Guests on Jaya Island
"Whoa, this really is impressive." A drenched middle-aged man in hideous beach shorts and a shirt walked down the streets of Jaya Island.
This place had become completely different from before. A brick-paved road, reinforced with cement, ran all the way to the heart of the city, making everything visible at a glance.
The passing carriages and pedestrians all moved hurriedly, as though everyone was rushing somewhere.
Yet even in their haste, they all avoided the bespectacled, soaking-wet middle-aged man.
Not only did he look as if he had just crawled out of the sea, but an octopus fish-man was following behind him.
Fish-men were exceedingly rare among humans, especially in the first half of the Grand Line. Humans did not know whether fish-men might attack them, so even though this one obediently followed behind the old man, they kept as far away as possible.
"Are they really waiting for me here?" The drenched old man took off his shirt and wrung it dry. Ignoring everyone's stares, he removed his beach shorts as well, wrung them out, put everything back on, and only then turned to ask the octopus fish-man.
"Hachi."
"Nyoo, that's what they said, nyoo." The octopus fish-man looked rather simple-minded, and a starfish sat atop his head, making him look extremely strange. He had originally planned to follow the starfish he met along the way and sell takoyaki, but he had kept his promise. He swam to the Sabaody Archipelago, found Dark King Rayleigh there, and brought Rayleigh to Jaya Island.
"All right, it's not very safe for you here. Hurry back," Rayleigh coaxed Hachi. "Thank you for delivering the message. Come sit down at Shakky's place sometime. We all miss you."
"Nyoo, okay, nyoo. Goodbye, nyoo." Hachi nodded foolishly and jumped into