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A shrill female voice interrupted her, its tone carrying a hint of certainty:
"It's true! Sister... he tricked Fahai into returning to secular life, and the two of them... they eloped together!"
Before a dilapidated curtain, actors, transparent and seemingly floating with their feet off the ground, perform their stage plays from their previous lives, day after day.
This scene shocked Sabo and his companions, who had just landed on the island.
Are you ghosts?
Sabo tries to strike up a conversation with a female ghost who is playing the role of a weeping ghost.
"Ah, they're living people, ahhhhh... ahhhhh, how terrifying humans are, and there's a male one too, and a female one as well..."
As a result, Sabo was bombarded with arias an octave higher by his opponent for a full hour.
This was the first time he had ever felt that his ears were a burden.
Unfortunately, he brought this upon himself by interrupting the performance, leaving him with no choice but to suffer in silence. He covered his ears with his hands and barely managed to defend himself using Armament Haki.
Sabo only returned to silence after Kuina, unable to bear it any longer, severed the invisible sound waves with a single strike.
"Sabo, it seems you're the only one being targeted. You'd better not interrupt their performance!"
Robin, however, sat on the tattered sofa with great interest and watched the entire movie, "The Abandoned Bride's 101st Suicide."
Three days later, the magnetic field of the record pointer was full, and it began to guide the pointer to the next island.
The "Whirlwind" sailed at sea for some time.
Arrive at the next island.
In the center of the island stands a towering tree, its roots pointing skyward and its canopy extending deep into the earth.
Even if gravity were to come, the falling apple would still be upside down.
The original inhabitants here... how should I put it? They walk upside down and speak entirely in inverted sentences.
“This person is from outside!”
"It's terrifying! Run!"
"Hide quickly, hide now!"
In a short while, you would see the local residents running around like they had encountered a ghost, and they would disappear without a trace.
It took Sabo and his companions half a day to get used to the fact that the plants on the island were upside down and the animals walked headfirst. The native inhabitants were all hiding, so they couldn't get any answers from them.
After all, they were the only ones walking on solid ground, which was quite strange.
After spending a few more days on the island, the most interesting thing for Robin was that she secretly smuggled books from the local inhabitants, which were all written in reverse order.
This didn't stump her. She read the last page word by word backwards and unexpectedly discovered that the island's magnetic field was reversed. If outsiders were to come and interact with it, the positive and negative forces would cause the original inhabitants to be rejected by the island and driven out.
Once the magnetic force of the recording pointer was fully applied, the "Whirlwind" departed once again.
The next island...
Named Mirror Maze Island
The entire island is made up of countless giant mirrors, reflecting thousands of distorted images of the newly arrived "Whirlwind".
The reflection in the mirror makes the opposite movements to the real person, and can even pull everyone into the mirror world.
Kuina drew her sword immediately, but almost accidentally injured her own people; fortunately, she stopped in time.
At this point, Robin's keen observation skills were crucial; by comparing the subtle differences between countless mirror images, she successfully located the core of the maze.
It turned out to be a distorting mirror that could lie.
Robin thought about it and thought, "Maybe this is a good idea."
"Mirror, mirror on the wall... who is the fairest of them all?"
"Of course it's you!"
"You are lying!"
"No, I...I didn't lie! What makes you think I'm lying?"
"Because your world is only the size of a mirror image, you can't see the sky beyond!"
The funhouse mirror shattered with a snap, simply because it was so eager to see what the world outside the mirror was like.
Robin's scheme succeeded, and he collected the fragments.
Then, the real island appeared.
The trees here bear hard candy fruits, the streams flow with chocolate syrup, and the ground is like crunchy biscuits.
The air is always filled with a sweet, cloying aroma.
Sabo excitedly picked a fruit and took a bite, only to break half of his tooth.
He was completely bewildered. Could it be that he couldn't eat it?!
Seeing this, Guina cautiously refrained from trying anything.
Unconvinced, Sabo, without thinking twice, tasted each one to see if it was salty or bland.
Even that pile of bird droppings on the ground looks like it still has its charm!
One after another... we visited quite a few more islands.
Whenever Robin leaves an island, he always has a look of lingering regret, especially on those dangerous islands.
"What a pity. If we could have stayed a few more days, we could have witnessed the bloody, dismembered live dissection scene..."
