"Forget it. I'll just treat Kizaru as practice for my Observation Haki…"
"But this Kizaru is seriously asking to get punched. Good thing people in the card space can't talk—otherwise I'd get so pissed I wouldn't even be able to use Observation."
"If this guy really is a Revolutionary Army mole, I'll settle old scores and new ones together when the time comes."
Having silently made up his mind, Blake looked into the distance.
An island appeared ahead. He turned his head and asked,
"Where are we right now?"
"Your Highness, at our current speed, we'll reach Baterilla Island in another half hour."
Blake nodded without changing expression.
"A tiny little island—nothing worth looking at. Restock supplies here, then let's go take a look around West Blue."
Baterilla Island?Wasn't that the island where Roger hid before turning himself in?
At this point in time, Roger had already been executed by the World Government, but Portgas D. Rouge should still be on this island.
Still, Blake had absolutely no intention of meeting Rouge.
A lot of transmigrators who chose to "take Rouge back" and play the homewrecker were the elite type of Celestial Dragons—people whose names were already on the Five Elders' radar, the kind who would join the God's Knights in the future, or even become one of the Five Elders themselves.
Blake—someone who wanted to climb straight to the sky in one step—wasn't going to make that kind of spectacle.
…
"Captain is wise!"
"WOOO!!"
A bunch of pirates, whipped into a fever, charged straight toward Moria's island ship.
The poor pirates still hadn't noticed the Sanctuary—or the Marine warship sailing alongside it.
Even more pitiful: where everyone else would avoid the Thriller Bark like the plague, these idiots were actually charging into it on purpose.
Blake watched the whole thing with a grin.
You could imagine what kind of mood Moria, currently drowning in emo despair, would be in if a pack of low-level pirates came to disturb him.
Compared to Moria himself, Blake was more curious about the ship.
Right now, Moria had only just finished modifying the island. He'd merely managed to make the "island ship" move for the time being. Its appearance was still very different from the Thriller Bark in the original story—which was exactly why those pirates had mistaken it for an actual island.
Blake looked toward the buildings on the island ship.
"Mm… it really does look a bit like God Valley's architectural style…"
In Blake's previous life, there had been a theory:
That Moria's island ship had been remodeled from God Valley.
First, Thriller Bark was created after Moria's defeat—when he returned to West Blue and turned a West Blue island into an island ship.
Second, among Moria's zombies, several individuals were suspected to have once been members of the Rocks Pirates.
Blake kept a wait-and-see attitude toward that theory.