"Did Big Sister Huamei leave, meow?"
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Klee Meow poked half of her face out stealthily from behind Sherwin head, cautiously looking around in all directions before letting out a long sigh of relief.
"Phew—Klee was scared to death, I was almost grounded by Big Sister Huamei again, meow!"
(=3)
Sherwin knocked her little head between laughter and tears, saying, "Didn't Huamei already say so? She didn't take that matter to heart just now."
"Even though she said that, I'm still going to be scared, meow!"
(=`ー=)
The little ragdoll cat, who had become lively again, crossed her arms over her waist and grunted with an unjustified but confident attitude, though no one knew what there was to be so proud of.
After Klee Meow muttered with an air of pride for a while, she suddenly remembered something and began to mess with Sherwin ears again.
"Brother Sherwin, now that we got a new Logia Devil Fruit, does it mean we can summon a new companion again, meow?"
(=ω=)
Arc Meow, who was fighting her own clone nearby, heard this, kicked her clone into a puff of blue smoke, and leaped over as well.
"Are you going to summon another Felyne? I haven't seen one yet!"
(ω)
However, Sherwin disappointed them.
"Sigh! Don't even mention it!"
Sherwin waved his hand dejectedly, "It still way too early to summon a new cat!"
Sherwin wasn't wrong to guess that Sakazuki Mag-Mag Fruit held more plot weight than Monet Snow-Snow Fruit, but its weight wasn't nearly as much as he had imagined...
After the "technical adjustment," the Logia summoning voucher required five fragments instead of three. Because of this, Sherwin hadn't held much hope of getting a whole voucher, but he figured he would at least get three fragments, keeping it on par with how things were before the adjustment, right?
In the end, he was only given two.
That crappy Hunter manual was as stingy as ever... No! It was even stingier than before!
This meant that if Sherwin wanted to summon a new Logia pool Felyne, he would have to pick either Aokiji or Kizaru and take them out. Ryokugyu probably wouldn't even cut it after all, his debut was far too late, and he barely occupied any of the plot.
Not to mention, within that limited plot, he even had a "brilliant performance" of raising his hands and surrendering to Shanks—whom he hadn't even seen face-to-face—which served only to lower the overall standard of the Marine Admirals.
"Ah!"
Speaking of summoning Felynes, Sherwin suddenly remembered something. He slapped his forehead and said, "I promised Vegapunk before that I'd let him watch us summon a new Felyne, and let him research how to 'go back' while he at it, but I accidentally forgot all about it when summoning Arc."
However...
Sherwin glanced at Arc.
If he had summoned this little troublemaker back on Egghead Island, that "Cat Food Can Drop" might have crashed down onto Vegapunk head ahead of schedule.
"Your eyes are being very rude~"
(ω)
Sensing Sherwin gaze, Arc looked over with narrowed eyes.
"Ahahaha..."
Sherwin gave a couple of dry laughs and decisively deployed the anti-cat Noble Phantasm: Kato Cat Hand, instantly making Arc forget about pressing the matter.
Well, even though he couldn't quite control this little one, when it came to just soothing her, Sherwin innate talent was still highly effective.
"Sherwin brother, Klee wants pets too, meow~"
(つ＞＜=)つ
Seeing that Beautiful big sister Felyne was purring comfortably, the little ragdoll cat sitting on his shoulder immediately leaned in as well.
Although Haibara Meow didn't say anything, her wagging tail kept tapping Sherwin on the back of his head, reminding him not to forget there was another little kitten on his other shoulder.
Dodo Advance, who was crouched on top of his head, was not to be left behind either. Tugging at Sherwin hair and stepping on his nose and mouth, it climbed straight down from his head, preemptively occupying the spot in Sherwin arms.
Sherwin encountered situations like this almost every day, so he calmly arranged the little kittens in order and stroked them one by one.
...
"Sherwin-dear~ The News Bird is here meow~"
(=ω=)
Shermie Meow, who was lying on Sherwin lap enjoying the service of his quick-petting hands, twitched her ears, raised her head slightly, and pouted her mouth toward a certain direction to remind him.
"Really? We've finally waited for them."
Sherwin didn't stop his hands, and as he spoke, he looked in the direction Shermie Meow was pointing. Soon, a small black dot in the sky rapidly enlarged, and a large seagull wearing a sailor hat, with a small leather bag hanging around its neck and a large roll of newspapers tied to its side, flapped its wings and landed on the Dodo Advance.
Since the Dodo Advance had been flying around high in the sky during this period, it was impossible to encounter any News Birds. Therefore, in order to get an update on the aftermath of the recent events and find out what was happening elsewhere, Sherwin had specially ordered the Dodo Advance to descend to the sea surface and sail slowly.
Even so, he still waited for several days before a News Bird finally came to the door.
In fact, he could have just asked Morgans directly, but having the president of the World Economic Journal read all the recent newspapers to him would be too extravagant and domineering. Besides, that bird-man had been quite busy with many things lately, so Sherwin didn't bother him.
"Quack!"
