East Blue, a certain sea area.
A luxurious cruise ship slowly sailed on the calm sea.
Inside the cruise ship, there was laughter and singing, and the atmosphere was peaceful.
Just then, the door of the cabin slowly opened.
The two figures standing at the doorway immediately attracted the attention of many people; they both looked extraordinarily charismatic.
"sugei!, Luffy! I want to hold a concert here."
The two were none other than Luffy and Uta.
Seeing such a joyful and comfortable atmosphere inside the cabin, Uta's singing heart was instantly ignited.
"Mm! Go ahead! I'll go find something to eat first; my stomach is already rumbling."
Luffy replied, his gaze already scanning the room.
They had been drifting at sea for several days, and the food they brought had long been eaten.
The fish caught from the sea couldn't be prepared, so they had been hungry.
"Everyone, let's sing!"
With Luffy's permission, Uta immediately perked up and leaped to the center dance floor.
Her singing began, instantly attracting countless fans.
For Uta, as long as she could bring joy to people with her singing, it was more important than anything else; she could even temporarily forget her hunger.
As Uta's beautiful singing continued, Luffy went to a bar counter and began to frantically devour the self-service food on the table.
This terrifying speed and eating manner made the surrounding waiters and guests look horrified, not daring to approach.
"Uta, take a break and eat something!"
After Uta finished a song, Luffy squeezed out a sentence from his full mouth.
"Okay!"
Uta responded and then greeted her newly acquired fans.
"Everyone, we'll continue later!"
With that, she leaped over and sat down beside Luffy.
Bang!
Just then, a gunshot suddenly rang out from outside the cabin.
Immediately after, chaotic sounds of fighting erupted, and occasionally, the words "pirate" could be heard.
Upon hearing that pirates were present, everyone in the cabin immediately fell into panic and chaos, scattering and hiding, turning into a mess.
"Luffy..."
Uta was about to get up but was pressed down by Luffy.
"You keep eating; I'll handle it."
Getting up, Luffy grabbed a chunk of meat larger than his head and walked out, gnawing on it.
Arriving on the deck, Luffy immediately saw the pirate ship with a swan-head shape docked next to the cruise ship.
Noticing the somewhat familiar pirate flag on the ship, Luffy couldn't help but recall.
Isn't this the pirate ship of "Iron Mace" Arlitta, the pirate with a 5 million Berries bounty?
"In that case..."
Luffy stroked his chin, a slight curve forming at the corner of his mouth.
If nothing unexpected happened, then Nami should be hiding somewhere in a corner of these two ships right now.
Luffy immediately activated Observation Haki to investigate.
Soon, he located a sneaky figure on the pirate ship opposite.
But before that...
Luffy glanced at Arlitta's crew, who had already knocked down all the guards on the deck, and then walked towards them.
"All the guards have been dealt with! Quickly search the ship for valuable treasures."
The fat and ugly Arlitta waved her iron mace, directing the pirates present.
After giving her orders, she shifted her gaze to a trembling pink-haired young man beside her.
"Koby, tell me, who is the most beautiful woman on this sea?"
Koby cowered, trembling as he said.
"Of... of course... Ugh ah ah ah..."
Koby was halfway through his sentence when he suddenly opened his mouth wide and let out a strange cry of surprise, looking as if he had seen a ghost.
All the surrounding pirates had the same expression, their shocked gazes following Arlitta, who had already flown into the sky.
Ding!
As a speck of light flashed in the distant sky, Arlitta's trace completely disappeared.
At this moment, Koby and all the pirates mechanically turned in unison, maintaining their earlier ghost-seeing expressions, their jaws dropped to the floor, staring in horror at the devil who had sent Arlitta flying with a single punch.
"Do you want to end up like her, or disappear from my sight right now?"
A leisurely sentence floated from Luffy's mouth.
All the pirates froze for a moment upon hearing this, then scattered like birds and beasts, jumping into the sea and swimming towards the sea area far from here.
At the same time, they kept exclaiming in horror.
"Mon... monster!"
"Run!"
In the blink of an eye, only Luffy and the stunned Koby remained on the entire deck.
Luffy's gaze turned to Koby, who instantly stiffened, scared enough to beg for mercy.
"Don't... don't kill me! I was captured by them."
To Koby's surprise, this "devil" apparently had no intention of killing him, but instead left a sentence.
"You are free now. Go do what you want to do!"
After leaving this sentence, Luffy leaped onto the deck of the opposite pirate ship, leaving Koby standing there in a daze, contemplating his life.
"Hehehe... hehe... heh..."
Inside a room on Arlitta's pirate ship.
Nami hummed a cheerful tune, her hands quickly packing the treasures in the chest.
"Those idiots probably haven't discovered that their treasure vault has been found by me, the treasure thief!"
"Hehehehe... I won't be polite!"
Nami whispered to herself, letting out a chuckle like a little cat burglar.
"Yo! Miss..."
A voice suddenly sounded behind her, and Nami's entire body bristled like a startled kitten.
As she spun around, she didn't forget to shield the treasures she had just packed behind her.
"Who are you?"
Nami vigilantly looked at Luffy, who was leaning against the doorframe, secretly wondering when this person had arrived; she, a keen treasure thief, hadn't noticed him at all.
Luffy took a bite of the large chunk of meat in his hand and replied indistinctly.
"I am Luffy!"
"The treasure you're stealing right now is my spoils of war."
Luffy pointed to the large bag Nami was hiding behind her back; just by its size, it was worth at least 5 million Berries.