"Everyone, come here quickly!"
As soon as Xia Chen returned to the ship, he shouted to everyone.
Before long, everyone gathered in front of Xia Chen.
"What's wrong, Xia Chen?" Nami asked curiously.
"I've got something good to show you!" Xia Chen smiled mysteriously.
"Good stuff? What good stuff?" Luffy poked his head out and looked at Xia Chen expectantly.
Xia Chen didn't keep them in suspense any longer, but instead took out a stack of wanted posters from behind him and handed them to everyone. He said:
"These are the bounty posters I got from the Navy; we all have one!"
"What?!" everyone exclaimed in unison, but their expressions varied.
Everyone else had happy smiles on their faces, except for Usopp and Nami, who looked utterly dejected.
Usopp asked tremblingly, "Xia... Xia Chen, is this the good stuff you were talking about?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Xia Chen asked, pretending not to know anything.
"N-nothing!"
Usopp tried his best to appear calm, but his trembling legs betrayed him.
For Usopp right now, his first reaction to knowing he had a bounty on his head was that he was doomed. Now he was a wanted criminal, and a bunch of bounty hunters would be looking for his head.
Of course, Nami felt the same way.
The other four, on the other hand, were excited.
"Wow! 120 million Beli! Hahaha... That's almost a five-fold increase!" Luffy laughed happily, holding up his bounty poster.
"Heh, only 80 million Beli? Not bad!" Zoro said calmly, looking at his bounty poster, but the upturned corners of his mouth didn't seem so calm.
After reading his own bounty poster, Zoro couldn't help but lean over to Sanji's side. When he saw the bright sixty million Beli on it, Zoro's smile widened.
He put on an air of superiority and said to Sanji, "Sixty million Beli? Not bad! Keep it up!"
However, when Zoro saw how the Marines addressed Sanji in the bounty poster, his composed expression instantly crumbled.
"Hahaha..."
Zoro immediately clutched his stomach and burst into laughter. For someone like Zoro, who has a relatively high threshold for laughter in the Straw Hat Pirates, to laugh like that, you can imagine how funny he must have seen.
This scene first caught Luffy's attention, and he looked at Zoro curiously, asking, "What's wrong, Zoro?"
"You... look... Sanji's... address!" Zoro said with a laugh, and Xia Chen was afraid that he would choke to death while laughing.
As for why Zoro was laughing, Xia Chen knew, because he had seen it too.
"What is that?" Luffy also curiously looked over.
"Hahaha..."
The next second, Luffy lay on the ground clutching his stomach and laughing, even more outrageous Zoro.
" Sex Fiend Sanji, hahaha... Sanji, that's a really Haki nickname! Hahaha..."
"Huh? What's wrong?" Chopper looked up sadly at the laughter around him.
Because his bounty was only 50 Beli, and he was even referred to as a pet.
The raccoon dog can be tolerated, but the reindeer dog cannot!
He's not a pet! He's a combatant on the ship, isn't he?
However, when he glanced over to look at Sanji's bounty poster, his sadness vanished instantly.
The laughing duo has become the laughing trio!
Only Sanji's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and his eyes were practically spitting fire as he looked at his bounty poster.
If he finds out who named this bounty poster, he'll chop him to pieces. He said it!
His anger surged even more when he saw the three people in front of him mocking him.
Then... he kicked Zoro.
" Sex Fiend, are you looking for death?"
" Moss Head! If you say that name again today, I'll kill you!"
"Tch, you think I can't say I'm Sex Fiend? Once this bounty is out, the whole world will know you're Sex Fiend, do I need to tell you?" Zoro curled his lip in disdain.
Upon hearing this, Sanji's expression froze, and his legs gave way, causing him to kneel on the ground!
His... shattered... reputation!
After laughing for a while, Luffy and his two companions finally stopped, though their occasional shrugs still testified to the lingering power of the nickname.
However, at this moment, Luffy noticed something: Usopp, who usually joins them in having fun when things happen like this, is now looking down at his bounty poster without saying a word.
Nami next to her was the same.
Seeing this, Luffy couldn't help but walk over curiously and ask, " Usopp, what's wrong? Why don't you go and smile at Sanji? He's known as Sex Fiend!"
Sanji sprang to his feet and charged toward Luffy.
" Luffy, I'm going to kill you!"
Even so, Usopp remained motionless for a long while before finally speaking softly, "I have no problem with the 20 million bounty, but why...?"
"The Navy calls me ' Hammer Liar '?"
At this moment Nami, who was standing next to her, slowly said, "I also want to ask this question: why is mine called Acrobat Girl?"
Then, the two of them simultaneously roared in anger, "Are the Navy people crazy?!"
This shout completely stunned everyone present. Then, everyone looked over curiously, and then...
Luffy burst into laughter again.
" Hammer Liar, Acrobat Girl, Sex Fiend! Hahaha... Why do all three of your names sound so... hahaha..."
(•́へ•́╬)!
Bang bang bang!
I'm so sorry!
Luffy, with bumps all over his head, apologized to the three of them.
Zoro and Chopper, standing nearby, tightly covered their mouths, afraid they would burst out laughing and get a beating too.
Even Robin, who rarely smiles, couldn't help but chuckle after hearing these bizarre titles.
After a period of time~
The crowd finally quieted down, and Luffy was counting on his fingers.
"Everyone on our ship now has a bounty: mine is 120 million, Zoro's is 80 million, Robin's is 79 million, Sanji's is 60 million, Usopp's is 20 million, Nami 15 million."
"And Chopper's 50 Beli!"
Chopper: Actually, I don't need to say it out loud!
"Our combined bounty now amounts to 374,050 Beli!"
"Oh right, and Xia Chen's too! Xia Chen, how much is your bounty?" Luffy turned to Xia Chen and asked.
"See for yourselves!" Xia Chen handed his bounty poster to the group.
!!!
Eight hundred million Beli?
"Why is yours so tall?" Luffy asked, dissatisfied.
He originally thought that increasing his bounty would help him close the gap with Xia Chen, but unexpectedly, the gap only widened!
"Isn't this normal? Did you think I fought Aokiji for nothing?" Xia Chen said calmly, then his thoughts drifted away. He muttered to himself:
"374,050 Beli? That's much higher than at this point in the original story!"
Xia Chen hadn't expected that in the original Luffy only received a bounty of 100 million Beli for defeating Crocodile by himself, but now that the three of them had taken him down together, the bounty was even higher.
It seems that many things have changed now!
What will the future hold...?
Xia Chen suddenly felt a little worried about the uncertain future.
However, when Xia Chen turned to look at Luffy and his crew, all of Xia Chen's thoughts vanished.
No matter what the future holds, as long as they get better and better, that's enough!