Xie Wen could figure out with his toes what little Klee Meow could have slipped Lucky Roux besides a bomb.
But...
Just what kind of bomb had the little one given him to blast Shanks out of commission for so long that he had only just recovered?
Surely she hadn't given him a "Little Girl"? In that case, Red-Hair would have been all that remained of the Red Hair Pirates, and Shanks couldn't possibly have spoken to him so calmly.
So...
"You let your guard down again?"
Remembering that Shanks had already lost an arm in the East Blue, Xie Wen felt he might have guessed the truth.
"Wh-what do you mean, let my guard down?!"
Sure enough, Shanks shouted as though Xie Wen had hit a sore spot. "Who knew that tiny little ball your kitten gave us could pack that much power?!!"
"Oh... so it was a Compressed Jumpy Dumpty."
Xie Wen understood at once.
As Klee Meow's bombs kept improving, only three kinds of little ball-shaped bombs remained: Sonic Bombs, Boom-Booms for blasting fish, and Compressed Jumpy Dumpties.
The first two certainly couldn't have blasted Shanks flat for so many days, so it could only have been a Compressed Jumpy Dumpty.
"You were pretty lucky. Apart from Klee's utility bombs, that's already her least powerful model."
Xie Wen told him the plain truth.
After all, Little Plushie now mostly used explosive sparks directly, or teamed up with Jinx Meow for combination moves, making them on the spot and using them right away.
In fact, Klee Meow had even naturally unlocked Alchemy Style, a little earlier than Meowrah and Ai Haibara Meow.
Shanks: "..."
"Honestly, you already lost an arm in the East Blue because you let your guard down, and you still haven't learned to be more