Aaron and Sanji

"Destroy this restaurant?" Sanji repeated, then silently pinched out his cigarette, his expression impossible to read.

"Then I'll have to take you out first..." Saying that, Sanji started toward Fullbody, looking like a demon freshly escaped from hell.

Fullbody was so frightened that he kept backing away until he reached a pillar.

Seeing that things were going wrong, the cooks rushed over in twos and threes and clung tightly to Sanji to stop him from attacking, but he still dragged them forward step by step toward Fullbody.

"Hey, Sanji, calm down!"

"Calm down? He wants to destroy this place, and you want me to calm down?" Sanji said, looking at Fullbody as if he were a pile of trash. "What makes you so special?!"

Fullbody kept retreating until he reached the pillar. Only then did he brace himself against it and stand up, his face filled with terror as he looked at Sanji.

This guy's insane! He actually dares attack a customer! Fullbody thought.

Suddenly, he felt something tugging at his pant leg. Fullbody looked down and found the blond brat who had nearly choked him earlier.

After Aaron saw Fullbody looking at him, he took two or three steps back, then looked up at Fullbody. His delicate face scrunched up like a steamed bun. "How can you do something like that?! Destroying someone else's treasure so casually—what's the difference between you and those pirates who murder and burn?!"

The entire place fell silent.

Everyone stared at Aaron in shock.

"This kid... why is he blurting out such harsh truths?" Nami raised a hand to her forehead when she heard Aaron. "Now we've really gotten ourselves into trouble."

Then she looked at the people sitting nearby, stuffing their faces, and couldn't help holding her forehead again. "Hey? Don't you know what this means?"

"Hm?" Usopp and Roronoa Zoro looked up at Nami at the same time.

"It means the Marines will hunt us down!" Nami looked like she was starting to fall apart.

"What? The Marines are going to hunt us?!" Usopp leaped out of his chair in terror. "Then what are we waiting for? Let's run!"

After hearing Nami, Zoro simply lowered his head and continued eating wildly. At the same time, a clear sentence came from his mouth. "We're pirates already. What's wrong with being hunted by the Marines?"

Usopp and Nami both froze for a moment. Then Usopp cried out dramatically, "That's true!... But it's still so scary!" ...and immediately lost his nerve again.

Nami also lowered her head, a trace of gloom passing over her face. She brushed her orange hair aside and stared blankly at her hands, whispering so quietly that only she could hear, "We... were pirates from the start..."

Leaving Nami and the others' interaction aside.

The moment Fullbody heard Aaron's words, he inwardly realized things were bad and hurried forward, trying to shut him up. "You little brat, shut up!"

"I will never tolerate you doing something like this!" Aaron fearlessly watched Fullbody rush over. He swiftly pulled a bottle of bubble solution from his clothes and poured it onto his hands, rubbing it over them like soap until they were covered in bubbles. Then he pressed his fingers together into a circular frame, took a deep breath, shut his eyes, and blew hard.

Whoosh!

A huge bubble instantly formed in Aaron's hands. Fullbody failed to dodge in time and touched it. Then something magical happened.

Fullbody plunged headfirst into the bubble!

The bubble grew larger and larger. Before Fullbody could react, it completely enveloped him.

"Haaah!" Only then did Aaron let out a breath, his little face flushed red from holding it in.

"What is this? Brat, what did you do to me?! Let me out!" Fullbody looked around in terror. Encased inside a giant bubble, he looked exactly like an insect trapped in amber. He frantically pounded on the bubble wall, but fists that could usually break an enemy's ribs with ease only made wrinkles ripple across the bubble. The harder he struck, the more violently the bubble swayed, until eventually it shook so much that he could no longer keep his balance.

"Hmph! Go reflect properly in the sea!" Saying that, Aaron rushed forward, swung his right leg back in a wide arc, and kicked the bubble hard!

Well, the bubble moved backward by about half a meter.

Fullbody: "..."

Sanji: "..."

Everyone: "..."

Nami and the others all covered their faces.

Seeing this, Aaron dashed over to the bubble and pushed it with all his strength.

Well, at a speed of one centimeter per second.

"...This brat." Sanji let out a long sigh at the sight. He walked over, bent down, and patted Aaron on the shoulder. "Hey, stand back. Leave this to me."

Without caring what Aaron thought, he directly dragged him aside. Then he looked at Fullbody for a long while before saying softly, "Then go calm down in the sea."

He raised his right leg and assumed the same pose as Aaron, only far more powerfully.

...Well, any normal person's kicking skills were more powerful than Aaron's.

"Mutton Shot!"

Well, naturally, the bubble flew very, very far away.

After taking out the trash, Sanji felt refreshed, and there was even a faint smile at the corner of his mouth. Then Aaron suddenly spoke. "Um, sir..."

"Just call me Sanji," Sanji said with a smile as he looked at Aaron.

