This glorious and illustrious battle record, and the name that shakes the seas, is enough for him to establish himself anywhere in the New World!
Using this sea area as a buffer zone for war and forcing the people away?
No matter.
Once it becomes his base camp and territory, all of this will become a thing of the past!
...
Boom!
The furious thunder tears the sky apart.
A massive bolt of lightning suddenly strikes down, directly hitting the auxiliary mast of the Endgame.
Sizzle!
The auxiliary mast instantly ignites in roaring flames, but before the fire spreads, icy snowflakes drift by, enveloping the mast's surface.
The snow melts into water, and the fire quickly dies out.
"At Navy Headquarters, there is a squad specifically responsible for monitoring and promptly extinguishing fires in Marinfanto."
Smoker, with a cigar in his mouth, turned his head to glance at Nojiko beside him and said in amazement, "If you join that squad, I think you'd become the highest-ranking officer in a few months."
"Stop teasing, the wind is getting stronger, steer your ship!"
Nojiko said irritably.
"Isn't Jack supposed to be in charge of this? Why are you shouting at me?" Smoker asked confusedly.
"That guy had an upset stomach and has been squatting in the toilet since this morning and hasn't come out yet."
Nojiko sighed, "It's the orange preserves my mom brought from the East Sea. Though it's a heartfelt gesture, after such a long journey, how could it not spoil... My brother and I didn't dare eat it, but that fool was all sentimental about the taste of Lord Shano's homeland and devoured them in one go."
It's like asking for trouble, at least he'll have the runs for three days...
Nojiko shook her head.
Once Smoker returned to position, she, as the lookout, also climbed up the lookout tower, raised her monocular to gaze into the distance.
"We've entered this sea area."
Nojiko muttered to herself, "It's going quite smoothly."
Wisteria, this is the name of the sea area centered around Crescent Island.
After four full days of sailing.
The Endgame finally drew close to this sea.
Following Shano's orders, the Endgame doesn't plan to stop at any island along the way, but goes directly to the central Crescent Island.
But at this time...
"A ship?"
Nojiko was slightly surprised, and after confirming several times through the monocular, she immediately rang the alarm on the lookout tower.
"Attention everyone! Unidentified ship spotted at three o'clock direction."
She shouted loudly, "Approximately five nautical miles away, approaching us!"
Kuina immediately emerged, arriving on deck.
She unsheathed the Wado Ichimonji, calmly raised her gaze, looking at the blurry little black dot in the distance.
No need to alarm Lord Shano, ever since I was in Paradise, it's always been my duty to annihilate any invading pirate ships.
Along this journey, so many ships have been cut down.
As long as this one shows a bit of hostility, it will be no exception...
Huh?
Kuina furrowed her brow slightly.
As the distance between the two closed, her Observation Haki already enveloped that ship.
It's a wide and chubby, very ordinary little sailboat.
Oddly enough, she didn't sense any human aura on the ship nor see any figures on the deck.
A ghost ship perhaps?
She lowered her gaze, focusing on the ship itself.
This time there was an extra discovery, faintly, she sensed a vague aura from the hull, as if she had encountered it somewhere, and only not long ago...
Kuina's eyes flashed with light, suddenly understood, shook her head silently, and sheathed her sword:
"Not an enemy, rescue it."
Eh?
Nojiko and Smoker looked at her puzzled.
People? Where are the people?
Kuina did not answer, but instead went below the ship's corridor, kicked down a certain professional rescuer who was sheltering from the rain and taking a nap.
Ten seconds later.
The swordswoman stood with arms crossed, staring at the unmoving sea, feeling a bit confused.
Soaking wet Ah Yin climbed aboard from behind the ship and kicked her down with an unpleasant look.
...
Finally.
With the joint effort of the two rescuers.
This chubby, unmanned little boat was eventually lifted onto the deck of the Endgame.
Ah Yin lazily reclined back to continue sleeping, while Kuina, furious but embarrassed, could only begrudgingly go to take a bath.
After finishing a hot shower, changing clothes, and returning to the deck.
There were already more crew members here, including Shano who was called out by Nojiko from the training room.
And the rescued boat finally woke leisurely.
"Ugh, where am I?"
The prow revealed a fat old man's face, looking weak and pale, and his eyes were foggy: "Lucky to escape?"
"Long time no see."
Shano sat with crossed legs on the chair in front, looked at the talking boat, spoke leisurely, "Mr. Henry."
"Who's talking?!"
The chubby little boat struggled to turn its body, and upon seeing Shano's face, jolted up suddenly:
"Lord Shano?!"
This fright immediately sobered it up, with a thump, the chubby little boat disappeared.
Replaced by a white-haired, white plump old man wearing gold-rimmed glasses.
He was the merchant encountered at sea during the meeting with the Red Hair Pirates.
——Ship-Ship Fruit Ability User, Flow Breaker Henry.
"It's really you, uncle!"
Nami, nearby, widened her eyes, "I didn't think it was you at first, after all, the ship you transformed last time was much bigger than this."