"Huh! The boar can talk? Did it eat Sabo?" Luffy said in amazement. At the same time, he reached out and pried open the boar's mouth, stretching his neck out as far as he could and sticking his rubber head inside.
"Idiot, that's the prey Sabo caught," Ace said helplessly.
Yet while he was speaking, Luffy had already climbed entirely into the boar's mouth. Gurgling sounds came from inside its belly.
At that moment, Sabo, who was pinned beneath the boar with only his shoes showing, tossed it aside. With a boom, the boar jolted violently, and Luffy, dressed in a red vest, was squeezed out of its stomach.
"No matter how you look at it, there's no way I'd be taken out by a boar, right?" Sabo said, covering his nose as he looked at the foul-smelling Luffy. "Though if it were you, it might happen. You might even turn into boar poop."
Unfortunately, Luffy had no interest in bickering with his brother right now. He circled the boar again and again, his eyes sparkling as he opened his mouth. "Meat, meat, such huge meat!"
Ace and Sabo exchanged a look, both wearing helpless expressions.
Ever since they had begun proper training, the three of them had developed even bigger appetites. With how much they ate, they felt too embarrassed to freeload at Makino's tavern every day.
But the food made by everyone else was simply far inferior to Makino's cooking after Doflamingo had taught her. So the three brothers often went hunting in the forest and brought their prey to the tavern as payment.
At first, Makino had been somewhat worried about them, but the combat ability the three displayed soon put her at ease.
Aside from Luffy, who sometimes did stupid things and got himself into danger