【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"We will never let you go!"

"Revenge for the mayor!"

The villagers shouted and chased after them.

"Why are you making the situation worse!" Nami yelled at Luffy.

"What a nice village!" Luffy grinned. "Everyone is so angry about the mayor, so no matter how you explain, they won't listen."

Nami looked at him in surprise, then she began to understand.

"Luffy, I'm going to go to the port to find a ship first." Qi said with a smile.

"Okay." Luffy responded with a smile.

Then Qi and Luffy walked away separately, and he turned into another alley.

After Luffy and his friends walked for a while, they made a sharp turn into an alley where Xiu Xiu was waiting for them and helped them stop the angry villagers.

Luffy said goodbye to Xiu Xiu as he passed by it "Take care, Xiu Xiu!"

……

Qi walked towards the boat that looked okay. It should be able to seat four people, but there seemed to be someone on board.

"Stop, this is our ship." Three pirates jumped off the ship.

"Oh, really?" Qi said with a smile, "Please lend it to me."

"Who do you think you are? We are members of the Buggy Pirates." One of the pirates said proudly, and then rushed towards him, "Hand over the valuables you have."

"boom!"

A few attacks knocked down the arrogant pirates, and he looked down at them and asked, "Excuse me, can it be used now?"

"Yes, yes, sir, please use it as you like!" The pirates said in panic, covering their faces.

"Phew... I was so scared. Thanks to Xiuxiu, I finally escaped!" Nami said with lingering fear, "Why are we so miserable?"

"Forget it, we've reached our destination anyway," Luffy said with a smile.

"Luffy, over here!" Qi shouted to Luffy and the others while standing on the boat.

"Wow! Is this the ship we're going to take?" Luffy exclaimed as he looked at the ship that Qi was on. It looked big and cool. "So cool!"

"I stole it from some pirates." Qi said with a smile, "Come on up, we should leave now."

"Wait, kids!"

When Luffy and the others boarded the ship, the mayor's breathless voice came from the dock.

"Thank you! Thank you!!" the mayor shouted gratefully.

"Don't worry! Goodbye, take care!" Luffy said goodbye to the mayor with a smile.

……

"This is the nautical chart of the Grand Route!" Qi exclaimed as he looked at the drawing on the deck.

"That's right. There is no such sailing route in the East China Sea." Nami looked at the map carefully and explained, "The land above that divides the ocean into two oceans is the Red Soil Continent. The route that circles the world perpendicular to the Red Soil Continent is the Grand Route. It is sandwiched between two narrow seas. We must cross the ocean currents on the Red Soil Continent to officially enter the Grand Route."

"Then we will be able to enter the Grand Line soon!" Luffy said happily.

"Before entering the Grand Line we must first have a ship of our own." Qi said with a smile.

"That's right." Zoro nodded. Although he didn't care about these things, looking at the clown flag that had not been changed yet, he couldn't help but reveal a hint of disgust on his face. Since he had joined Luffy and became a pirate, he naturally hoped that they could have a ship of their own as soon as possible.

"We are pirates, we must have a pirate ship and flag of our own!!" Luffy shouted while waving his hands excitedly, "I want a super big ship and a super cool flag! And I also want a musician!!"

"Hahaha, no problem, Luffy!" Seeing Luffy's excited expression, Qi couldn't help but reach out and rub his black hair. Then he turned to look at Nami, "Nami, you are a navigator, right?"

"Huh? That's right!" Nami looked at Qi in confusion. She didn't quite understand this man. After all, he didn't look like the type of person who would follow others, and... She turned to look at Luffy who was constantly poking Zoro's sleeping face, and shook her head, but she was indeed very protective of Luffy.

"I heard some information from those guys just now. On the nearest island to here, there is a family running a sailboat business. Maybe we can buy a ship of our own from there." Qi said to Nami.

"Really?" Nami unfolded the map and looked at it carefully. "Go south from here, there is an island with a village called Xiluobu Village. This should be what you are talking about."

"It's decided! Let's go to Xiluobu Village!" Luffy shouted with a smile.

……

The sail with the logo of Buggy the Clown was slowly sailing across the calm ocean. They would arrive at a small island tomorrow, which meant that the four of them would spend the whole day on this small boat. There wasn't much space for Luffy to move around, which made him move restlessly, so he used food to calm him down.

Qi leaned on the railing and quietly looked at his companions on the ship. Zoro didn't seem to have this worry. He was leaning on the railing and taking a nap in the sun. Their navigator was helping Luffy mend his straw hat. After she heard Luffy's straw hat story, she seemed to be more careful about sewing the straw hat.

"Great! Thank you!" Luffy cheered, holding the hat up to his eyes. He noticed that there were no signs of it being cut, and Nami had even tied the rope back up.

"I just sewed it. As long as you don't pull it hard, it won't tear again." Nami said as she put the thread in her mouth and gathered the remaining thread into the bag.

"Thank you, Nami, you mended it so well..." Luffy said as he tentatively poked the mended mark. Suddenly, Luffy looked at the straw hat with a hole in his hand in surprise.

Nami was about to turn around and try to tell him that he was welcome, after all, she owed him this, but when she saw the straw hat she had just repaired was instantly pierced by Luffy's fingers, she shouted angrily, and then poked him with the needle in her hand, "Idiot! Why don't you listen to me!"

Qi grinned as he watched Luffy and Nami's fight.

"Stop making noise, how can I sleep?" Zoro sat up and yawned, "I'm hungry too..."

"Here, Zoro." Qi threw some food to Zoro. This was the food he had prepared at the beginning. Well, the food that Luffy didn't eat.

"Me too!" Luffy shouted.

"No, you've already eaten!" Qi cruelly rejected Luffy.

"Okay then." Luffy said dejectedly, then lay down next to Qi, leaned against the railing, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

A few minutes later, Nami handed the repaired straw hat to Qi, crossed her arms, looked at the sleeping Luffy with a stern look, then turned to Qi and said, "Warn him, if he tears it again, I won't help him fix it!"

"Haha, thank you, Nami." Qi showed a gentle smile on his face.

"Hmph!" Nami just nodded awkwardly, then found a comfortable place to sit.