Even if the Straw Hat Pirates had set off half a day before Drake, it was impossible for them to make up for the difference in speed with Bird.

When Bird had carried the two to Mock Town, the Going Merry hadn’t been seen docked at the port.

Drake had looked at the Log Pose, which had been stubbornly pointing upwards, and couldn’t help but reveal an interested expression.

The reason why they could only rely on the Log Pose and the Eternal Pose to navigate on the sea was that the Grand Line’s magnetic field had been chaotic.

And the reason for this phenomenon, according to the official explanation, was that all of the islands on the Grand Line had magnetic ore within them.

Every island was equivalent to a giant magnet, and the magnetic fields that they had been emitting had been layered together, finally creating the Grand Line’s unique and complex magnetic field.

So Drake had a question. As everyone knew, the Jaya Island that Mock Town was located on had only been a part of it.

The original Jaya Island had been an island that had looked very similar to a skull. But in a natural weather phenomenon that had been unique to the sea, the Knock Up Stream, and it had been under an ultra-giant Knock Up Stream, the skull’s jaw had been sent to Skypiea, which had been ten thousand meters above.

So the question had been, why was the Log Pose pointing to Skypiea when most of the island had clearly been below?

But there had been a lot of unreasonable things on the sea, and Drake hadn’t been a professional scholar, and he had just been curious about this.

Bird had landed on Mock Town’s port, attracting a large number of onlookers. And the gazes that they had been looking over with definitely couldn’t be called friendly.

Jaya Island was the location of the golden city that had appeared in the well-known fairy tale "Liar Noland."

For hundreds of years, no one had found any gold here at all, so the golden city had only been regarded as a fictitious nonsense.

And contrary to the beauty of the golden city, what Jaya was known for right now was just a lawless land where thugs had been running rampant.

Gangsters, bounty hunters, pirates... all kinds of scum had gathered in Jaya’s Mock Town, making this island be in a smoky environment all year round.

And the first thought that these people at the port had had after seeing Bird had been the same as Crocodile’s, "this thing must be very valuable."

Drake had looked at the pairs of eyes that had been filled with greed, snorting coldly.

Although Crocodile had been lacking, he had still been worth him going to Alabasta specifically. What did these small fries count for?

Drake had raised his eyelids, and magic power had been released.

The small fries, who hadn’t had enough strength, had directly rolled their eyes, falling down, and the ones who had been able to withstand the pressure had also revealed painful expressions, looking like they had been unable to bear the burden.

This had made everyone understand directly that the person before them wasn’t someone that they could provoke easily.

The people who had been mixing around in Mock Town had lost even their dreams, let alone any courage. Compared to earning money, these people had wanted to protect their own lives even more.

After sensing that the malice had all disappeared, Drake had only then withdrawn his magic power, and he had also taken Bird back at the same time.

Walking into Mock Town, Drake and Stella had found the most eye-catching tavern in the town.

The second of the specialties of the pirate world, Mock Town’s specialty liquor and cherry pie, and Drake had also wanted to try what they had tasted like.

He didn’t know if it had been to bring out the differences between Luffy and Blackbeard, but the two had had completely different views on these two things.

Blackbeard had thought that the cherry pie had been delicious, but the liquor had been hard to drink. But Luffy had really liked the liquor, and he had been uncharacteristically disgusted by the cherry pie, even though he hadn’t been picky about food all along.

Not even devil fruits had made Luffy say the words "that’s so gross" on the spot, and Drake had really been curious what that cherry pie had tasted like.

The owner, who had looked quite like Sebastian, had been wiping the wine glasses while looking at Drake curiously.

With the World Economic Journal’s report, Drake could be considered to have made a name for himself on the sea.

A mysterious strong person who had defeated a Shichibukai, this had been a quite good gimmick, but it had also aroused most people’s doubts at the same time.

For example, there had been a tradition of evaluating strength with the amount of the bounty in Mock Town, and this had also been a common view on the sea.

Fame and strength, these two things that actually didn’t have much of a connection, had been tied together in this world.

And it had been hard for people to believe that Drake, who had been an unknown person before this, had defeated Crocodile with his true ability after appearing.

