Saving You Has Nothing to Do with You
"Hachi!" Nami finally met Hachi at the harbor.
She stared in shock at the sea beast Meimei and Hachi, who had emerged halfway from the sea, and asked incredulously, "Hachi, why are you here?"
"Nyoo, Boss Arlong said Cocoyasi Village was under attack, so we came to save Cocoyasi Village. Kuroobi got trapped here, so we came first to destroy their ship."
Destroying ships was a common tactic when fish-men fought humans. Aside from people like Ace, who could boil the sea, or Enel, who could powerfully electrocute fish-men, most people had no way to deal with it.
Devil Fruit users could not even use one-tenth of their abilities in the water and could only sink, while other physical fighters could only use half their strength in the water.
This method of boring holes in ships should have worked every time.
Especially since Fish-Man Karate was twice as powerful underwater. Logically speaking, if Arlong and the others fought guerrilla-style, as long as they did not foolishly jump aboard enemy ships, they would basically never suffer any fatal blows.
And if they could not win, they could always run.
Take Jinbe, the strongest fish-man, for example. He had led the Sun Pirates to intercept Big Mom while she hunted the Straw Hat Pirates. They clearly could not win, yet they had still retreated unscathed without even losing an arm.
It was obvious that fish-men's advantage at sea was no small thing.
Nami immediately noticed the large ship at the harbor, one that flew no pirate flag, and her heart stirred.
"Let Meimei stay here and keep watch. We'll go help Arlong first."
"Nyoo~ Okay." Hachi was not particularly bright to begin with. Hearing Nami's words, he immediately forgot to control the sea cow