Hearing the cold, mechanical voice from inside his body, Barn couldn't help but chuckle...
"I'd almost forgotten I still had this thing inside me... That sure brings back memories."
Barn rubbed his abdomen with a wry smile, then opened the quest panel that had suddenly appeared.
"Second Awakening... I thought the system version I brought over was too old to have this quest. Looks like I just hadn't met the trigger conditions... So Sky Island is the key?"
"The Thunder God's Heart?"
Barn was completely baffled by the required quest item listed below the quest.
"What is that? Could it be..."
Barn stopped dwelling on it, put away his fishing rod, and returned to Cricket's house.
"The most important thing right now is getting to Sky Island..."
"Listen up. I'll tell you every lead I know about Sky Island."
Cricket addressed the Straw Hat Pirates, who had gathered around the stump.
"But I can't guarantee any of it is true."
"Believe it or not. That's up to you."
"Yeah! I'll believe it!"
Luffy spoke with a blank look on his face, while Zoro had already fallen asleep behind him... Then again, this sort of advanced subject really was too much to ask of someone with his terrible sense of direction...
"He hasn't even started talking yet!"
Usopp seized every opportunity to call Luffy out...
Cricket suddenly swept his hand toward the sea and said,
"A strange phenomenon sometimes occurs in parts of the surrounding waters. One moment it's broad daylight, and the next, everything is swallowed by night!"
The moment Cricket finished speaking, Luffy raised his hand and blurted out an answer like a student in class.
"That's right! Yeah, yeah! We ran into that!"
Usopp chimed in at just the right moment.
"Exactly! Right after it turned dark, five