Although Drake had asked that, he hadn’t really been planning to have the three attackers lead the way to the so-called Hidden Cloud Village.

The three attackers had been the Shandians who had been taken to the sky by the Knock Up Stream together with a part of Jaya Island four hundred years ago.

For four hundred years, the Shandians had never given up on taking back the land that had been stolen from the Sky People, so they had formed a guerrilla army, battling the "god" of Skypiea all along.

But he didn’t know if something had been wrong with these people’s heads, but they had actually been targeting the God’s Squad of Angel Island while also attacking people from the Blue Sea below indiscriminately.

And now, they had run into trouble this time. Even the new generation’s guerrilla army leader, the Battle Demon Wiper, had been subdued with one move.

But although the man who had had the name of "Battle Demon" hadn’t had much strength, what he hadn’t lacked the most had been the will to battle.

Apart from having said one sentence before because his comrades had been injured, Wiper hadn’t said a single word.

But this hadn’t meant that Drake couldn’t find the location of the Hidden Cloud Village, after all, there had been a saying that when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss is also gazing into you.

Although the original words hadn’t meant this, it had been just right to describe the situation. When that little girl named Aisa had sensed Drake with Observation Haki, she herself had also been exposed in Drake’s senses.

...

A small sky island deep within the White White Sea, which had been on the first layer above the White Sea, and this had been where the Shandians had been living in seclusion after having been driven out of Jaya Island, their ancestors’ land.

Aisa had been covering her head, squatting on the side, having a terrified look.

A tall woman had said with worry, "Aisa, what exactly happened?"

Aisa had said while trembling all over, "Wiper and them’s voices have disappeared! That person is a monster, a monster who’s even more terrifying than Enel!"

The woman had said with shock, "What are you saying! What happened to Wiper and them?"

An old man who had been wearing a feathered hat had grabbed the woman’s shoulder, opening his mouth, saying, "Calm down first, Wiper and them have the souls of great warriors protecting them, and they wouldn’t have died like that." 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

While saying this, the old man had squatted down, looking at Aisa, saying, "Aisa, what exactly did you hear?"

The old man’s words had made Aisa recover some of her reason as well, and Aisa had raised her head, saying, "I’ve never heard a sound like that before, that’s definitely not a human, but is instead a monster who can even bite gods to death!"

Aisa’s incoherence had made the old man reveal a pensive expression.

Although he hadn’t had the Mantra that Aisa had innately, he had also understood this child’s ability.

The sound that Aisa had spoken of had referred to things like other people’s wills or emotions, and he hadn’t heard her say that she could tell whether a target had been strong before this.

Apart from Aisa’s ability having evolved again, the old man could only think of one reason. And that had been that the strength of the owner of the sound that Aisa had heard had already exceeded his imagination, and it had been so strong that she could sense the other party’s strength just by hearing the "sound."

Aisa’s body had been trembling even more violently, saying with shock, "He... he’s discovered me, and he’s coming over here!"

The old man hadn’t panicked, standing up, saying, "If that’s the case, then all we can do is be prepared to welcome our guest.

Aisa, I still want to ask one thing. Apart from strength, what other feelings do you have about that sound?"

...

So when Drake had arrived at the Hidden Cloud Village, what he had seen had been the Shandians who had been waiting there long ago.

After seeing Wiper and the three of them, who had been grabbed by Bird, those Shandians had immediately revealed hostility, but they had all been stopped by the old man who had been standing at the very front.

The old man had stepped forward, saying, "Guests who have come from the Blue Sea, I am the current chief of the Shandians. I sincerely apologize for Wiper and them’s impolite actions towards you, and I request that you forgive them.

I’m willing to bear any punishment in place of these three children."

While saying this, the old man had kneeled down on both knees directly, doing a standard dogeza.

To be honest, it had looked quite out of place to see an old man who had looked like an Indian in every way do a Japanese-style apology pose.

But the chief’s posture had also made it hard for Drake to say anything more.

Having been attacked for no reason, Drake’s temper wouldn’t have been good to the point of turning his head and forgetting about it. Elephants indeed wouldn’t care about ants’ provocations, but they would still get angry if the ants had bitten them, even if it didn’t hurt.

What had made Drake’s anger disappear had been the courage of the old man before him.

Drake had thought about what kind of reaction the people of the Hidden Cloud Village would have if they had known that he had been approaching. They might have scattered, fleeing to preserve the spark of their race.

It had also been possible that they would have charged up, fighting him to the death for the sake of the glory that had been flowing in their blood. But Drake hadn’t expected this situation in particular.

You had to know that this world was very cruel, and the strong could demand anything from the weak, and could even inflict violence without any reason.

The chief had actually bet that Drake wouldn’t be a tyrannical person, choosing to apologize to Drake here, and this kind of courage and boldness had truly been not simple.

The wisdom that the chief had accumulated through a long period of time had been what had been most worthy of respect, and that small bit of dissatisfaction hadn’t counted for anything because of this.

Drake had stepped forward, saying, "Forget it, it wasn’t anything big to begin with, and I can’t say anything more since you’ve done this.

But we’re visiting Skypiea for the first time, so we’ll be disturbing you!"

The chief had been helped up by Drake, opening his mouth, saying, "You’re making us feel extremely ashamed with your tolerance, and if you don’t mind, please come to the village, and let us treat you well!"

Now that everything had been said, Bird had also released Wiper and the three of them, and had transformed back into a paper doll, returning to Drake’s hand.

What had been surprising had been that Wiper hadn’t charged up again like Drake had thought after having been released, and had instead stopped the other two quite calmly.

As the leader of the Shandian guerrilla army after all, Wiper hadn’t been a mindless mad dog.

But not everyone had been as clear-headed as the chief and Wiper, and Drake could sense that the other Shandians had still been full of hostility.

The chief had taken Drake and Stella into the village, arriving at a quite spacious house.

The Hidden Cloud Village had been located in the White White Sea above the White Sea, and the island clouds here had been like compacted cotton, and stepping on them had had a special texture.

Based on this, the entire Skypiea had had a complete ecosystem. Not only could the island clouds themselves be processed into materials, but plants could also grow on them.

The island clouds had even contained all kinds of mineral molecules, and a lot of materials could be extracted from them. In cooperation with the various shells that had been unique to Skypiea, they had developed a quite rich shell technology.

The core of the props that Wiper and them had been using to act on the sea of clouds had been the Wind Dials, which could spray air.

The chief had been using a Heat Dial, which could spew fire, to boil water when brewing tea for Drake and Stella.

While drinking tea, Drake and Stella had also heard the story of Norland and the great warrior Calgara again from the chief, and they had also learned of the Shandians’ insistence on lighting the fires of Shandora.

Drake had also wanted to hear what that heart-shaking bell sound had been like, but Enel had really been making Drake unable to muster any motivation.

That had been the Goro Goro no Mi, and it had been a powerful devil fruit that had been among the top of the Logias, but Enel hadn’t developed any proper power at all.

He had still dared to call himself a god with just this, and he had truly been wasting that top-tier fruit, which had combined attack power, speed, and development prospects.

Anyway, Luffy would also be coming to Skypiea before long, so he would let this nemesis go monster hunting!

Drake had been more interested in Aisa, the little girl who had awakened Observation Haki innately, right now.

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