Seven Hundred Million Belly Bounty Not Worthy of Notice! The Scorned Eldest Son of a Four Emperor!

"Seriously... Gild Tesoro was such a nice guy. He was so strong, and he even treated us to meat!"

"His Gold City is gone, and I kindly invited him to become our companion, but he actually turned me down!"

"That's too much!"

Luffy swung his legs, his voice full of unwillingness.

Nami lay on a beach chair not far away, holding a glass of iced orange juice.

Hearing Luffy's complaints, a gentle smile appeared on her flawless, jade-like face.

"All right, Luffy. Stop complaining like a child."

Nami took a light sip of her juice, crossing her snow-white legs as youthful energy radiated from her entire body.

"Didn't Gild Tesoro already make it perfectly clear?"

"With his current strength, joining our ship wouldn't make him an asset to us."

Through her sunglasses, Nami gazed at the sparkling sea.

"He has already broken the shackles in his heart and understood the path ahead."

"He needs time to settle himself and become stronger."

"When the day comes that we truly need him, when this world faces its final battle..."

"He will surely answer our call in his strongest form."

"I mean, that's true..."

Luffy scratched his head and tugged the Straw Hat lower over the top of his head, a trace of guilt entering his voice.

"But no matter what, we fought the World Government and completely sank the Gold City he worked so hard to build... Now he has nowhere to call home. I just feel kind of bad about it!"

"Pwahahaha!"

Usopp, who was tinkering with various new mechanical explosives nearby, could not help bursting into laughter at those words.

He slapped his thigh and mocked him without mercy.

"Hey, hey, hey, Luffy! That doesn't sound like you at all!"

"You're the man who just blew up the Five Elders!