With the supplies they had gathered on the previous island, Dawn and the others had a smooth voyage after putting to sea again. They even skipped lunch and dinner after landing on the island.
There was simply too much fruit on the island, and no one aboard had eaten any fruit recently. So they picked fruit to store while eating their fill, saving them two meals instead.
Perhaps their luck had turned around. On the fifth day after setting sail again, they came across an island with a human city.
Yet this island had no king. They heard that it had once been a country conquered by the Vinsmoke Family, and its king had been beheaded, his head used as a trophy for the Vinsmoke Family to flaunt.
As a result, the country had inevitably been carved up and occupied by ministers, nobles, and even various lawless factions.
Hearing this, Dawn could not help recalling a painting from the anime of his previous life, one that had appeared when Sanji's father made his entrance.
It depicted a man riding a horse, with several crowned heads beneath its hooves, making Dawn's expression turn strange.
After all, the country's former ruler was very likely one of the heads in that painting.
This also showed just how frequent wars were in the North Sea. No wonder the people of Dawn's homeland, the Ishtar Kingdom, were unwilling to join the Marines and instead mostly enlisted in the royal army under the royal family.
After all, once one became a Marine, their primary targets were pirates. Although the Ishtar Kingdom also suffered pirate attacks, those were far less severe than the impact caused by wars between nations.
And the Marines were nominally a public organization under the World Government. Their main purpose was to crack