Chapter 456 - 458

Sky Island.

The sky is ten thousand meters above the Grand Line, consists of water-like and island clouds.

This particular celestial island, located directly above the island of Jaya, is called Skypia.

Somewhere on the coast of Skypia, several girls were working hard, with small snow-white wings on their backs and various baskets made of dense clouds.

The inhabitants of the heavenly islands, as well as the inhabitants of the ordinary islands of the blue sea, should be engaged in fishing, for the sake of obtaining food.

But the collection of heavenly crabs, shellfish and other living creatures took place only in passing, because the main goal was different types of shells that could satisfy a variety of household needs.

Daily routine fishing in the cloudy sea is quite capable of satisfying basic human needs, and if you are lucky enough to catch some rare seashell, you can even sell it at an excellent price and enjoy a comfortable life for a while.

The brown-haired girl bent down, picked up some kind of shell from the cloudy sand, and rushed to the nearest companion when she got a better look at her.

"Nolte! Look!!"

"Wow! Is this really a shell of recoil?! You are very lucky today!"

The girl with golden hair looked enviously at the shell, and then sighed and grumbled: "I feel like my luck shouldn't be any worse today!"

The recoil shell, which has a combat use, has a fairly high price, relative to other types of shells.

The income from the sale of one such shell is equal to the usual income for the whole day, so after finding one shell of return, the rest of the income will be an additional bonus.

"Try your best!"

The girl with brown hair smiled at her companion, carefully removing the recoil shell.

Nolte pouted and gnashed her teeth, throwing another ordinary shell far into the cloudy sea.

"You don't have enough patience, hahaha."

The other girls couldn't help but laugh as they watched Nolte's behavior.

But just at the moment when the girls continued to laugh sweetly, it was in the place where the discarded shell fell that stormy waves suddenly rose.

In the next moment.

Boom!!!

The cloud sea exploded loudly, and a powerful pulse surged into the sky, scattering many water-like clouds in all directions.

Water-like clouds fell on the shore, soaking the clothes of Nolte and the others.

All the girls looked in shock in the direction of the cloudy sea, interrupting their business, and were surprised to find that a large sailing ship appeared and ran aground right in front of the shore.

"This is..."

Loya recovered from the shock faster than the others and exclaimed in surprise: "... a ship from the blue sea!"

The Sky islands have some contacts with the blue sea, despite the fact that they are located ten thousand meters above sea level.

There are several ways to get from the blue sea to the heavenly islands, one of which is 'flying' with the help of an upward stream.

These girls were quite young, only about sixteen or seventeen years old, but even they had already encountered the remains of ships washed ashore by the current of the cloud sea several times.

But it was the first time they had seen such a large ship, which was also in perfect condition.

After a few seconds of silence, the girls moved away from the shock and began to carefully examine a large ship that ran aground near the shore.

"Since the ship is in perfect condition...shouldn't there be survivors on it?"

"Then why is there not a single living soul on his deck..."

The girls whispered about something, looking at the ship from afar, until they came to a consensus.

On the cloudy sea, it was considered a great success to meet a surviving ship from the blue sea, because on such ships you can always find things that are not on the heavenly islands and sell them at a decent price, so even simple wrecks and remains of ships usually attract attention from the inhabitants of the heavenly island.

Although the ship was in perfect condition, but for some reason, there was not a soul on the deck, which made it very attractive to the girls on the shore.

After all, if they are lucky enough to find something very valuable on this ship, they will no longer have to spend all day doing this boring collection of shells on the shore.

You can even open your own store!

But more importantly, this sudden appearance of a large ship will soon attract other residents of the heavenly island!

Therefore, they should search it as soon as possible!!

The girls ran to the ship.

It was very difficult to climb on this big ship, even considering that it ran aground, so the girls had to resort to some tools.

Phew!

These clouds overlapped with each other until they reached the deck of the ship.

Several girls began to touch the folded island clouds, making sure that they were strong enough, and began to climb them slowly.

But Loya first shouted politely, not hurrying to get on the deck.

"Is anyone there?!"

«…»

Silence.

The girls stuck their heads out and carefully examined the deck, but they did not find a single living soul.

The ship was completely empty and quiet, but at the same time it was in excellent condition.

This strange and unnatural picture gave Loi and the others an eerie feeling.

"Is there really not a soul on the ship?..it's all strange..."

"The ship seems to be intact, but at the same time there is no one on it at all...did the whole crew fall off the deck when they came up here on the upwelling stream?"

Loya said thoughtfully, rubbing her chin with her hand.

The bolder and more daring Nolte waved her hand, going straight to the entrance to the cabins: "Let's go in and find out!"

"Is there anyone there?! We'll bother you!"

She looked into the entrance to the cabins and shouted loudly, already about to enter.

But just at the moment when Nolte took a step.

Phew!!

The quiet and calm deck of the ship suddenly began to move.

Several ropes rushed at Nolte with great speed, quickly tying her up and pulling her out of the corridor leading to the cabins.

"Uaaaaaa!!!"

Nolte screamed in fright.

It was obvious that there were no other people here and the ropes were moving by themselves.

Loya and the others also screamed in fright as they watched this strange and creepy scene.

Some of the girls ran away in a panic, and some tried to save Nolti, but in the end they were also tied up with ropes.

Phew! Phew! Phew!!!

A few seconds later.

Six girls were tied up with ropes.

All of them were tied up in different poses, showing amazing flexibility, and neatly hung directly under the sail of the ship.

"Whoo...whoo..."

The girls tried to call for help, but the ropes themselves tied several knots and gagged them, after which only an indistinct mumbling could be heard from the deck of the ship.

After a while, when Loya and the other girls began to cry from despair, a beautiful young man with silver hair, dressed in a baggy short-sleeved shirt, came out of the cabin onto the deck.

It was Yeruashi.

He tied the belt and involuntarily laughed, looking at what was happening on the deck of his ship: "Hey, since when have you guys been interested in the art of bondage? Let them go."

"There is!"

The ropes responded in unison and immediately untied.

The young girls fell to the deck one after another and immediately tried to get up, but due to the weakness and numbness caused by the binding, they were breathing rapidly and fell back to the deck, with each attempt to get up.

Robin appeared behind Yeruashi, slightly blushing, and calmly said, looking thoughtfully at Loya and the others: "People living at such an altitude above sea level are very different from us..."

"Yes, the body structure is really different."

Yeruashi nodded.