It didn't exactly take long for everyone to return. No surprise there. Normal people couldn't hope to do much against a devil fruit user most of the time. Let alone a devil fruit user, a top class swordsman, and a small crew of makeshift pirates. However not nearly as many returned as went on the other ship to fight. Together with Octavius and Ace only 4 sailors came back. To Ceres that was fine though. With a crew of 9, five of which were far above your average thug, they could still easily keep the Duchess Gambit going.

"Where off to now captain?" The woman asked, ready to start sailing off. Though immediately she got a very weird look from the man Octavius had brought with him. "Er, cap'n...there's a young female at the wheel...wuts goin' on 'ere? Spoils of plunderin'...?" Ceres sighed, shaking her head. "You're looking at your new vice captain, so show some respect asshole! Besides, I'm pretty sure I'm older than you despite what I look like!" Once again Octavius got some very strange looks from his gunnery captain. He knew some crews took on women, but to see Octavius have one as a vice captain was odd to say the least.