Golden Lion vs. the Straw Hat Luffy Pirates (Part 1)

As the system text vanished, golden boxes appeared before the people around the world who had chosen correctly.

Meanwhile, in the video, Luffy told Nami, who looked a little tired, to go inside Shio's house and rest. Shio's mother had invited them in beforehand.

What they didn't know, however, was that the giant Den Den Mushi from earlier had silently patrolled its way to Shio's doorstep and sent footage of them back to Golden Lion.

Grand Line, somewhere at sea, aboard the Thousand Sunny.

"Prize time! Let's see what I got!" With Beli signs in her eyes, Nami excitedly opened the box in front of her and muttered, "I'm not asking for much. Just give me a hundred million. A hundred million will do."

She looked inside the box and saw several coins lying quietly within.

She immediately took the coins out, placed them in her palm, and counted them. All together, they came to the 'enormous sum' of three hundred Beli.

"What a freaking rip-off!" Nami slammed the money onto the deck and cursed. "What's this little bit supposed to be enough for? Am I supposed to buy six Choppers to play with?"

"Nami, what do you mean by that?" Chopper shot her a disgruntled glare.

"Chopper, that's not what I meant. Don't be mad," Nami said with an apologetic smile. "I was cursing that God from Beyond the Domain. He's way too stingy! To give us so little money—oh! Right!"

She immediately changed the subject and asked Brook and the others, "How much Beli did you guys get?!"

The answer was that none of the others had gotten much either. The least was five hundred, and the most was five thousand, which had gone to Luffy.

He, however, was having his neck squeezed by an enraged Sanji, who was shaking him furiously.

It wasn't because Luffy had gotten the biggest cash reward on the ship, five thousand Beli, but because the video had shown Nami riding on his back. That had made Sanji especially envious, jealous, and resentful, turning him green with envy.

"It's all because too many people answered correctly!" Nami wailed, clutching her head. "My money! It was all supposed to be my money! It's all that bastard Golden Lion's fault! Why didn't he let me leave?! Then I could have gotten more Beli!"

"Uh, Nami, um... Golden Lion didn't just refuse to let you leave. He's come to capture you too!" Usopp said, pointing at the video in the sky.

"Ah! What?!"

In the video, Golden Lion had found Luffy and the others resting at Xiami's house using the footage sent back by the giant Den Den Mushi.

Golden Lion stood atop a pile of rocks on the hillside behind Xiami's house. In the light of the setting sun, he looked down on Luffy and the others like a god.

Just then, Nami, who had noticed something was wrong outside, came out and saw the scene. She wanted to get closer, but Luffy stopped her. "Stay back, Nami."

As he spoke, Luffy never took his eyes off Golden Lion. The fury in them was almost overflowing, as though he meant to kill him with his gaze.

Golden Lion ignored him—or rather, all of them—and looked straight at Nami. A glimmer of greed flashed in his eyes as he said, "Found you, baby. You're awfully cold! Running away without a word! You really wounded my heart!"

"Shut up, you bastard! How dare you trick us and snatch Nami-san away!"

The moment Golden Lion finished speaking, before Luffy could say anything, Sanji, Nami's most loyal knight, spoke up, his face full of anger.

"Jahahaha! A woman that wonderful? It would hurt even more to tell me not to take her!" Golden Lion said brazenly. "If you don't want her taken, then protect her properly!"

"Besides, maybe she doesn't even want to leave me anymore!"

At the end, Golden Lion didn't forget to turn to Nami and ask, "Isn't that right, baby?"

"Bastard." Veins bulged on Sanji's forehead as he prepared to charge at Golden Lion and kick him.

Before he could act, however, Luffy, who had been standing beside him the whole time, suddenly spoke. "Hey, Helm! If you lay a hand on my crewmates, don't expect to get away unscathed!"

"Oh? And what are you going to do about it?!" Golden Lion said disdainfully.

"Beat you flat!" Luffy said through gritted teeth.

At that moment, the video paused and system text appeared. "Multiple-choice question: In this battle, who will emerge victorious, the Straw Hat Luffy Pirates or Golden Lion Shiki?"

"One, the Straw Hat Luffy Pirates."

"Two, Golden Lion."

"Three, both sides suffer heavy losses."

"Please choose one of the three options above as your answer. From among the many who choose correctly, I shall randomly select one to receive a mysterious gift pack."

"Time limit for this multiple-choice question: one minute."

"For the next minute, I shall open the screen to free comments. You may send your choices to the screen."

"Choose now."

In an instant, the entire screen was flooded with the numbers {one}, {two}, and {three}.

Grand Line, somewhere at sea, aboard the Thousand Sunny.

"Hey, Nami, should we split our votes this time?" Usopp asked, looking at Nami beside him.

"Of course not! Last time, the prize was a huge amount of Beli. I didn't want to put all our eggs in one basket, so I had you split your votes. Of course, the main reason was that I wanted to gamble and see if we could get a bigger share of the Beli from the choice with fewer votes," Nami explained. "But this time is different. There's only one mysterious gift pack as the prize, so of course we should all vote for the same answer. That way, we'll have a better chance of winning when the winner is drawn, and besides..."

At that, Nami's tone suddenly grew firm. "...I believe Luffy and the others will definitely beat Golden Lion, so we should all vote for {one}."

"Yeah!" The others nodded in agreement and all sent {one}.

Across the pirate world, besides Luffy and the others, the people of the East Blue, most of the people on the islands they had visited during their adventures in the Grand Line, and Shanks and the others in the New World also sent {one}.