With flight speed boosted fiftyfold, Yami quickly brought Nami back to the Blue Sea.
Then Yami opened an air door, searched inside the other space for the Pegasus's position, and quickly regrouped with Carina and the others.
"Master, that flying ability—is it from the Paramecia Float-Float Fruit?"
Seeing Yami fly back without using Moonwalk, Carina asked expectantly, "Sister Robin, besides flight, the Float-Float Fruit can control all nonliving things one touches. Have you tested those powers yet? How strong are they?"
"Master did. He just used the Float-Float power to rip open the cloud-sea at seven thousand meters and brought me back through it."
Nami recalled the earth-lions the Golden Lion had created and said in mild awe, "It's incredibly powerful, and the visual impact is overwhelming."
"Master, can you show me?" Carina asked, even more excited.
"Of course."
Smiling, Yami nodded. He hadn't tested the Float-Float Fruit in the White Sea so he could share it now with Carina and the others.
He crouched and touched the grass deck.
In the next second, Carina and the others' viewpoint rose rapidly.
"It's floating. The Pegasus is floating."
Carina and Perona ran straight to the rail and looked down at the green sea below. Perona exclaimed, "There's no wobble at all. How is such a huge ship floating?"
Carina turned back to Yami and asked, "Master, how much stamina did that cost?"
"A tiny bit. A sip of water and I'm fine," Yami answered with outrageous calm.
"To lift a custom large sailing ship and spend only a little stamina… no wonder Sister Robin said a Float-Float user could even levitate an island," Carina marveled.
"Hee-hee. Not just an island—an entire archipelago," Nami said with pride. "The Golden Lion's territory was a cluster of islands hidden above the White Sea. If he could control an archipelago, with Master's stamina he definitely can too."
Hearing this, Carina was indeed shaken, but more excited. "In that case, I won't fear the World Government or the Marines again. We're just a few people and they have vast resources, but Master only needs to control the islands where Marine branches sit to force member nations to pressure the World Government. They wouldn't dare go down with us."
"Indeed, that is what makes the Float-Float Fruit truly terrifying," Robin agreed, speaking slowly. "Because Whitebeard was the world's strongest man, the Paramecia Quake-Quake Fruit has long been ranked the top Paramecia, said to hold world-ending power."
"But that ranking really gained recognition only after the Great Pirate Era began."
"In the previous era, there was a Paramecia ability that in no way lost to the Quake-Quake Fruit, and for a time even overshadowed it—the Float-Float Fruit."
"Back then, people on the Grand Line often saw fleets sailing in the sky and even islands flying overhead."
"Countless pirates who opposed the Golden Lion feared that when they fell asleep or woke up, a sky-fleet would suddenly descend, or a floating island would fall from above."
"Before the Edd War, the Golden Lion's Flying Pirates were widely acknowledged as the strongest crew in the world."
"The Float-Float Fruit and Whitebeard's Quake-Quake Fruit were called the powers that ruled the sky and the sea."
"So that's how it is."
Carina and the other two nodded in dawning understanding.
From Robin's description alone, they could imagine how strong the Golden Lion had been. No wonder he, like Whitebeard of that era, was one of the men closest to the throne.
At this moment, Yami opened a huge air door and brought the Pegasus back from the other space to the real world.
"Fivefold flight speed."
Yami began testing the Float-Float Fruit.
Touching the rail again, he multiplied the ship's slow flight speed by five in an instant.
"So cool. The real world really is better."
Feeling the suddenly stronger sea wind, Carina spread her arms and sighed the same way Nami had.
The other space was safe, but in the end it was still a false world.
"Tenfold flight speed."
Yami boosted the Pegasus's flight again.
The four girls immediately felt the wind get stronger, though still within tolerance.
"Twentyfold flight speed."
"Thirtyfold flight speed."
"Fiftyfold flight speed."
Yami kept ramping up the speed, until the Pegasus was almost as fast as an Upside-Down Current. The four girls had to grip whatever was near.
As soon as he hit fiftyfold, Yami canceled the amplification and let the Pegasus return to normal speed.
He looked up at the torn sails and nodded slightly.
At fiftyfold, the ship's own speed wasn't that absurd.
What made it so wild was that the sails weren't furled and the More-More Fruit had also multiplied the wind force by fifty.
If they furled the sails and cruised slowly with the Float-Float Fruit, a fiftyfold boost wouldn't be so extreme.
Even so, that speed would be enough to reach any sea within two days.
After testing the ship's flight speed, Yami left the Pegasus and hovered above the Blue Sea.
He touched the seawater, then flew back to the deck of the Pegasus.
Under the girls' gaze, Yami slowly raised his right hand.
A massive column of seawater surged skyward.
Once aloft, it didn't fall as rain but coiled into a water dragon over ten meters long.
Roar.
The water dragon seemed to gain a will from Yami and let out a bellow.
Before Carina and the others could speak, a scene that widened their eyes and refreshed their worldview burst forth.
Burning a huge amount of stamina, Yami raised his hand toward the dragon and grinned. "Hundredfold Water Dragon."
In an instant, a transparent halo sheathed the dragon.
Under that halo, the ten-plus-meter dragon swelled rapidly, turning in breaths into a thousand-meter extinction dragon.
"Hahahaha. The plan was right. I did it."
Staring at the apocalyptic water dragon, Yami laughed. "Objects controlled by the Float-Float Fruit really can be amplified at range like bullets or shells. This truly is world-ending power."
Beside him, Carina and the four girls stood slack-jawed.