"What? Red-Hair's already here, and the Navy already knows I looted the research institute?"
When Xie Wen received another call from Hua Mei Meow, he was somewhat speechless. Red-Hair had arrived far too quickly. And fine, he could come, but why make such a big spectacle of it?
"Couldn't you stop them?"
"I was going to stop him, but before I could even have the Dudu surface, that guy split the ice open with a Flying Slash. There wasn't any time to stop him, meow."
Hua Mei Meow sounded helpless too.
In fact, if they had immediately started monitoring everything around Karakuri Island after learning that Red-Hair was coming, they might have been able to intercept the Red Hair Pirates before they approached. But the ship was full of Felines, after all. Asking them to keep watch for a while was fine, but having them stand watch continuously for several days was out of the question. Even Hua Mei Meow herself lacked that kind of patience.
"Forget it. Let him come. We're nearly finished here anyway. Don't bother with him. Just leave him hanging."
Although it did not affect Xie Wen much, having Shanks inexplicably expose his whereabouts still annoyed him somewhat. So, after giving Hua Mei Meow some instructions, he temporarily put Red-Hair out of his mind and continued copying the materials in the Second Research Institute with the Felines.
If Red-Hair got tired of waiting and left...
Then he could leave.
It was not as though Xie Wen was looking for him. He was the one looking for Xie Wen.
Just as Xie Wen was thinking this, he suddenly felt a faint sense of oppression...
"This is... Conqueror's Haki?"
Xie Wen and the others, who had been working, all turned to look in the same direction-the source of