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28.57% Goddess of Ice: Going for One Piece / Chapter 8: Cultivation in One Piece

Chapter 8: Cultivation in One Piece

A few days passed, and the Going Merry was currently sailing toward the entrance of the Grand Line, which, apparently, was a mountain.

On the ship's deck, Usopp was tinkering with his balls... his slingshot's balls he uses as ammunition. He was currently in the process of filling them with Tabasco.

At the same time, Luffy was sitting in his favorite spot, the figurehead of the Going Merry, enjoying the wind, while Zoro was sitting cross-legged on the ground, napping.

Finally, Nami and Sanji were below deck, and Yuna was sitting cross-legged on the ground, with her back resting against the ship's mast.

After carefully looking around, a smirk appeared on Yuna's face as she secretly took a large conch out of her pocket and pressed its tip.

"Usopp is an idiot."

Hearing Luffy calling him an idiot, Usopp twitched, almost causing some Tabasco to spill, before he started glaring at Luffy.

"Luffy! Why did you call me an idiot out of nowhere?"

"Eh? What are you talking about, Usopp?"

Luffy, who was out of the hearing range of the Tone Dial, looked at Usopp and tilted his head in confusion.

"I'm talking about you calling me an idiot, you idiot."

"Ah! Did you just call me an idiot?"

"That's right! Iiiiidiot~"

"Stupid!"

"Bastard!"

"Long-Nose!"

"So what if my nose is long!?"

"..."

"..."

"Short-Nose."

"HOW IS THAT EVEN AN INSULT!?"

While Luffy and Usopp were yelling at each other with their foreheads pressed together and with gritted teeth, Yuna chuckled in amusement as she stealthily stowed away the Tone Dial with the "Usopp is an idiot" line recorded on it.

'Well, that was a fun little play~'

[Do you want to cause a rift in this crew or something like that?]

'Nah, the bond between those two idiots isn't broken so easily.

""Iiidiot~ Iiidiot~""

As if they wanted to confirm Yuna's words, Luffy and Usopp were suddenly dancing around the deck, repeatedly chanting the word "idiot", to which Yuna could only smile wryly.

'See?'

[That wasn't even five seconds. How do they even reconcile so fast?]

'The power of two idiots bonding together.'

Being done with her little conversation, Yuna closed her eyes and leaned her head back, allowing it to rest against the ship's mast.

'However, I have to say, this ship is quite interesting. It's just a sliver, but there is a good chance this ship will awaken its Spiritual Consciousness soon.'

[Oh? From what I have heard, the crew got the ship only recently. Isn't that really fast.]

'Yup, it's incredibly fast. Well, it hasn't happened yet, so let's see how this works out.'

While Yuna was contemplating the situation of the ship's consciousness with closed eyes, she heard footsteps approaching her. After briefly listening to how they sounded, Yuna quickly found out who the owner of these footsteps was.

"Nami, what can I do for you? Have you finally decided to join my harem?"

Nami was startled that Yuna noticed her approaching without opening her eyes, but when Yuna yet again mentioned her harem, Nami could only roll her eyes at Yuna.

"Again, I have no interest in joining your harem, and besides that, how did you even know it was me approaching?"

"The sound of your footsteps. You are the lightest person on the ship, so as long as you aren't paying attention to it, your footsteps are the quietest."

Hearing Yuna's explanation, Nami couldn't help but be slightly surprised. Although, as a former thief, she could easily discern if someone was walking toward her or away from her through footsteps, pinpointing who it was was not something she could do.

"That's rather impressive. I didn't think something like that was even possible."

"Hehe, have my extraordinary skills finally caused you to fall for me?"

Nami rolled her eyes yet again as she continued speaking, totally ignoring what Yuna had just said.

"Anyway, you are strong, right?"

Yuna's eyebrows rose, and she opened her eyes, meeting Nami's gaze. Yuna went quiet for a brief moment before shrugging her shoulders.

"Depends on who I am facing, but generally speaking, yeah, I'm strong."

"What about someone like Sanji? Do you think you could win?"

