"Then let's get going!"
"Let's meet up with Ginny and the others first! Then we can find the others to help break the Princess's contract!" Brook said excitedly.
"All right." Lin Nuo nodded.
Then he moved closer to them, motioning for them to stand beside him, one on either side.
"Flying will be faster. I'll take you."
Just as Lin Nuo reached out to take Gunko's arm, she suddenly caught his wrist instead.
"What's wrong?"
Gunko raised her head and looked at him, her gaze complicated.
"Lin Nuo."
"Hm?"
"The Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika-"
"Is it really that much of a threat to the World Government and Imu?"
Lin Nuo nodded without hesitation.
"Of course!" he explained. "Otherwise, why would the World Government have been searching the whole world for it ever since it was founded?"
"They even went out of their way to rename it based on its properties, calling it the Gum-Gum Fruit."
"All because they were afraid people would discover its true power."
After a while, Gunko asked again, "Then do you want that fruit?"
"Of course I do-even if I don't eat it, finding the right person to eat it and develop its abilities would give us a powerful fighter to use against Imu."
Gunko lowered her head, as though thinking about something.
A few seconds later, she suddenly looked up.
"Lin Nuo."
"I don't want to break the contract anymore."
"You don't... want to what?"
Her words left both of them momentarily unable to react.
"I don't want to break the Shallow Sea Contract."
Brook tilted his skeletal head slightly and stammered, "P-Princess? Why?"
He spun around anxiously.
"I've heard Rocks and the others are vicious pirates, but they seem to get along well with Mr. Lin Nuo! They probably won't make things difficult for