After the brief meeting...
Everyone immediately set out to prepare the Den Den Mushi they needed and distribute them across the various regions.
Sabo had just risen to leave when Dragon stopped him:
"Wait, Sabo."
"Stay behind for a moment."
Sabo paused, then nodded. Once everyone else had left, he flew with Dragon to a deserted cliff.
Dragon looked at Sabo and asked:
"How is Bonney holding up?"
Sabo let out a soft sigh:
"Still the same."
"Kuma's death and the destruction of the Sorbet Kingdom hit her too hard."
"All she wants is revenge."
"Fortunately, our offensive is going strong right now. I promised her that when we attack the Holy Land, I'd take her with us..."
"That finally settled her down for a while. She's been training hard every day."
Dragon fell silent as well:
"Ah..."
He shook his head and put the matter aside.
Then he reached inside his coat, took out a stack of blueprints, and handed them to Sabo.
Sabo took them and leafed through them, looking puzzled:
"These are..."
"Warship blueprints?"
The seagull emblem on them clearly belonged to the Navy, but there were no warships like these in the Four Blues. They were only found on the Grand Line.
Dragon nodded:
"That's right."
"They're Navy warships."
"The key is the outer layer of Seastone on the hull's underside. That's what allows Navy warships to cross the Calm Belt."
Sabo's eyes widened, and he sucked in a sharp breath:
"Hiss-"
"With these, we won't have to worry about how hard it'll be to conquer the Grand Line."
Cutting straight across from the waters on either side of the first half of the Grand Line would be far easier than entering through Reverse Mountain and taking each island one by one.
Dragon looked at Sabo