North Blue, Swallow Island.
This was a prosperous island, with three markets, five thoroughfares, eight streets, and nine lanes. Buildings stood row upon row, while pedestrians flowed endlessly through the streets.
To avoid drawing too much attention, Garen parked the airship ten thousand meters above the ground.
As usual, the ghostly Golden Lion was left aboard the airship to guard the place, while Enel, who had already been trained into perfect obedience by Golden Lion, was brought along by Garen as a skill generator.
Garen, Nami, Kentucky, and Enel.
Of the four, Enel was the most conspicuous.
He was tall, had long earlobes, and strange thunder drums inserted into his back as decorations.
That was right, those thunder drums were not levitating magnetically. They were decorations directly embedded in Enel's spine, essentially a gigantic "back ring."
Anyone ruthless enough to do that to himself was clearly no decent person.
The oddly dressed Enel immediately attracted most of the passersby's attention as he walked down the street.
Meanwhile, the highly famous Garen wore a suit and sunglasses. With Enel drawing all the attention, he appeared remarkably low-key.
Looking at the bustling city and the dense crowds, Garen vaguely felt that something was off.
This scene was completely different from the "treasure location" he had imagined.
After walking for a while, Garen finally could not help asking,
"Kentucky."
"Are you sure those research materials are still on this island?"
"Of course!"
Kentucky nodded, then said with great seriousness,
"I hid them in an extremely secure secret room. No outsider could possibly know about it."
"Besides, I have been living under an assumed name ever since escaping Germa 66. Those people definitely will not find me!"
"Fine."
Garen nodded and simply continued following Kentucky.
After walking for some time, the group turned onto