Jig gazed at the Demon Blade in his hand, longing written across his face, yet a fighting spirit began to stir in his eyes.
"Hey, Jig, aren't you going to be a pirate?"
Luffy spoke as he watched Jig showing off in front of him. Jig looked back with a smile and slowly sheathed his blade.
"That's not it. My master's a pirate."
Jig smiled at Luffy as he spoke.
"Oh! I see! Then come join me, Jig. I'll make you my first mate."
Luffy immediately burst out laughing.
"No way. I'm going to be a captain!"
Jig smacked Luffy on the head with his scabbard as he scolded him.
But that left Sabo in a dilemma. He folded his arms, looking as though he were discussing something very important.
"But all Four Men want to be captains. Doesn't that make things complicated?"
Sabo spoke, but Ace sounded thoroughly surprised.
"Huh? You want to be a captain too? I never really thought about that, Sabo. I figured you'd definitely be my navigator."
"Are you kidding? I'm going to be a captain too!"
Sabo shot Ace a disdainful look.
"Hey, hey! All of you should join my crew!"
Luffy still seemed unwilling to give up on the idea. Jig, who had been watching the three of them argue, said with a smile,
"Now, now, we can worry about that later. Maybe all four of us will head out to sea separately!"
Ace interrupted the seemingly pointless argument, climbing a tree himself and bringing down a bottle of sake.
He walked over to a stump and pushed Jig off it...
"Whoa! Ace, you stole Dadan's sake!"
Then, as if performing a magic trick, he produced four identically sized sake cups from behind his back.
"Did you guys know?"
"If we drink these