In the monitoring room, Uta held a microphone, glaring at Shura on the screen.
Nami shook her head beside her.
"You're really bad at being honest with yourself."
Nami suspected that Captain Uta might whisper in his ear afterward and have Shura banished to Food Valten.
Ever since Sephiroth had secured the right to station troops on Food Valten from Marco, he had been considering sending a Titled Knight there as base commander.
"...Hmph...I am not."
Uta puffed out her little cheeks.
After learning the truth behind the Kingdom of Sing's destruction, Uta understood Red-Haired's reasons, but it was still a fact that she had been "abandoned" back then.
When she learned that Luffy had become a pirate, especially one wearing that straw hat, she did take some of her anger out on him.
But she only wanted to bully her little brother, not kill him.
"Luffy-!"
Chopper waved his hooves frantically.
...On the screen.
Luffy was narrowly escaping danger again and again. After all, rubber was helpless against fire and heat.
At the scene-
The purple Three-Zhang Bird darted through gaps in the dense forest. Its head, covered in a white exoskeleton, opened its beak and spewed flames.
Luffy used his rubber body's mobility to play hide-and-seek in the woods.
"...Bouncing all over the place...this guy."
Shura rode the Three-Zhang Bird. Although his Mantra could sense Luffy's movements, his mount was large and nowhere near as agile as Luffy.
"Hot, hot, hot-Gum-Gum Slingshot!!"
Luffy darted between the branches, launching himself straight ahead.
With less surface area making contact along his path, and his speed so high, the Rope Cloud could only slow him so much, though some still wound around him.
"-Ooooooh!"
The Rope Cloud tugged at Luffy again, but the force of his launch twisted his entire body