Chapter 401: The Reality You Have to Face |
"Sorry, on the Grand Line, there is something I must do waiting for me to do, I need you as a navigator."
"What does that have to do with me?! I won't help you!"
"Didn't you say that your dream is to save 100 million Berry and redeem your village from Arlong? I can let Arlong let your village go..."
"Do I need your help?! I'll save 100 million Berry in a short time! I don't need your help at all!"
"..."
The room fell into a silence.
The two sides looked at each other and remained silent for a long time.
After a while, Luffy continued: "Didn't you always question me before, and even disapprove of my practice of killing too many people? Actually, there is a reason for that."
Speaking of this, Nami became even more angry.
Nami sneered: "People like you, if you want to kill people, kill them. What's so surprising? Do you need a reason?"
Luffy ignored Nami's cynicism, and continued: "I have an agreement with my brother, as long as I solve all the sources of danger around me, then he will help me revive the people I care about."
Hearing this, Nami finally felt a little moved.
Even stopped the cynicism and waited for Luffy to speak.
"As long as you are my navigator, although I can't guarantee that my brother will help you resurrect your family, I can promise you that I will try to ask my brother to help you resurrect them..."
"..."
"Also, I will make Arlong let your village go."
"..."
After a while.
Nami returned to the ship belonging to Luffy and the others.
As soon as he saw Nami, Sanji ran forward excitedly: "Nami! Are you back?"
Zoro and Usopp also focused their attention on Nami, but Nami just gave them a cold look, didn't respond to Sanji, and went straight into the cabin to rest...
...
At the same time.
In the Arlong Park.
Luffy did not go back to the ship with Nami, but came to Arlong Park again.
Along the way, all the fish-men who saw Luffy had complicated expressions, and they didn't know whether to stop him or not. But Luffy didn't care that much, just continued to move forward in a daze.
Until he walks to the pool.
Seeing Arlong at this time, he was surrounded by a group of fish-men lying on a reclining chair to heal his injuries.
Some fish-men who were loyal to Arlong originally wanted to go forward to stop Luffy, but they were quickly scolded by Arlong: "Hey, hey, what do you want? What are you doing? Luffy He is a member of our Fish-man Island! He can come whenever he wants! No one can stop him!"
The fish-men made way for Luffy to pass.
Luffy came to Arlong.
At this time, Arlong had some bandages wrapped around his body, but he didn't mean to show weakness, and said mockingly: "What's the matter? Are you determined to kill me and avenge those humans?"
"I won't kill you, but I want you to apologize to Nami! I want you to atone!"
Arlong was stunned for a moment, and then laughed loudly: "Hahahahaha! You want me to atone for those human beings? Hahahahaha! Then you might as well kill me! Hahahaha!"
Arlong laughed so hard that he almost burst into tears.
But Luffy still looked at him seriously, not joking at all.
Seeing this, Arlong gradually put away his smile, and said sharply, "Are you serious?"
Luffy said stubbornly: "I promised Nami, as long as she is my navigator, I will make you let her village go."
"Since it's Luffy who speaks up in person, it's certainly not a problem to let Nami's village go..."
"However, I am worried about keeping you here."
"..." There was a moment of silence, and Arlong said with a playful tone, grinning, "Oh? Then what do you want?"
"Next, you will come with me to the Grand Line. One of my goals is to kill all those who endanger Fish-man Island! Don't you want revenge? Then follow me to fight! Use the rest of your life to fight, as repayment for the damage you caused to everyone!"
Originally, no matter what Luffy said, Arlong would never surrender.
But when he heard that Luffy's goal was to kill people, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes immediately, he became very interested in Luffy's goal, and his tone softened a lot because of this: "Oh... If I don't want to?"
"Then beat you until you are willing to go!"
"..."
After a while.
Luffy brought Arlong and a group of fish-men to Luffy's boat.
As soon as she saw Arlong, Nami glared at Luffy viciously: "What do you mean?! I promised you to be your navigator! But it doesn't mean you can do it again and again. And he disgusts me!!!"
Luffy: "I brought Arlong to apologize to you."
As soon as the voice fell, Arlong cooperated very well, looked down at Nami, and then said with a mean smile: "Nami, I'm sorry, hehehehe..."
No doubt, Arlong didn't do it on purpose.
This is a question of appearance.
Nami: "..."
Usopp, Sanji, and Zoro: "..."
After apologizing, Luffy continued: "Also, Arlongs will go to the Grand Line with us next."
"Impossible!!!" Nami snapped, pointing at Arlong at random, "I can't stay on the same boat as them!"
Without waiting for Luffy to answer, Arlong first explained: "It's okay, my little Nami. This ship can't hold so many of us. My ship will follow behind you, so you can rest assured."
Originally, Nami wanted to say something more, but Zoro pat Nami's shoulder and explained, "Nami, this is actually a good thing for your village. At least we can be sure that they will not stay here again in your village, isn't it?"
Nami's face was full of unwillingness.
But she also knew that Zoro's words were all right.
In the end, she could only compromise, gritted her teeth, turned around and returned to the cabin, not wanting to care about anything.
That's it.
In the days to come, apart from fulfilling her responsibilities as a navigator, Nami will not care about the rest.
Even though she sometimes sat and ate together, she didn't communicate much with the people on board.
Compared to the original book, the relationship between Nami and Luffy is much worse.
As for Arlong, there is nothing to say, they just sailed behind Luffy's ship all the way, and so did the huge bull-headed sea king.
