【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Really? You're looking for crew members and companions." Usopp said, leaning back in his chair and relaxing.

"Yeah!" Luffy responded, crossing his legs while struggling with a piece of flesh on his hand.

Qi couldn't help but feel amused when he saw Usopp relaxing.

"If you're looking for a big ship, there's nothing like it in our village." Usopp said as they ate, then pointed out the window and said mysteriously, "If there must be a place with it, it must be "there" where there are ships."

"Where?" Nami asked.

Usopp nodded and told them the story about the weak girl in the mansion.

"Auntie! Give me two more servings of meat!" Luffy shouted to the chef in the kitchen while chewing the meat with bones.

"And wine!" Zoro added with a smile.

"Are you guys listening to me?" Usopp yelled at them angrily, then sighed, and then went on to tell Nami and Chi how the girl in the mansion lost her parents. Finally, Usopp sighed, "No matter how rich she is, her life experience is too pitiful."

"...Stop talking!" Nami pounded the table and lowered her head, feeling sorry for the girl. She sighed, looked up at Luffy and the other three and said, "Don't look for a boat here, let's go look somewhere else!"

"Yes! We are not in a hurry to leave anyway, so let's buy a bunch of meat first and then go back!" Luffy said happily.

"Don't always think about meat, Luffy!" Qi tapped Luffy's forehead speechlessly.

"Just now... didn't you say you wanted to find a partner?" Usopp suddenly asked.

Qi looked at Usopp in confusion.

"Yes, do you have the right person?" Luffy asked curiously.

"I can be your captain!" Usopp said confidently, pointing his thumb at himself.

"No need!" The four of them lowered their heads in disappointment and refused.

"Hey! Don't jump to conclusions so quickly!" Usopp looked at them in shock as they rejected him so quickly in an instant.

"No!" They refused again together and waved at him.

Usopp sighed, not understanding why they were willing to follow that small and immature-looking boy, but he suddenly remembered that he still had things to do, so he said to them, "I know the owner of this store, you can eat as much as you want just by telling me my name." After that, he quickly left them.

Usopp looked at the mansion in front of him and looked around carefully. After confirming that there was no one there, he moved the grass beside the wall and carefully crawled over.

……

"Klahatel"

"Miss Keya, do you have any instructions?"

"I want to see Usopp." A weak girl in the mansion sat by the window with her legs hugged and looked melancholy, and whispered softly to the butler standing behind her.

"Why do you want to see Usopp again..." A man in a black butler uniform, with a slicked-back hair and round eyes came forward with a tray in his hand. He put the tray on the table and said, "I've told you many times that man is the most boastful person in the village. He will bring bad influence to you."

"I just wanted to talk to him," Kaya explained.

"No, Usopp's lies will irritate your body." Krahart refused, and then placed the prepared medicine on the table.

"Hateful!" Kaya said angrily.

"It doesn't matter if you say I hate you, but I just can't do it." Krahart pushed his glasses with his palm and said, "Please listen to me. I promised your deceased parents that I would protect you well."

"Okay... I understand..." Ke Ya lowered her head in compromise.

"That's good to know." Klahatl put the medicine in his hand on the table next to Miss Keya and reminded her, "The medicine is here, don't forget to take it!"

"Hmm..." Kaya responded in a low voice, then lowered her head and waited for Krahatel to leave. After a while, Kaya heard a knocking sound outside the window. She opened the window excitedly, "Usopp!!" Usopp was leaning against a tree and looking at her with a smile.

"Hey! You're in low spirits today too!" Usopp said with a smile while looking at Miss Kaya. He had already prepared a story, and he would also make Miss Kaya cheer up today.

"I'm sorry... Usopp, I'm sorry that I can't treat you well today. Krahatul refused no matter what I said." Kaya looked at Usopp guiltily and then added, "But he is not a bad person, he is just too worried."

"It's okay. I like sitting in the garden. If I enter your mansion, I will feel suffocated." Usopp said with a smile, and then he happily told Kaya the story of today, and described to her with his hands and feet what the giant goldfish looked like when he saw it. "And then there was its huge feces! I thought it was land, so I stepped on it..."

Kaya smiled happily with her hands covering her mouth, and cheered for Usopp from time to time.

……

"Why is he in such a hurry?" Qi said puzzledly as he looked at Usopp's back as he quickly left.

"Maybe there's something to do," Luffy said nonchalantly while biting the flesh of his hand.

When they finished the food on the table and were quietly enjoying their tea or wine, the three little boys from before broke in and shouted at them.

"Who are they?" Luffy tried to recall while drinking his tea. These three people seemed a little familiar.

"It's the three kids who intercepted us with Usopp." Qi reminded.

"Souga!" Luffy suddenly realized and ignored the three children's shouting. He just put down the cup in his hand and laughed and exclaimed, "This meat is so delicious!"

"Eh!"

"Meat?"

"Could it be that the captain..."

Onionhead and his companions were shouting at the pirates asking about their captain, when they suddenly heard such an exclamation they couldn't help but scream in fear. Could it be that their captain was the same as they had previously guessed?

Nami and Qi laughed at their expressions.

Zoro looked at the three boys' terrified expressions and couldn't help but laugh maliciously, "Your captain... was eaten by us!"

"Wow!!! A witch!!" the three boys shouted as they looked at Nami in horror.

"Why are you looking at me!!" Nami yelled at the boys, then turned to glare at Zoro and shouted angrily, "You are the one who is talking nonsense!"

"Hahaha!" Qi laughed happily at the looks of Nami and Zoro, then turned to look at the three children and said kindly, "Usopp just said it was time, and then ran away in a hurry. We don't know where he went."

"Ah, I see. The Captain said it's time to go to the mansion." Carrot said with a smile.

"Is it the mansion of that weak girl?" Nami asked.

"What is he doing there?" Luffy asked confused.

"Go and cheat!" Onionhead and the others shouted with laughter.

"Huh!?" Luffy frowned and said in confusion, "Isn't that bad?"

The children explained to them why Usopp went to that mansion to lie to people, and told them that he went there every day to tell her his made-up stories in order to cheer up the sick girl in that mansion.

"Okay! In that case... let's go to the mansion and borrow a boat!" Luffy shouted happily.

"No! Didn't I just say we can't go on?" Nami shouted.

Qi squatted down and looked at the three children and asked, "Do you know how to get to the mansion?"

"I know. We'll take you there!" Onionhead and the others said with a smile.

"Qi, why are you too..." Nami looked at Qi in confusion. She thought Qi was standing with her.

"Do you think we can stop Luffy?" Qi said helplessly as he looked at Luffy who was excitedly preparing to leave with his three children.

"Uh..." Nami looked at Luffy's impatient look and shook her head helplessly.