I’m Not Interested in Devil Fruits: 684 They were eaten by whales

 “Hey, hey, hey, is this a ‘cloud’ or a ‘sea’?”

 Thousands of meters high in the sky, Sanji was sitting on a flying golden pedestal, holding a green phone bug in his hand, looking up at the endless thick clouds just around the corner.

 These flowing clouds, just by listening with your ears, you can hear the sounds inside them that are like the stirring of sea currents, and you can also see with the naked eye the large and small shadows passing by from time to time in their interiors higher up. ...Is that a school of fish?

 As a Devil Fruit user, Sanji did not act rashly, so he stopped temporarily under the thick clouds.

 At the door of the Telephone Bug Castle, Robin said: "This should be a 'sea cloud'. Its properties are the same as the sea..."

 “That’s going to be difficult!” Sanji scratched his head.

 With a thought in his mind, he controlled the thick gold pedestal he was sitting on to change its shape, expand to all sides, and slowly turn into a rolled golden hollow ball.

 "Although I can do this to isolate these things... However, I am not sure whether these golds will become invalid and out of my control after contact with 'sea water'... Hey, do you want to give it a try? ?"

 “Try it!” Luffy shouted excitedly at the door of Telephone Bug Castle, “The sky island should be up there, right?”

 Bang bang! Nami and Usopp next to him punched him left and right, and said angrily: "Try it! If you fail, everyone will fall down. Do you know there is too high here?" ! ”

 The chestnut-headed man Meng Brown raised his head and said: "It seems that the only way to go back to the sea is to try to reach the sky and the current..."

 "Don't want that either!" Usopp and Nami raised their hands in tears, "It feels more dangerous!!"

 “So what’s next?” Sauron asked.

 Chopper looked up at Robin.

 Robin thought for a while, raised his hand in front of everyone, and used the petals to condense a small vivid fish, "Let's do this... Sanji, you continue to wrap everyone in gold, and control the gold to continue flying upward through the sea clouds. , and I will create a layer of empty shells of large fish to wrap around the golden sphere to prevent the gold from being controlled by you when it comes into contact with the sea water." Nami and Usopp exclaimed, "Robin, you are so powerful! Can you do it?" Luffy looked at the fish in Robin's hand and asked, "Can this thing be eaten?" Chopper was shocked, "Eh?"

 Robin said to the outside of the castle: "The clone I created will not be immediately disabled by the sea water. You can rest assured about this."

 A thumb was handed over outside the castle in front of everyone, and Sanji's happy voice came: "Sister Robin, you are so reliable!"

 The light outside the castle quickly dimmed. It was Sanji who completely closed the hollow sphere made of gold.

Robin closed his eyes and created a living body of a large sea beast outside the golden sphere through the flower-free ability of the flower fruit. The weight of the entire sphere suddenly sank, and Sanji knew that Robin had protected the golden sphere. And soon, everyone in the Telephone Bug Castle once again felt a slight sense of weightlessness. They knew that Sanji took them upward into the sea composed of white clouds according to Robin...

 "Continue upward..."

 Robin opened a flower eye on the body of the sea beast that wrapped the golden ball, and observed the distance of the golden ball's "rising". At the same time, he also reported the progress of the "rising" to Sanji, who was controlling the golden ball outside...

 Mont Blanc looked at all this and marveled secretly.

 Not long after, Robin opened his eyes and said: "Leaving the surface of the sea cloud..."

  She didn't need to remind her, when he felt the change in strength required to control the gold, Sanji guessed that it was because it was out of the buoyancy of the sea of ​​clouds, so he controlled the hollow gold sphere, opening it from the top, revealing the hollow and fading away to all sides. ...Suddenly, a completely white world was displayed in front of everyone. Sanji and the phone in his hand, with their straightened heads and rounded eyes at the door of the bug castle, were all shocked by the spectacular scene in front of them. In the ocean composed of endless white clouds, there are living fish surging.

 “This is an empty island?!”

 Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper were holding each other's arms, shouting and jumping. Robin estimated the process from leaving the sea level to getting here. He shook his head and said, "I'm afraid we haven't arrived yet. Here. The maximum altitude is no more than seven thousand meters above sea level, and as far as I know, the sky islands with human life in the usual sense should be at an altitude of ten thousand meters above sea level."

 "So high?!" Nami was startled. She poked her head out of the main portal and looked up. "There is also a layer of white above...which means there is a sea of ​​clouds above? You have to pass through the upper layer. , can we reach Sky Island?”

