"Ah... what was that?"
Lucky Roux was running when something startled him. He had barely turned around before a dark figure shot past him like a gust of wind.
"Was that the kid?"
A strange scene unfolded in town. A San was hanging clothes out to dry by the roadside when a gust swept past behind him. Before he could turn, he felt something step on the clothesline in front of him.
A dark figure flew past. By the time A San turned around, whoever it was had vanished.
"Scritch, scritch, scritch..."
Hisoka was repairing a roof when a boy in his teens came racing toward him. Hisoka stared, dumbfounded, his eyes struggling to keep up. The kid wasn't running along the street. He was racing over walls and rooftops, vaulting up and leaping down. At one point, his toes even touched a neighbor's glass window.
Strangely, the glass made no sound at all. In the instant Hisoka stood there stunned, a gust blew the cigarette from his mouth. Then the boy ran right past him across the roof tiles.
"Was that a person or a ghost?"
Hisoka watched the figure disappear into the distance, feeling as though he were dreaming. He rubbed his eyes hard and shook his head. "I must be seeing things. How could anyone run across walls and rooftops like that? It's impossible."
After chasing for a while, Ye Chen finally spotted Higuma on the western shore. Higuma had taken Luffy aboard a small boat and looked thoroughly pleased with himself.
"They'll never guess a mountain bandit would head out to sea. Ha! Let them search. They could turn the whole village upside down and still never find me."
"Looks like I got lucky."
Ye Chen reached the shore and leaped onto a rocky bluff. Standing