Early the next morning, at the East Coast of Jaya Island, Saruyama Alliance headquarters.
"Woohoo, the Going Merry is so awesome!"
Luffy excitedly jumped aboard the Going Merry. After the Saruyama Alliance had worked through the night, the Going Merry had already undergone some modifications.
The most conspicuous additions were naturally the enormous wings installed on both sides of the ship, and the chicken head at the bow?
Reiner looked at the Going Merry. How should he put it? It was hard to judge.
"Why did you specifically add this thing? It doesn't look useful at all, does it?" Reiner could not help asking as he pointed at the bow. That design made it difficult for him not to think of a certain old acquaintance.
He was just afraid that when the Going Merry's ship spirit appeared, it would not be repairing the ship, but standing on deck and dancing the Iron Mountain Lean.
Oh, that damned background music was playing in his head again.
"All right, get going already."
Cricket stood on the shore with a cigarette in his mouth and said to the people aboard the Going Merry, "There's only a high chance that the Knock Up Stream will appear today. Its exact timing is impossible to predict, so don't miss it by accident."
"Got it, old man! Bye!"
Luffy, standing atop the chicken ship's bow, waved goodbye to Cricket.
Reiner summoned the undead and got to work as the Going Merry gradually sailed away from the harbor.
Monkey and Gorilla each led two pirate crews to escort them until they had traveled more than ten kilometers.
The previously cloudless sky suddenly began darkening at an astonishing speed. In the distance, an endless mass of pitch-black clouds stretched as far as the eye could see, as though the