Being asked even more questions, Yuna briefly remembered the brief glimpses she had seen of Sanji fighting. Following that, Yuna nodded her head with a confident expression on her face.

"Well, setting aside the fact that I believe Sanji is incapable of attacking women and that I have barely seen him fight, I think I should be able to win against him."

Hearing what she wanted to hear, Nami bit her lip in frustration. What happened in her home village a while ago had been quite the wake-up call for her.

Up to a certain point, Nami had always assumed that Fishman were pretty much invincible. Especially Arlong was someone she couldn't imagine winning against. However, Luffy entered her life and managed to deal with the Fishman and with Arlong.

While Nami was confident of defeating one, maybe two, Fishman, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji simply busted into Arlong Park and started beating them left and right. Obviously, they didn't have an easy time, but in the end, they won.

While that was already quite a shock for her, she simply dismissed the situation as those three simply being even more monstrous than the Fishman.

However, suddenly, Nami's perspective changed yet again with the appearance of Yuna, who easily repelled cannonballs and even had the guts to raid a Marine Base alone and even succeeded in doing so.

Considering she spent her whole life in the East Blue, the weakest sea, Nami had a very skewed perception about a few things. In this case, the level of strength a woman could reach.

The strongest woman in the East Blue Nami was aware of was Alvida, who had a mere bounty of 5 Million Belly, elevating her slightly above being a small fry. However, not only was her bounty not that great, she looked rather monstrous as well. If Nami had to look like that in order to become stronger, then she would rather not do so.

However, that was when Yuna appeared in the equation. She clearly still had her feminine features and looked attractive, but at the same time, she possessed strength comparable to people who could easily beat up Fishman.

In conclusion, after Yuna joined their crew, Nami decided to ask her for help to get stronger as well. She was aware that sailing the Grand Line was no joke, so she wanted at least to be able to defend herself.

After Nami finished sorting through her thoughts, a determined expression appeared on her face as her eyes met Yuna's.

"Please help me get stronger."

Seeing the determination and resolve in Nami's eyes, Yuna nodded in approval, and after pondering how she wanted to answer Nami, Yuna resumed speaking.

"Very well, I'll help you. However, you do realize that you actually need to put some work in and that I don't have some kind of secret method that makes you strong without putting in any effort, right?"

The moment Yuna accepted her request, Nami's shoulders sagged in relief, but after hearing Yuna's warning, she quickly put her serious expression.

"Of course. For the sake of my dream, I don't mind going through hardships."

"Good. In that case, I'll need a drop of your blood first. Blood voluntarily given."

"B-Blood? What in the world do you plan to do with my blood?"

"Weeeeeeell~ I certainly don't plan to store it for later, to use it in an elaborate ritual to make you my blood slave, allowing me to make you do whatever I want. In this case, 'whatever I want' means sexual activities."

Seeing the wretched smile on Yuna's face, Nami almost instinctively pulled out her three-part staff and smacked Yuna with it, but she still managed to contain herself, thinking that Yuna was making another bad joke.

"There is no way that is possible, right?"

"..."

"..."

"Yes?"

"YOU ARE NOT GETTING A SINGLE DROP OF MY BLOOD!!!"

Seeing Nami's exaggerated reaction, Yuna couldn't help herself but chuckle in amusement.

"Hehe, no worries, no worries, I'm just messing with you, Nami."

"Unsurprisingly, I don't believe you!"

Yuna, while chuckling lightly, raised her hands in defeat before she resumed talking.

"I really was just messing with you. I don't need your blood at all. Just sit down in front of me and allow the tension to leave your muscles as you relax your mind.

Although Nami was still on guard due to Yuna's previous words, this time, what she wanted her to do at least didn't seem to be too suspicious. Additionally, she also noticed that over the course of their conversation, the rest of the crew got interested in the duo's conversation. Obviously, every single one of them had at least some interest in getting stronger to beat the storms that were inevitably to come.

So, with the reassurance that the rest of the crew was watching, Nami did as Yuna wanted her to, and as soon as she sat down in front of Yuna, she felt a palm touching the place between her shoulders, which didn't bother her.

