Chapter 146: 153rd Branch (2/3)
Chapter 145: 153rd Branch
The weather in the East Blue was much better than on the Grand Line.
So even without Ace's power, they could slowly learn to handle the sails and keep up with them. The only problem was that their speed had dropped. Ace was having a hard time with it; he had even suggested tying the two ships together and towing them all himself, but Leo had refused.
Ace's difficulty was understandable, though. Arlong's ship was an ancient sailing vessel to begin with, requiring a huge number of sails to pick up speed. After Nami's adjustments, many of those sails had been removed, but even so, it still took around twenty people working together to operate it.
To be honest, Leo did not understand any of it either. Fortunately, Nami had started teaching them from scratch, allowing the ship to function. Even then, however, its speed was far inferior to that of an ordinary galleon, reaching only six knots—let alone compared to Ace's modified ship, which could reach thirty knots.
The gap between them was simply too great. Ace could not muster the slightest enthusiasm now. He crawled along like a snail, with no idea when he would finally reach his hometown.
"Your hometown?" Leo held two sea charts and slowly compared them. "No, there's somewhere along the way where we need to pick someone up."
He looked at the mark on the chart—the 153rd Marine Branch—and smiled.
To be honest, his memory was not very clear, but fortunately, Nami had even marked the Marine officers at the nearby branches. The glaring words "Axe-Hand" Morgan told Leo that the talent he wanted was there.
Although pirate hunters hunted pirates everywhere, there was no doubt that if there was one place where Zoro