"Huh!"
"We really found it without even looking!"
"Seems like this was all fate's doing."
The group was preparing to head back to Poppy Island. An hour later, Chaos first looked surprised, then broke into a knowing grin.
"BOSS, why are you making that creepy grin?"
Betty rolled her eyes. Chaos's sudden, sinister smile sent a chill down her spine.
The others, who had been resting with their eyes closed, looked over as well.
"Stussy, change course!"
Chaos didn't answer. He snapped his fingers, looked at Stussy, and pointed to the left.
Though Stussy was a little confused, she did as Chaos said and steered the sea of clouds swiftly to the left.
Half an hour later.
Kuzan rode his bicycle and looked up with a grim expression at Chaos and the others standing on the sea of clouds. A powerful sense of danger washed over him.
He had been pursuing a band of pirates, but the moment those figures appeared above the clouds, his mood turned sour.
The way the man at the front was looking at him made his heart pound.
He knew that even Borsalino had been turned into a woman and was currently training hard alongside Sakazuki to get stronger.
Could it be—
Kuzan's expression kept changing. He could only hope his guess was wrong.
"Isn't that Kuzan, one of the Navy's three Logia monsters?"
"What a coincidence!"
Crocodile puffed on his cigar, looking Kuzan up and down as he sat on his bicycle.
The sea stretched endlessly around them, its rolling waves crossed by a path of ice.
"Gild Tesoro."
Icy mist began to drift from Kuzan, and the sea around his feet started freezing over. Neither side needed to say a word; they both knew what the other was thinking.
"So, are you going