Nothing had happened?
That made no sense!
Only a few hours after the Dragon Ship Fleet reached Whole Cake Island, someone spotted the enormous fleet heading back the way it had come. But the battle everyone had imagined never broke out. After Loa left, everything on Whole Cake Island carried on as usual, with repairs proceeding in orderly fashion.
I must still be asleep. That's nothing like the Ice Dragon!
Many people thought the same thing. Before long, they had restored Whole Cake Island to the standing befitting a Yonko.
Precisely because they knew this was unlike Loa, many assumed Charlotte Linlin must have struck some kind of deal with him. Some even speculated that she had something on him.
Either way, it meant the BIG· Pirates had some connection to Loa. Until the situation became clear, it was safer to tread carefully.
If Charlotte Linlin knew Whole Cake Island owed its newfound peace to Loa's fearsome reputation, she probably wouldn't have minded.
These days, she was a mother who often lost track of things. As long as Whole Cake Island and her family were all right, she no longer cared whether she was trading on Loa's name.
By the time the fleet docked at Turtle Island again, a week had passed.
On the return voyage, Loa had ordered the Legion to infiltrate every corner of the New World. He wanted to find the Soul-Soul Fruit user who had broken away from the BIG· soul before anyone else did, and the search had delayed them a little.
Only when he stepped from the Ice Wolf's back onto the Island Turtle's head did he learn that Momonga had been waiting there for two days.
"Where is he now?"
"He went to wait in the living room as soon as he heard