"Take a break and read the paper."
Hearing him, Nami yanked off the cloth over her eyes and sprinted over.
The newspaper's layout gave Nami quite a fright.
"East Blue sheds its title as the weakest sea—the great pirate Straw Hat crew has arrived!"
"Monkey D. Luffy, the East Blue rookie pirate known as Straw Hat, defeated the great pirate Don Krieg, worth 17 million, then overturned the Arlong Pirates led by Arlong. He even successfully turned the Arlong Pirates' strongest combatant, the Logia-type Devil Fruit user Kisame Hoshigaki, against them. Though he had yet to enter the Grand Line, one could already sense the potential of his evil. Never before had East Blue produced a pirate with a bounty exceeding 30 million, yet the Marines' 50 million Beli bounty on Straw Hat Luffy fully demonstrated how seriously they regarded the Straw Hat Crew. As for Kisame Hoshigaki, a 120 million Beli bounty was hardly an exaggeration for a Logia-type Devil Fruit user. Once someone witnessed their next battle, this traitor among fish-men might well catch up to the Fire Fist Ace of old..."
By the time she reached that point, Nami's teeth were already chattering.
She had not considered any of this before, but now it seemed things would not be so simple.
Luffy held his own wanted poster, his eyes shining. When he saw Kisame's bounty, he let out an excited cry.
"Sugee!"
He had not expected Kisame's first bounty to break one hundred million outright. Luffy's eyes shone as he looked at Kisame, and he felt more and more that inviting this companion aboard had been a wise decision.
King Luffy valued usefulness when choosing people, but he valued strength and fun even more. As long as you shouted, "I have a dream too," Teacher Luffy would