【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"If you're so eager to be beaten!" Sanji glared at Zoro angrily.

"Stop it, both of you." Nami roared loudly, stopping another fight in time. She just wanted to have a good rest now.

"I'm hungry! Sanji." Luffy looked at the two people who didn't fight and felt a little disappointed. He also wanted to join in, but he was hungry now.

"I understand. Go catch some fish first." Sanji lit a cigarette and walked towards the kitchen.

"Let's go fishing!" Luffy called Usopp, Chopper and Duck happily.

When Usopp heard about fishing, he immediately stopped feeling tired. He and Luffy happily took the fishing rods and ran to the place where they often fished.

Chopper followed Luffy and Usopp, and when they were getting ready to fish, Chopper noticed that they didn't put bait on their fishing rods, and asked curiously, "Don't we need bait to fish?"

"We can catch fish without bait." Usopp boasted, actually because the bait was accidentally eaten by him and Luffy.

"So awesome!" Chopper's eyes sparkled as he looked at Usopp.

Sanji, who had just entered the kitchen, suddenly rushed out of the kitchen. He rushed directly to Luffy, grabbed him off the railing, and then stared at him with an annoyed look, "Luffy, where is the food I put in the refrigerator?"

"I...I don't know." Luffy glanced to the side and said vaguely.

"Look into my eyes, Luffy." Sanji calmed down, holding a cigarette in his hand, bent down and stared closely into Luffy's eyes, and asked, "I arranged it, just enough food for nine people in Alabasta, why did it disappear in the afternoon?"

Luffy turned his head, looked away, pouted and replied, "I... I don't know..."

"Stop denying it, you're not good at lying!" Sanji pinched the captain's cheek angrily.

Luffy just turned his face away and didn't respond.

Sanji let go of Luffy, pretending nothing happened, and blinked in fake surprise, staring at Luffy's cheek and said, "Hey, there's something on your mouth."

"What? Is there anything that hasn't been wiped clean?" Luffy covered his mouth in horror.

"You are the one who stole the food!!" Sanji instantly kicked the captain aside, then turned around and complained to Nami, "Ah, Miss Nami, you see, we must buy a refrigerator with a lock."

"Yes, this is a matter of our lives." Nami said helplessly. She and Qi were trying to learn more about Crocodile and the situation in Alabasta from Vivi, but they didn't expect to see Luffy being punished by Sanji for cheating.

"Why is Crocodile the hero of Alabasta?" Nami continued to ask Vivi after responding to Sanji.

"The Seven Warlords of the Sea are actually pirates hired by the World Government. The Seven Warlords of the Sea fight pirates for money, and the Navy fights pirates for justice. It's the same for the citizens," Vivi explained.

"It's just that no one expected Crocodile's real purpose was to seize Alabasta." Qi added, "In this case, even if we tell the people directly about Crocodile's true purpose, they won't believe it."

"So we can just get rid of the crocodile." Luffy shouted excitedly.

"We have to quell the rebellion first and then drive out Baroque Workshop, so that we can save Alabasta." Vivi said with a smile.

"So the cadres of the Baroque Studio founded by Crocodile will also gather there." Qi said. The last time he spoke to Mr. 0, he said that the most important operation was about to begin and asked Mr. 3 to return to Alabasta.

"That's right, and their titles show their strength. Baroque Studio is ranked according to the strength. There are five chief commanders in Baroque Studio, namely Mr. 1, Mr. 2, Mr. 3, Mr. 4, and Mr. 5. Their partners are Ms. Two Fingers, Ms. Golden Week, Ms. Happy Christmas, and Ms. Valentine's Day. Mr. 2 has no partner because he is a shemale." Weiwei explained, "They are basically people with devil fruit abilities."

"It looks like we're going to have an interesting battle," Qi said with a smile.

"Nami, is that thing safe?" Sanji walked out of the kitchen. He had just used the last ingredients to barely make a meal. He was about to call everyone when he came out and saw smoke coming out of the sea in front of him.

Nami glanced at the smoke Sanji was talking about and smiled as she said "Don't worry, Sanji, it's just steam."

"Steam? Coming from the sea?" Vivi looked at the sea area they were about to pass through in confusion.

"Yes, there is a hot spot there." Nami explained, "That means there is an underwater volcano underneath, and after tens of thousands of years, a new island will be born."

"Tens of thousands of years... Can I live to that time?" Luffy, who was fishing with a duck, also heard Nami's words and asked.

"By that time... the person was already dead..." Usopp said casually.

Their ship soon passed through the steam-filled area, and the sulfur smell in the air made everyone uncomfortable.

"Wow, what is this?" Luffy looked at the person on the duck in shock.

"A shemale was caught!" Usopp screamed, attracting the attention of other people on the boat. They all ran to the deck and looked at the wet person curiously.

Qi sat on the other side of the deck without moving. From this angle he could also see the strange man that Usopp had fished up. Well, it was indeed strange, but he seemed harmless, even interesting.

Luffy and his friends quickly established friendship with the shemale, but his devil fruit was very unusual. It could imitate different people's voices, bodies, and faces, and they were all exactly the same as the original. However, he noticed that after the shemale left, Vivi's face turned very bad.

"Yes, Mr. 2Foncray!"

Luffy and the others reacted immediately when they heard the people on the shemale boat shouting this as they left.

"This guy is from Baroque Studio!!"

"Just now I saw my father's face in the performance!" Weiwei covered her forehead and said with a slight tremor in her body, "What on earth did that guy do with my father's face?!"

"If that guy pretends to be the king, he will definitely do something bad." Qi walked forward and said, "You all just got touched on the face by him. He might turn into our appearance and pretend to be one of us."

"We should be thankful that we met him just now so that we can prepare in advance." Zoro grinned.