With Dudu Valstrax's speed, Xie Wen and the others reached Liqueur Island from Whole Cake Island practically in the blink of an eye.
It was a small island southwest of Whole Cake Island, with buildings shaped like all kinds of liquor bottles and drinking glasses.
To Suika Meow's slight disappointment, however, Liqueur Island was unlike the Juice Island they had seen earlier. The surrounding seawater was ordinary seawater, not liquor.
The main reason was that the Big Mom Pirates had never obtained the Sake-Sake Fruit. Without an unscientific power like a Devil Fruit to help, turning even the seawater into liquor was still very difficult.
"So... so fast!"
Only after the Toot Toot Forward landed back on the sea and switched back to its normal form did Pudding and the others recover from their shock.
Although Xie Wen had held back, using only Klee Meow's flame propulsion, with even the Little Plushie not giving it her all, Dudu Valstrax was still far faster than the vast majority of pirate ships.
Dudu Valstrax's arrival also alerted Liqueur Island's administrator, Totto Land's Liquor Minister-Charlotte Zikett.
He happened to be on the island and had nearly thought enemies were attacking. Fortunately, the Dudu quickly returned to its basic form, clearing up the misunderstanding.
Zikett was a short, middle-aged man. Among all the oddly shaped members of the Charlotte Family, he was relatively normal overall, aside from his short stature...
If not for the tanuki tail behind him.
Xie Wen guessed that he might genuinely have Mink Tribe ancestry. After all, Charlotte Linlin had an extremely broad range when it came to choosing partners. Never mind the Mink Tribe-she even had Tontatta offspring.
Ummm... Xie Wen was actually rather curious about how Big Mom had managed that with her size.
After they briefly explained