"Here's your break! Fast!"
Squid Tentacles gritted his teeth as he slammed several plates down in front of Xie Wen and the others, immediately setting off a round of "muttering" among the surrounding cooks.
"That's so mean... Sanji doesn't even hold it against him anymore. He's barely called him Squid Tentacles these past two days."
"Our sous-chef is actually less magnanimous than a cat. How embarrassing!"
"Shh... keep it down. If that guy hears you, he'll lose his temper again."
"I already heard you, you bastards!" Looking like a demon, Sanji turned and roared at the men brazenly bad-mouthing him.
This was already Xie Wen and the others' fifth day at Baratie. Naturally, Xie Wen had long since finished reading the charts of the surrounding waters and Zeff's sailing journal, and he had also found Arlong Park's location on the charts Zeff had lent him.
However, Zeff's charts didn't directly label anything with names like Arlong Park. After all, it had been years since Zeff was a pirate. Even if he had updated some of the map information along the way, he wouldn't have deliberately investigated the location of a pirate base that had little to do with him.
The reason Xie Wen had found the Arlong Pirates' Base was that the charts Zeff provided marked Cocoyasi Village, a name he recognized, and that name had quickly awakened his memories.
After remembering that Cocoyasi Village was Nami's hometown, Xie Wen took another close look at the map and discovered that the Conomi Islands, where Cocoyasi Village was located, had actually been marked on the crude chart he had bought earlier. He simply hadn't known at the time that it was the Arlong Pirates' territory.
And...
"That's pretty far..."
No wonder he'd never stumbled across it before. The distance between Cocoyasi