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Third Person POV
Orange Town, East Blue.
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While the crew was organizing everything at the port related to the captured pirates, Luffy, Shirahoshi, and Megalo were walking through the empty town at the moment.
"So this is how a human town works? It's different, but it reminds me a lot of the houses on Fish-Man Island!" The 1.70-meter-tall mermaid spoke, admiring the surroundings.
"I don't see much difference between humans and fish-men, to be honest. Apart from the respiratory system for breathing underwater, you seem to have the same physiological conditions as humans..." Luffy said as he walked with the princess.
"Although I have no idea how mermaids reproduce..." Luffy couldn't help but murmur as he curiously examined her tail.
"Sharky Sharky!" Megalo exclaimed while munching on some plants in a house's garden.
"That's not seaweed, Megalo. It's better to wait and eat it when we get back and have a big feast," Luffy warned him, as Megalo didn't seem to like the plants he had tried and promptly spat them out.
"Shishishishishi," Shirahoshi laughed alongside, amused by her finned friend's antics.
"Why is the town so empty? Did the bad men drive away the other humans?" She innocently asked.
"Yes, unfortunately, that's how things work everywhere in the world. The strong prey on the weak..." Luffy spoke calmly.
"Hm? What's that up ahead, Luffy-Sama?" Shirahoshi said, looking a few dozen meters ahead, where there was a destroyed house. In front of it lay an injured dog with blood matted in its fur, lying on the ground amid the wreckage.
"Did this happen before I got here?" Luffy commented to himself, a bit surprised, as he knew that in the original story, Mohji's giant lion, Richie, destroyed the pet shop, and Chouchou fought back bravely. However, it seemed that this event occurred while he was on his way to the Marine ship.
It appears that with my presence in this world as the new Luffy, many things are changing, including characters with different genders and ages, as well as some events unfolding differently.
"It seems I can't rely on my previous knowledge anymore, or trust it too firmly," Luffy mumbled internally.
"What's wrong, Luffy-Sama?" Shirahoshi couldn't help but ask when she heard Luffy speak softly.
"Nothing, Princess. Let's go; that animal needs help if it's still alive..." Luffy said as he hurried forward.
"Yes, Luffy-Sama!" The mermaid followed him closely.
Upon reaching the scene, the first thing Luffy did was remove some debris from on top of the dog. Shirahoshi stood in shock, her hand over her mouth, seeing the animal in such a wretched state.
"Well, he's still alive, but he needs treatment quickly," Luffy said, speaking to no one in particular.
He opened the system store and retrieved some healing fluids to prevent infection of the wounds at this moment. Luffy had no medical expertise, but he figured it was the basic step before having Lami, who would take care of fully healing the dog.
"WHO ARE YOU, AND WHAT... HMM? WHAT IS THAT WOMAN WITH A TAIL????" A new voice appeared nearby—a shocked elderly man who had observed Luffy tending to Chouchou and had dropped a bottle near the injured animal.
But he was even more astonished by the beauty of Shirahoshi, who had a pink tail instead of legs. He had no idea what a mermaid was in this world.
"Who are you, old man?" Luffy asked, looking at the elderly man seriously.
While he might know who this man was, Luffy knew he couldn't trust his canonical knowledge too much.
The elderly man before him matched the anime's description, but he looked quite wretched now, injured, with a broken arm, and hanging onto a spear he was using as a makeshift crutch. This indicated that he had a tough fight before Luffy and the others arrived.
"I'm the mayor. I was fighting against Mohji and his lion with this dog at my side, but we lost miserably. I woke up recently from the sound of a loud explosion. Are you responsible for that? What happened to Buggy the Pirate?" the mayor asked.
"That's terrible!" Shirahoshi couldn't help but comment with a sad expression before Luffy spoke.
"We defeated them and intend to claim the bounty on their heads," Luffy said.
"So, you're bounty hunters?" the mayor asked, somewhat relieved.
"No, we're pirates," Luffy said simply as he picked up Chouchou.
"Hm? What will you do with Chouchou?" The mayor couldn't help but ask.
Luffy turned to him and said, "I'm going to recruit him into my crew, of course!" Luffy smiled confidently after those words.
"What????"
"Luffy-Sama?"
"Sharky?"
"Quiet down, Megalo; you're not much different!" Luffy couldn't help but grumble in response to the shark, who was breathing outside the water.
"A SHARK THAT CAN FLY AND BREATHE OXYGEN!?" The man had huge eyes, much like Shirahoshi, after hearing about Megalo.
'This old man is quite clueless!' Luffy exclaimed internally.
"What's the use of those glasses, old man, if you can't even see a shark flying next to us since the moment you saw us..." Luffy mumbled.
"You say that as if it's normal!" the mayor exclaimed indignantly.
In any case, Luffy returned from his stroll with the mermaid to the pirate camp that Buggy's crew had set up, half of which had been destroyed. At the same time, an old man followed Luffy, wanting answers about why he was taking his friend's dog.
"Old man, I'm not going to force him, but I'm confident he'll come with us," Luffy said simply before meeting the others.
