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"Then the Cold Crow · Numancia Flamingo is ours to use for the time being."
Everyone staying behind nodded in agreement.
Although Rossi spent his days rushing about elsewhere, everyone knew that everything he did was so the Family could go further.
So those staying behind would not slack off either, and each began planning their next training schedule.
Never mind those carefree, undisciplined pirates-even rigorously disciplined Marines might not match that drive.
"You mean... islands in the sky?"
Holding the helm, Oni tilted her face up toward the endless blue overhead.
"Do you mean places like the ones Golden Lion Shiki lifted up with his power?"
"Similar, but not quite."
Leaning against the rail, Rossi explained to Oni at the helm, Gary curled up on the mast's yardarm, and Diamante leaning nearby, "They're naturally formed landmasses floating in the sky."
"As you all know, rather than seawater itself, what Devil Fruit users fear is a substance in it called Pyrobloin."
"And crystallized Pyrobloin has another, better-known name-Seastone."
"When forces such as volcanic eruptions throw particles containing Pyrobloin high into the air, they combine with water vapor and condense into a special kind of cloud.
Once enough of these clouds accumulate, they can even form ocean-like cloud layers, and islands floating on top of them."
This was the ** of Sky Island: floating cloud land built around cores of Seastone dust.
Thus, if Devil Fruit users fell into Sky Island's cloud sea, they would feel the same suffocating weakness.
During a pause in his explanation, Rossi unconsciously rubbed his chin.
Perhaps Seastone was actually a weapon that the "Great Kingdom"
had specifically created to counter Devil Fruit users? If the concentration of Pyrobloin in the air were raised to match that of seawater, would all the Devil Fruit