After a while, everyone woke up. They looked around and were captivated by the snow-white world.
"Wait... did we really make it up into the sky?"
Nami jumped onto the soft clouds, bouncing and cheering. The white clouds beneath her feet were like the cotton candy children loved, floating and billowy.
Nami was so delighted she couldn't stop smiling. Still not satisfied, she even took off her shoes, revealing a pair of little feet as white as jade. They were slender and delicate, with a rosy glow beneath their pale skin and neatly trimmed toenails.
The girls were all thrilled, and before long they had left the ship. Ye Chen stood atop the mast and gazed into the distance. Suddenly, he started and pointed Northeast. "Someone's coming! Looks like another ship."
"How is that possible?"
Perona rolled her eyes, hurriedly opened her Little Flower Umbrella, and floated into the sky to look where Ye Chen was pointing.
Robin thought for a moment. "I remember Diamond Face saying there was a designated route to Sky Island. We came up on the Knock Up Stream, so we took a shortcut."
Zoro had no interest in any of that. He lay down on the ship and promptly fell asleep. He was always like that: the moment his head touched the deck, he was out.
Even in an unfamiliar place, he slept whenever he felt like it. Apart from drinking, sleeping, and cutting people down, little could hold his interest.
"Captain, looks like people live up ahead. I can see a house."
Magician Rad of the Fierce Wolf Pirates pointed at a two-story building in the distance and grinned excitedly.
"Gao... really? Let me see."
The speaker was a bald, burly man with a brutish face. He stood at least two meters tall, with