Chapter 74

"Compared to a blessing, the feeling just now was even better~"

"You little vixen! Come on! Let's fight another three hundred rounds!"

The two of them walked toward the forest again, not noticing Vivi's resentful gaze.

You actually went behind my back......

The next day, approaching noon,

Sanji prepared a table full of dishes in advance and deliberately brought them to the dining hall of the Going Merry.

Yet no one picked up their chopsticks.

Everyone, including Luffy, was quietly waiting.

Sima Di also placed the Time-Space Chamber transmission stone on the dining table.

Crocus and the others should be back by now.

Seeing that the time was approaching when Crocus and the other had left yesterday, there was still no movement.

Everyone couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

Sima Di also frowned slightly.

One must know......

He had reminded them many times — in the Time-Space Chamber, one can only stay for a year per visit!

If they overslept......

Then they wouldn't be able to come back!

Crocus and the others......

Could it be that they missed the return time?

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9. Blackbeard came to see you off? I'll send you off instead!

Just as everyone was worrying whether Crocus and the others had missed the time, the Time-Space Chamber transmission stone finally showed some unusual movement, emitting a soft glow.

A few seconds later,

Two beams of light shot out from the Time-Space Chamber transmission stone, condensing into the forms of Crocus and Laboon.

This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief — as long as they're back, that's good.

"Back already?" Crocus's expression was as usual.

As the tower keeper of Twin Cape,

A year of life cut off from the world was only a small problem for him.

Not to mention Laboon was by his side.

Laboon likewise showed no signs of trouble; as an island whale who had left her group since childhood, most of the past 50 years had originally been spent with Crocus accompanying her.

Even her appearance hadn't changed much.

For island whales, whose lifespans mostly exceed five hundred years, a year was still far too short.

"Missing it, huh?" Sima Di laughed: "Over there you only had flour and clear water, this whole table of dishes was prepared for you, hurry up and eat."

Laboon's eyes gleamed!

"I won't hold back then!"

Then she actually transformed her mouth into the giant maw of an island whale, lifted the dining table and dumped it into her mouth — Sanji's carefully prepared welcoming feast went straight into the little lolli's stomach.

Everyone: "!!!"

They didn't care that Laboon ate everyone's portion — except Luffy.

They were shocked at how she could transform a single mouth on her own.

Moreover, she controlled the size perfectly — just enough to swallow all the delicacies on the table in one gulp without bursting the dining hall.

"How did you do that?" Chopper, who was also a Zoan type, exclaimed in shock: "I can also transform a single part, but I need a Rumble Ball to do it — Laboon, you can actually do it directly?"

Laboon wiped her mouth, her little face blank.

"I just... did it like that!"

Obviously,

The little loli herself didn't know the principle either, she had just mastered this ability over there.

Sima Di, however, had roughly guessed it.

What Laboon ate was no Devil Fruit, but a Druid Class Change Stone — although because it was a beginner one it could only transform into one type of creature, in terms of flexibility it was far freer than a Zoan-type Devil Fruit.

"Compared to that, Laboon, have you mastered Haki?" Sima Di changed the subject.

Don't let the Druid class change matter be exposed later.

Everyone also looked at the little loli expectantly — a year of hard training shouldn't be too bad, right?

Although normally speaking,

Armament Haki requires a certain level of physical strength, so a little creature this small could almost never awaken it.

But Laboon was an island whale!

And a 50-year-old island whale at that.

The physical strength of her true body was incomparable to anyone present — the basic conditions for awakening Haki were the best.

Laboon said nothing, she directly clenched her small fist, and a layer of black "swish" appeared on the surface.

It was Armament Haki!

And it was intermediate-level Armament Haki!

"Amazing!"

"Mid-level?"

"Labu is so strong!"

"Ah! I want to cultivate too!"

Everyone was happy for Labu, and at the same time truly recognized the OP aspect of the Time-Space Chamber.

But Kureha's evaluation made them even more excited.

"The gravity over there is very strong, about five times or so, so much that even an old man like me finds it inconvenient to move. But after coming back, I realized that without knowing it, my physique had been strengthened, and because the oxygen was thin, my internal organs were forged too. You could call it an all-round metamorphosis."

This evaluation could not be called anything less than high praise!

Everyone was immediately filled with longing for the Time-Space Chamber!

But unfortunately,

The Time-Space Chamber teleportation stone needed a 30-day cooldown, and it had only been 1 day since the last use.

And...

They still had to wait in line!

Sanji immediately stood up and said enthusiastically, "I'll go prepare the food, eat your fill today! Lord Sima, is there anything you want to eat?"

And so the flattery began!

Sima Di certainly wouldn't refuse the "ordering service," and immediately ordered a few of his favorite dishes.

The others exchanged glances, wondering if they had any skills that could "impress" Sima Di.

Three days passed quickly.

The Going Merry had also been reinforced, and to fly more steadily, glider wings had been added.

It carried the Straw Hat Pirates and Kureha, along with the ape and gorilla pirate ships, to the predicted location of the Knock Up Stream.

Thick cumulonimbus clouds shrouded this stretch of sea, and the surface was eerily calm, with not even a single fish swimming nearby.

Everything was like the calm before a storm.

The apes and gorillas were still tensely surveying on both sides, but on the Straw Hat's ship, the atmosphere suddenly changed.

Luffy and the others were "teasing" the South Bird, forcibly bending its head in other directions. The moment they let go, it would spring back into place like a rubber band, pointing south once again.

Chopper and the others watched and laughed heartily, endlessly bending its head askew.

"What a nasty hobby," Nami complained.