 The miniature Nami-san is so cute too...! ! ! Sanji breathed heavily as he looked at the orange-haired girl peeking out of the small hole in the Telephone Bug Castle.

 Mont Blanc said: “It’s still three thousand meters further up.”

  Luffy smiled and raised his fist and shouted: "Sanji! Fly higher!!!"

 “No problem.”

 Sanji smoked a cigarette and smiled, the sunlight above his head gradually weakened, and he once again wrapped it in gold to form a sphere...

 “Go to Sky Island~Go to Sky Island~Go to Sky Island!!”

 In the Telephone Bug Castle, Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper were singing and dancing, with great anticipation and excitement.

 "It's so noisy! Can you be quiet for a while?!" Nami yelled angrily, "Huh?" She was startled, "What's wrong?" Luffy and the others also felt that the castle seemed to shake slightly. .

 Outside, in the dimly lit empty golden sphere, Sanji holding the phone bug castle was also confused. Why did he seem to... bump into something? Can't fly?

 "I touched the bottom of the island cloud in the sea of ​​clouds." Robin's voice came from the darkness nearby.

 Sanji knew that Robin must have used his power to create a mouth on the inner wall of the gold to send messages, "Move directly in front of where you are facing... about fifty meters, and then continue to control the golden ball to float upward."

 "Okay." Sanji followed the prompts and used the Gold Fruit ability.

 I can’t see my fingers inside the golden sphere. Can Sister Robin know which way my face is facing? Sanji silently thought to himself, is this the power of seeing and hearing? Luffy and Green Algae Head seem to have mastered it, and I must not be left behind...

  …

 When the golden ball slowly unfolded and faded again, revealing the scenery outside, what you could see was not only the endless sea of ​​white clouds around it that was similar to before, but also the vast and clear blue sky above.

 "I can see the sky! It seems that this is the highest place that can be reached..." Nami looked outside, turned around and said with joy, "That's great, Sister Robin. Thanks to you, it can go so smoothly."

 "You're welcome. I want to come up and have a look myself." Robin patted the castle wall and said, "Little Green, let the Merry go."

Before she could finish her words, a red figure flew past.

 “Empty Island!!!”

  Luffy jumped out of the Telephone Bug Castle portal in great excitement, forcing U to return to his original size.

 "Hey! Idiot!" Usopp stretched out his hand and shouted, "You are an esper, don't run around!!"

 Forcing U, the Meili was also thrown out of the Telephone Bug Castle, and landed on the white sea of ​​clouds with a roar. Sanji, who was stepping on the suspended golden base, was about to pull out a line of gold to catch the overly active Luffy. Unexpectedly, Luffy was already jumping on a white cloud, bouncing back and forth. She waved to him happily, "Sanji, come and see, this cloud is so soft! Hahahaha..."

Is this the island cloud that Sister Robin just mentioned? Sanji had a black hair, and Luffy was really lucky. He just jumped to the island cloud where he could stay.

 Soon, Nami, Zoro, Usopp, Chopper, Montblanc, and Robin also jumped out of the Phone Bug Castle. Of course, they were Sanji who put Xiao Green on the Merry ship. It came out when.

 "Wow, it's so beautiful! It's all white..." Nami stretched happily. "It's like heaven...Luffy, I want to jump too!" Usopp excitedly jumped off the sea of ​​clouds and swam to Luffy's bouncing island cloud. "Heaven?!" Chopper was still surprised by what Usopp said just now, "Are we already dead?" Zoro gave it a scabbard, "Don't be stupid, heaven is not that easy." Found? ”

 Robin turned around and saw "B.I.B" who had been practicing silently on the edge of the excitement, also turned into a black ghost and flew out of Xiaolu's inner castle.

 ‘Take a little rest. ” it said, “I am a little interested in the little mermaid that Montblanc is looking for. 』

 Robin smiled faintly for the first time in a long time, "Yes, she is a little girl after all..."

  ‘Do you still remember this joke? 』

 "B.I.B" shook its head, it was just wondering why the mermaid Kemi who Luffy and the others met in the "Champaign Islands Chapter" somehow came to the "Sky Island Chapter" to make a guest appearance in advance?

 The Meili was drifting in the wind on the white sea, Robin said to himself: "How could I forget..."

 Suddenly, Nami's exclamation came from the boat: "Uncle Lizitou, what are you going to do?"

