Moria: Senior Oak?! Oak: Now This One Knows Respect!

Oak had long since noticed someone watching him from the shadows, and he had guessed it was most likely Moria's men. He had not paid it any mind, though. When he saw Moria's people retreat, he simply steered the little boat beneath his feet after them. That saved him the trouble of searching for Moria's lair himself. Using Observation Haki in this fog was quite the hassle, too.

He followed the zombies sent to watch him, keeping neither too close nor too far away. Before long, Oak saw an Island-sized, truly colossal... sailing ship ahead!

This was Moria's pirate ship—the Thriller Bark!

Oak finally understood why this ship was the largest in the world. It was genuinely enormous, even more outrageous than an ordinary small Island.

"Huh! Why is there an island here?"

Nami stared at the ship in astonishment.

Until Oak told her,

"This isn't an island. It's a ship!"

She immediately let out an incredulous gasp.

"Th-This is actually a ship?"

"How could that be? How is such a huge ship powered?"

In this world, most ships relied on wind power. Nami could hardly imagine how enormous the sails would need to be to propel such a massive vessel. And even with sails large enough, ordinary winds probably could not move something of this scale!

So relying on wind alone to move this ship was practically impossible. But if it used some other source of power, she could hardly imagine how much energy it would take to drive such a behemoth.

What Nami was curious about was also what Oak wondered about. He knew more than she did, too. This ship had once sailed from the West Blue to the Grand Line. He was very curious how it had made that journey. Going through Reverse Mountain was impossible;