"Jotaro-san, I found the Poneglyph!"
Nezuko ran over excitedly and said.
Jotaro followed her, arriving at a square that looked like it was used for holding sacrificial ceremonies, where a heavy stone stele stood upright.
Jotaro walked closer and discovered it was indeed a Poneglyph.
He lifted his head to look upward, but there was no golden bell.
Could Enel have been lying?
Jotaro shook his head, no longer thinking about it. Anyway, the Poneglyph was already found.
The golden bell wasn't important to him at all.
The Poneglyph was carved with words he had never seen before. With one glance, Jotaro couldn't decipher them at all.
'We need to find someone who can interpret this.'
He thought to himself, then took out the camera he had prepared from his space and clicked it twice at the Poneglyph, taking pictures.
"In any case, let's record the words carved on it first."
He wasn't in any rush about interpreting history.
There wasn't only one Poneglyph. Even if he could interpret it now, he still couldn't restore the full picture of history.
They still needed to find the rest of the Poneglyphs.
"Jotaro-san!" Vivi came running, "Nami wants you to come over."
"That woman… what on earth does she want now?" Jotaro closed his eyes with some helplessness, but still followed behind Vivi.
Nami was standing in front of a huge vine that reached up into the sky. When she saw Jotaro coming, she said excitedly, "You finally came! Earlier you said Enel didn't take away the golden bell. I think he wasn't lying."
She pointed upwards.
"The golden bell might have been pushed up there, so…"
Nami leaned in beside Jotaro, rubbing her hands.
"Could you go up and bring down the golden bell, Jotaro-san~?"
Jotaro's face was cold, his reply firm as iron, "I refuse!"
He ignored Nami's crying and fussing.
"Our goal is already accomplished. Now we need to think about how to leave Sky Island."
Vivi sighed, a faint look of worry showing.
"But our ship has already been destroyed."
Jotaro muttered, "Ships traveling between Sky Island and the Blue Sea may be rare, but they do exist. If there's no other way, we'll just have to snatch another one."
"Young man!" Gan Fall descended from the sky on Pierre, landing beside Jotaro.
"Why are you still here?" Jotaro asked puzzled. "Right now Sky Island is in ruins and needs rebuilding. You should have a lot to do."
Gan Fall chuckled, "Without Enel, restoring Sky Island's former prosperity is only a matter of time."
"But more importantly, I have good news for you. You must be looking for a ship."
Jotaro looked at him, signaling him to go on.
After cuffing Enel, Gan Fall had taken him back to the Shrine of God.
Enel was shackled with seastone, unable to use his Devil Fruit powers.
Those priests and angels he had oppressed before took the chance to give him a harsh beating.
Gan Fall also tortured him severely to force out everything Enel had done all these years on Sky Island.
Though Enel didn't reveal everything, he did expose the existence of the "Ark Maxim."
"The Ark Maxim is a giant ship built with the power of hundreds, consuming countless resources of Sky Island."
"Enel intended to use it for some terrible plan. But now he's been captured by us, so this ship has become a useless object."
After explaining, Gan Fall spoke sincerely to Jotaro, "I plan to gift the Ark Maxim to you all. You can use this ship to leave Sky Island."
———
[Shrine of God]
"Damn Gan Fall! You bastards! The Ark Maxim is the blood and sweat of my many years! You cannot take it away from me! Aaaahhhhhh!!"
Enel's hands were cuffed with seastone, his body bound to a pillar, unable to move, roaring madly.
The priests looked at him with cold eyes.
"Give it up, Enel. This ship has already been gifted by God to the savior. This isn't something you can change."
"Let me out! Let me out!"
Enel screamed himself hoarse, but no one paid him attention.
Gan Fall brought Jotaro into the courtyard.
The priests saluted with utmost respect.
"God!"
Then even more respectfully said, "Welcome, savior, to the Shrine of God!"
Gan Fall nodded slightly, then said to Jotaro beside him, "Enel is imprisoned here. I don't know what business you have with him?"
Jotaro replied indifferently, "I've already seen the Ark Maxim. It's indeed a fine ship."
"But because of its enormous size, powering this ship requires a great amount of energy."
"I want to acquire enough energy before setting sail, to sustain the ship's power system."
Gan Fall suddenly understood.
"What kind of energy do you need? We'll do our best to meet your request."
"No need for trouble. Electricity will do."
Saying that, the two of them turned to look at Enel, eyes filled with the same look one gives to a delicious meal on a platter.
"You… you… what are you going to do!!" Enel shouted in terror.
Jotaro walked to his side.
"Nothing much. Just want you to release some electricity, that's all."
———
"There really is a ship that can fly in this world…"
The priests and angels all marveled as they watched the Ark Maxim slowly ascend into the sky.
"Damn it all…"
Enel lay weakly on the ground, thin and emaciated, nothing but skin and bones.
Not only had he fully charged the Ark Maxim, he had also recharged every battery and power cell in Jotaro's space.
The power of a Devil Fruit wasn't created out of nothing, it also consumed energy.
For the first time, Enel felt the terrible sensation of kidney failure.
Now, even if his seastone cuffs were removed, he wouldn't be able to stir up any waves.
Originally, Jotaro and the others would have had to pass through Angel Island and then the edge of the clouds to leave Sky Island.
But with the Ark Maxim, all that trouble was unnecessary.
They could directly depart from Sky Island and return to the Blue Sea.
The happiest of all was Vivi, because this saved her a lot of time.
Next was Nami.
This time, she was the one who gained the most from the Sky Island trip.
Though she didn't get the golden bell, Gan Fall and the others gave her many jewels.
Having learned her lesson, this time she got smart, all the money was stored in Jotaro's space.
Besides money, she also received many special shells, and a small car made from wind shells, Waver.
"We can already see land." Nami stood on the Ark Maxim's deck, gazing downward. "There might be people there. Jotaro, let's go there."
She wanted to quickly exchange the gold and jewels in the space for Berries, to see if she could make a profit.
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