"Wow, wow! So many bubbles, meow!"
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Klee Meow cheered loudly as she looked at the island not far away, which kept releasing colorful bubbles. The other cats stared at those bubbles with shining eyes too, unconsciously swishing their tails...
There was no helping it. Cats were simply interested in spherical objects that moved around. It was a biological instinct.
After several days of sailing, Xie Wen and his companions had reached the last island above sea level in the first half of the Grand Line-the Sabaody Archipelago.
Since the islands were essentially trees, they produced no magnetism of their own, so naturally a Log Pose could not record them. Fortunately, they were almost directly above Fish-Man Island, so as long as they sailed toward Fish-Man Island, they would soon spot the Sabaody Archipelago on the sea.
The reason Xie Wen had come here first was entirely because it was still well before the handover time Uncle Cody had mentioned.
After all, following several upgrades, the Toot Toot Forward had excellent sailing speed. With Klee Meow's good luck also making them unlikely to encounter bad weather, they had actually already made a circuit around the outskirts of Marineford.
In fact, even at an ordinary ship's speed, reaching Marineford within ten days would have been easy, provided their luck was not so bad that they encountered particularly severe weather.
However, considering that Cipher Pol had never had much of a moral bottom line, Xie Wen had not stubbornly gone to contact the Marines ahead of time. Instead, after confirming that the Log Pose Moria had given him worked properly, he had turned toward the Sabaody Archipelago for a rest.
Given the distance between the two islands, the Toot Toot Forward could reach Marineford quickly even in its normal form anyway, so