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Third Person POV
Somewhere in the East Blue Sea.
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After two days in the middle of the ocean, a Marine ship was anchored in the waters, while Luffy used the power of his Devil Fruit to slow down the ship, almost coming to a stop. Next to the Marine ship, there was a smaller and peculiar boat.
"What is this?" Yamato couldn't help but ask in amazement.
"This is a speedboat!" Luffy said proudly. He purchased it using the system, taking an existing model in this world and adding a few modifications.
The young man with the straw hat used his money from the shop system to buy and assemble a steam-powered speedboat.
"What's a speedboat, Luffy-Sama?" Shirahoshi looked curiously at the small, peculiar boat with an engine at the back.
"This is a small motorized boat that can move faster than most boats in this world. It will be a secondary boat for the crew, mainly used by Lami as she delivers the heads of the pirates we captured while we were here in the East Blue," Luffy explained proudly.
"Incredible!" Yamato exclaimed with starry eyes.
"YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A MOTOR IS!" Lami said from the side, thinking that the tall woman with horns was missing a few screws in her head.
Luffy had an appreciative look for Lami at this moment. Although the concept of a motor wasn't new to this world, as they had a sea train in Water 7, for most people, it was strange and unfamiliar. Lami in the original story had a damn submarine like Law, so it's no surprise that she's the only one who has an idea of what a motor is.
"Anyway, I'll teach Lami and Bepo how to operate the speedboat with the fuel now. Please wait for me to finish before we continue our journey," I said, jumping onto the boat, with Lami and Bepo following me.
"But first of all, where did you get all of this? Did you already have it in your pocket?" Lami asked, curious. It was a recurring question among the crew, but everyone inclined to the idea that Luffy had these things before they met him, and he had simply shrunk them and kept them until the occasion.
"No, I got these with the money we obtained from Buggy. It's pretty hard to explain right now, so I'll do it another time. Let's focus on the boat's operation for now," Luffy planned to talk about the concept of the shop later; now he had other concerns.
While Luffy explained the concept and the manual of the speedboat, on the Marine ship, everyone was looking at that strange, small motorized boat. A woman with orange hair was standing beside them.
She was dressed as a French maid, nothing too sensual, but she had her own uniform, like Baby 5. She held a mop in her hand, squeezing it tightly, with veins popping on her head.
"I'm a maid? A maid?!" Nami was furious with her fate in the midst of all these pirates, as her role was to clean the ship and attend to the captain's requests.
"First, he doesn't see me as a navigator and brings me into his crew as a maid. Now he's making me wear this uniform and asking me to keep cleaning the ship?! Damn you, Luffy, you're lucky you hid all that gold, but I'll find it! I'll take it along with the reward you'll receive from Buggy!" Nami was furious at first, but soon had a malicious smile at the prospect of getting all that money from this crew.
"So, I'll keep cleaning the place until I get that money!" She was determined as she resumed her task with a rather happy demeanor, which left everyone who knew her intentions quite concerned as the maid cleaned with a scary smile.
After explaining everything, Luffy summoned a raft to be pulled by the speedboat with Buggy's crew tied together on it.
"With this, I believe you can go. Take my Vivre Card and come to us when you're done," Luffy said, taking a paper from his pocket and handing it to Lami, who accepted it.
"Okay, see you later, Captain." She smiled. In the beginning, Lami had some grievances with Luffy, and they still had some differences, but over the days, they were building some kind of relationship between them, despite a few jokes back and forth.
"Remember, don't use your Devil Fruit powers too easily. My grandfather is already coming after me, and if the headquarters finds out about the potential of the people around me, they'll try to send more forces here. Not that it would scare me if it happened, but I want to delay it as much as possible while we're in this sea."
She nodded in understanding.
"Then, see you later." Luffy said with a nod, not taking his eyes off the emo-styled woman. After a few seconds, he turned to the bear beside him, who wore his orange jumpsuit, one that Luffy bought in the shop, as it belonged to the canonical Bepo without a pirate symbol.
"You too, Bepo, take care and keep this emo here out of trouble," Luffy smiled.
"Who's emo?!" Lami yelled.
"Yes, Captain!" Bepo said, saluting with his hand on his forehead, mimicking a military salute.
