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DWOAH: Hody Jones vs AquamanDeadliest warriors of all historyAquaman vs Hody JonesWho truly rules the seas? Hody Jones info: Height: 10 foot 10Weight: 500lbsWeapons: Bare Hands, Teeth, Trident, Kirisame Strengths: Is the self proclaimed Leader of the Fishmen in the One Piece universe, Extreme physical strength (The weakest Fishman is stated to be 100 times stronger than the strongest non Devil Fruit/Haki using human and Hody is one of the strongest Fishmen, Can rip off a Ships mast with his Teeth with his base strength, Can bite through solid metal whilst amped by his Energy Steroids, Managed to restrain King Neptune who was several times his size and weight, His bite force was strong enough to overcome Fishman Island Arc era Luffy’s Armament Haki), Extreme durability (The weakest Fishman is stated to be 100 times more durable than the strongest non Devil Fruit/Haki using human and Hody is one of the most durable Fishmen, Tanked multiple blows from Luffy during their battle, Is completely resistant to Gunfire), Massively hypersonic speeds (Can be considered one of the fastest Fishmen, Kept up with Gear Second Luffy), Is a master of Fishman Karate, Can breathe on both land and underwater, Possesses an accelerated healing factor (Can heal grievous wounds in hours, His Teeth regrow near instantaneously and regrow sharper to the point that he will tear out his own Teeth to use them as Weapons whilst regrowing sharper ones).Weaknesses: Is heavily reliant on his Energy Steroids to maintain his strength and will swiftly weaken back to his base strength without them, His Energy Steroids cause his body to advance at an accelerated rate causing him to age must faster than normal (A few days after losing to Luffy and being stripped of his Steroids Hody had aged from being middle aged to an advanced pensioner meaning he aged near 50 years in less than a week), Without his Steroids Hody was one shotted by Zoro who was barely trying.Arthur Curry aka Aquaman info:Height: 6 foot 1Weight: 325lbsWeapons: Bare Hands, Trident of Neptune, Ocean LifeStrengths: Is one of the founding members of the Justice League and stands as the King of Atlantis and Earth’s Oceans in the DC Universe, Godlike strength (Is one of the physically strongest members of the Justice League, Can push tectonic plates, One shot Olympian, Tackled a Parallax empowered Hal Jordan, Beat down a Monster who had absorbed the powers of Superman, Can harm the likes of Superman and Superboy), Godlike durability (Tanked a blast from Starro with no damage, Is completely immune to human Weaponry, Regularly tanks attacks from Black Manta, Is unphased by the crushing pressure of the depths of the Ocean), Massively hypersonic speeds/MFTL reactions (Can run 10’000 feet per second, His casual swimming speed is 1000 knots, Can casually dodge Lasers, Once jumped out of water so fast that it took Barry Allen by surprise), Genius intellect (Is a master tactician and is knowledgeable of the entire history of the Ocean), Indomitable willpower (Martian Manhunter stated to have never felt a will as strong as Aquamans), Can breathe underwater, As King of Atlantis Aquaman holds full dominion over everything that swims in the Ocean and since the Ocean takes up 70% of the Earth he is arguably Earth’s true King, Can control all Ocean life via the Clear (A power allowing him to telepathically communicate and command Ocean life, The Clear can also empower Ocean life to the point that they can harm Superhuman characters), Is Hydrokinetic, Can heal himself and others via his Waterbearer hand (Healed an extremely braindamaged Black Manta back to full health in moments, Can revive the dead with it), Can summon Storms and Lightning Bolts with his Trident, Is easily one of the most underrated DC Heroes in existence.Weaknesses: Cannot survive without contact with water for more than hour without becoming extremely weakened and eventually dying, His telepathy is less effective on land and air Creatures, Since his neuroreceptors are more advanced than a regular humans they can be more vulnerable to mental attack.Battle begin!The water surrounding Atlantis ran red with the blood of both Atlanteans and Fishmen as a vicious skirmish played out above the Underwater City, Atlantis having come under attack by the Fishman Pirates leading the waters around it to soon be littered with the corpses of both its attackers and defenders.Leading the Fishman charge Hody Jones let out another feral growl as he cut down yet another Atlantean Soldier with his Kirisame Sword, the huge Sword cleaving through the smaller being before he drew his Trident in his off hard to impale another Atlantean that attempted to attack him from the side “this is what you deserve you human sympathising scum!” the Fishman barked tossing the corpse from his Trident away as one of his fellow Fishman came swimming towards him to tell him the progress of their assault.Only for the Fishman to be impaled as another Trident shot through the water faster than a bullet could move through air, the Trident striking the Fishman so hard it outright cut him in half before it suddenly turned around to shoot back to its owner.“Of all the attempts on my throne this has to be the most haphazard” the King of Atlantis stated with a slight smirk “so tell me, what is your ‘divine’ stake to Atlantis and the Seas?”.Grinding his teeth in fury Hody lashed his Kirisame Sword and pointed his Trident at Aquaman “half human scum like you doesn’t deserve the title of King! The Seas belong to the Fishmen!” he declared before throwing his Trident full force at the Justice League member, throwing it with such strength that it forced the very seawater away from it as it travelled through it only for Aquaman to effortlessly bat it away with his Weapon, his Trident far more durable than the Fishman’s causing the lesser Trident to outright shatter upon contact with the Trident of Neptune.“Is that so? Then try and take it!” Aquaman barked back, spreading out his arms as his Trident glowed with the Clear, sending out multiple pulses that travelled through the water for what seemed to be several miles and immediately in response the area was swarming with Ocean life, countless Sharks, Eels, Barracuda and even Sea Lions swimming in a rapid circle around them before coming to float behind Aquaman, their eyes glowing gold with the Clear ready to answer his command.Snarling through gritted Teeth Hody reeled his Fist back before throwing it forward, punching the water in an Umidaiko attack, the sheer power of his punch creating a shockwave that travelled through the water as several Eels and Barracuda shot forward in response, the predatory Fish promptly exploding into blood and paste upon being hit by the shockwave drawing more of Aquaman’s ire.“Denizens of the Deep! Fight with your King!” the Justice League member commanded, sending the rest of the Ocean life forward to swarm the Fishman, their Teeth glowing along with their eyes showing that they had all been enhanced by the Clear as they surrounded Hody in what could only be considered to be a feeding frenzy causing more blood to pollute the water.Unfortunately however the blood was soon proved to be that of the Sea Creatures as Hody emerged from the frenzy gnashing his Teeth and swinging his Sword, cutting through the Sharks and Sea Lions before he shot towards Aquaman with his Jaws open wide, aiming straight for the Justice League members head in an obvious attempt to bite it off.As he was about to react Aquaman however his Teeth suddenly shattered from his mouth as the King of Atlantis ‘backhanded’ him with the head of his Trident, leaving Hody with nothing but bloody gums for a split second as in response a completely new set of Teeth burst out of his gums, each one visibly sharper and glinting as he lunged to bite again.“Savage Beast!” Aquaman spat as his feet hand snapped up to grab the Fishman by the throat in a crushing grip before shooting downwards to drag Hody down into the dark depths.Struggling in the Kings grasp Hody wildly hacked and slashed at the smaller being, his Sword outright bouncing off of Aquaman’s body prompting him to swing the Kirisame as hard as he could, the Fishman Sword tearing through the water so hard it temporarily parted it to create an air bubble only for the Tooth-like serrations on the Blade to shatter against his side without leaving a single mark upon his clothing.His eyes widening in panic as Aquaman gripped his throat tighter Hody thrashed in his grasp as they both disappeared into the pitch black depths where no sunlight could reach, the King of Atlantis then throwing the Fishman further down into the depths where he slammed down against the Ocean floor, momentarily stunning him before he shook it off and glanced around blindly as his eyes took several moments to adjust to the pitch dark.In the overwhelming blackness Hody could only just made out fleeting shapes as the Deep Sea life swam around him and every couple of seconds he caught sight of something larger and human shaped shooting through the water, as if circling and taunting him making him snarl in fury and frantically throw out punches into the water sending dozens of shockwaves out in every direction “damned filthy half breed!!!!” he roared as the water churned around him from his punches “stop hiding and face me coward!!!”.As soon as his demand ended the inky blackness suddenly lit up, Hody’s eyes widening as he found himself surrounded by hundreds of Clear empowered Angler Fish whilst Aquaman floated almost ominously several metres in front of him.“Oh trust me, this is not cowardice, I doubt a brute like you would understand strategy, my Ladies of the Dark Depths, it is time to feast!” the King of Atlantis commanded sending the Angler Fish into a feeding frenzy upon Hody before rushing in to join the attack himself as the Fishman sent more shockwave inducing punches in every direction to hold the Anglers off.Charging through the water as Hody killed off the majority of the Anglers Aquaman caught the Fishman off guard, driving his Trident into his opponents chest before then proceeding to drag up upwards at speeds the Fishman had never felt before, travelling from the Ocean floor to the surface in under five seconds with the sheer g-force of it nearly tearing Hody’s chest cavity open.As Hody continuing to lash out at him and gnash his Teeth trying to reach him from the end of his Trident Aquaman then held both his Weapon and the Fishman aloft, the head of the Trident starting to crackle with Electricity sparking into Hody’s chest wound making him cry out in pain “behold the fate of all those who dare challenge the King of the Seas!” Aquaman declared as he then fired a bolt of Electricity akin to the strongest Lightning Bolt the Earth had ever witnessed from his Trident, blasting straight through Hody’s chest to silence the Fishman, Hody body violently convulsing and flashing as his skeleton was visibly through his skin for several moments before he outright exploded, sending blood and viscera in every direction to stain the Oceans surface redWatching the chunks of the Fishman rain down into the water Aquaman then used the Clear to call upon several dozens Sharks to feast upon the remains, watching over them with mild disdain before uttering a single phrase as he sank back below the surface.“Long live the King”.Winner: AquamanWell this fight was much quicker and easier to write than I had expected, when I first thought up this match up a few years back I was under the popular belief that the Superfriends version of Aquaman was essentially the canon for him and that whilst he would beat Hody it would be with extreme difficulty, only to then actually do research and realise that he literally no diffs all of One Piece.But for traditions sake, why does Aquaman beat Hody Jones?Strength, durability, speed, intelligence, experience, every single category goes into Aquaman’s favour several dozen times over compared to Hody to the point that if Aquaman simply didn’t fight back Hody would eventually die of exhaustion before he managed to land a meaningful wound on the Atlantean King, or his Steroids would run out and he’d die of old age eventually still trying to harm him.
Gear 5 by 420-MUGIWARA
Nami
One Piece: Nami's Doubts It was a good morning and very quiet for the Straw Hat crew. Everything was very peaceful for the weather thanks to being assured by the crew's navigator, who informed them that the wind was light and the sea was calm. With how peaceful and calm the day is, it is a good time for them and some of them went about their business.The swordsman and second of the crew was in the crow's nest training with the weights, as always to achieve his goal of becoming the strongest swordsman in the world, Franky was in his workshop continuing with his project of the new conveyance for the Soldier Dock System, Sanji in the kitchen preparing food and Jimbei operating the helm.While the rest of the gang, the Sea Emperor, Monkey D. Luffy was sitting on the deck railing along with Usopp, Chopper, and Brook using their fishing rods. The female members of the band were sunbathing, and relaxing. Nami deserved to take a break after finishing her maps yesterday and she sunbathed in a bikini. Robin was on his right with a summer suit and was reading a book with great concentration and Miyu was on his left with a bikini and a swimsuit skirt, sleeping while sunbathing, but she had to be sure that she wouldn't burn and Zeus and Goo were playing. flying. Well yes. This is indeed a very calm day."Damn, it doesn't itch," said Luffy after yawning."Be patient, we've just started," Usopp said."And young Miss Miyu isn't coming fishing with us?" Brook asked."Miyu said that she wants to be with Nami and Robin for a while and she will fish with us in the afternoon," Chopper responded when Brook's rod suddenly moved."Look! It bit!" The skeleton exclaimed and what he caught was a huge blue fish. "Look what I have achieved! Yohohohoho!-"Wait, guys! Mine has bitten too!" exclaimed the reindeer boy and he caught a fish twice the size of Brook's."Wow, Chopper! You're winning it today!" Luffy congratulated."Yes, yes, yes, yes!" shouted the cheerful Usopp whose rod was bending more. "This is going to be a huge one! He must be a Sea King… with big eyes… sharp teeth…. Long claws…!"With great enthusiasm, the sniper pulled it out of the water…revealing a little fish the size of a pencil."Is that a Sea King?" Chopper asked with his eyes narrowed."It doesn't seem so monstrous," Brook said and Usopp lowered his head with a black cloud above it.And suddenly, Luffy's rod shook and bent hard."Excellent! One has bitten!" Luffy shouted, smiling, and when he tried to get it out of the water, he noticed how heavy that fish was. "How heavy is this? It must be bigger than yours…"Luffy tried to pick it up with all his might, but the fish was too strong that even the captain of the force was going to be carried away. Usopp, Chopper, and Brook grabbed him and helped him get the fish out."Ngggg! Wow, what a heavy fish..." Usopp growled, clenching his teeth."Hold on a little..." Chopper growled in Heavy Point. "We almost have it."Finally, the fish came out... although they found it strange when they saw it."Uh? But it's a normal fish," said Luffy, confused when he saw it."It's true, how strange," Brook said, raising an eyebrow... although he doesn't have one. "How come it weighs so much?"And the answer came the following…The fish that had been caught had something behind it, bitten in the tail, and suddenly, something came out of the sea and what was a kind of blue eel with fish scales, yellow eyes, deer horns, an elongated snout like a crocodile with a mustache, three horns on its nose and it had fins and legs with three claws each. It was so big that it reached the height of the Thousand Sunny."GROOOOOAARGH!" the sea monster roared and panic gripped Nami, Usopp, Chopper, Brook, Miyu, Goo, and Zeus."KYAAAAAAAAHHHH!" the navigator and the Lycan girl shouted, jumping off the stretchers."A SEA KING!" Brook shouted in alarm and Chopper, Zeus, and Goo ran all over the deck in panic."My dear Nami! My beautiful Robin!" Cooed the enamored Sanji with heart in his eyes. "Do you want me to prepare a juice or a coffee- AAAAAAAAAHHH!" He then shouted when he saw the Sea King."TO ALL UNITS ON THE SHIP!" Usopp alarmed with a megaphone. "RED ALERT! RED ALERT! IT'S ATTACKING US!""Excellent! Finally, I caught a Sea King!" Luffy was happy and PAF! Usopp threw the megaphone at his head, which also didn't hurt him."NOW IS NOT THE TIME FOR THAT!" Usopp shouted with sharp teeth."Hey, Luffy!" Sanji called. "I think that will be a good ingredient for dinner today.""Really!?" Luffy questioned happily. "Very good, guys! Let's defend the Sunny and prepare for dinner!"With that, Luffy was pumped up and ready to kick some sea king's butt."Shishishishi! You're going to be in my belly once I'm done with you!" He pounded his fist."LUFFY, ARE YOU CRAZY!" Nami comically shouted. "That sea king is ten times larger than any ordinary sea king!""Big sis is right!" Miyu added, hiding behind Robin's lounge chair. "It might eat us whole!""WE'RE DOOMED!!!" Chopper whiled, running around in circles while Brook and Usopp huddled up together, shaking in their bones. (No bone joke attended.)"We all going to die," Cried Brook. "Even though I'm already dead!"“Calm down, guys. We will be fine." Luffy said smiling."I knew you were going to say that," Usopp said with comical tears and gave up when he pulled out his Kuro Kabuto. “Well, what are you going to do…?”“GROAAAAARGH!” The Sea King roared again before Luffy declared and his crew prepared to attack.“LET'S GO, GUYS!”“YESSS!” everyone shouted and Luffy started with the first hit.“Gum Gum Gatling!” Luffy shouted, firing a bunch of fists.“Three Style Sword: Black Rope Dragon Twister!” Zoro shouted and created a tornado to carry the Sea King away but he resisted.“Diable Jambe: Poele au Frire Specter!” Sanji shouted, kicking his flaming legs at the monster's snout.“Fish-man Karate: Spear Wave!” Jimbei shouted after jumping into the water and threw a water spear.“Mil Fleur: Gigantesco Mano!” Robin shouted, growing giant arms to hit the monster.“Franky Rocket Launcher!” Franky shouted, firing the rockets from his shoulder.“Swallow Banderole!” Brook declared, attacking with his sword and freezing one of his claws just at the moment the sea beast was going to attack him.“Special Attack, Green Star! “Skull Bombgrass!” Usopp shouted, firing one of his green bullets at the monster.“Monster Point! Cloven Rose, Palm!” Chopper shouted after chewing the Rumble Ball and hitting the Sea King's nose with his huge hands.With all the attacks they used, the Sea King continued to resist. On the roof of the crow's nest were Nami, Miyu, and Goo."Now is my turn," Nami said ready to attack. “Miyu! Goo! Hide behind me!”“Yes, Nami.” Miyu said.“Goo.” Goo said and they both did what she asked. Nami pulled the climate tact out of her and Zeus snapped out of it."Oh, wonderful!" Zeus was happy eating the thunder bubbles and was delighted with hearts in his eyes and the cloud became blacker and bigger with lightning coming out. "DELICIOUS!"“Come on, Big Sis Nami!” Miyu and Goo encouraged the navigator.“You can do it, Nami!” Cheer up Chopper too.“With this attack, it will surely defeat him,” she said and threw Zeus in immense lightning on top of the Sea King.“No, Nami! Wait!" Jimbei noticed but it was too late.“ZEUS BREEZE TEMPO!”BLIIIIIIIIIIZT!Nami's attack caused the sea beast to be completely electrocuted and after that, she remained motionless with her head drooping and her eyes closed."YEAH! I did it!" Nami celebrated.“Wow, Nami's attack is impressive.” Chopper said.“Yes, she has turned out everything as I had planned,” Usopp said, acting proud.