
"Quick, try it out! How is the Cloud-Cloud Fruit?" Milim didn't care about Bexi's pained expression. She was interested in what the Cloud-Cloud Fruit could do; she wanted to experience the feeling of riding the clouds herself.
Although Bexi really wanted to complain, why would a Cloud-Cloud Fruit appear in a snowdrift? Logically, shouldn't a Snow-Snow Fruit be inside a snowdrift?
But there was no time for complaints. He subconsciously activated his new ability, and clumps of white clouds appeared out of thin air beneath his feet.
Bexi the polar bear successfully began to float.
"The clouds under my feet are unbelievably soft, like stepping on cotton candy. I've truly surpassed gravity now."
Bexi was incredibly excited, constantly controlling the clouds to go left and right, floating continuously in the sky.
Milim spread her wings, flew over to Bexi, and sat on him. "Since you can fly, my mount! Let's sail through the sky together."
"Yeah!" Bexi shouted excitedly, not caring about being a mount or not. He controlled the clouds and flew quickly in one direction.
After flying for some distance, Milim suddenly thought of an important question and asked Bexi with some confusion.
"Hmm, Bexi, do you know where we're going?"
Having just gained the ability to fly, Bexi came to a sudden halt, then turned his head stiffly. "Oh right, where were we going?"
The person and the bear stared at each other, then tacitly changed the subject. They decided to find an inhabited place to ask for directions to Jaya Island!
And so, the person and the bear wasted another half a month before finally finding Jaya Island, and from there, they found the Sky Island located high in the sky.
Milim carried the polar bear with one hand. He was panting from exhaustion, his four limbs dangling like a dead dog. Although as a Mink, especially a polar bear, his natural stamina was much greater than that of a normal person.
But it all depended on who you compared him to. Compared to Milim, he seemed rather weak, basically running out of energy after flying for three consecutive days.
Through this half-month of training, Bexi had developed the ability to fall asleep even while being carried.
Arriving at Sky Island, she flew directly to the island above, bypassing Heaven's Gate.
Soon, the person and the bear landed on solid ground. She casually tossed Bexi to the ground, and the soundly sleeping Bexi immediately woke up.
"Huh! Is it time to eat?"
"No! We've reached our destination."
Milim's eyes instantly turned into vertical slits as she activated her powerful vision, scanning in every direction across the Sky Island.
Soon, in an abandoned shrine, Milim saw the Rumble-Rumble Fruit she had been longing for. She then started walking in the direction of the fruit.
She didn't fly there directly because she wanted to observe the situation on Sky Island.
The Upper Yard of Sky Island was originally part of Jaya Island in the Blue Sea, but it was blasted into the White-White Sea by the Knock Up Stream 400 years ago.
Moreover, this was the location of the City of Gold, which held a massive amount of gold. The North Blue explorer Montblanc Noland once visited the complete Jaya Island, but he was later executed for the crime of deception after the City of Gold disappeared.
At that time, the City of Gold was sent into the sky by the Knock Up Stream.
Although this was highly illogical, this world was inherently illogical, so there was no need to worry too much about such things.
Walking on the streets of Sky Island, the people around looked at Milim with strange expressions. It was probably because everyone on Sky Island had wings, so they were wary of a person like Milim with a bare back.
Furthermore, Milim had a giant polar bear by her side, which looked intimidating at first glance.
However, Milim didn't mind. On the contrary, she cheerfully visited various shops, taking out Belly to buy some of Sky Island's local specialties.
As an aside, the exchange rate between Belly and the Sky Island currency, Extol, is 1:10,000. Belly can also be used for transactions on Sky Island.
Speaking of Sky Island's specialties, the most useful things here were the various Dials.
There were Tone Dials that could record sound, Water Dials that could spray water, and Heat Dials that could absorb heat. In any case, Milim bought some of every kind of Dial.
And so she walked along, shopping as she went. Thanks to the intimidating presence of the polar bear by her side, no Skypieans came to bother her.
The further they walked, the fewer buildings there were and the denser the forest became. Eventually, not a single person could be seen, and the person and the bear finally arrived at their destination.
An ancient shrine that had been abandoned for who knows how many years.
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