The Paper Fruit Among the Pirates

  Chapter 15 Nami joins the company with a serious future

   "Let's go,"

  After Luffy’s battle was over, Roman immediately solved his opponent with three punches and two kicks. Then I greeted Nami to leave, and helped the other party pick up the pockets of the Bucky Pirates' treasures by the ‘gentleman’, making the orange-haired girl smile on her face, and her heart...

  For the sake of money, it seems that I have to continue to ‘virtually confess’ with the other party.

   Soon, the three of them arrived at the small town pier. In addition to the ships belonging to the Bucky Pirates, there is also a merchant ship that is slowly approaching.

"Hey?"

   "Sauron, you can actually get the boat here," Roman looked at the green-haired three-sword swordsman standing on the bow and touched his chin. "It seems that I misunderstood you, your sailing skills..."

"Do not,"

  The opposite Sauron pointed his thumb backward.

   "It's not me who sailed, it's these three guys."

   "Master Sauron..."

   "Look, the port has arrived."

  "Can...can you let me go?"

  Three blue noses and swollen faces... The pirate nodded and bowed to Sauron, who was standing on the bow of the ship. After receiving the approval of the other party, he immediately thumped and jumped off the merchant ship without hesitation.

  This...Aren’t the three hapless ones who passed by when they came?

   Forget it, it's safe to meet anyway. So:

  While waiting for the merchant ship to land, Roman directly carried the treasure pocket with one hand and Nami with the other. In the voice of the girl's "Hey Hey", he first made a squat and jump action. Then:

  Boom!

   Immediately after that, a ring-shaped ripple exploded on the ground, and the bricks and stones exploded in a moment, and the earthquake was faint. On the dock where he stood, there were only two "footprints" spreading cracks in all directions!

  And the figures of Roman and Nami have long since disappeared, and the two of them are like huge boulders thrown by a trebuchet, flying across a long arc to the merchant ship! It landed on the deck with a thud, causing the entire merchant ship to tremble suddenly.

   "Hey, hey, hey—?!"

  After landing, the girl named Nami has not recovered from this ‘quick’ movement method, her long palms are already on the ship’s side! Then the next second:

  "Rubber-"

brush-

"Rocket!"

  A figure with a straw hat flew over the merchant ship with a snap, and landed on the deck after a few somersaults.

   "Hahahaha, Zoro, you are too slow."

  "Not only did we find the navigator, we also beat up a guy named Bucky and his pirate group~~"

"Really."

  However, Sauron, with three knives around his waist, was concerned about another problem.

   "Is the enemy strong? Are there any swordsmen?"

   "Uh... isn't it strong?" Lu Fei thought for a while, "I didn't see the swordsman, but there was an acrobat..."

  That's all right.

  The man named Sauron immediately lost interest and leaned on the ship's side and closed his eyes to rest.

   "Come on, Nami."

  Roman kindly patted the orange-haired **** the shoulder, almost letting Nami, who had just experienced a ‘flying in the air’, soften onto the deck.

  "The boat will be handed over to you to drive it."

  Finally, you can free up your hands to continue to develop fruit abilities! Instead of sailing a boat for a day...

   "Roman, I'm hungry~~"

  ?

  "Didn’t you have eaten at Bucky Pirates just now?"

  Don’t think I didn’t see it, Nami clearly fed you...

   "I just had a fight and my stomach is empty~~"

  Facing Luffy, who was paralyzed on the ground, looked at Nami who was consciously driving the boat, and:

   "Huh? I want to cook—"

"Need not!"

  Sauron’s cooking skills are at the level of undead food. Roman thinks that for the sake of his own stomach, he should do it himself.

  ————

  Merchant ship restaurant,

  Chew, chew...

   "So, we must recruit a chef right away!"

   "Hey? Roman, don't you cook anymore?"

  Luffy with a frightened face made all the meat in his hands fall onto the plate, and the whole person threw himself on Roman and wailed.

   "No, Roman, you cook so delicious, I have never eaten so delicious..."

   "Don't wipe my tears and nose!"

   Pushing Luffy away with disgust, Roman rubbed his temples.

   "I'm very curious about what you have eaten before, is it rubbish..."

   "My cooking skills are average at best, and I have to spare time to exercise and develop fruit abilities. By the way-I want to ask you a question,"

  Faced with the serious face of Roman, Luffy could only sit back and gnaw the meat with his mouth curled, even Sauron and Nami were sitting in distress.

   "You guys, do you really want to go to the great route?!"

  For an instant, all three people present were serious, and then:

   "I heard that there are many swordsmen masters on the great route," this is Sauron with a warlike expression, "If I want to become the world's number one swordsman, there is one person I must defeat!"

"There are so many pirates on the great route, as long as I...we steal their treasure..." This is Nami who looks like a "lucky fan", "then I will soon collect 100 million. Bailey..."

