Life at sea had always been dull and tedious. Often, time slipped away before one even noticed. In the blink of an eye, more than two months had passed since they set sail, and the fleet had reached the first half of the Grand Line.
Bai Ina carried a plate toward the rear of the kitchen. On it lay an entire grilled fish.
"Yo, Ina, going to feed the kitty again?" Wa Zhanxiu asked with a grin.
"Mm!"
Bai Ina nodded and replied softly before heading straight toward the rear cabins.
"Looks like Bai Ina really likes that black cat."
"Yeah, but I don't think there's anything cute about it."
"Mm, true. I saw that black cat once too. Those eagle-like eyes are pretty frightening, and it looks viciously at everyone."
"But how did that black cat get aboard? I don't remember seeing it at the stern when we first boarded."
"It must've been hiding somewhere else. It couldn't exactly have flown aboard halfway through, could it?"
"That's true, haha!"
"..."
Meanwhile, Bai Ina arrived at the stern. The moment he pushed open the cabin door, he froze and frowned slightly.
"You're a wanted criminal. What are you always doing here? Looking to die?"
"It's boring staying in the cabin all the time. Besides, apart from you coming here to feed the cat, young sir, no one else comes to the stern!"
Nico Robin gave a careless little laugh and continued reading her book in the sea breeze.
Bai Ina curled his lip and stopped paying attention to the superfluous woman, carrying the grilled fish toward the shadowed corner.
There, the black cat noticed his arrival as well. After two months together, the black cat no longer looked at Bai Ina with that same savage hostility. After all, Bai Ina