"You finally came back," Kuina said, watching him arrive with the others.
"I see you've finished everything here," Luffy commented, surveying the area.
There were tied-up bandits in one corner, still unconscious, a giant lion with the man who tamed it, and the swordsman from Buggy's crew in another. Meanwhile, a chest was constantly bouncing beside Zoro.
"Release me! You have felt the wrath of Buggy!" They could hear the muffled voice of the clown inside the object.
"Hahahaha. Good job," Luffy praised them with a small laugh.
"There were quite a few treasures on their ships as well..." Lami said, raising two bags filled with them, while a woman with orange hair stared at the bags with dollar signs in her eyes and drool dripping from her mouth.
"Good job."
"Hm."
"THANK YOU, CAPTAIN. I'm sorry..."
Ignoring the bear's apology, Luffy brought Chouchou to Lami.
"Can you take care of him?"
Lami looked at the dog's condition and nodded.
"Of course."
Leaving Chouchou with Lami, Luffy walked over to the treasures. A girl was still gazing greed
ily at the bags, her eyes shimmering with the thought of all the money.
Zoro looked at her with disbelief, wondering if she had any idea what she was doing in front of everyone.
Before the girl could react, Luffy moved next to her and touched the bags; the treasures vanished instantly.
[You've added 10,000,000 Berries to the system store!]
"WHAT??? WHERE'S THE TREASURE? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?" Nami cried out in shock, as if someone had taken a child from its mother right in front of her.
"The treasure has been stored in the crew's funds," he simply said.
The others who witnessed it simply thought that Luffy had shrunk the valuable items, as he hadn't explained the system yet.
Sighing and ignoring a very desperate Nami by his side, questioning what he had done, Luffy turned to the rest of his crew, who were now paying attention to their captain.
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[Chapter Size: 1550 Words]
Third Person POV
Orange Town, East Blue.
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"Is he going to be all right?" the mayor asked as he inspected the dog being bandaged by Lami's side.
"Yes, old man, you've asked that 12 times already. Worry about yourself and don't bother me anymore!" Lami was irritated with the old man, who was now wearing a cast on his broken arm but still concerned about the dog that the captain had asked her to take care of.
After that, seeing that her job was done here, she turned to her captain.
"Now we need to go over our next steps," Luffy announced, so she stepped back to see what Luffy had planned for them.
Arriving at a quieter spot, away from the screams coming from Buggy in the barrel, the crew formed a circle to listen to Luffy speak in the middle of it.
"First, we took some treasures from these pirates, but it's not enough," he said calmly.
"That's why I also want the bounty on their heads." As soon as he said these words, everyone looked confused.
"But we're pirates... I doubt the Marines would give us money, even if we turn in a pirate with a price on their head," Zoro said curiously.
"You're right, Zoro, I wouldn't be surprised if there's already a bounty on my head after I killed a Marine commander, took over a Marine base, and stole one of their ships," Luffy said calmly.
"But apart from Zoro and me, they have no knowledge of you guys, as hardly anyone here has been seen by the Marines as part of our pirate crew." Luffy reasoned and continued.
"In that sense, I'm going to have Lami and Bepo set up near a Marine base to turn in these men. They'll be known as bounty hunters, exchanging the heads of the pirates we capture on our journey until we leave this sea."
Lami understood Luffy's reasoning and nodded. Before she could ask about their next meeting point, Luffy continued, noticing her evident confusion.
"Don't worry about that, Yamato here will make vivre cards for us, so we can find each other anytime using them," Luffy said, raising some eyebrows while most of them didn't understand what he was talking about.
"Hm? Ah, this? Great idea, my Luffy!" Yamato said with a smile, as she could create vivre cards.
"Vivre cards?" Kuina asked, looking puzzled, as she wasn't aware of their existence.
"Also known as life cards, made from a part of someone's body, typically their fingernails, they move toward the person they represent no matter where you are in the world. They also represent the user's life, and if it starts to burn, it means the original person is nearing death. If the paper disappears in flames, it means the person has died," Lami explained calmly, earning many surprised looks. Kuina, Zoro, Nami, and even Shirahoshi had no knowledge of this.
"So I'm going to turn in Buggy's crew for their bounty and then we'll meet again with the paper, right?" Lami asked.
"Exactly, that way you'll become our unofficial bounty hunter," Luffy said with a smile, and Nami could be seen with dollar signs replacing her eyes at this idea.
After planning how they would do this, Luffy turned his attention to Chouchou, who had awakened as they discussed their plans. Nami was the only one who stayed quiet in the group.
"Yo, Chouchou!" Luffy greeted the bandaged dog beside the mayor after separating from his group, and the elderly man hadn't left the dog's side all this time.
"AU AU!" The white-furred dog, one of their saviors, barked.
"Luffy-Sama, do you really plan to recruit the dog?" Shirahoshi asked from the side with a happy look, as the dog had survived.
"What??!! He intends to recruit a dog?!" Lami exclaimed comically when she heard this.
"EHHH?!" Both Kuina, Zoro, Bepo, and Nami exclaimed in unison.