“WHAT!?” the reindeer questioned."Liar." Zoro and Sanji murmured.“Well done, Nami!” Miyu congratulated her, hugging her.“Goo!” Goo congratulated, floating her cheek to Nami's, making her laugh.“Who would have thought that my greatly improved climate tact couldn't fail?” She asked herself, smiling proudly... although it was not the time to claim victory... when a huge shadow covered them. And seeing where she came from… “What?” Nami murmured when she saw the Sea King's head very close to her and when she opened her eyes, they lit up an intense red. That color didn't look good at all."Huh?" Chopper, Miyu, Zeus and Goo muttered blankly."Hey... Nami, I think you made him too angry..." Usopp croaked, starting to panic.“Nami!” Jimbei called from below. “That Sea King comes from the eel family! The electricity doesn't affect them, but it bothers them a lot and makes them increasingly strong and angry!”“Grrrrrrrrr…” the Sea King growled, baring his teeth as his eyes pointed at the navigator, who turned a little blue with fear.“D-Don't you dare threaten my mom!” Miyu shouted. “Goo, attack!”“GOO!” Goo declared and transformed into a mallet and hit the tip of the Sea King's snout, which did not affect him."Oh yeah? "Well, let's see about this!" Miyu shouted and took out her slingshot and aimed it at the sea beast. “Flame Star!”And when she shot the marble, she expected it to explode in flames, but... Pip... the marble hit one of the monster's hard scales and fell into the water like a pebble. The Sea King narrowed his eyes as if asking her what that was about and Miyu stood frozen, smiling comically nervous and sweating bullets.“Dihihihihi… My, what tough skin you have…” the Lycan girl laughed nervously.“GROOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARGH!” The Sea King roared again and rushed towards them, opening his mouth to eat them in one gulp.“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!” Nami and Miyu shouted, hugging each other and with comical tears and…“Gum Gum… PISTOL!” Luffy shouted, suddenly appearing in the air and PAAF! He hits the Sea King's nose with a punch.“Groooaargh!” moaned the sea monster and fell backwards into the water with a huge tide.“Don't you dare eat our navigator and our apprentice!” Luffy shouted and addressed the girls. “Are you both okay?”“Y-Y-Yes, we're fine…” Miyu responded a little scared.“Thank you, Luffy. You've saved us…” Nami thanked him, but just at the moment… “LUFFY, BEHIND YOU!”Turning around, the Sea King returned again and like a madman, swam towards the ship, wanting to destroy it as revenge.“Not giving up, huh?” Luffy smiled and leaned forward in an attack manner and his skin turned reddish like a lobster, steam coming out. “Gear Second. Gum Gum…!” He declared and stretched his arms back.Nami's eyes focused more on Luffy instead of the sea monster, seeing how very bold and strong Luffy is. And just when the Sea King arrived at the Sunny...“…JET BAZOOKA!”PAAAAAAAAF!“Groooargh!” The Sea King moaned again after receiving the attack in his chest and flew far away from the pirate band that looked like a star in the sky.“Hahahaha! What did you think of it? ” the smiling captain laughed and Zoro, Sanji, Usopp and Franky's jaw dropped.“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, YOU MORON!?" the four shouted and Luffy finally realized it.“GAAAAH! THE DINNER!"“Jimbei, connect the Ship Bottom Rabbit Screw!” Franky called the helmsman.“Connecting the Ship Bottom Rabbit Screw!” Jimbei said taking the helm. “All helm to starboard!”And out went the ship sailing at full speed like lightning towards the Sea King, while the rest of the crew finally took a breath.“Damn, Luffy. "It's been two times that you shoot food into the distance." Usopp said scolding. “Couldn't you defeat him with a technique other than sending him far far away?”"Oh yeah? Well, it hadn't occurred to me.” Luffy said."Ugh... Thank goodness I used the Rumble Ball that only lasts three minutes..." said the exhausted Chopper back to his childish form and Robin held him in his arms delicately. “If I had eaten the thirty-minute one it would be bad right now.”“It's okay, Chopper.” Robin relaxed, smiling. “Do you want me to take you to your room so you can rest?”"Yes please."“Ooh… I thought we would be swallowed up in the guts of a Sea King and disintegrated to the bone.” Brook sat on the mast, relaxing. “Now that I think about it… I'm already to the bones. Yohohohohoho!”“Well, we finally have food for the next five days,” Zoro said sheathing his three swords.“Yes, I think I have thought of what we will have for dinner,” Sanji said lighting a cigarette."Excellent. “Today we had Sea King dinner.” Miyu was happy, raising her arms.“Goo goo!”But there was one who did not participate in the conversation and it was a certain sailor.“Nami?” Miyu asked after the two got down from the crow's nest. "What's the matter? “You are very quiet.”"Huh…? “Ah, no… it's nothing, honey…” Nami said, but she couldn't look away from her friends. And she felt something inside her that was beginning to doubt her.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Hours later that evening, Nami was alone in the helms, sipping coffee that Sanji brewed as she requested, sitting there silently, deepening in her thoughts of the events with the sea king attack.Most of the Straw Hats noticed her awkward quiet behavior as each tried to talk to her, but assured them that she was alright and just wanted some time alone. Even Zeus himself knew how down the navigator was showing. But it didn't help that Nami was trying to avoid what she was truly feeling deep inside herself away from her friends including Miyu who was more concerned for her than the rest.Although she needed to be alone for a while, she missed interacting with some of her friends, only if a few hours had passed. But the thoughts she had about her and the Sea King made the navigator very uncomfortable. She kept wondering if she is now strong and brave enough like Luffy and the others. She thought that after training the last two years she would have improved a lot and gotten stronger. But she doubted that she was still the same as before. Always when she faces difficult things to fight, she gets scared and is very afraid of losing her own life. Furthermore, what she feared most was feeling useless in fighting. For the entire crew, she is the only normal human being in the band. Would she continue like this for the crew? At that, she didn't know how to answer it.Nami breathed a sigh of relief and took the cup of coffee from her. She felt the warmth in her hands from the cup and before taking a sip, she closed her eyes to feel the warm taste of the coffee. And feeling relaxed, she opened her brown eyes slowly and what she saw in front of her and very close to her nose was the face of a certain happy and optimistic person with raven black hair and a scar on his left eye, smiling with teeth and teeth. a straw hat“Hey, Nami. Do you need company?" the captain asked.PFFFFFFFFT! Out of fright, Nami accidentally spits the coffee she had been drinking in her mouth into Luffy's face, who does not react due to the heat.“Luffy!” Nami shot her rubber friend. “Good grief, what a scare you've given me. My heart almost came out of my mouth.”“Shishishishi. Sorry, Nami. It was not my intention." Luffy laughed innocently.“Can I know what you want?” she asked.“Well, I wanted to know if you're okay, in case you need anything.”"Again? "I told you that I'm fine." the navigator insisted.“Well, everyone is very worried about you,” Luffy said showing his concern. “Miyu feels sad when he's not with you.”Nami felt terrible hearing that. She doesn't like that someone feels ignored by her, especially her little sister's figure. But she had no choice but to hide her feelings, which it hurts her to do.“I-I already told you. That nothing happens to me.” Nami said hiding. “I need a moment alone.”“Nami,” Luffy said with a face of reason. “Stop lying to yourself. I know you have something that hurts you. I see it in your eyes."Nami gasped silently. She didn't expect Luffy to notice right away.“I know that look and that emotion you have two years ago, when we met for the first time.” Luffy revealed. “It's the same thing you felt about your home and that you had nothing to get. and I'm not going to allow you to continue having it. But I don't want to bother you. Just ask me if you need me to help you. Because I would be happy to do it. Helping my friends is my top priority.” then she turned to leave the foredeck. “If you have any problem, just ask me and I will help you.”When Luffy was going to leave her alone, Nami was left thoughtful and speechless. She always knew Luffy very well. A very irrational, childish, optimistic, very tenacious person who always puts others in danger, but she is also very kind, has a good heart cares a lot about others, and trusts the crew so much. And Luffy is a very different pirate. Only when she asks Luffy to help her free her from Arlong and save her village, does the young pirate help her, and thanks to her, she is finally freed.Luffy is right, maybe it's time for him to help her again."Luffy, wait," Nami said making Luffy stop. “You're right, I'm not feeling very well. I feel something that makes me very doubtful. And… I trust that you can help me with this. “Can I talk to you… alone?”The captain turned around and gave her her typical smile.“Of course, Nami. "Come with me," Luffy said and took her to the mascaron, where she always sat in her favorite place. "Sit down. Don’t worry, you won’t fall.”And once they were both seated, they could see the day about to set and how the red sky began to darken and the stars appeared one by one.“Well, tell me, Nami.” Luffy started. “What is it that you say that makes you doubt?”“Well… I was wondering… This… I've been thinking…”"Yeah?"“Do you think I'm like you?” she asked and Luffy was confused.“Like…Like me?” Luffy repeated and Nami nodded. “Well… I would say no.”“I should have guessed.” she sighed.“You and I are the same,” Luffy explained. “For example, my hair is raven black and yours is long and orange. And my girl's eyes are black and yours are brown and-”“No, no, I mean if I'm like you physically.” Nami corrected."Uh?"“What if you think I'm strong and brave like you? And I'm not just talking about you. Like Zoro, Sanji, Jimbe, Franky, Robin…”"Why do you say that?""Because I still act the same as before... I act cowardly and run from fights that I can't handle." Nami went on, remembering back at the Onigashima Raid in Wano she and Usopp were running away in fear from Ulti and Page One during their first conflict against them.“Besides being a coward, I'm not as strong as you.” Nami rose to her knees up to her chest and hid her face in her arms. “Compared to the entire crew, I'm the only normal person on this ship. I don't have Haki, I haven't eaten any Devil Fruit, I'm not a swordswoman, I don't kick hard, I don't have Fishman Karate, I'm not a cyborg, I don't have electro, nor can I transform. Like I said, I’m the only normal person.”“But you are agile,” Luffy said giving him support. “Also, you fight with your weather staff and you have Zeus. Your fighting style is as cool as the others.”“I know, but I have no power in myself. I don't possess any monstrous abilities.”“What does that mean by monster?” Luffy asked confused.“I mean that I can't defeat dangerous people, and sea monsters, and destroy huge fortresses. As you do.”"Ah, I see." Luffy understood, crossing his arms."Now you know. I am not like you.” Nami let out a deep sigh. “That's why I doubted myself a lot after the recent Sea King event. I thought I would have gotten stronger during the last two years of training to be more prepared to fight in the New World. But I am beginning to think that I am useless in battles and fights.”“Who told you to be used?” Luffy questioned as if he had heard something forbidden.“Hm?” Nami murmured.“Nami, I don't consider you to be an object to use. You are a person with your desires and dreams. Besides, you have great skill and know how to fight.”“How can you be so sure?” she asked."Well..." Luffy pondered and bit before saying. "...I get the fact that you don't look strong, I understand you lack devil fruit powers, any form of haki, Fishman karate, or any of the other stuff are friends have."Then Luffy thought for a moment about a certain someone and asked."Kinda think of it... isn't Usopp a normal human in our crew as well?""Oh yeah," Nami realized. "I forgot about Usopp.""You see it?" he asked smiling. “Usopp is a normal person, but he has great ability. Look how good a sniper he is. I remember hearing that Usopp saved me and Traffy when that girl appeared to us, who turned out to be the one who turned toys into others and defeated her with one of her green bullets from very far away. Also, she helped me at Ennies Lobby by inspiring me when she was fighting the pigeon guy. Sadly, she wasn't there with us much, but we had Sogeking by our side. I must admit that Usopp now has become a very good sniper like Sogeking.”“That's because Sogeking is Usopp.” thought Nami, who didn't want to say it out loud having Luffy and Chopper next to her.“And you know something?“ Luffy added. “He has also become a god and thanks to that we have had many friends who helped us in Dressrosa. I didn't expect to be friends with a divine being. Shishishishi.”“But Luffy, that's because…” Nami said but she didn't want to continue it because he had no chance due to his captain's innocence. “You may be right about that, but Usopp saved you in Dressrosa because he awakened his Observation Haki. A normal person would not be able to do it with how far and difficult it is.” I let out a light sigh. “You already heard it. I am not as strong and brave as you. Usopp may have improved in the last two years, just like Chopper. Although he is still the same cute reindeer boy that we know, he knows how to fight and defend himself. If you had seen how they fought.” Nami continued, remembering how Usopp and Chopper defeated the two officers of the New Fishman Pirates. “Surely they would be able to protect you and I wouldn't.”“They protect me why?” Luffy repeated in confusion and Nami covered her mouth, realizing that he had escaped her. "What do you mean by that?"“I-It's nothing.” Nami stuttered hiding her feelings from him.“Come on, go ahead.”"It's stupid."“Nami, tell me.”The navigator sighed again.“There are three reasons why I want to be strong so much.” she started. “First of all, typically, I wanted to become strong to protect the crew and prevent us from getting into a climate problem so we wouldn't end up sunk. The second reason was because I want to be like her.”"Whom?"“A Belle-Mère.”“Belle-Mère? And who is she?""My mother.""Your mother?" Luffy was surprised when he heard that for the first time and tried to remember. "How odd. I have not heard that name when we were in your town.”“As you can see, you're the only one who doesn't know,” Nami said. “My mother was a Marine soldier.”"Of the Marine?" Luffy repeated and Nami nodded. “Like my grandfather, only he is a vice admiral.”Nami continued continuing. “She is not my biological mother, but she saved me and Nojiko when I was still a baby on a battlefield. She brought us into her town and adopted us as her daughters. She was a strong, brave, kind, and very loved woman. I was always very inspired by her.”"Oh yeah?" Luffy asked smiling. "And where is she? “I would like to meet him one day.”There was a brief silence and Nami broke it with a sad smile.“She… passed away ten years ago… sacrificing her life to save me and Nojiko from Arlong…”Luffy gasped silently and worried about her. “I'm sorry, Nami.” Luffy apologized. “I shouldn't have asked you.”"No problem," he told her, changing her sad smile into happiness. “You defeated Arlong for me and that satisfies me well.”Hearing that, the rubber captain calmed down.“And what is the third reason?” Luffy asked and Nami hugged each other more.“The third reason why I want to be like you is because… because… because, just like everyone else, I want to protect your life.”“Protect me? Because?" Luffy asked."Listen, Luffy, you are a great friend to me and my captain, but you are much more than that," Nami said confessing. “You freed me from the evil that tormented me and gave me hope to move forward. I was very determined to help you fulfill your dream of becoming the Pirate King and you to make mine come true. But I always worry about your well-being and I'm afraid of losing you and that you will continue to suffer after what happened…”Nami couldn't say it, for fear that Luffy had an emotional shock, but Luffy understood what she was referring to... or rather, who."Oh yeah," Luffy said and let her continue.“When I saw the newspaper and found out about what happened in that war, seeing the photo of your brother, I was scared thinking what you were going to feel when you had him before your eyes.” She clenched her fists tightly and closed her eyes. “It must have been the most horrible thing that could have happened to you. And I know, because I also had it when I saw my mother die before my eyes and surely others must have had it. I don't know how you managed to get to Marineford after Kuma separated us on Sabaody, but…”Then he raised her head, opening her eyes, revealing the tears welling up on her corneas.“It must have been very difficult for you. And I know it for a reason. “Luffy, do you remember what you told us when you faced Arlong?”“Without the help of my friends, I would end up lost without achieving it.” The captain suggested.“Exactly, and I guess you knew it because you needed us and… none of us were there.” She said lamentingly. “That's why, upon hearing that, I had to quickly go to Sabaody and meet you to help you before your heart breaks from the suffering. And when you gave us the message that we had to train during the two years, I thought that I could become strong to protect you from any danger and help you become the King of the Pirates.”“Nami.” Luffy whispered."Look, Luffy, I know I'm not strong or brave," she said, forming tears. “But I wish so much to help you and I wish so much that I had been at Marineford with the others to save Ace. I'm sorry, Luffy. “I’m sorry for not being there and letting you suffer so much.”And the navigator started to cry and Luffy watched as she covered her hands on her face, remembering the day when she met Genzo that night when they were at the place where that wooden cross was.“Hey, Luffy… Please listen to me very carefully. Nami will travel on your ship from now on, and she will be a pirate. It will be a very dangerous trip. So if you do anything that wipes the smile off his face… I will chase you to the end of the world to kill you!”It was what Luffy promised Genzo and when he saw the navigator crying sadly he did not want to allow her to continue like this and he had to do something to keep her smile. The first thing he did was put his hand on her shoulder and Nami let him hold it while she continued crying and Luffy used her other hand to caress her long, beautiful orange hair.“Nami.” Luffy said agreeing with him. “You are not to blame for what happened. Not even Zoro and the others. I never have a grudge against you, and you know it. And you don't have to doubt it. Being strong is not about having strength or power. And it's okay to be afraid. I know because I had it.”Nami lifted her head to see her captain's face her eyes still watering with tears when Luffy smiled.“Nami, I'm going to tell you something that once made me doubt my strength and my bravery.” Luffy began counting, remembering a certain person with blood-red hair and a very identical straw hat. “It was in the bar at my home when Shanks and his gang returned and I asked him to join the crew, telling him that I am very strong, having fists as strong as a gun, but he refused to take me and that bothered me a lot because he kept telling me that I was still a child. But everything changed when a bandit and his gang appeared at the bar.”