"While I do this, try to get a feel for the energy I send into you, and, if possible, try to detect the place slightly above your belly button it is attracted to."

Nami didn't answer Yuna but did just as she said. Frankly, whatever Yuna was trying to do, Nami felt that it was a rather weird matter, but considering she had seen that there was no doubt about Yuna's strength, she decided to trust her for now.

However, what Nami didn't know was that Yuna's current strength actually had very little to do with the method she was showing to Nami. After all, she was currently teaching her the first step toward cultivation, but considering Yuna only arrived here a while ago, she hadn't much of that either.

Luckily, the little energy she managed to accumulate since she arrived in this world was enough to guide someone through the first steps of cultivation.

Unfortunately, unlike Yuna's previous two worlds, cultivating in this one was rather weird, as the Spiritual or Natural Energy, or whatever one wanted to call it, acted rather unusual here.

During her first and second life, this energy was usually emitted by nature itself, resulting in places with higher grades of natural influences creating corresponding amounts of energy; however, this world was a little weird in that regard.

Although trees and stuff like that were still producing Natural Energy, it was in much lower quantities than Yuna was used to, and after scouting around for a while and getting a feel for her surroundings, she realized why that was the case.

A lot of the energy produced was actually reabsorbed by the environment it was produced by, resulting in everything being significantly tougher than it should have been.

For example, the Red Line, which was a huge stone wall separating the world into two parts, going from north to south all around the planet, supposedly was only made of normal rock, but despite that, it was almost impossible to even leave a dent on it.

Obviously, the same was true for living beings as well, which should lead to outrageously strong bodies depending on how much energy a person had managed to absorb over the course of their life. For example, despite having never cultivated before, Yuna could feel some Natural energy within Nami's body, strengthening it beyond what a normal human was capable of.

Meanwhile, Nami felt something warm flow into her from the place Yuna's hand rested on. Initially, the warm current felt weird inside her body, but she quickly realized that it was a rather comfortable experience.

She felt the current wander through her whole body, seemingly following a predetermined path, before finally coming to a rest at the place above her belly button Yuna previously mentioned. There, the little ball of energy stopped moving, while the warm feeling it initially produced briefly became warmer before settling down.

"Did you feel something, Nami?"

Nami, who still had her eyes closed, nodded her head before she began to describe what she had felt.

"I could feel some kind of strange energy enter my body from the palm of your hand. It circulated through my body for a while before coming to a rest at the place you previously told me about."

After Nami finished her explanation, silence reigned the ship, confusing her a little, but before she could open her eyes and ask what the problem was, Yuna resumed talking.

"You felt all of it? Everything, from the point of me sending the energy into you, from it settling down."

"Mhh? Yes? Is that weird?"

"Sorry, Nami, but I'll be needing a drop of your blood after all."

"YOU ARE NOT GETTING ANY OF MY BLO..."

The moment Nami heard that Yuna yet again wanted her blood, she turned around and yelled at Yuna, but before she could finish speaking, her words got stuck in her throat, as Yuna actually wore a serious expression.

Seeing that kind of expression on Yuna's face, Nami's anger quickly dissipated as a feeling of slight fear overcame her.

"I-Is it something bad."

"Not at all. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's something good. I just showed you a technique that allows you to absorb the energy in the air around you: Natural Energy. However, the technique I showed you was a generic one that works for almost everyone.

Considering you could follow the energy on the first try, there is a high chance that you have some kind of special constitution. In case you do, only using a generic method would be a shame. So, I need a drop of your blood and analyze it to find out more."

Nami pondered Yuna's explanation for a brief moment before she nodded her head in understanding. Now that Yuna was actually serious for once, Nami felt that she gave off quite a trustworthy image.

However, before Nami could agree to Yuna's request, the duo's conversation was interrupted. 

""Energy!? WILL NAMI BE ABLE TO SHOOT A BEAM!?""

Luffy and Usopp, who had listened in on Yuna and Nami's conversation, couldn't contain themselves any longer and were now looking at Yuna with stars in their eyes.

