"Strange... why hasn’t anyone co over? That shouldn’t be possible..."
Sherwin rubbed his chin in confusion.
They had just fought the smile and the Dragon, and Suika ow even turned into an Ultra Cat and caused such a huge commotion.
There was no way the survivors hiding on the island didn’t hear it. Yet even after their banquet ended, no one ca to find them.
"Could it be that they mistook all that noise as the fight between it... and the Dragon?"
Huai pointed at the smile obediently curled up on the side. Then Huai scratched her head again. "Speaking of which... shouldn’t we give it a na, ow?"
"Paa-oo..."
smile let out a weak cry, as if trying to say it already had a na—but unfortunately, no one could understand.
Sherwin himself wasn’t sure whether it was smile, Sliy, or sothing else entirely. After all, there were too many different translations in the One Piece manga.
Besides, since they had snatched this thing from Caesar, why keep the na Caesar gave it?
So he turned toward Klee ow.
Normally, naming things was always left to Klee ow. However...
There were already plenty of "Dodos" in the Research Commission group. If they kept going, Sherwin worried that one day he’d mix them all up.
Or rather... he might already be mixing them up now.
"Sherwin oniichan, are you trying to trick Klee again, ow?"
The little ragdoll stared at Sherwin with full vigilance, the ears on her head swiveling like radar.
Clearly, her Observation Haki had sensed sothing.
"Of course not. I just feel like we already have enough ’Dodo on the ship, so I was thinking... maybe you could try a different style for the na."
Sherwin picked up the alert little ragdoll, bumped his nose against hers, and told the truth.
"What wrong with Dodo? What so bad about Dodo, ow?!"
(=`н=)
An indignant Klee ow puffed up her cheeks and swung her tiny cat paws, patting Sherwin face over and over.
"I never said Dodo was bad." Sherwin smiled helplessly as he soothed the little ragdoll.
"But look—there the Dodo, the Dodos, the Dodo Bear and Dodo Buddy on your backpack, and that whole bunch of Dodo Transponders I can’t even tell apart. That already so many ’Dodo. Shouldn’t we at least try a different naming style?"
"Mm... it is kind of a lot, ow..."
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Klee ow scrunched her little face in deep conflict.
Rationally, the little ragdoll admitted Sherwin had a point... but emotionally, she still wanted a Dodo-style na.
So after wrestling with the idea for a bit, the clever Spark Knight decided to give up the naming rights herself.
"Then Klee won’t na it, ow! Sherwin-oniichan, you decide!"
Knowing full well he was terrible at naming things and could only rely on plundering nas from Earth works, Sherwin imdiately tossed the job to another cat...
"Let Haibara ow na it. After all, it’ll be spending most of its ti with her."
Sherwin paused, then added, "Just... don’t give it a na like ’Toxin 123’ or sothing."
"It not sothing I created. I wouldn’t na it like that, ow!" Haibara ow gave Sherwin a sharp look, then without hesitation renad the smile: "Let call it Shirley, ow."
"Uh... that works, I guess."
Sherwin looked at the smile—no, at Shirley dark red body. It didn’t really match the color of sherry wine, but it did resemble red wine...
Just much thicker.
"Right, weren’t we talking about those survivors just now?"
Sherwin had grown so used to being constantly sidetracked by his cats that he nearly forgot the original topic entirely.
"So what should we do now? Fire a signal flare to draw them out?"
Because Shirley had been taken in, it was no longer constantly releasing poison mist to keep the concentration high.
And thanks to the previous battles—absorption, burning, and everything else—a portion of the poison had already been consud.
At this point, most of the toxic fog over Punk Hazard had dispersed. As long as the survivors on the island weren’t fools, they would definitely co out to check the situation.
"I think that works, ow." Huai also agreed with the plan and even improved it a little.
"Signal flares don’t last long, and it still quite bright right now. It’d be better to have the Dodo Advance switch to its floating wyvern form and drift in the sky, ow."
Sherwin naturally had no reason to object. The Dodo quickly transford into the Dodo Sky Wyvern and rose into the air.
And to make sure the survivors would definitely notice it, Sherwin and the others even hung a striking red cloth on the balloon of the airship form.
They then split into two groups: one ascended with the Dodo Advance, while the other remained on the ground, waiting for the survivors to arrive.
Haibara ow and Purah ow, the two research-loving Felynes, imdiately dragged Shirley into the lab.
Shirahoshi, who was fascinated by the idea of flying, also chose to board the ship.
Since Jinx was the dependable big sister figure watching over Shirahoshi, she of course followed along, teaching her so combat tricks on the side.
And because soone had to keep an eye on that little crazy cat, Huai ow had to go with them as well.
Sanji ow very much wanted to stay by the side of the gorgeous Beautiful big sister Felyne Shermie and show off, but there were still so dragon cuts that needed processing.
The little yellow cat could only tearfully retreat into the kitchen.
The clingiest ones, Klee ow and Charmy, chose to remain by Sherwin side.
owjirou and Link ow, frustrated that they couldn’t join the earlier battle, found an open space nearby and began sparring. Suika ow, who also hadn’t fought enough, staggered after them.
Sherwin pulled two lounge chairs from his space bag. As usual, he and Robin lay back as if sunbathing on the deck, each holding a cat in their arms.
While stroking the Klee ow nestled in her arms, Robin used her ability to manifest two new hands to hold a book.
In truth, she had also created several extra arms on top of the Dodo Advance overhead to attend to so of the more idle cats aboard.
She was simultaneously training her fruit power and her Observation Haki.
Seeing her take out the book reminded Sherwin of sothing—
He still hadn’t checked his Hunter Manual to see whether Shirley had been added!
But if Shirley were recorded like Rasoo back then... which weapon category or bestiary entry would she even fall under?
Curious, Sherwin opened the manual.
No white light... looks like there no chance of getting a shard this ti.
Clicking his tongue in annoyance, Sherwin flipped the manual to the weapon index first, but there was no sign of Shirley.
He then turned to the monster bestiary, yet whether it was large monsters or small monsters, her entry was nowhere to be seen.
It seed his cheat couldn’t classify a strange existence like Shirley either...
Sherwin felt slightly disappointed, though overall he remained calm. After all, he had never placed high expectations on this stingy cheat to begin with.
Still, since he had nothing better to do, he flipped through the entire manual.
And then he found Sherly illustration on the sa page as Shirahoshi.
Uh... what was this supposed to an?
Sherwin scratched his head in confusion. Shirley situation definitely shouldn’t qualify as an "Ancient Weapon," right?
But if one had to na similarities, there were indeed a few—both Shirahoshi and Shirley could be categorized as "biological weapons" and "weapons of mass destruction."
Of course, there was another possibility—that this page actually belonged to a classification such as "Others" or "Miscellaneous."
Without a user guide and with too few precedents, Sherwin could only speculate.
But that wasn’t the important part. The important part was...
If this page wasn’t limited to Ancient Weapons, then there might be a new banner pool to unlock in the future!
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