Chapter 626

"Do you have any other way to solve the problem without conflict with the Crocodile?" Chen Fan asked Igram.

Igram and Vivi were speechless; if they didn't confront the Crocodile, the country's problems would never be resolved.

"Alright! Enough of that. Igram, you can cook, right? Can you make some breakfast? I'm starving. This ship is really short of cooks; we must get one next time," Chen Fan said.

Vivi and Igram were shocked. They'd managed to get one; could Chen Fan be a human trafficker?

"Okay!" Igram said. After all these years of traveling around, he was quite good at cooking.

"Ah... I'm going back to sleep. Wake me up when dinner's ready!" Chen Fan yawned and went back to his room to sleep.

Suddenly, Tashigi yelled, "Ah...! You big pervert, go to hell!" Soon after, a commotion erupted. Judging from the yell, Chen Fan had crawled into Tashigi's bed and was even getting handsy. Honestly, no matter how cool or handsome Chen Fan's words were, his behavior was unsettling.

However, in the following days, Vivi and Igram thought differently. Chen Fan had already dealt with several groups of pursuers, each time cleaving their ships in two with a single slash before they even got close. When the two first witnessed this, the sharp attacks left Vivi and Igram speechless. Tashigi, on the other hand, was immune to such attacks. After seeing Chen Fan slay those giant Sea King, what were these small boats compared to that?

However, after the tenth wave of attacks, no one from Baroque Works came knocking again, seemingly having learned their lesson.

"How boring! Why don't they keep attacking? Is that all the willpower they have? If they're men, they'd charge forward even if they died a hundred times over! Haven't we reached Alabasta yet?" Chen Fan said, lying on the deck and looking at the sky.

The others broke out in a cold sweat. Even dying a hundred times, ten attacks seemed unbelievable to them. "Huff...!" Tashigi continued practicing her swordsmanship. Chen Fan's swordsmanship inspired her; she greatly envied Chen Fan ability to unleash such powerful strikes. But this bastard never practiced swordsmanship, only knowing how to eat, drink, and chase girls. The world was truly unfair; she had known this for a long time, so she would make up for it through hard work.

"Miss Tashigi is working very hard," Vivi said to Nami.

Nami, who was using binoculars to survey her surroundings and determine the direction of their advance, remarked after hearing Vivi's words, "Well...! Was she kidnapped by Chen Fan as a hostage? She's somehow become one of us without us even realizing it."

"I'm not one of them! I'll keep an eye on this villain and persuade him to repent and serve the government!" Tashigi shouted to Nami, but the tip of the knife was almost slicing off Chen Fan's nose, pressed tightly against it. Her hand seemed to be trembling uncontrollably with excitement, making Chen Fan break out in a cold sweat and dare not utter a sound.

Tashigi then continued her sword-wielding practice, seemingly dreaming of unleashing a strike like Chen Fan's, capable of cleaving a ship in two with a single blow;

"Hey! Miss Tashigi, you're practicing so hard, but your progress is incredibly slow," Chen Fan said, his eyes darting around as if he had a mischievous idea.

"Then how can I improve quickly?" Tashigi asked. Chen Fan a master swordsman, and Tashigi hoped to learn some skills and knowledge from Chen Fan.

Chen Fan smiled and said, "That goes without saying, it's all about actual combat."

"Do you mean you want me to fight you?"

Chen Fan sat up and said, "It's not impossible for me to teach you, but there's a condition: the loser has to..."

"No need! I'll practice on my own," Tashigi interrupted Chen Fan, then continued practicing.

"Sigh...! Why? I've finally told you a good method."

"I don't need to say your conditions must be something filthy!"

"I'm just saying Feng Liu, I'm absolutely not being vulgar! It's just... flirtatious...!" Chen Fan said, sitting on the deck with an unhappy expression. Then he saw Vivi, Vivi was startled when Chen Fan's gaze fell on her.

"Vivi, do you want to become stronger and defeat Crocodile yourself? I can teach you!" Chen Fan said in a seductive tone;

"Let's talk about that after you defeat Crocodile!" Nami said.

Chen Fan said with dissatisfaction, "After I defeated Crocodile, Vivi ran away, so there was no chance for me to play. Nami won't play with me either; we have to wait until night to play."

They couldn't help but glare angrily at Chen Fan, as if they wanted to kill Chen Fan with their eyes. Unfortunately, Chen Fan's twisted mind interpreted their hostile gazes as admiration, and he looked on with obvious enjoyment. This left the two women in a dilemma, unsure whether to be angry or not, and they could only helplessly go about their business. Chen Fan's skin was incredibly thick, far beyond what they could compare to.

Suddenly Nami spoke up, "I see an island!" Everyone looked ahead upon hearing Nami's words, and sure enough, an island appeared.

Chapter 165 Awakening