Chapter 675 Nothing New on the Sea

[Chapter Serialization·Kami's Adventure 22·"Where is this place?"] [When Kimi and Papagu woke up, they found that they were already in a calm sea, with blue sky and white clouds above their heads, and there was only a small island in sight. There was a small house on the island, and even a parasol for resting in the shade... But why was the island drifting with the waves and shaking constantly?]

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"Sanji! You're so valuable now!!!"

On the deck of the Merry, Usopp surrounded Sanji, who was covered in gold and looked like a statue made of pure gold. Not only did he have a snicker on his face, he also teased him loudly in an exaggerated tone.

"Hahahaha! Sanji! You turned into gold!!!" Luffy joined in the fun and clapped his hands and feet at the same time, laughing so hard that tears came out.

"So handsome! Sanji!" Chopper's eyes were also full of stars.

Zoro, whose entire body was wrapped in bandages, sat on the deck, drinking and laughing. "Isn't this too ugly?"

"..." Sanji's face was dark, and the golden veins on his forehead kept throbbing. "I'm telling you guys... have you ever heard the broken voice in my heart... you bastards who don't even know how to sympathize with others!"

As he said that, the golden right foot kicked out like lightning, leaving shoe prints on Luffy and Usopp's faces, and they fell to the ground side by side; as for Chopper... no one would really be willing to kick such a cute pet, right?

Zoro drew his sword to block Sanji's golden kick and said unhappily, "Are you looking for a fight?"

"Huh?" Sanji raised his eyebrows in displeasure.

"Stop fighting!" Chopper jumped up and down, "Zoro's injury hasn't healed yet..."

"Hmph!" x2 Zoro and Sanji put away their swords and feet at the same time.

Sanji lit a cigarette with his hand trembling slightly. He looked at his body that seemed to be made of pure gold, tears streaming down his face. "I will never forgive you... You gave me such a meaningless devil fruit... Is my dream going to be shattered right after I got on board?"

"Didn't you say that his dream was to find 'All Blue'?" Robin wondered.

Sanji wiped his tears silently, "Goodbye, transparent fruit... Goodbye, my dream..."

Transparent fruit...

Zoro and Usopp were both confused, and your dream suddenly became very easy to understand!

However, when Sanji caught a glimpse of Nami's eyes looking at him - those two cute, bright, pure big eyes seemed to be shining with endless light, so dazzling and intoxicating...

Miss Nami, she, she...actually looked at me with such an infatuated look? !

"Gold..." Nami breathed rapidly as she looked at Sanji, who looked like a golden man.

I am dying of happiness...

Sanji's eyes suddenly turned red! Then, Sanji's golden transformation was lifted, and he instantly returned to his normal appearance.

Nami's eyes also instantly returned to normal.

Are you too realistic?!

Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, and Chopper stared at Nami in amazement. Her big, drooping eyes were filled with a hint of depression, and a hint of guilt in her depression...

Looking back at Sanji, who still had his heart-shaped eyes and looked like he was petrified, Usopp coughed and said, "So, Robin, let Nami go quickly. There must be some misunderstanding here!"

As he said this, he walked forward and tried to help Nami tear off Robin's arm.

But Luffy raised his hand and pressed Usopp's shoulder.

"What are you doing?!" Usopp was speechless. He looked down and saw that not only Luffy was pulling him, but also Chopper's antlers and Zoro's Wado Ichimonji stretched across his chest were blocking him.

Luffy said, "There must be a reason why Robin captured Nami."

"..." Robin closed the book and looked at Nami who was trapped on the deck. "Okay, Nami, everyone is here now. If you have anything to say, just say it directly."

So everyone's eyes turned to Nami.

Hmm? Even Sanji came back to his senses, touched his head with a question mark, and looked over.

Snap! Robin raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and the arms on Nami's body immediately turned into many petals and disappeared.

Nami looked around.

Luffy, Zoro, Robin, Chopper, Usopp, Sanji——

Maybe there is also the invisible ghost in the air——

They were all looking at me quietly, waiting for my answer.

Nami sighed helplessly, covered her face and said, "Drive the boat to Kokoa West Village... On the way, I will slowly tell you all about my story."

"Hee... did you hear that?" Luffy pressed his straw hat, raised his fists and shouted, "Our navigator has given the order!"

"Got it!" Usopp saluted.

"I'll go lower the sail." Sanji said, smoking a cigarette.

"I'll help too." Chopper followed happily.

"..." Nami lay on the deck with a sense of relief, looking at the straw hat pirates' white sails being lowered, and the slowly moving blue sky and white clouds, muttering, "After listening to me, whether you still want to continue to interfere in my life is up to you... You are really a bunch of nosy people..."

"BIB" sat cross-legged next to Robin, his narrow eyes gleaming as he stared at Nami who was lying on the deck.

There was absolutely no gloom in Nami's tone, like the one in the comics that comes from years of miserable life...