"So, I'm off." Luffy jumped onto the Marine ship, while Lami started the coal-powered engines and began to move away from the ship with the raft full of clown-dressed prisoners begging to be set free.
"Now, let's continue our journey. Our sharpshooter with a long nose is waiting for us!" Luffy announced as the ship resumed sailing in the direction they were heading.
For the rest of the day, Luffy trained them with his powers, but this didn't include Nami. Luffy wasn't naive to her real intentions here, as was almost everyone else on the crew. He was just toying with the cat burglar. Even though he needed a navigator, seeing her cleaning the ship with a uniform was too much fun. She would grumble when she broke her broom or the dustpan after realizing her own situation in anger.
"Nami, you've broken another broom. You owe me 50 berries now!" Luffy exclaimed, enjoying himself, while Nami had a dead look as she saw herself either further in debt or losing money, no matter how insignificant 50 berries might be.
As for not training the cat burglar yet, Luffy wanted to see how she would fare on her journey. He wasn't like the canon Luffy to forgive that betrayal so easily. He wanted to test the waters with Nami before making a decision, even though he would appreciate it if she came to ask for help in dealing with Arlong without stealing from him.
"The sun is so warm and nice!" Shirahoshi commented.
"Nami, get some orange juice for me, Yamato, and Shirahoshi?" A shirtless Luffy in flowery shorts asked, as he and Kaido's daughter in a beautiful white bikini, and a serious woman sat side by side, sunbathing on chairs in the middle of the ship. Each of them wore sunglasses to enjoy the moment.
Meanwhile, Chouch
ou was on the mast like a lookout or guard dog, and Zoro and Kuina were still training, swinging a piece of wood, which I increased in weight multiple times.
"Sharky!" A disgruntled Megalo barked from the side of the mermaid, who was on another chair.
"Oh, I forgot, one for Megalo too." Luffy quickly said apologetically.
While they enjoyed their time relaxing at sea after their intense training, Nami had to comply with the captain's request.
"Of course!" Nami replied, gritting her teeth. She despised everything about the situation, but it was necessary to get her precious gold.
"Thanks, maid!" Luffy commented with a smile.
"Thank you, Nami!"
"Thank you, Maid-Sama!"
"Sharky!"
Everyone expressed their gratitude.
"You're welcome." Nami smiled with closed eyes but had visible veins on her forehead as she tried to hide her anger. She began to walk in a stiff and squared manner as her unmasked rage consumed her, heading toward the Marine ship's kitchen.
"She pretends so poorly. How did she manage to steal from all those pirates?" Luffy couldn't help but wonder internally as he watched her walk away from the group.
"Woof! Woof!" Everyone heard barking from the mast, and Luffy understood what it meant.
"It seems Chouchou spotted land!" Luffy commented with a sigh. Anyway, it didn't take much more than a day after Lami separated from the group for the ship to see the Village of Syrup in the distance.
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Third Person POV
Syrup Village, East Blue.
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With the ship arriving at a deserted beach on the island, Luffy asked Zoro to steer the helm in a straight line and let the sand naturally slow down the ship. As the sand rose with the impact of the Marine ship, it came to a halt, and the rest of the crew descended using a ramp placed on the side of the ship.
A ship shouldn't come to a beach, as it would get stuck in the sand. But this rule didn't apply to Luffy. He gently touched the ship and as soon as everyone disembarked, the captain used his power on the massive 30-meter-long object.
[Moa Moa no Mi: Mass, reduce by 0.001 times!] The ship obediently transformed into a small object in the palm of Luffy's hand, reducing from 3000 centimeters to 3.
"What!? Hm? Darn, I said that too loudly!" Luffy, as he held the ship, heard a surprised shout, and his crew's reaction was no different as they all looked up at some rocks on a hill beside the beach.
"Come out from where you are," Luffy said seriously but had a playful glint in his eyes.
"YOU'RE NOT MARINES? YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE MARINES!" The voice from the other side shouted with an alarmed tone, without revealing its face.
"No, we're pirates!" Luffy calmly said, and before the person on the other side could respond, some of his companions commented with curiosity.
"Incredible! A talking rock, the surface is so full of possibilities!" Shirahoshi exclaimed, fascinated, as she looked at the rocks on the hill.
