Chapter 685 They were eaten by a whale

"Hey, hey, hey, is this thing a 'cloud' or a 'sea'?"

Thousands of meters in the sky, Sanji was sitting on a floating golden pedestal, holding a green Den Den Mushi in his hand, looking up at the endless thick clouds that were so close at hand.

These moving clouds, just by listening with your ears, can make sounds inside them that sound like the stirring of ocean currents, and you can also see with your naked eyes higher up, large and small shadows flashing by inside them from time to time... Are those schools of fish?

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

At the entrance of Den Den Mushi's castle, Robin said, "This should be 'sea cloud'. Its properties are the same as the sea..."

"That's difficult!" Sanji scratched his head.

With an idea in his mind, he controlled the thick golden pedestal he was sitting on to change its shape, expanding in all directions and slowly turning into a curled golden hollow sphere.

"Although I can do this to isolate these things... However, I'm not sure if the gold will become ineffective and out of my control after coming into contact with 'sea water'... Hey, do you want to give it a try?"

"Let's give it a try!" Luffy shouted excitedly at the entrance of Den Den Mushi Castle, "Sky Island should be up there, right?"

Bang! Nami and Usopp punched him from the left and right, both fangs piercing, "I'm not going to try you! If you fail, we'll all fall down. Do you know how high this place is?!"

Mont Blanc, the chestnut-haired sturdy man, raised his head and said, "It seems that we have no choice but to go back to the sea and try to ride the current..."

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

"So what do we do next?" asked Zoro.

Chopper looked up at Robin.

Robin thought for a moment, raised her hand, and condensed a vivid little fish with flower petals in front of everyone, "How about this... Chef, you continue to wrap everyone up with gold, and control the gold to continue to fly upward through the sea clouds, and I will create a layer of empty shells of large fish to wrap the golden sphere to prevent the gold from being out of your control after contacting the sea water." Nami, Usopp and others exclaimed, "Robin, you are so amazing! Can you do this?" Luffy looked at the fish in Robin's hand and pondered, "Can this thing be eaten?" Chopper was startled by him, "Huh?!"

Robin said to the outside of the castle: "The clones I created will not be immediately depowered by sea water, you can rest assured about that."

A thumbs-up 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 the hollow sphere made of gold by Sanji that completely closed.

Robin closed his eyes and, using the ability of the Flower-Flower Fruit, created the flesh of a large living sea beast outside the golden sphere. The weight of the entire sphere suddenly sank, and Sanji knew that Robin had protected the golden sphere. Soon, everyone in the Den Den Mushi castle felt a slight sense of weightlessness again. They knew that Sanji was leading them upwards into the sea of ​​white clouds that Robin had described...

"Continue upwards..."

Robin opened the flower eye on the body of the sea beast that wrapped the golden ball, observing the distance the golden ball "floated up", and also notified Sanji who was controlling the golden ball outside about the progress of the "floating up"...

Mont Blanc watched all this and was secretly impressed.

Not long after, Robin opened his eyes and said, "We have left the surface of the sea cloud..."

Without her reminder, when Sanji felt the change in the force required to control the gold, he guessed that it was because of the buoyancy of the sea of ​​clouds. He controlled the hollow golden sphere, opening it from the top layer, revealing the hole that faded away to the surroundings... Suddenly, a completely white world appeared in front of everyone. Sanji and the Den Den Mushi in his hand, with their heads stretched straight and their eyes wide open, were shocked by the spectacular scene before them. In the ocean composed of endless white clouds, living fish were surging.

"This is——Sky Island～～?!!"

Luffy, Usopp, Chopper and the others were hugging each other and shouting and jumping. Robin estimated the process from leaving the sea level to here, and shook his head and said, "I'm afraid we're not there yet. This place is no more than 7,000 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 10,000 meters."

"So high?!" Nami was surprised. She stuck her head out of the castle gate and looked up. "There's also a layer of white above... Does that mean there's another layer of sea of ​​clouds above? Do we have to go through a higher layer to reach the sky island?"

The miniature Nami-san is so cute too...!!! Sanji breathed heavily as he looked at the orange-haired girl who was peeking out from the small hole in the Den Den Mushi castle.

Mont Blanc said, "We still have to go up another three thousand meters."

Luffy smiled and raised his fist and yelled, "Sanji! Fly higher!!!"

"no problem."

Sanji smiled while holding a cigarette in his mouth. The sunlight above his head gradually weakened. He once again wrapped himself in gold to form a sphere...

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

In the Den Den Mushi castle, Luffy, Usopp, and Chopper were singing and dancing, looking very expectant and excited.

"It's so noisy! Can you be quiet for a while?!" Nami yelled angrily, "Huh?" She was stunned, "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 Den Den Mushi Castle, was also confused. How come it seemed like... it had hit something? It couldn't fly anymore? "It hit the bottom of the island cloud in the sea of ​​clouds." Robin's voice came from the darkness beside him.

Sanji knew that Robin must have used her power to create a mouth inside the golden wall to pass on the message, "Move horizontally to the direction you are facing now... about fifty meters, and then continue to control the golden ball to float upwards."

"Okay." Sanji followed the instructions and used the power of the Gold-Gold Fruit.

It's pitch dark inside the golden sphere, but Robin can tell which way my face is facing? Sanji thought to himself, is this the power of observation Haki? 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 away again, revealing the scenery outside, what came into view was not only an endless sea of ​​white clouds around it, similar to before, but also a vast, clear blue sky above.

"I can see the sky! It seems that this is the highest place we can reach..." Nami looked outside and turned back happily, "That's great, Sister Robin, thanks to you, it's so smooth~~"

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

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

"Sky Island~~!!!"

Luffy excitedly jumped out of the portal of Den Den Mushi's castle, and BIU returned to his original shape.

