Wet Caribou slowly woke in an abandoned Wooden House near the beach.
"You're awake? Good. Saves me the trouble of waking you."
Wet Caribou looked toward the voice in the darkness before him, but the light was too dim for him to make out more than a blurred figure.
Then something terrifying happened. He discovered that his Devil Fruit power was gone.
"Who are you? What did you do to me? Why is my Mud-Mud Fruit power gone? What's going on, you bastard?"
"Never heard of Seastone? And you dared come to the Grand Line knowing that little?"
Werther grabbed Wet Caribou by the head and hoisted him up with a rope.
When Werther came closer, Wet Caribou finally saw his face.
"You're Thunder Swordsman Werther! Why did you capture me? I've never done anything to you."
Wet Caribou then watched Werther take one object after another out of his mysterious pocket watch.
He had no idea what they were, but a chill ran down his spine.
"Heh. I've never seen a tongue this long. Now I can try out that thing Second Senior Sister invented. So hang in there. Don't die. I'm planning to make it through all four stages of interrogation today."
With that, Werther picked up the interrogation tools Second Senior Sister had given him and approached Wet Caribou...
Outside the Wooden House, Anita and Tuski waited together.
"Tuski, what's that damned baldy doing in there?"
Tuski thought for a moment, then wrote Anita a note.
"Don't go in. Just wait here. Or we could head back and rest. Al will be fine on his own."
Tuski had once seen Werther interrogate a Pirate they had robbed because the Pirate had injured him.
That interrogation had left a deep impression on Tuski. He was used to such