Conqueror's Haki Infusion Is Hard to Learn

The Mike and the Boro sailed side by side across the sea.

They had already completed more than half the journey to the Sabaody Archipelago.

Lin Nuo gathered all the core members in the Mike's meeting room.

Whitebeard had also been invited to attend. He sat quietly in a specially made oversized chair, holding a huge sake bowl as he listened patiently.

"Sabaody is right ahead." Lin Nuo traced a line across the chart with his finger.

"Listen up. We're not going there for sightseeing or adventure. We have only one core objective."

"To coat our ships, enter Fish-Man Island safely, and head to the New World."

He looked at everyone, his tone grave. "You all know what the situation there is like now."

"Fleet Admiral Steel Bone Kong has personally declared that he wants to wipe us out. Rocks and Roger may also show up, and the World Government won't let this chance to catch us all in one net slip away."

He tapped several numbered areas on the map of Sabaody.

"Once we land, all of us should keep our movements within Areas 50 through 59 as much as possible. That's where the shipwrights and coating craftsmen are concentrated."

"Then there are Areas 1 through 29. Those are directly under the World Government. Do not go there under any circumstances!"

Lin Nuo swept his gaze across the room.

"I know some of you might want to take a look around, or 'incidentally' do something."

"But let me make this clear: until the coating is complete and everyone has boarded the ships to dive down, crush any thoughts of causing trouble!"

"Understood?"

Ginny and the others stiffened and nodded seriously. John curled his lip but said nothing.

"As for task assignments," Lin Nuo continued, "Kokoro, Alice, and I will