After retiring from the Navy, I became a doting husband.

"So that's how it is. Then they are our Mink Tribe's benefactors," Inuarashi said, stroking his chin.

Upon learning that the visitor was Martin, the Mink Tribe fell silent, unsure of his sudden purpose for arriving.

Martin and his crew on the Harem also noticed the Mink Tribe's actions. Seeing the Mink Tribe surrounding the Whale Forest, they all looked at Martin, waiting for his instructions.

"Enel, you take the men and stop them. Harem and I will go get the Road Poneglyphs."

"Understood, Captain."

"Walk."

Martin led the way by jumping off the Harem, and the others followed suit, now perched in the trees looking in the direction where the Mink Tribe had gathered.

After everyone else disembarked from Harem, Harem transformed along with Harem and followed behind Martin.

“Duke Inuarashi, Duke Furry, I think something’s wrong with Martin and the others. Why did they jump up to the whale tree?” said a Mink.

"not good!"

"not good!"

Inuarashi and Nekomamushi shouted at the same time. While the others didn't know what was inside the Whale Tree, they knew perfectly well. The Knights of Valor were talking about protecting the Whale Forest, but what they were really protecting was the secret inside the Whale Tree.

Inuarashi and Nekomamushi rushed toward the Whale Tree, intending to stop Martin and his companions before they entered, preventing them from discovering the secret within.

"Get out of our way! You can't enter our forbidden area!" Cat Viper roared as he charged in front of Enel and the others.

Martin glanced at them, and Inuarashi and Nekomamushi ignored them and began searching the Whale Tree. He quickly found the mechanism and opened the passage inside the Whale Tree.

"boom…!"

"Damn it! How did they know the secret inside the tree?" Inuarashi and Nekomamushi couldn't understand how a secret known only to them could be so easily unlocked.

"Charge! We can't let them take the relics!" Cat Viper shouted, the Road Poneglyphs being relics to them.

"呲呲呲!"

The furry people began to emit lightning, their secret weapon being the accumulation of electrical energy through static electricity, which they then used to unleash lightning.

Bolts of lightning shot towards Enel and his group. Although they didn't care about the lightning, they didn't want to be paralyzed, so they all used Armament Haki to prepare themselves.

"Delicious, delicious, so delicious!" Zeus burst out from under Enel and devoured the lightning bolts unleashed by the Mink Tribe like candy beans.

"Uh!"

Zeus let out a burp, a wisp of black smoke rising from his mouth, and then stuck out his tongue and licked his lips.

"Any more? Any more? Give me some more! This tastes so good, even better than Enel's Rai!"

Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, and the other Mink Tribe members looked at Zeus as if he were a monster; they couldn't believe that something could eat lightning.

"Is this the final historical milestone?"

When the Minks besieged Enel and his group, Martin finally saw the Poneglyphs that the Minks were protecting.

Chapter 231 On Zou's Back

Martin looked at the historical inscription on the road sign and slowly touched it with his hand. Just like before, the stone seemed to come alive and began to slowly tell its history and the secrets it held.

"Harem, take this Road Poneglyph and let's go," Martin said to Harem after touching the Road Poneglyph for a while.

The Harem Ship flew above the Road Poneglyph and then absorbed the Poneglyph into its vessel.

Incidentally, someone was also asked to use a recording phone number to show the video to Luo Bing on Lili Island.

"Let's go meet the Mink Tribe!" Martin was overjoyed to have obtained the Road Poneglyph and excitedly said to the Harem above his head.

Stepping onto the ancient steps, Martin walked out of the tree hollow without looking back. Outside, chaos reigned; the Mink Tribe was using all their strength to attack Enel and his men's defenses.

In this world, numbers are not the key to victory. Apart from Inuarashi and Nekomamushi, the Mink Tribe members are generally weak.

However, Enel and his group were somewhat hesitant and dared not go too far. The Mink Tribe were neither pirates nor criminals; on the contrary, they were the masters of this place, and they themselves were the invaders.

Martin appeared at the cave entrance, and Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, the Mink Tribe, and Enel all looked up at him.

"Oh!"

Enel repelled Inuarashi, then jumped back to Martin's side. "Captain, how's it going? Did you get the item?"

“Of course Enel, the Road Poneglyphs are inside the Harem,” Martin nodded.

