"What's going on?! How was there poison in the booze?!"
Marco and Ace, who had no idea what was happening, hurried over. Blue flames blazed on the hands of Marco, who had healing abilities, and he quickly pressed them against Xie Wen...
"Huh? He isn't poisoned?"
After running his Blue Flame over Xie Wen's body without finding anything wrong, Marco was a little bewildered. He then picked up the cup Xie Wen had dropped nearby, intending to taste a little of the remaining liquor and see what was going on.
"If I were you, I wouldn't do that, meow."
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Sanji Meow chewed hearty mouthfuls of food as he kindly warned them, clearly enjoying Xie Wen's misfortune. "That idiot Xie Wen is fine. It's just little Ai playing around with him. We're already used to it, meow."
"P-playing around?"
The two first looked at Xie Wen, who was flopping nonstop on the deck like a fish out of water, then at the perfectly calm cats around them...
Isn't your idea of playing around a little too extreme?!
Although they still didn't quite understand, Marco and Ace decided to accept Sanji Meow's explanation for the moment and watch how things developed.
Gradually, Xie Wen finally stopped flopping so violently and began twitching slightly instead. After another while, the Sapphire Star suddenly sat bolt upright.
Damn it! I let my guard down!
Xie Wen glared fiercely at the culprit, who was hiding behind Hua Mei Meow and smugly provoking him.
Since Whitebeard had no intention of pursuing the matter of Crocodile, and the Whitebeard Pirates hadn't fallen apart, Xie Wen naturally wasn't so bored that he would keep his Observation Haki active to monitor his surroundings all the time.
He hadn't expected that casually teasing Ai Haibara Meow earlier and then bluffing