"You want to leave the Arlong Pirates?"
Arlong straightened up with a gloomy face. That huge body, which was more than two and a half meters tall, was like an iron tower.
The shadow it cast gave people a feeling of inexplicable oppression.
The not-so-loud words, at this moment, seemed to be infused with bone-chilling coldness, echoing in the courtyard, and it was impossible to dissipate for a long time.
The gazes of dozens of fish-men in the room turned in unison and locked onto Nami, as if it had become an invisible big hand, clenching people's hearts.
However, thinking of the safety of Cocoyasi Village, Nami's pretty face turned pale. She gritted her teeth and met Arlong's gaze, and said decisively, "Arlong, this is our agreement. You said that if I could raise one hundred million, you would let me buy Cocoyasi Village."
"Buy Cocoyasi Village?" Arlong asked back. The gloom on his face was instantly replaced by a playful laugh.
"Haha, Nami, you're right. I did promise you."
"However, I didn't expect that you would tell me so quickly and confidently that you had raised one hundred million."
Speaking of this, Arlong stretched out his rough big hand and pressed it on Nami's shoulder, and said with a smile, "However, I need to see one hundred million Berries. But I just saw Lieutenant Commander Nezumi seem to have gone to your Cocoyasi Village. I really hope that the Berries you hid won't be discovered."
The slightly lengthy words, like a heavy hammer that struck the soul, made Nami's face turn pale all of a sudden. She subconsciously raised her hand and slapped Arlong.
Slap! The muffled collision sound rang out suddenly.
Without any hesitation, Arlong directly grabbed Nami's wrist.
Watching Arlong's abnormally ferocious face, Nami roared hysterically.
"Arlong, you, you broke the agreement. You never thought of letting me leave!"
The awe-inspiring words echoed in the huge courtyard.
However, faced with Nami's accusation, what replied to her was undoubtedly the wanton laughter that rang out from all around.
Arlong even grinned ferociously and tore open Nami's sleeves and said, "Once the mark of our Arlong Pirates is tattooed on your arm, you have no choice..."
Before he could finish speaking, when he saw the mark on Nami's arm, which had completely changed its shape, Arlong and the others were stunned for a moment, and then the laughter rang out like a landslide.
"Haha, no wonder you were able to raise one hundred million Berries so quickly. So you joined this kind of unknown pirate group." Arlong laughed and said, "Nami, I advise you to go back to Cocoyasi Village and take a look if you have the mind to mess around here. Perhaps you can still see the last side of your adopted sister."
"Of course, if you think I'm deceiving you, feel free to let your newly joined nameless pirate group come and avenge you!"
The wanton words, like a heavy hammer, were pounding on Nami's nerves.
Her originally pale face, in an instant, was even as white as paper.
Thinking that Bellemere had lost her life in the past because of saving herself,
if even her adopted sister Nojiko was implicated because of her, and ended up losing her life, for Nami, this psychological pressure would be enough to completely crush the belief that she had been forcibly supporting for all these years.
Thinking of this, Nami's eyes turned red, and she turned around and ran away.
Watching this scene, Kuroobi, who was an executive of the Arlong Pirates, said with a pout, "Arlong, should we stop her?"
"Stop her?" Arlong smiled playfully and said loudly, "Why stop her? Let her see what a nightmare is like."
"If that woman is killed, it can also be regarded as killing one to warn a hundred, so that Nami can completely cut off that heart and draw nautical charts for me for the rest of her life. In the East Blue, I, Arlong, am the strongest existence!"
"Arlong is right!"
"Let that girl completely become a slave of our Arlong Pirates."
"We fish-men are the highest race!"
The ruthless mocking laughter echoed in Arlong Park.
Nami, who had rushed out of the door, had eyes that were already red, and hot tears were constantly rolling down as she hurried towards Cocoyasi Village on the other side of the mountain.
At this moment, Nami couldn't wait to fly there quickly with wings.
Thousands of meters, five thousand meters, ten thousand meters!
She didn't care about the gravel on the ground, and she didn't care about the ruggedness of the road.
Not knowing how long she had been running, Nami only knew that her vision had long been blurred by tears.
Watching the gradually clear orange grove, and the small path that was full of footprints and a mess, the broken gate, and the scarlet blood that was sprinkled on the ground, Nami's heart, as if it had encountered a heavy blow, quickened her pace and rushed straight into the house.
"No, no, sister, you can't have anything happen, you can't have anything happen!"
Bang! The remaining half of the gate was directly knocked open.
Nami stumbled and fell to the ground all of a sudden.
Feeling the blood on the floor, which still had residual heat, Nami's heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible big hand.
She didn't dare to check the scene in front of her.
She was afraid! Afraid of seeing her adopted sister, who had been implicated and died because of her.
However, just as this thought flashed in her mind, the words that fell in her ears, like magic sounds, shook Nami's nerves.
"Welcome back!"
The simple four words, for Nami, were simply the last straw.
The moment she hurriedly looked up, what first entered her eyes was an unexpected figure.
"Nami, you, you are okay!" Nojiko suddenly stepped forward and hugged Nami into her arms.
Smelling that familiar body fragrance, Nami's red eyes suddenly burst, and she burst into tears and shook her head repeatedly and said, "I, I'm okay, I, I just thought I had implicated my sister again."
"It's my fault. I clearly knew that Arlong would never keep his promise, but I still had to trade with him."
"If, it weren't for me being too willful, sister, you wouldn't need to be hurt!"
The intermittent sobs, like a lost and helpless child, wailed loudly.
The belief that had been suppressed for six or seven years and had been painstakingly defended collapsed all at once. This was more painful than death for anyone.
There was no greater sorrow than the death of the heart!
In the narrow house, the hoarse and helpless words echoed.
The villagers, who had already gathered here and were holding various farm tools, had long turned red eyes.
Although they had already heard from Kai about the factual result that Nami would eventually encounter, thinking that for six or seven years, she had been using her thin shoulders to shoulder their Cocoyasi Village.
Nami, who had been in charge of everyone's safety, was now being bullied and crying helplessly.
That anger and resentment were enough to make people abandon life and death and honor.
All of this would become an irreconcilable hatred.
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