The Navy's Another Crushing Defeat

Manpower was clearly stretched thin, yet they still had to remain on Mushroom Island to aid the disaster victims persecuted by World.

Maud could understand Betty's decision.

If the Revolutionary Army could not do this, what right did they have to ask Sunny to pour her heart and soul into it?

"What extent do you intend to go to for these people?"

Maud looked at Betty and asked pointedly.

At his words, a trace of surprise appeared in Betty's gaze. She had never expected that a great pirate like Maud would care about something like this.

Suppressing her surprise, she said solemnly, "At the very least, we need to give them a place to shelter from the elements, and... help them recover from this blow."

"Hm?"

Maud raised an eyebrow and instinctively looked toward the ruins of the town.

World had destroyed the place thoroughly. Not a single intact building remained in the town.

Rebuilding a suitable settlement here would be far from simple.

Clearing the ruins alone would be an enormous undertaking.

As for choosing a new site, on this island with its extremely high vegetation coverage, there was clearly no second place more suitable.

These grieving residents had only narrowly escaped disaster thanks to Mushroom Island's dense forests.

It also helped that the creatures living in the forest were relatively docile and lacked aggression.

Otherwise, the consequences would have been unpredictable.

Besides...

Maud glanced at the Revolutionary Army members sitting cross-legged around them.

Leaving aside the elderly, children, sick, and disabled who could not provide assistance, only around forty people present could contribute their strength.

About twenty days?

They probably could not even finish clearing the ruins.

Thinking of this, Maud did not ruin the mood by pointing out the reality. Instead, he said calmly:

"Then let's get