By the time Tsugikuni Yoriichi arrived at Cake Island aboard Cracker's pirate ship, it was already dusk. Cracker and Kastade had likely come here to have dinner with Big Mom.
Pirate crews like the Big Mom Pirates, bound together by blood and family ties, often displayed behavioral patterns in the details of daily life that seemed somewhat out of place for "pirates."
Quite a few ships were docked along Cake Island's coast. Looking over them, Tsugikuni Yoriichi saw that they came in all kinds of styles. Though all their sails had been furled, he could still tell that the emblems on those sails were all different.
Big Mom's children who had started families would build pirate ships according to their own preferences. None of the ships were standardized like those of the Marines.
Moreover, Big Mom did not seem to use a uniform ship design to strengthen her control over the pirate crew. This small detail was, in truth, one of the differences between pirates and an organized military force.
"You stay on the ship."
"I'll be back later."
"Don't wander around. This isn't Biscuit Island. If you run around here, people die!!"
Before going ashore, Cracker walked over to Tsugikuni Yoriichi and gave him a solemn warning.
Cracker knew full well that Tsugikuni Yoriichi did not trust him. But precisely because of that, Cracker felt an even greater need to "remind" him before leaving.
He was fiercely loyal to Big Mom, and it was because of that loyalty to MAMA that he would do everything possible to avoid a direct conflict between Tsugikuni Yoriichi and the Big Mom Pirates.
In Cracker's eyes, that useless stone tablet really was not as dangerous as the man before him.
"Mm, please rest assured."
In front of Kastade, Tsugikuni Yoriichi even used an