"Big brother! Over here!"
"Sig? Sig is back?"
"Why are you only coming back now? Didn't the news say a few days ago that he had escaped..."
"He must have gone off to fool around with someone halfway through!"
"Shut up! Yasopp, do you think your brother is like you?"
Yasopp:???
Sig was spotted by Jack as he approached the island where the Red Voss was located.
The island is small and very flat. It has no magnetic field and no human habitation. The vegetation is fairly lush, but there are no rivers or mountains, so it is just a place for passing ships to land.
Because of the attraction principle of the Vivre Card, Jack noticed Sig's approach and kept a close eye on his surroundings.
In fact, ever since Sig's bounty was restored, the Red-Hair Pirates knew that he would be back soon.
The happiest people at this moment were Jack and Weevil...
Within the Red-Hair Pirates, their bounties are second only to Beckman's!
It's not that the two of them are actually stronger than Lucky Roo Yasopp; it's mainly that they are brave enough to fight. In the Red-Hair Pirates, they have always been the representatives of those who dare to fight and take risks.
Jack's bounty is lower than in the original comics, while Weevil's bounty is actually higher...
The reason is easy to understand: Jack poses a far greater threat to the Beasts Pirates than to the Red-Hair Pirates Jack. With Red-Hair, the hot-tempered Jack will be kept in check and prevented from wreaking havoc.
Conversely, Weevil in the Red-Hair Pirates poses a far greater threat than the "mad dog" controlled by Miss Buckingham who only knows how to make money. After all, when Weevil was being used by Miss Buckingham, he posed very little threat to the World Government. His most egregious act, while causing numerous casualties among Marine recruits, was only due to the Marines' deliberate arrest...
Looking at the original work alone, Weevil crippled Zephyr's arm, killed a ship full of Marine Headquarters recruits, and his strength was recognized by Kizaru, yet his bounty was only a little over 400 million... This shows just how low the World Government's assessment of his "threat" was.
With Miss Buckingham around, it's indeed easy for "Whitey Bay" to be bribed into becoming Shichibukai.
Now, Weevil is not only in the Red-Hair Pirates, but he's also become much smarter—although he's still essentially a brute and a simpleton, at least he's not an idiot anymore, which naturally increases his threat level significantly.
Like Jack, both of them have bounties exceeding 900 million.
When Red-Hair wanted to "rescue" Sig, he deliberately didn't bring the two of them along, and forcibly arranged for them to stay in the New World to resist Ochoku.
The reason is quite valid—if you two are so reckless and don't go out and fight every day, Ochoku will notice something's wrong!
As it turned out, Red-Hair's plan was correct, because in the end, they couldn't save Sig...
Predictably, if Jack and Weevil were present, they wouldn't have been called back because of Red-Hair ' "retreat" order, which would likely have made the situation even more uncontrollable.
As soon as Sig landed, Jack and Weevil, needless to say, were immediately surrounded by Lucky Roo, Yasopp, and others, who all started asking him where Sig had been "living it up" in recent years.
Only the officers knew that Sig had "transformed" into Shiryu; most of the other crew members believed that Sig had indeed been imprisoned by the Navy in some mysterious research institute for several years.
Furthermore, Sig doesn't recognize more than half of the current crew members.
Although the Red-Hair Pirates are the smallest among the Four Emperors, so small it's almost unbelievable, they have still more than doubled in Red-Hair Pirates!
"Where are the boss and Big Fool?" Sig then noticed that Shanks and Beckman were not there.
"We've discovered the underwater ruins of Yahala. Boss and Big... and Beckman, go down and explore first." Yasopp almost shouted "Big Fool" as well, but then remembered there were many people present and stopped himself in time.
Beckman still commands considerable authority within the Red-Hair Pirates. After all, Shanks is already quite easygoing, and a first Captain needs to be respected.
"The boss went down too?" Sig asked, puzzled. He wanted to ask, "Did he drown?"
"There's something like a rubber bubble down there. There's no seawater inside, but there's a long, thin, tower-like building..." Lucky Roo explained.
The first time I went on an expedition, I was the Sailor, Lucky Roo.
The absence of seawater in certain areas on the ocean floor isn't so strange in the New World.
However, according to Lucky Roo, the "similar to a rubber bubble" was made of a different material than the bubbles in the Sabaody Archipelago. He felt that he couldn't enter the bubble without breaking it, so he returned to inform Shanks location. After that, Shanks and Beckman teleported directly inside—since there was no seawater in their destination anyway.
"A tower? No seawater? And the ruins of Yahala... Where did you get this information?" Sig frowned upon hearing this, sensing that things were not so simple.
Later, Yasopp also described to Sig a story of "saving a small island out of Justice, and then being given a legendary treasure map by the old village chief."
Furthermore, Sig could also imagine why Shanks was so persistent, because... judging from the inaccurate map, this place was indeed within the great triangle formed by Elbaf, Hachinosu, and Wano Country!
Therefore, Shanks would likely explore any mysterious treasure or ruin with the mindset of "maybe it's One Piece."
However, Sig didn't rush to dive down to find the leader and Big Fool. Instead, he returned to the Red Fox and began looking at the so-called "treasure map," as well as related information he had gathered from the island where the map was found and other places...
Sig had accumulated a considerable amount of "knowledge" in order to perform the Sequence role-playing of the "White Tower Path".
After reading through all these books and combining them with his existing knowledge, Sig roughly understood what was going on.
When Sig disembarked from the Red Fox, he found Benk Morio and Ooo, a man and a monkey, throwing sand at each other...
Benke was still grumbling and cursing, saying that Morshida, that stinky monkey, was unusually naughty today—"Ooo" seemed too harmless, Morshida being its "stage name".
Lucky Roo and Yasopp discussed the island while drinking, eating meat, and especially enjoying the rare fruit on the picnic mat.
"This island may not be big, but it's amazing that so many fruits grow here..."
"Could someone have planted these on purpose? They all look like crops, not wild varieties."
"How is that possible? A floating island without even a magnetic field... If it was planted, how would we be able to harvest it?"
"Indeed, and the amount of vegetation is truly astonishing..."
"The soil is also quite good; meat wrapped in mud and roasted has a unique flavor!"
Zig's eyebrows twitched Sig saw Rhyme Jones slicing various kinds of raw fish and then placing them directly on the placemat, even wrapping meat in soil and roasting it under the fire.
"Ahem, I think I know the reason..." Sig saw that Lucky Roo was about to roll around on the island, so he decided to tell him.
"Hmm? What's wrong? Did you find something? Is it really the ruins of Yahala?" Lucky Roo asked hurriedly.
"If I'm not mistaken, the tower you saw was... severely calcified. You didn't go inside to look, did you?" Sig countered.
"Indeed... that layer of bubbles is somewhat different from the resin bubbles. Forcing your way in would probably break it. I'd been diving for too long, so I came up to find the boss and Beckman first," Lucky Roo said matter-of-factly.
"If I haven't made a mistake..."
Sig spoke, his expression turned solemn and cold.