Mousse bid farewell to Li Dayong and the children, then left the Hundred Thousand Mountains. But rather than heading straight home, he took advantage of being on his own to run a "fishing enforcement" racket in the Flower Kingdom.
He was not doing this to earn some pocket money to bring home, but to raise funds to purchase the Flower Kingdom's specialty minerals, allowing Xuanhuang, his trump card kept in reserve, to fuse with enough base materials and grow to its limit.
"Once you reach your limit, even Garp won't be hard to kill. Of course, I won't get away either—we'd only be able to take each other down together. Still, that ability alone would be enough to deter those guys from making a move against me. It's not like we have some irreconcilable grudge~"
Lying inside Amon's mouth, Mousse looked at the visibly stronger Xuanhuang and cheerfully voiced his expectations.
Xuanhuang, who disliked talking and preferred to express its thoughts through body art, transformed into a "V" shape in agreement with its master:
It was unlike Zeus and the like. Though it too would perish if its master was killed, its base material was already one of the most terrifying weapons in the world. Mousse was not bragging when he said it could take a top-tier powerhouse down with it.
"Logia types might be troublesome, though... no, not all of them. At least against someone like Red Dog, whose elemental form is still made up of molecules and atoms, it should still work. Xuanhuang, you aren't merely poison. Poison is really just a secondary damaging effect. Maybe only a few exceptions like Kizaru would be difficult."
Thinking of this, Mousse could not help sighing that Borsalino really was his natural nemesis. For a moment, he even considered making a