While Perospero was away, Sherwin and the others were led by the Homies soldiers inside the castle to an unused room, where so tea and snacks were served to them.
Sherwin and the Felynes naturally didn’t stand on ceremony. Even though they had already eaten breakfast, they still enjoyed themselves thoroughly.
From ti to ti, Klee ow and Haibara ow even fed a few pieces of pastry to Dodo and Sherry.
Just as Sherwin was petting cats with one hand while savoring what were absolutely world-class treats from Cake Island, Perospero, who had been gone for quite a while, finally returned, bringing Protheus and Zeus with him.
Without Klee ow and the others saying a word, the two Homies ca over on their own with flattering expressions. Protheus even transford himself into Dodo appearance.
However, Klee ow already had a new idea. She grabbed Protheus as he flew over to her, and after so skillful kneading, quickly molded him into Sherry appearance.
"ow hahahaha! Big sister Ai, look, Klee has her own Sherry now too, ow!"
(=`=)
The little ragdoll placed Protheus, now in an axolotl form, on top of her head and smugly showed him off to the original Haibara ow.
Shermie ow didn’t ss with Zeus much. She simply hopped onto him and used him as a "Flying Nimbus."
Of course, the clone that the little forest cat had secretly placed inside Zeus earlier was also quietly retrieved by her while she had the chance.
And this ti, aside from bringing back Protheus and Zeus, Perospero also had several female mbers of the Charlotte Family following behind him.
Given the Big Mom Pirate fondness for political marriages, the reason these won appeared here was naturally self-evident.
Sherwin: "..."
It seed Big Mom still hadn’t given up on recruiting him after all.
The Hunter, feeling slightly smug, swept a glance over the several won standing behind Perospero...
Mm, he could only recognize two of them.
There was no helping it. Big Mom had far too many children—there was no way the manga could show them all, and many character nas only ever appeared in setting materials.
As for the two Sherwin managed to recognize, they were naturally ones who had a certain amount of screen ti in the manga.
One was a half–shark fish-man rmaid who would later marry Aladine, the vice-captain of the Sun Pirates—he couldn’t rember her na.
The other was the three-eyed tribe mixed-blood who would eventually beco engaged to Sanji—Charlotte Pudding.
Aside from those two, there was also a half-octopus fish-man rmaid, a Longarm Tribe woman, a Longneck Tribe woman, and a girl wearing enormous fluffy beast-paw gloves on both hands, whose race was completely unclear...
In short, among these "blind date candidates," there was basically not a single normal person.
Sherwin: "..."
Actually, he could more or less guess a bit of Big Mom—or rather, Perospero—thinking.
The people around him were either rfolk or "cat Mink Tribe," and the only normal human was Robin.
Being misunderstood as having abnormal aesthetic preferences was, in that sense, understandable...
Like hell it was!
Sherwin rubbed his temples, which had been twitching nonstop since the very beginning, feeling a sharp headache coming on.
That said, to be fair, although most of Big Mom daughters in front of him were mixed-bloods of different races, judging purely by appearance, they were basically quite normal—so were even outstanding.
And a Three-Eyed Tribe mber like Pudding was actually a bonus point for Sherwin. After all, in the eyes of people of his old Country, having three eyes looked extrely imposing.
Unfortunately, Sherwin had no intention of becoming Big Mom son-in-law.
Even setting aside the issue of the Big Mom Pirates, there was no way he could truly have any emotional entanglent with Pudding.
It wasn’t because he cared about Sanji ow being Pudding "official pairing," but because...
Pudding was only thirteen years old, the sa age as Shirahoshi—still just a little girl.
Could it be that Perospero misunderstood as so kind of lolicon just because the Felyne ages are on the small side?
Thinking of this, Sherwin felt his headache growing even worse...
Of course, even though he had no thoughts about any of the won in front of him, and even though he seed to be stuck in an awkward situation where his reputation was taking collateral damage, Sherwin wouldn’t be so rude as to drive them all away without giving any face at all.
At worst, it was just being forced into a matchmaking situation. It wasn’t like he hadn’t experienced that before.
Fortunately, this group of "blind date candidates" who ca along didn’t seem to have much interest in the matter either.
For example, the half-rfolk twin sisters Charlotte Prim and Charlotte Praline, after briefly getting to know Sherwin, ran off to chat with Shirahoshi.
As for the others, after exchanging a few simple words with Sherwin, their attention was mostly drawn to the adorable Felynes instead.
Seeing Perospero frown, as if he were about to urge his sisters to "pursue" him, Sherwin decisively spoke up.
"Shouldn’t you be taking to the library now? After seeing the rare and exotic creatures in your collection, I’d also like to tour the other thirty-four islands of Totto Land.
If you don’t mind, I might even publish sothing like a Totto Land Travel Guide in the World Economy News Paper later on."
"Kukukuku... of course we wouldn’t mind. I doubt there any fool who would dare barge into a Yonko territory just because of an article," Perospero replied confidently.
"Just rember to make the island I’m in charge of—Candy Island—sound a bit more appealing when you write it... lick~"
"No problem."
Sherwin nodded with a smile, though he didn’t quite agree with Perospero statent.
If Luffy ever found out about a place filled with food everywhere, then even without that whole Sanji affair, he would definitely find a way to co and take a look.
With Sherwin interrupting things like this, Perospero also realized that he had been a bit too hasty.
He gave up on urging his sisters and instead led Sherwin and the others toward the library.
The library inside Cake Castle was enormous. This place wasn’t just a "zoo," but also a "prison." So humans with special bloodlines or unusual appearances were also kept here as part of the collection...
Still, Sherwin couldn’t help but feel a little puzzled. What possible value was there in "collecting" this sort of human, especially among pirates—and particularly in Totto Land?
Was there really a shortage of people in the Charlotte Family with special bloodlines and strange appearances?
Silently complaining in his heart, Sherwin casually pulled out a book and opened it.
He had to admit that although Big Mom way of collecting things was rather hard to describe, she was very serious when it ca to the production of these books.
Every animal sealed inside had an accompanying introduction, and the information recorded was extrely detailed...
At the very least, it was far more detailed than the monster illustrations in Sherwin stingy Hunter Handbook.
So Sherwin began flipping through the books in the library with great interest.
However, after reading more than ten volus, he realized that he might have been a little too optimistic...
Because among the rare and exotic creatures collected by Big Mom, quite a few had already been recorded in the Hunter Handbook, and many of the so-called rare beasts were actually products of technology and Devil Fruit abilities.
Sherwin even saw zombie beasts created by Moria among them.
And back when he was on the Thriller Bark, Sherwin had already learned that this kind of "artificial exotic beast" could not be recorded in the monster illustrations of the Hunter Handbook.
With this back and forth, his idea of piling up a summoning ticket fragnt by relying on the number of rare beasts collected here suddenly seed rather shaky...
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