Chapter 614
"...!" The voice unique to superpowers rang out;
Chen Fan appeared not far in front of the two, holding a cannonball in one hand;
Aside from Nami, the other four people's mouths were agape, their chins almost touching the ground. Although Tashigi had seen Chen Fan cut through a giant Sea King with a sword, she was still shocked to see Chen Fan catch a cannonball with his bare hands.
"How is that possible! Are you a monster?!" the man shouted, pointing at Chen Fan.
"Damn it! I don't want to be talked to by guys who just fire randomly!" Chen Fan shouted at the guy.
"Then who exactly are you!" the woman demanded.
Chen Fan clenched his fists, veins throbbing on his forehead, and said fiercely, "Don't think I won't beat you up just because you're a woman. I'm interrogating you, you bastards! No woman is afraid of me!"
"Bang!" Chen Fan was knocked to the ground by Nami and Tashigi once again, his previous imposing image gone;
Soon, Chen Fan and his group stopped their boat beside the small island. The old man's attitude also improved considerably, after all, it was Chen Fan who had just saved Laboon.
"My name is Crocas, and I'm the lighthouse keeper at Cape Twin Lighthouse. This whale is Island Whale, living only in the West Blue. It's the largest whale species in the world, and its name is Laboon. These two are scoundrels from a nearby town. They're after Laboon because its meat is enough to feed that town for two or three years, but I won't let them succeed. There's a reason it keeps ramming its head against the Red Line and the Roar towards Mount Levius. It happened a long time ago..." Crocas then recounted how the pirates and Laboon traveled together in the West Blue, and how they agreed to Laboon again after circumnavigating the Grand Line.
Nami and Tashigi, listening to Crocas's words, connected them to Chen Fan's farewell to Little One. Although Chen Fan said those things, they both knew that Chen Fan wasn't telling the truth. When Chen Fan lied, Chen Fan always liked to touch the back of his head, close his eyes, and smile. Nami had noticed this unintentionally, so Chen Fan was actually quite easy to understand.
After saying this, Crocas quickly opened the door, leading Chen Fan and the others out of the whale's stomach and to the lighthouse;
"Pirates are all a bunch of untrustworthy people." Tashigi said to Chen Fan, tears streaming down her face, after hearing Laboon's story about the pirates.
Chen Fan said helplessly, "Why are you looking at me like that? I just sent Little One back to where he was supposed to be."
"Are you three going to take risks on the Grand Line? But why isn't there a pirate flag on your ship?" Crocas said.
"Well...! I originally wanted to draw a seagull."
"Those are the Navy's, you're not allowed to insult the Navy!" Tashigi shouted at Chen Fan;
"Tch...! I don't want to use the Navy's flag. I have my own flag." With that, Chen Fan took out the flag he had prepared beforehand, which was the Fairy Tail guild's flag. The others couldn't quite understand it, but they thought it was very pretty. Chen Fan then jumped onto the ship's mast and tied it on.
"The compass needle is broken! It can't give directions anymore." Nami said, looking at the compass needle in her hand. The needle on the compass was spinning continuously without a fixed direction, which was extremely dangerous when sailing on the high seas. Without a compass, it meant not knowing the specific direction, and it might even mean turning back.
Upon hearing this, Crocas said, "It seems you came here completely unaware. Are you fools here to die? Almost no nautical knowledge is reliable here. Due to the instability of the magnetic field on the Grand Line, Log Pose is essential for navigation."
"Log Pose?" Nami asked, somewhat curiously;
"It's a special pointer that can record magnetic fields. Starting from here, it randomly selects the first seven islands, and then, using these seven islands as the starting point, it forms seven routes to the New World. The final destination is Raftel, the end of the Grand Line. Legend has it that only the Pirate King's fleet has ever reached there."
"Well...! None of that matters, old man, you have that Log Pose, right? Give it to me!" Chen Fan said, holding out his hand.
Crocas smiled and shook his head upon hearing Chen Fan's words, saying, "You don't seem like a pirate to me, more like a bandit. But since you helped Laboon after all, I'll give you this Log Pose." He then handed his Log Pose to Chen Fan. Nami snatched it and put it on her wrist. She was the ship's navigator and didn't want to leave everything to Chen Fan alone; that would make her seem useless, wouldn't it? Chen Fan Nami; he could sense what Nami was thinking.
When Tashigi saw Chen Fan smiling at Nami, she couldn't help but purse her lips, slightly dissatisfied, but she didn't know why she was unhappy.
Chapter 158 The Agreement
(Chapter 158 The Agreement)
"Booooooo...!" Laboon shouted towards the entrance of the Grand Line. Although no one could understand him, the sadness in Laboon voice was palpable. Nami and Tashigi looked somewhat somber. After hearing Laboon's story with the pirates, they seemed to understand what Laboon was shouting and calling out for.
"Old man! Since you can feel Laboon's sorrow, and this whale keeps crashing into the Red Line, adding more wounds to its body, its best end is death. Kill it, let it die with those pirates, that would be merciful. Otherwise, it will keep hurting itself." The bound man said to Crocas.
"Shut up! Laboon has been with me for fifty years. Now, no matter how eloquently you try to persuade me, I won't let you scoundrels harm Laboon!" Crocas shouted angrily. However, he also knew that if he died, Laboon's final fate would be to smash his head against the Red Line, which would be even more painful. Although he always said that Laboon was too stubborn, wasn't he just as stubborn? But in his lifetime, he absolutely could not let Laboon die like that.