Nami

White clouds rolled across the azure sky as a small wooden boat drifted on the blue, calm sea.

Luffy sat at the bow of the boat, and Zoro sat leaning against the railing.

"We'll still need to go find a navigator later on, won't we?"

Reiner lay on the deck, looking up at the sky in sheer boredom, and said it casually.

Luffy paused upon hearing that. "What's a navigator?"

Zoro: "."

"A navigator is the person who guides the way," Reiner explained to Luffy:

"It's very dangerous if you run into bad weather on the vast ocean; we need someone who understands navigation knowledge."

This was a very serious matter, as all sorts of bizarre weather and marine environments on the Grand Line were unpredictable.

Even in the East Blue, getting caught up in a large storm meant certain death.

Someone as strong as the Golden Lion was powerless against the might of nature.

After a while, the group suddenly heard shouting coming from a distance.

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.

Following the sound, they saw a small boat sailing toward them, and an orange-haired girl on the deck was rowing desperately with her oars.

She was being chased by a pirate ship flying a Black Cat Flag.

The figurehead of the pirate ship was a huge black cat's head, and quite a few pirates were standing on the deck, roaring angrily at the small boat ahead.

"Bastards! How dare you steal our treasure?"

"Catch up to her!"

The person being chased was none other than Nami. After she left with Buggy's navigation chart, she happened to run into the Black Cat Pirates out on the sea.

As a pirate thief, Nami couldn't resist sneaking aboard their ship to steal some treasure.

Just as she was getting ready to slip away, she somehow accidentally got herself discovered.

"Why is someone walking backward, you bastard!" Nami let out an unwilling roar.

She had almost slipped away and was hiding in a corner, waiting for someone to walk past so she could sneak off the boat from behind them.

As it turned out, that person was actually walking backward!

Nami rushed out from the corner and ran right into him head-on.

On the pirate ship, Jango heard Nami's roar and wore a smug expression. "This is my dance step. Did it completely conquer you?"

"Conquer your head!" Nami rowed desperately with her oars.

Suddenly seeing a small boat ahead, her heart instantly leaped with joy, and she shouted straight toward it,

"Help!"

Asking for help? No, her main move was shifting the trouble onto others.

"What do you say, are we going to make a move?" Zoro asked Luffy.

Luffy stood at the bow, glanced at Nami crying for help, then looked at the pirates behind her, and suddenly gave an inexplicable smile.

"Everyone, get ready for a fight!"

With that, he grabbed the bow, stretched his arms out backward, used himself like a slingshot, and flew out toward the Black Cat Pirates.

Zoro directly grabbed Luffy's feet and flew out along with him, while Reiner stayed behind alone to guard the boat.

He had already recognized Nami, and her boat was slowly drawing closer.

"Boom!"

Luffy and Zoro acted like human cannonballs, directly slamming into the Black Cat Pirates, knocking down several pirates the moment they landed.

"What are you?!"

"Could they be that thief's accomplices?" The pirates swarmed around them, raising their guns and brandishing their swords.

A man wearing heart-shaped glasses and fashionable clothing walked out, looked at Luffy and Zoro, and spoke indifferently: "Never mind them, capture them first. Charge!"

"Yes! Captain Jango!"

As Jango's voice fell, all the pirates immediately rushed forward in a frenzy, and the battle aboard the ship broke out instantly.

Ever since Kuro engineered his retirement behind the scenes three years ago, Jango had become the acting captain. Now Kuro's plan was reaching its final stage, and they were sailing toward Syrup Village.

As it turned out, they ran into a thief halfway there, who made off with more than half of their treasure. If they went to see Kuro like this, he would practically skin them alive.

Yet the combat power of Luffy and Zoro was practically enough to walk all over the East Blue unchecked, let alone the fact that the Black Cat Pirates had "lost" their captain Kuro three years ago.

The leading pirates who rushed right up to the two of them were instantly sent flying backward before they could even figure out what had happened.

"W-What's going on?"

"These two aren't simple; everyone attack together!"

The pirates' expressions turned grave, and they swarmed forward directly.

Yet under the huge gap in strength, numbers were no longer an advantage, and the pirates surged up like wave after wave only to be beaten back.

"...So strong!"

Seeing the situation on the ship, Nami couldn't help but marvel.