 It turned out that Montblanc was stepping on the side of the boat, flexing his muscles, as if he wanted to jump in and take a swim.

 “Of course I’m looking for the little mermaid,” Montblanc chewed on his cigarette, “This is why I have to come, and it’s also my responsibility...”

 "Wait a minute! Is there someone over there?"

 Sanji, who was flying around on the golden base, suddenly shouted, "Miss Nami, can you drive the Merry over there so that the angle is just right so you can see it?"

 Sure enough, when Nami moved the Meili a little, she saw a little red-haired girl wearing a headscarf at the corner of the white island clouds, looking at them with vigilance and curiosity. side.

  ‘Did you really meet a little girl when you came up? ! 』

 『B.I.B』 was stunned. Although it is a battle armor, its eyes don’t really widen...

 “Is this the Sky Islander?” Chopper looked at the vigilant human girl.

  Sauron touched his chin, "But, it doesn't look any different from us..."

 The little red-haired girl wearing a turban looked at the people on the Meili warily, and asked curiously: "Are you from the blue sea?"

 "Blue sea?" Nami and Sanji had questions.

 Robin said: "The residents of Sky Island call the area below 10,000 meters the blue sea, and this is the white sea."

 "No, this is the White Sea." The red-haired **** the island cloud made a face, "The White Sea is further down here."

 "Is that so?" Nami felt curious, "Yes, we are the Lanhai people who have just arrived here. I have many things to ask you. Why are you running away?!"

  The red-haired girl turned around and ran away. Nami wanted to chase after her, but Robin held her back. "Wait, Nami... there seem to be many people in the direction that girl went." Robin said doubtfully. , "Why? The location is a little wrong..."

 "Location?" Nami knew that Robin must have explored the island she was about to land on first as she had said before on Gaya Island. "What's wrong?"

 "The height is wrong..." Robin looked steadily at the accumulated and bulging island clouds in front of the red-haired girl who stopped, "I know, they hollowed out the island clouds and opened up the interior. A place to live...is this it?”

 “…?!” The red-haired girl Aisha looked back at Robin on the side of the boat and said in disbelief, “Do you know how to ‘Heart Network’? But you are obviously from Blue Sea…”

 Robin said: "If I explain it to you, in exchange, can you introduce us to the situation on the empty island where you live?"

 Aisha frowned and said: "Alas..."

 She is so annoyed. Why do the few people from Lanhai who she meets randomly have the same feelings?

 The location of the village was suddenly exposed to the woman's inner network!

 Even if I turn around and run away now, the other party will find the village soon, right?

 "Don't worry, little girl." Sanji squatted on the suspended gold base and smiled kindly, "We are not bad people."

 "We are pirates, right? We are always bad people." Zoro complained on the ship. "Don't make trouble, Green Algae Head!" Sanji turned around unhappily. Aisha glanced at the large pile of gold at Sanji's feet, nodded reluctantly, and said helplessly: "Okay... I hope you are really good people? Come with me, I will take you to our village as guests..."

 Sanji turned around and made a scissor gesture towards Nami. Nami got off the boat with the others, stepped on the soft island clouds, and followed Aisha who was leading the way. It was quite novel.

 "B.I.B" floated beside Robin, glancing at Montblanc, a descendant of Montblanc Noland, who was walking silently, and then at Aisha in front, a descendant of the Sandians...

  "I wonder what the real Sky Island looks like?" Nami smiled expectantly and looked back at Robin, "I wonder if it's different from the one you went to before... Sister Robin, what's wrong? ?"

 “…” Robin touched his chin and pondered, “Did we forget something?”

  "..." Zoro and Chopper who were walking at the end, Nami who was walking in front of Robin, and Sanji who jumped off the golden pedestal were all thinking similarly, and then they made a sound of "Ah" with black lines all over their heads. Surprised: "Where are Luffy and Usopp?"

 “Are you talking about the man in the straw hat and the man with such a long nose?”

Aisha, who was walking at the front, squatted on the ground on an island cloud. With some difficulty, she lifted a corner of the island cloud to create a square entrance to the passage. She tugged her nose to imitate Usopp's long nose. reminded, "I 'heard' just now... that they were eaten by whales."

 "You said they..." Zoro's eyes twitched. "Being whaled..." Sanji hissed. "...Eat?!" Chopper's jaw dropped to the ground. "Why are you saying it now?!" Nami yelled at Elsa with tears in her eyes.

 Mont Blanc crushed the cigarette butt, "Let's go find them first."