After Maud left, the bounty hunters who received the message through the Shadow Transponder Den Den Mushi didn't pause for even a moment. They immediately boarded the ship and steered toward the floating corpse of the Goldfish Island Beast.
Although they could finally leave this godforsaken place, they still placed Maud's orders above everything else.
Seeing this, the others assumed that the bounty hunters were eager to leave Little Garden.
It wasn't until they saw the bounty hunters cutting meat from the Goldfish Island Beast that they realized that wasn't the case.
So,
They followed suit.
Thinking that before leaving, they had to tear off a large chunk of meat from the Goldfish Island Beast no matter what.
The people onshore began to move.
Seeing this scene, the members of the Buggy Pirates fell silent for a moment before muddle-headedly following them to eat the meat as well.
Several days passed.
A unique sight had appeared along the shoreline near the entrance to Little Garden's river channel—the skeleton of the Goldfish Island Beast.
The bounty hunters and pirates who had been trapped on the island for so long had, like ants, devoured the enormous Goldfish Island Beast completely in just a few days.
It was probably the most delicious thing they had eaten during this period.
After finishing the Goldfish Island Beast, they gradually set out to leave the island.
Before leaving, everyone looked toward the center of the island in unspoken unison.
That was where Maud was.
"Bagard. Maud..."
They silently repeated the name in their hearts, then silently offered their thanks before leaving without looking back.
In less than a week,
nearly a thousand bounty hunters and pirates had left Little Garden.
But a small number of people chose to remain.
Among them was naturally the Buggy Pirates,