The sky was darkening. The sun had already sunk below the horizon, leaving only a faint glow where sea met sky.
The sky had changed into a deep, melancholy gray canopy. A cool autumn breeze swept across the vast plains and into the bustling streets of the western peninsula.
At that moment, the glittering casino blazed with neon lights. Well-dressed gamblers streamed back and forth, lost in its decadent atmosphere.
Lina and the others arrived at the casino. Luffy, grinning, dashed ahead and scrambled up and down like a monkey, curiously inspecting all the new sights.
As he passed a server, he reached out and snatched food from the tray, tilted his head back to pop it into his mouth, then darted off somewhere else.
He was just like Sun Wukong. Lina thought of someone from his memories and couldn't help smiling.
"That smell's so familiar. What is it?" Chopper stood by Lina's feet and pointed to a sofa in the corner.
Everyone followed his finger. Six or seven people, men and women alike, were sprawled across the sofa, their eyes glazed and their minds far away.
A handful of cigarettes lay scattered across the table. Those must have been what Chopper recognized.
"They're high. Stay away from them, Chopper." Lina glanced over indifferently. He didn't recognize the stuff, but he could more or less tell from the way those people looked.
They had probably taken something nasty, the kind of thing that was usually highly addictive. He even spotted the guard captain from the harbor earlier that day among them.
The group didn't pay them much attention and headed straight into the casino. Come to think of it, Lina had never spent money at a casino before.
The only games he knew were the common card games, but the