“A gang of bandits?” Nami repeated, wiping her eyes.Yeah," Luffy closed his eyes and flashed back to that day. "Just some group of mountain bandits led by some jerk called Higuma."“So what happened?” She asked, very attentive to his story.“Higuma and his gang entered the bar and believing themselves superior to our hometown, they asked Makino, the owner of the bar, for ten barrels of Sake.” Luffy continued with his story. “She apologized, telling them that there wasn't any left because they had all already been drunk by Shanks and his gang. Shanks handed Higuma what was left, a single bottle of Sake. But Higuma rejected it, breaking it and spilling the sake on the floor and splashing Shanks. I was surprised by what had just happened. The idiot questioned if he was playing them for fools and making it known that he was a wanted man with a bounty of eight million Berrys.“Well it doesn't seem like much,” Nami said, remembering that the East Blue is the weakest ocean of all with some criminals whose reward is less than the others. “With that bounty, it doesn't seem like a threat to me. But how much reward does Shanks have? You remember?""Let's see..." Luffy suggested thoughtfully. “If I remember correctly… I think it was 1,040,000,000 Berrys.”“1040 Billion!?” Nami questioned with widened eyes. “But that is the number of Emperor of the Seas!”“I didn't know about that until my grandfather told me about it in Water Seven two years ago,” Luffy said smiling. “But it was cool that I knew Shanks when he was very strong that day.”“Well, what did Shanks do with that bandit? Did you respond with attacks?”"No," Luffy responded simply, shaking his head. “He just looked at the wet floor and apologized to Makino for that, asking for a cloth to clean and Higuma took out his saber and broke all the bottles, splashing more on Shanks and wetting the entire floor. But he refused to fight and the bandits left the bar, mocking them. And when they left, Shanks and his crew laughed out loud at what had happened as if they had played a joke on him. But I got angry at them, especially Shanks. I always thought they were awesome pirates, but at that moment I was disappointed, seeing how pathetic they seemed to me. And as frustrated as I was, I found a small chest with something very strange inside and I ate it without thinking twice.”“Did you eat it when you were disappointed?” Nami asked with an eyebrow raised in confusion. “And you hadn't thought of any other way?”“Well no, but when Shanks saw me eating it, he was shocked and stood up holding my legs and shook me violently to make me spit it out.” Luffy continued remembering that unexpected moment.“LUFFY!” Shanks shouted with horror in his eyes. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? DON’T TELL ME YOU ATE IT!” Then he grabbed the boy's legs and started shaking him. “SPIT IT OUT! SPIT IT OUT! SPIT IT OUT!”“What-are-you-doing?” Luffy shouted and…Booiing!His legs collapsed and his body fell towards the ground, crashing his face into it.PFFFFFFFFFT!With the shock of surprise, the pirates spat the alcohol up and the body rose again and his legs returned to normal.“What… What happened to your legs!?” Yasopp questioned."IT'S NOT HERE!" Lucky Roo shouted with an empty chest. “THE DEVIL FRUIT WE HAD LOOTED IS NOT HERE!”"WHAT!?" everyone shouted.“Luffy, tell me you haven't eaten a fruit like this!” The fat pirate Luffy showed a drawing about the purple fruit.“Y-Yes. “It tasted very strange.” Luffy responded, confused by what was happening.“THAT YOU ATE WAS THE GUM GUM FRUIT, A DEVIL FRUIT!” Shanks shouted, getting up to look at him tit for tat. “IF YOU EAT IT, YOU BECOME A RUBBER MAN AND IT TAKES AWAY YOUR ABILITY TO SWIM! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO SWIM FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!”“Wha… WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!?” Luffy shouted in panic.“YOU IDIOOOOOOOOT!”Hearing that, Nami went blank with her eyes narrowed."So... the origin of turning you into a rubber boy was accidentally due to disappointment." Nami suggested.“Good, and because I was hungry.” Luffy said. “I had it as dessert.”“Ugh.” Nami groaned with her hand on her forehead. “I should have guessed. I hope you're not the only one in this crew who ate a devil fruit by accident.”“ACHOOO!”“What happened, Robin?” Usopp asked the archaeologist, when he was planting in his garden and Robin was watering his flowers. “Did you get the pollen?”"No." She said scratching her nose. “I just felt like someone was talking about me.”“Chopper, are you okay?” Sanji asked, entering the infirmary while he and Miyu were making dinner. “I thought I heard a sneeze.”“No, no, no, I'm fine.” The reindeer responded by scratching his snout with his hoof. “It just seemed to me that someone has been talking about me.”“What happen now, Brook?” Zoro asked when he, Brook and Jimbei were meditating in the Crow's Nest and with the loud sneeze he interrupted the silence.“Have you caught a cold?” The Fishman asked.“No, that's not it.” replied the skeleton musician. “I sneezed when I had the feeling of someone talking about me. Wait… I don't have a nose. “Yohohohoho!”Back to the figurehead…“Wait a minute…” Nami said, remembering something. “Now that I think about it, it rings a bell.”"About what?" Luffy asked.“Well, the thing about Shanks refusing to fight while the bandits humiliate him. "I think I've seen something similar.""Oh yeah. You mean about Mock Town.”"Yeah, that's what I mean! It was the same as you and Zoro did.”"That's how it is. It was the same."“But why did you do it? I don't understand. Why did you refuse to fight and let them humiliate you?“It's very simple because they were not worth fighting,” Luffy explained. “Shanks taught me that he would not confront pirates who are “empty”, without ambitions or dreams. And those people didn’t consider themselves real pirates.”Nami remained silent and after hearing that, she had a strange emotion that made her uncomfortable and Luffy recognized that look.“Oh, now you feel embarrassed for not knowing this before, right?” Luffy guessed and Nami nodded her head, showing her embarrassment. “It's okay, Nami. You just didn't know it. That's all. “You don’t have to feel that way.”“But at that moment, after feeling humiliated by those people from that horrible city, I got angry with you and said nothing about it. But now that I realize…”“Nami, I already told you, you don't have to apologize,” Luffy said showing her smile."And why not?"“Because I didn't order you not to do anything, no matter what. Also at that time, you didn't know what it was like to be a real pirate. But right now I see that you are.”Nami changed her embarrassed face with a warm smile and asked her to continue with the story.“Well, as you know, I ate the demon fruit and turned into a rubber boy. Although I can't swim, I was happy to have these powers. “They were very cool.”“No wonder.”“Shanks and his band went sailing for a few days, but I was still disappointed with what happened.” Luffy continued. “When I went to the bar for lunch, I told Makino that he had overestimated Shanks and his band and thought they were awesome. But Makino thought otherwise because she thought it was fun to see Shanks and them laughing. Although she knew nothing about what it meant when a man had to fight for her honor."“That Makino must be a good person,” Nami said smiling.“She is, and always will be,” Luffy said smiling toothily. “Always when I come to eat at her bar, she so generously prepares my food and I promise to pay her with my Treasure tab. When she has so many treasures, I plan to pay her for everything I have done. “Shishishishi.” Luffy laughed the same as Nami did. The truth is that for her, having this type of conversation makes her very happy. “I miss her so much. I wonder how she is doing. Surely one day I will come to see her again and tell her about all the adventures I have had.”“I'm sure you will,” Nami said, remembering Makino as her mother. Although... She nor anyone on the crew has wondered anything about Luffy's mother. Maybe he doesn't know if he's had it or he doesn't remember her. But she could say that type of question another time. “And how does the story continue?”"Well..." He thought for a moment, trying so hard to remember. "Oh, geez, it's been years since my childhood I'm sorta hazy with my memories.""That doesn't surprise me." Nami jokingly sighed. "Knowing you so much that you tend to forget things.""Oh wait, now I remember." He said and continued with the story, remembering it. “Well, it turns out that Higuma and his gang returned to the village again and entered the bar, laughing out loud at Shanks and his companions for that event. And those bastards dared to call Shanks a coward. I got angry at them and stood up, holding out my hand to tell them not to insult Shanks and his gang."I thought you were disappointed in Shanks," Nami asked confused. Hadn't you stopped being friends with him at that point?“I still was. If we are friends I can insult, but if an idiot does it, then I scold him.” Luffy confessed and continued. “Then Higuma, furious at what she had said, dragged me out of the bar and punched and kicked me, but they realized that they hadn't hurt me due to the effect of Gum Gum Fruit. “I still remember that that very arrogant man was thinking of selling me to a circus for that.”"Horrible," Nami whispered, thinking badly of that bandit. People who harm children are the kind of people she would never forgive in life.“But I resisted.” Luffy continued. “Even though those mountain bandits trampled me, I continued to fight, demanding an apology from Shanks. The people in my town were afraid of what was going to happen to me. Makino and Mayor Woop Slap arrived and begged for my release in exchange for money. But Higuma refused to accept it because he hated being insulted by weaklings and sheathed his sword just as he appeared."Nami remained silent, smiling in relief at knowing who she was referring to."When the bandits saw Shanks and his gang, they still underestimated them." Luffy continued. “When Shanks took a step forward, one of the bandits warned him not to continue advancing, threatening him with a gun to the head. I remember when he asked him that since you draw your gun, you will be willing to use it. Confused, the bandit asked him what he meant by that. And if you use it you will be willing to risk your life, since those are not toys to scare people.”"Hey, that's the same thing you said when we first met Usopp," Nami remembered the day they arrived at the Gecko Islands and met the gang's future sniper."Of course it is. "Shishishi!" Luffy laughed. "And when he finished the sentence, Lucky Roo appeared out of nowhere and shot the bandit."So what happened after? Did things end violently?" Nami asked, bracing herself for the bloodshed part."Of course not. It wasn’t that violent.” Luffy said shaking his head. “When the bandits were surprised by that, Shanks was free to continue. And as he continued walking, his good-natured face changed into one of seriousness and anger.”“Listen to me very well, mountain bandits. You can spill food on me if you want. You can soak me in alcohol if you want. And you can make me clean up everything you've messed up if you want. So I can laugh about it at ease. But I'm not going to let someone hurt one of my friends no matter what the reason. And it is something that I will never forgive.”“That's what Shanks said... and I was completely impressed. But Higuma laughed horribly as if he had heard the worst joke in the story, not believing that he would never forgive him. So he sent his henchmen to attack them, but they were no match for Beckman, Shanks' vice-captain. Then Higuma, full of panic, had no choice but to flee using a smoke bomb and taking me on a boat to flee the island.”"Coward," Nami said."When we got very far from the island, the bandit had decided to finish me off and I started an attack plan to hit him. But I wasn't strong enough that time alone when he kicked me into the ocean.”Nami gasped in shock, covering her mouth with his hand.“I cursed myself because I was very weak and fell into the water. Due to the effect of the Devil Fruit, my body was sinking and I desperately tried to keep my head above the water when I was still floating the bandit laughed cruelly until the Lord of the Coast appeared behind him, breaking the surface. ”"Who?" Nami asked curiously.“A giant eel with sharp teeth and blood-red eyes,” Luffy explained and Nami was stunned.“Are you telling me… that there are Sea Kings on your island?” She asked with wide eyes.“We only know that there was that one,” Luffy admitted, which is that Nami thought it was strange that Sea Kings existed in the East Blue. Maybe that one migrated from the Calm Belt. “Higuma was scared of the Sea King when he ate him whole and when he saw me trying to swim, he swam as fast as possible towards me and opened his jaws… until Shanks appeared and the life came out of me. The sea monster did not give up but in the end, he did when he saw Shanks' threatening look. At that time I didn't know what he had done to scare away the Sea King, but in the end, I realized that Shanks used the Conqueror's Haki." Luffy continued and a memory came to his mind.“Makino has told us everything,” Shanks said smiling and holding Luffy in the water. “Thank you very much for defending our honor.”Tears welled up in little Luffy's eyes.“Hey, don't cry, Luffy. You are a man, remember?”“B-But Shanks… Where is… YOUR ARM?” cried Luffy with tears overflowing, revealing how Shanks lost his entire left arm and only had his shoulder left bleeding into the stump. But Shanks didn't stop smiling at the boy.“Luffy, it's just an arm. The important thing is that you are still alive and that makes me happy.”“So that's how it happened,” Nami whispered, remembering when Rayleigh mentioned two years ago when she found Shanks without his hat and his arm. Everyone knows that Shanks lost his arm, but she didn't know it was like that.“I felt terrible. "I felt guilty that Shanks had sacrificed his arm to save me, even though he didn't care that he lost it," Luffy said confessing his regret. “Shanks was right. A child who is not very prepared cannot survive being part of a pirate crew. He wasn't strong enough like them. At first, it made me angry to admit the truth, but Shanks once told me that being strong is not about having strength or great power, but rather about having faith in yourself and that is what makes you strong. ”Nami remained silent as she became fascinated by that saying. Maybe that has to do with what makes her strong.“When Shanks and his gang were going to leave, I decided to prepare and become a pirate. Shanks joked, telling me that I have nothing to turn you into a pirate. It was then that I assured him that one of these days I would have a much better and more powerful crew than his, I would find the One Piece and become the King of the Pirates. ” Then Luffy took off his hat to see it before his eyes, smiling. “Shanks accepted the challenge and he gave me the hat with the promise that it would be returned when he had turned me into a great pirate. And for that reason, this is my great treasure.”“I see, so that's what happened,” Nami said smiling, but then she remained curious. “But what about your experience that you had about fear?”"Oh yeah. I forgot to tell you.” Luffy said remembering it.“Uh?”“Listen, Nami, it's not that I wanted it, but it is something I want you to understand that not all the brave are the ones who are never afraid.”“What…what do you mean, Luffy?” Nami asked, nervous about what he was going to tell her, but she trusted Luffy and she knew that he did it to reason with her. So she stayed attentive and Luffy let out a light sigh and put the hat on his head, leaving his eyes shadowed.“Tell me, Nami, did you ever hear about the Grey Terminal fire?” I ask her.“Grey Terminal?” She repeated trying to remember. “I think I heard about it a long time ago when Belle-Mère read an article about it. She said that a band of pirates called Bluejam terrorizes the capital of the Kingdom of Goa, burning down a landfill behind the walls. Several people who lived there had died. Why?"Luffy didn't say a word as his eyes continued to be shadowed by the hat. Recognizing that silence, the navigator's pupils dilated and he gasped silently."Luffy... Don't tell me that..."“The Kingdom of Goa is the country where I was born, although my village was far from the capital,” Luffy said and started. “It was almost twelve years ago, when Ace, Sabo, and I were hanging out like brothers and having great adventures on Mt. Corvo. We were very happy in those times until that horrible day came. We were at the Grey Terminal, looking for old objects for our shelter and…”"What happened?" Nami asked, gulping and expecting the worst."Are you sure you want to know?" Luffy asked her, cautiously. "You might not like what you'll hear.""No, Luffy." She said showing her confidence to continue listening. “If you want to tell me, I will fight to listen to it.”"Are you sure?" Luffy asked her and looking into her eyes, showing that he trusted her a lot, he sighed and began. "Very good. As you already know, the three of us were at the Gray Terminal looking for more objects for our pirate shelter. That place was a real dump, with large mountains of garbage and old objects. And everything came from the capital because of the people there who threw them through the immense walls. The sad thing was that a lot of people lived there. Many of them were poor people who took refuge to stay and many of them were violent and attacked and robbed to survive. The three of us had to separate so that each of us could bring any object that would be useful to us. What I always wanted to have was a telescope because with that I could see far away and it would be very cool to have it. but suddenly, some pirates led by their captain Bluejam took us by surprise but what came next was something unexpected, especially for Sabo. It turns out that Bluejam and his gang were working for a nobleman and that nobleman was Sabo's father."“Sabo's father…?” Nami repeated surprised. “Wait, your brother belongs to the nobility?”“It belonged to them.” Luffy corrected.“Wait, if Sabo is from a noble family, how come he was living with a guy outside the capital?”“Sabo ran away from his parents for a good reason. He told us that his life as a nobleman was not the happiest for him. He never had the freedom to decide in the eyes of his parents. They only wanted Sabo to always be his heir and marry a princess to continue with the nobility. For him, his parents treated him like an object, they never gave love to his son. That's why he fled the capital, in search of freedom."Nami was sad to hear that as her eyes were shining with tears.“Nami? What's the matter?" Luffy asked when he saw the sad navigator.“When… When I was a little girl I lived with my family in poverty and I hated it.” She confessed. “Sabo had the life that I wanted to have him, and tired of living poor, I told my mother that I wished I had been welcomed into a rich family with a palace and beautiful clothes. Saying this broke my mother's heart and it breaks me remembering it. Because I realize that having money doesn't make people happy when you have people you care about. I wish… I wish I hadn’t said it.”To comfort her, Luffy put his hand on her shoulder. “Come on, don't cry, Nami.” Said the rubber boy. “I'm sure you didn't mean it. And deep down you know it. Besides, I don't see you as selfish as you think.”Nami wiped her eyes at him, smiling. "Thank you, Luffy." She said and let Luffy continue with his story.