"Hmph... This ti he can count himself lucky. Since even a Navy Admiral has so clearly stated his intention to protect this pirate who once caused a massacre in Roml, a re Seven Warlord like can only back off."
The previous sneak attack had failed, and now Aokiji had openly made his stance clear. Sherwin could only temporarily give up on the idea of killing Cavendish.
Because there was no way he would actually fight Aokiji over Cavendish, and besides...
"Still, you’d better keep him by your side at all tis. Otherwise, next ti he won’t be so lucky."
Sherwin did not believe that Aokiji could really do nothing else and just keep staring at Cavendish to protect him.
Of course, if he actually brought Cavendish into the Navy, that would be even better. When the "Hakuba of Roml" appeared, Aokiji would be the one with a headache.
Aokiji frowned, clearly having thought of the sa thing, but his brows quickly relaxed again.
"That none of your concern. I’ll handle it."
He did not know why Sherwin had spoken at such length with such thinly veiled sarcasm, but if the matter could be resolved peacefully, the always-lazy Aokiji naturally welcod it.
So he had no intention of trading words. Lifting Cavendish—who was already frozen stiff, shivering all over, with snot streaming from his nose—he prepared to turn and leave.
Originally, he had wanted to chat a bit more with Nico Robin and take the chance to probe Sherwin attitude, but the situation was no longer appropriate...
"Tch!"
Thinking of this, the look Aokiji gave Cavendish grew even more disgusted.
"Wait."
Aokiji had only taken a few steps when Sherwin called out to him again.
"Leave that guy sword behind. If you hadn’t interfered, it would already be my spoil of war."
Failing to kill Cavendish was a small matter, but the famous blade "Durandal," which shared its na with one of Europe three great holy swords, was sothing he could not let go.
"..."
Aokiji turned back with a speechless expression, the corner of his mouth twitching slightly.
For a mont just now, he had almost thought that Sherwin was planning to go back on his word, his whole body tensing up instantly. He hadn’t expected that the other party only wanted Cavendish sword.
Still, this also reminded him that Sherwin seed to have a hobby of collecting famous blades.
"Here."
Since he had already saved Cavendish, Aokiji naturally wasn’t about to butt heads with Sherwin over sothing like this.
Ignoring the protests of Cavendish, the original owner, he decisively tossed "Durandal" to Sherwin.
"How is it?"
Only after Aokiji had taken Cavendish and left their field of vision did Sherwin turn around to look at Haibara ow.
The little kitten gestured an OK sign at him, then picked up Sherry, the hexagonal poison salamander that had been lying on top of her head, and held her down in her arms...
In fact, calling Sherry a poison salamander was no longer quite appropriate.
After referencing so of the characteristics of Klee ow explosive sparks, Haibara ow had already modified her into a liquid salamander that normally wouldn’t cause harm to people.
But whenever necessary, Haibara ow could, just like how Klee ow tosses bomb materials into her fla constructs, place various prepared dicines into Sherry body.
Sherry would then transform as needed into a healing potion aggregate, a buff potion aggregate, a sleeping potion aggregate, a poison aggregate, and many other different attributes.
She could even be turned into a kind of taste-bomb aggregate after adding prototype dicines like the experintal Recovery Potion 1306.
And once Sherry entered a misted state, that terrifying flavor would travel through the nasal cavity and into the body, producing an effect far more horrifying than drinking it directly...
Don’t ask Sherwin how he knows this.
Moreover, as Suika ow repeatedly used her ability on Sherry, it had now mastered how to enter a high-density state on its own.
It no longer needed to rely on the density fruit to help shrink its body. In other words, it could now freely switch by itself between a misted form, its original gigantic body, and a highly compressed small-sized form.
Haibara ow had already begun considering turning those Zoan-type fruits that Sherwin didn’t need into pseudo–Logia-style Zoan ability users.
After the Kaido incident, all the cats were striving in their own ways.
Of course, those were matters for the future. For now, after Haibara ow picked Sherry up, she gently patted its head.
"Ba-ao~"
Sherry let out a soft cry, then opened its mouth wide and spat out a small-sized visual Den Den Mushi from its belly...
If Sherwin rembered correctly, it should be called DodoYou. Because Klee ow had linked image playback with illusion techniques, she had given it such a na, and even added a black background with red cloud decorations to it.
