The Paper Fruit Among the Pirates

  Chapter 38 The wind drives the fog and talks about dreams

"Hahaha--"

  Boom!

   "Are you so tall? You almost scared us to death, you know?!"

  In the face of the furious Roman, the punched Luffy could only say ‘yes, yes’ without authority, but he immediately changed the subject with great spirit:

   "Where are Nami and Usopp?"

  "They took the things they bought back to the boat."

   Speaking of business affairs, Roman put away the feeling of being upset by Luffy just now.

   "Nami said there will be a storm soon. She and Usopp will go and watch the boat first. It will be miserable if it is blown away."

  Roman’s own merchant ship left all the weapons in Cocosia Village, and the entire ship itself was torn down as materials to build a seaside fortress. With Roman's cautious character, he doesn't want to happen one day where the owner of a merchant ship finds Cocosia Village.

  So, now they are the only ones left, and they can only go to sea on the Golden Meri.

   "And the navy behind him—"

  Roman doesn’t need to turn his head, focus on the paper cranes left in the square just now, and he can easily understand the situation.

  "Fortunately, the Bucky gang gave us backing, otherwise it is us now facing the navy."

  However, those guys have been trapped by the clouds of smoke, and they are about to be swept away by a net...

   "Hurry up, there's a tricky guy behind!"

   Facing Roman's urging, it aroused the curiosity of the meat, alcohol, and cigarette trio next to him.

   "What tricky guy?"

  After all, Roman’s strength is obvious to all, even he has a ‘slid away’ expression, the people behind...

   "It's the guard navy of this town! Headquarters Colonel "White Hunter" Smogg."

  " Colonel·····"

   "You guys, please be more sober!" Looking at the disdainful faces of the three ‘colonel’s, Roman’s forehead jumped up with blue veins.

   "How many times have I said that, that's the headquarters! The headquarters! It's not comparable to the waste of those branches in the East China Sea——"

   "And that Smogg is still a natural demon fruit capable person..."

   "Stop!"

  A figure and voice standing in the middle of the road interrupted Roman’s ‘science popularization’, and the nearby Sanji suddenly accelerated!

  ?

   "Ah~~"

"beautiful·····"

   "Roronoa Zoro!"

  However, the girl with glasses standing in the middle of the road ignored the peach-hearted Sanji, but faced Sauron in a posture of drawing a sword.

   "I didn't expect you to be a pirate,"

   "You teased me, I will never forgive you!"

   "Oh, then you can try it..."

   "Ahhhhh! What did you do to other girls—"

  锵!

  The two samurai swords slashed together suddenly, and even the raindrops in the sky could not conceal the flying sparks.

   "You go first,"

  Faced with Sauron’s words, Luffy pulled up Sanji, who was ‘the bastard, actually did it on the lady...’ and quickly left over the two. Let the Roman behind nodded.

  Once it enters the'combat mode', Luffy is actually very reliable.

   But although it is a battle, in fact:

  After a few moves, the navy sergeant named Da Siqi was easily disarmed by Sauron and used his knife to ‘bidong’ next to the street.

  "I will not lose to the swordsman until I become the number one in the world."

  The cold three-sword stream finished speaking, and turned around to close the sword.

"Goodbye."

  ···········

  Very good, if Sauron is not lost, he is also very reliable.

   "Someone ahead!"

  ?

  Romain in the center of the team looked up, and a man with silver-gray hair and two cigars stopped in front. Although it looks like a ‘bad guy’, it can still be seen from the other’s coat:

   "Navy? Get out of—"

  Facing Luffy rushing at high speed, the opponent just waved his hand, and a white smoke suddenly filled it! Before Luffy could react, the smoke instantly restrained Luffy in place like a living thing!

  It was clearly the smoke of intangible matter, but it made Luffy unable to break away from the power of a thousand catties.

"asshole,"

   Seeing Luffy in distress, Sanji galloped over. The legs that can kick the broken rock suddenly flew towards the opponent!

   "Shoulder!"

Then:

  噗,

  The fierce kick ‘passes’ across the opponent’s cheek, without any effort! And the big silver-haired man with half of his face spread just glanced at him coldly.

   "It's getting in the way, get out!"

  "White-smoke bomb."

  Boom——

   was just a simple punch, and Sanji, who was unprepared for the'natural devil fruit', was thrown out.

   "Sanji!"

  "Rubber-gun!"

   Luffy, who barely broke free with one hand, fisted back, but the place where his fist fell was also empty, with nothing but smoke!

  Call——

  In the smoke beside him, a man with silver hair suddenly solidified! From behind, he grabbed Luffy's head and slammed it on the ground, taunting while pulling out the weapon behind him.