“Sabo's father hired Bluejam to catch us to get Sabo back. When he saw us he looked at us with contempt and treated us as if we were trash for being commoners. He accused us of having led Sabo to the 'path of evil'. Plus he intended to give the order to kill us if Sabo doesn't comply.""I can not believe it." Nami hissed, feeling hatred for that noble. He couldn't believe that Sabo was related to a man who didn't know how to be a good father to his son and intended to kill children. If she met that false father, she would respond with an electric attack from Zeus to teach her how important children are.“Upon hearing what they were going to do, Sabo sacrificed his freedom by agreeing to return to his parents with the promise of letting me and Ace live. For him, we are his inseparable brothers.” Luffy said with a face mixed with anger and sadness and Nami gasped imagining Sabo how she wanted to sacrifice her home and her people for a certain fishman. “Ace and I told him not to leave, but he couldn't change his mind because of the threat from his father. So, sad inside him, he left. The last thing I remembered about him that day was that when he tripped, he dropped an old telescope and one of the guards stepped on it and broke it. I realized that Sabo found it and I kept it for myself.”“And his father let you go?” Nami asked.“No, Bluejam had us trapped and he offered us a job to carry some boxes to any marked place in the Gray Terminal,” Luffy said. “Ace accepted in exchange for letting us go and we carried a lot of very heavy boxes.”"Boxes?" Nami asked curiously, with an eyebrow raised."Yeah," Luffy sighed. "And let me tell you, it wasn't pretty at all."“Uh?”“Ace and I continued carrying the boxes on every route that Bluejam gave us and we had to sleep a little. But every night we slept I thought a lot about Sabo and was starting to miss him." Luffy said. “A few days later, once we had finished that job, they told us what they were planning to do and that was that they were going to stop being pirates and set fire to the entire Gray Terminal and it was absolutely crazy. I don't know why they were going to withdraw, but the worst thing was that he told us that those boxes we had brought had powder and with a hole we made a fuse without realizing it. "Nami gasped silently with widened eyes.“We had to run out and warn everyone, but Bluejam and his men caught us and left us tied up in his old boat, which they also let burn because of their retirement, leaving us to burn to death.”"How horror." Nami whispered.“When Bluejam and his gang left us stranded, they started the fire and the fire started with the ship.” Luffy said, remembering the time when they were tied and the fire surrounded us. "Luckily Ace was able to grab a piece of glass and use it to cut the rope and we managed to escape from the ship, but seeing the entire Terminal in flames, hearing the people's cries for help, fear filled me inside and the blame.""Luffy, it's not your fault." Nami said. “Nor Ace.”“Even if you say it, I feel responsible for that.”"No, Luffy." She comforted, putting her hands on his shoulders. “You are not to blame for anything. It's Bluejam who organized this. He had only used you and deceived you. That's all. But what I don't understand is how a criminal pirate may have decided to retire after committing such a heinous crime. It does not make any sense. Because when a pirate stops being one, he can't have a normal life again.”“Did you forget I told you that Bluejam worked for someone?” Luffy asked and it didn't take long for Nami to know the answer.“Are you telling me… that Sabo's father organized it?”“Not only him, the King, and all the nobles were the masterminds of the fire.”“But how could they be so capable of doing such crazy things!?” Nami questioned, unable to believe it.“I'll tell you that later,” Luffy said and continued. “We managed to escape from the ship and to get to the forest we had to cross the burning terminal. I was scared at that event, but I tried to fake it so Ace wouldn't scold me. What we didn't expect was for Bluejam to show up, but he was furious like a mad dog. His men attacked us and seriously injured me and Ace, with stress, shouted to let me go and with that, he made all the pirates.""What? “Did Ace also have Conqueror’s Haki?” Nami asked surprised."Yes and that terrifies Bluejam who tried to kill him until Dadan and his gang showed up to save us, but Ace refused to flee and stayed there to defeat Bluejam.""But why!? He was still a child!” Nami questioned, realizing how very stubborn Ace was."Hey, I'd thought the same way, too." Luffy vouched. "I thought he was crazy that Ace would handle them despite being a kid.""Hey, I'd thought the same way, too." Luffy vouched. "I thought he was crazy that Ace would handle them despite being a kid. But he wasn't the only one, Dadan also stayed by his side to fight and they took me to our shelter. When they treated my wounds, I spent days and Days and days without hearing anything from Ace and Dadan. They hadn't come back yet. And every day that he didn't show up, I got sad and I was afraid of what had happened to them. Until he finally showed up, carrying a wounded Dadan on his shoulders. "I cried with joy and hugged Ace, no matter how bad my loneliness was. But Ace scolded me for believing that he thought he had died. I was happy to have Ace again, but something horrible happened."Nami swallowed, waiting for something she would hear.“A day later, Dogra returned and told us what the nobles were up to about the fire and it was to do a quick cleanup to avoid offending a Celestial Dragon that came to inspect the kingdom.”“C-Celestial Dragon!?” Nami repeated in shock. “You mean the ones we saw in Sabaody!? “That's why they started the fire.”"That's right," Luffy replied, showing his hatred for those nobles. “At the time I didn't know what they were like until I saw them in person in the last two years. And I feel contempt for those for several reasons. For what they did to Hachi and Camie and for…”"Luffy...?" Nami asked as she saw his captain gritting her teeth and closing her eyes."Dogra told us that when the Celestial Dragon's ship approached the port, a small fishing boat came sailing and moved away from the ship, but the Celestial Dragon, offended by interrupting its path, shot at the boat... and in that boat was..."Nami gasped in shock, covering her mouth with her hands and his pupils dilated and with a whisper, the word came out of his mouth.“Sabo.”“When we heard it, we refused to believe it because Ace and I knew that Sabo was living with his parents in the capital, but reality opened our eyes, knowing that Sabo was not happy. That's why he had to flee and…”The navigator stayed frozen imagining what could have happened to the boy Sabo if he was shot by those nobles from the World Government. How could they allow those monsters to do such a thing to innocent people, especially to defenseless children? All because of a stupid interruption?“I burst into tears. I burst into tears all night for Sabo and I couldn't bear to accept it.” Luffy said sadly."I'm so sorry, Luffy," Nami said, affected by the story, and grabbed the rubber boy's neck and gave him a tight hug. “I didn't know that you also had a terrible time in your past.”Luffy paused, feeling Nami's arms around her neck and her head resting on his shoulder he could hear a light, silent sob and he noticed how a tear fell on his shoulder, knowing that she cried lightly. Luffy knew what she felt and it was that she also had a terrible time in her past. So he hugged her back gently.“I just never realized how much you, Ace, and Sabo had been through all this time. It must’ve been rough for ya, hasn’t it, Luffy?” She asked, not drawing contact with her captain.“No, Nami,” He takes a deep breath. “It hasn’t...”In the end, Nami looked into Luffy's sad eyes but did not dare to let go of his arms.“As I continued to cry for him, I made a decision,” Luffy said remembering the cliff where he was with Ace twelve years ago. “I swore I would become stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger to protect the people that matter most to me and I will never lose them.”Nami was left in a brief silence when he broke it with a sad voice. “So… your biggest fear you have… is losing your friends and family, who are the ones that matter most to you, right?”“Yes, Nami, I was always afraid of ending up living alone, without having someone. Because… because being alone is more painful than getting hurt.”“Oh, Luffy…” Nami whispered, imagining how painful Luffy felt with loneliness.“That's why I asked Ace to promise me that he would never die,” Luffy said and Nami let out a silent gasp in shock. He understands very well what Luffy feels, but that promise is quite impossible to keep.“But, Luffy… that's…” she began to explain, but Luffy raised his hand and put it on her lips to silence her.“I know, Nami. I know that was impossible.” Luffy admitted when a flashback came to him of his brother acting as a shield to save me from the fist of that lava psychopath. “I knew it when I lost him. I had him before my eyes and in my arms... and I could hear his faint voice and I saw how his body fell and what happened next I didn't what happened to me, but I remember that I fell asleep for a long time... until when I woke up after a very long time... I lost my mind and found myself in Amazon Lilly, I tried to wake up believing that what happened in Marineford and Ace was all a dream."“I wish it were…” the navigator thought, understanding her friend.“But every time I hit the ground and rocks and pinched my cheeks until they bled, I finally admitted that it wasn't all a dream… and I cried for them. To Ace and Sabo. It was the most horrible moment that happened to me in my life. And what's worse... I did a terrible thing. And it was that I told myself that I am not the man who is going to become the King of the Pirates… That I was very weak.”Hearing that word, Nami stopped breathing and felt as if something stabbed her in the heart.“What… What did he say…?” Nami whispered to herself with her eyes dilated.Luffy weak? She couldn't believe that his captain, the person who saved people's lives and gave them a great future and a life forward, the person who made the impossible, could say something like that. This reminded her of the same thing when she discovered that Arlong had betrayed her and all her people took up arms to fight for her and she fell to her knees feeling defeated and finished. It was that moment when she almost lost her dream if it weren't for Luffy, but Luffy could have also lost it after the death of his brother. He couldn't imagine how horrible he might have felt. Of all the people she knew and cared about with all her heart, why did it have to be Luffy? What has Luffy done to have such a tragic fate?“I felt weak and couldn't be able to protect anyone.” She continued fighting not to have tears. “I have failed Ace and you too. I have not been the strongest to protect you in Sabaody and prevent us from being separated.”“Stop, Luffy!” Nami exclaimed suddenly grabbing her hands on her shoulders and Luffy saw how the navigator's eyes welled up with tears that fell on her cheeks. “Please… Don't say that… You are not weak… You are the strongest person I have ever met in my life. Furthermore, you have saved me and everyone, you saved kingdoms and islands and you gave us a reason to continue forward. Without you, we would not have recovered hope. Plus, you have us and we will always be by your side to help you. If it wasn’t for you, I would be in the hell I was in Arlong Park.” She then buried her face in Luffy's chest as he cried. “So… Please… Please don't say that you are weak. I won’t allow that.”Luffy smiled sadly and stroked Nami's long orange hair.“I'm sorry, Nami. You are right what you say.” Luffy said. “You are the second person to say it.”Nami made eye contact with Luffy."What?" she asked, surprised. “Who was the first?”“Jimbei, of course.”“Jimbei?”Luffy nodded.“He was with me helping me in Marineford and thanks to him he opened my eyes to see reality,” Luffy said telling Nami what Jimbei did for him.“Think about it! What do you still have left!?”“I… I… I still have my friends! Zoro! Nami! Usopp! Sanji! Chopper! Robin! Franky! Brook! “My friends are still here!”“Thanks to him, I was able to move forward. And I understood that Ace saved my life with all the love he had for me and he had faith that I could achieve my dream." Luffy said smiling. “I know because I keep remembering his last words.”“Thanks for loving me… with all your heart!”“Therefore, he never regretted his sacrifice after finding the answer he was looking for. Plus, you can't imagine how happy I was when I found out that Sabo was still alive. I still remember how I cried a lot and the look on my face in Dressrosa. “Shishishishi.”“SAAAAAAABOOOOOOO! WAAAAAAHHH! DAMN! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THIS TIME!? “I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN!”“Thank you very much, Luffy. “I’m so happy you’re still alive.”“Bu-Bu-But, Sabo… I… I saw how Ace died before my eyes…”“I know, Luffy. I know it was horrible. But, little brother, you have managed to stay alive.”“That's what happened. And you know something, Nami? Jimbei once told me that Ace told him a lot about me and our meeting in Alabasta, meeting you. And he told me that he was happy that I had found many friends and that he had a lot of confidence in you to take care of me because he couldn't imagine that I have such an impressive crew.”Nami's lips formed into a happy smile and this time her sad tears turned into joy as she closed her eyes.“Thanks, Jimbei…” She thought, happy that the whale shark man had been with Luffy during the separation and had helped him a lot and she was happy to have him in the crew that she had thought of thanking him in person.“Well, that's all I've had to tell you about my doubt of strength and being afraid,” Luffy said, showing Nami her happy face. “As you already know, the true strength of a person in becoming strong is to have faith in themselves, no matter if you are strong because you have trained a lot or because you have impressive power.”“Yes, that is true. But why is fear necessary?” she asked.“It's okay to have it, because fear is also part of the person,” Luffy said and Nami stayed attentive. “Shanks told me about that once. I remember him telling me that fear tests your courage because true courage is there to be conquered. But fear can show that you can also have courage. A great pirate is not truly brave if he is not afraid. Do you understand?”Nami stood thoughtfully, placing her fingers on her chin.“Listen, Nami.” Luffy said next. “I am the strongest of the crew and I usually defeat several opponents who oppose us and my duty is to protect my crew as captain so that you can achieve your dreams and overcome the fear of losing yourself. I will always fight to become the King of the Pirates and live great adventures with you. Nami, you are also strong and brave and it is for several reasons. You are one of the smartest people I have ever met, you know how to steal very well and you are very good at drawing maps. You never give up on your dream of making the map of the entire world. But your real ability that makes you strong is your navigation talent. You are the best sailor in the world. No one would be the same as you. Because look where we are. We are in the New World and we have been able to survive the other half of the Grand Line thanks to you. Without you, we would not have survived and would end up dead in an instant.”Nami's cheeks turned red.“Nami? What's the matter? You have a fever?" Luffy asked and Nami gasped in fright and she got nervous.“Eh… no, no, it's not that… It's just… you've given me so many compliments that I'm not able to deny it…” she said, blushing more than before and she chuckled nervously.“Shishishishi.” Luffy laughed, seeing Nami back in good spirits. “But apart from that, you also know how to fight and I'm sure you will have defeated many enemies in our adventures. I am right?"“Well… Yes, I had many duels and I always beat a few.” She confessed.“Really? To whom?” Luffy asked very excitedly, and seeing him like that, Nami smiled, knowing that now it was her turn and started.“My first victory was two years ago and it was against Miss Doublefinger.” She said.“Miss…Doublefinger?” Luffy repeated, tilting his head, until he realized it. “Ah, you mean one of the Baroque Works agents.”“That's right, she was in Alabasta in the capital, in the middle of the rebellion. But it was very hard to fight.”"Why's that?"“It's very simple, she had the powers of a Devil Fruit. Which was the first person I defeated who had demonic powers.”“And what kind of powers did she have?”“Well, her power was to grow spikes on any part of her body and turn any part of the body completely into spikes. Which makes him turn into a Spike Human.”“Oh, so you faced off against a female hedgehog. Shishishishi.” Luffy laughed. “Now that I think about it, I remember that was the time when you used your climate tact for the first time. I bet you beat her using it, right?”“Well, it wasn't easy enough…” Nami hissed with a forced smile and with a small popped vein on her forehead. “The first version did not have climatic powers.”“Hm?” Luffy murmured confused, having the impression of feeling vengeful anger inside the navigator, remembering the doves that came out of his cane, then flowers, a boxing glove, and some little mechanical birds. What humiliation and desperation she felt in such a difficult situation.“Because of a certain long-nosed idiot…” she continued hissing with her eyes half closed. “..., who I asked for a favor in creating a weapon to join me in battles, put some stupid gadgets on my climate tact that are only used for parties.”While in the garden of the Thousand Sunny…“Eeekk!” He squeaked Usopp with a gasp.“What's wrong, Usopp?” Robin asked.“I don't know, but I had the feeling that someone was talking badly about me,” Usopp said, cultivating his plants, with chills. “And I believe that someone is one on this ship.”Back to the figurehead…“HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So that's what Usopp built for you! HAHAHAHA! That sounds funny!” Luffy laughed out loud after Nami told him how the duel was.“It's not funny, Luffy!” Nami scolded. “I almost ended up dead because of Usopp! But he already paid with what he has done! ” Then she smiled evilly when she referred to that “little revenge” about her plan to reach the top of the clock tower and Usopp received what he badly deserved from her.“But you came out victorious, right?” Luffy asked.“Well, it was very difficult for an enemy who has Devil Fruit powers. But I didn't give up, because I was fighting for Vivi.” She said, already calm when she touched her left foot, remembering something painful. “In my last attack, my foot got stuck on one of the spikes and it hurt like hell, but I didn't care about that, because that didn't compare to Vivi's suffering.”“Oh,” Luffy said after learning the painful results of his fight. Luckily they had Chopper and he was able to heal his wounds. “And who else did you fight?”“Mmmm… Ah, yes,” she said, remembering her grief after Alabasta. “In Skypea, I defeated Hotori and Kotori.”"Who?"“The brothers of a certain Sopori or Setori or Satori or whatever his name is.”“Satori…” Luffy said thoughtfully, trying to remember that name. “Ah, you mean that Ho Hoo Hoooo-guy! I didn’t know he had brothers!”“Well you see, it turns out that they had invaded our ship to take revenge on their brother and since I was there, I had to protect Sanji and Usopp who were unconscious from Eneru, and protect the Going Merry. And I defeated them with my improved climate tact and with an impact dial, which almost broke my arm.”