"Hahahaha. He seems to be quite strong!" Yamato commented enthusiastically.
"LOOK AT HIM, HE'S JUST AN ORDINARY INJURED DOG!" Nami made a comical face as she shouted in disbelief at both the captain and the vice-captain of the group.
"AU! AU! AU!" Chouchou didn't seem too happy about what was being said about him.
"Hey, buddy, calm down, let's talk, okay?" Luffy said calmly as he heard everything the dog was saying.
"Wait, can you talk to him?" Zoro couldn't help but ask with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't know why, but yes, I can. I can't understand Megalo, but I can hear what Chouchou is trying to say..." Luffy said, scratching his head in this dilemma.
'Without the Voice of All Things, which is still locked, I can say that maybe it's due to my Mythical Zoan form, as in its final form, despite having the body of a human with horns and wings
, I also have a face that resembles a pitbull.'
"This is amazing, Luffy-Sama! I can't understand him very well, unlike Megalo."
"Sharky!"
"Megalo says he can understand Chouchou-Sama too," Shirahoshi said again.
"I see. Anyway, I'm going to talk to him." Luffy went to the injured dog and began to speak with him quietly in that corner.
To the onlookers, it appeared that Luffy was talking to the dog as if it were a person, and the dog was responding with barks.
*Whisper*
"AU, AU."
*Whisper*
"AU..."
*Whisper*
"Au! Au!"
"That's great!" Luffy exclaimed happily after some time.
While almost everyone was stunned by what was happening, the mayor standing nearby was conflicted.
"What's going on here..." Zoro exclaimed, looking lost.
"Hahahaha, we have a new crewmate right now!" Luffy celebrated in front of everyone as he stood up.
With the exception of Yamato, who had enhanced hearing and Observation Haki, the conversation was a mystery to all the others.
"Don't look at me like that; I just told him to join us. I'd help him get stronger; he lost the only precious thing to him, the store of his former owner, so he felt quite helpless. I offered my help to make him stronger so he never has to feel like that again, and to have the adventures he can have on our ship!" Luffy spoke with a smile.
"I understand, and what about him having a harem of female dogs?" Yamato asked, confused in front of everyone.
"DON'T MENTION THAT!" Luffy shouted with a bit of embarrassment when she brought that up.
"AU!"
"DON'T AGREE WITH HER!"
Everyone looking at this scenario facepalmed.
'THIS CAPTAIN IS REALLY CRAZY! OFFERING A HAREM TO A DOG SO THAT HE CAN JOIN THE CREW?' They all exclaimed in their minds.
'I DIDN'T EXACTLY OFFER THAT DIRECTLY; I JUST SAID HE COULD GET POWER, FAME, AND SOME FEMALE DOGS IN ADVENTURES ON MY SHIP!' Luffy lamented internally.
"Anyway, let's get ready to set sail; we have more islands to visit." Luffy ordered, and a part of the crew started dragging the prisoners onto the Marine ship.
Meanwhile, Luffy went to Buggy's ship and shrank it to fit in his pocket.
"Would Kaya buy this ship?" Luffy wondered as he stored the ship in his pocket.
Once everything was ready, they began to head back to the Marine ship with all the loot and prisoners.
As they boarded the Marine ship, they heard a voice from the direction of the island.
"HEY! YOU BETTER TAKE GOOD CARE OF CHOUCHOU, OR I'LL COME AFTER YOU AT SEA!" the mayor shouted from the port as they started to set sail.
"Don't worry, old man; the next news you'll hear about this dog will be his wanted poster!" Luffy replied, placing his hat on his head.
"AS IF A DOG WOULD GET A WANTED POSTER!" the mayor shouted comically.
"Goodbye, Mayor! See you next time." Luffy smiled at the only old man on the dock.
"AU! AU!" Chouchou was next to him, not forgetting to say goodbye.
"Now, what's the plan?" Lami asked.
"Let's head toward the island of Syrup Village. I don't know the exact direction because the Marine map is confusing, but I have a way to get to the location."
"Doesn't anyone here know how to navigate?" Nami muttered unconsciously.
"Wait a moment! You don't have a navigator on the ship?" Nami asked out loud in surprise, wanting to apply for the position since she was just a maid here, and while trying to steal from them, a better position would present a better opportunity.
Luffy had a playful gleam in his eyes when he heard this.
"Why would I need a navigator when I have Zoro?" Luffy teased Nami while pointing at Zoro.
"Zoro?"
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"Me?" Zoro was also confused.
"Of course, pay attention. Zoro, where is Syrup Village? Do you know?" Luffy asked Zoro directly.
"Hmmm, I believe it's that way, Captain!" Zoro thought for a moment, scratching his chin, and finally pointed in a direction.
"You see? Bepo, go to the helmsman and turn the ship in the opposite direction of where Zoro pointed!"
"Hm?!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA"
"Ehehehe"
"SHISHISHISHI"
"SHAR SHAR SHAR SHAR!"
"Zizizizizizizi. I'M SORRY!"
"Hey, hey! This isn't funny!" Zoro turned red as everyone was laughing at him.
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