After a moment of hesitation, Luffy decided to ignore those two words and then answered:
"Yes, that's right! My name is Luffy!"
My name is Usopp!
Hearing this, the girl smiled and replied, "My name is Conis!"
"Oh ho, you have wings too! Are you an angel?" Sanji over and looked at Conis with hearts in his eyes.
Conis covered her mouth and chuckled softly.
"That's how all the residents of our Sky Island are!"
No! You're different, you're the most special!
Hearing this, Xia Chen and the others standing nearby couldn't help but get goosebumps.
After Luffy and his crew chatted with Conis for a while, she greeted them:
Are you going to Angel Island? How about you come to my house for a visit?
"It's an honor, Miss Conis!" Sanji rushed to Conis and said politely.
However, no one objected to this; it would be good for newcomers to have someone familiar with the area to give them an introduction!
Although Xia Chen knows quite a lot, he still lags behind the native inhabitants of the Sky Island in terms of daily life.
So, filled with curiosity, the group slowly followed Conis.
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"Skoda, Conis, your house is so beautiful!" Nami exclaimed as soon as she entered, looking at the house which was completely different from the Blue Sea's.
"Haha... Thank you for the compliment!"
"Since almost everything in our house is related to seashells, it's normal that you look a little different!"
While Conis and Nami were talking, Luffy and his crew were already rummaging around the house.
Although Xia Chen had previously introduced them to the types of Sky Island shells, the problem was that they had never seen them before!
I was already excited when I first heard it, let alone now that I can actually see and touch it.
"Creak!"
While the group was playing around, Conis's front door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man with a full beard walked in.
Conis greeted him with a smile, "Father, you're back. How was your harvest today?"
"A pretty good haul!"
" Conis, are these your friends?"
"Yes, they are friends I just met, they're from the Blue Sea!"
"From the Blue Sea? That's quite a rare guest! Hello, my name is Pagaya, and I'm Conis's father!"
"Hello, sir!" the group greeted him.
"Please wait a moment, I'll go prepare the ingredients!" Pagaya said, then headed towards the kitchen.
"I'll help too!" Sanji stood up and followed him inside.
Soon after, Sanji and Pagaya brought up the prepared food.
Luffy and the others stared wide-eyed at the sight and immediately began to wolf down the food.
"Delicious, so delicious!!"
Xia Chen also tried a bite of the Sky Fish here, and it tasted quite good, a bit different from the ones in the Blue Sea!
After a period of time~
After a hearty meal, everyone lay down on the cloud sofa, rubbing their bellies and showing comfortable expressions.
After everyone rested for a while, Luffy shouted, "Let's go! Let's go explore Angel Island!"
"Would you like to visit Angel Island? In that case, how about I be your tour guide?" Conis asked with a smile.
"Great, thank you so much, Conis!"
The group followed Conis, constantly looking around, and soon arrived at a bustling street.
Conis introduced the street to everyone, "This is the most bustling street on Angel Island — Lovely Street! You can buy anything you want here!"
"Really? I want to buy seashells!" Usopp exclaimed excitedly.
After seeing so many kinds of seashells at Conis's house, he couldn't resist the urge to see them. Then he turned to his head and said:
" Xia Chen, can I borrow some Beli?"
Huh?
" Xia Chen is missing!" Usopp suddenly shouted, clutching his head.
" Robin is gone too!" Sanji shouted back.
After those two shouts, everyone realized that Xia Chen and Robin, who had been following behind them, had disappeared without them noticing.
"Hahaha... What's the big deal! Xia Chen and Robin probably saw something interesting and ran off there! Xia Chen is so strong, are you worried something might happen to him?" Luffy said with a laugh.
However, Usopp's expression remained dark. He was indeed worried, but not about Xia Chen's safety; he was worried about his Beli!
After spending time together, everyone on the ship reached a consensus: there were two wealthy people on board: Nami and Xia Chen.
Xia Chen, in particular, is incredibly wealthy!
Xia Chen paid for most of their outings. Whenever anyone on the ship was short of money, they would "borrow" money from Xia Chen —the kind they didn't have to pay back!
But if you borrow money from Nami, it's a different story. Not only do you have to pay it back, you have to pay it back double!
So Usopp was in a dilemma. He could have waited for Xia Chen to come back before borrowing money from him to buy seashells.
But... he couldn't resist! He wanted it right now!
After much deliberation, Usopp decided to borrow some from Nami first, and then "borrow" it back from Xia Chen when he returned!
Meanwhile, high in the sky.
Sitting atop the Flying Nimbus, Robin asked Xia Chen curiously, " Xia Chen, where are you planning to take me?"
"I'll take you to a place that interests you!" Xia Chen said mysteriously.
A few breaths later, Xia Chen and Robin landed on a cloud.
"It should be around here, but we'll have to look for it to be exactly where!" Xia Chen said calmly.
"What are you looking for?" Robin couldn't help but ask again.
" The Golden Bell Tower!"
" The Golden Bell Tower?" Robin's face showed shock, and he asked curiously, "How did you know it was here?"
"Secret!"
"Hey, I found it!" As he spoke, Xia Chen suddenly spotted his target.
Both Robin and Xia Chen showed a look of shock on their faces.
"This Golden Bell Tower is really huge. How much gold do you think it must contain?" Xia Chen asked Robin beside him.
"I don't know, but... there must be a lot!" Robin replied slowly.
"Hahaha... Come on, I'm not here to show you gold, I'm here to show you... the Poneglyph!"
Upon hearing this, Robin stopped in his tracks and looked at Xia Chen with a serious expression.
"What's wrong?" Xia Chen turned to look at Robin with a puzzled expression.
"How did you know I was looking for Poneglyph? And how did you know I can read Ancient Script?" Robin asked Xia Chen directly.
Robin is now being completely open. Since Xia Chen has said this, it proves that he knows her purpose and that he can understand Ancient Script, but she is still very curious.
She didn't look at the Poneglyph in Alabasta, and she only said that she was an archaeologist, but she never mentioned that she could read the Poneglyph!
How did Xia Chen find out about these things?