However, Luffy, Toriko, and the others had still been a little too optimistic.
As it turned out, they hadn't managed to reach their destination before Annie or find the edible medicinal food called "Seafood Fruit" on the island.
After all, the place where Seafood Fruit grew was so conspicuous that Annie, who had flown straight there instead of landing on the island by boat, couldn't possibly have missed it.
And what's more, contrary to Toriko and Komatsu's earlier expectations, Annie had very generously left them the fruit from an entire tree.
However...
It wasn't hard to see that the other Seafood Fruit trees in the large pools full of saltwater plants in the walled garden were all bare, with nothing but leaves and no fruit. It wasn't hard to guess what a certain little girl had done to them.
Of course, that didn't matter!
They had finally found the Seafood Fruit, and all they had to do now was hurry up and feed some to Chopper to cure his illness, "Deep-Sea Fever."
"Well!"
"Everyone, what should we do now?"
"Can we just feed it to Chopper?"
"Right?"
Luffy eagerly stretched his arm dozens of meters, easily plucked several Seafood Fruits from the only tree still bearing fruit, and asked.
"No!"
"Seafood Fruit is actually a kind of breadfruit. Eating it raw probably won't work very well."
"Leave it to me. I'll find some leaves and steam them. We'll be able to eat them soon!"
The chef, Komatsu, stopped Luffy from trying to feed Chopper the Seafood Breadfruit raw. He quickly took the fruit from Luffy's arms and headed toward the center of the island, farther into the garden.
"Luffy!"
"Pick some more. Seafood Fruit is delicious, and we've come all this way. While we're treating Chopper, why don't we have