The sky was a clear, vibrant blue, with a few thick clusters of white clouds hanging overhead. Seagulls skimmed across the rippling sea as the Going Merry sailed along.
On deck, Lina lay sprawled on the grass with his eyes closed, while Chopper lay in the same position on Lina's chest.
"Comfy~~" ×2
The sea breeze blew gently, and the warm sunshine on this bright, sunny day brought contented smiles to the man and reindeer.
It had been a day since they parted ways with Ace and the others.
As expected, they had set sail along the route chosen by the stubborn Luffy. Not long after the Whitebeard Pirates left, they too had set off for Dressrosa.
From what Ace and Marco had told him yesterday, Dressrosa had undergone a few changes, big and small, since the end of the Summit War.
The one that had caught Lina's attention was the man who had become the new Shichibukai after the war, claiming to be Whitebeard's second son...
Edward Weevil.
He had taken Doflamingo's place and seized control of Dressrosa...
The whole story behind it was probably quite complicated.
Lina remembered that the Donquixote Family had been fiercely loyal to Doflamingo.
People's hearts were hard to fathom, of course, but it seemed unlikely that they would serve someone else—especially an idiot.
It was all because the story after Dressrosa in the original series had dragged on for so long that Lina had stopped following it ages ago. He'd planned to catch up later, but eventually forgot where he'd left off.
He'd only kept up with the story because his schoolbooks had continued Oda's writing for him.
If Ace and Marco hadn't explained it, he wouldn't even have remembered someone like Weevil.
According to Marco, ever since their father's death, a pair