"Hmm."
"I never said I wanted to take you on as a pirate. Honestly, your strength doesn't quite qualify, and I'm not short on crewmates. Next, I'd still like to recruit a Logia user and a Zoan user."
Shane felt that if he recruited more crewmates, he would definitely look for a Logia user and a Zoan user.
He would maximize both their area attacks and single-target combat power, making the flagship unstoppable wherever it went.
As for Fujitora, there was clearly another path better suited to him.
"I heard from Kuma that back home, they encountered some Marine Branches working with pirates, trying to do certain things in the Sorbet Kingdom. Dragon teamed up with him to deal with some trouble."
"If you go there, you should be able to see this world a little more clearly."
Shane intended to hand Fujitora over to Dragon to guide.
That way.
Dragon would have both Ivankov and Fujitora Issho helping him, and their Devil Fruit abilities would offer a boost in both single-target and area attacks.
Shane had already driven away quite a few of Dragon's original subordinates.
There was still one person he wanted to seek out now: the Soot-Soot Fruit user.
That kid was a pretty good choice!
He had no idea whether the boy had lost his memory yet, or where he was now.
"The Sorbet Kingdom!"
Issho stopped moving.
"Weren't all the people there wiped out, turning it into a nation of pirates?"
A faint hum came from Fujitora's sword.
"You talk too much."
"Major events keep happening all over the world now. The Marines' New Marine Soldier Project, the Shichibukai, Dragon's forces both in the open and in the shadows-compared to those, they're just a drop in the ocean."
"As for the New World, ultimately, it's