"Okay, Sanji." Aaron nodded. Then he pinched the hem of his clothes and fidgeted awkwardly. "Um... look... I helped you get rid of that guy, so can you... can you..."

Sanji instantly understood and looked at Aaron with amusement.

So this guy was just looking for a meal ticket. He wasn't actually that disgusted by Fullbody at all!

Well, so Aaron was actually pretty clever.

"Ah, I said it before. I won't refuse anyone who's hungry." Sanji lit a cigarette and smiled at Aaron.

"Ooh!" Aaron said excitedly. Then, as though remembering something, he added, "Right, I have a few companions too. Can you..."

Boom!

Then the ceiling shattered.

An old man and one Luffy fell down.

The old man looked at the hole in the ceiling and gritted his teeth. "Damn it, even the ceiling of my restaurant..."

Then he roared at Luffy, "It's all your fault, you brat!"

"You were the one who smashed through it!"

Watching the old man and Luffy argue, Aaron seemed to see a scene from several years ago, when Luffy and Garp had argued. He smiled knowingly and said, "Sorry to interrupt you, but I'm pinned under the boards. Could you..."

At the moment, Aaron was buried beneath the broken wood.

"Hey, hey, hey! You old geezer, can't you see there's a child here?" Sanji bent down as he spoke and pulled Aaron out of the pile of debris.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Sanji." Aaron patted the dust off himself, then added, "But I'm not a child anymore. I'm already..."

Aaron tilted his head and thought hard, then turned to Nami and asked, "Hey! Nami! How old am I?"

"Are you an idiot?!" Nami immediately shot back.

"Hm?" Sanji followed Aaron's gaze.

The next moment, he felt that he had encountered an angel.

Her youthful, radiant aura; her angelic face and devilish figure; her eyes as clear as water, as if they reflected Sanji's stunned expression.

Smooch!

Cupid's arrow pierced through Sanji at that moment, making him rush toward Nami in excitement... like a rutting wolf.

"May I know this young lady's name?"

"..." Nami looked at the blond man whose eyes had turned into hearts and didn't know whether she should answer him.

Fortunately, someone came to her rescue.

Bang! The old man who had fallen through the ceiling suddenly sent Sanji flying with a flying kick. Only then did Aaron notice that the old man was missing a leg.

"Don't disturb the customers while they're eating, you brat!" the old man said.

"Huh? Which eye saw me disturbing this lady while she was eating, you old geezer?!" Sanji snapped at the old man first, then turned to Nami with a wolfish grin. "Right, beautiful lady?"

"...Ah!" Nami forced out a smile.

Who even is this guy?! Nami grumbled inwardly.

Bang! "Captain! This is bad! Pirate Krieg's subordinate escaped!" A soldier suddenly burst in, breaking the noisy atmosphere. Then the soldier froze. "...Captain?"

Bang! The next moment, a gunshot rang out, and thus this unfortunate soldier only got to speak one line.

"Pirate?" "Don't tell me it's another guy here to make trouble in my restaurant?" "Ah, a customer has arrived." "Phew." "I should... be one?"

Well, those random voices came from Luffy, the old man, Sanji, the bastard cook... I mean, that man, and Aaron respectively.

Well, let's not talk about Aaron, that idiot.

A raggedly dressed man stood outside the door.

The man staggered into the restaurant and reached a table. As if he had exhausted every last bit of strength, he collapsed into a chair. "...Give me food. Anything will do," he said in a low voice.

Hearing that a customer had arrived, the bastard cook hurried over. He clasped his hands together and said in a comical, fawning tone, "Welcome, idiot."

...What kind of greeting was that?

"...Do I have to say it again? Give me food. Anything will do..." The man either did not care about the cook's words, or lacked the strength to care. He repeated himself.

"My deepest apologies, moron, but do you have any money?" the cook asked, still fawning as he insulted him.

The man suddenly pulled out a gun and aimed it at the cook's forehead. "I don't have money. Will bullets do as payment?"

Well, then the man was beaten like a dog.

Seriously, he was already too hungry to have any strength, yet he still had to put on a tough front for the sake of his pride. He really was... adorably stupid.

The man was thrown outside like a dead dog.

Aaron looked at the man and felt terribly guilty. He took a hamburger from his clothes and was about to run over and give it to him.

"For someone who's starving, a hamburger isn't the best choice of food." Sanji stopped Aaron. Aaron looked up and discovered that, at some point, Sanji had produced a bowl of porridge.

Aaron thought for a moment, then handed the hamburger to Sanji. "Then could you please give this to him for me?"

Sanji looked at the hamburger Aaron had handed him, and the smile on his lips could no longer be restrained. "Sure."

"What a good cook," Luffy said with feeling as he leaned over the railing and watched Sanji interact with the man.

"Mhm!" Aaron nodded in agreement. Then he looked at Luffy with shining eyes. "Luffy! Let's invite him to join our crew!"

"Yeah! I was thinking the same thing!" Luffy said with a toothy grin.