They spent a lot of time on Merry before they finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel. They saw huge white clouds. The ship went through a few white clouds before they finally saw something that could only be explained as some kind of heaven. It was beautiful, to say the least. The clouds here were pure white and didn't even have a stain of black in them.

There was a huge gate that had multiple white roads converging on it. The gate had some kind of toll booth. The ship slowly sailed towards the gate.

"What is this?"

"It's written Skypiea in the gate. Is this really the island we have been searching for?"

"But the pointer is pointing much higher up."

"So this might be the middle section." Robin said that, as everyone could see, there was a road leading behind the gate too.

"This is amazing. I have never thought I would see something so interesting in my life." Vivi said. Ken, seeing that they had reached the huge ocean of clouds, took away the Stormbreaker, and Caroo was called back.

Everyone was again surprised that the clouds acted as a sea here.

"Let's go to that gate." Luffy was excited and wanted to just reach the destination. But before they could go any further in that direction, a man who seemed like he was riding on the cloud with weird skate-like shoes in his feet came swerving by, heading towards them. He had a huge square-shaped mask on his face, a square-shaped shield in one hand, and another bazooka-like gun on the other shoulder.

Ken, who belonged to his previous world, could easily tell that this man looked like a modern copy of the Red Indians who lived in America long ago.

"Who is this guy?" Sanji asked.

"Does he want our food? I am not sharing." Luffy said.

"Oye.. What do you want?" Zoro shouted back.

The man in the mask shouted back.

"To eliminate you."

"Oh! So you are approaching us." Ken couldn't help but say those famous words. The man landed on the railing of the ship and kicked towards Sanji in an extra-fast motion with his 'skates, but as he was close to hitting Sanji's face, he was stopped by Sanji, who was using his foot too.

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And replacing his skates was fire under his foot. The masked man was surprised. He had just annihilated a bunch of ships with his raw strength and his bazooka alone, and none of them were able to hold a candle against him. But this guy just stopped his foot attack so easily.

"Ken was right. The air is really thin here. It's a little difficult to do normal moves."

The masked man was furious at seeing the nonchalance of these men, who didn't seem to care that they were being attacked, and thus pointed his bazooka at them only to hear the words.

"Accio!"

The bazooka, which was held on his shoulder, suddenly flew out of his hand and fell into the hands of Nami, who was holding her staff in one hand and looking at the bazooka with curiosity. She had seen such things in some worlds that Vivi and others had gone to, but never in reality, so she was curious.

"Vivi, can you make this?"

"I will have to study it." Vivi replied.

The masked man was more enraged and jumped to take back his own thing, only to hear

"Ichi no kata: Hekireki Issen" (First Form: Thunderclap and Flash)

Zoro flashed from his place and struck at the masked man. This sudden move was somehow stopped by the man, but it came with a price. The shield with which he had stopped the attack got ripped in half, and one of his skates too got broken by this. The man was thrown back by the force and struck at the wall of the ship.

"My.. my.. You guys are really violent." A very old voice came from the side. There stood a very old man with a long beard, wearing the attire of the old European knights, and holding a pointy spear in his hand. He stood on a very huge bird, which was very weird in color. Strawberry color with black patches all around the body of the bird.

Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji were ready to take him down. They had been nonchalant with the previous guy, but that doesn't mean that they didn't take anyone seriously. In fact, Ken had inherently imposed this rule on everyone, which was followed by Shanks himself.

'Never take any fight jokingly, and don't underestimate anyone.'

But still Ken wasn't actually happy because he could easily see that they were quite lax in their fights.

The reason behind the fall of many of the enemies of Straw Hats was that they believed they were better than Straw Hats. Starting from Crocodile, Enel, CP9, Moria, Doflamingo, Big Mom, and even Kaido to some extent.

Shanks was the role model, though at least in this case for Ken. He didn't look down on anyone. When Ace visited him to meet him, he was ready to fight, using his full force to confront the new Supernova. So he had always warned them not to look down on even a small ant.

"Matte.. Matte.. I am not the enemy here." The old man said and later he introduced himself as Gan Fall, a mercenary in the sky who helped people if they gave him money. He had actually come to stop the masked man, but it seemed like they didn't need any help.

"Can you let him go?" Gan Fall pointed at the man, who was being held down by Nami with her staff. The man was trying to get up, only to be silenced when Vivi pointed his own bazooka at him. The man shuddered and just looked like a half-dead man who was gritting his teeth in anger.

"For what? He attacked us with the thought of destroying Merry. He is lucky that we have only destroyed his shield." Ussop called out He always felt for Merry, and anything that hurt her could not be tolerated by him.