Ian’s condition!

Outside of the room where the Poneglyph was located.

The minks in their city were in a rather festive mood.

They noticed that ever since Ian's crew had stepped on their country, things had been going good for them.

Their biggest source of happiness on this day is that their two rulers, Nekomamushi, and Inuarashi had made a pact to work together.

What did that mean? They would no longer use that day and night ruling crap.

From now on, the minks under them would be able to work and sleep whenever they wanted. They wouldn't have to worry about them meeting and trying to kill each other like they were enemies.

One such mink who was happy about this was Pedro.

He was standing on a tree with Carrot and Wanda standing nearby.

"It really is hard to see that such a day has really come!" Pedro spoke up from his position.

This was in reply to Wanda who exclaimed about the two rulers working together, even though they had in the past split the day into night and day all to not see each other.

"It was said that Duke Inuarashi and master Nekomamushi were once considered the closest of friends! However, one day when they came back from a long journey barely alive, they were already in a deep feud! Every time they came face-to-face they would try to kill each other! I wonder what happened on their journey…" Pedro added next. And he couldn't help but wonder why those two closest friends would one day become enemies…

Carrot from the side then spoke up.

"That was before I was born, right?" she said as she turned to the dog mink, Wanda.

"That's right, even Pedro and I were small at that time." She told her with a small smile.

"Ever since Emperor Ian and his crew came here, things have been going on for the better for us…" She said as she enjoyed the wind that was blowing.

Then all of a sudden one of the minks who were nearby yelled.

"Let's have a banquet to celebrate our kings' reconciliation!" He raised his arms with that.

And the rest cheered loudly.

Another yelled after him.

"We can sleep and wake up whenever we want now!" He too was happy about this.

And again the rest cheered at this.

Leaving Pedro there on the tree smiling as he eyed the whale tree.

****

With Ian!

"Our enemy is Kaido! And our goal is to take him down!" Ian said after Luffy had exclaimed about the alliance.

Luff at that nodded vigorously.

"We'll kick his ass all over the land of Wano!" He exclaimed as he raised his right arm.

"Inuarashi, Nekomamushi, Momo, Kin'emon, Raizo, Tra-guy, Ian! We all join hands to take down Kaido! That's what we joined hands for! Especially you, Ian, even I understand that you joining the alliance would be of massive help to us!" He told them all and then looked at Ian deeply.

Ian was someone he was very grateful towards. At the war, he taught him one of the most valuable life lessons.

At that time he was blindly charging in the war, and like that he might have ended up dead, or worse, his brother Ace would die too.

But Ian stopped him and gave him a lesson about real life. In real life, you don't risk it all depending on only your luck. Which was what he was doing before.

And as a result of listening for once, his brother is still alive.

He knew now, that they were against Kaido. And though he trained for a while, he knew that he was still no match to Kaido nor Big Mom. Although he did end up provoking her and Kaido.

With this in mind, he gave Ian a grin.

"At that time you beat Kaido, make sure to let me kick his ass some!" He cheekily said.

It was obvious that since Ian was the strongest of them, that his role in this would be to take down Kaido.

Ian smiled at him back.

"Sure!" He said. He had no problem with that.

Then Luffy moved on with his little speech.

"You guys, we are now allies. Don't bow your heads, nor get down on your knees, an alliance means… Friendship!" Luffy finished with a yell.

Much to the amusement of the onlookers.

Then Ian took this chance to announce his plan.

"You guys, although we are already allies. I have a condition!" Ian told them.

And Raizo couldn't help but exclaim.

"Doesn't conditions get raised before the alliance is made usually?" He said.

But Kin'emon ignored that and asked Ian.

"What is the condition?" He asked him.

"I already told you that I would be going towards big Mom! Elene's dream to be the strongest woman alive would be fulfilled at that. On the bonus, I get to take her Poneglyphs with me, and then dispose of some people under her!" Ian told them.

"So the condition is to not go and fight until then!" Ian then told them the reason.

And that had them relieved. They were expecting something more, but it was just normal.

"That is the condition? If so, then sure, we'll wait!" Raizo said in return.

"Thanks!" Ian gave them his thanks.

Then Inuarashi stepped up closer to him and said.

"Are you sure?" He said as he looked at Elene. "Your opponent is Emperor Big Mom!" he told him again.

"You might not know it, but right now Elene is the second strongest person in the room! If I were to rate her strength, she would be at the same level as the old man Whitebeard!" Ian said calmly.

But what he said managed to shock them all.

"Are you for real?" Luffy looked at her with wide eyes.

"Yes! Everyone from the crew is quite strong with the exception of Akemi since she just joined us. You already dueled Bert so you know about him, but don't forget your trump cards too!! Stella and Robin are the same as him in power level, with the exception that they are more adept at fighting huge numbers of enemies due to their devil fruits! As to Elene, just wait for her news against Big Mom, at that time you would naturally know!" Ian filled them in on his crew's power level.

He gave an apologetic look at Akemi who was by the side for comparing her against them. But she just shook her head with a smile.

Nekomamushi and Inuarashi had indeed both lost against Bert.

"We have lost against Bert, even when we fought together against him! Not to mention his power level when he uses the trump card… if the others are as strong as that, then I can only say that the Beast pirates are not going to know what had hit them…" Inuarashi told the rest about the duel.

And then he laughed as he imagined the faces of the Beast pirates when they get their asses kicked.

Everybody there didn't doubt Ian's words. After all, this was something easy to prove, so it made no sense to doubt it.

Not to mention that the strong guys from their side, did feel that Ian's crew were really strong.

The samurais for one were thankful that such strong people joined on their side.

Then Sanji took this chance to speak.

"Luffy, I would like to join Ian when he leaves for big mom!" Sanji said.

And this brought questions from his crew.

To which he replied with.

"I need to go deal with that supposed family of mine one last time!" Sanji said with gritted teeth.

He will go there and he will kick all of their asses and show them that the next time they tried to take advantage of him he'll kill them all. Except for his sister.

His sister too was a reason for why he wanted to go there. He had a favor to ask of Ian in regards to her.

Luffy for his part didn't mind about this.

"Alright, Sanji! You can go if you want to!" he gave him a nod.

And with this, it was decided that Sanji would be joining Ian's crew at that time.

And Ian had no problem with that. Sanji was his friend, he'll even help him at the time.