As expected, Gion still lost to Hawkeye.
Gion was not discouraged in the slightest and could fully accept the outcome.
While it would have bothered her a great deal before, she now had something more important to pursue.
Hawkeye had clearly seen everything that had just happened between Gion, Zoro, and the third person from inside the castle.
During their fight just now, he had also been studying the Marine Vice Admiral before him.
He could sense that Gion's feelings for Zoro were genuine.
For a moment, he could not help nodding, clearly quite pleased with this "daughter-in-law."
Precisely for that reason, he had not been too heavy-handed.
"What brings you here, young lady? Don't tell me you've come to challenge me like the other swordsmen?"
Hearing Hawkeye's question, Gion raised a hand and pointed at Zoro. "I'm here to take my man back!"
Hawkeye raised an eyebrow, marveling inwardly that such a bold, straightforward woman existed.
"That isn't for me to decide. It's entirely up to Zoro."
In the Sabaody Archipelago, a sailing ship roughly thirty meters long, with a straw-hatted skull flag flying from its mast, slowly came to a stop beside the shore near Mangrove 41.
At the front, a boy wearing a straw hat was the first to jump down. "I'm heading down first!"
"Hey! Luffy, don't go running off on your own!" Carina shouted at the straw-hatted boy.
This ship was none other than the Dawn, the pirate ship Iceburg had built for Straw Hat Luffy and his crew!
Luffy bounced on the ground, his face full of excitement, then turned to the people aboard the ship. "Come on down! The ground here is so weird."
Carina and the others jumped down onto the ground as well.
Hearing this, Saka also lowered the anchor