In the end, they decided to stay.
Before the other members of the Heart Pirates arrived at Lor Island, the effort to eradicate the plague did not slacken.
Over the next few days,
Maud and the others dealt with the plague and hidden dangers in the second village, then hurried nonstop toward the third village.
No one knew when the Marines would come to Lor Island and cause them trouble.
Before that happened, they had to let Luo race against time to treat the patients. One more person cured was one more person saved.
Relying on their astonishing speed, everyone reached the third village, which had been ravaged by the plague, in less than a day.
As before, Lafitte's hypnotic ability opened the proceedings, after which the patients were sent one by one into Luo's Operating Room.
The days passed one after another.
Soon, a week flashed by.
Through everyone's efforts, the plague sweeping through the third village was nearing its end.
During this period, Luo had completely lost count of how many operations he had performed.
He only knew that every day, apart from eating, drinking, relieving himself, and sleeping, he spent all his remaining time in surgery.
He would never leave the operating table of his own accord before collapsing from exhaustion.
This nearly torturous, high-intensity surgery had indeed brought him significant improvement.
His increase in physical strength went without saying. His control over the Op-Op Fruit was also growing more precise by the day.
Maud saw all of this.
The reason he had made Luo undergo such harsh training was to increase the odds of retaining the Weapon-Weapon Fruit.
But the true reason Luo persisted was to topple the Donquixote Family...
Maud knew it perfectly well.
"It's still too early to deal with Doflamingo..."
To claim the