   "Are you worth 30 million Baileys?"

  On this level.

   "Your good luck is over--"

  咻咻咻咻!

  There was a series of sharp weapons breaking through the air, and several white arrows struck across the rain screen and attacked the silver-haired navy man, making him spit out smoke in disdain.

It's useless.

Puff puff,

  The arrow passed through, but the wound was full of floating smoke! You only need to ‘elementize’ yourself, this kind of attack is fundamentally...

  "Paper Dance-"

  But Roman who launched the attack originally wanted the opponent to take the initiative to enter elementalization, because in this case:

"Windmill!"

   Huhuhu——! !

  The huge ‘paper windmill’ created by Roman’s ability spins at a high speed, and a man-made gust of wind blows into the ‘elemental’ Smogg’s whole person leaping back, and the white smoke drifting backwards! While having to lift the ‘elementalization’ in mid-air, he suddenly inserted the weapon in his hand into the ground to fix his figure.

"You are?"

   "I can't let you hurt my captain at will."

  Roman glanced at Luffy and Sanji who were free from bondage, and Sauron who came from behind. He tilted his head in the direction of the harbor.

   "Run!"

  ? ?

   "My big windmill won't last long in the rain!"

   Saying that, the trio turned around without hesitation and ran!

   "Run~~~"

   "Huh, your companion left you and ran away."

  In the blink of an eye, there are only a few dots left in the trio.

   "Hehe, you don't need to worry about it—"

   Just when Roman was considering how to get out, a familiar voice that faded away came from behind.

  "Rubber Rubber-"

  An unknown premonition came to my heart! Sure enough, the next second.

Snapped,

   One hand grabbed Roman's back collar, and then:

"-Rocket!"

  MeTM——

  咻! ! !

  In an instant, I experienced the roman swearing of a "Cannon on Earth" before he could say it, he was stuck in his throat by the tightly tightened collar! The surrounding scenery suddenly began to retreat at high speed, and the whole person was dragged back at high speed, and he was the only one who screamed in the wind.

  "Road~~~Fly~~~~~~~"

   "Hahahaha, a great escape!"

  ——————

   "Well, although this experience is not very comfortable, it has to be said to be very effective."

  In the wind and waves, the Golden Merley split the waves and went all the way.

  On the deck, Roman touched his chin, seriously considering whether Luffy’s ‘movement’ method could be popularized.

   "No, no, no, we definitely don't want to have this experience!"

  Nami and Usopp are insensitive to Roman’s ‘cannon on earth’ movement.

   "Look, the lighthouse in front of you!"

   "After there, it's a great route."

  Following Nami’s explanation, Sanji moved a wooden barrel from the side.

   "Since you are here, let's have a ceremony."

  Putting one foot on the barrel and telling one's dream is an ancient vow made by pirates when they set out.

"This······"

   "Roman, come here~~~"

Facing the smiling faces of Luffy and the crowd, Roman, who had always been serious, also smiled, let the'White Knight' paper puppet master the rudder, walked into the vacancy specially left by this circle of people, and put one foot in the barrel. superior.

  咚,

   "I want to be One Piece!"

   "I want to be the world's best swordsman!"

   "I want to find'Blue Ocean'!"

   "I want to draw a chart of the entire world!"

  "I...I want to be a brave warrior at sea..."

  "Usopp, why did your dream suddenly have a different ‘painting style’?"

  Faced with Roman's complaint, Usopp yelled ‘I want you to control’. So:

  Everyone looked at Roman, who was obviously the first crew member Luffy invited, and he was also the most serious and reliable person on this ship full of accidents, but ah:

   "Roman, it's your turn—"

  Faced with Luffy’s words, Roman gave a smile after thinking about it seriously.

   "My dream,"

   "That's the day when you see your dream come true!"

   "Cut, what? Your dream is more perfunctory~~~"

   Facing Usopp's complaints, Roman raised his head to look up at the damp and rainy sky, but he laughed as if seeing a clear sky.

   "Hahahahahaha~~~~"

   "It's really a perfunctory dream, or I'll change another--"

   "How about we all go to the end of the world together?"

  "Hey, hey, do you think you can buy something in the store, can you change it..."

   "Can't it? Hahahaha~~~"

  ——————

   "What a nice companion,"

  At the top of the lighthouse, a figure in a cloak stood in the wind and rain, with a pair of comforting eyes penetrating the stormy sea, looking at the joyous Golden Merley in the distance.

   "Nothing can stop a man from going out to sea!"

   "Go ahead, Luffy."

   "Go and make the world upside down!"

  (End of this chapter)