At noon the next day, beneath the blazing sun, several sanitation robot dogs were cleaning up the mess left all over the beach after last night's banquet.
The soft sand was hot underfoot. Looking out toward the distant sea, everything appeared blurred and warped, as if even the air were so scorching it was about to evaporate.
In the forest beside the beach, layers of trees cast crisscrossing shadows on the ground. Birds chirped among the branches, while several people sat together in the shade, all looking troubled.
"But Shanks doesn't even know how long he'll be staying in Elbaf. What if we get there and they've already left?"
Luffy scratched his head and looked at Bonney with a troubled expression.
Zoro kept one eye closed and replied calmly,
"More importantly, we don't even know where Bear is. Even if we had the time, we'd have no idea where to start looking."
"So what do we do now?"
Bonney put one hand on her hip, leaned over, and glared angrily at Luffy. With her other hand, she pointed at bos.
"Didn't you say before that you could use her ability to extract the memories again?"
"That's what we said, but..."
Nami opened her mouth, then stopped herself. In the end, she could only lower her head and sigh helplessly.
"Ugh..."
They had already settled on their next destination and planned to set sail today while the weather was good. They could even travel together with the Giant Soldier Pirates.
At the thought of the people waiting for them in Elbaf, the whole crew couldn't help feeling excited.
But because of the memory of Bear in Luffy's mind, they were now caught between leaving and staying.
bos could extract the memory and turn it into a tangible strip of film, but