They didn't really get much of what Yuna had just explained, but since Yuna said something about energy, surely she was talking about energy beams, right? What else could she have meant?

While Yuna only chuckled, Nami sighed deeply while facepalming. She loved the whole crew; she really did, but sometimes she seriously wondered what made her think joining this gang of goofballs was a good idea.

"Well, that beams thing aside, I heard you have a training technique that can make someone stronger. If possible, can you teach me as well?"

""WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH 'THE BEAM THING ASIDE', ZORO!? THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT PART!!!""

"YOU BASTARD!!! YOU ONLY WANT IT BECAUSE YOU WANT TO FEEL YUNA-CHWAN'S HAND ON YOUR BACK, RIGHT, MOSSHEAD!? Well... On a side note... hehehe, can you teach me as well?"

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING MOSSHEAD, SHITTY COOK!?"

"PIPE DOWN, YOU IDIOTS!!!"

While everyone suddenly started yelling at each other, Yuna only leaned back against the mast and enjoyed the chaos.

'Yup, this will be a fun ride~'

[As expected of you. Literally, the first people you meet in this world are the embodiments of chaos. This group really fits you well.]

'Hehe, I know, right.'

After another brief conversation with Kurama, Yuna closed her eyes again and started meditating, attempting to find the best method to absorb this world's Natural Energy while simultaneously trying to send her consciousness into the Going Merry, attempting to awaken her Spiritual Consciousness.


Chapter 9: Yuna's Bounty

The ship's deck continued being chaotic before everyone settled down, eager to have Yuna test whatever she tested with Nami.

So, each one sat down in front of Yuna, allowing her to send some Natural Energy into their bodies. The result... was abysmal...

The first one after Nami was Luffy, who was the most eager to be able to use "energy" so he could shoot "beams".

The result? Before Yuna could even finish the first rotation of Natural Energy within Luffy's body, he got up from his sitting position and walked away, claiming that he was hungry.

Yuna could only smile wryly at that. However, while rotating her Natural Energy, she found a weird accumulation of Natural Energy already within Luffy's body. Unlike normal Natural Energy and the one already refined within somebody's body, this one had a slightly sinister tinge to it.

Yuna didn't need to think for long about where that came from and immediately concluded that the weird mass of Natural Energy was the result of Luffy eating a Devil Fruit.

'I see, so this is how a Devil Fruit changes someone's body. The slight sinister feeling it gives must be the curse preventing people who ate it from swimming. That being the case, why does Luffy's Devil Fruit radiate such a warm feeling? Is it always like this, or is there something special about Luffy's?'

[Considering this is literally the first one you take a look at, we can only guess.]

Hearing Kurama's words, Yuna simply hummed in acknowledgment.

Anyway, following Luffy, it was Usopp's turn, who was pretty much as eager as Luffy.

Unlike Nami, who would feel something instantly, it took Usopp around five rotations, which likely meant that his talent was slightly above average. However, while rotating her Natural Energy within Usopp, she noticed that it was actually drawn to his eyes, hinting at a possibility of evolution of his eyes.

However, stuff like that was usually rather painful or even potentially dangerous, so she had some doubt about someone as cowardly as Usopp pushing through.

Following Usopp, it was Zoro's turn; however, when there was not even a sliver of a reaction after the tenth rotation, Yuna decided to stop.

"Seems like you don't have much affinity for this if you still can't feel anything. Either this method doesn't work for you, or you have a very bad talent for it... Zoro?"

"Zzzzzz."

Yuna's eyebrows twitched in irritation as, apparently, Zoro had fallen asleep at some point in time, making it rather clear why he didn't feel anything: He was sleeping the whole time.

Finally, it was Sanji's turn; however, the moment Yuna's hand touched Sanji's back, a perverted grin appeared on his face as a trickle of blood started constantly flowing out of his nose.

Seeing that, Yuna could only shake her head and remove her hand, claiming that there was no way he would be able to feel anything with such an unstable mind.

With tears of blood in his eyes, Sanji asked Yuna to try again, swearing that he could control him. The result: He couldn't.

