One Piece: Who still has dreams?

Crocus said slowly, "But that was more than 44 years ago."

Zoro, Ace, and Gertz were touched by the story of the man and the animal, but that was about it.

Redio put a hand on Crocus's shoulder and asked, "Old man, how old are you this year?"

[Task accepted]

Before asking someone's age...

Crocus was about to speak when Zoro said speechlessly, "You might as well just say your own thing!"

Crocus laughed and said, "I'm 68 and a half years old this year. I'm getting old."

No, the system estimates you have about 70 years left. Are all you medical students this long-lived?

Redio stretched and stood up, saying, "You're almost 70. Do you think you can still spend another 40 or 50 years here with Labour?"

"..." Crocus looked at him. "Speaking of Lab, where did you put it?"

"Isn't it right here?"

Redio casually flipped his hand, and a Poké Ball appeared in his palm. The red light, which had been in the same state when he threw it into his system inventory, began to flash rapidly. Soon, it opened with a "snap," and a beam of red light shot into the sea in front of him. With a "boom," it looked like a small black island had fallen into the sea. Laboon returned to the sea, creating a wave that crashed onto the shore.

Redio had already jumped onto Gertz's palm, soaking Crocus, Ace, and Zoro. The freckled-faced and the green-haired guy glared angrily. Redio laughed, "You guys still need to practice your Observation Haki."

“You’re so quiet, Nami,” Redio said to Nami in Gertz’s other hand. “What’s wrong? You’ve been staring into the distance.”

Nami hesitated and said, "I don't know either. I've felt very strange since I came to the Grand Line..." She closed her eyes, rubbed her temples, and leaned back on the heel of Gertz's hand. "I'll rest for a while."

"Nami, let's get her checked out," Gertz said with concern, leading her back to the Black Flash to retrieve a set of medical equipment in human size that she had prepared in Loguetown.

real or fake?

Is the Heavenly Tyrant feeling unwell?

Redio landed, and Labs roared angrily at him.

"Stop yelling," Redio said, holding up a Poké Ball and pointing it at Laboon. "I'm putting you back in here this time. If you dare to sneak out again, I won't take you to find Brook. Understand?"

"Oh!" Laboon's mouth, which had been shouting, suddenly shut up. He turned his head and stared at Redio with eyes as big as houses.

Reddio pointed to his right forehead: "Brook is someone who survived having his head pierced by a sword. Little whale, do you think it's possible for him to die so easily on the Grand Line?"

Tears welled up in the whale's large eyes.

"Besides, Brook ate the Reverse Fruit. While he's alive, the fruit is useless, but he'll have a second life after he dies. Even if he dies, becomes a skeleton, or a ghost, he'll crawl back to this Upside-Down Mountain to find you. Right?"

Laboon opened his massive mouth, wanting to wail, but remembering Redio's warning, he forced his mouth shut, and tears streamed down his face.

"you……"

Crocus had lost count of how many times he'd been surprised today. "Do you know Brook?"

In his account of events from over forty years ago, he mentioned Brook, but he didn't mention the scar on Brook's right forehead, nor did he mention that Brook was a user of the Revive-Revive Fruit.

Ace and Zoro exchanged a glance. Their captain was often like this, seemingly knowing many secrets... Zoro's mind flashed with Tashigi's face, and a thought struck him.

Redio said to the Pirate King's ship doctor, "Is someone who's full of secrets himself so curious about other people's secrets?"

Crocus paused for a moment, then chuckled, "The secrets we saw on the 'Final Island,' even if I dared to tell you, I'm afraid you wouldn't dare to listen."

"Who are you saying wouldn't dare?" Redio, Zoro, and Ace all raised an eyebrow.

Crocus said, "Besides, I don't want to say anything at all. I just want to retire peacefully on Twin Capes, quietly being my lighthouse keeper, and I don't want to attract assassination attempts from the Navy or the World Government..."

He wasn't like Rayleigh or Jabba; he was just a ship's doctor who joined the ship halfway through. He didn't participate in any battles on Roger's ship, so even after his trip to the final island, his face wasn't on the wanted list.

As long as Crocus doesn't boast about it, even if he stays at the entrance to the Grand Line, no one will know that this ordinary old man, who is also a part-time doctor and lighthouse keeper, once followed the Pirate King to the final island and learned the world's hidden secrets.

"Snapped"

With a flash of red light, Reddio captured the crying Laboon and put it into a Poké Ball.

This time, the red light on the Poké Ball flashed once and then stopped.

Island whale, Laboon, subdue!

Crocus sighed, "If the Rumbar Pirates had this handy little gadget back then, they wouldn't have had to leave Laboon here."

Whether Brook is still alive or not, Crocus has come to terms with it after more than forty years. Although the information he gathered indicated that the Rumbar Pirates had left the Grand Line from the Calm Belt, perhaps they perished in the Sea King's lair, or perhaps they returned to the West Blue…

But as long as Laboon stops crashing into the Red Line and hurting itself, let's just pretend Redio told a white lie!

If this cursed pirate crew can really take Laboon around the Grand Line, even if they don't find Brook, they'll definitely have enough strength to leave the Grand Line and explore further...

Crocus smiled and said, "That's fine too."

Redio reached out his hand to him.

"?" Crocus asked, puzzled.

