143. Saruyama Alliance

143. Saruyama Alliance

The ship sailed for a few more days. Ken was watching to see if there was any kind of deviation from the original story with the inclusion of Rainbow Mist. It was not canon, so Ken was keeping an eye out for it. He had seen that extra Poneglyph, so he wanted to see if there could be other filler arcs included in their journey, but after a few days and seeing no chance of going to that 'prison," he gave up and just concentrated on his practice just like everyone else.

Sanji was progressing slowly, and Ken could tell there was still a long way to go even if he reached hysterical strength—forget about traveling at light speed. Sanji was pretty annoyed by that, but he was diligent in his practice. Another reason he was progressing slowly is that he was actively rejecting his own power out of fear that he might turn out like his brothers.

Luffy was more slow in Jin Mori's progression. But that was acceptable. He was God to begin with. If getting godhood was so easy, then everyone would have been a god.

Nami was progressing quite well in her Avatar character, but somehow Ken felt like it would take quite a bit of time to finish her Avatar character since getting into the Avatar state was a whole different matter.

Chopper and the rest were progressing quite decently in their characters. Caroo and Banchi, being animals too, were doing fine. Banchi had tagged along, but he was swimming along with them. The inclusion of Banchi helped the ship not get hit by rocks or any kind of damage, and everyone was more than happy to get the two animals. Having those animals on board meant that there would always be guards for the ship.

"The log pose... The log pose is broken." Suddenly, out of nowhere, Nami started screaming and shouting. Her voice was almost breaking in fear while saying those words.

"What happened?" Zoro asked.

"The log pose is broken. It is pointing towards the sky." Nami said. Everyone had gathered around by then after hearing her shout.

"Shit now, what will we do?" Vivi, Chopper, and others were scared.

"Are you sure it is broken or it is just pointing upwards?" Luffy asked. He was using his godly eyes to see if there was any break in the log pose, but he could see none.

"Nami there is a saying among the sailors. Never doubt the log pose. If it is pointing towards there, there probably is an island in the sky." Robin said.

"What?"

Soon the ship came near, and it was headed by one of the Saruyama Alliance. The Saruyama Alliance had three major characteristics. Shoujou, Mashira, and Mont Blanc Cricket It was Mashira this time who had shown up.

"Captain, is the ship really floating?"

"How is this possible? Is this magic?"

"This must be magic."

"What are you all talking about? This is probably just a devil fruit."

They could hear the words of Mashira and his crew quite easily from the Merry Go Round. Everyone felt a little awkward seeing this new ship, which was in the shape of a banana, and the crew seemed like the human evolution from monkey had stopped for each and every one of them. Especially Mashira, the captain.

"Who is the captain here?" Come out." Mashira shouted from the ship.

"I am Luffy, Captain of the Straw Hats. What do you want?" Luffy, like an idiot, came forward and shouted his name.

"I want to scavenge the ship." Mashira was straight-forward in his choices.

"Hell..." Luffy, who was going to say no to Mashira and drive him away, was stopped by Ken as he blocked his mouth.

"We can share the treasures on the promise that you take us to an island nearby. You see our log is pointing towards a sky island, and we need our rations before we set sail on this journey." Ken replied instead of Luffy while still blocking Luffy.

"Sky island?"

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