On the salvage ship, Cricket and his "Armored Gorilla" companions watched in stunned disbelief as the shark ship rose straight into the sky from the harbor.
"Boss, what did that man mean by what he said just now?" Armored Gorilla asked in confusion.
"I don't know either." Cricket shook his head.
He truly did not know what those words meant.
Before that ship took off, the man had suddenly told him—
Look up at the sky when you have time. Perhaps you'll hear an unexpected bell.
Issho's ability was indeed formidable. A large three-masted sailing ship rose steadily toward an altitude of ten thousand meters as easily as if it were a toy in his hands.
Then again, he was a man who could casually pull down meteors. Lifting a ship was nothing to him.
On deck, this might have been Nami's first time standing at such a height. Both hands clutched the railing tightly. Though she was clearly afraid, she still could not resist looking out.
The incomparably azure sea and the gradually shrinking Jaya below made for a truly rare sight.
"What did you mean by what you said to that guy just now?" Nami asked curiously after enjoying the scenery for a while.
"Our second objective in going to Sky Island is to find the legendary treasure, the Golden City—Shandora." Bane smiled, then continued, "That man is a descendant of Liar Mont Blanc Noland. Perhaps he really wants to hear the Golden Bell of the Golden City?"
Nami was already dumbfounded. "The Golden City!?"
"You've never heard of it?" Bane asked, slightly puzzled.
"How could I not have? Even if I'd never heard of the Pirate King's great treasure, I couldn't possibly have missed the Golden City. It's one of the three great treasures of the sea