Having six new appendages was odd in itself. Attempting to move them was a whole other story. The tentacles didn't have joints or bones. They were just pure muscle that could flex to become hard. He felt the positions of them on his back, but doing more than getting them to twitch was difficult. "Hey, what about reflex response?" Akuma suggested. "Like a quick pain to move them away subconsciously? Yea, that could work to get me the feeling of how to move them." Giru replied. For once, Akuma had a good idea. The barrel didn't count.

Mist raised one of the swords left on the ship above his head, Giru's tentacles laid out on a bench. "Wait. What if I still can't move them?"

Mist shrugged and swung the sword down, chopping 7 inches off one of the tentacles. Giru pulled them all back, stomping to try and bite down the pain. After he didn't need to scream from pain anymore, he shouted at Mist "I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE A SMALL PAIN, MIST!"

Mist shrugged and tried to hide his smile. "But look. You're moving them now."

Giru looked behind himself to see the tentacles waving in midair, the one that was cut off very slowly regenerating. He moved them around, getting the feel of the appendages and how to move them. "Gotta say, it's difficult. There's no bone, just pure muscle."

"Like a dick."

"Shut up."

"Wait, CAN you move your dick like a tentacle?"

Giru felt a very unpleasant sensation as Akuma attempted to take over Giru's lower half.

"DON'T EVEN TRY!"

"But I'm curious."

"YOU'RE A MORON."

"A curious moron."

Mist was trying with all his might to stifle a smile. It was like Giru was talking to himself, switching up voices as he pretended to be different people.

The Celestial Dragon sail was torn to shreds and the boat remained motionless. Giru held a map showing Saobody and all the surrounding islands. Mist made some hand signs. "He says the first thing we need to do is get as far away from the Grand Line as possible. He's right, the closer you get to it, the stronger the pirates are. East Blue was once thought the weakest of the seas before the Straw Hats appeared, but as of now South Blue is."

"Okay, but how do we get there? Isn't it over the Red Line, with the current that goes straight over a mountain?" Giru asked, scratching his head in confusion. Mist made a flying motion with his hands. "I don't think this ship can fly. The Celestial Dragons hardly ever leave Mariejois, let alone North Blue. I think... I think we're stuck here."

Giru felt his heartbeat speed up. Pirates with bounties over millions of Belly gathered around Saobody to get their ships coated and go to Fishman Island. He was a freshly escaped slave. There was no way he could stay here and live to tell the tale. "What if we levitate over it? We can carry Mist."

All were silent for a moment. "That means passing through the Calm Belt though. We can't levitate forever, and we'd be like an appetizer flying over the water. Sea Kings aren't picky eaters."

Mist hand signed some more. Giru was going to need to learn how to read that. "Oh, right! The ship is coated with seastone on the bottom!... But... we, uh... tore up the sail."

Mist pulled out one of the lists. Under Storm Procedure, it stated that there was a complete extra set of sails in storage, for if the current one got torn up.

"Well, let's go get it. We sail to the Red Line, levitate over it, then get a new ship and go on to South Blue."

"With what money?" Giru asked.

"I'll do some gigolo work-"

Giru slapped himself. He new it was futile, but it had to be done.

"Okay, okay. We'll do some mercenary work for money first."

Mist seemed to agree to that idea.

With the laid out instructions, sailing to the red line was easy enough. The Sea Kings didn't even notice the ship due to the coating. The Red Line was large, but not impossible. Giru wrapped Mist up in his tentacles and floated up over the mountain, leaving the ship at the bottom. It was a memento of the past, and Giru wanted none of that. As they ascended over the Red Line, Giru had to quickly dodge two oncoming ships both bearing flags with dog skulls.

Reaching the top, Giru stopped levitating and let himself fall until he was about 30 feet off the ground, then kicked the levitation on again to slow his fall. This was the area where Luffy met Laboon the whale.

"My word!" someone said as Giru landed. "You bunch sure gave me a fright. It's not every day someone comes from the OTHER side to over here."

"I'll say though, that was a SUUUPEEER ENTRANCE!"