【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"I'm sorry..." Weiwei's voice was full of apology.

"But Luffy won't care about all this." Nami added with a smile, as she turned her gaze to Luffy who was sitting on the railing.

"Sanji! Breakfast!" Luffy ran around the deck, asking the blond chef in the kitchen for food.

"Wait a moment, it'll be ready soon!" Sanji responded from the kitchen.

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"Why isn't it snowing yet~" Luffy complained while looking at the sky, then he looked at Vivi expectantly and asked, "It should snow again, right?"

"It will still rain, but not like the first section of the sea. That section of the sea is because the seven routes all depart from Upside-Down Mountain, so the magnetic force messes up all the weather in that section of the sea. But don't underestimate the Grand Line. The future journey will definitely be much more difficult than in ordinary seas." Vivi explained seriously, but it was obvious that Luffy didn't listen at all. Instead, he became more excited at the thought that there might be more dangerous adventures in the future.

"Breakfast is ready!" Sanji came out of the kitchen and shouted.

"Oh!"

"Great!" Luffy ran towards the kitchen first.

"Is Qi still sleeping?" Sanji asked. He hadn't seen Qi in the boys' dormitory since morning. Since he needed to prepare breakfast for everyone, Sanji was usually the first one to get up on the ship.

"Yeah, he said he needed some sleep," Luffy said as he stuffed the food in his hand into his mouth.

"Luffy, have you seen Kei?", Zoro asked, not having seen him at his usual spot since last night.

Luffy cleared the food off the table and replied while chewing "Yeah, he's sleeping in my shadow."

Sanji and Usopp, who were originally blaming Luffy for eating all the food, shouted in shock "What!?" when they heard what Luffy said.

Others were also shocked to varying degrees, but Zoro was not particularly shocked. He had felt something was wrong a long time ago, but it was more obvious in the past few days, as if he was no longer hiding the time of his disappearance.

"What are you doing?" Qi came out of Luffy's shadow and saw everyone surrounding Luffy, talking about something.

Hearing the familiar voice, everyone's attention shifted to the person who suddenly appeared, only to see that Qi had stood on Luffy's right side without them knowing when.

"Luffy said that you were sleeping in his shadow?" Sanji calmed down and relit a cigarette.

"Yeah." Qi said casually, and suddenly he realized why everyone was so shocked, so he explained, "These are just some side effects of the devil fruit. Don't worry, it's not dangerous."

Now that they knew the reason and there was no harm, everyone didn't care. They were mainly worried about whether there was something wrong with Qi's body. After all, they rarely saw him use his fruit ability. Suddenly they knew he was using his fruit ability, so they thought something was wrong.

After breakfast, everyone was out on the deck as usual, Zoro was exercising in his usual position, Luffy was squatting on a recliner listening intently to Usopp's story, and Otari was leaning leisurely on the observation deck reading today's newspaper.

Sanji came out of the kitchen and handed his special drinks to Nami and Vivi as he passed by them, constantly expressing his love for Miss Nami and Princess Vivi, and finally distributed the drinks in his hand to the other men and the duck.

"Oh! You can drink a lot!" Sanji looked at the duck drinking the beverage and said with a smile, "If it tastes good, drink more."

"Usopp, help me make a new set of fishing gear." Luffy said with a smile while drinking.

"Just wait for me to make an artistic fishing tackle!" Usopp said excitedly.

Princess Weiwei, who was standing on the second floor, looked at the carefree pirates on the deck and couldn't help but feel a little angry. "Is it really appropriate for them to relax like this on such a sea?"

"Don't worry, they will take it seriously when there is a storm," Nami said with a smile.

"I hope so..." Weiwei's voice revealed a hint of worry, "But I'm still a little worried..."

"On this ship, all worries will disappear." Nami said with a smile while drinking the drink in her hand. She looked down at Luffy and saw that he had a bright smile on his face as usual. A relaxed and happy smile appeared on her face. "Although it is incredible, as long as they see Luffy smiling happily as usual, all their worries will disappear."

Qi looked at the island gradually emerging on the sea surface, and immediately shouted to everyone on the deck, "Hey, everyone, there is an island ahead!"

Luffy, who was playing with Usopp, heard about the island and immediately ran to the railing with cheers, "Nami, is that the island?!"

Nami picked up the record pointer in her hand and saw that the direction of the pointer was pointing to the island in front of them. She immediately laughed happily, "That's right, our next destination is that island!"

Usopp looked at the island that was completely covered by jungle and stepped back in fear. "Will there be monsters here?"

"I don't know, but be careful. I'm really concerned about what Ms. Quan said on Sunday on the boat." Weiwei said with a worried look on her face.

"Is this the small garden?" Qi said puzzledly, leaning on the railing. Everything on this island looked big, and there seemed to be two huge creatures on the island.

"This place doesn't look small at all. It doesn't look like an island with such a cute name." Sanji couldn't help but complain as he looked at the huge trees and plants around him.

Nami noticed that when their ship passed by, some of the plants on both sides of the shore appeared. She had never seen them before, nor had she seen related content in the plant atlas. "There are many plants on this island that I have never seen before."

"Gah!!!"

"What is that!?" Usopp shouted in horror. An animal with a lizard-like head but a bird-like body and wings suddenly flew over his head. Usopp shouted in panic, "Can we jump over this island?"

"No, we have to finish recording the magnetism of this island before we can leave." Nami was also frightened by the big bird that suddenly flew over, and cold sweat broke out on her face. "Maybe we can record the magnetism of this island on the boat, and once we finish recording, we will leave here immediately! After all, we still have to rush to Alabasta as soon as possible..."

"Sanji, bento!!" Luffy shouted excitedly. He couldn't wait to go on an adventure on the island. "Ni hehe, I feel like I can have a very interesting adventure on this island!"

"Bento?" Sanji asked puzzledly as he looked at the excited Luffy.

"Yes! Pirate bento!!" Luffy shouted excitedly.