Pirates: I Loaded the Game Panel

To its left stood a bulky whale shark Fish-Man with deep-blue skin, eyebrows and sideburns like storm-tossed waves, a round nose, and two huge teeth jutting from his lower jaw. He wore a white yukata patterned with plum blossoms.

To its right stood a tall, muscular sawshark Fish-Man. His long nose was jagged as a saw, and a yellow-and-black striped fur coat covered his upper body. This was the one Louf had just mistaken for a tiger shark.

Other Fish-Men crowded around them: an octopus Fish-Man with six arms and a spiky afro, a pale cartilaginous-fish Fish-Man with fins jutting from his arms, a kissing-gourami Fish-Man with protruding lips and shoulder-length greenish-blond hair, a pop-eyed goldfish Fish-Man with a blank stare and a long blade in his hand...

Amid the Mermaid Cafe's crowd of charming mermaids, these fierce-looking oddballs looked like street thugs who had come to harass the staff.

Every last one looked like a villain!

Adrian quickly recognized who they were.

Their leader was Fisher Tiger. Beside him stood Jinbe, Arlong, Hachi...

These street toughs from the Fish-Man District would form the core of the future Sun Pirates!

Louf's exclamation drew their attention.

More precisely, it drew the attention of Arlong, the one in the tiger-striped coat.

But Arlong's gaze went neither to Little Fox Louf, who had spoken, nor to his own sister, Little Shyarly.

The vicious-looking sawshark Fish-Man looked straight at Adrian.

"Hey! Are you the human who just caused trouble on Fish-Man Island?"

Arlong made no attempt to hide his hostility. He had even deliberately recast Adrian's rescue as "causing trouble."

The Fish-Man Race had its ideological factions, and Arlong belonged to the radical faction that despised humans.

Adrian frowned. "Fish-Man, if you don't know what happened, don't pass judgment."

Fisher Tiger raised a hand,