Originally, she had only intended to shift the trouble onto others, but looking at this momentum, these two might just wipe out the enemy crew entirely.

"Yo, so much money!"

Before she knew it, Reiner had already arrived on Nami's boat.

He opened a bag placed on the deck, and inside it was glittering with pure treasure.

Hearing the sound suddenly ringing out behind her, Nami was startled, and she spun around abruptly to look.

A blonde man was squatting right in front of the treasure she had just stolen, scaring her into rushing forward to snatch it back in a flurry.

"Er, um... thanks for saving me. My name is Nami, nice to meet you."

Nami was a bit flustered, hiding the treasure behind her as she changed the subject.

"Then you're celebrating too early."

Reiner expressionlessly reached out, extended his palm, and gestured for her to hand it over.

"I'm a pirate! Stick 'em up!"

"What?!"

Nami was shocked upon hearing that. There were three of them on a small boat, and they hadn't even flown a flag, which was the only reason she had dared to approach them.

As it turned out, they were pirates!

Had she just walked right into the tiger's den?

She pulled a three-section staff out of "Nami's Valley" and combined it into a long staff, staring vigilantly at Reiner.

Nami thought to herself secretly: The opponent is alone. As long as I'm a bit cautious, I might have a chance to pull this off.

Clack!

Clack! Two figures—one tall, the other thin—suddenly landed on the small boat. Both of them wore sharp cat-claw gloves on their hands, and the arrivals were none other than the Nyaban Brothers, Sam and Butchie.

"Heh heh heh."

Sam smiled sinisterly as he looked the two of them over. "You dared to steal from our ship. Have you figured out how you want to die yet?"

Nami nervously looked at those two figures, a thought instantly flashing through her mind as she turned her head and gazed pitifully at Reiner:

"Boss! They're the ones hunting me down!"

Shift the trouble onto others, round two.

Reiner looked at Nami with lingering interest. She was quite pretty, yet she played things so dirty.

Unhurriedly, he lit a cigarette and cast a mocking glance at the Nyaban Brothers.

"With that laugh of yours, you aren't going to live long, little brother."

"What did you say?!"

Sam cast a gloomy glare at Reiner. It was the first time he had ever encountered someone daring to talk to them like that.

He stuck out his tongue to lick the sharp claws on his hand, a fierce glint flashing in his eyes as he said:

"We're the Nyaban Brothers with a seven-million-Beli bounty! By the sound of it, you want to cross blows with us?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, licking your blade? That action makes your time even shorter, little bro."

"Screech—screech—"

A sharp, piercing sound suddenly rang out as two figures walked straight out of the small boat's cabin.

One of them was draped in a long trench coat and dressed all in black, with a ferocious expression and sharp fangs. His forehead protruded forward as if it had been pierced right through, holding a long sword, and there were two more swords extending from his hands.

The other was wearing a white shirt and grayish-black trousers, with a tie at his chest and sneakers on his feet, entirely looking like the image of a youthful teenager.

Yet he was the one who made both the Nyaban Brothers and Nami wear expressions of utter terror.

That sharp, piercing sound from just a moment ago had been made by him, because the objects extending from his hands and forehead were—

To everyone's shock, they were three ferocious and terrifying chainsaws!

"What kind of ghost things are these?!"

Nami cried out in alarm, collapsing to sit on the ground. She looked at those demonic, spine-chilling figures, trembling as she backed away until she hit the railing and jolted in sudden realization.

Gulp~

The Nyaban Brothers swallowed hard. Their eyes filled with terror as they stared fixedly at those two figures, and at that moment, they felt like wishing they were dead.

This wasn't even a question of whether they could win or not anymore; they just looked way too terrifying, especially those three chainsaws buzzing and screeching away.

If you get touched by one of those, you'll be torn to shreds, right? That was the only thought remaining in the two men's minds.

Reiner flicked his cigarette butt off and crushed it underfoot, smiling gently at the Nyaban Brothers:

"Let me introduce everyone. This one is called Little Blade, and this one is called Little Saw."

"So it's just you two brothers for seven million, is that right?"

"Wait—hold on!"

Cold sweat kept seeping from the Nyaban Brothers' foreheads. Trembling as they backed away, they couldn't help crying out in alarm as they watched the two demons step closer and closer:

"Don't come over here!!!"