"Ah, ah, these three kids sure can eat."
The head of the Loguetown Revolutionary Army Rescue Station looked at the pile of plates stacked in front of the three children—one big, two small—and couldn't help but sigh.
They had never encountered people who could eat this much before.
"Station chief! The cook's hand is starting to cramp! He can't keep up with how fast these three kids are eating!"
"Probably… no need anymore." The station chief looked at the three kids whose eating speed had obviously slowed down a lot and shook his head. "They should be about full by now."
After saying that, he leaned forward and asked:
"May I ask where the three of you came from?"
"...Phew! Full, so full!" The oldest girl patted her belly with satisfaction. "Huh? Were you talking to me?"
"That's right. This is the Revolutionary Army Rescue Station. We can provide you food for free… but for safety's sake, we still need to know your identities."
"Revolutionary Army? What's that?" The girl looked a little dazed. "But it doesn't matter. My name is Yamato! Maria D. Yamato! From Raijin Island of the Grand Line!"
"Raijin Island? Never heard of it." The station chief scratched his leather cap, then took the latest world map issued internally by the Revolutionary Army from his assistant and searched carefully. He finally spotted the words 'Raijin Island' in the New World.
"What? You actually came from the New World to the Four Seas? You'd have to cross the Calm Belt for that!" The station chief looked up at Yamato in surprise. "A little girl like you, bringing along two kids even smaller than yourself—how did you manage that?"
"How…" Yamato subconsciously touched her horns, then said, "I just made them row hard, and my job was to punch away the Sea Kings that jumped out of the water… pretty simple, really."
"Pretty… simple?"
The corner of the station chief's mouth twitched.
He felt like he might have just stumbled across someone extraordinary.
Meanwhile, his assistant kept poking him in the back.
"What is it?"
"Station chief!" The assistant leaned close to his ear and whispered, "Didn't you hear what that girl just said? Her surname is 'Maria D.'! That's the same surname as the Queen of Germa! And also the same as that legendary Navy Chief Inspector!"
The station chief, hearing this, looked down at the map.
Raijin Island… was marked as a 'Pirate Territory' on the map!
This girl called 'Yamato'… wasn't her background a bit too complicated?
Thinking this, the station chief's mind spun a few times before he finally tossed the map back to his assistant and ordered:
"Whatever the case, take these three kids to rest first. Coming out of the Calm Belt left them starving like this—they must be exhausted… I'll go call the Revolutionary Army cadres and ask how to handle this."
After saying that, he left the cafeteria.
"Huh? Why did that weird old man run out all of a sudden?" Ulti looked toward the door in confusion. "Page One, why does this feel kinda suspicious?"
"We're the adopted kids and real daughter of 'Beasts' Kaido, suddenly showing up in someone else's territory… and Yamato even gave herself such a strange surname… Of course people are gonna be suspicious."
Even though Page One was only ten years old, as Kaido's adopted son, he had some worldly experience.
But he didn't expect fate's perfect matching mechanism to hit him this hard.
Just look—on one side was his hopelessly useless geek Yamato obsessed with Michael, and on the other was his real sister with way too much intuition but way too little brainpower…
The tiny Page One felt like the weight on his shoulders was really, really heavy…
...
"Buruburuburu… buruburuburu… click!"
"Hello, this is Ginny. Who's calling?"
"Miss Ginny! This is Drake, station chief of the East Blue Loguetown Revolutionary Army Rescue Station!"
"Drake, did something happen at the Rescue Station?"
"Yes, Miss Ginny, I think this matter needs to be reported to you." Drake's expression was very serious. "Today we dragged back a strange little boat drifting on the sea, and on it we found a girl and two children—all of them were starving to the point they couldn't move."
"Then just rescue them… Loguetown's grain quota should be the biggest in the entire East Blue, right?" Ginny replied carelessly. "Don't tell me you can't feed three kids?"
"You're completely right, but that's not the point…" Drake gave a bitter smile. "These three kids said they came from Raijin Island in the New World."
"Raijin Island?" Ginny frowned, thought for a moment, then said, "Isn't that a pirate territory?"
"Exactly why I felt it was strange and wanted to report to you… and there's one more thing!" Drake continued, "That girl calls herself 'Maria D. Yamato'!"
"What!? Maria? D.?"
"Yes! Same surname as that Navy Chief Inspector!"
"...Phew, Drake, don't alert them for now. Just treat them normally." Ginny stood up and said, "We're heading to Loguetown now."
"Yes, ma'am!"
After hanging up the Den Den Mushi, Ginny rubbed her temples, trying to process the strange information she'd just heard…
Then she left the room and headed to the dojo.
It had only been a few days, yet Hawk Eyes under Michael's command had already become the idol of everyone in Isshin Dojo.
And on the other hand, Enel, that childish guy, had become the target of everyone's wrath…
Especially Zoro and Kuina.
"Enel! Just you wait! One day I'm gonna slice that smug face of yours to ribbons!"
"Long-ear freak! Wash your neck clean! I'll figure out how to cut you one day!"
The two of them were exhausted, lying on the ground, hurling verbal attacks at Enel, who was calmly eating an apple nearby.
"You two… trying to hit a Logia Devil Fruit user? You've got a long way to go!"
Michael sat nearby, smirking with schadenfreude.
Ginny felt a wave of irritation.
This lazy king! Aside from talking business on the first day, he'd spent the rest of his time wandering around Isshin Dojo and Shimotsuki Village!
Now the whole village knew there was some guy in a Navy uniform loafing around every day!
She had even asked before—wasn't it a problem for the Navy Chief Inspector to appear so openly in Revolutionary Army territory?
Michael had shamelessly replied, "This is the scent of power… Those on my side won't question me, and those against me won't be believed even if they do."
"Michael, something happened in Loguetown."
"Huh? Loguetown? What could possibly happen there? Some rookie pirate wanting to see Roger's execution platform? Don't forget to charge them admission."
"It's not that!"
A bone-shaped fireball slammed into the back of Michael's head.
"Loguetown has someone claiming the surname 'Maria D.'!"
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