It sat on the steps in the same position as Robin, with legs crossed and one hand supporting its cheek, and listened quietly to Nami telling her previous experiences with Luffy on the bow, Sanji Chopper on the mast, and Usopp and Zoro on the deck...

The Merry was sailing through the waves on the East China Sea.

On the deck, Luffy and the others listened and gradually showed surprised expressions.

Even "BIB" was speechless.

After all this time, this is it?

However, it felt unexpected yet reasonable... If you think about it carefully, as long as Aaron is still alive and comes to the East China Sea, no matter how many twists and turns he goes through, the result will be similar to this.

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Nami's story is pretty simple.

A year ago, on the second day of her 17th birthday, she bid farewell to her parents and fellow villagers and went out to sea alone for adventure, or "practice".

Her ambition is to draw a map of the world.

With her talent, after studying navigation knowledge in the village for so many years, she had been eager to go out to sea, to put what she had learned into practice, and to draw nautical charts herself.

Before drawing a world map, you have to draw a map of the East China Sea first, right? Of course, there are regulated nautical charts for the four seas, and although Nami is very professional, she is not at the level of crushing the maps drawn by navigation experts all over the world at the age of 17... However, sailing around the East China Sea, taking a tour, and practicing chart drawing will also help her enter the Grand Line in the future and challenge the grand dream of drawing the Grand Line chart, which she has never heard of before, right?

So after a month of practice at sea, Nami heard about a place called "Along's Domain".

Nami also easily found out that the pirate group composed of fishmen had been to the "Grand Route", the sea area that she had to pass through to realize her dream...

In other words, those fishmen may have the Grand Line charts or logbooks! In order to get those treasures, Nami sneaked into Arlong's territory alone...

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"You are so brave." Usopp glared, "You dared to do it alone... cough cough!" He crossed his arms and nodded, "Huh, you are so scared, you are better than me, the great Captain Usopp..."

No one except Chopper listened to him bragging in the background. Sanji asked, biting his cigarette, "And then? Miss Nami, it seems that you were not caught by them."

"Of course not! Do you think I would dare to go to a place like that without any sneaky skills?"

Nami lay on the ground, recalling the past. "But I searched all over Arlong's territory and didn't steal anything valuable, except for some old newspapers and messy bounty notices... These fishmen who are drunk all day long have no professional spirit as pirates at all! It's so infuriating..."

"Hey!" Zoro knocked on Luffy's head with Wado Ichimonji. As Luffy listened, he stretched out his limbs, wrapped around the sheep's head of the Merry and fell asleep.

Nami said slowly: "But, when I found nothing and was about to leave Arlong's territory in disappointment, I passed by those neighboring villages..."

Having said that, the orange-haired girl pursed her lips tightly, as if she was recalling a very unbearable scene.

"Seeing those villagers living a life worse than death under the rule of the Fishman Pirates..."

[Forget it, it has nothing to do with me, right? ]

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

[That day, Nami looked back at the lifeless village and the villagers who looked like zombies, and she hardened her heart and turned back to leave.]

[There are so many pirates in this world, do you think you have to mind your own business when you see me? ]

[I'm just a thief passing by...]

【"Sister, sister! Wow..." Suddenly there was a loud cry from the roadside. Nami slowly stopped and looked over. It was two skinny little girls on the roadside. The blonde one was hugging the purple-haired older one and crying loudly. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying... because the purple-haired "sister" had already fallen to the ground with a haggard look and had been dead for a long time.】

[The skinny blonde girl cried heartbreakingly, "I'm Nano... Sister, don't you care about me anymore? Wow... Why do you let me live alone..."]

[Nami bit her lips until they almost bled, lowered her head and walked quickly, as if she was running away...]

Nami crossed her arms to cover her eyes and heard Robin's voice: "But you finally stopped, right?"

"How can I possibly get away..." Nami lowered her arms, revealing slightly red eyes, and smiled bitterly, "How can I ignore such pitiful children crying behind me..."

“…”

Except for Luffy who was sleeping soundly hanging on the head of the Merry sheep, everyone else was silent.

Zoro drank and said, "Humph, you have the nerve to say that we are meddling in other people's business? Aren't you the same——"

Dang! Golden right foot! Deer antlers collide! "How dare you talk to Miss Nami like that?!" "I just healed my wound - no drinking!!"

Zoro, Sanji, and Chopper were in a mess again. Usopp looked at Nami in surprise and asked, "What happened next? Did you ask the navy to deal with those fishmen? Since you want to deal with such powerful pirates, you should just ask the navy for help..."

Nami sighed, sat up, and held her forehead with her hand, saying, "I tried, but it was useless... Different naval branches are each responsible for a fixed area in the East China Sea. They will not enter other naval territories to deal with pirates without the consent of other branches..."

"..." Robin supported his cheek and said slowly, "In other words, the naval branch in the area where 'Along's Domain' is located neither agreed with the people from other branches to deal with those fishmen, nor did they send troops to clear them out..."