Sabo found this incomprehensible: "Robin, your thoughts are dangerous, you know that?!"
Kuina succinctly stated, "Having unique interests is not a bad thing."
Liu Jiu remained silent as always, only occasionally standing casually in a position where he could strike at any moment when Robin was deeply studying a dangerous ruin.
On this day, the "Whirlwind" set sail again, leaving behind the "Pollen Wonderland Island" that it had just explored, an island that would make people sneeze incessantly.
Robin stood at the stern, watching the island gradually disappear into the distance, shrouded in a cloud of colorful pollen, and sighed softly: "The symbiotic mechanism of those sneezing flowers is very valuable for research. It would be great if we could bring back a sample..."
Sabo sneezed loudly, rubbing his red nose, still shaken: "Spare me, Robin! I never want to sneeze a hundred times in ten minutes again!"
Unexpectedly, Kuina quietly took out a sample of sneezing flowers that she had secretly collected and sealed in a glass bottle and handed it to Robin.
Robin's eyes lit up, and she carefully took the money: "Thank you, Kuina!"
Upon seeing this, Sabo quickly moved away, declaring that he didn't want to be near Robin for three days.
Liu Jiu looked at the nautical chart in his hand, while the recording pointer beside him stabilized again and pointed to the next unknown coordinate.
But... who knows what kind of wonder awaits them ahead?
Robin held the glass bottle in his hands, his thirst for knowledge now sparkling with new anticipation.
"Perhaps... on the next island, we might find a place full of ancient books!"
Chapter 131 Garp Chases After Them with Cannonballs
The sea and sky are one color, and the wind is calm.
We've traveled through several islands once again, and just left behind a charming little island known for its singing and dancing.
They are practically every man's dream, but unfortunately Sabo isn't interested in them, and Liu Jiu looks down on them.
Kuina and Robin were instead drawn to the island women's attire—sexy, slim, bold, unrestrained, fiery, and hot—making them instantly feel like outsiders with their completely covered-up outfits.
The two of them even stayed a few more days to buy a lot of fashionable clothes to bring back to the ship.
The Cyclone was sailing smoothly along the direction of the record pointer, and the atmosphere on board was relatively relaxed.
Sabo is wiping his steel pipe.
Kuina closed her eyes at the bow of the ship, resting and feeling the rhythm of the sea breeze.
Robin, meanwhile, was organizing the books she had collected from the previous islands.
Liu Jiu remained in his unchanging seated posture.
A sharp whistling sound shattered the silence!
A black dot rapidly expanded across the sky, hurtling towards the "Whirlwind" with a deathly roar! Its speed far exceeded that of ordinary artillery shells!
Almost the instant the sound of something cutting through the air rang out, Kuina's eyes snapped open!
The clear sound of Ziyun being drawn from its sheath was synchronized with her rising motion, and she leaped into the air!
A purple streak shot through the air and struck the cannonball with perfect accuracy!
The shell was precisely split in two in mid-air and detonated prematurely, the shockwave causing the sails of the "Whirlwind" to flutter loudly.
Kuina landed lightly back on the deck, stood with her knife in hand, and stared sharply in the direction from which the shells had come.
In the distance, a huge warship with a striking dog head statue on its prow was sailing menacingly towards them!
On the deck of the warship, a burly figure wearing a navy overcoat stood out.
When she saw the figure clearly, a rare look of surprise appeared on Kuina's usually calm face.
"That's... Grandpa Garp?"
In that brief moment of her daze—
call out!call out!call out!
More shells rained down from the dog-headed warship like a storm!
The sheer number and wide coverage of these shots clearly indicate that it was not a misfire, but a precision strike!
"Hey! What's going on?!"
Sabo jumped up, steel pipe in hand, and stared at the approaching dog-headed warship and the barrage of shells. His expression changed. "What's that old man doing here?! And opening fire right away?!"
Robin also stopped what she was doing, her brows furrowing slightly as she recognized the naval hero: "It's Grandpa Garp... This doesn't seem like a chance encounter."
Before Kuina could think further, she moved again, and the purple clouds transformed into an impenetrable curtain of blades, slicing down or deflecting the cannonballs aimed at the ship's vital points.
boom! boom! boom!
The shells kept exploding in the sea around the ship, sending towering columns of water into the air. The waves surged violently, causing the "Whirlwind" to rock violently.