Monster

Seeing Swain looking absentminded, Absalom asked:

"What are you thinking about?"

"Nothing. I was just distracted for a moment."

Everyone had secrets. Absalom knew Swain did not want to talk about it.

Just as Absalom had been sent by Moria to abduct Yamato.

They wandered around for the entire morning without finding any clues.

Swain was somewhat puzzled. Why had that presence appeared only once?

Though he believed in dealing with whatever came his way, his enemy was in the shadows, and sitting around waiting to be ambushed was not his style.

He decided to put Moria's affair aside for now. Finding an excuse to dismiss Absalom, he arranged a place for their next meeting.

Onigashima was not particularly large. At Swain's speed, he left the island in less than ten minutes.

At the same time, a dark-red figure silently followed behind Swain.

Like a ghost, he went completely unnoticed.

However, he kept a considerable distance, positioning himself right at the edge of Observation Haki's range.

It could be said that when Swain released his Observation Haki on Onigashima to search for him, he had also thoroughly grasped the limits of Swain's Observation Haki.

Even Swain had not noticed such details.

After all, battles between powerful people had always been direct and straightforward; such meticulousness was rare.

Swain flew through Kong, occasionally looking down as though searching for something.

Wano Country was densely forested. From Kong, it looked like a vast green ocean, and when the breeze swept through it, the treetops rolled like a thousand waves.

"This place wasn't like this before, was it?" Swain asked, standing in Kong.

When he had first joined the campaign against Kaido, Swain had passed through this place. Its geographical features were quite distinctive, so it had left a deep impression on him.