The owner had been very curious what kind of person this popular figure, who had ordered liquor and cherry pie as soon as he had come to his shop, had been.

The owner had opened his mouth, saying, "Very few people know that our specialty dish here is cherry pie, and it’s very clear that this is the first time that you’ve come, customer!"

Drake had smiled, not replying, and had instead sent the cherry pie on the plate into his mouth. How should he put it, the taste had been somewhat strange, but it had still been edible. It hadn’t tasted as bad as Luffy had made it out to be.

And Stella had never refused sweets, and after eating the one before her, she had immediately ordered another serving as an addition.

No one who had been clueless had come to cause trouble in the tavern, and he estimated that the things that had happened at the port had already spread, making these guys become honest.

But Drake’s quietness hadn’t lasted for long, and after a while, he had heard noisy sounds spreading from outside.

"It’s the hyena!"

"Bellamy’s here!"

"Hurry and get out of the way, do you want to be killed by him?!"

...

The tavern door had then been opened, and the tavern, which had already been quiet, had directly become deathly silent.

A burly man who had been quite in line with Drake’s stereotype of a thug had walked in, walking towards Drake directly.

"Hey, you’re that guy who defeated Crocodile, right?"

Listening to that voice that had been provoking completely, Drake couldn’t help but sigh. He had finally understood what the meaning of the phrase "when a person becomes famous, they have a lot of troubles" was at this time.

Drake knew who this was, the pirate Bellamy, who had had the title of Hyena because he had liked to snatch the things that others had worked hard to get.

Without even turning his head, Drake had opened his mouth, saying, "I don’t have time right now, can you please let me eat my meal in peace?"

Bellamy’s face had split into a grin, and he had reached out his hand in the next moment, grabbing towards the back of Drake’s head, wanting to press Drake’s face into the plate.

But his hand had stretched out halfway when Drake’s finger had touched the bend of his arm. Bellamy had only felt his arm go numb, and he hadn’t been able to stretch it out anymore.

Drake had sighed, saying, "As expected of Doflamingo, that sea hooligan’s little brother, he’s just like him, not having any character to speak of."

Bellamy and Doflamingo had both entered the Grand Line from the North Blue, so Bellamy had always regarded Doflamingo, who had made a name for himself, as his idol, and he had joined under his command only after going through all kinds of hardships.

But Drake had said that he had been very similar to his idol, but it hadn’t made him happy at all, because Drake’s tone had been filled with disdain and contempt.

His arm, which had lost its sensation, had drooped down, and Bellamy had swung his other fist, blasting it towards Drake viciously.

In the next moment, everyone had only felt a blur before their eyes, and what they had seen clearly again had been Drake pressing Bellamy’s head into the floor.

"Just be a good hyena and go eat carrion, don’t provoke a dragon so easily!"

Drake had stood up, patting the dust off his hands, and had then said, "I didn’t come here to deal with small characters like you."

Bellamy had fainted after hearing Drake’s words, and the fact that he had just been a small character would become his nightmare for a quite long time in the future.

To be honest, the current Bellamy hadn’t had the qualifications to have Drake look at him even once.

Drake hadn’t understood why Luffy had chosen not to fight back when he had had a conflict with him in the original plot before this, but he had also understood later on.

Luffy had been a person with a clear goal, and his conflict with Bellamy had been a conflict between people who had been adhering to their dreams and people who had been giving up on their dreams.

And violence would never be a method to resolve this conflict, and even if Luffy had beaten them up, it wouldn’t have been possible for it to make these people regain their dreams.

On the contrary, Luffy had let everyone see that he wouldn’t give up on his dreams even if he had been beaten black and blue. He had undoubtedly won that fight!

And Bellamy, who couldn’t even see this point, had just been at the level of a small-time gangster.

Having had a small-time gangster find trouble with him, Drake hadn’t had the mood to eat his meal anymore, calling Stella, who hadn’t even looked over once, and the two had left this tavern.

He had experienced what he should have, and the next thing to do had been to find that guy Blackbeard. He had to resolve him quickly, huh, Stella had been looking forward to going to Skypiea for a long time.

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