Chương 51: Part nine - Once, a liar, a cheater and a deciver met 2/??
- Considering that my beloved "Thing" has gone to the bottom, I expect a fateful meeting, - Luffy admitted frankly for a moment.
- What the hell of a fateful meeting? - Zoro even stopped rowing, and the rest of the team stared at Luffy with a fair amount of surprise. All of them immediately realized that their captain was by no means joking, despite the more than strange statement.
- How long have we been sailing in the East Blue? More than two years? And we collected our "Thing" literally in the first couple of months, and during this time we did not come across a single ship with a soul, or a carpenter capable of building something more than a beautiful trough floating on water. And now, when we were about to sail to the Grand Line, our "Thing" is sinking. In my opinion, this is a clear sign to us that soon we will find ourselves a real ship. Whatever you think to yourself, Fate exists, and it often leaves clues to people ... another thing is that people rarely see them, and even less often understand them correctly.
- And what ... are you saying we will find ourselves a ship on the next island? - Nami asked confusedly. - Are you aware that we are now heading to a small village called Syrup? I'm not even sure they even have one ship there. A normal city is located only on the other side of the island, to which we have to sail even more days.
- First, you misunderstood me. I didn't say that we would find the ship on the next island. - Luffy held up his finger. - We've got time until Loguetown. If I'm wrong, and we still don't have a ship by then, we'll just find ourselves a ship in Loguetown. As a last resort, we will hijack the Marine ship By that time, we will definitely be already known to the whole world, precisely as pirates, and not as hunters, so there will be no need to worry about our reputation. And, secondly, Destiny is Destiny. If we are destined to find our ship in this small village, then we will find it there. Anyway.
Loguetown, if anything, was considered the "last island of the East Blue" - it was from here that all ships went to the Grand Line. The city was actually located in front of the very entrance to the sea. The entrance, which was located on the Red Line - the only continent in the world.
- I somehow with great difficulty believe that we just take it and find a ship that you like, - Nami rightly doubted. - So many years, and not a single ship you like, but here once, and ready?
- Life will show, - Luffy shrugged nonchalantly. - If we find it, then we will find it, and if we do not find it, then we will not find it. Nami, how many times can I tell you? Do not bother you over all sorts of trifles!
Somewhat crushed by Luffy's unexpected seriousness, no one else on the team dared to ask questions. As already mentioned, the serious Luffy was pretty disorienting, so almost the rest of the way to the island was in complete silence.
- It seems that someone decided to meet us, - Zoro chuckled at one of his sinister grins, from which people who were not used to the swordsman were numb with horror ... Or fainted, if at first they recognized the famous East Blue "Pirate Killer".
Luffy, who had been dozing until that moment, removed his hat from his face, which covered his eyes from the sun, and, taking a sitting position, pushed it on his head, after which he looked around the coast of the island stretching in front of him. As Zoro said, in the coastal bushes he could easily sense four auras at once. Three belonged without a doubt to teenagers, and one to a young man. Given the age of those who met, the ambush looked like an extremely dubious option. Most likely, someone just caught a sharp pang of curiosity, so there could only be one response: Luffy gave Zoro his sinister grin back.
- Oh Lord, boys, maybe enough already? - covering her face with her hand, Nami involuntarily groaned. - Why do you always have to scare everyone?
- Hey, remind you about Koby? - Immediately found Luffy's compelling argument. - And who first started to scare him?
- It's all adrenaline, and I myself am not to blame! - As expected, the girl disagreed.
Considering how much time Nami was spending next to Luffy, no other response was to be expected from her.
- What about the pirates you scared?
- So the pirates! - The girl snorted contemptuously. - They don't count. But you scare everyone.
Realizing that it was useless to argue with the girl, Luffy decided to go with the trump cards. Stubbornly sticking out his lower lip, the guy rolled out his most lethal and absolutely irrefutable argument:
- And what?
Nami had nothing to answer to this, so the fate of the group meeting them was a foregone conclusion. Or, as time has shown, one very specific guy.
- LIED !!! I LIED!!! I HONESTLY LIED !!!
- Lied? Ha! Do you really think I'm such a fool? No one in the world would claim to have eighty million followers if they don't really have them! You have to be a complete idiot to call such crazy numbers and wait for someone to really believe you. Such numbers should be called only when they are real. It seems like any sane person will think that you just lied, relax, and then BAM! - Luffy clapped his hands loudly, causing the guy tied to a tree to almost give his soul to God. - And against him eighty million of your subordinates. I don't argue, it's cleverly thought out, but such a trick won't work with me, don't even hope! Therefore…. immediately tell me where eighty million of your subordinates are hiding! If you don't tell everything right now, then Zoro, one by one, will start chopping off your fingers. And don't worry, you won't bleed, and do you know why? Because here he is ... ah, exactly where my manners are ... My name is Luffy, his name is Ryu, this is Zoro, and he is Yosaku, nice to meet you! I can't hear an answer ... I said I can't hear an answer! That's it, well done. So your name is Usopp? Well, then it's nice to meet you again. And what did I want to say there? Severed fingers? Blood? Aha, blood! Now, Ryu will cauterize your wounds, so, as I said, you can't bleed. So, you will still insist that you have no seventy million followers and you're not really the captain, or are you still going to tell us the truth?
Nami, standing aside, clasping the bridge of her nose with her fingers, closed her eyes so as not to see the farce arranged by the guys. And even though they arranged such entertainment on almost every island, it did not look less idiotic.
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