Haibara ow pressed twice on DodoYou shell, and its eyes imdiately projected the scene from earlier when Sherwin and Aokiji were facing off, while its mouth played back the dialogue between the two.
"Mhm, it all recorded, ow."
Haibara ow nodded in satisfaction. After pulling out two vegetable leaves and feeding them to DodoYou and Sherry as a reward, she once again made an OK gesture toward Sherwin.
Because now was still not the ti to fall out with the Marines, and Morgans also had no way of spreading this footage at the mont, recording this video was rely a precaution on Sherwin part...
Who knows—maybe one day it would co in handy?
Besides, doesn’t Cavendish love fa? Once this footage spreads, wouldn’t trending headlines be guaranteed?
As a special correspondent for the World Economic Journal, Sherwin casually collecting a bit of dirt was nothing more than a perfectly normal professional habit.
Only after Haibara ow put Sherry back on top of his head and handed the DodoYou over to Klee ow for safekeeping did Shirahoshi, her face full of conflict, finally move closer.
"Boss Sherwin, is it really the right thing for Fish-Man Island to seek recognition from the World Governnt?"
The little girl asked anxiously.
Clearly, after seeing the attitude Aokiji had just displayed, her views of both the World Governnt and the Marines had begun to change.
"Given the current situation of Fish-Man Island, this really isn’t the ti to be thinking about that," Sherwin shook his head and spoke seriously as he explained.
"As long as it can improve the living environnt of the Fish-Man race and allow you to move up to live on the surface, does it really matter whether the World Governnt and the Marines are just or not? Before this, weren’t you also relying on the protection of ’unjust’ pirates?"
Although Sherwin wasn’t optimistic about Fish-Man Island plan—and in the manga they did indeed fail—the direction of the plan itself wasn’t actually wrong.
And if it hadn’t been for a Celestial Dragon suddenly setting his sights on Shirahoshi, King Neptune really would have had a fairly good chance of success.
Now that Shirahoshi had already gone to sea with them, and with Morgans constantly building montum for the Fish-Man race in public opinion, it wasn’t impossible that the Ryugu Kingdom might truly beco an affiliated nation this ti.
Even if the World Governnt might be overthrown by "Joy Boy" a few years later, at the very least they could still obtain a period of peace.
And this was also Queen Otohi dying wish—fulfilling it held special aning for Shirahoshi.
"B-But..."
Although Shirahoshi could understand what Sherwin was saying, she was still sowhat conflicted.
Sentintal people always liked to get stuck in their own heads, and this little girl was naturally no exception.
At this mont, Robin also comforted her from the side. "Try looking at it from another angle. The fact that Aokiji was willing to cover for Cavendish like this today—doesn’t that an that once Fish-Man Island becos an affiliated nation, its safety will be well guaranteed in the future?"
Klee ow, who wasn’t very clear on what was going on, rubbed her cheek against Shirahoshi face,
tilted her head, and said with a puzzled expression, "Sister Shirahoshi, why are you unhappy, ow? How about Klee tells you a story? After listening to the story, you’ll be happy, ow!"
anwhile, Jinx jumped onto Shirahoshi head and started patting her skull with her little paws.
"You idiot! Why are you thinking about so much nonsense, ow?! Worst case, if we don’t like them later, we’ll just rebel against them, ow!"
"Jinx! You’re not allowed to use crude language, ow!"
Huai ow, who had originally intended to step forward to persuade Shirahoshi, instantly glared over.
The little mad cat who feared nothing under heaven or earth except Huai was so frightened that she shrank back, then her footing slipped, and she rolled straight off Shirahoshi head...
Then, relying on a cat naturally powerful sense of balance, she landed steadily on the ground.
But after all that commotion, coupled with everyone concern and comfort, Shirahoshi mood quickly recovered.
"I’m sorry for making you all worry. Boss Sherwin is right—our Fish-Man race simply isn’t qualified to consider those things right now."
Seeing that Shirahoshi was no longer tangled up in her thoughts and had already started playing around with the cats, Sherwin finally took out the Hunter Notes...
As a result, no new fragnts appeared.
"Tch!"
Sherwin clicked his tongue in annoyance. His golden finger was, as always, stingy to the extre....
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