The Black Cat Pirates' End

"Sure, sir!" With that, Aaron plopped down on the ground.

Jango felt as though the earth had trembled three times.

He cautiously sat down cross-legged as well, not knowing where to put his hands and feet, utterly restless.

"Um, sir, I still don't know your name?" Amid the crackling sounds of battle, Aaron asked.

Well, their captain was fighting for his life while they sat on the ground chatting.

Come to think of it, it was rather harmonious.

"Jango. My name is Jango," Jango answered, relaxing all his muscles.

When Aaron had asked the question, he had thought Aaron was about to beat him up.

One was innocent and clueless, while the other harbored ulterior motives. The two fell silent at the same time.

Things became incredibly awkward for a moment.

"Mr. Jango..." Aaron was the first to break the silence. "Um... did you pick up anything that belonged to me?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Hearing Aaron's words, Jango hurriedly pulled the item from his clothes and placed it in Aaron's huge hand.

"Um... Mr. Jango, did you happen to find a shovel?" After taking the bubble solution, Aaron looked at Jango with difficulty.

"N-no, I didn't see one." Jango shook his head wildly, cold sweat pouring down his face.

He did not dare admit that he had kicked the shovel into the sea because it had looked useless.

"I see..." Aaron looked dejected.

That shovel had been a gift from his master.

He had not expected to lose it after only a few chapters!

"But..." Jango curiously looked at the bottle Aaron was clutching tightly. "Could you tell me what exactly is inside that?"

"Hm? Sure!" Aaron opened his hand, revealing the bubble solution in his palm. "This is bubble solution!"

"..." Jango instantly lost interest.

He had thought it was something amazing for this kid to treasure it so much, Jango thought.

"Um..." Seeing Jango suddenly look rather dejected, Aaron assumed he was upset because he did not have any bubble solution to blow. After hesitating twice, Aaron said, "Mr. Jango... you can blow some if you want."

He handed the bubble solution back to Jango.

"..." Jango looked at the bubble solution held out before him, then at the three-meter-tall Aaron in pink underwear with a childish face. He forced out a chrysanthemum-like smile. "Th-thanks."

"You're welcome, Mr. Jango!" Aaron continued. "Mr. Jango, you should do this... and then this..."

Aaron taught Jango how to blow bubbles, leaving Jango feeling somewhat miserable.

"Like this?" With the corner of his eye twitching, Jango extended his right index finger, dipped it in the bubble solution, curled the finger against his thumb, then slowly spread them apart. A thin film appeared before his eyes.

"Mhm, mhm, mhm! Next, Mr. Jango, you need to blow slowly, gently, and continuously!"

"...Okay." Jango felt this was the stupidest thing he had ever done in his life.

Whoosh!

Jango took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled.

Gradually, an enormous bubble appeared on Jango's fingertip.

The bubble grew larger and larger, even surpassing Jango's height and touching the ground.

Yet it still did not burst!

By the time Jango finished blowing, the bubble was roughly three meters in diameter!

Jango stared at the bubble he had blown in astonishment. With a flick of his right hand, the bubble detached from his hand and drifted leisurely forward, all the way to where Kuro and Luffy were fighting.

"Uh... Mr. Jango, I suggest you run," Aaron said as he watched the bubble slowly float toward Luffy and Kuro, his face instantly turning rather ugly.

"Hm? Why?" Jango was still amazed by how good the bubble solution was. Hearing Aaron's suggestion, he asked in confusion.

"It's too late..." Aaron did not answer. As he watched the bubble draw closer and closer to Luffy and Kuro, his face gradually turned pale. He quickly spun around, rapidly shrank into a little boy, and ran off with his arms outstretched, shouting,

"It's going to explode!!!"

"What?" Jango was a little dumbfounded.

Kuro was sent flying by Luffy's punch, but he did not feel the impact of hitting the ground.

The bubble caught him, and he sank into it.

"What is this?!" Kuro struggled to crawl out of the bubble. Inevitably, his cat claws touched it, and their sharp tips pierced the bubble.