“Wow, and who else?” Luffy asked again with stars, very interested in the battles that Nami had.“Next was Khalifa,” she said. “I guess that sounds familiar to you.”“The woman with glasses from CP9?”“Yes, it hasn't been easy, she said. "I've done Sanji a favor since he was defeated by her."“Really? How is that?" Luffy asked, a little surprised to know that one of the strongest members was defeated.“You know why,” Nami said sighing in despair. “Since he is always attracted to women, he wouldn't be able to kick a woman.”“Shishishishi! Typical Sanji.” Luffy laughed and Nani was still desperate with annoyance.“And don't think she's the only one who defeated him.” She said remembering Onigashima when she heard Sanji asking Robin for help and Nami knew instantly that her enemy had to be a woman. She wondered what kind of woman defeated him. “Geez… I think this guy hasn't changed anything personally in the last two years.”“Well, but that enemy you faced fought with the six powers just like the pigeon guy,” Luffy said and Nami nodded.“And not only that, because she also ate a Devil Fruit.”"Oh really? Wow, she's the second enemy you've faced while having devil powers. And what fruit did she eat?”“Well, the fruit she ate was the Bubble Bubble Fruit, which has the power to spread bubbles in the body of its victim, draining its strength and leaving its skin shiny and soft, thus making it turn Sanji into a doll.…"What?" Luffy asked in a blank of confusion with a bead of sweat hanging on his head after a short pause of silence.“Yes, she can turn you into a doll with her bubble powers but she impairs your mobility, as your extremely slippery skin makes it difficult for them to move,” Nami added, leaving Luffy very confused.“What a weird power,” Luffy said."I tell you the same thing." She admitted. “The bad thing was that she also did it to me and I couldn't move, since I was planning to confront me with the new version of my climate tact. But I had to find a way to get rid of this "doll" thing.”“And how did you manage to remove it?”“It was thanks to Chopper.”“Chopper?”"You see, Luffy, when I witnessed Chopper in his Monster point form for the first time, it caught me off guard and made me worried about what had happened to him. What surprised me the most was that it terrified the secretary from the sight of it.""Why did she?" Luffy asked, picking his nose."I guess you can say she'd mistaken me as that beast for claiming that I had devil fruit powers to turn into that," Nami answered, which caused her captain to burst out laughing in hysterics."REALLY?! KHA HA HA HA!!!" Luffy collapsed on his back, holding his aching stomach for laughing so hard."Well yes." she agreed, sighing. “And here I thought that not everyone is very distracted.”Luffy calmed down, letting himself laugh. “Well, how does the story continue? “How did Chopper help you nullify that power he gave you?”“Well, first of all, I had to call Chopper's attention. I was very worried about what the poor thing had happened. But unfortunately he attacked me without meaning to because he didn't recognize me with the appearance I came from. Kalifa intended to attack him and I did not want her to do so. And that's when Chopper grabbed the bathtub and threw it at me. Luckily I managed to avoid it, but the bathtub broke the wall and fell towards the top floor where Sanji was.”"Bathtub?" Luffy repeated. “You mean you were fighting in a bathroom?”“Exactly, overall for Kalifa it is a good place for her powers. When Chopper entered the interior of the tower, I was even more worried that I had to defeat her as soon as possible, when I saw that my legs returned to normal and I discovered that the water from the bathtub that Chopper threw soaked my legs and The water nullified the power of the bubbles. So I had to use my Climate tact power to rain the whole room and I managed to get back to normal.”"Oh, right!" Luffy exclaimed, hitting his fist into the palm of his other hand. “It's like when you wash your hands with soap and wash it away with water. You are very smart, Nami. Shishishi.”“Eh… yeah, you're right…” Nami said with a forced smile and continued. “Finally free of this doll-thing, I finally defeated Kalifa with a Thunder lance tempo and got one of the keys to release the sea stone handcuffs that Robin was wearing and asked Franky to stop Chopper and throw him into the sea to let him return to his childish form."“Wow, I must understand that you can fight,” Luffy said supporting her.“Next was not a fight but I defeated one of the officers at Thriller Bark.”"Who?"“Someone I dislike, especially for all the women in the world.” She said showing an anxious face. “Does a guy named Absalom sound familiar to you?”“Absa-who…?” Luffy repeated trying to remember.“Do you remember that guy with long blonde hair who had a lion's snout sewn into his mouth?”“Long blonde hair… lion's snout… Ah! You mean one of those three who served Moria!”“Yes, that same one,” said Nami, who hated that guy, especially remembering him. "Believe me, Luffy, he is one of the people I despise the most in this world."“What is this hatred about?”“You see, it turns out that he also has devil powers and that was to make himself invisible. With this, he was able to observe me while I was bathing. In short, he uses his invisibility just for that.”"Ah, I see. So that's what happened.""About what?" Nami asked.“When you left with Usopp and Chopper with the Mini Merry, that invisible man caused problems for us on the Sunny. He shoot my cheeks, He grab Sanji's leg and throw him, draw one of Zoro's swords and it almost cuts us and grabs Robin and … I don't know what he did, but I think he licked her face or something.”“He did WHAT TO HER!?” Nami questioned, increasing his hatred level."And if I remember correctly, Usopp told me that he caught you and wanted to make you his wife," Luffy said and Nami frowned, her forehead obscured by her hair.“Yes, that is also one of the reasons why he is such a despicable being,” she said.“Well, he had to be so brave to marry you,” Luffy said and Nami fumed with anger."WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" she shouted with shark teeth, making Luffy startled in panic. “I WOULD NEVER AGREE TO MARRY A DISGUSTING PERVERT LIKE THAT! NOT EVEN IF HE WAS THE LAST MAN ON EARTH!”“I…I,m sorry…” Luffy apologized, bowing before her, who sighed calmly.“Alright, I forgive you,” she said peacefully. “While we are talking, I have no intention of scolding you. I may be attractive, cute, and sexy, but it makes me very uncomfortable when someone asks me to marry them without knowing them at all.”“Like, for example, that marine that asked you while we were going to steal food for supplies towards Whole Cake Island?” Luffy asked innocently."Do not remind me that." She asked with a blue face, having chills remembering when that marine was about to kiss her and it made her nervous that she had to run away from him.“But how did you defeat him without fighting?”“Because I wanted to make him pay for what he did to Lola.” She said remembering her friend Lola as a zombie. “When Absalom caught me, he knocked me unconscious. I don't know what happened to me, but when I regained consciousness, I found myself in a church, dressed in a beautiful wedding dress and having Absalom in front of my eyes, about to kiss. First of all, he scared me to death and then he disgusted me so much that I wanted to get away from him and Lola appeared, helping me escape from him and Absalom shot her without thinking twice and maliciously. I may have wanted to run away, but to see a friend, who takes a risk to help me, and ends up being attacked by someone so despicable, I would never forgive him for that. That is also one of the reasons for my hatred towards that disgusting pervert and I responded with an electric shock in his entire face.”“Oh, that has to be painful.”“Right?” She asked smiling, feeling very entertained talking with her captain and thinking about her friend Lola, about her being a normal person. “I wonder if she had found the love of her life and met Chiffon. I would imagine how happy they would both be.”“And have you had fights during the two years of training?” He asked and Nami answered no with her head.“I didn't defeat anyone before I set foot on Sabaody when I electrocuted those copycat scammers, defeated a few members of the New Fishman Pirates on Fishman Island, and injured Monet in Punk Hazard.”"What? Did you hurt that snow harpy? But if she is a logia, how did you hurt her?”"Fufufu…" she giggled. “Very simple, I used the heat egg and wounded it on her wing, like she is made of snow.”“Ah, right. Eh, you and Usopp also defeated those two members of Mingo who were carrying that guy... I don't remember his name now... Oh yeah, his name is Gastino."“His name is Caesar, Luffy.” Nami corrected.“Anyway, I still hate that guy.”"I tell you the same thing," Nami said admitting it, wishing that he hadn't left Totto Land alive after what he did to those poor children. He didn't deserve any forgiveness.“But did you have any enemies when we were in Dressrosa?” Luffy asked, knowing that she, Sanji, Chopper, and Brook were the only ones who didn't fight against the Donquixote Family.“Well, yes, we defeated one enemy Chopper, Brook, Momonosuke and I on the Thousand Sunny. A certain Giolla and she had demonic powers.”“Really!?” Luffy asked, excited that Nami had fought so many users of devil fruits. “And what powers did she have? Throw beams into her eyes. Turn into an animal or any beast? Oh, I know! She turns into a robot! Right?”“Well, none of the three of us has she,” Nami said and Luffy became desperate. “Her powers were from the Art Art Fruit. And her only ability was to transform any object and person into any artistic style.”“That’s a lame power,” Luffy said pouting and booing with a thumbs down. “Boooo. Boo.”“Well, the next thing was when I defeated Brulee when we were in that forest and I faced the others against Big Mom when she attacked our ship. I also defeated that despicable Orochi in the Flower Capital with a skill from Zeus.” She continued until she reached the last one of all. “And my last battle was in Onigashima when I faced Ulti.”“You defeated Headbutt?” Luffy asked, making Nami surprised.“Oh, you know her in person?” she asked."Oh yeah, I did," Luffy confirmed, still trying to remember. "There was also that other guy who she kept calling him 'Pay-Pay' for some reason. But yeah, she'd knock me out of my noggin despite my advanced amercement haki and she had a good hold on me when headbutt turned into a big dinosaur.""Really?!" Nami looked shocked, knowing someone like Ulti could incapacitate Luffy of all people. "Yep," He nodded. "But thankfully Yama-bro came in to save me before I was about to suffer another one.""Yama-bro? Oh you mean, Yamato, right?" Nami realized who he meant.“Yes, in addition to being crazy, she is also very brutal. I remember finding her falling down the stairs and using that Pay-Pay-guy as a board. And instead of accepting that it was her, she blames me for that.”“Yes, she was the most dangerous I have ever faced,” Nami said remembering that dino-zoan woman.“But tell me, how did you defeat her?”“Well, it was very difficult. First of all, because Big Mom had taken Zeus from me, my Climate Tact was not strong enough to defeat a strong enemy.” She said frustrated, remembering when Zeus was about to kill her on Big Mom's orders, but in the end, he gets her by forgiving him, accepting him as her partner. “And that's when those two appeared and Usopp shot that spinosaurus. That made Ulti very angry and you can't believe what happened. Usopp, the cowardly idiot, hid behind me and pretended it was me. And that crazy reptilian woman was chasing us to kill us. At that precise moment, I was afraid of her that I had to hide but it didn't help, and she…She…”"What happened?" He asked and Nami struggled to face those bad memories.“She head-butted me on her forehead… I was even bleeding.”Then a brief silence appeared and Luffy broke it with a whisper."What?""Yes, Luffy, what you heard is true." She said continuing. “At that moment Usopp appeared and fought to save me but he was also injured by that crazy woman. And what's worse was the following. The crazy lizard grabbed me with her huge claw on my waist and was torturing me. I was afraid that I would end up dying with another headbutt and she forced me to say that if I said that you wouldn't be the King of the Pirates, she would let me go... But I said the opposite."“Luffy will… Luffy will never… give up on being the King of the Pirates…” said Nami from the past, with falling tears in her eyes and blood from her forehead.“WHAAT!?” questioned an enraged Ulti.“He will… He will defeat Kaido… Because… Because I know he will do it…”Back to the present…"Luffy, I know you wouldn't want me to end up dying, just like what was going to happen to the others," she said confessing it. “And I know I'm afraid of death. But… I would never say anything false about your dream and I would not betray my loyalty to you.”“Nami…” Luffy whispered in shock. He couldn't believe that she had done that for him before the eyes of death.“Ulti, enraged for not having obeyed her, was about to kill me. But Usopp and I didn't know that Miyu was there and she was furiously shooting at that crazy lizard to save me."“Wait, Miyu was watching you!?” Luffy questioned gasping in shock.“Yes, but you already know what Miyu is like.” He said thinking of her sweet little sister. “We should have known that she does not like to be alone on the ship and she prefers to be accompanied by us. Poor thing. What she saw in Onigshima must have been wrong. And what's more, Ulti could have killed her if Tama hadn't shown up."“Dammit!” Luffy cursed himself, clenching his teeth and fists to control his fury. “I should have avoided it. If I hadn't told Headbut that I was going to be the Pirate King, none of that would have happened to you, or Miyu. I should have avoided it before going to the rooftop.”"No, Luffy." she said, shaking her head. "It is not your fault. Being the King of the Pirates is your dream and your duty was to defeat Kaido while you trusted us to defeat his officers. We know the risks. Besides, you promised Momonosuke that you would defeat him for him, remember? You are someone who wouldn't ever break a promise."The rubber boy stopped the anger inside him and tried what he could to calm down."Of course, I'd promise, Momo for that. But hearing that you almost got killed and even Miyu as well, I now feel responsible for that." Luffy lowered his head in shame, his eyes hidden among his bangs."Don't be hard on yourself, Luffy," Nami reassured. "I'm still alive, eh?""Yeah, but..." Luffy's words were hushed from Nami placing one finger at his lips to silence him. "...And I wouldn't be alive now if both Otama and Miyu came to save me from Ulti. Plus those two are the reasons why I managed to beat her." "Really?" Luffy queried. "How?"“Well, after Tama appeared and we ran away from those two, she showed us her strategy to get large numbers of members for our army. And she went using the Kibi Dangos to all the Gifters of Onigashima.”“Did she plan that?” Luffy asked smiling, proud of the little girl. “I must understand that Tama has also become very brave to save Wano.”"Yeah." She said smiling and remembering sweet Tama, who was beginning to miss her. But she kept going. “But we had two problems. One, those lizard brothers kept chasing us and that crazy woman never got tired until we ended up dead. And the second thing was when she crossed Big Mom's path unexpectedly. And you won't believe what happened. Tama approached her and talked to her, and Big Mom chatted with her as if they had known each other for a long time.”"What?" Luffy asked with a drop of sweat.“And just when that spinosaurus appeared, Big Mom defeated him with a single punch and that pissed off Ulti even more. I don't know what happened but we thought that Big Mom had become our ally, but we were wrong, because she still had thoughts of killing us. Everything seemed quite confusing.” Then Nami felt she was going for something that seemed quite unforgivable to her. “Then when we were trying to escape, Ulti injured Komachiyo and was torturing him by kicking him. Tama couldn't stand this and begged her to leave him. And that damn lizard… hit Tama with a claw…”“She did WHAT!?” Luffy questioned furiously and remembered that damn gifter with the lion on his chest and how he had tortured Tama with tweezers and responded with a Red Hawk."It's true, Luffy." Nami hissed, hating that crazy dinosaur woman. “And I was so furious that I refused to run away from her without kicking her butt. I am not those people who run away letting someone hurt children. So I started attacking her with everything I could until she was completely K.O. But she was very fast and grabbed me again with the intention of giving me another headbutt. And Big Mom with her three homies combined with it to hurt her.”“She saved your life!?” Luffy questioned with his eyes widening in shock. “You have to be kidding!? Wait, didn't you tell me you defeated Headbutt?“Yes, Luffy, but it's true that Big Mom saved my life, although I think she did it only to get revenge on Tama. So we had to run away and that's when I ran into Zeus, crying when he saw that Big Mom had replaced him."“Replaced?”“She replace him with another talking female cloud. And it turns out that Big Mom said that she no longer needed him and that's why she ordered that new cloud to eat him and I had to save him but it was very complicated having Big Mom in her power. Thank goodness Kidd appeared and saved us from her so we could get to the performance room and that was when my climate tact spoke and I saw the face of Zeus, and I think it was because his spirit possessed him. ”“Now I understand why Zeus could become your tact.” Luffy said.“But what happened next was again unexpected and that was that Ulti appeared again. Turns out that attack Big Mom did didn't hurt her much. First she knocked out Usopp and grabbed Tama from her with her claws and Miyu tried to stop her by biting her foot but that had no effect on her and she grabbed her too. I had to do something and I hit her on the head with my tact with Zeus and that hurt her a little and I used my last attack although that dodged her, but Zeus managed to electrocute her and finally I defeated her. Well, she was injured because of Big Mom's attack.”“She did you a favor, but you fought for Tama.” Luffy said with a smile.“Well, that's all the enemies I defeated.”“Well, you have defeated many. Do you see that you can also fight?” the rubber boy smiled. “But do you know anything else that you showed to be brave? Instead of fighting and defeating formidable enemies, you also showed your bravery at numerous times.”"For example?" Nami asked."For example... Like the day we met, when Buffon locked me in a cage and pointed the cannon at me and you ran putting out the fuse with your hands.""But that was because he didn't want to turn me into a person who murders people like those pirates I hate... Although, you may be right that I did it to save you." the navigator admitted.“And I never forget when you decided to help me in Skypea to take me towards Eneru instead of running away from him. And in Water Seven you ran to me to tell me about Robin's truth before that giant wave came and you protected the kids from Punk Hazard. Also, you saved me several times, like when you saved me from the lava that was in that archipelago of icebergs when those bounty hunters had stolen our flag, although it wasn't true.”“Well, it's actually true that we were robbed.” Nami thought. “But we didn't want to get scolded if you found out.”