"Great, Captain! Let's go! These people aren't pirates, so we can't be too rough with them," Enel said happily upon hearing Martin's affirmative answer.

Martin hasn't made him call him "Dad" lately, and he feels quite comfortable with that. Actually, it wouldn't be so bad to make him call such a powerful man "Dad."

"Enel, don't underestimate the Mink Tribe, especially their two leaders, Inuarashi, the King of Day, and Nekomamushi, the King of Night. They were once crew members of the Pirate King Roger."

"This... Captain, something's not right! How could there be such weak crew members on the ship of the Pirate King Roger?"

Enel asked incredulously after hearing Martin's words. He had just fought Inuarashi, and while Inuarashi's strength was average, he was only slightly stronger.

“I didn’t miss Enel, but they were a bit special. Although they were Roger’s crew, they joined as retainers of Gekko Oden.”

"Retainers? There's such a thing?" Enel repeated Martin's words, his gaze then shifting to the cat and dog.

Seeing Martin appear, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi breathed a sigh of relief. They saw that Martin's body had come out without taking the Road Poneglyphs. As long as the Road Poneglyphs were still there, it wouldn't matter if someone made a copy. After all, having the Road Poneglyphs didn't guarantee finding the final island, Laugh Tale.

"Clap clap clap!"

Martin leaped several times, jumping down from the whale tree and arriving next to Inuarashi and Nekomamushi.

"What do you want?" Inuarashi and Nekomamushi became wary, noticing that Martin was looking at them like they were some rare animal.

"I didn't do anything, I just wanted to invite you to go and find Laugh Tale together. How about it, are you interested in coming along?" Martin invited.

Let's go to Laugh Tale together!

Inuarashi and Nekomamushi were tempted. Last time, when Pirate King Roger went to Laugh Tale, their lord and the others were not strong enough, so they were allowed to stay behind.

However, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi quickly remembered their lord Oden's instructions, which were to focus on guarding the Road Poneglyphs and waiting for the destined person to appear so that they could lead them out of Laugh Tale.

Although Martin was able to come to Zou, find the Road Poneglyphs, and have a connection with the legendary destined person, the timing is wrong; the time for the Lord is far from coming.

Martin noticed that Inuarashi and Nekomamushi were clearly interested, but something seemed to be making them prepare to reject Martin's offer.

"What, you don't want to go to Laugh Tale?" Martin asked again.

“But our lord can’t go to Laugh Tale at this time, and not just anyone can enter Laugh Tale. We don’t know the specifics, but I don’t think our lord would lie to us,” Inuarashi and Nekomamushi said directly without hiding anything.

"Finding Ravdru requires time and qualifications. How come I didn't know that?" Martin asked in surprise.

"We don't know either. This belongs to our lord, and we've never been there," Inuarashi and Nekomamushi shook their heads.

"Why didn't you go to Laugh Tale with Roger last time? That was the only time a fleet on the high seas managed to reach Laugh Tale!" Martin once again revealed his doubts.

Inuarashi and Nekomamushi were surprised that Martin even knew they had been on Roger's ship.

"Not strong enough!"

“Strength. Entering Laugh Tale requires strength. Only with this kind of strength can one enter Laugh Tale.” Martin felt that the closer he got to Laugh Tale, the more unfamiliar the place became to him.

"I don't know, this is what our lord told us. Alright, Martin, let's leave it at that. Considering you saved my people before, we won't pursue the matter of you entering the Whale Tree without permission. You can leave now." Inuarashi gave them the order to leave.

Martin was also wondering why Inuarashi and Nekomamushi were so easy to talk to and told him some secrets. It turned out that it was because he had saved their people.

"and many more!"

Nekomamushi reached out to stop Martin. He had a question in his mind: who brought Martin and the others to Zou? Who betrayed Zou? Zou had been in constant motion, and he also remembered seeing Martin and the others in Wano Country, so they couldn't have just happened to encounter Zou; they had come straight for Zou.

"Can you tell me how you got to Zou? Is there a traitor among our Mink tribe, or did you save some of our Mink tribe members and leave some mark on them in order to find Zou?"

"Haha, I really have to thank you for this. I searched for Zou at sea for over a month without success, so I thought I'd go to Wano Country to look for clues. I never expected to actually find it in Oden Castle. And I discovered you were actually there," Martin said with a smile.