"Hey! Idiot!" Usopp stretched out his hand and shouted, "You are a person with special abilities, don't run around!!"

BIU, Merry was also thrown out of the Den Den Mushi castle, and landed on the vast sea of ​​white clouds with a bang. Sanji, who was standing on the suspended golden base, was about to draw a golden line to catch the overly active Luffy, but unexpectedly, Luffy was already bouncing around on a cloud, waving happily at him, "Sanji, come and see, this cloud is so soft! Hahahaha..."

Is this the island cloud that Sister Robin just mentioned? Sanji was confused. Luffy was really lucky. He jumped onto the island cloud that he could land on with just a jump.

Soon, Nami, Zoro, Usopp, Chopper, Mont Blanc, and Robin also jumped out of the Den Den Mushi castle one after another. Of course, they only came out when Sanji put Green on the Merry.

"Wow~ It's so beautiful! It's all white..." Nami stretched happily. "It's just 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 shocked by what Usopp had just said, "Are we dead?" Click, Zoro hit him with his scabbard, "Don't talk nonsense, how can heaven be so easy to find?"

Robin looked back and saw "BIB", who had been practicing silently on the edge of the hustle and bustle, also turned into a black ghost and flew out of Xiaolu's inner castle.

"Take a short break," it said, "I am a little interested in the little mermaid that Mont Blanc is looking for."

Robin smiled faintly after a long time, "Yeah, she is just a little girl after all..."

"Do you still remember this joke?"

"BIB" shook its head. It was just wondering why the mermaid Camie, who Luffy and his friends had just met in the "Sabaody Archipelago Arc", inexplicably came to the "Sky Island Arc" to make an early cameo appearance?

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

As the Merry drifted in the wind on the White Sea, Robin said to himself, "How could I forget..."

Suddenly, Nami exclaimed from the boat: "Uncle Chestnut Head, what are you going to do?"

It turned out that Mont Blanc was standing on the side of the boat, stretching his muscles, as if he was about to jump in and swim.

"Of course, I'm going to find the little mermaid," Mont Blanc said, biting his cigarette. "This is why I have to come here, and it's also my responsibility..."

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

Sanji, who was flying around on the golden pedestal, suddenly shouted, "Ms. Nami, can you steer the Merry a little further? Then the angle will be just right for us to see it?"

Sure enough, when Nami moved the Merry a little, she saw a little red-haired girl wearing a headscarf at the corner of a white island cloud, looking at them vigilantly and curiously.

"I really met a little girl right away?!"

"BIB" was stunned. Even though it was a battle armor, its eyes didn't really widen...

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

Zoro stroked his chin, "But, he looks no different from us..."

The little red-haired girl in a headscarf looked at the people on the Merry ship warily and asked curiously, "Are you from the Blue Sea?"

"Blue sea?" Nami, Sanji and the others were all puzzled.

Robin said: "The residents of Sky Island call the area below ten thousand meters the Blue Sea, and this is the White Sea."

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

"Is that so?" Nami was quite curious. "Yes, we are the Blue Sea people who just arrived here. I have a lot of things to ask you - hey, why are you running?!"

The red-haired girl turned around and ran away. Nami wanted to chase her, but Robin held her back. "Wait, Nami... there seemed to be a lot of people in the direction that girl went." Robin asked in confusion, "Why? The location seems a little wrong..."

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

"The height is wrong..." Robin stared at the piled and raised island clouds in front of the red-haired girl who had stopped walking. "I see, the island clouds were hollowed out and a place for living was opened up inside... Is that right?"

"......?!" The red-haired girl Aisha turned around and looked at Robin by the boat, saying in disbelief, "You also know the 'Heart Net'? But you are clearly from the Blue Sea..."

Robin said: "If I explain it to you, in exchange, can you introduce us to the situation of the Sky Island where you live?"

Aisha frowned and said, "Alas..."

She was so annoyed. Why did she become so obsessed with those random people from the Blue Ocean she met?

The location of the village was immediately exposed to the woman's trap! Even if he turned around and ran away now, the woman would find the village soon, right? "Don't worry, little girl." Sanji squatted on the suspended golden pedestal and smiled kindly, "We are not bad guys."

"We are pirates, right? We are bad guys." Zoro complained on the boat. "Don't make trouble, you green algae head!" Sanji turned back unhappily. Aisha glanced at the large piece of gold under 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..."

Sanji turned around and made a scissors sign to Nami. Nami got off the boat with the others, stepped on the soft island clouds, and followed behind Aisha who was leading the way, feeling quite curious.

BIB floated beside Robin, glanced at Mont Blanc, the descendant of Mont Blanc Noland, who was walking silently with him, and then glanced at Aisha in front of him, the descendant of the Shandian people...

"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 ones you've been to before... Sister Robin, what's wrong?"

"..." Robin touched his chin and pondered, "Have we forgotten something?"

"..." Zoro and Chopper, who were walking at the end, Nami, who was walking in front, and Sanji, who jumped down from the golden pedestal, were all in deep thought, and then they all said "Ah" in unison, and asked with black lines on their faces: "Where are Luffy and Usopp?"

"Are you talking about the man with the straw hat and the one with such a long nose?"

Aisha, who was walking in the front, squatted on the ground of an island cloud. With some effort, she lifted a corner of the island cloud to form a square entrance to the passage. She pulled her nose to imitate Usopp's long nose and reminded, "Just now I 'heard'... they were eaten by a whale."

"You said they..." Zoro's eye twitched. "By a whale..." Sanji hissed. "...eaten?!" Chopper's jaw dropped to the ground. "——Why are you saying that now?!" Nami yelled at Asia with tears in her eyes.

Mont Blanc crushed his cigarette butt and said, "Let's go find them first."

(End of this chapter)