“Then you managed to escape from Shiki and then had to get involved with his crew again to destroy his plans and save East Blue. You also saved me from that seawater pit in Nebuland and when you protected me from Cracker and we fought against him together. We made a good team at that time.”“Fufufufu.” Nami chuckled. “It's true, with your strength and my intelligence you were able to defeat him.”“You also stayed by my side fighting with me against Big Mom's army. Oh, and on Onigashima too.”“In Onigashima?” Nami asked confused, with a raised eyebrow. "When? “I don’t remember saving you.”“What do you mean you don't? You woke me up from the sleep before defeating Kaido.”“What are you talking about, Luffy?”"You do not remember? I remember dreaming that you faced Kaido while I was sleeping on the rooftop.” Luffy said and Nami's eyes widened with a deep silence, remaining very atomistic while Luffy told her what she remembers dreaming."What is wrong with you!? Has the death of the Straw Hat broken your spirit!?” Kaido questioned in dragon form after announcing his “victory” in the Performance Room. “Damn Samurai! The country of Wano has come to an end!”“Stop saying that kind of nonsense, just because you couldn't defeat Luffy!” shouted the Nami of the past.“Eh?”“You dumb lying snake! How many times have you been beaten by Luffy!? You're finished!” She continued to accuse him, putting her fist on his chest, before tears of anger welled up in her brown eyes, showing her faith and loyalty to her captain. “Luffy is said to have died!? Don't you dare tell me a lie that can't possibly be true! If Luffy says he's going to win, then he will, no matter what! There's no way he's going to lose! He can't die! That's ridiculous! You liar!”“Well, well, well. Looks like we still have a cock one.” Kaido said.“I don't believe you!”“I will be kind and explain to you what it means to be defeated.”“That's what I remember,” Luffy said. “I also dreamed that Kaido attacked you spitting fire but thank goodness Marco appeared and saved your life. I wanted to wake up but I couldn't, I don't know why. Until you woke me up with your words.” Luffy saw Nami very frozen. “Nami, what's wrong with you? “Why are you looking at me like that?”“And what were… those words I said?” She asked for fear that he would answer her, which she was going to believe to be true that Kaido could have killed Luffy. She was afraid to know the answer.“Well… You kept denying that I had lost and that I would be able to defeat Kaido, no matter what the cost. And that you told Kaido to stop telling that kind of lie. And that's how you told me."“Luffy! I know you can hear me! As always, keep your word!”Nami gasped in silent shock upon hearing it.“It's possible that…” she thought and to check it she had to touch his arms and her face… to know if she was really…"What are you doing now?" Luffy asked as Nami stretched out one of his cheeks and pinched it and then the tip of her nose. "OUCH! What are you doing!? What's wrong with you? Why are you pinching me?”Her navigator was confused."Luffy... I know you never lie... But I want to ask you something." Nami said, putting her hands on his hips, and making eye contact. “Tell me, what happened on the Rooftop? And how did you manage to wake up?”"Well, what happened was that I was about to deliver the final blow before I ran out of Gear 4th, but out of nowhere a guy dressed in white with a bowler hat interfered in our fight," Luffy explained all the details of what had happened. "Before I can figure out who he was, Kaido hits me with his club. And I was completely unconscious and all I saw was darkness."Nami gasped in shock and his pupils dilated.“There was nothing… Not even a single soul in sight… But I felt… I felt Kaido's anger. And he was so angry that it seemed like he was talking to someone and he left. I could also hear your voice, Nami. You seemed very angry with Kaido and you were accusing him very bravely, I don't know what. And that's when you told me to finish off Kaido right now, like I promised. And that's how I woke up.” He continued telling his story, perfectly remembering the details of his “awakening.” “First of all… I heard the sound of drums, which echoed everywhere. Although they weren't drums, they were my heartbeats.”“Your... Your heartbeat?” Nami repeated.“Yes, and its rhythm was so fun that it made me feel free to do whatever I want. Then my body revived and I regained my strength and my clothes and my hair changed color to white and my eyes became red with the flames of the sun. And something else, I laughed. I laughed out loud non-stop.”“So… It was true.” Nami thought, remembering the shock she had when she saw Luffy's giant face coming out of the rooftop. That scared her, Tama, Miyu, Goo, Chopper, Law, Kidd, Carrot, Wanda, Nekomamushi, Marco, Hiogoro and everyone. “That that came out was Luffy…”“With this new transformation I had I called it Gear 5 and that helped me defeat Kaido. And it was a very fun battle. Shishishishi…?” He stopped laughing when Nami brought tears to her eyes and out of surprise, she jumped towards him, grabbing his waist. “N-Nami? Why are you crying?"“Oh, Luffy…” Nami sobbed. “Kaido, that lying snake, said that you had died in battle!”“I... I died?” He asked in confused.“Yes… What you dreamed about me was true. I confronted Kaido, accusing him of being cowardly liars, because I knew that you wouldn't end up losing, no matter what happened to you! I was so angry at what he was saying, I hated it! I know I'm no match for that blue worm... But... I refuse that someone so cowardly dares to proclaim his victory with his lies. This is something I would never allow. But now that I know what happened to you... I don't know how I can say it. Instead of being angry, I was also afraid of losing you, it doesn't matter if I believe what he says.”“Nami.” Luffy said, raising her head so she could look at him while he smiles and wipes her eyes. "Don't cry. I'm here."Then he took one from her hands and gently placed it on his heart so that she could feel its heartbeat in the palm of her hand."You see it?" asked he to her. “My heart still beats. That means I’m still alive.”"Luffy... That doesn't prove that..." Nami was going to say that that doesn't prove his "resurrection", but when she saw his smiling face, she felt a warmth inside her that formed a hearwarming smile. "Yeah. You're right, Luffy. You're still alive.""Now you understand? Not everyone can be brave, just because they are not afraid of anything. Nor does one have to become strong by strength or power. After everything you've told me about your fights, the times you saved me and Tama and Miyu from Headbutt have shown that you are strong and brave. On top of that, you also saved Wano. If you hadn't made me wake up, everything would have been lost.”"You're right. I will strive not to continue doubting myself and demonstrate what I usually do.” Nami said smiling. “I always knew that you are a person with the mentality of a child, but I realize that you know very well how to encourage people. How lucky I am to have someone like you.”“Heh, well, it's not like that I just cheering people up.” Luffy said with his hand on the back of his head. “The truth is that I like to see you smile and I would do anything to keep it, as I promised the windmill man in your village.”“What did you say, Luffy?”…“GAH! CRAP!” Luffy shouted in shock, covering his hand over his mouth. “I SAID THAT OUT LOUD!”"Luffy, what did you mean by that?" she asked again and the rubber boy, feeling guilty for having revealed the secret, had to tell her.“Well, Nami…” Luffy began, fiddling with his fingers. “Two years ago, after defeating Arlong, I found the windmill in a cliff tomb.”“Windmill man? Oh, you mean Genzo!” Nami said, realizing who he was referring to, but she didn't know that Luffy found himself in the grave where her mother lay.“Yes, and he made me promise one thing. He made me promise, that I would do everything possible so that you would always be happy on the travel with a smile. Because if I didn't and you would be sad, he would come to me and finish me off."Nami was stunned with her eyes slowly opening.“So I accepted that and kept it a secret from both of us. I decided to prevent it from being erased from your face.” Luffy said. “But now that you know, I'm sure you'll be…”She couldn't finish it when the navigator hugged her warmly again."Thank you very much, Luffy." Was what she said and Luffy, confused, saw her smiling even more.“I-I thought you'd be mad that I kept it a secret and tell me off.” The confused Luffy suggested.“Dummy, how can I get angry about something you've been doing for me?” She asked with a giggle. “Of all the people I know, you are the one who makes me happy on the travel. For that, I thank you with all my heart.”“You're welcome, Nami.” Luffy said returning the hug.“Guys, dinner is ready!” Luffy called from the kitchen.“Oh boy! Dinnertime!” Luffy encouraged. “Are you coming, Nami?”“Yes, why not?” The smiling navigator responded and they both walked towards the dining room. “You know, Luffy? You may be right that I am the best navigator in the world. Because you are also something better. You are the best pirate and the most benevolent person I know.”“Really? You think?” Luffy asked laughing. “Shishishi.”“And you always will be.” She thought and when she entered the kitchen her entire crew was sitting at the table.“Hey, guys!” Nami greeted everyone, surprised at her recent mood change.“Nami!” Chopper shouted, excited.“Big sis!” Miyu shouted and the two ran towards her, jumping and they both hugged the navigator.“Goo Goo!” Goo said flying towards Nami spinning around with joy.“Oh, Nami! I miss you so much!” said the Lycan girl crying comically."Me too." Chopper moaned. “I thought you would never talk to us!”“Fufufufu, you silly. But it has only been a few hours, nothing more.” Nami laughed, returning the hug to the two youngest members. “I'm so sorry I made you guys worry.”“Oh, it's okay, Nami.” Usopp said, happy to see her in good condition.“My dear Nami~! Your return is as beautiful as if a beautiful angel appeared at the gates of heaven!” cooed the enamored Sanji, spinning around and moving like a twist with a heart shape in his visible eye."Moron," Zoro said drinking his mug of beer, making the cook angry."WHAT!?" Sanji questioned with sharp teeth.“Our SUPER navigator returns from her lonely moment!” Franky announced with his pose.“I take it you've already gotten over that, right?” said the smiling Robin.“Yes, of course,” Nami said.“Well, I'm very happy,” Brook said with his hands behind his back. “Now that you are returning into sociable, would you be so kind as to show me your panties?”BONK!“Stop it.” She said after hitting her skeleton, leaving a bump on it."If I'm not mistaken, you've had a conversation with Luffy." Jimbei said sitting down.“Yes, he has helped me a lot to cheer me up.” said the navigator, sitting next to her. “Oh, by the way, Jimbei.”“Hm?”“Thank you very much for taking care of Luffy during our separation.” she thanked him happily, taking his hands in one of her finned hands. The Fishman didn't understand why, but he smiled.“You're welcome, Nami.”“Thanks for the meal!” Luffy started and everyone enjoyed dinner. But another reason they were happy was that Nami was the same as always, with a smile as bright as the sun.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The next morning, the Thousand Sunny embarked on a tropical island with a rocky beach. There was the best place to rest and find supplies in the jungle. To find supplies it was up to Luffy, Sanji, Robin, and Brook, while the rest stayed on the ship. But some members wanted to spend some time on the beach. So they left Franky, Zoro, and Jimbei on the ship.The beach was rocky but there was a lot of sand and several pools of salt water. Perfect place to find shells. Then Miyu, Chopper, and Goo went to look for them, accompanied by Nami and Usopp. "Nami! Look what I found!" Miyu called, showing her a sapphire blue shell with yellow rings.“Oh, it's beautiful, sweetheart,” Nami said smiling.“I have found the shell of a sea snail.” Chopper said showing it to her.“Wow, not bad.” She congratulate him.“Are you coming with us to look for shells too?” Miyu asked, holding her hand.“I will, Miyu. I need to relax a little and then I'll go with you, okay?”"OK."“Very well, children.” the proud Usopp began. “I'm going to show you that I, the great Usopp, will find the legendary multicolored shell!”“REALLY!?” Chopper exclaimed.“I want to find it too!” added the lycan girl.“Goo!” Goo said and the four continued with the search, leaving Nami alone, sitting very close to the ocean she took off her sandals and rolled her jeans up to her knees to put her feet in the water and feel the freshness of it.“Ah…Now this is peace.” She said, relaxing, but her eyes did not take off from seeing the two children, the blob, and the sniper looking for shells. Seeing them encouraged her a lot, forming a happy smile that made her giggle.While she relaxed, Nami was in deep thought about the conversation she'd had with Luffy and how much this continued to comfort her further."Maybe, Luffy is right," She thought to herself, looking down on her reflection of the small pool. "...Even though I may not look strong or fearless, I still will be strong and brave no matter what happens or what we'll face next."She then looks up at the pure blue sky and an image of Bellmere appears, smiling down on her."Someday, Bellmere, I'll get to be strong like you." Nami smiled back. "And once I do, I'll do anything to protect the people I love no matter how much of a risk I'll be in."Nami closed her eyes and remembered something Luffy said to her back in Skypiea during his confrontation with Enel in the Ark Maxim as it took off. Remembering her past self panicking and pandering on the worst outcomes until Luffy tossed his straw hat to her which landed perfectly on her head."Quite your worrying...""But...! But!""You're a crew member of the future king of the pirates, Nami... Stop looking so pathetic!"The memories of that moment ended there as Nami inhaled the fresh salty sea air and sighed, still her smile never leaving her face."...And I will do anything to become stronger and braver than ever for you Luffy, my future pirate king."Blub…“Hm?” Nami murmured as she saw a bubble rising from the water.Blub… Blub Blub Blub…"Uh…?" She murmured again as she saw more bubbles and each time they appeared, she slowly felt nervous.Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub Blub…Suddenly, the earth shook and scared the group of shell seekers.“What… What's happening!?” Miyu questioned in panic and Chopper jumped towards her, hugging her out of fear.Usopp looked at the bubbles and sensed something in his Observation Haki..."RUN!" Usopp shouted and he started to run when the cause of the bubbles came out of the water... and it was something very unexpected... and very dangerous...What came out of the water was a Sea King, a species of purple squid with yellow rings with a single eye in the center an elongated head, and several tentacles.“SKREEEEEH!” roared the squid.“KYAAAAAAAAHHHH!” the female members shouted.“GOOOOO!” Goo shouted scared.“IT’S A GIANT SQUID!” Chopper shouted."RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!" Usopp shouted and the others ran towards the Sunny, but...“AAAAHHHH!” A scream was heard and the four members turned around and with a shocked surprise, they saw someone wrapped around the waist in one of the tentacles.“MIYU!” Chopper shouted.“GOO!” Goo shouted and Nami gasped with her hand over her mouth."Curse! It has Miyu!” Usopp was alarmed before taking out his Den Den Mushi. “I'm going to call for reinforcements!”“HELP ME-ugh!” Miyu screamed, moaning in pain as the tentacle tightened around her."Hey, you! Let go of my sister, you damn octopus!” The reindeer child screeched, lunging towards him at Walking Point.“No, Chopper!” Nami tried to stop him, but it was too late because the ship's doctor was running towards the Lycan girl through the tentacles.“Goo!” Goo shouted and also launched himself toward the Sea King Squid transformed into a mallet."Shit!" Usopp cursed at the Transponder Snail. “Why don't they reach it!?”…While on the Thousand Sunny…Purururururu… Purururururu… Purururururu…"What's going on? Why aren't you going to the Den Den Mushi, Jimbei?” Franky asked the helmsman in the crow's nest."Zoro told me he's going to catch it." said the fishman. “He just got off to the dining room.”“And you let him go alone!? He can get lost! ”“On the ship too?”“Well…” Franky suggested in a short pause of silence. “Let's hope not.”Of course not. Because Zoro found himself in Usopp's arsenal.“Damn… Where does it go to the dining room?” the swordsman growled....Back to the beach…Chopper managed to reach the tentacle where Miyu was trapped and changed her Walking Point to Heavy Point.“I repeat it to you again! Let go of Miyu!” The reindeer-child shouted, jumping, but unfortunately, a tentacle caught him. "Oh no! I can't move my arms to get a rumble ball!”“Goo!” Goo shouted, hitting the tentacles that grabbed the two in the form of a mallet."What will we do!? No one is answering me!” Usopp is stressed with panic and fear of losing Chopper and Miyu. “Nami! What are we going to do now!?"But Nami did not respond, she was frozen watching how Miyu and Chopper were in danger and this brought back the memory of Ulti grabbing Tama and Miyu. Remembering this, she got a chill... She didn't know what she had to do... But Luffy's voice came to her mind.“Nami, you are also strong and brave.”“Not everyone can be brave, just because they are not afraid of anything. Nor does one have to become strong by strength or power.”“See that you can fight too?”"No," Nami said to herself seriously. “I'm a pirate from the Straw Hat crew.” she declared herself, drawing the climate tact out of her. “And I'm not going to let a Sea King hurt Miyu and Chopper!”“Nami…?” Usopp whispered in surprise before the navigator ran towards the sea monster. "Hey! “Wait, Nami!”"Hey, you!" She shouted, tightening the tact, aiming for the Sea King's eye. “Let go of them right now!”Pop. The tact spread from both of them and the one she had aimed at hit right in the center of the Sea King's eye.“SKREEEEEEEEEEH!” The giant squid roared in pain and accidentally released the two young members.“AAAAHHH!” the two shouted as they fell.“Green Star: Trampolia!” Usopp declared, shooting at the ground and hitting the trampoline plant that prevented the children from falling and when he jumped, the sniper managed to catch the two. “I got you.”“Usopp!” Miyu said."We are alive!" Chopper was relieved with tears.“Goo!” Goo was happy, rubbing Miyu's cheek.“Nami! I already have both! Let’s get out of here!” Usopp called."No."“WHAT!? ARE YOU CRAZY?” Usopp questioned with bulging eyes.“I swore that I would make myself stronger and braver so that Luffy could become the Pirate King.” She declared, making thunderballs come out of her body. “And I plan to do it, putting an end to this monster. Zeus, time to eat!”“As you wish, Nami!” The talking cloud said appreciatively and began to eat the balls. “Mmmmm! Delicious!”The squid recovered but became enraged from the pain.“SKREEEEEE!” The squid roared and Nami stood with her breath, facing the sea beast."Be careful! Be careful not to get struck by lightning during this climatic season!” She warned sarcastically.“Skree?” The squid murmured and when he looked at the sky, he saw that there were many black clouds with lightning above them.“ZEUS BREEZE TEMPO!” she screamed and…BLIIIIIIIIIIZT!“SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” The Sea King shouted, being electrocuted by the attack and the electricity from the lightning could be seen all over his body and it could even see his skeleton... or so it seemed.After this attack, the Sea King was left completely singed and his skin completely dark.