Luffy leaped high into the air, then swung both of his stretched-back arms into the man blocking his way with a sword!
"Puh-hey!"
Luffy's fists struck the man's sword with a tremendous crash. The blade snapped on impact, and his enormous body went flying!
"We won!"
"Luffy, you're amazing!"
"Yeah!"
Hachi, Pappag, and the mermaid Camie cheered happily nearby.
Luffy held out a fist toward the man sprawled on the ground and shouted.
"I've eaten my fill! There's no way you guys could beat me!"
Brook, who had just sheathed his sword, came over as well. Behind him, bodies littered the ground.
"Where did all these bounty hunters come from?"
"This is the third ambush already."
Chopper, in his human form, flexed his wrists. He had clearly just finished fighting, too.
"Oh! You guys won over there, too!"
Luffy grinned.
"Wow, you're so strong!"
That was Camie, who knew little about the Straw Hat Pirates' strength...
"This place is really strange, though."
Vivi spoke from where she sat with Camie and the others.
"Yeah, there aren't any free-sample shops... ah, no, souvenir shops anywhere..."
Sure enough, food was all Luffy could think about...
"There are a lot fewer people, too. There are plenty of little shops, but they all feel strange! This doesn't look like a place where we'll find a coating craftsman!"
Chopper sounded a little frightened as well.
"Oh... these islands cover a huge area. There are bound to be places outside the government's control. The navy doesn't come here, either."
Hachi, who knew the area, kindly explained.
"This is Peninsula 16. Numbers 1 through 29 are basically all lawless zones."
As he spoke, Hachi pulled out a map and showed it to them.
"Look, this map shows the main features of each group of ten peninsulas. Nobody