"Hahahahaha! Lucky~ Lucky~"
Having "landed" safely, Luffy held the straw hat on his head and laughed. "Looks like we fell right into the sea!"
Then an enraged Nami jabbed him in the neck with her staff.
"You nearly got us all killed!!!"
The other Straw Hat Pirates who had narrowly escaped death swarmed him too, raining punches and kicks down on Luffy.
"I thought we were going to crash into an iceberg and die!"
"Hahahaha! Sorry!"
As a rubber man, Luffy wasn't afraid of getting beaten up at all and kept laughing without a care in the world.
"Pwah!"
When Xie Wen and Mihawk surfaced, that noisy scene was what greeted them.
"Ah! It's Xie Wen!"
Nami was the first to stop beating Luffy. She leaned over the side of the ship and waved enthusiastically at him. "Xie Wen, we finally meet again!"
Zoro, meanwhile, immediately fixed his sights on Mihawk beside Xie Wen...
"It's Hawk-Eye! The World's Greatest Swordsman!"
Since Xie Wen had killed Krieg early on, Mihawk had naturally never chased him all the way to the East Blue. As a result, Zoro hadn't met him in the East Blue either, making this their first meeting.
But Mihawk, who had just enjoyed a thoroughly satisfying fight with Xie Wen, had no interest in fighting someone who was merely "somewhat famous" like Zoro now.
In fact, once he reached shore, he found an excuse about "going to change clothes" and left the battlefield outright. The Marines and CP Agents gnashed their teeth in frustration, but there was nothing they could do about him.
"Wait! You're not going anywhere!"
Zoro was about to charge over and stop Mihawk, but Sanji and Usopp grabbed him.
"You stupid Moss Head! Don't forget what we're here for!"
"That's the World's Greatest Swordsman, Zoro!