Single Dogs

This was one of the Giant Tribe nations in the latter half of the Grand Line—the giant village of Elbaf!

After entering a river, the Thousand Sunny docked by a shore near a forest filled with enormous trees.

"If we all go ashore, who's going to guard the ship?" After everyone disembarked, Carter Franky saw that they all wanted to explore the island and curiously asked who would be responsible for watching the Thousand Sunny.

Although all the treasure aboard had been stored in the Castle Space within William's body, someone still had to stay behind to watch the ship! Of course, they were not worried about thieves or anything like that. This was Giant Tribe territory, where nearly everyone was a giant. Given the giants' size, unless they dismantled the Thousand Sunny, they would not even notice anything on it.

"Leave it to me!" Since everyone wanted to see Giant Tribe territory, William simply expanded his Castle Domain and stored the Thousand Sunny inside his body.

Normally, if someone was guarding the pirate ship, William would rather not do this. There was quite a bit of seawater beneath the ship, and while it would not affect William much, it would leave a salty sea smell inside him. It was not that William had a cleanliness obsession, and pirates who spent all year at sea were long accustomed to the smell of seawater. It was simply that the seawater would dirty the "ground" in the Castle Space, which the Castle Army disliked.

Nami and the others entered the Castle Space because they were too lazy to walk. To outsiders, only nine members of the Straw Hat Crew had disembarked: Captain Luffy, vice-captain Zoro, ship's cook Sanji, sniper Usopp, helmsman Jinbe, ship's doctor Chopper, shipwright Carter Franky, musician Brook, and strategist