Roger: Once We Come Down from Sky Island, We'll Go Rob Walde!

Clearly, the giant-riding Jaba wanted to discuss was completely different from the giant-riding Vikengam had mentioned.

After joking around with Vikengam for a bit, Jaba still refused to give up and continued asking, "You're a scholar and a Celestial Dragon, so you must know more than I do. Master, please clear this up for me. Are there any precedents of normal humans and Giants, you know...?"

"You really are a warrior of love, Senior Jaba." Vikengam could not help saying when he saw how unwilling Jaba was to let it go.

"A preacher of love!" Jaba stressed, then said, "When we began our second voyage, I reshaped my dream."

"Yes, yes, I've heard that dream of yours plenty of times already. Don't say it." Vikengam cut him off directly.

The so-called second voyage was a term among the Roger Pirates, referring to their journey from Lodestar Island to search for Final Island once again.

As for Jaba's reshaped dream, it was great unity among all the races of the world.

As a preacher of love, he wanted to have a passionate romance with beautiful women from every race in the world.

The first time Vikengam heard that dream from him, he felt Jaba did not belong with the Roger Pirates. He should have worked for Charlotte Linlin.

Those two were practically a perfect match when it came to dreams, weren't they?

"Once we find Final Island and unravel all the mysteries, you can go to Cake Island and form a supergroup with Charlotte Linlin," Vikengam suggested.

"Hahahaha, I have thought about that, but considering Linlin's awful reputation among the Giants, I'd be finished if I got mixed up with her..." Jaba laughed loudly.

Seeing the topic get steered back to Giants by this guy again, Vikengam was speechless. In the end, he sighed and said, "Fine, fine. Since you care so much, I'll tell you. Humans can indeed form families with Giants. As I recall, some old pervert had a child with an especially beautiful Giant woman and lived happily ever after..."

"Hey!" Jaba suddenly slapped Vikengam on the shoulder and asked excitedly, "Master, you're not lying to me, are you?"

"I swear, everything I said is true." Vikengam answered righteously.

The person I'm talking about is you, you bastard!

Seeing how certain Vikengam sounded, Jaba believed most of it. Excited yet moved, he murmured, "Life really is miraculous... That's why I love this world."

"Life certainly is miraculous." Vikengam shot him a sidelong glance and snarked.

Who knew how many lives your bullet had fought through before swimming down that long passage and finding that massive egg? Just thinking about it is unbelievable, isn't it?

After getting a satisfactory answer from Vikengam, Jaba stopped pestering him and said with a grin, "All right, time for today's special training!"

"We're not forging first today?" Vikengam asked in surprise.

Other than times when they had serious business to handle, like in Alabasta, Vikengam kept up his training every day.

And aboard the Roger Pirates' ship, he received excellent treatment. As long as he asked, his companions rarely refused his requests.

For example, the ship's three top figures—Roger, Rayleigh, and Jaba—took turns training Vikengam.

They taught Vikengam how to develop his Haki more deeply, as well as all kinds of combat techniques, awareness, reactions, and more. Every so often, they also took turns sparring with him in actual combat exercises.

Because of that, Vikengam's strength had skyrocketed over the past two years.

Haki training was a gradual process that accumulated over time, so there was no need to say more about it. The most noticeable change was that his Sharingan had already reached Three-Tomoe.

The Three-Tomoe Sharingan gave him sharper dynamic vision, and its effects carried over to Vikengam himself. As a Cat-Cat Fruit user, his neural reactions had already improved tremendously. Now, paired with the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, it was like adding wings to a tiger.

At the same time, the Three-Tomoe Sharingan further enhanced Vikengam's ability to learn. Whether he could master them or not, every time they fought, he imprinted all of Roger and the others' combat stances into his Sharingan, then analyzed and simulated them over and over.

He had quite the air of the "Konoha's No. 1 Technician."

It was just that he copied fighting techniques instead of ninjutsu.

On the deck, Jaba was putting Vikengam through special training.

Rayleigh sat beneath the mast, sipping from a bottle of liquor. Intelligence officer Spencer walked out of the cabin with a Den Den Mushi in hand and a cigarette hanging from his lips.

"There's news," Spencer called out.

"Oh? What happened?" Roger, who had been leaning against the railing and staring boredly at the sea, immediately perked up and turned around to ask.

As the Roger Pirates' intelligence officer, Spencer was quite capable. He had extensive connections in the Underworld and maintained stable contact with many intelligence agencies. He had gathered many clues regarding ancient ruins and Poneglyphs from all over the world before.

"World Destroyer Byrnndi World carried out massive plundering on Falina Island and destroyed half of Pandel Kingdom. Rumor has it that they seem to have seized a Poneglyph there," Spencer said, exhaling smoke.

Byrnndi World.

He was a ruthless figure too, though he had not taken part in the great melee at God Valley.

Not competing at God Valley did not mean he was not strong enough. He had probably been tied up by something, or perhaps simply had no interest.

In fact, he was a famous big shot among pirates. There were rumors that Rocks had invited him before, but he had not accepted.

Before Whitebeard joined Rocks' crew, the two had clashed several times in the New World. That showed what level this guy was on.

"Walde?" Roger smacked his lips. "The last time I saw him was five years ago, right?"

Rayleigh sighed as well. "A terrifying guy... A troublesome opponent."

Clearly, Roger's group had clashed with Walde before.

That Paramecia Momo Momo Fruit alone was already ridiculously overpowered!

This ability could increase the speed and size of objects, and could partially be used on the user himself.

Byrnndi World would casually boost himself to a hundred times speed. With his strength, adding a hundredfold speed was simply absurd.

Still, Vikengam always felt that talk of a hundredfold speed was probably Walde boasting. His ability might be capable of reaching that level, but his body's reaction speed might not be able to keep up.

Unlike most pirates, Byrnndi World had strong anti-World Government tendencies. He actively hunted Marines and World Government fleets, even attacking Marine bases and World Government fortresses.

For that very reason, the World Government considered him an enormous threat. It strictly ordered the Marines and Cipher Pol to put aside any internal conflicts when dealing with him, cooperate fully, and eliminate him as soon as possible.

There were rumors that he had spent the past few years plundering in order to raise enough money to build a super cannon.

Combined with his ability, it could then blast through the Red Line with a single shot, perhaps even destroy Holy Land Mary Geoise.

"Hey, Jaba, is Falina Island far from us?" After pondering for a while, Roger called out to Jaba, who was training Vikengam.

Though he did not really want to provoke a lunatic like Walde, there was no helping it for the sake of the Poneglyph.

Without even turning around, Jaba said, "A bit far. That place is near Spring Queen Island, on another route."

Hearing that, Roger nodded, then looked at Spencer and said, "Keep tracking Walde's movements. Once we come down from Sky Island, we'll go take that Poneglyph from him!"