The small boat drifted on the sea, following the wind. Sag sat cross-legged at the bow, sipping from his wine jug until the last drop fell into his mouth, at which point he smacked his lips. Lily sat at the stern, using a wooden paddle as a fishing rod. She had tied a fat worm she found somewhere onto the thin line that came with the boat and dipped it into the water to fish.

"Don’t worry! When it was pouring rain over there, a lot of fish swam along with the waves. We’ll definitely catch something!" Lily said confidently.

Sag was also filled with confidence, casting his line without making a sound. Want to catch fish with him? He once had three thousand fish leap over him but caught not a single one! Even if he asked someone to help, as long as they were associated with him, not to mention fish, even the smell of a woman would be absent! Sag sneered; even if you don’t know where you got the bait from...

Bait? Gazing at the line hanging in the water, Sag's expression grew stranger the more he looked. Unable to hold back, he said, "Lily..."

"Mm?"

"Where did you get the worm?"

"I caught it from a crack in the boat," Lily replied nonchalantly. "Although I’m a princess, since I’ve become a pirate, I have to embody the spirit of a pirate. I’m not afraid of a mere worm."

To prove her point, she freed one hand to poke around in the crack of the boat, pulling out several more worms, plump and white, writhing on her slender, pale fingers.

"Look..."

Snap!

"Moon Step!"

Sag stepped onto the air, grabbing the back of Lily’s collar and, with a series of air steps, lifted her into the sky. At that moment, a strange sound caused the wooden boat to completely disassemble, breaking apart into several pieces that floated on the sea.

The boat broke apart!

"How could this happen..." Lily was stunned.

"Where did you get this worm-eaten boat?" Sag asked. A worm-eaten boat that had endured cannon fire and the turbulence of wind and rain shouldn’t still be intact.

"There was only this boat; all the others are gone," Lily said. "I got a boat earlier, intending to sail over to find you, but the warship came too quickly. I couldn’t risk the people on board getting caught, so I came down to find you myself."

"I’m sorry..."

As she said this, she lowered her head, "I didn’t consider that you would be stepping on air."

"It’s fine, it’s not a big deal," Sag replied calmly.

"You’re not mad at me?"

Lily exclaimed, "Clearly, there was an opportunity to get a big ship, but I missed it."

Sag tugged at the corner of his mouth, revealing a meaningful smile, "As long as you’re not mad at me... It’s just bad luck."

He was used to it by now. When it came to bad luck, he was quite confident. However, he thought that since there were so many ships in the port and he didn’t manage to snag even one, that was already pretty unlucky; he didn’t expect there would be more to come...

"This little difficulty can’t possibly stump me. You think I haven’t experienced enough storms?" Sag smiled confidently, bouncing on the air like a spring, keeping himself from touching the ground.

Ordinary moon steps don’t have such strong suspension, but Sag, with his ultimate understanding of the human body, could maintain it for a long time.

The Six Styles were indeed excellent martial arts; they seemed simple but contained the ultimate use of the human body. Each move had different classifications, especially the Moon Step, which had the highest technical content.

Unlike the Big Dipper Fist, which had many techniques in memory, only a few could truly be called "techniques"; the rest were merely applications of pressure point techniques with names attached. Moreover, the Big Dipper Fist focused more on pressure points; though Sag had been deliberately enhancing his strength, he still lacked a bit. Now that he had the Six Styles, his weaknesses were effectively compensated for.

As for Haki...

The Big Dipper Fist had the power of fighting spirit, but here it would also turn into Haki. Sag didn’t know Haki yet; he could only say he had touched a bit of it. Although he got the cheat code early, this cheat was something he had to practice himself, not something that could be used just by eating a Devil Fruit.

It was more like being given a textbook that belonged to you. The methods were in the book; just practice. Sag felt that being able to reach a level of understanding the principles of martial arts meant he was quite gifted.

"Where are we going? Point me in a direction; I can’t just stay up here forever. It’s best to find an island with a town to get some supplies."

Even the strongest suspension of the Moon Step has its limits, unrelated to Sag's stamina. However, if he were to stay in the air for too long, no amount of stamina would suffice.

But Lily’s next words left Sag dumbfounded.

"I don’t know."

"Huh?"

"I don’t know."

Lily shook her head, "Without a navigation chart, I have no idea where to go."

Navigators are professionals who understand wind direction and climate; they aren’t diviners who can predict locations out of nowhere.

"Aren’t you a navigator? Don’t you know the routes?" Sag tugged at the corner of his mouth.

"I’m only theoretically proficient..." Lily said weakly.

She might be good in theory, but she had never experienced any practical application and had never left land, so how could she know the routes? As for Sag, he was even more clueless...

He gazed at the boundless sea, where not a single contour stood out, and sighed, "Pick a direction; at least we should start moving."

The small boat had previously rowed far, being swayed left and right by the wind, and he no longer knew the specific direction. Otherwise, he could have returned to Oikette.

Lily looked up at the position of the sun, then glanced out at the sea, pointing north, "Let’s try heading north, Sag. There’s no need to worry; there are always ships at sea. As long as our luck isn’t too bad, we’ll encounter one. Plus, I can swim, and if it really comes to it, we can swim in the water."

"If it can be avoided, I don’t want to go into the water. Besides..."

Sag smiled derisively, "You underestimate me!"

"Underestimate?" Lily didn’t understand.

Sag didn’t explain, lifting Lily's feet and pedaling through the air, heading straight north.

Soon, within a day, Lily understood what Sag meant by 'underestimate.'

There are always ships at sea, even far from land; vessels still sail.

Especially when viewed from a high altitude, as long as the luck isn’t too bad, one should be able to see a ship. If there’s a ship, then it’s manageable.

However, from sunrise to sunset and back to sunrise again, apart from the noise caused by Sag’s air steps, there was no movement around them.

A ship? What is that? Is there such a thing on the sea?

"Sag, you..."

Lily was not only not foolish but quite intelligent. She not only understood what he meant by 'underestimate' but also grasped what he meant by 'not blaming him in the future.'

She pressed her lips together, hesitated for a moment, and looked up at Sag’s expressionless face, delicately saying, "Is your luck a bit bad...?"

"Can you guess why I haven’t gotten rich in this tiny East Sea?"

Sag sneered, "That’s right; I’m a walking disaster!"

"No, it’s fine... It’s just a little accident. It’s normal not to encounter a ship at sea for two or three days. Maybe we just missed one. If we hadn’t left earlier, perhaps we would have encountered a ship." Lily tried to offer comfort.

"You’re mistaken."

Sag was extremely confident at this moment, "I have experience in this. If we stay in one place, then ships will appear from the direction we’re traveling. If we leave, ships will show up from where we stopped. It’s all about Schrödinger's ship."

Lily didn’t know who Schrödinger was, and she didn’t want to know now.

She accepted a captain who turned out to be extraordinarily unlucky...

Whether she could become a pirate or not, she didn’t know, but if this continued, she could become sea scum.