"Sharky! Sharky!"
"Woof! Woof!"
Both animals believed Shirahoshi's words.
"The sea is even stranger outside of Wano..." Yamato commented on the side since the rock was beyond the reach of her Observation Haki.
"ARE YOU ALL REALLY BELIEVING THIS?" Zoro lost his composure at this, while the other girls, Nami and Kuina, had defeated looks at the naivety of the two other women.
"Hahaha!" Luffy laughed, and even he lost his composure at that moment, finding it hilarious.
"Anyway, I'm going to face these 8 million." As he said these words, wings began to sprout from his back, and he flew toward that hill.
"WHAT IS THIS? HE CAN FLY? HE'S NOT HUMAN!! RUN!!" Luffy heard a collective shout from the kids as he approached.
Luffy landed on the rock and, on the other side, saw a young long-nosed man with three other children prepared to raise some poor flags. As soon as they saw him, the kids dropped the flags and ran toward the village, leaving the long-nosed man behind, who looked at Luffy as if he was going to die at that moment.
"Yo!" Luffy greeted with a smile.
"Ah, are you going to kill me?" Usopp asked in fear.
"Of course not. I came to recruit you!" Luffy said.
"Huh? Recruit?" Usopp was stunned by this man who had barely arrived and spoke these words as if it were something normal.
"Yes, I believe you have potential. How about joining my crew?" Luffy asked with a smile.
Boom
"Is this our new crew member?" Yamato appeared at the side, startling Usopp even more.
"Is he strong?" Yamato couldn't help but comment, scratching her chin.
"It's clear that he's strong. I'm a brave warrior of the sea, the strongest with my fleet of 8 million pirates!" Usopp gained courage with Yamato's comment and spoke his delusions out loud.
"Really!?" Yamato asked, amazed, looking for the other 8 million people under Usopp's command.
Luffy just sighed at that.
"He's lying, Yamato. This island can't fit that many people to begin with..." Luffy said calmly.
Caught in the lie, Usopp started to sweat.
"Luffy-sama?" Shirahoshi arrived at the scene flying.
"A woman with a tail who can float?" Usopp exclaimed with comical eyes when he saw the princess. He had heard of a mermaid but didn't know the exact description.
"Shirahoshi, cover your tail with the dress I gave you, so you don't attract too much attention," Luffy said calmly.
"Yes, Luffy-Sama." She obeyed, lowering the dress to cover her tail.
"Wasn't there more shouting here?" Nami asked, inspecting Usopp and the area since she hadn't seen the children shouting and running.
By this point, everyone had already surrounded a scared Usopp.
"Only a boy?"
"Did he get lost?"
"Sharky!"
"Woof!"
"Who are you?" Usopp asked, still cautious about the presence of these strange people and animals who suddenly appeared.
"We're the Straw Hat Pirates," Luffy led the conversation.
"And what do you want here?"
"We want to sell a ship. I heard there's a shipbuilding company here, so we came to this island," Luffy explained.
"Yes, there is one, I know the owner, but you're not here to cause trouble, are you?" Usopp asked, still cautious.
"We're pirates; we do what we want. But we're not here to loot towns and villages. That's beneath us," Luffy said seriously.
"But then, since you're a brave warrior of the sea, why don't you join me and my crew? I need a good sniper, and you look like you might be one of the good ones?" Luffy asked again.
"Hmm? Of course I am! But why do you want that?" Usopp looked at him incredulously since he knew deep down that he was weak, and no one expected much from him.
"Because you have potential, and I know your father." Luffy said simply.
"My father, really? You know my father?" Usopp couldn't be more shocked.
"Of course, his captain gave me this hat. How about joining me on my adventures and finding him later? I can make you even stronger than your old man!" Luffy proposed.
"Hmm... I don't know..." In the end, Usopp didn't agree, as it was all too sudden, and he had his life in this village, no matter how much his heart longed for adventures on the vast and unknown sea.
Even looking at this unique group he never imagined seeing in front of him, he wanted to say yes deep down, but he was afraid of the unknown and was still attached to this place.
However, he didn't reject Luffy's offer either. Luffy saw this and hoped to change his mind as he stayed on this island.
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