Several days passed, and Bonney could now run freely beneath both the sun and the moon.
After giving her one final examination, Ai Haibara Meow confirmed in a slightly brighter tone, "I found no sign of the Azure Jade Scales recurring. We can now confirm that Bonney has fully recovered, meow."
"That's wonderful!"
The worry that had weighed on Kuma's heart finally lifted. With tears in his eyes, he hugged Bonney. "Bonney, this is wonderful!"
"Don't get so close, you snot monster!" Bonney pushed his big face away in disgust, but her eyes brimmed with laughter. "Does that mean I can travel with Father from now on?"
"Of course!" Kuma answered without hesitation, only to recall what Xie Wen had said earlier. An apologetic look crossed his face. "But we'll have to postpone setting sail for a little while. Daddy still has a few things to do."
Though a little unhappy, Bonney was sensible enough not to pester him. Instead, she pouted and said, "Then don't keep me waiting too long."
"Of course not. Daddy has been itching to set sail with you for ages, too!"
Xie Wen really could not bear to listen to this conversation full of death flags anymore. He hurriedly interrupted, "Kuma, shouldn't you send Luo back first?"
As a precaution, Trafalgar Law had stayed for the past few days while they monitored Bonney's condition, sparring with the cats in swordsmanship and exchanging medical knowledge...
Then Meow Jūshirō and Link Meow had thrashed him, while Ai Haibara Meow had dealt quite a blow to his confidence in his medical talent.
While miserably discovering that he was worse than cats at the two things he did best, Luo had also grown more confident about defeating Doflamingo in the future, so the past few days had been both