To the end of the sea [One Piece]

Before Ena could recover from the shock, she heard the commotion from the crowd.

"Straw Hat kidnapped Princess Shirahoshi!!"

Luffy turned around and shouted angrily at Shirahoshi: "What's wrong with you, coward! Didn't you tell me not to come out of the shark's mouth!"

Ena was beyond shocked.

Bai Xing was startled, and then tears overflowed from his eyes. She wiped her tears and said aggrievedly: "I'm sorry... Luffy-sama... please don't be angry..."

Ikegawa Ena also had a day when she was so speechless that she didn't know where to start.

However, the people, who were even more angry because of the princess's tears, rushed towards them and wanted to tie them up.

Eina soared into the sky and got away from the crowd first. She rose to the same height as the white star and landed on her shoulders.

It's really bigger when seen up close... but the extent of her beauty is also magnified several times, which does not detract from her beauty at all.

She stretched out her hand and patted the mermaid girl's hair soothingly: "Don't cry...that guy Luffy didn't mean it."

Shirahoshi looked at the silver-haired girl on his shoulder with tears in his eyes, but found that it was very inconvenient to twist his neck. So she sobbed and stretched out her hand to let Ena stand in her palm, and asked carefully: "Are you...are you the Ena-sama that Luffy-sama said?"

She nodded: "I am. You can call me Ena."

The mermaid princess stopped crying, perhaps because she was a girl. She quickly let go of her nervousness and smiled: "I...my name is Bai Xing...I'm sorry for causing you trouble..."

It is really difficult for Ena to be hard-hearted towards such a good-looking and polite girl. She smiled softly and said: "No, this little thing is not a trouble for us. But why did Shirahoshi hide in the shark's mouth and come out with Luffy?"

Shirahoshi was about to answer, but Ena suddenly stopped her with a sharp look in her eyes: "Wait a moment, Shirahoshi."

She looked up at the sky and saw a huge piece of coral flying towards them from afar!

Luffy and the others had been tied up because they were completely unable to resist the helpless crowd.

Bai Xing's face turned pale and he shrank back: "It's Vander Deken..."

An ugly-looking man stood on the piece of coral flying towards White Star, shouting crazily: "White Star!! I finally found you! Come and accept my ten years of love for you! Marry me Come on, Shirahoshi!!!"

"That's Vander Deken!" Someone in the crowd recognized him and said angrily, "That's the man who threatened the princess. Princess White Star didn't dare to step out of the hard-shell tower for only ten years!"

"Stop dreaming Daken! The princess will not marry you!!"

Okay, this is basically understandable. Ena thought.

Then she probably guessed why Luffy sneaked out with Shirahoshi.

She drew out the clouds, concentrated her energy on one point, and swung the sword light neatly.

"Mist Slash-Sky Sky Break!"

The coral beneath Vander Deken was neatly split in half.

Eina didn't stop, and swung the sword light at Luffy with her backhand, and the rope on his body split several sections accurately.

"Can you beat this lunatic away?" the silver-haired girl said impatiently, "Why does this pervert want to eat swan meat?"

After Luffy was liberated, he immediately rushed towards Vander Deken: "Isn't that certain?! I told you that I will help the coward and beat up the person who scared her!"

He stretched out his arms, turned on the second gear, and with just one move, he knocked the man who was so menacing a second ago headfirst into the ground.

Silence.

"He...defeated Vander Deken..." someone murmured.

However, Eina paid no attention to the following matters. She turned to Shirahoshi and comforted her: "It's okay, Shirahoshi."

The giant mermaid girl stared blankly at Eina and Luffy, and for the next second she showed an expression of excitement and admiration.

"Luffy-sama...that's amazing!!" She started to cry again when she was excited. She brought Ena in her hand to her cheek and pressed it against hers and said happily: "Sir Ena, too...she's so handsome just now. !!”

Half of Eina's body was squeezed against her soft skin, and she touched her fingers helplessly: "This is nothing..."

Shirahoshi let go of her slightly, and Ena's heartbeat fell from her hands to the ground to untie Sanji, only to find that he was in an unconscious state again.

"By the way, I forgot about this..." She looked at Sanji worriedly, "Did he see Shirahoshi just now...Is he okay? No blood spurting?"

Luffy untied the ropes for Chopper and Hachi, and Chopper ran over and nodded: "Yeah, I wonder if it's because of the human-demon blood injected into it? Sanji was just petrified when he saw the mermaid princess, but No nosebleeds."

Sanji kept a happy smile until they carried him on the shark's back. Ena sighed.

"It's really the best outcome," she said. "I realized my lifelong dream and am still alive and well."

Shirahoshi grabbed the shark, and the rest of the people sat on the shark's back. Luffy said loudly: "Okay - now let's go to the underwater forest!"

People were immediately anxious: "Wait! Straw Hat and the others are going to take the princess away!"