"Yes." Nami smiled bitterly and sneered, "They have already colluded with the fishmen! Part of the money that the fishmen exploited from the surrounding villages was directly distributed to the local naval branch chief!"

"There's actually such a thing..." Usopp muttered in surprise.

Nami supported herself on the deck with both hands, looked up at the sky and said, "Later, the fish people seemed to admire my sailing skills, so I took this opportunity to reach an agreement with them... As long as I could collect 100 million berries, they would agree to leave and spare the village and the villagers."

Standing at the bow, the sea breeze blew Nami's orange hair, and an island was right in front of her.

"I am also an orphan left behind in a place attacked by pirates... Later, I was taken in by my current mother, and only then was I able to grow up happily and live to this day." Nami stared blankly at the peaceful little village where she had lived for more than ten years slowly approaching in her sight. "Sometimes I think that things like 'Along' just happened not to happen to me, otherwise Kokoasi Village might have already become what those villages are now... Maybe, before I was born, my earliest hometown had already experienced the same thing..."

"BIB" and Robin stood on Nami's left and right.

Even if one rat colonel dies, there will be the next cockroach colonel, the termite colonel... The black armor secretly sighed, the reason why Aaron in the comics would harm Nami's hometown, Cocoa West Village, might just be because the rat colonel in the navy he found who was willing to trade money with them happened to be in charge of this sea area...

Since Colonel Mouse is gone, when Aaron and his men arrive in the East China Sea and decide to settle down, they will naturally find another navy officer who is easy to talk to.

As long as Aaron's hatred for humans remains, whether it's Nami or Nano, at most it's just a similar story happening in different places in the East China Sea...

"Hey, Chopper, this woman loves money so much, is it because of those fishmen?"

In the back, Usopp and Chopper were whispering.

Nami turned around and threw an orange peel on Usopp's head, "Dock, it's time to get off the boat!"

～～～～～～～～～～～ When Nami returned to Cocoa Village with a group of companions, it was like being hit on the head by a bolt from the blue.

"Ajian was taken away by the fishman?!"

Nami couldn't believe it, "How is it possible... How could Jian..."

"No one knows why, but a few days after you left last time, two fishmen came to the village," Nami's sister, the blue-haired Nokiko, shook her head and said slowly, "They were too powerful, and no one in the village could stop them... Later, no one knew what Ken said to them, and they took him away directly..."

Ajian is the village policeman. He has a good relationship with the sisters' adoptive mother, Bellemere. He can be said to be the uncle who watched them grow up.

"How do the murlocs know that my hometown is here? I always pay close attention to see if there are any murlocs following me!" Nami's eyes turned pale with shock. She held her head and sat down weakly at the table. She bit her lips and muttered, "I even observed the sea behind me..."

Robin suddenly said, "Mercemen can communicate with the fish in the sea."

"BIB" floated aside. Obviously, Aaron's group of fishmen did not follow it personally, but asked the fish for help... Jinbei could shake a large group of tofu sharks to save the situation, so Aaron and his friends could naturally shake a sea fish to follow Nami and find Nami's hometown.

Then he took away the people Nami cared about and strangled Nami to death in one go.

"How could this happen..." Nami's hands trembled, unable to accept such a result, "It's all because of me... Jian was..."

Nojiko looked like she hadn't slept well recently, her blue hair was messy and her eyes were red. Although she couldn't bear it, she still said, "Also, Nami...it's not just Jian. A few days ago, mom went out to sea alone to find a way to get Jian back and find you..."

Nami seemed to have suffered a heavy blow. She was extremely sad and blamed herself. She covered her face and cried, "Bell-mère..."

At this moment, Robin reached out and slowly but forcefully pulled away Nami's hands that were covering her face.

Nami raised her head, eyes full of tears, and looked up at Robin - and the latter tilted his head and gestured to her towards the door.

On the left and right of the door frame stood Zoro carrying a wadoimonji and Sanji lighting a cigarette; Usopp was sitting on the threshold; and outside the door stood a figure wearing a straw hat, at his feet, the reindeer stopped pacing and looked into the house.

"I know who is preventing Nami from being our navigator!"

Luffy pressed the straw hat on his head.

Chopper raised his head, "Yeah..." Zoro carried the Wado Ichimonji, "But..." Sanji exhaled a puff of smoke, "Without Miss Nami..." Usopp pushed his long nose and said proudly, "We can't find where those annoying guys are with just a few of us!"

"You guys..." Nami pouted, tears welling up in her eyes and finally falling.

Only a question mark slowly appeared above BIB's head: You guys are so neat... when did you rehearse secretly?

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On the Merry heading to Arlong's territory, Robin picked up a cup of coffee and paused at her lips, "By the way, about Arlong... He is also a Devil Fruit user."

"What?!" The other members of the Straw Hat Pirates were shocked.

(End of this chapter)