It Appeared! It Really Appeared!

Shakky looked at the queen with tears welling in her eyes and helplessly shook her head.

"At most, we'll search for another two days!"

"As soon as the Marines come after us, we'll leave West Blue immediately and withdraw to the New World!"

Shakky could only let her captain indulge herself a little longer.

She knew it was impossible for them to find Kozuki Houka and the others.

After all, if Kozuki Houka and the others were fine, they would have probably already fought their way back to Elbaf in the New World. There was no way they would still be lingering in these waters.

If Kozuki Houka and the others had already been killed by the King of the World, their bodies had probably been eaten by sea beasts and fish by now.

Even if they had not been eaten, the Marine fleets carrying out the Buster Call, the fleets of the affiliated nations, and the bounty hunters would definitely find those bodies faster than they could.

Still, the fact that the World Government was willing to offer such enormous bounties for the whereabouts and traces of these "corpses"...

Was indeed a little strange.

Could it be that Kozuki Houka and the others had not died in battle, but were merely gravely wounded and clinging to life somewhere in these waters?

Could that lovestruck queen's intuition actually be right?

Could Kozuki Houka really be drifting somewhere on the sea, waiting for that fool of a queen to rescue him?

All sorts of messy thoughts flashed through Shakky's mind.

Meanwhile, Gloriosa held a telescope and searched the surrounding waters, desperately hoping to spot some clue.

However, before they could find even the slightest lead, they spotted a fleet ahead of them.

A fleet consisting of twenty or thirty warships!

"This