Chapter 406 – Kuraigana Island.

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    The ship, with a giant snail guiding it, advanced through other waters of the New World as they approached a mysterious island, following the Eternal Pose that Luffy had given them. Finally, the island was near, and Kuraigana Island was right in front of everyone on the ship.

    The first thing noticed about this place was the thick, almost ghostly mist covering the entire island before they could get a better look at anything else on it.

    "Well, we''ve finally arrived," Zoro commented on the ship while adjusting his sword.

    "Not thanks to you, is it?" Kuina teased from the side, as Zoro had wanted to take a different route than the one Luffy had suggested, claiming his intuition sensed a shortcut. Obviously, if it had been up to Zoro to navigate, they''d be heading back to the East Blue by now.

    Thanks to the giant snail, which had followed Luffy''s Eternal Pose on its own, they had finally reached the destination.

    "That''s not true!" Zoro denied with a grimace.

    "Yohohoho!" Brook appeared at that moment, patting Zoro on the shoulder. "Don''t worry, Zoro-san, the important thing is that we''ve arrived," he said.

    "Hey! So, you''re agreeing with her?" Zoro exclaimed, making another face at Brook.

    "Woolf, Woolf!" Chouchou began approaching the edge, barking as the group reached the location.

    "Anyway, so this is the place where the world''s greatest swordsman lives?" Kuina said, still surprised after receiving that information from Luffy.

    "Seems like it. I''m looking forward to seeing him so we can finally decide who''s the strongest in the world. I''ve got all my swords sharpened for this," Zoro commented, tightening his grip on his sword.

    "You''re that excited...? But why don''t I sense any powerful presence coming from this island?" Kuina remarked.

    "Yeah, Mihawk isn''t on the island," Zoro admitted, having already scouted with his Haki long before their ship approached it.

    "Then why were you so happy and acting like he was here?" Kuina exclaimed, frowning.

    And so they headed for the island, with the snail finally stopping at an old and abandoned port on the island.

    Their feet touched the ground as everyone disembarked. They entered a ruined gate town.

    "This place is really strange..." Kuina commented.

    "Do you think there are ghosts here?!" Brook couldn''t help but express his fear.

    "WOOLF!" Chouchou mocked him with the irony of him being a walking skeleton.

    "Anyway, let''s explore. Luffy said we might find good challenges here, with those monkeys," Zoro mentioned, and they began exploring the island shortly after.

    "So, this is where we''re supposed to find the creatures the Captain asked for?" Brook murmured, looking around.

    "Yes... Chouchou already picked up their scent..." Kuina said as Chouchou led the way.

    Luffy had asked them to capture a good number of Human Drills, which are highly intelligent gorillas that learn quickly. He had sent this team here specifically to collect some of these creatures, as he wanted to work with his scientists to develop them further. These were the only creatures Luffy didn''t have on the Sky Island and ones he certainly coveted to use in his training fields, or perhaps even create his personal army, since they were even more special than dinosaurs.

    And so, the ship began to leave the island, heading back to Dressrosa. Several days passed, and a small boat with sails appeared near the island, approaching.

    A man, carrying a massive sword on his back, was finally returning home to rest for a while before setting off in search of new challenges on the sea.

    However, as soon as he set foot on the island, he knew someone had been there. Seeing the large tracks in the earth, the result of the gorillas'' bodies being dragged to the shore, he decided to investigate rather than heading straight to his castle.

    Surprised, he found his forest, where the resident monkeys that lived on the island with him, frozen in several places, even though the ice had clearly been created days ago.

    "My intuition wasn''t wrong... something happened on this island." He murmured, since a few days ago, his attention had been drawn to this direction while he was sailing the sea. So, he came here immediately.

    Approaching the ice, he touched it, his eyes gleaming. He knew exactly whose ice it was, having seen it at Marineford.

    "They were here... Could it have been to challenge me?" He reflected for a moment, looking at the frozen forest. "They''ve certainly grown stronger. The girl... she seems even more skilled than when she fought with the Straw Hat a year ago when she transformed into Shiva, but she''s certainly a swordsman, and appears very talented. The presence of Roronoa Zoro was also here." He analyzed.

    "Well, it seems that, by fate, we didn''t meet. But I eagerly await our encounter, Roronoa Zoro." Mihawk murmured, leaving the frozen forest behind, not particularly bothered, even though many of the monkeys were missing. He returned to his castle, which was untouched, where he would drink some wine and rest in the coming days.

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