After landing on the Dodo Advance, this News Bird belonging to the World Economic Journal first raised its wing and respectfully gave Sherwin a salute, before taking a thick stack of newspapers and wanted posters out from the bag at its side and placing them in front of Sherwin.
"Sorry for the trouble."
Sherwin nodded to it, then took out a few small dried fish marinated by Sanji Meow and tossed them over.
As early as when he became a special correspondent for the World Economic Journal, Sherwin no longer needed to spend money to read the newspaper, let alone the fact that Morgans had given him the title of "Vice President" within the World Economic Journal a while ago.
But Sherwin was never someone who liked to take advantage of his own people, so every time a News Bird delivered the newspaper, he would give them some tasty treats. With Sanji Meow culinary skills, if these dried fish were to be sold, they would be worth much more than a few newspapers—at least starting at ten Choppers.
According to Morgans, in order to fight for the job of delivering newspapers to Sherwin, or rather, for the dried fish made by Sanji Meow, these News Birds had even engaged in a private brawl...
The News Bird eyes instantly lit up upon seeing the dried fish. Its neck swayed agilely in the air as it accurately and swiftly caught all the dried fish Sherwin tossed over, then tilted its neck back to swallow them all down.
After finishing the dried fish, the visibly much happier News Bird "quacked" at Sherwin once more before flapping its wings and leaving the Dodo Advance.
With one hand, Sherwin continued to stroke Shermie Meow, who was slumped into a cat pancake on his lap, while his other hand picked up the newspaper and flipped through it casually.
In the latest issue, the headline news was that the Revolutionary Army had launched revolutions on five islands simultaneously. Under the leadership of five army commanders, they had overthrown the regimes of five countries respectively, while also sending people to hijack the Heavenly Gold being sent to Mariejois from several countries.
This was also the plan that Sherwin and Dragon had agreed upon. Since there had been no news from Vegapunk side, this "Five-Nation Revolution" was mainly to test the status of "Uranus". The five countries chosen were all the type that could not be "culturally conquered," and the outrageousness of their kings was not a single bit inferior to Wapol or Bekori.
However, judging by the World Government current reaction, it seems that thing is temporarily unable to be deployed, and the World Government is even powerless to send troops to "reclaim" those five countries...
Of course, it is also possible that they simply do not care.
But that does not matter. Sherwin and Dragon have already prepared the second phase of their plan, which they estimate can be launched in another two days.
Then Sherwin flipped through the newspapers from the previous few issues. Unsurprisingly, they were mainly about the Second Battle of Egghead. Kaido and BIG MOM, just as they had anticipated, followed hot on the heels of the Revolutionary Army to initiate a "Third Battle of Egghead."
Regrettably, "Resourceful General" Sengoku had made preparations in advance. Furthermore, this time he did not simply have the Navy stay at Egghead to take a beating he also had Kong divert the reinforcement troops to turn around and raid the home bases of the Beast and Big Mom Pirates...
In short, because of Sengoku base-trading tactic, the Third Battle of Egghead quickly ended in an anticlimactic manner.
As for Sakazuki being attacked by Sherwin, the World Economic Journal did not report on it, but the World Government actively disclosed it instead. Of course, they had nothing good to say about it in the newspapers.
As for Island which had been erased by Arc, not a single word was mentioned in the newspapers.
Morgans, who had already learned about the course of events from Sherwin and had even obtained a large number of photos and videos, really wanted to report this matter, but he was temporarily talked out of it by Sherwin. The reason, naturally, was that they still needed to observe the subsequent reaction of the World Government, or rather, Imu.
Even earlier news...
Aside from the news that Shanks had attacked a Celestial Dragon on Elegia, there did not seem to be anything else worthy of attention.
And Sherwin knew about this matter. A brainless "baby" of a Celestial Dragon had run off to Elegia wanting to marry Uta as his 48th wife...
Then he was taken out by a furious Shanks.
It was only because of Shanks special identity that the World Government did not make a huge fuss in reporting it, but the ubiquitous reporters of the World Economic Journal captured photos at the time and published them anyway.
After casually scanning the enlarged headlines in the newspapers, Sherwin temporarily tossed them aside and picked up the bounty posters...
Still as expected, the bounties for Sherwin and the Felynes had increased again. Also increasing were the bounties for Kaido and BIG MOM, who had attacked Egghead for a second time, Shanks, who had killed a Celestial Dragon, Dragon, who had stirred up the revolution, and several major executives of the Revolutionary Army.
Besides that, the bounty for Luffy, the protagonist in the original manga, had also reached thirty million. However, while he had obtained this bounty in the original work by defeating Arlong, it was unclear what he had done this time.
Moreover, Nami, Sanji, Zoro, and Usopp had all joined the Straw Hat Pirates, just like in the original work.
It looks like the corrective force of the pirate world is still quite strong...
Sherwin muttered to himself while rubbing his chin.
What he did not know, however, was that a very important reason why these people joined the Straw Hat Pirates was that they all knew Sherwin and his Felynes. It was precisely with the Felynes serving as a point of connection that the few of them became well-acquainted so quickly.