"Hey! What exactly are you trying to do?" Zoro looked at Perona floating beside him, rather speechless.
Why was this woman like a ghost? No matter where he went, he would follow him there.
What unsettled him even more was that, a few days earlier, he had still been firmly opposed to Perona holding him like a doll as she slept.
But every time he was about to push her away, this woman would act pitiful.
She would even use her Devil Fruit ability to strip him of the will to resist.
The outcome was always the same. He was always the one who lost.
Whenever Zoro trained, Perona would sit quietly on a large rock nearby.
He could not understand why this woman did that, either.
He just let her be.
Meanwhile, Hawkeye sat inside the castle, leisurely drinking coffee with a newspaper in his hand.
The newspaper carried the news of Luffy's crew defeating Gecko Moria.
But his Observation Haki kept watch over Zoro and Perona the entire time.
He was a loner, someone who disliked noise and bustle.
He had only occupied this castle after observing it for a long time and discovering that no one lived there.
For all these years, the only inhabitants of the island besides him had been some baboons.
He had never expected two people to arrive in the past fortnight, making him, someone who had always preferred peace and quiet, feel that having some liveliness around was actually rather nice.
More importantly, why did all the interactions between this man and woman seem so sweet?
He now felt the nervousness of a father whose son was about to take a wife.
The New World.
An Electromagnetic Sphere drifted slowly over the sea.
"What? You're saying Marine Vice Admiral Momousagi is