【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"It's like this every day." Sanji replied, "Recently, it has attracted a lot of customers who come to watch the chefs and pirates fight, so the part-time waiters are scared and run away..."

"Ha! That's why you asked me to work here for a year!" Luffy suddenly realized, then he didn't care and invited again, "It doesn't matter, you can be our partner!"

"I refuse." Sanji turned to look at the boy and refused, "I have reasons why I have to work in this restaurant."

"No! I refuse!!" Luffy looked down at Sanji and refused.

"W...what?" Sanji asked confusedly. He didn't quite understand what the boy meant.

"I refuse your rejection of me!" Luffy crossed his arms over his chest and pouted his lips and retorted, "You are a good chef, I want you to be my partner."

"Hey, listen to me carefully..." Sanji said helplessly, trying to reason with the boy, but he felt that the boy would not give up easily.

"What's the reason?" Luffy looked at Sanji seriously.

"There's no need to tell you!" Sanji replied.

"Ah? Didn't you just tell me to listen to you?" Luffy asked in confusion.

"I mean for you to listen to what I say! Be careful or I'll cut you into pieces, you bastard Straw Hat boy!" Sanji gritted his teeth and shouted angrily.

"What? How dare you despise my straw hat! Be careful, I'll beat you up, bastard!" Luffy squatted on the railing and shouted angrily at Sanji.

"Forgive me for interrupting you..." the pirate who had been sitting there without saying anything spoke up.

"What!?" Luffy and Sanji, who were arguing, turned around and looked angrily at the pirate who was talking.

"My name is Ajin, and I'm from the Creek Pirate Fleet... You are also a pirate, so what is your purpose?" Ajin asked.

"My goal is One Piece. I want to enter the Grand Line!" Luffy announced with a grin.

"I see you are looking for a chef. Is it because we don't have enough people?" asked Ajin.

"Now with him, there are six people!" Luffy said, pointing at Sanji.

"Why do you include me?" Sanji protested.

"You don't look like a bad person." Ajin looked at Luffy and said, "I'll give you a piece of advice, never go to the Grand Line! You are still too young, and there are still many oceans to sail. There is no need to go to the Grand Line to die."

"Oh, so you know something about the Grand Line?" Luffy said puzzledly, and then looked at Akin who kept denying.

"As a subordinate of that Creek, you seem to be a coward!" Sanji said to Akin who had his back to them.

......

"Goodbye!" Jin said to Sanji gratefully while standing on the boat, "Thank you for saving my life. That meal was the most delicious food I have ever eaten! Can I come to eat again in the future?"

"You're welcome anytime!" Sanji said with a smile.

"Hey! So you, a handyman, are hiding here!" Zeff said to Luffy below.

"Oh no, it's the uncle." Luffy shouted in surprise as he looked at the restaurant owner above.

After Kin left, Zeff asked Sanji and Luffy to go back to work. Luffy also officially started his odd job, but he didn't know whether he was here to help or to cause trouble. Looking at the broken bowls on the ground, the stolen food, and his hands scrubbing the hot pot on the stove, the messy kitchen caused by Luffy's running around, the chefs finally couldn't stand it anymore and quickly drove Luffy out, asking him to go out and help the guests order food.

"Yo! Handyman!"

“I heard you’re going to do this for a year!”

"How about we change the logo on the ship and then we go first, Luffy?"

As soon as Luffy came down, he saw Zoro and Chi sitting at the dining table eating, and shouted angrily, "You guys actually left me here to eat such delicious food, it's too much!"

Sanji looked in the direction of the noise and noticed Luffy was there too. "Could these be that guy's friends?" Suddenly he saw Nami smiling, and his eyes immediately turned into stars.

Luffy looked at Zoro who was talking nonstop, and angrily flicked the booger he picked into Zoro's cup. Nami and Usopp couldn't help but giggle at this scene, and Qi also showed an expression of unable to hold back his laughter.

Just when Zoro was about to drink the glass of water, he suddenly turned around and poured the water in the glass into Luffy's mouth. Usopp and Nami immediately laughed even louder.

"Well, Luffy, we have something for you too," Ki said with a smile, before asking him to sit down next to him and placing a large prepared plate of untouched meat on the table.

"Great! Thank you, Qi!" Luffy shouted happily, and then chewed the meat on the plate with big mouthfuls. He noticed that there seemed to be a little green mixed in the meat, but he didn't mind because there was a lot of meat in it, so he ate it all together.

"Hey, aren't we good enough?" Nami teased with a smile.

"Nami, Zoro and Usopp are also the best!" Luffy answered in between his gulps of food, which made the person mentioned look a little embarrassed.

Sanji twisted his body frantically and walked towards Nami. He stood in front of Nami, covering his heart with his hands, looking at her, with love in his eyes and words of gratitude and praise in his mouth.

"The obstacle you are talking about is me, right, Sanji?" Zeff's voice suddenly sounded, bringing Sanji back to his senses while he was immersed in meeting Nami.

"It's a good opportunity, become a pirate. This store doesn't need you anymore." Zeff ignored the stunned Sanji and continued.

"I'm the sous chef here, and you said this restaurant doesn't need me. What does that mean?" Sanji asked with a hint of annoyance in his voice.

"You bring too much trouble to the restaurant. You are completely obsessed with girls when you see them," Zev said, crossing his arms and leaning back in his chair. "You can't cook good food, and you are a burden to this restaurant. Anyway, the chefs in this restaurant don't like you. You might as well become a pirate or something and get out of this restaurant."

"What? Don't push your luck if I don't refute you, you old man!" Sanji angrily stepped forward and grabbed Zeff's collar and said, "I can let go of the other things, but you must not insult my cooking. No matter what you say, I will always be a chef here."

"Grab the chef's collar, what do you want to do, you bastard!!" Zeff threw Sanji onto the table where Qi and the others were sitting.

"Damn it! Even if you want to kick me out, I will continue working in this store until you die!" Sanji said angrily while sitting on the ground.

"I won't die, I will live for another 100 years!" Zeff said with his back to Sanji.

"Great, he agreed, so you can be a pirate," Luffy said with a smile to Sanji who was sitting on the ground, completely ignoring the fact that Sanji was on the verge of exploding.

"Who wants to be it?" Sanji yelled at Luffy.

Qi couldn't help but laugh as he watched Sanji begin to court Nami again. Luffy's vision was really peculiar, and the people he found... well, each had their own characteristics.

In order to carry out Luffy's plan to win over the chef, their ship stayed in Barati for another two days. Most of the time, they stayed on Merry, and Luffy stayed in Barati most of the time doing chores, and only returned to Merry to sleep at night, until a huge, dilapidated ship suddenly appeared, breaking the usual tranquility of the restaurant.

"There's no doubt about it! That's definitely Chief Creek's pirate ship!"

"That's the leader of a pirate fleet with 5000 soldiers!!"

"Why did you come here?!"

The customers in the restaurant looked at the big ship outside and shouted in panic.

"Oh no, let's run away!" Usopp shouted in panic while standing on Merry's deck.

Odd ignored Usopp's words as he was observing the ship, noticing how dilapidated it was, and that parts of the ship were broken in neat places, as if they had been chopped off.