Seeing Loa's expression, Ivy tapped his head and said with an amused smile, "Did you really think an obsession alone could bring an external power as formidable as the Ice Dragon's body into the Illusion Realm?"
Faced with her tender, almost childlike affection, Loa felt no stir of emotion. Instead, he felt like a child whose mother had caught him doing something foolish.
But Ivy had a point. Of Loa's three obsessions, entering the One Piece World was the easiest; any lucky soul who reached Between Dreams might manage it. Becoming an Ice Dragon Slayer amounted to gaining an additional magical inheritance.
Of the three, only the source of his Ice Dragon Slayer powers—the body of a Frost Dragon from Azeroth—had been utterly impossible!
If an obsession alone could carry away an external power like that, wouldn't Illusion Nightmare be terribly embarrassed?
Loa had suspected as much before, but since he couldn't contact either of them, suspicion was all it had remained.
Only today had Ivy finally confirmed it.
But that raised another question: had his Dragon Body actually hatched from a dragon egg?
That would explain why, during the three earlier stages when the system still existed, he'd needed to eat such enormous quantities of food to level up. Hatching a dragon egg would undoubtedly require a staggering amount of energy!
Ivy promptly shot that idea down.
It was as though he couldn't hide a single thought from her.
"What are you thinking, silly boy? Haven't you realized yet?" Leaning against Loa, Ivy played with his head as if it were a toy. "Your Dragon Body is part of my own body! You're my own flesh and blood. All you need to do is merge with it."
If you couldn't play with your children, what was the point of