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'A billion beri!?' Nami internally sputtered, eyes going wide. Devil fruits could go for that much? And he had two by his estimates that could go for that much? Her eyes flickered to the massive sack sitting on the cloud behind him.
It was huge.
And probably where those devil fruits lay.
Absurd, utterly absurd. And he was just moving around with that kind of loot as casual as could be?
And what else was he carrying in that sack? She couldn't help but wonder. This kid was absolutely loaded for sure.
…But if he was telling the truth, then there was no way in hell she could get any of it off of him. He could literally sense her intentions.
Could she seduce him? He was younger than her, and she hadn't missed the way his eyes lingered on her chest and legs every now and then.
But no, if his strength was as real as he casually stated, so strong he thought Arlong whom she could never beat in a million years was trash, then she'd never escape the kid, at least until he got bored of her in some way.
…What was this guys game, really? There was definitely something more going on here that he wasn't saying.
"Who are you really?" Nami narrowed her eyes at the boy, "You're obviously not coming here just out of the goodness of your heart. You want something out of this for sure. No way you just turned out up here as a coincidence."
The boy blinked at her, before shrugging, "I mean, I kinda did?" he replied, "I mean it wasn't a coincidence, beyond meeting you here I guess. I was actually heading somewhere to train and get stronger when I remembered what Arlong was doing here. It even kind of messes up my goals a bit coming for Arlong right now because I wanted to get stronger first before going after my goals."
"Your…goals?" Nami repeated, fishing for more. Bit by bit, things were becoming clearer, the picture being filled in dot by dot but she needed more information here.
"I suppose I should introduce myself in full then," Kaden shrugged, "Like I said before, I'm Kaden D. Freeman, former marine commander stationed in the Grand Line, now technically a pirate I guess after I went rogue for slaughtering a marine vice admiral and his entire platoon because they were corrupt and abusing their power over the civilians they were trying to protect. I'm planning on becoming a Warlord and to do so, I'm going to be taking the heads of a ton of pirates with bounties to show off my strength."
He grinned at her as her eyes widened once more, "Arlong doing the shit he's doing right now, got to me though on my way to where I want to train and so I ended up coming to take his head," the teen added, "Then I saw you when I was scoping out the island, could feel your literal hate for him and his fishy crew and came down to scope you out because you're gorgeous. If I kill Arlong for you, how about a date?"
Nami was stunned silent at his words.
There was a massive amount to unpack there from being a marine commander with how young he was, to going rogue and killing other marines for being corrupt, to him now being a pirate, which she'd usually hate him for, because she hated pirates…but the reason he became one wasn't one that she could hate.
Then there was the rest of what he said to her.
But beyond that-
This kid….
He was definitely, for sure, an idiot.
Her head was absolutely spinning with everything he'd dropped on her. And despite herself, despite how she'd mustered her resolve for years, despite all the effort she put in to raise the money to buy the freedom of her village from Arlong.
She wanted to believe this kid.
He was just too dumb to be lying to her with what he was saying.
Because if he was telling the truth. Then, the people at her village didn't need to wait any longer. The people across the archipelago of islands that she couldn't do anything about, would be free as well.
And Arlong would be truly punished instead of just getting a pay day of a hundred million beri.
"If you're telling the truth kid, then sure, I'll go on a date with you," Nami plastered a smirk on her face, crossing her arms under her chest and pushing her voluptuous chest up, "But unless you that devil fruit of yours is something truly special, I don't see how you can beat Arlong. Fishmen are ten times stronger than humans, and Arlong is way stronger than most fishmen."
"…I'll hold you to that," the kid grinned, before nodding, "And as far as how strong Arlong is. Believe it or not if you want, but I'm far stronger physically than Arlong. I'm stronger than most fishmen actually, the only one I know who is stronger than my when it comes to pure strength, is Jinbei, and maybe their king, and I'm fine to prove it if you want."
"…Is that a power of your devil fruit, then?" Nami had to ask, because a human being physically stronger than the vast majority of fishmen, just didn't make sense at all.
He'd have to be an utter monster to be able to do that.
"Nah," Kaden chuckled, shaking his head, "My devil fruit power lets me turn into a giant dragon, control a bunch of elements like fire, wind and ice and even lets me fire blasts from my mouth so powerful I can destroy entire mountains." He helpfully informed.