Redio said, "I've done you such a big favor, so I'll give you a log pointer as a token of my appreciation."

Crocus said speechlessly, "You entered this Grand Line without any preparation?"

"What exactly is this 'Log Pose'?" Zoro had heard Redio mention wanting to buy it beforehand. "We couldn't even get it in Loguetown. Something we can't buy, yet we have to get our hands on it beforehand to enter the Grand Line?"

Crocus went to the lighthouse and brought back a Log Pose. "Although there's nowhere to buy this in the East Blue, there are always some people who have been to the Grand Line, or people who have been there in history, who possess this kind of thing."

Reddio laughed: "I see. To put it bluntly, we need to gather information first, grab a Log Pose, and then come in. Haha, my pirate skills are still not good enough!"

He took the old man's recording pointer, threw it into the three-in-one device, and saw that it only contained 17 essences. He then casually copied it.

"..." Crocus stared blankly at the identical Log Pose that had suddenly appeared in his hand, took back his original one, and asked Redio, "The newspapers say you killed two Vice Admirals from Marine Headquarters. That must be fake news?"

They wouldn't even dare to take something from a lousy old man directly. Would someone like that casually kill a Vice Admiral of the Marine Headquarters? The news reports were evasive and vague, not even specifying which ship the incident occurred on, only saying it was a ship of the World Government. It was almost laughable that they were trying to cover it up.

"Whatever."

Redio copied the log pointer a few more times and threw them into his backpack. "Who knows, I might actually kill someone later. It's easier to be a bad guy."

"..."

Crocus smiled as he watched Ace and Zoro curiously take the Log Pose copied by Redio, and began explaining its usage to them.

"The islands of the Grand Line are connected by magnetic fields. By using this 'Log Pose' to memorize the magnetic field of an island, the pointer will follow the magnetic connection and point to the location of the next island..."

The old man explained, "Because of these magnetic links, the climate and sea conditions along the Grand Line have become unpredictable and erratic. You have to rely on a compass to navigate to avoid getting lost in the chaotic sea. All the magnetic links will gradually merge, eventually becoming a single path at the end of the Grand Line."

"Only at the inverted mountain at this entrance section can one choose their departure route. The island's magnetism changes daily, pointing to different 'starting islands' for each route, and there are a total of [number missing] starting routes."

"Seven, right?"

Nami stood on the Black Flash and spoke to them below.

Gertz followed behind her, his eyes sparkling with excitement. He gestured to Redio and the others, pointing at Nami and then at the sky and sea of ​​the Grand Line behind them.

"?" Zoro and Ace were puzzled.

Nami jumped down and walked towards Redio and the others, pointing in a certain direction in the distant sky. "Here, here, here..." she pointed in seven directions in a row. "The pointers in your hands are pointing to this line, right?"

Her hand stopped in one direction.

Crocus exclaimed in shock, "That's right, today's pointer should be recording... the starting route to Whiskey Peak... Little girl, can you sense 'magnetism'?"

“Not ‘feeling’,”

Nami took the Log Pose from Zoro's hand, glanced at the direction it was pointing, confirmed it was correct, and smiled, "It's 'See'."

In her bright eyes, one could almost see the magnetic links above the sea, like electric currents...

Chapter 104 Characteristics of Domination

There are seven magnetic poles in total. Although they look very similar, but...

Nami didn't know how to describe it—was it frequency? Fluctuation? Or color? In short, the seven magnetic links looked very similar to her, yet were distinct enough to be distinguished.

Six of the seven magnetic fields converged in the direction of this inverted mountain, but only the one pointing towards Whiskey Peak, as Crocus had mentioned, was stably connected to the magnetic field of the Twin Points themselves beneath their feet.

According to what Crocus just said, perhaps tomorrow the magnetic field of Whiskey Peak will break away, and a magnetic field from another route will connect with the magnetic field of Twin Capes...

"Nami is amazing!"

Gertz ran over excitedly, his eyes sparkling. "He can actually observe the magnetic field of the Grand Line with the naked eye! He's simply the best navigator in the world!"

Zoro and Ace stroked their chins: "Observation Haki can have this kind of effect?"

They tried their best to activate their Observation Haki, but they couldn't sense anything magnetic or electrical. They looked at each other, puzzled.

Hmm? Ace suddenly looked at a spot on the slope of Upside Down Mountain, where a vulture wearing a windproof hat and an otter wearing pajamas and sunglasses stood.

Realizing it had been discovered, the otter quickly rode away on a vulture...

Nami shook her head and said, "It's impossible for me to awaken any Observation Haki or any kind of Haki. Right, Captain?"

Redio laughed, "I told you long ago, your body would be enhanced like never before. The world is so rich and colorful, but unfortunately, the human eye can only see a part of it."

He pointed to Nami's eyes, "But your eyes transcend human limits; you can see things that ordinary people cannot."

Heaven and the Tyrant have no magical power whatsoever, yet they can see the cursed spirits with their naked eyes.

You can even see the "surfaces" formed by the difference in air density and temperature, and then inexplicably be able to grab these "surfaces" with your bare hands and fly through the air like moonwalking...

The climate along the Grand Line will only become more extreme.

The island's magnetic field is violent and chaotic, much denser than the so-called air "surface".