Anyway, while Yuna was testing the rest of the crew, Nami finally agreed to Yuna's request, resulting in a thin ice needle appearing in Yuna's hand, which she used to prick Nami's finger, causing a small amount of blood to escape, which Yuna quickly caught with a small container made out of ice.

"What exactly are you planning to do with that, Yuna?"

"Hehe, this."

Hearing Nami's question, everyone's attention was drawn to the small drop of blood, and before anyone could ask any further questions, Yuna pumped a lot of Natural Energy into the drop of blood, causing it to glow.

In her second life, a process like this was never necessary, as chakra paper existed, usually giving a good indicator about a person's affinities, but since something like that was available, Yuna had to use a different method: Taking a drop of blood from a person and overloading it with Natural Energy.

Moments later, the drop of blood stopped glowing, allowing the crew to see that there were now four drops of an unknown liquid present. Two yellow ones, one blue one, and one white one that gave Yuna a rather familiar feeling.

'Mhh, four affinities. More isn't necessarily better, but let's see what we got.'

The ice under the first drop vanished, allowing it to touch Yuna's hand, allowing the concentrated Natural Energy that was not infused with an element to touch her skin.

Feeling the smooth, familiar sensation on her skin, Yuna nodded her head in approval.

'Water, huh? That's a good start. Considering that there are no red elements that could represent fire or something similar, the flexibility of water is a good base to make four affinities work.'

The next drop touched her hand, giving her a prickling feeling.

'That's... lightning? Mhh that could work well with water.'

Moments later, another drop touched her skin, and feeling the weird, formless sharpness it gave her, a glint went through her eyes as she had a rather good guess about Nami's ability.

Finally, the last drop touched Yuna, giving her a familiar cold feeling, causing her to smile while nodding in approval.

'As expected, that's ice affinity. Wind, water, lightning, and ice, huh? It's rather obvious what that means.'

Naturally, Nami noticed the change in Yuna's facial expression, making her curious.

"What is it? Is it something good or bad?"

Yuna heard a tinge of worry in Nami's voice and chuckled lightly before she resumed speaking.

"Bad? No, not at all. In fact, it's something pretty good. Water, lightning, wind, and ice. Your constitution is aligned with these four elements. Frankly, having four different element affinities is not a good thing, as spending time on so many different things would lose you a lot of time, but the combination you have is rather special so it will be fine.

Rather than looking at them separately, forcing you to invest time in each of the four, it would be more reasonable to look at them as a whole.

Hehe, as aspected of our navigator: You have a weather affinity."

Nami's eyes widened as a lot of things became more clear to her. She didn't entirely understand what it meant to have a "weather affinity," but considering how effortlessly she could predict the weather all her life, she could certainly believe Yuna's claim to be true.

Naturally, after seeing the interesting show Yuna had just displayed, everyone else was eager to have a go as well, causing Yuna to roll her eyes but comply anyway.

As a result, Luffy's blood produced a single weird-looking yellow and red droplet, which Yuna initially assumed to be something like lava, but to her surprise, it was actually an affinity with the sun.

'Affinity to a Celestial Body? What is this? Some kind of high-ranked cultivation realm?'

Although Luffy's affinity was insane, considering his ultra-short attention span, Yuna doubted he would be able to push that very far, if at all.

Next, Yuna revealed that Usopp seems to have some kind of affinity with plant life, which was rather rare as well but seriously didn't fit his current fighting style. Speaking about that, Yuna only shrugged her shoulders, not thinking about it any further, until Usopp actively asked her for advice.

Although Zoro was still sleeping, everyone egged her on to test him as well, which she decided to do with a shrug of her shoulders, revealing Zoro to have an affinity toward swords and flames, which was a good thing as he was already working on one of those.

Finally, it was Sanji's turn; however, he vehemently denied wanting to know anything about his bloodline or affinities, causing Yuna to shrug while Luffy and Usopp were booing him.

'Seems like Sanji has some kind of secret regarding his origins. Oh well, I won't bother prying for now. Maybe later, if I get a good chance.'

