Soon, after Houka had Babel and Sambel enslave Vander Decken VII, the Mark-Mark Fruit user, he gave the two of them detailed instructions on relocating Fish-Man Island.
Using Noah, they would move the residents of Fish-Man Island, batch by batch, to nations such as the Titan Kingdom, Mercury Kingdom, and Totto Land.
Rocks and the other officers' nations would probably be willing to take in the fish-men and merfolk as well.
"Boss Houka, we found no princesses among the merfolk royal family with the special abilities you asked us to investigate."
"However, the large-scale investigation you ordered into mermaids with special Observation Haki has made major progress."
"There is a noble family of goldfish merfolk. Their female descendants all possess some kind of special Observation Haki."
"There is also a commoner shark mermaid with a special ability to foresee fortune and disaster!"
After seeing Vander Decken VII become an obedient subordinate, Sambel continued reporting the results of several missions to Houka.
Within that noble goldfish merfolk family, a baby girl with considerable spiritual power had been born last year. She was suspected of possessing innate Observation Haki.
Her name was Otohime.
That merfolk noble family also had two adult goldfish mermaids with remarkably powerful empathy-type Observation Haki.
As for that shark mermaid, she had already reached marriageable age.
If not for their large-scale investigation, that shark mermaid would have married a shark fish-man from Fish-Man District next month.
Now, taking advantage of their chance to escort Vander Decken VII to Elbaf,
both that noble goldfish merfolk family and the shark mermaid had been "invited" to Elbaf by Babel and Sambel for Boss Houka to select from!
Even the merfolk royal princesses without special abilities had been invited along the way.
Who knew whether those princesses were hiding abilities they did