Because it was the Gourmet Festival, the streets of the Gourmet City had been brightly lit even at night. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Stella had touched her stomach, sighing, and she really couldn’t eat anything anymore.

Turning her head, seeing Drake’s serious face, Stella had also known that Drake definitely hadn’t been troubled by the same thing as her.

Stella had grabbed Drake’s palm, opening her mouth, saying, "Drake, are you still thinking about that child’s matter today?"

Drake had nodded, saying, "It’s indeed a somewhat troublesome request, huh! But I’ve already accepted it, so I can’t not complete it perfectly."

Stella had smiled, saying, "You wouldn’t have accepted the request from the start if it had really been troublesome, right?"

Drake had also smiled a bit, and his thoughts really couldn’t be hidden from his girlfriend.

Bonney’s request had been very simple, and that had been to help her find her father, and her father naturally hadn’t been a simple person either.

The former king of the Sorbet Kingdom, the current Shichibukai, "Tyrant" Bartholomew Kuma.

The strength of the Shichibukai naturally hadn’t been equal, and Kuma’s strength had definitely belonged to the first echelon, and he had been a strong person who had counted as one of the best on the entire sea.

But if it had just been this, it wouldn’t have counted as anything troublesome, and Drake had even felt that he wouldn’t need to use many trump cards to subdue the current Kuma.

It wasn’t that Drake had been looking down on Kuma, but Kuma hadn’t become stronger after having accepted Vegapunk’s modifications, and he had instead become weaker.

To put it bluntly, the goal of the Pacifista project had been to create mass-produced war machines, and not to strengthen individual abilities.

Mechanical modifications would have instead increased the weaknesses of Kuma’s originally strong body, and what had been most important had been that the interference with his consciousness would have extremely weakened Kuma’s haki.

So it wouldn’t have been hard for Drake to find Kuma and grab him, and what had been troublesome had been the things after that.

Kuma had been at the core of the Pacifista project that the World Government had been presiding over, and moving him would have meant having a conflict with the World Government.

Just thinking about it, he would definitely be put on a bounty by the World Government and the marines after this, and the number of the bounty wouldn’t have been too low, considering the military force that he had displayed.

But Drake had accepted this request happily after only having considered it for two seconds.

Causing trouble for the World Government and such... he hadn’t had any psychological burden at all, okay!

It had been clearly stated that this had been a group of scum and beasts when the group of the Celestial Dragons had appeared, but the various things that had happened later on had still refreshed everyone’s understanding of the extent of their beastliness.

Especially after the inside story of the God Valley incident had been revealed, the marines, who had always had justice hanging from their mouths, had transformed into clowns directly, and they hadn’t been able to wash that off. Even the ingredients that Roger, who had helped, had been made of had been suspected by people.

To be honest, Drake had always felt that he would have a conflict with the World Government and the marines sooner or later, after all, Drake could be certain that he would never kneel to a Celestial Dragon.

So disrupting the World Government’s plan was something that he would have to do sooner or later, so he naturally had to accept this request.

But according to the information that he had known, Kuma had first appeared on Moria’s territory, Thriller Bark, in the original plot.

If he wanted to find Kuma after that, he would have had to be on the Sabaody Archipelago or the battlefield of the Marineford War.

Calculating the time, the Straw Hat crew should have just left Skypiea right now, and they hadn’t arrived at Water 7 yet.

It wouldn’t have been too late to meet Kuma by waiting on Thriller Bark after the Enies Lobby incident had broken out.

But Drake had forgotten that the reason why Kuma had appeared on Thriller Bark had been that the Marineford War had been about to break out, and he had been going to find Moria to gather the Shichibukai for the World Government.

The grass on Blackbeard’s grave had already begun to sprout, and you could say that the plot had completely headed in an unknown direction.

And Drake, who had ignored this point, had been eating, drinking, and having fun with Stella in the Gourmet City for several days like this.

Bonney had agreed with Drake that he would take him to the Sabaody Archipelago after finding Kuma, and she had also set off on her own to continue looking for Kuma.

And after Drake and Stella had eaten all kinds of gourmet food in the Gourmet City, they had also set off for the next goal, the Carnival San Faldo.

As the name implied, San Faldo had been an island that had been in a carnival all year round. Drake and Stella had been infected by the happy atmosphere here as soon as they had arrived.

During this time, Drake had also accepted the mayor’s request, repelling two groups of plundering pirates.

And after having stayed on the island for a few more days, Drake had seen the news of the Enies Lobby incident in the newspaper.

The World Government’s official newspaper had only reported how vicious the Straw Hat Pirates had been, actually having broken through that island of eternal night, which had never fallen before, in a frenzied manner.

And Morgan’s World Economic Journal had reported the detailed process of the event, including the fact that the marines had used the Buster Call.

Drake had also been quite impressed by that birdman, and he had been jumping back and forth on the World Government’s bottom line all along, and he hadn’t been killed off by CP yet, and he had truly had the ability.

But a lot of sensitive things, including CP9 and Robin, as well as the Pluton blueprints, hadn’t been in the newspaper.

He didn’t know if it had been that the reporters under Morgans hadn’t noticed, or if they had been deliberately concealing it.

The Straw Hat Pirates had truly become famous after this battle, after all, they had been the first pirate crew to burn the World Government’s flag, declaring war on the World Government head-on.

Luffy’s bounty had risen sharply to 300 million in the latest bounties, and he could have called himself a big pirate after going out.

And Drake had also known that it had been time for him to set off, so the two had ridden Bird, heading for the famous Florian Triangle.

The Florian Triangle had been a mysterious sea area in the first half of the Grand Line, and it had been shrouded in mist all year round, and no one could have confirmed the situation inside.

It had been said that hundreds of ships had disappeared in this sea area every year, and a lot of people had also claimed to have seen mysterious ghost ships here. Singing ghosts had even become a famous sea legend.

But this ghost legend had probably been caused by a pirate who had only had a bone-filled body and an afro left after dying.

And as for the Florian Triangle, that mysterious shadow had been a mystery that even the original plot hadn’t explained.

Drake had glanced at the boundless mist, squatting down, patting Bird, signaling it to go in directly.

Drake had twitched his nose, and it had truly been hard to distinguish the direction in this area, and it had been good that Drake’s sense of smell had been good enough.

Although Thriller Bark’s scale had been comparable to a small island, it had only been a ship after all, and there hadn’t been a Log Pose pointing to it.

But Drake had still locked onto the location of the world’s largest pirate ship through the waves of smells of medicine and corpses that had been transmitted from within the mist.

After breaking through the continuous mist, Drake had seen that door that had been like a person’s mouth.

In mid-air, Drake could see that there had been a ring-shaped inland sea within a circle of outer walls, and there had then been a small "island" inside.

There had been a castle on the "island," but it had looked somewhat dilapidated because it didn’t seem like anyone had been taking care of it.

And a large number of tombstones had been standing on the ground around the dilapidated castle, making the entire "island" like a horror-themed park.

And the giant masts that had been vaguely revealing their silhouettes in the mist could have proven that this hadn’t been some kind of island or park, but had instead been a super giant sailing ship.

Bird had flown past the walls, arriving at the main body of the ship, putting the two down.

Stella naturally wouldn’t have been afraid like ordinary girls, and she had instead had a look of being full of interest. It had looked like they could have had a different kind of date here!

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