Just like that, another day passed as the crew got closer and closer to the Grand Line, but before that could happen, another event took place as a News Coo landed on the Going Merry's deck, delivering another newspaper.

After paying for it and yet again complaining over the price, Nami opened it up and immediately sighed deeply while facepalming.

"Ohh? What an interesting reaction~ What happened, Nami?"

Hearing Yuna's question, Nami could only sigh again as she took a bounty poster out of the newspaper and tossed it at Yuna, who easily caught it.

"I have no idea how, but I feel you did this on purpose somehow."

Catching the bounty poster, Yuna took a look at it and nodded in approval. It displayed a picture of herself wearing a tight bathing suit. She was slightly leaning forward, revealing her cleavage to the camera, while crossing her arms underneath her breasts, pushing them up slightly. Additionally, she wore a sultry smile while winking at the viewer.

"Mhh, as expected of me. It's such a good photo, however, 'Sword Deviant Yuna'... mhh, I guess I'm fine with that moniker. However, 25 Million is definitely too low. There is at least one zero missing."

Yet again, Nami could only sigh and sigh again while Yuna studied her wanted poster. However, hearing Yuna's comment about her bounty, she resumed speaking.

"That's actually quite the insane bounty. Since Luffy is the Captain, there is a high chance his bounty got inflated because capturing the Captain usually leads to the crew disbanding.

*Sigh* we aren't even on the Grand Line yet, but our crew's combined bounty is already over 50 million Beri. There will be a lot of trouble ahead."

Hearing Nami's explanation, Yuna nodded in understanding. Inflating a Captain's bounty indeed made sense.

"I see, so guess the fact that I stripped all those Marines naked must have had at least some kind of effect on my bounty, huh?"

"Yeah, proba... Wait a moment, what did you just say!?"

"Mah, don't worry about it~"

"I DO worry about it! I-Is that where the 'Deviant' part of your moniker comes from!? What exactly did you do!?"

As Nami was questioning Yuna, she grabbed her shoulders, shaking Yuna back and forth, making her laugh.

"Hahaha, chill, Nami. It was no big deal~ They just blocked my path with a few dozen Marines, so I went past them and sliced off the clothes on their bodies while doing so. No worries, none of them got hurt~"

"THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT!!!"

"Hehe~"

"DON'T 'HEHE' ME!!!"

Having finished her rant, Nami sank to the ground, tears spilling out of her eyes as she looked skyward in desperation.

"*Sigh* What did I do to deserve this? We already had a pervert who flirts with every attractive woman he sees in the crew, and now we have someone even more degenerate who forcefully strips people in public.

Seriously, if this keeps going, won't we be called the Pervert Pirates in the future?"

"In case it calms you down, forcefully mass-stripping a bunch of people is far from the most degenerate thing I have ever done."

[That's not even in the top ten.]

'I know, right? What's she making such a fuss about?'

"Oh yes, that makes it much better... AS IF!!! THAT MAKES IT EVEN WORSE!!!"

While Nami was having a little breakdown, Yuna proudly raised her bounty poster and displayed it to the rest of the crew.

"Hey, everyone, I've just got my bounty as well!"

Although everyone has heard Nami yelling for a while now, none decided to approach for now due to Nami's demon-like expression while yelling at Yuna.

However, when they heard Yuna's bounty poster, all of them got curious and approached her. The first to arrive was Sanji, who...

"UUUAAAHHH!!! YUNA-CHWAN, SUCH AN EROTI... *Cough* AMAZING POSTER!!!"

... instantly had his eyes turned into hearts as he started drooling over Yuna's picture.

"Tsk, to think you had just joined, and you already have a wanted poster. I'll need to do something big on the next island to quickly get bounty surpassing yours."

"Hehe, good luck with that, Zoro."

"Mhh, a pity, I'm not on this one. However, what's with the erotic pose?"

"Shishishishi, seems like we are getting more and more known around the world. This will be fun~"

Yuna hummed in acknowledgment as her gaze landed on the colossal stone wall in the distance. By now, the Going Merry was pretty close to the Grand Line, and it was only a matter of time before the crew reached Reverse Mountain, which was the access point to the Grand Line.