“Skish…” he released the last smoke from the giant squid's mouth and SPLASH! He fell back into the water with the x in his eye and completely motionless, he remained K.O.“YAY! I've done it!” Nami celebrated, raising her arms. “I have defeated a Sea King by myself!”“You did it, Nami” Miyu congratulated happily, running towards her and hugging her.“That was so cool, Nami!” Chopper said with stars in his eyes and jumped towards Nami's shoulder, who supported him.“Goo! “Goo!” Goo burst in the form of fireworks.“It was amazing, Nami!” Usopp also exclaimed with stars in his eyes.“Oh, thank you so much, guys!” She said smiling."Guys!"Voices could be heard and it was Luffy and the others running towards them."What happened!?" Franky asked. “We saw that lightning!”"Luffy!" Miyu happily gasped as she rushed over to them. "Everyone! Nami just save me and Chopper from a giant squid!" "Giant squid? Which…?" Jimbei repeated and was surprised with wide eyes to see the singed Sea King floating. “Good heavens! That's a Cyclops Kraken, one of the most dangerous Sea Kings! How did you manage to beat him, Nami!?”“Well, it was incredible!” Chopper began very excitedly. “We were looking for shells and suddenly that monster appeared and caught me and Miyu with its tentacles! And Nami appeared with her Climate Tact and when she extended it… Pop… She hit right in the only eye!”"And we managed to be freed and Usopp saved us from falling!" Miyu added, raising his arms as if he were showing how great he was. "And Big Sis Nami did not flee and created with his Climate Tact and with Zeus a huge thunder ball that hit the monster and left it completely electrocuted that you could even see its skeleton!""But octopuses don't have bones..." Usopp said with a drop of sweat.“And when I saw that monster falling into the water, the word ‘Wow!’ escaped my mouth.” Miyu continued and her and Chopper's eyes lit up like stars.“Nami, is it true? Did you defeat that squid by yourself? You are cool!” Luffy praised making Nami smile with a blush on her cheeks.“Of course your climatic attacks are unique.” Robin said smiling and supporting her. “With that electrical attack it would have disintegrated the body to ashes.”“Will you stop saying those kinds of phrases already!? You scare us!” Usopp shouted and the reindeer, the blob and the lycan girl hugged each other out of fear.“Oh, how brave is my dear Nami!” Sanji cooed with heart in his eye.“But tell us, why didn't you tell us that that thing was attacking you?” Brook asked.“That's exactly what I wanted to know!” the sniper got angry. “Why haven't you taken the Den Den Mushi!? I've been calling for a while and no one answers me!“Zoro is the cause.” Franky said."Ugh... I should have guessed..." Usopp sighed before looking at Jimbei, knowing that he doesn't know much about the personality of the crew.“Well, when you told me about Zoro getting easily lost, I didn't expect that he would also be lost on the ship.” Jimbei said very confused.“Hey, it's not my fault!” Zoro got angry. “It's just... you've placed the kitchen anywhere.”“The kitchen has never moved since we left Water Seven two years ago! Admit that you always get lost!” Franky shouted.“Jezz, of all the places Mooshead has to miss, the last one he's missing is getting lost on our own ship,” Sanji said, making the swordsman angry. "What an idiot.""Well, you used to have an instinct to help ladies in danger from afar... And number four couldn't do it today." Zoro said and as always the two began to fight with three swords and ifrit jambe.“Guys, calm down.” Jimbei tried to stop them and Luffy laughed out loud.“Hey, Miss Nami.” Brook said as he saw the defeated giant squid. “You know what? You just planned today's dish.”"Oh yeah?" she asked.“Yes, with this squid, we could eat our fill of Takoyakis.” the skeleton responded with her mouth watering... although he had no salivary glands."YEAH! GOOD IDEA! TODAY WE EAT TAKOYAKI!” Luffy announced with Takoyaki in his eyes.“Uh… Luffy, your eyes…” Miyu said."Come on guys! Time to have fun with a party!”“YESSS!”And so it was... as night fell, the Thousand Sunny had already left the island and the crew was celebrating with dinner, enjoying the takoyakis that they received from the Sea King.“Let's drink to Nami, who bravely fought and defeated her first Sea King!” Luffy announced, raising the jugs.“For Nami!” They all repeated and Nami couldn't stop smiling. “Cheers!”And so the party began with a banquet with many takoyakis and the two who ate the most were Luffy, of course, and Brook, since that is his favorite dish. Miyu also enjoyed eating takoyaki but had a lot of fun watching Goo, Chopper, and Usopp dancing with chopsticks on their noses. There was also music with Brook on violin and Franky on guitar and Chopper, Usopp, and Miyu clapping, cheering on the band. Robin was also having fun at the party and Jimbei was also having fun, as for him it had been a long time since he had celebrated so much. Well, except Zoro and Sanji who went back to fighting as usual.“Mmmmm~! Delicious!" Luffy cooed eating a bunch of takoyakis when he realized something was missing. “Hm? Where is Nami?”“She had to go out for a while,” Robin said. “But don't worry, she will come right away.”And indeed she was on the deck, looking at the dark sky with the thousand stars that shone, but the woman continued smiling."What are you doing there?" said a familiar voice as Nami turned around."Ah, Luffy, I knew you'd show up," she said and looked at the sky again.“Sanji will be sad if you don't eat,” Luffy said bringing his plate with takoyaki and cutlery."Thank you," Nami said and took a ball. "Mmmm. So delicious. There is no doubt that this comes from the Sea King that I hunted.”“Tell me, why are you outside looking at the stars?” Luffy asked standing next to him. “The others are still celebrating your first victory.”“I wanted to contemplate this beautiful night. It seemed to me that the night sky was very clear without clouds, which was perfect for seeing the stars.”“I see,” Luffy said smiling, looking at them too. "They are beautiful?""Yes, they are." She said, placing her head with her hand on the railing. “This reminds me a lot of when Belle-Mere would accompany Nojiko and I out of the house to see them. And I was beginning to wonder how she would feel now when she knows how I am and what I have become. About what she would think when she sees that I have become a pirate."“Well I'm sure she would be proud of you,” Luffy said. “Besides, she will be happy when she knows what a brave pirate navigator you have become.”“Yes, I thought that too.” Nami smiled. “She will also know that you are a good person and that you have a way of making people happy.”“Huh?” Luffy murmured. “She will also know? What do you mean?"“Luffy, you tell me that you met Genzo on a cliff.”"Yes of course."“And there was a tomb with a trunk tied to another in the shape of a cross.”“Hm-hm.” Luffy agreed. "I remember that that tomb was near your house and it's because there was a tangerine farm just the way you like it... and..." he suddenly fell silent, completely petrified. He finally understood what Nami meant when she sweated with fear. “Eh… Nami… Whose grave is it…?”"My mother," Nami responded, causing Luffy to be shocked.“AAAHHH!” Luffy shouted comically. "Oh, sorry! I didn't want to bother her! I swear to you that I gave him my most sincere compliments…! I want to say my most sincere constellations…! No no no no no! I meant…!"“Wouldn't that be my sincerest condolences?” Nami guessed and giggled. “Calm down, you don't have to apologize. You made the promise to Genzo and my mother too. And I'm sure she'll be thanking you for everything you're doing for me.”“Ah, well I'm glad to hear that. I wish I had met your mother in person.” Luffy laughed, smiling, with relief.“But, Luffy…” Nami said. “There is also a reason why I knew you appeared now.”"And which one is it?"“To thank you for all the inspiration you gave me to make me brave and strong and to thank you… I have to give you this.” Then Nami got much closer to his captain, closed her eyes and her face moved closer to Luffy's... to kiss him on the cheek. This made Luffy stay still for a moment and a blush appeared on his face. "Thank you, Luffy," Nami said smiling kindly, and turned around with the plate heading to the kitchen. “Come on, the party has to continue.”Luffy stood there watching as Namik returned to the gallery, touching his cheek to the place where she kissed, but Luffy smiled and laughed heartily before returning to the party. “Shishishishi.”But what he and Nami did not know was that behind him an ear and an eye had sprouted, hidden in the candle, which disappeared, forming petals. And this kind of skill familiarly belongs to a certain archaeologist. Robin had been using her powers to gossip about her captain and the navigator and she was smiling when she saw how cute they looked.“Big brother Sanji?” Miyu asked the cook who fell off the floor. "What happened to you? Have you slipped?”“N-No… no… It's not that, Miyu-chan…” Sanji stood up, with a blue face as if he felt terrible. "It's just... I had the feeling... that someone has received something valuable from a beautiful lady..."“Huh? “What are you talking about, Sanji?” Chopper asked tilting his head.“I don't know, but it's something that seems unforgivable to me…” Sanji said, feeling jealous, biting his shirt and crying comically.As the ship continued sailing through the New World, far from its location in the East Blue..."Here you go." said a florist, giving flowers to her client. “It's 15 Berrys.”“Here.” The client said, giving him the money."Thank you so much. Have a nice day.""Likewise," she said leaving the flower shop.“Nojiko! “Nojiko!”The young woman stopped and turned around when she saw a boy of about fourteen years old running to see her. That young woman was Nojiko, Nami's adopted sister and Belle-Mere's adopted daughter. After her mother's death, she supported Nami in getting the 100 million Berrys to free her home from Arlong. With Arlong defeated and Cocoyashi Village liberated by Luffy and his gang, Nojiko dedicated herself to the Belle-Mere tangerine farm. As the last two years have passed, the tangerine trade has been going very well, since the place where the ruins were Arlong Park had been changed into a trading port to take mandarin oranges to any island in the East Blue. Nojiko had also changed after the last two years, her hair had lengthened, she wore lipstick and she was quite beautiful like before, looking very young, just like her sister.“Ah, Chabo!” Nojiko smiled after turning around when she saw her partner from the tangerine farm, Chabo, the boy who, two years ago, had a grudge against Arlong for killing his father and after his defeat, he dedicated himself to working with Nojiko... “How is it going? Is everything organized?”"Yeah." the boy agreed. “The last delivery of tangerine to Gecko Island has been a success. The preparations for today's party are almost ready and Johnny and Yosaku have caught a lot of big fish.”"Very good." Nojiko smiled. “By the way, have you seen Genzo? I haven't seen him all morning.”“Ah, well… Mr. Genzo is busy with something and…”"DAMN!" There was a scream that could be heard throughout the town. “HOW DARE THEY HANG ME TO EXPLAIN MY PROTEST!?”Nojiko sighed deeply. “Here we go again,” she said and the two went to the police station. “Hello, Genzo.”“Huh? Oh, hello, Nojiko! Chabo!” the policeman greeted after getting angry when he hung up the Transponder Snail.Nojiko couldn't help but chuckle at the old policeman as she caught onto what he was angry about."Oh do let me guess, you're protesting over Nami's new bounty increase?" She asked."No. No news has not yet arrived from her and her friends.” Genzo said. “I thought I could say a few words to Navy Headquarters today about the photo on the poster, but they hung up on me again.” Then he pointed to the huge photo of Nami doing the pose of her when she was on Fishman Island. “It is inexcusable that they take a photo so that everyone can see it.”“He he he… It seems like he's still the same…” Chabo laughed nervously.“You said it.” Nojiko said. “Come on, Genzo. Until when are you going to continue like this? You already know that HQ refuses your protest. Also, I don't see anything wrong with Nami in the photo.”"Nothing wrong!?" Genzo repeated bitterly. “It's embarrassing taking a photo of her in such a revealing outfit! Everyone will see it and thousands of marriage seekers will chase her instead of bounty hunters!”“But look in the photo.” Nojiko said looking at the photo. “Don't you see how happy she looks? For two years, she still has her smile. And it seems that she is very happy traveling with Luffy and the rest of her friends.”Genzo let out a light sigh. "Yes you're right. I must understand that Luffy is keeping his promise. And I'm sure Belle-Mère will be happy knowing that Nami is okay. Although I would prefer that she stop being a pirate.”“Oh, do you want Nami to become sad?” Teased Nojiko with a smug grin."No way! No such a thing!” Genzo shouted with sharp teeth making Nojiko and Chabo laugh.“By the way, Genzo, I hope you forgot about the day we are going to celebrate today, right?”“Of course I won’t forget.” The policeman said smiling. “It's been two years since our people have been freed from Arlong thanks to Luffy and Nami is free. I never forget that moment when I saw that horrible building collapsing. I remember it like it was yesterday."“You know something?” Chabo started. “When I first met her, I hated her so much just because she is a member of Arlong's gang. But when I learned the truth about her sacrifice to save us, I began to realize that she has fought bravely. I know it was very painful for her, but now that she has united with the person who defeated Arlong and all the adventures they have had on the Grand Line, I can't stop admiring the Straw Hats a lot, especially Nami.”"WHAT!?" Genzo yelled comically with fire at the frightened boy. “ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE DAMN MARRIAGE SEEKERS TOO!?”"No no no no! It's not that!" The boy tried to calm him down by shaking his head. “I just said that I admire her for her adventures with her friends and for having fought for our home. That's all. Besides, I'm still young enough to fall in love.”"Oh, it's true." Genzo said calmly and Nojiko giggled again.“Yes, it's obvious that you act like Nami's father.” Nojiko said. "By the way, is there any news about Nami, Luffy and her gang?"“To my knowledge I don't know.” Genzo said. “The last time I know, the news says that Luffy is the leader of a conspiracy to take down Big Mom, taking on Capone Bege and Jimbei. I don't believe that Luffy was that, but I do believe that he defeated two of the sweet generals and was able to leave Totto Land safely.""Yes, and they've only raised his and Sanji's bounties." Nojiko said looking at the Straw Hats wanted posters on the board. “Nothing is known about the rest, especially about Nami. They are only the one after that event in Dressrosa.”“I hope they are okay.” Chabo said with concern.Coo! Coo!The three of them heard a grain outside.“Oh, it's News Coo Bird!” Genzo said acknowledging and Nojiko went out to buy the newspaper and started reading it, which surprised her when she read the title of the first article.“Guys, it's news from Luffy and his gang!” I call attention to both.“Really!?” Genzo questioned in amazement. “Read us what he says!”And Nojiko started reading it.“VICTORY FOR THE WORST GENERATION AGAINST TWO EMPERORS OF THE SEAS”“The legendary battle of three members of the Worst Generation against two of the Emperors of the Sea has been located in Onigashima, the castle of the Beast Pirates in Wano Kuni, a country independent of the World Government. The three members of the Worst Generation were the three captains Eustass “Captain” Kidd, Trafalgar Law the Surgeon of Death, and the most famous Monkey D. Luffy Straw Hat, and the two emperors were Charlotte “Big Mom” Linlin, captain of the Big Mom Pirates, and Kaido, captain of the Beast Pirates and former ruler of Wano Kuni.”"What!? The Straw Hats have faced off against two of the most powerful pirates in the world!?” Genzo questioned with wide eyes.“Keep reading, Nojiko,” Chabo said and the young woman continued."According to our sources, Straw Hat led along with the other two captains an army of pirates, minks, and samurai from Wano to defeat the alliance of Kaido and Big Mom, having both their crew, along with the Three All-Stars, the Flying Six and three members of the Worst Generation: X-Drake, Basil Hawkins and Scratchmen Apoo. Before starting the battle, Big Mom's pirates were already defeated by Marco the Phoenix, who said, he allied himself with Straw Hat. What is amazing is that the ten official commanders of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet have been able to defeat most of the highest-ranking officers of the Beast Pirates, let alone Kidd and Law have been able to defeat Big Mom and Straw Hat defeating Kaido.”“Nami and the others have defeated all the Beast Pirates!?” Genzo questioned.“Wow! The Straw Hat Pirates are amazing!” The boy was amazed as Nojiko continued reading.“Victory has been won by the Worst Generation, increasing their bounties until 3 billion Berrys and Wano Kuni have been free from the tyranny of Kaido and the shogun Kurozumi Orochi and Kozuki Momonosuke took over the throne after two decades. With Kaido and Big Mom defeated, they lost their position as Emperor of the Sea and the two successors are next. For Kaido's position, Monkey D. Luffy, leader and captain of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet, has a reward of 3,000,0000,000 Berrys. And for the position of Big Mom is Buggy the Genius Jester, leader and captain of the Cross Guild with a reward of 3,189,000,000 Berrys.”"Buggy? “And who is he?” Chabo asked himself.“Wasn't that Warlord who defeated Byrnndi World and his crew?” Genzo suggested with his fingers on his chin thoughtfully. “And the one that appeared in Marineford?”"Yeah," Nojiko said remembering the name. “And he is also the pirate whom Luffy, Zoro, and Nami defeated just as she met them. But as Nami told me, he is not as powerful enough as they say."“He's not?” Chabo asked. “Then why is he named emperor?”“As it says in the article, after the abolition of the Warlord, two former members of the group joined forces to follow Buggy and the two are Dracule Mihawk and Sir Crocodile. That is why Cross Guild was founded.” Nojiko read.“Mmmm… I don't believe it.” Genzo said. “But I do believe that Luffy has truly defeated that emperor. What I didn't expect is that he was able to take down one of the most powerful after defeating a few Warlords.”“I repeat that. Luffy and the Straw Hats are amazing pirates.” exclaimed the amazed Chabo with stars in his eyes.“Wait a minute…” Nojiko whispered and when she turned the page, he found a pile of loose sheets. "But... They are... They are the new wanted posters of Luffy and his crew.""Oh really!?" Chabo was amazed, smiling.“That means Nami's must be there too,” Genzo said and they started flipping through the posters.“Straw Hat” Monkey D. LuffyCaptain3,000,000,000 Berrys“Whohoooo! Incredible! It has reached three billion!” Cheer up Chavo with his arms raised.“This boy is getting stronger than I thought.” Genzo said. “But why is he like this? Why is he so white and that hair too? ”"No idea." Nojiko said and they passed the other poster“Pirate Hunter” Roronoa ZoroSwordsman1,111,000,000 Berrys“Wow! This guy seems stronger than before. He's very cool." Chabo said."Well yes." Genzo said. “No wonder he is the first join them.”