If you look at it from the perspective of God, you can see a medium-sized battleship on the sea, a large battleship behind the medium-sized battleship, and two huge horns floating on the sea behind the large battleship. It is such a wonderful combination, sailing forward with great momentum.
Such a huge momentum, there are good and bad.
The good thing is, they are less likely to get into trouble.
Small powers saw them from afar, and dared not even approach them, let alone provoke them.
The downside is that they are like fireflies in the dark, trying to keep a low profile and avoid attracting the attention of others. And this shortcoming soon became apparent.
Because their next location is Loguetown.
Loguetown is a place where the marine is stationed.
They appeared so ostentatiously within the control range of Loguetown, of course, it is impossible not to be focused on by the local marine.
So, before they arrived, they had already been "warmly received" by Smoker who was stationed there.
Smoker is a Zoan fruit user, the ability user of the smoke fruit.
Except for Luffy, who can use Haki, who can deal with him, the rest are not Smoker's opponents at all. And it's impossible for Luffy to protect everyone on the two ships, and Smoker isn't so stupid as to just fight with Luffy.
So in this battle, except for Luffy, everyone else suffered injuries to varying degrees.
It can be described as extremely embarrassing.
Even the hull of the ship was damaged a lot by shells.
Although in the end they still won the battle with Luffy's strength, but for them, it can only be regarded as a miserable victory.
Many navies died.
Many fish-men also died.
Now Smoker and his subordinate Tashigi have been handcuffed by Luffy with sea stone handcuffs and taken back to the ship. But even so, everyone couldn't be happy, and the atmosphere on the ship was very heavy.
Seeing that the group of pirates said nothing, Smoker was the first to lose his temper: "If you want to kill us, just do it!! Who are you pretending to show?! You don't deserve it at all!!"
Except for Luffy, the rest of the people on board are scarred.
Still not saying a word.
Luffy frowned slightly, and said coldly: "If you hadn't attack us first, we wouldn't have done anything to you at all."
Smoker sneered: "Oh, arresting you pirates is our marine's duty! Do you want me to let you wander here? Do you think that's possible?"
Luffy didn't bother to explain to Smoker about adventurers or pirates.
Suddenly drove the Silver sword, and bit off the handcuffs of Smoker and Tashigi.
Suddenly, Smoker and Tashigi were stunned and at a loss.
"What does this mean?"
"Let's go, you are different from those evil marines, I will not kill you. But if you come back and dare to stop me again, then I will not hold back next time."
Smoker and Tashigi both looked complicated.
The group of people in front of them seems to be very different from the pirates in their impression, but they don't want to admit that Luffy and the others are good people.
After all, there are even arrest warrants, so how can he be a good person?
Tashigi said stubbornly: "Don't think that we will be grateful to you if you let us go! We will still report today's incident to the headquarters! And, one day, I will definitely take all the famous swords in the world from you, from the hands of the wicked!"
After speaking, Tashiki looked at the Silver sword in Luffy's hand, and then at Zoro's saber.
"Just go ahead and report. Just go back and tell those guys that I, Monkey D. Luffy, am already on my way. Just wait quietly."
Until they left, Smoker and Tashigi were still in complicated moods.
They didn't expect Luffy to let them go so easily.
They could only take the boat left by Luffy with mixed feelings and return to Loguetown.
As for Luffy, they didn't mean to set sail immediately.
Including Arlong, they are all surrounded together now, crowded on the medium-sized ship of Luffy, and everyone is silent.
After an unknown amount of time, Zoro finally couldn't help but asked: "You said... the enemies on the Grand Line are several times stronger than the people just now, is that true?"
Arlong also said solemnly: "More than several times? People like the ones just now is not well-known on the Grand Line!"
This is the problem that everyone is struggling with today.
They all already know that the enemy Luffy faces is the entire marine and even the world government. If they couldn't handle just Smoker, how could they have the qualifications to challenge each other?
Luffy's mood is also not much better.
He originally thought that his strength was enough to solve the problem. But he didn't want to admit that turned out that an opponent like Smoker was only a small role in the enemy's forces. How does this tell him to relax?
Zoro: "If this continues, even if we get to Marineford, we will only drag Luffy back."
Sanji: "..."
Usopp: "..."
Nami: "..."
Arlong: "..."
After a long silence, Zoro finally couldn't help but said again: "Luffy, since your brother can train you, can you contact him and ask him to help train us?"
Luffy nodded solemnly: "I'll try to contact him."
Immediately, Luffy began to call in his mind: "Brother! Brother, are you there? I need to ask you for help! What you asked me to do, with the current strength of my partner and I, there is no way to complete it. Both my partner and I need to become stronger! I need you to help us become stronger! Brother? Brother?"
Luffy called for a long time, but Li Yaoxiang didn't respond.
Just when he was about to give up, showing a disappointed look in reality, and shaking his head to Zoro and the others to express that he could not contact his brother, an extra air door suddenly appeared on the deck.
The original heavy atmosphere was instantly broken!
All of them were frightened and vigilant, and their hearts beat faster!
Soon, an air door opens.
Li Yaoxiang, wearing a mask, came out from the air door.
The invisible aura emanating from Li Yaoxiang's body immediately made everyone present feel quite stressed. Everyone is excited and nervous.
Finally saw Li Yaoxiang in person again.
Everyone really wanted to ask whether Li Yaoxiang could really resurrect the dead.
But no one dared to speak.
Even to say to Li Yaoxiang any simple sentence, everyone didn't know how to say it.
Luffy didn't care as much as them.
He looked overjoyed and said, "Brother!"
