East Blue, Loguetown.
After establishing a cooperative alliance with Garen of "fight battles together, catch pirates together," Smoker stayed briefly for two days in Krieg's former territory, now Demacia Logistics headquarters, before setting off back to Loguetown.
Smoker was, after all, still the commanding officer of Loguetown's garrison. His proper duty was to guard the gateway from East Blue to the Grand Line.
If he stayed away too long, the pirates might take the opportunity to collectively sneak across.
Before leaving, Smoker also specifically brought along a donation from Garen, an "enthusiastic citizen of East Blue"—
A warship.
This warship was enormous, with nearly twice the displacement of Smoker's original flagship.
It was also equipped with the new artillery developed under Garen—essentially, solid cannonballs replaced with specially made Buggy Bombs.
When Nami had looted Buggy's treasure before, she had casually obtained the formula for Buggy's specially made high explosives.
Artillery technology was underdeveloped in this world because cannons had little effect against the strong, making close-range boarding battles the decisive factor in naval warfare.
Yet in the East Blue Sea, there were not many strong enough to ignore solid cannonballs, and those who could still fight back under a bombardment of specially made Buggy Bombs from a large fleet were even rarer.
Nami had originally thought the stuff was useless to her. She had only kept it because of the mentality of "I stole it anyway," never expecting it to become the trump card ensuring Demacia's fleet retained its combat advantage.
After witnessing the power of the new artillery, Smoker, the highest-ranking officer of the East Blue military district, was unconsciously drawn in by the allure of massive ships and huge guns, and willingly swallowed the "sugar-coated shell" Garen offered him.
Returning to Loguetown with this weapon for fighting crime,