Cats were utterly powerless against the word "fish," so the moment Klee Meow called out, both Meow Jūshirō, who had been exercising, and Sanji Meow, who had been sleeping at the bow, shot up the mast as fast as they could.
"It really is! Xie Wen! Let's hurry over and take a look, meow!" Sanji Meow suggested the instant he spotted the "fish ship."
Meow Jūshirō nodded solemnly as well. "I, too, believe we must investigate, meow!"
"Big Brother Xie Wen, could that be the Fish-Men's pirate ship, meow?" Klee Meow jumped down from the mast, deftly climbed onto Xie Wen's shoulder, and tugged at his ear as she habitually did while asking.
"No." Xie Wen had already guessed what ship it was without needing to look. "The seafaring restaurant Baratie. You must have heard of it back in the other towns, right?"
Oh, right! Klee Meow's targets were "pirates with high bounties." Among the pirates in the East Blue, was anyone worth more than "Red-Leg" Zeff, a pirate who had gone to the Grand Line and successfully returned?
"Ooh! That's the place with yummy food, meow!" Klee Meow remembered the name Baratie and chattered excitedly from Xie Wen's shoulder, her face full of anticipation. "Several uncles and big sisters said before that the food there was really good, meow!"
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"So it's that famous restaurant, meow? I wonder if they have any specialty dishes I don't know about, meow."
Sanji Meow grew even more enthusiastic. Ever since learning a whole host of new dishes in the Flower Country, visiting restaurants wherever he went to learn their specialties had become a hobby of his.
Although Meow Jūshirō said nothing, his tail stood straight up. Clearly, he was looking forward to Baratie's food as well.
As for Xie Wen, that went