Bai Xing turned around anxiously and said, "I'm sorry everyone! I...I will definitely be back before dinner!!"

Then they shot up into the sky.

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Finally feeling a lot calmer, Ena was able to listen to Shirahoshi and Luffy explain what exactly happened.

The shark they ride on is called Megalo, Shirahoshi's only good friend and her pet.

As for why Shirahoshi seems so afraid of people, and why he has to hide secretly before going out, Ena has already guessed it.

Vander Deken's ability is the target fruit. Ten years ago, this pervert fell in love with Shirahoshi at first sight and marked her since then. He always threw what he thought was a "proposal token" at her from time to time.

In fact, those are weapons such as axes.

So Shirahoshi was protected in a hard-shell tower for ten years without being able to go out, until Luffy agreed to take her out to play.

The timid mermaid girl suggested that the place she wanted to go to the most was the underwater forest. So Luffy let her hide in Megalo's mouth and took her all the way here.

The reason why they came to Dragon Palace City in the first place was because the King of Mermaid Island, Neptune, personally came to pick them up.

"We met Nami on the way. Zoro said that he had walked to Ryugu Castle before." Luffy said, "Including Usopp, Kemi and Papago, they should still be in Ryugu Castle now."

"So why did you say you want to arrest us again?" Ena said, "Since Neptune said he wanted to thank us for saving Megalo, and you know Jinbei, they should treat us as guests, right?"

"How do I know such a thing?" Luffy dug his nose, "I met a coward when I was looking for food alone, so I took her out."

Ena wanted to knock Luffy on the head, but in fact she did so.

"You can't call girls cowards or anything like that!" She said tiredly, "You..."

She was suddenly speechless.

Think of the beautiful empress who has her heart set on Luffy...and then look at the mermaid princess in front of her who adores Luffy...

But who made his captain a rubber head?

She sighed and touched Bai Xing's beautiful tail: "It's really hard for you."

The extremely beautiful mermaid girl looked at Ena shyly and leaned down: "Ena-sama is so beautiful...and so powerful, but I...just like Luffy-sama said, I am just a coward..."

"Don't listen to Luffy's nonsense." Ena looked into her big gentle eyes and said seriously, "There must be something Shirahoshi can do. And the reason why he is timid is because Shirahoshi is a very beautiful girl. , that’s why you’re protected by your father and brothers, isn’t it?”

"Actually, Shirahoshi can also be very brave." Eina said with a smile, "It's just that you haven't found that thing or person that you are willing to put all your courage into yet."

The girl with delicate appearance stood tall and straight in front of her, her beautiful short silver hair scattered neatly in the wind.

"Now that you have met Luffy and us, you are already willing to step out of the room. Isn't this the first step in growing up." Eina blinked, "So Shirahoshi will definitely become a gentle and brave girl one day. .”

The pink-haired mermaid princess looked at Eina blankly, and after a moment, tears overflowed from her eyes.

"Uuuu... Ena-sama... Ena-sama is a gentle and brave girl, right?" She smiled while crying, "Can I be like Ena-sama?"

Eina smiled helplessly: "Of course. But you have to promise me not to cry often."

"Pretty girls will look ugly if they cry all the time." She said seriously.

Shirahoshi choked and stopped crying.

"I...I know!"

Luffy rested his arm on one side and turned his head in surprise: "Ena, you are so awesome!"

"Huh?" Eina was not so gentle towards Luffy, and asked him with her hands on her hips, "Why do you say that?"

Luffy sat upright and gestured with his hands, with a rare hint of fear in his eyes: "You don't know how hard it is for me to stop the coward from crying! She almost made me cry to death when I was in the Hard Shell Tower! As a result, she cried even more!"

Shirahoshi began to feel aggrieved again when he heard Luffy's complaint which was actually not malicious.

"Yes... I'm sorry..." Her eyes were red.

Eina sighed and patted Luffy on the head.

"That's because Luffy, you are a big idiot." She made a face, "Forget it, forget about you, most of the men on our ship are big idiots."

Luffy puffed up his cheeks and rubbed his head: "What, it's just troublesome!"

"Idiots have no right to speak!"

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Megalo swam very fast, and they gradually approached the underwater forest.

"But there is one thing that I am very worried about." Eina said coldly, "About the new fish-man pirate group that is going to attack Ryugu Castle... I feel very uneasy when I think about Zoro, Nami, Usopp and the others are still in Ryugu Castle. .”

"Including a series of charges against us..." The silver-haired girl's mind was spinning rapidly, "How do you think that a big conspiracy is brewing on Fish-Man Island?"

"Then we'll go back after taking the coward to the underwater forest." Luffy said, "As for Zoro and the others, don't worry too much about them."

"That's what it is..." Ena sighed, "You really will encounter big problems wherever you go."

Luffy chuckled.