Kuina naturally couldn't agree to Luffy's invitation right away.
Judging by how unreliable this Straw Hat Kid seemed, he probably wasn't much better than her junior brother, who had lost his way in life. Just looking after that junior brother of hers, who got lost every day yet had inexplicable confidence in his sense of direction, was already exhausting enough. If she also had to deal with this Captain, she would probably die young.
Oceanus sat beside the campfire without eating any meat. As a Homies, he naturally lacked the ability to digest it.
He simply found it amusing. Could Luffy really get these two aboard his ship?
No matter what, the first thing they needed to do was build a ship. Zoro and Kuina's vessel had been reduced to a pile of shattered wood, while Luffy's barrel had also been completely scrapped.
Under the circumstances, they should start by making a raft.
There wasn't much to say about their adventure on Rare Animal Island. The animals here were bizarre and unusual, and there was also an even stranger man in a box, but there was no real danger. At most, it broadened Luffy and the others' horizons.
Originally, heading out to sea on a raft had been a desperate measure, but with Oceanus around, the danger was immediately reduced drastically.
Just as Big Mom's Homies might look like tiny clumps but could expand to cover an enormous range, Oceanus, the strongest Homies specially created by Doflamingo, could spread out to cover nearly a dozen kilometers. He could completely suppress the waves on the sea.
Even with nothing more than a small raft, they had nothing to fear from extreme weather in the Four Seas under that protection. The weather there was nowhere near as wild as the Grand Line,