"You've got way too much nerve."
Who in their right mind would pick a fight with a monster like that?
But you? You punched it without so much as a hello.
You really weren't afraid of dying.
With that one punch, Luffy had firmly drawn all its aggression onto himself.
Naruto nearly facepalmed on the spot.
The whale before them was utterly enraged.
Even the look in its eyes had changed.
It slowly opened its two enormous mouths.
The sea trembled as it opened them.
It swallowed the ship in a single gulp.
It didn't even give them a chance to fight back.
The entire ship vanished without so much as a splash.
Naruto darted away and landed on top of the whale.
He moved so fast it was like teleportation.
Luffy also used his arms to fling himself up.
He clung to the top as though he had every right to be there.
Fear was written all over Luffy's face.
He stared down, his voice tight.
That was a whole ship full of his friends.
"What do we do now?"
"It swallowed all our friends."
"How is this any different from throwing our lives away?"
"This doesn't make any scientific sense."
Luffy asked the question in all seriousness.
But no matter how you listened to it, what he said sounded absurd.
Naruto frowned.
Anyone would have found this situation a headache.
But Luffy just had to defy all expectations.
"No, no, no."
"If that's what you think, you're way off."
"If my judgment is right, this thing isn't an ordinary whale at all."
"It's more like something else."
"If I'm not mistaken, it..."
Naruto broke off midway, his brow furrowing even deeper.
He couldn't shake the feeling that there was more to this.
Inside the whale, the group it