The End of the Road (33)

The Upward Sea Current was nothing unusual to the soldiers of G-10. It happened several times every month, and they had long since grown accustomed to it.

The Accumulated Emperor Cloud and the sea current affected airship takeoffs and landings as well as warship travel, making this the time when their control over these waters was at its weakest.

But for everyone else on the sea, especially pirates who had sailed all the way here, their knowledge of the Upward Sea Current was limited to the Sky Island existence controversy that had caused such a stir a few years ago, along with the material newspapers had used to exaggerate its dangers.

If that was the case...

Why had Nami known they would definitely ride the Upward Sea Current and gamble their lives to escape pursuit?

Because of her genius talent as a navigator?

She did not even know what the question was. How could she have known the answer?

Yet she had given an answer with certainty.

So, she was lying!

"What are you doing, Moss Head?! Why are you doubting Nami-san?"

Sanji rose to his feet, his brow slightly furrowed.

"Shut up, you idiot Curly Brows! Don't you get it yet?!"

"The woman in front of us..."

Zoro cursed in exasperation, then suddenly remembered something. He swept his gaze across the deck and froze. "Wait, where did that woman go?"

Nico Robin, who had been on the deck all along, had vanished without a trace. If nothing unexpected had happened, the snail submarine Robin had arrived in was no longer in the cabin either.

"Nani? Nani? Did something happen?"

Luffy looked utterly bewildered. Watching his companions standing at one another's throats, he had no idea what was going on.

Damn it!

Seeing that, Zoro was so frustrated he nearly