“Black Leg” Vinsmoke SanjiCook1,032,000,000 Berrys"How odd." Nojiko said confused with a drop of sweat. “They put up their original photo before, but now they have put back the same one as the first one.”“Well, at least he is one of the strongest of the crew. Only the photo…” Chabo said, trying not to laugh. "That photo…"“Soul King” BrookMusician383,000,000 Berrys“Wow, the star has gotten a lot of raises.” Genzo said.“When I found out that Brook is a member of the Straw Hats, I was amazed when I heard his songs.” Nojiko said.“Hey, his poster has a good design.” Chabo said and they passed the next one.“Knight of the Sea” JimbeiHelsman1,100,000,000 Berrys“So the former Warlord has joined them.” Genzo said.“But… Wasn't he the one who freed Arlong?” Chabo asked.“Well now that you mention it, I don't know how Nami would feel about that.” Genzo said with concern.“What are you saying?” Nojiko said smiling. “I don't think she's upset about it.”“Why are you so sure, Nojiko?” Chabo asked."I trust Luffy and I'm sure that Fishman is not a bad person.""I guess you're right." Genzo said. “Let's see the next one.”“Cotton Candy Lover” Tony Tony ChopperPet and Doctor1,000 Berry“Wow, they have increased the doctor and pet a lot.” Genzo said when he saw the poster with a sweat drop. “Well… not much compared to the others.”“How can a pet be a doctor?” Chabo asked with question marks in his head."Don't know. But look at him. Isn't he cute?.” Nojiko said showing his tenderness to the reindeer-child.“Cyborg” FrankyShipwright394,000,000 Berrys“Hey, what about the robot photo of him?” Chabo asked. "Where is he? And what photo is that of the lion?”“If I'm not mistaken… it must be the ship's figurehead.” Genzo soothsayer."It's not fair." the boy protested. “They can't change that photo with someone else. It was very cool.”“How cool is a robot?” Nojiko asked.“Well, that's what boys love.”"I don't understand anything," Nojiko whispered but smiled again. “Nami has made friends with some very strange guys.”“Let's see the next one.” Genzo said and they passed another poster.“Lunar Child” MiyuApprentice350,000,000 Berrys"Oh, she is so cute." Nojiko cooed again tenderly.“I am very surprised that pirates are recruiting children.” Genzo said.“Is it that bad?” Chabo asked."For a crew like Luffy's, no." Nojiko said. “For them they are very different than other pirates.”“Demon Child” Nico RobinArcheologist930,000,000 Berrys“Almost a billion!?” Genzo questioned surprised."Amazing! She must be a very strong woman.” Chabo said.“God” UsoppSniper500,000,000 Berrys“Is this Usopp?” Genzo asked. “Why didn't they change his photo? It seems like he ended up fighting a big battle.”“I wonder what happened to him and how he received such a high bounty.” Chabo said."Who knows." Nojiko said.“Well, where is Nami’s?” Genzo asked and Nojiko found him passing the next one.“Here she is.”"And? Have they changed their photo?” Genzo asked nervously.“Well no, not exactly.” Nojiko said and Genzo growled in rage. "It remains the same."“But they have increased the bounty.” Chabo said."What? Let me see." The scarred police officer took the poster and started counting the zeros. “Let's see… 1… 10… 100… 1,000… 10,000… 100,000… 6,000,000… 66,000,000… Three… Three… Three… Three hundred and sixty six million Berrys!?”“Cat Burglar” NamiNavigator366,000,000 Berrys“They increased it to three hundred million!?” Genzo questioned, shaking the poster in his hands and clenching his teeth. “Not only is she going to be hunted by marriage seekers… But she's also going to be chased by dirty and perverted bounty hunters!?”“Eh… Chabo, let's go.” Nojiko said having a bad feeling, taking the bouquet.“Y-Yes…” the boy said nervously and they both left the police station, leaving Genzo alone.“See you at the festival, Genzo,” Nojiko said goodbye and…“WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE THINKING?!” Genzo barked, making the police station move comically, and ran towards the Den Den Mushi. “HOW DARE THEY CONTINUE KEEPING THAT PHOTO AND ESPECIALLY INCREASE HER BOUNTY!? YOU'LL SEE! WHEN I FIND OUT WHO HAS PUT IN THAT AMOUNT, I'M GOING TO GIVE THEM A FEW WORDS! AND THIS TIME THEY DON'T DARE TO HANG ME!”“Let's let him calm down for a few hours,” Nojiko said. “You rest, you have already worked enough for today.”“You're not coming, Nojiko?” Chabo asked.“I have to meet someone,” she said and the boy understood what she meant. So they both said goodbye and the young woman walked towards her home, to her tangerine farm and arrived at the cliff... where her mother's grave was, two years ago the wooden cross was changed for a suitable grave with her name inscribed on the tombstone.Here liesBelle-Mere1484 - 1514a good persona great motherRequiescat In PaceNojiko put the flowers on the grave and sat before it, smiling.“Hello, Belle-Mere. I guess you would have heard the news.” Nojiko greeted the tomb, placing the newspaper with the news of Luffy's victory in Wano and Nami's poster. “My sister has fought alongside the man who freed us against two Emperors of the Sea. She is still the same, but she has changed a lot and she still has her smile. Every time I see her, she becomes braver and stronger like you were. She may be a pirate but don't worry. I'm sure she will be very happy traveling with her friends. That's what she had dreamed of. Travel around the world and draw the map of the world.” she looked at the ocean. “Every day I receive news from her, I start to miss her. It's been two years since my sister left Cocoyashi and she went traveling to the Grand Line with her friends. During those years, our home is as happy again as it was before the tyranny of Arlong appeared. But look at us. Finally, we smile daily and live a very happy life. It's like you told us, Belle-Mere... As long as you keep living, the good times will come back eventually. Yes, I finally feel it.” She left a short pause of silence. “I wonder if Nami will one day visit us again and reunite you. Surely she is happy in her life as a pirate and she will become a good and brave woman like you. And I will always be supporting her. I hope you are proud of Nami, mother.”Nojiko decided to stay a little longer as the wind blew slightly, spinning Genzo's pinwheel next to the grave and making her long blue hair flutter, while she peeled a tangerine.The End
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Usopp
DWOAH: Usopp vs HawkeyeDeadliest warriors of all historyUsopp vs HawkeyeThe finest marksmenUsopp info:Height: 5 foot 9Weight: 144lbsWeapons: Kuro Kabuto Slingshot, Hammer, Caltrops, Dials, Shurikens, Pop Greens Strengths: Is one of the first members of the Straw Hat Pirates and fills the role of the Crews Sniper, Above peak human strength (Managed to draw blood from Kuro, Carried both Luffy and Robin whilst swimming, Stuffed every possession he owned into a huge bag and dragged it out of his home when he first left to become a Pirate), Extreme durability (Survived blows from Fishmen who are naturally ten times stronger than humans, Survived a Lightning Bolt from Enel, Have survived explosion multiple times, Tanked blows from Luffy in their fight), Supersonic speed/Massively hypersonic reactions (Is one of the fastest Straw Hats when it comes to running speed, Can dodge Lightning, Can draw, aim and fire his Slingshot in less than a second), High intelligence (Is a self proclaimed genius and master of trickery), Is considered one of the greatest Snipers in the One Piece universe (Can hit targets from thousands of yards away, Took out two Marine Ships with a single Cannonball, Sniped Marines from a distance outside of their own Rifle range), Has an extreme heat tolerance (Casually walked around an Island that was on fire without being bothered by it), Can extend his range via Observation Haki, Is immune to having his willpower drained thanks to already having a negative outlook on himself.Weaknesses: Despite his muscular physique Usopp is physically the weakest of the Straw Hats, Is still fairly cowardly despite trying to work on his fears, Works far better as a long range combatant than a close range one, Despite possessing Observation Haki Usopp cannot use it at will with it only activating under times of extreme stress.Clint Barton aka Hawkeye info:Height: 6 foot 3Weight: 230lbsWeapons: Bare Hands, Compound Bow/ArrowsStrengths: Is one of the founding and most underrated members of the Avengers, Extreme physical strength (Through extreme training and conditioning Clint has honed his body to near superhuman levels, His Compound Bow weighs over 50lbs and its drawstring requires 250lbs of force to pull which Clint can do with two fingers, Can lift a car off of himself, Can hold back Captain America, Knocked out Mr Negative with an elbow to the face), Extreme durability (Can tank blows from the likes of Deadpool, Wrecker and Crimson Dynamo, Shrugged off a several storey fall, Was fine after being buried under debris), Above peak human speed/Hypersonic reactions (Can dodge close range gunfire, Can draw, notch and fire Arrows in less than a second), Is the greatest Marksman of the Marvel universe and possesses nigh perfect aim (Can notch up to 9 Arrows at once and hit all of his targets at the same time, Can fire Arrows in such a way that they ricochet off of walls, Can throw random objects with near as much skill as Bullseye, Can land perfect bullseyes without looking, Managed to fire an Arrow laced with Gamma Radiation suppressant into the back of Hulk’s throat), Possesses dozens of different kinds of Arrows for any combat situation e.g. Sonic, Cryo, Explosive, Adamantium etc.Weaknesses: Is near completely deaf after destroying his ears via close range Sonic Arrow forcing him to rely on hearing aids that Tony Stark made for him, Suffers from an inferiority complex thanks to being the ‘weakest’ of the Avengers.Battle begin!“STOP! THIEF!”.As the Archery contest judge shouted after the Pirate Usopp ran full pelt away with the contests trophy, for all extents and purposes he had won the contest fair and square under his guise as the Sogeking but upon being asked to unmask when he went to claim his prize he had panicked not wanting anyone to recognise him from his wanted posters prompting him to just grab the trophy and run.“Go away! I won this fair and square!” the Pirate Sniper shouted back over his shoulder as he ran through the corridors of the contest building before crashing through the door leading to the stairway to the building's roof.Upon reaching the roof Usopp ran towards the edge so he could jump to the next building when an Arrow struck the roof by his foot, making him stumble as the Arrow then burst releasing a net that wrapped around Usopp forcing him to drop the trophy.“Nice try pal but you’re not going anywhere” Hawkeye spoke as he then hopped down from a higher roof, casually crouching down to pick up the trophy as Usopp struggled against his bindings “real shame you couldn’t just follow the rules, you’re a real crackshot, almost as good as me I might add, I was thinking of joining the contest myself but that would almost be like cheating, but enough of me yammering, just sit tight and the cops will come to pick you up soon”.“Like hell they will!” Usopp snapped back as he suddenly broke free from the net, panting as he had used his full strength just to free himself as the net weighed easily over 100lbs, only for his eyes to widen and his jaw to drop in comedic shock as he realised that he had thrown off his Sogeking costume as well revealing his face to the purple clad Archer.Catching the mask as it fell Hawkeye took a moment to look between it and Usopp’s face “so the nose isn’t fake?”.Drawing his Kabuto Slingshot at Hawkeye’s slight Usopp drew a Pop Green and fired it at Hawkeye’s feet, the Archer looking down in confusion for a second as a small Plant sprouted from the ground “ok, so you’re a Thief and a gardener?” he commented before jumping as the Plant suddenly burst open revealing a Wolf-like Creature made out of vegetation, the Avenger back flipping out of the way as the Wolf snapped at him landing deftly on his feet and drawing his Bow before quickly firing off an Arrow through the Wolf’s chest to destroy it in less than three seconds.As his first Pop Green was destroyed Usopp rapid fired three more around the Avenger causing massive Venus Flytraps to burst from the seeds around Hawkeye, the Archer springing up as they lunged at him, causing one of them to bite the second whilst he rebounded off of the third to jump up into the air whilst noticing three Arrows, firing them in quick succession sending an Arrow through each Plant’s ‘head’ to dispatch them as quickly as he did the Wolf. Rolling as he landed Hawkeye then began to rapid fire Arrows at Usopp forcing him to dart around, crying out as he narrowly dodged every Arrow that just barely grazed his skin before the Avenger noticed a different kind of Arrow, the head glowing a pale blue which he then fired at Usopp’s feet, the Arrow exploding upon contact with the roof sending a wave of Ice upwards to encase the Pirate up to the waist to pin him in place “AH! COLD! So cold…” Usopp shivered as he pulled out his Hammer and started to wildly smack at the Ice.Grunting over and over as he gradually broke away the the Ice that trapped his lower body Usopp then cried out as he accidentally deflected one of Hawkeye’s Arrows with a wild off swing with his Hammer, the Archer then following up with an Explosive Arrow which he fired directly into the Ice to which it promptly exploded, shattering the Ice and sending Usopp screaming into the air.Flailing wildly in the air Usopp reached into his pockets to drop several dozen Caltrops down upon Hawkeye, forcing the Avenger to lower his Bow and shield his eyes as the sharp little floor Traps rained down upon him, the Pirate then righting himself in the air and drawing his Slingshot to take aim with it, firing a regular shot down upon Hawkeye striking him right between them eyes to knock him down as the Avenger was sent reeling from the hit.Grimacing as his vision swam from the hit and blood began to pour down his face Hawkeye ripped off his mask and wiped the blood away from his eyes before notching another Arrow, drawing the Bow String further back this time to fire the Arrow with more force and speed aiming straight for Usopp’s head only for the Pirate to suddenly pull out what looked like a large Snail Shell/Sea Conch from his bag and hold it out in front of him, the Arrow striking the Impact Dial and immediately losing all of its momentum to fall uselessly to the ground.As Hawkeye started momentarily in shock at his fallen Arrow Usopp responded by quickly throwing a Shuriken to distract the Archer as he ran towards him, the Pirate slamming his Impact Dial against Hawkeye’s chest before activating it sending the impact force of the Arrow the Avenger had shot straight into his chest, knocking Hawkeye off of his feet as several of his ribs cracked from the force of impact.As Hawkeye reeled from the strong blow to his chest Usopp redrew his Hammer clutching the handle with both hands as he put his full strength into swinging it at the Avenger’s head, crying out with a battle cry as he did so only to flinch hard as his Hammer suddenly stopped, his arms shaving and ‘wibbling’ as he realised that Hawkeye had stopped his Hammer swing by simply raising his hand to catch the Weapon.Laughing nervously Usopp then cried out as Hawkeye effortlessly wrenched the Hammer from the Pirate’s grasp and followed it up by swinging his Bow like a Melee Weapon at Usopp’s face, knocking several teeth out of his mouth before he struck him again and again, the sheer weight of his Bow adding to the force of the blows as he savagely beat it against Usopp’s face and body until it was a barely recognisable mess, his features swollen and bruised as the Avenger then swung the Bow in an uppercut like fashion to send Usopp sailing into the air again.As he spun in the air Usopp fought through the pain and ringing in his head to draw his Kabuto Slingshot again, pulling out one of his most powerful Stars and loading it as he then aimed down with his unswollen eye at Hawkeye “Fire Bird Star!” he proclaimed before firing, the Star exploding and igniting mid air to take the form of a screaming Phoenix as it shot towards Hawkeye who was notching another Arrow.This Arrow was different from the others though, its head shining in Adamantium coating granting it unnatural sharpness as Hawkeye fired upwards towards his target, the Arrow cutting through the air like a hot Knife through butter as it then shot through the Fire Bird, dispelling and snuffing it out as it cut through the Star before meeting its intended target.As the Arrow struck him right between the eyes Usopp didn’t have chance to utter a single sound, going completely silent as the Adamantium Arrow cut through the front of his skull and flew straight out the back of it in a clean head shot, sending the Pirate’s body falling silently to the rooftops below with a sickening ‘splat!’.Sighing as he then rested a hand on his chest to nurse his cracked ribs Hawkeye shouldered his Bow “should have just followed the rules buddy”.Winner: HawkeyeI wonder if this will get as much shit as Green Arrow vs Hawkeye did.Anyway, why does Hawkeye beat Usopp?Well despite what everyone thinks of Hawkeye he is far from pathetic and he sure as hell isn’t a weak link in the Avengers having earned his mantle of ‘the world's greatest Marksman’ many a time over, with some of his more casual shots far exceeding the range of Usopp’s greatest shots.Along with his greater skill of marksmanship Hawkeye’s greater strength and outright close combat skill gave him the edge to deal with Usopp’s greater speed and arguably greater durability to grant him the victory in this match up.
One Piece: Usopp vs Mez Angle by TitanXecutor
Chopper
One Piece: Tony Tony Chopper vs Puff Puff by TitanXecutor
Tony Tony Chopper and Chibitalia by HimeRoseChibiChan
Chopper Eating Pocky by HimeRoseChibiChan
One Piece, Chopper and Candies by ShiroiNekosArt
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Nico Robin at the beach by YametaStudio
Nico Robin by YametaStudio
Bondage Robin by YametaStudio

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Nico Robin Shower by YametaStudio
Franky
[FA] Throw the man some cola bottles by SOBAMASK
One Piece: Franky vs Rip Fangers by TitanXecutor
ONE PIECE X GHIBLI : Franky by Why2be
Do you have a wish? by NeoAngeliqueAbyss
Brook
One Piece: Brook vs Dalace Sigh by TitanXecutor
Happy Birthday, Laboon! by HimeRoseChibiChan
Chopper Happy Dance for Brook by HimeRoseChibiChan
Happy Birthday, Brook! by HimeRoseChibiChan
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Level 6 Prisoners ( One Piece ) by 1602jaw
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Ace and Shanks
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Are OC'S allowed?
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thank you guys :D
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thank you for affiliating with OnePieceParadise~!
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Thank you too! :)
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I just joined the group, and submitted my work, but I also added a drawing that is not from One Piece!
I removed it immediately :)
Please don't comment about that! Thanks :heart:
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Everything's fine about that! :) :heart:
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Hello! I have 5 drawings of One Piece that I would like to share with you, if you could send me some requests... there you can see one of them [link]
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maybe you should just join the group .. because then you don't have to ask for adding your work, that is by the way pretty good!
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