However, as they continued sailing, Yuna and Nami both looked up in confusion. While Yuna noticed that something was off in general, Nami noticed that something had drastically changed with the weather.

She looked around, quickly analyzing that there were no clouds in the sky, that there was no wind, and that, apparently, there weren't even any currents. Realizing what was going on, her face paled instantly.

"Shit! Everybody grab a rudder! We have accidentally stumbled into the calm belt!"

While Luffy Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp looked at Nami in confusion, Yuna waster no time, and before anyone else could act, a set of large paddles entirely made out of ice landed on the deck while Yuna was already ready to paddle wherever Nami told her to.

Obviously, Yuna had no clue about this world, so following Nami's commands was the best option for now. On top of that, Nami was not only more knowledgeable about this world, but she was also this ship's navigator, giving her words even more weight.

Although Nami was dumbfounded at how quickly Yuna acted, she swiftly realized that there was no time to be in a daze and quickly continued speaking.

"Turn the ship around! This place is dangerous!"

Although Yuna didn't know what was so dangerous about this place, she could at least feel that it was rather creepy, as there was not even a sliver of movement within this place's Natural Energies, which should be almost impossible. It was still there, but it simply didn't move, as if it was frozen in space.

So, hearing Nami's words, Yuna swiftly started moving the two ice paddles she held while simultaneously concentrating on the sea in front of the Going Merry, forming an ice path that allowed the ship to swiftly and gently turn around.

Meanwhile, the rest of the crew was briefly dumbfounded, but seeing Yuna taking action so quickly, without asking any questions, they automatically were kicked into gear as well and supported Yuna with moving the ship.

Seconds later, the Going Merry was back in an area of the sea where the wind was blowing, and before anyone could ask why Nami reacted so intensely, the sea's surface where the Going Merry was a few seconds ago broke, revealing dozens of colossal sea monsters, each at least ten times the size of the Going Merry.

Seeing such a spectacle, Yuna couldn't help but lick her lips, as she could feel how much Natural Energy was stored in these monsters.

'Damn, these look delicious, but I feel they would be a little hard to kill right now, especially if it is so many of them at once.'

Unaware of Yuna's thoughts, the rest of the crew looked at the den of monsters not too far away from them in terror, realizing that Nami's realization and Yuna's swift action had just prevented them from being in serious trouble. Even Luffy, who usually rushed into every fight head first, had some doubts about fighting monsters of this size.

"N-N-Nami, what the hell was that?"

Hearing Usopp ask her a question while his whole body was shivering in terror, Nami took a few deep breaths to calm herself down and started explaining what had just happened.

"Just now, we accidentally stumbled into the Calm Belt. It's the place separating the Four Sees and the Grand Line. It has no wind, no weather, no currents, and worst of all, it's a breeding ground for colossal Sea Kings, as you have just witnessed."

Realizing just how dangerous a situation they had just dodged, everyone sighed in relief. Well, everyone but...

"Shishishi, we aren't even in the Grand Line yet, and we already found such an interesting place! How exciting~ ALRIGHT, LET'S GO THE GRAND LINE!!!"

"""THERE WAS NOTHING EXCITING ABOUT THAT!!!"""

While Zoro, Sanji, and Usopp were busy beating up Luffy for being an idiot, Nami sighed in relief as she gave Yuna a grateful look. After all, the only reason why the crew managed to get out of the Calm Belt so easily was because Yuna instantly reacted to Nami's words.

Feeling Nami's gaze on her, Yuna looked in her direction and winked at Nami, causing her to roll her eyes while she couldn't help but smile a little.

'How funny. To think that that pervert would be the most reliable one in this crew. Oh well, guess it's time to find our way to the Grand Line.'

Unbeknownst to Nami, who had put her attention back on navigating, a smirk appeared on Yuna's face.

'Hehe, the first step of corruption was a success~ Let's see what other chances I'll get~'

[Damsel in distress?]

'Yeah, I feel like that one could be very likely. Oh well, let's see how it goes~'


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