"An island! I can see an island!!"
Luffy shouted excitedly, and everyone gathered at the bow upon hearing him.
"This should be the Water 7 that old lady mentioned earlier, right?"
"Wow, it's so spectacular."
"..."
Listening to the commotion outside, Wu Biao did not get up and go out. Instead, he lay on the bed, staring somewhat blankly at the ceiling overhead.
Watching the Straw Hat Pirates happily chat, joke, and roughhouse together, he suddenly... missed home a little. Before he knew it, he had been in this world for several months already. He wondered how Ichigo and the others were doing.
"Have I been taking things too easy?"
Wu Biao raised his hand and looked at the back of it. Though he had used the Marines' intelligence network to hunt down a few criminals, he had never actively gone searching for anything.
These days, he had been living in this world with the mindset of sightseeing and having fun. Much of the boundless passion he had once felt had gradually cooled. Yet his defeat in this battle against Aokiji had made Wu Biao think about many things.
Unlike his playful sparring match with Garp, he had used every ounce of his strength this time, yet he had still lost to Aokiji in the end. Wu Biao could not help feeling unwilling to accept it!
When he had previously lost to Garp and Sengoku, Wu Biao had never truly believed that he had lost. If not for the world's suppression preventing him from strengthening his true body by any means, how could he possibly have lost...
But, thinking about it carefully...
A loss was still a loss. No matter how he tried to explain it away, he had already lost.
Once upon a time, he had even said... that