Chapter 73: The Necessity of Keeping a Pet

The unique geography of the Little Garden causes magnetic anomalies, meaning the Log Pose takes a full year to fully charge.

This is one of the islands on the Grand Line where Saint Saint Saiwen has no Log Pose record.

If the surrounding seas were calm routes like the Four Seas, they could search for the Little Garden slowly, but the Grand Line has abnormal climates and frequent violent weather.

Every single factor increases the difficulty of the search.

Taking the helm, Saint Saint Saiwen activated his Observation Haki amplified by electromagnetic waves, like turning on a radar sensor, to explore the surrounding seas.

Radar sensing, as the name implies, uses electromagnetic waves to detect, locate, and identify targets, far exceeding the range of Observation Haki perception.

The maximum distance is currently unknown.

The process of exploration is boring; before long, the climate changed violently again.

The wind roared like thunder, and rain arrows were like knives.

The surging waves crushed each other, and the Donghai Dihuang ship's hull shook violently from the battering.

At this moment, Saint Saint Saiwen's desire for a dedicated helmsman, the blue fat man Jinbe, became stronger than ever before.

He was, after all, not a dedicated helmsman.

Professional matters must be left to professional people.

On this trip to the New World's Beehive Island, Fish-Man Island is a necessary route; when the time comes, he must talk to Jinbe, and if he can join the ship, that would be best.

However, currently Fish-Man Island is planted with Whitebeard's flag, and Jinbe regards Fisher Tiger as his idol, so the difficulty of joining the ship is imaginable.

This has nothing to do with dreams, but rather the severe opposition between fish-men and humans, and the heavy discrimination fish-men face from humans.

But these will not become an obstacle for Saint Saint Saiwen.

Strictly speaking, he is no longer human.

Of course, they must first go to the Sabaody Archipelago to coat the Donghai Dihuang before entering the underwater paradise Fish-Man Island located ten thousand meters beneath the sea.

Coating is one of the few sea-faring skills Saint Saint Saiwen, as a pirate, has not mastered.

He found it hard to believe: merely coating a ship allows it to dive to ten thousand meters underwater, more powerful than a submarine; no matter how one thinks, it does not conform to physical common sense.

How can one learn something one does not agree with in one's heart?

When Saint Saint Saiwen sensed an island far ahead through his Observation Haki, the heavy rain in the sky suddenly stopped.

Those who often sail the Grand Line know that if the ever-changing climate suddenly becomes stable, it is often a sign of approaching an island.

Saint Saint Saiwen immediately increased the current input, and the Donghai Dihuang surged forward at five times the speed.

About ten minutes later, two huge mysterious animal skulls appeared in his line of sight.

Little Garden

The body sizes of creatures in the pirate world—

From Zou Island carried on the back of the Elephant Lord, standing thirty-five thousand meters tall and twenty thousand meters long, to the super-large Sea Kings over five thousand meters long, down to the tiny people the size of a human palm.

They embody species diversity to the fullest extent.

Even among humans alone, there coexist short people under two meters and tall people reaching eight point eight meters.

Among the Morning Star Pirates, the tallest is the nearly seven-meter-tall Big Bear, followed by Saint Saint Saiwen, whose height exceeds 2.71 meters due to his Lunarian bloodline.

Then comes Master Tenghu at 2.7 meters.

Mihawk, trapped at 1.98 meters for two years.

Finally, Jin Ni, the same height as Luffy.

Finding a calm coast to drop anchor, Saint Saint Saiwen called for all the pirates to go ashore, treating it as the last group activity before bidding farewell to Little Robin.

The reason for coming to the Little Garden was first for the former Giant Pirate Crew captains, Blue Ogre Dorry and Red Ogre Brogy.

These two giants possess solo combat abilities that are top-tier in Elbaf; their tacit cooperation, tempered by nearly a century of battles, makes their combined technique: Heguo, possess strategic-level destructive power.

Eighty years ago, their bounties broke one hundred million.

Twenty-two years later, they even reached eighteen billion in bounty; working together, they are definitely at the Admiral level.

With such fierce combat power, even if they cannot be invited aboard now, getting to know them in advance is good, and who can say what the future holds?

Second, it was for the dinosaur pet.

Just as the strong have the standard accessory Yan Ying, pets in the pirate world are lucky mascots—

Take a simple example.

The Straw Hat Crew has the reindeer Chopper, the Red Hair Crew has the monkey Monty, and the Blackbeard Crew has the horse Zhuangzhuang, so they became Yonko and are still living well.

Meanwhile, the other Yonko pirate crews without pets, such as the Beasts Pirates, the Big Mom Pirates, and the Whitebeard Pirates, all failed without exception.

Whether the Cross Guild has a pet is not important; having Buggy is enough.

In short, those with pets all firmly remain Yonko, while those without pets are all eliminated.

Regardless of whether this speculation is reasonable, Saint Saint Saiwen still chose to raise a pet as a mascot.

As for what Devil Fruit to feed the dinosaur?

The Dragon-Dragon Fruit, Model: Azure Dragon, a mythical zoan type copied by Vegapunk from the Fish-Fish Fruit, would be quite suitable.

A pink dinosaur is very promising.

After occupying Beehive Island, when heading to Elbaf, they can conveniently stop at Egghead to retrieve the Dragon-Dragon Fruit to feed the Morning Star Pirates' Little Kaido.

Moving forward along the jungle, Saint Saint Saiwen had already chosen a name for the pet dinosaur.

The one that eats the Azure Dragon form is called Cone.

The one that eats the Dragon-Dragon Fruit is called How Cute.

"Mi-san, remember to help me look out for a T-Rex; pick one that is strong and interesting."

Mihawk nodded slightly, his mind involuntarily beginning to ponder whether he should also raise a pet; if Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen raises a T-Rex, then what should he raise?

A tiger? A lion? A baboon?

Tigers and lions are indeed majestic, but they are not as good as baboons which can wield weapons; if he could train a group of baboon swordsmen, that would seem quite promising.

Mihawk's lips curled into a smile.

As the saying goes, those who associate with the vermilion become stained red, those who associate with ink become stained black—this is precisely the case; after spending too long with Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen, Mihawk had gradually become cunning without even realizing it.

Not only that, even the honest Master Tenghu sometimes joked with the crew.

The only one untouched by Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen's influence might be Xiong Sang, whose shoulders bore Jin Ni and Robin—Xiong Sang was simply too gentle.

Roar~

A long, coarse roar, thick with the savage fury of primordial beasts, echoed from the dense forest ahead—Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen's eyes lit up, his face breaking into a grin.

"Mihawk, Xiong Sang, I'll go check it out first."

Amid a crackling hum of electricity, Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen instantly arrived at the source of the sound—

There stood a towering giant over twenty meters tall, wearing a metal-faced helmet, sporting a long beard, his waist hung with a massive longsword, left hand clutching a round shield, right hand gripping a triceratops.

Sensing Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen's arrival, the giant crouched down and studied the tiny figure before him.

"White-haired brat, got any liquor?"

Dongli had remained on the island for eighty years; food was plentiful, but good liquor was nowhere to be found, leaving him deeply sorrowful.

With that, Dongli raised the creature in his hand, offering it: "I'll treat you to meat."

Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen pulled from his system space a wine barrel taller than himself—brewed by him during idle moments aboard the ship.

"Last barrel. Drink it sparingly."

Dongli snapped the triceratops's neck with a crack, tossed it to the ground, then snatched the barrel and guzzled it down in greedy gulps.

"Fine liquor, friend—got any more?"

Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen spread his hands.

"I already said it's the last barrel."

"But if you're willing to come with me, such fine wine… will be endless."