Lure Fishing

The world of One Piece is a world where the sea is more prevalent than the land. Except for the Red Line and the vicinity of certain giant islands, the water in most sea areas is very clear.

With the help of the flashlight, Nami could barely see objects five or six meters away.

With her excellent swimming skills, she quickly reached the bottom of the Twitch.

Sure enough, just as the boatmen had said, there were many strange stones embedded in this place.

Nami reached out and gently touched the stones, but they felt like steel, lacking the warm, smooth feel of jade.

"Is something this ugly really more valuable than gold?"

The clueless Cat Burglar inevitably falls into deep suspicion.

From an artistic perspective, rather than a material perspective, she simply cannot find any value in Seastone.

"Anyway, we're already here..."

Nami surfaced to catch her breath and considered her next move.

She doesn't yet have that magical Four-Dimensional Pocket on her chest; it's just an ordinary pocket that can't hold anything.

So she wore a pouch-like armband on her left arm, which perfectly covered the tattoos of the Arlong Pirates.

This bag contains all sorts of small tools that Nami has used throughout her years of adventures in the East Blue.

She quickly found a specially made screwdriver and went back to the seabed.

Based on experience, this screwdriver can be used to easily remove inlaid gemstones from walls, ship hulls, and other similar structures.

However, no matter how hard Nami tried, this time her target, that ordinary, broken rock, remained motionless, as if it were rooted to the wood.

Something's definitely fishy!

Nami was not surprised but rather delighted.

Now that's more like real treasure!

However, no matter how exquisite the inlay technique or how secure the inlay, it is ultimately still inlaid on a wooden board.

If I can't pry you open, can't I at least saw through a wooden plank?

Nami, full of fighting spirit, prepared to swim towards the shore.

Her thieving cat outfit only contained a small wire saw, used for cutting chains and the like, not suitable for sawing wooden planks.

But the boatmen must have the right tools.

Nami decided to hurry up and get a new set of equipment.

Suddenly.

"Huh? That's... 10,000 Beli?"

Nami could hardly believe her eyes.

It's a banknote, and on it is a smiling skull wearing a black hat. (See picture)

This is indeed a Beli -belief banknote bobbing up and down in the water.

Just like Luffy seeing meat, Sanji seeing a beautiful woman, Zoro seeing a swordsman...

Nami's obsession with money instantly overwhelmed her intelligence, and like a pike, she charged towards the banknotes.

"A fisherman will never be empty-handed!"

On the deck, Ma Qiao watched the buoy sink rapidly and swung his club sharply to reel in the line.

Soon, a soaking wet girl was pulled out of the sea.

"Wow! I never thought you could catch Mermaid in the East Blue."

Ma Qiao smiled.

The Vision Ward added to the bottom of the ship to prevent guys like Ace from raiding the base were indeed effective.

This time, my strong sense of the big picture and my broad vision really paid off!

With a delighted flick of his fishing line, Ma Qiao returned the 10,000 Beli that Nami had futilely stuffed into her shallow, Four-Dimensional Pocket to its rightful owner.

"Lure fishing truly is the ultimate destiny for anglers! Thankfully, the money in this world is waterproof!"

Ma Qiao kissed the banknote and put it back in his wallet.

Then, he stepped forward, grabbed the orange-haired "Mermaid's" swimsuit strap, and threw her into the aquarium.

"Pervert!"

"Abnormal!"

"You lecherous scumbag!"

"Let me out!"

Nami angrily pounded on the transparent aquarium. "As Marines, how can you openly abduct people? Is this how you call yourselves righteous?"

Ma Qiao sat on a small stool, filing his little finger with nail clippers, glanced at the snarling Cat Burglar, and said casually:

"First of all, I am not a navy officer, but a civilian with a heart for justice."

Secondly, as far as I know, possessing a slave-catching certificate issued by Mary Geoise made the capture of slaves and the human trafficking legal; in fact, the navy was even obligated to provide protection if slave-catching ships were attacked.

"Could it be... that you are a slave trader?"

Nami's pupils contracted sharply, and her whole body trembled uncontrollably.

As a Cat Burglar living in the countryside, Nami had never heard of Mary Geoise, let alone the Celestial Dragons system. However, during her six years of thievery, Nami had seen Slave Traders and merchant ships transporting slaves more than once.

Slaves in shackles trembled under various instruments of torture; they were less human beings and more cheap commodities, no different from pigs, sheep, cattle, and horses.

If being under Arlong's command was a dark abyss, then being enslaved and transported to unknown lands was a fate ten thousand times worse than falling into that abyss.

"I'm not that kind of scum!"

Ma Qiao jumped to his feet and shouted, "That kind of scum should be boiled in oil!"

Calling him a lecher or a womanizer is fine, it doesn't matter.

Ma Qiao could never accept being mistaken for a "slave trader"—something so vile and despicable, worse than pigs and dogs.

He's just an ordinary lecher!

Nami breathed a sigh of relief.

If he's just an ordinary lecher, things will be easy.

His superb acting skills, honed over many years, were instantly on full display.

Almost instantly, his jewel-like bright eyes were veiled with a thin mist, and a helpless girl, on the verge of tears, appeared before Ma Qiao.

"Mr. Ma Qiao, you must have already looked for four or five girls in town, haven't you? Aren't you satisfied yet? I'm just a helpless young woman. If you really want to... you shouldn't be in such a hurry..."

"Worried? I'm not worried at all."

Ma Qiao shook his head and clapped his hands. "Garen! Come over here and interrogate him... um... never mind, I'll do it myself. You stay here!"

Ma Qiao tossed the fishing rod to Garen, telling him to turn around and go fishing.

Interrogating female prisoners is something that even the most righteous knight Garen should probably avoid.

"What... what are you going to do! Don't come any closer!"

Nami maintained her panicked expression.

Ma Qiao approached the aquarium, opened the lid, and then pulled out a formal interrogation notebook, asking, "Name?"

"Nami... Nami."

"Age?"

"16 years old."

"Home address?"

"..."

Nami did not fabricate her name.

Nami cherishes the name Bellemere gave her.

Moreover, "nami" originally means ocean waves. In the world of One Piece, "nami" is as common as "Zi Xuan" in Ma Qiao's previous life. It is not unusual to have ten or eight Nami on an island.

Apart from the name and age, the information about the birthplace and occupation was completely fabricated.

However, Ma Qiao still took notes very carefully.

Nami was very confused.

What's wrong with this lecherous guy?

Did you lose interest once you realized you were over 16?

Otherwise, why would he keep asking one pointless question after another, yet hesitate to make a move on himself?

This Nami couldn't find an opportunity to unleash her attack, which she had been preparing for all along.

"No!"

"We can't hesitate any longer!"

"Maybe it's because of those four ladies! This lecher must be secretly recovering his strength and getting through his refractory period!"

The Cat Burglar secretly made up his mind.