Chapter 179: Merry is safe
The staff's move produced a massive amount of air forced through and hit at the people who shot at her. Their guns were blown and they too followed the guns after that. The thugs screamed as they were blown away in all directions. This was the first time Nami had used her powers against a bunch of people.
She looked like a badass as she blew away the thugs, But not everyone were blown from her attack. Some of the Franky boys remained and they almost peed their pants watching how easily she dealt with a bunch of guys.
"I am fine with you not recognizing me, but how dare you come to steal my money." Nami was furious. So furious that her eyes had slowly turned white. Ussop and others ad noticed that and came forward to stop her going more wild. Being in Avatar mode at this moment was not good.
"Nami calm down.. They didn't steal our money." Ussop said against the high wind that was blowing around.
"Nami, snap out of it." Luffy too came and placed his hand on her shoulder. This made her white eyes come back to normal. Somehow Luffy was always the one to have a huge impact on her life. She looked around only to see that wind had blown away all the things around. And even the Franky body were shaking in fear seeing the strong wind just now.
If she was that kind of monster and had a low bounty, what about the other crew members who had higher bounty. This made them feel more scared as they looked at the crew.
"Nami. You get way too hyped up about the money." Ussop said.
"What do you know? We will need money to make Merry better. We will need loads of money." Nami rebuked.
"Hai.. Hai.. As you say."
The Franky boys then made a run after they saw that the Starw hats were distracted. Nami didn't run after them and rather started to ask around about how they would find Iceburg. Almost all of the people knew about him in Water 7 which surprised them.
Apparently he was the mayor of the Water 7 and he had such good work that they for a moment thought that he was some kind of scam. They had travelled a lot around to know that if a person was hyped by a lot, then most of the times it was false and they had nefarious intentions.
Of course this thought was only for Nami and Ussop. Luffy and Sanji were least bothered. Soon they found the Galley-la company. They were glad that they saw many people around building ship parts and many other things.
They were authentic shipwrights. Ussop was very happy looking at this. It meant their mother would be healed soon. But as they inquired about Iceburg and even said that they got a recommendation letter from Kokoro-san, they were still denied the opportunity to meet him.
Apparently, he wasn't present at the time and would only arrive in the evening. But there were other foremen under him who got interested in them and offered to help. The one who did offer was Kaku.
Luffy, being Luffy, mistook him for Ussop because of his long, square nose.
"Oye Ussop, your brother."
"Fuck you. He isn't my brother. My mother died long ago."
"But he has the same nose as yours." Even Sanji commented as he smoked.
"Shut up. He doesn't look anything like me." The banter continued, but Nami paid Kaku to have a look at their ship. Kaku happily agreed. So when he got the location of the ship, he made a run, and this was where all three men had creased eyebrows.
Somehow, seeing Kaku run gave them a feeling of deja vu. As if they had seen someone run the same way somewhere before.
"Oye, Ussop, did you feel it?"
"Yeah. It's very weird."
"Hmm.."
Nami didn't understand what they were talking about and didn't care. Kaku arrived at Merry and looked around. Zoro was sleeping, and he felt that it was Ussop who came, seeing the long nose. Of course, it was Vivi who saw Kaku and screamed at him.
"I was sent by your navigator to see the condition of the ship." Kaku said.
"Ah! Nami sent you? Good. So what do you think? Can you repair the ship?" Vivi asked. Like others, she was also concerned about the ship.
"It's amazing that you took this ship this far with so little damage. This is astonishing." Kaku said as he took a general look around. Of course, Nami had taken away the magic so that others wouldn't see their secrets.
"Thank you."
"But if you want to go further, you will have to remodel the ship. But I can't do it. You will need someone better than me. Maybe Iceburg-san can do it, but he is terribly busy. I am not sure if he has the time." Kaku said.
"It's okay, we can pay him. We have loads of money." Zoro, who had come running, heard the conversation. Kaku shook his head and didn't say more. He would have to return and give a proper explanation.
Kaku, after leaving, was on his way back to Galley-la when he was stopped by Blueno.
"Blueno, why are you here?" Kaku's smiling face had been replaced by a strict one.
"I wouldn't have come if it were any other moment. This is an emergency. We need to evacuate by evening. Our cover has been blown." Blueno said.
"What? How? Who knew of us?"
"Doesn't matter. Now go. We need to get the people we want and leave by evening. Tell others too." Blueno didn't explain much. Partly because he was afraid others would see them; only Kenny knew of their identities; he wasn't sure if others had known and were now suspicious of them; and partly because he felt Ken was after him.
Somehow his strength has left a temporary trauma on him.
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