At 9:30 that night, Sabaody Bubble Amusement Park.
Drake wore a gray bear mascot costume and stood at the main entrance behind the castle-shaped ticket booth, holding a bundle of balloons.
Kujaku and Baby-5 wore their hair in twin high pigtails and dressed in aristocratic hoop skirts, their faces caked in white powder with vivid blush painted across their cheeks.
After all, the Donquixote Family had been active nearby, so they had to keep Baby-5 from being recognized too soon.
"Ten o'clock is almost here." Kujaku paid Drake and bought a balloon from him.
"Conrad will come. Something important probably held him up." Drake twisted the mascot head, keeping his eyes fixed on the entrance. "I'll act alone for now. Until Conrad arrives, be careful not to expose yourselves."
As he spoke, he wandered around in circles, handing out balloons whenever he encountered a child. However, the designs he sold were all personally drawn by Conrad, and there were not many children with the artistic taste to appreciate them.
That was precisely the advantage. Once they were sold out, he would have no tools left for his disguise.
Just as he reached a side entrance, Drake's enhanced vision from his Zoan ability spotted a strange-looking, suspiciously moving group in the passage outside the castle.
Among them was a woman with the most normal—and best—figure. Though she wore a cowboy hat and a mask, her despondent gaze and posture were exactly like Baby-5's drawing.
Hody Jones glared viciously at Robin. "Until the mermaid ladies are done playing and return to the sea, I can't let you leave and tip anyone off."
The Fish-Man guards behind him were all trusted men from the Fish-Man District, each an extreme hater of humans. Precisely because they were wary of and hostile toward humans, they