   "Roman, what are you talking about?"

  And Luffy pressed the straw hat, it is rare that there is no trick.

   "I'm the man who wants to be One Piece!"

   "If I don't enter the great route or find onepiece, how can I be the Shanghai Thief King?"

  Sure enough,

  Roman nodded and suddenly raised a question.

   "Do you think I am strong?"

  Ah this...

   "Very strong."

  Sauron was the first to nod, and at the same time, his face was full of fighting spirit.

   "It's a pity you don't use a sword, otherwise I really want to have a try with you."

   "Roman, of course you are very strong, we all know this..."

   "You are wrong, Luffy."

  Roman waved his hand to interrupt Lu Fei's words, and looked around seriously for a week.

   "I am weak, — very weak!"

What? !

  "Strength and weakness are always the concept of contrast."

  "Like a frog in a well, it is ‘strong’ to small fish and shrimps."

  "But for the world outside the well, how strong can a frog be? It's really ‘weak’."

"what do you mean,"

  Sauron with short green hair splits the corners of his mouth, revealing white teeth, his eyes glowing like a knife, and like a beast!

   "We are all weak?"

"Yes."

  Roman nodded without hesitation, and then went on.

   "As we all know, the danger of pirates can be seen from the bounty."

   "Although the bounty is not completely equal to strength, the higher the bounty of the pirate, the stronger the strength is generally." Roman looked around for a week, "I said that, you have no opinion?"

  Nodding X3

  After all, the three people present are all characters dealing with the pirates, and they have a thorough understanding of the relationship between bounty and strength. Although there are some fluctuations, a pirate with a bounty of 10 million will never be an opponent of 20 million!

  "In my estimation, except for a few of us here... Except Nami, the bounty should be at the level of 20-30 million."

   In Nami's murmur of ‘Why Except Me’, Roman threw a ‘bombshell’.

  "And on great routes, there are plenty of pirates with bounties of over 100 million!"

Quiet-

  "In this way, you may not have a clear understanding,"

   "Sauron."

  Roman first looked at the three swordsman swordsman with short green hair.

   "Can you cut through steel with a sword?"

   Facing Sauron who was shaking his head, Roman tapped his finger on the tabletop.

   "On a great route, a swordsman who can cut through steel is like a crucian carp crossing a river!"

  ? !

   "Even if you can cut through the steel, it is only at the level of 50 million bounty."

  Strength—!

  ! ?

   "Nami, for the wealth of the pirates on the great route... To put it simply, I know that several pirate groups have their own ‘country’."

  The implication is that the girl’s so-called ‘100 million’ goal is as ridiculous as the peasants who imagined the emperor eating two steamed buns for a meal in front of the pirates whose wealth is calculated by the ‘country’!

  Wealth—!

   "Finally, Luffy."

  Roman looked at the boy wearing a straw hat regardless of the other two people who had been so shocked.

   "If you target One Piece, your opponent is a large pirate with a bounty of hundreds of millions, billions, or even billions!"

   "Each of them is a powerful man with thousands of people under his command, capable of breaking through mountains and seas, and destroying the country alone! With our strength of 30 million, it is not uncommon to be killed in a flash by someone else's eyes."

  Absolute gap—!

  Deadly silent—

  After a while,

  "I...I want to disembark..."

  Nami, who was about to cry, felt soft all over, and felt that she needed to ‘climb’ to move.

   "Hahaha, it's late! Nami, you can be our navigator honestly."

   Facing the roman who was laughing loudly, Nami, who had been scared by the terrifying future described by the other party, had her soul torn apart and lay on the table crying in mourning.

   "You can still laugh?"

  "According to you, don’t we go to the great route to die!"

   "Yes, in theory."

   Facing Nami’s question, Roman spread his hands and pointed to the side.

   "But, do you think they are going to shrink?"

   "Ha ha ha, Roman."

   A pair of Sauron's hands full of war in his eyes subconsciously stroked the hilt of the sword on his waist.

  "Do you mean that we are all frogs at the bottom of the well?"

   "However, when I think that there are so many powerful swordsmen in the world, I tremble with excitement!"

   "As long as I can defeat them, am I one step closer to the throne of the world's number one swordsman?"

   "Yes!"

  Luffy on the other side also grinned, without any fear on his face, but still his signature hearty smile.

   "Because there are so many powerful rivals, it is meaningful to find onepiece! The title of One Piece, I Luffy has decided!!"

  Sure enough, even if you know the difficulties of the great route in advance, you will never back down...

   "Then, I will explain to you the mighty enemies you may encounter in the future."

   "Lest you die that day in a daze~~"

  Although the words are not forgiving, the smile on Roman’s face is obvious:

enjoying the moment.

  (End of this chapter)