Under the gloomy sky, the storm and rain curtain filled the horizon.
Amid the rain, a pitch-black giant ship sailed steadily, undeterred by the howling tempest, while numerous whirlpools emerged in the sea it traversed.
Boom!
Thunderbolt exploded, descending several strikes onto the ship's structures, deck, and mast, illuminating the deserted ship.
The banquet hall on the first floor remained noisy, with most Pirates gathered here for drinking and entertainment.
Every time they set sail, even if Master Sage didn't come here, he would allow a banquet to be held here. Renedia's shipbuilding skills made the second floor completely soundproof, no matter how much noise was below, Master Sage wouldn't hear it.
Sipher, sipping his drink, turned to look at the thunder outside the window and sighed:
"No matter how I look at it, it's amazing. There really are many miracles on the sea, right, Misty?"
Sitting across from him was Misty, 'Wind Chasing General,' one of the former Gares duo who boarded the ship with him this time, preparing to head to Gulan Tesoro.
She picked up her fruit cocktail in front of her, took a small sip, and said, "I heard Master Renedia say this isn't a miracle, just bad luck..."
Sipher shrugged and laughed, "To be this unlucky is a kind of miracle too."
Misty was noncommittal, just sipped her drink.
As newcomers who had already reached a bounty of 300 million Bellies, they were now considered part of the Pirates.
"Hey, Buffalo, do a spin!"
"Yeah, yeah, spin around!"
"Dellinger, Dellinger, don't wear such girlish clothes, you're a man! Take them off and wear Pirate Attire!"
Just as Sipher watched the lightning fall outside the window, more noise broke out in the center of the banquet hall, as some Pirates surrounded two men, jeering.
Among them, the chubby one, with a head like a propeller, spun along with his body, causing many to laugh heartily.
Another group was tearing at the clothes of the guy with horns.
They ripped off his hat to reveal bull horns, tore open his clothes to expose the fish fin on his back, and forcibly stripped off his hot pants.
"Hey, don't touch me! This is my attire, I've long since gotten used to it! You can't do this!"
The guy with bull horns and a fish fin was initially drunken and didn't resist much, but as he was about to be dressed, he sobered up, quickly kicking the group of Pirates aside, jumping back, and angrily shouted:
"This is disrespecting freedom. Pirates are free, or are you discriminating against Half-Fishman?!"
"Half-Fishman?"
Misty looked over and asked, puzzled: "What's that supposed to be?"
She wasn't the type to enjoy gossip. Apart from the initial Pirates who stormed into the Disaster Pirates, she didn't know the others, nor was she interested in knowing them.
"Hmm... a type of Fishman, in my view, there's no difference, but it seems they aren't liked by Fishmen, and weren't favored by humans before, quite a pitiable child."
Sipher thought for a moment and said: "His name is Dellinger, and the spinning guy is Buffalo; both recently joined from Dressrosa."
"This time, they came along too; the pair with green hair, one said to be the little girl who is the older sister, and the big sister is actually the younger one, Sugar and Monet, the short one's playing with Master Renedia, while the big green-haired sister became Master Sage's secretary."
"The one in the maid outfit, who seemingly can't refuse others' requests, is called Baby-5. You saw her beside Bella during the day when Sage showed up."
"She joined the maid team and seems to be highly regarded by the head maid Bella, being trained as the deputy maid leader, correcting that inability to refuse requests to only being unable to refuse Master Sage's requests."
As Sipher was speaking, the noise ramped up again, with a group of people fearlessly pursuing Dellinger, wielding the most authentic Pirate Attire, refusing to give up despite heavy kicks, laughing and getting up to chase after being kicked down.
After all, Pirates, what is injury to them?
It's just some roughhousing.
"You guys!"
The pursued Dellinger seemed genuinely enraged, and after kicking a drunken Pirate flying, his eyes suddenly turned blood red, lowering his body abruptly, aligning his horns with the throat of an oncoming person, ready to charge.
If it hit firmly, it might result in instant death.
Just as he made the move, Sipher shifted, turning into an afterimage, appearing in front of Dellinger, simultaneously pulling out the knife from a Pirate's waist nearby, which, after a soft transformations, turned into an iron rod, striking Dellinger on the chest, pinning him to the ground.
"A man should look like a man, what do you call this androgynous look!"
Sipher shouted at him: "Kid, obediently accept the transformation, or else, you'll suffer later."
Honestly, he didn't care much about these things, but the key was, he actually knew Sage's temperament. Though their relationship has been aloof for the past two years, as far as information gathering goes, he was much better than Misty, who aside from patrolling, just daydreamed.
In the Disaster Pirates, there were indeed some oddly shaped guys, but mostly due to their appearance factors, as for those androgynous ones...
If Sage hadn't noticed, it was fine, of course, his gaze rarely looked down, but if it really made him uncomfortable and didn't change, even if he didn't act, those 'Demon Agents' under him would surely step in.