"How is that possible? How could you know I went to Oden Castle? I left before you arrived." The cat viper hid when it heard a sound approaching in Oden Castle and later secretly slipped away.

"You damn cat, is his true story? You went to Oden Castle," Inuarashi said angrily.

"It's true. Zou passed through Wano Country, and I secretly went there to look for clues about my lord. I didn't expect anyone to go to Oden Castle. I thought it was one of the shogun's men." Nekomamushi didn't deny it and admitted it directly.

"Have you forgotten what our lord is like? He absolutely forbids us from going to Wano Country unless a destined person appears," Inuarashi said angrily after hearing Nekomamushi's words.

“I know about the mad dog, but it’s been so many years and there’s still no news of our lord, nor of the young master, Kanjuro, Raizo, and the others. That’s why I’m anxious. But you have to believe me, I absolutely did not bring Martin and the others to Zou,” Nekomamushi said confidently.

"This……"

Inuarashi didn't know what to say. Although he and Nekomamushi didn't get along, he believed that Nekomamushi would never betray Zou.

Could it be that Martin is trying to sow discord between him and Nekomamushi? Inuarashi looked at Martin, hoping to find something on his face. But he was disappointed; he saw nothing on Martin's face except for a confident expression and a faint smile.

"Do you think I'm lying to you? What's there to lie about? Otherwise, how would I know you've been to Wano Country? Look at this."

Martin opened his palm, and a piece of paper lay in it, constantly moving.

"This is... the Life Paper."

The cat viper also recognized the paper in Martin's hand. "You don't think that just because you pull out a piece of life paper, I'll think it's mine, do you?"

"Really? Then why don't you try turning it a few times?" Martin said with a smile, his eyes fixed on the cat viper, as if commanding it with his eyes, "Move! Just move!"

Cat Viper was enraged by Martin's gaze. What kind of look was that? Did he think he could control me with his eyes?

"Go ahead and try. You think your little tricks can scare me?" The cat viper strode forward.

As the cat viper moved, the Life Paper in Martin's hand also moved. When the cat viper moved to the left, the Life Paper in Martin's hand moved to the left; when the cat viper moved to the right, the Life Paper in Martin's hand moved to the right.

"It's fake, it's all fake. He must have used some kind of Devil Fruit ability. It must be. He can definitely control objects to move. There are countless Devil Fruit abilities like that on the sea." Nekomamushi said in disbelief when he saw the Life Paper in Martin's hand actually moving.

“How could Martin possibly have my Life Paper? I’ve never made a Life Paper myself,” Cat Viper added.

Inuarashi didn't believe it was true either. Nekomamushi, like him, had never made Life Paper, and their Zou Country didn't have the materials to make it either.

“Since you don’t believe me, I’ll convince you. Here’s a pair of sea stone handcuffs, look…” Martin clicked and shoved his own hands into them.

"You suspect I'm a Devil Fruit user? Who do you suspect is a Devil Fruit user, who can control objects? I can fulfill your requests," Martin said, glaring at Nekomamushi.

Martin saw that the cat viper seemed to want to say something, but before he could speak, Martin added, "If you think the sea stone is fake, you can have someone try it. You should have Devil Fruits here too."

Upon hearing Martin's words, both Inuarashi and Nekomamushi felt their faces burning with embarrassment, realizing they had been judging him by their own standards. However, they simply couldn't understand how Martin could possess Nekomamushi's Vivre Card.

“Martin, you don’t need to. We believe what you’re saying is true. You have the life paper of the Nekomamushi in your hand. Can you tell us where you got this life paper?” Inuarashi stopped Martin from continuing to ask.

"I didn't come here. I encountered Nekomamushi in Wano Country. Although I didn't see him in person, I saw his footprints. I found his fur next to his footprints, and I used his fur to make Vivre Paper. So it's true that Nekomamushi led us to Zou. It's just that I didn't expect him to be so fast. My Harem Ship is extremely fast, but I couldn't catch up with him."

"So that's how it is. I just scratched my body a few times in Oden Castle. I didn't expect that the fallen fur could be used like this." After hearing Martin's words, the cat viper suddenly realized that it was its fur that had led others here.

"Martin, how do you know the hair on the ground is mine? What if it was left by some animal? Then you'd be wrong and chase it somewhere else."