The world seemed to freeze at that moment.

Boom!

A five-meter-high mushroom cloud shot into the sky.

The surrounding trees were blasted away, uprooted from the ground.

Only after more than ten seconds did the explosion gradually subside, and Aaron slowly walked back.

At the center was a massive crater, about one meter deep and five meters across. At its edge, Luffy and Kuro lay unconscious on the ground.

As for Jango... well, he was hanging from a tree, fluttering in the wind like a flag.

Thus, Aaron achieved a triple kill.

Meanwhile, Roronoa Zoro had also wiped out the Black Cat Brothers and all the lackeys.

And so, the Black Cat Pirates were destroyed.

Yes, please don't hit me. I really wasn't padding this out.

Kaya did not do anything to Kuro. Though his intentions had been far from pure, he had indeed cared for her for three years.

So Kaya gave Kuro nearly half her fortune and let him leave.

As for the members of the Black Cat Pirates, they were all taken away by the Marines.

Except for Jango.

After the huge explosion, Aaron had only tied Kuro up. When he turned back to wake Jango as well, he discovered that Jango was already gone!

Jango had disappeared.

Because of the danger posed by Jango's hypnotic abilities, Kaya asked the Marines to make sure they captured him.

And Usopp.

He had spent the entire time passed out.

Yes, it wasn't because the author had forgotten him.

But after waking up, for some reason, Usopp resolutely decided to head out to sea. Because of that, Kaya also threw herself into studying medicine.

So she could treat Usopp's injuries.

Tch, why did every flower end up stuck in a pile of cow dung? Was it because cow dung was nutritious?!

...Damn, that actually seemed to be the reason.

Luffy and the others stayed for several days.

For their new ship.

Because Luffy and the others had shattered Kuro's scheme, Kaya was deeply grateful and agreed to their request to build them a large ship.

Did it feel unreal that three years of planning had been destroyed in a single day?

But who told the author to make him fail?

If the author wanted him dead at midnight, no one could keep him alive until dawn.

Yes, no more padding.

Today was the day the ship was completed.

Kuro's replacement, Kaya's second butler Merry, led Luffy and his group to a harbor.

"Wow!" Luffy and Aaron cried out.

It was a sailboat with a sheep's head at the bow. It looked like Merry's hairstyle and was quite cute. The hull was roughly fifteen meters long and about five meters wide.

"This ship is called the 'Going Merry.' It is a caravel with a frame construction, lateen sails, and a stern-mounted central rudder," Merry explained with a smile.

Well, no one was listening.

They had already boarded the ship.

Luffy and Aaron shouted excitedly as they ran from bow to stern and back several times.

"Yahoo!" They even let out a few strange cries now and then.

"Thank you, Merry!" Luffy said with a grin, lowering the brim of his hat as he thanked Merry.

At that moment, Usopp slowly approached from the distance while dragging a small boat behind him. He carried a huge bundle on his back.

"Hey! Usopp! What are you doing?" Luffy shouted when he saw Usopp.

Usopp turned around and spotted the Going Merry. Smiling, he said, "So this is your pirate ship? It looks pretty impressive!"

He continued, "I'm heading out to sea too. I want to fulfill my dream and become a brave warrior of the sea! Well, thank you for helping Kaya. This is where we part ways."

"Hey! Usopp! Become my partner!" Luffy suddenly invited him.

"Huh?" Usopp exclaimed in surprise, then asked, "Can I?"

He had a very favorable impression of this pirate crew full of weirdos. After all, he was a weirdo too.

"Hehehe! Hurry up! We're setting sail!" Luffy shouted with laughter.

"Oh! Wait for me!" Usopp tossed aside the boat and boarded the ship with his luggage as fast as he could. In the distance, a blonde girl silently watched her cow dung sail away. She clasped her hands together and quietly prayed for him.

Usopp, you'll definitely succeed! You'll become a brave warrior of the sea!

The girl prayed silently in her heart, then smiled and raised a fist to cheer herself on. "I can't fall too far behind you either! I'll definitely become the best doctor!"

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