As a fairly famous medical powerhouse, the Drum Kingdom was not a difficult destination to find an Eternal Pose for. In fact, it was easy.
Xie Wen and his companions bought one on the second island they landed on after leaving the Calm Belt.
Moreover, when the merchant selling Eternal Poses learned their destination, he brought out a whole pile of Eternal Poses for every island they would need to pass between this island and Drum Island...
"Rest assured, Sapphire Star-sama. After traveling back and forth to Drum Island many times, we worked out this route as the safest and most pleasant one."
Dressed like an Arab, the Eternal Pose merchant rubbed his hands together and pitched his wares with a fawning expression. "If fewer and fewer people hadn't been traveling to Drum Island over the past few years, it wouldn't have been this easy to gather all the Poses for this route."
"Hmm? Why's that, meow? What happened to that island, meow?"
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Klee Meow, perched on Xie Wen's shoulder, asked curiously.
"I'm not really sure myself. It's all things I've heard from other people..." The Pose merchant, who regularly read the newspapers, dared not underestimate the Little Plushie before him and hastily answered, "The Drum Kingdom got a new... very terrible king a few years ago. Many people went there seeking treatment and never came back. The few who did return hadn't been cured either. Apparently, the new king has brought all the doctors under his control. Never mind people from other islands-even the island's own residents can't find a doctor anymore."
Having read the manga, Xie Wen had long known exactly what sort of bastard Wapol was. Yet with the One Piece world's excellent matchmaking system, Wapol had still managed to "make a name for himself" outside