On the blue sea.
Honestly, a navigator was a real necessity on this ship.
Otherwise, there's no telling where these idiots might steer it.
"Full rudder to starboard, five degrees!!!"
"Luffy-aniki, how much is five degrees?"
"I dunno, I'm just shouting it for fun. Doesn't it feel cool to shout that as captain!"
"But I've already turned the wheel to starboard."
"Luffy, if you really want to see Nami again, can you please shut up from now on?!!!"
Nami, I take back what I said, I'll never call you a gold digging woman again, please come back and save this ship!!!
If Ignis didn't have his gear-sensing ability, they wouldn't have a chance to find Nami, these guys might accidentally One Piece.
Lurching and swaying, the ship approached an island, with a massive structure on it, and a few fishmen could be vaguely seen on the shore in the distance.
This should be Arlong Park, fishmen are only this common around here, and Ignis's gear-sense was pointing to the center of the island.
Usopp: "How do we get in?"
Zoro: "Charge in and slaughter them…." Zoro was the first to offer his opinion, but it was quickly rejected by Usopp.
Usopp: "You idiot! We don't have a single clue right now, isn't charging in just asking for death?"
"Here's the plan, Usopp, you have a good eye for observation, if Nami brought the Going Merry here."
"The Merry must be near the beach."
"You're in charge of finding the ship and sailing her back."
Usopp patted his chest, even though he wasn't particularly, particularly, particularly, particularly scared of fighting, he could do more if he wasn't fighting.
"Got it, leave it to Usopp-sama!"
"Luffy, Sanji, Zoro, you guys stay on the ship, I'll go scout out the situation."
"If the situation gets critical and I need your help, I'll set off fireworks, you guys just come to the fireworks." Ignis gave the most efficient method.
Even though he didn't particularly like thinking, he had to temporarily fill in as the team's brain, when it was time to fight he just needed to set off the fireworks to call for backup.
The others didn't have any objections, after all, Ignis had always given them the feeling that he was reliable.
"Also, keep a close eye on the nearby Marines."
"Arlong Park is so big, 90% of the Marines who come here are no good."
"If you're itching for a fight, use the Marines as practice."
Even though he couldn't clearly remember the plot, Ignis knew that the Marines and Arlong were colluding in this area, which was why the people were living in misery.
It would be good if he could clean them up along the way.
"Zoro-aniki can't fight right now."
"He's still covered in bandages."
Yosaku and Johnny spoke up, the wounds Zoro sustained from Hawkeye in the previous battle, while not fatal, were definitely not light injuries, and it wouldn't be good for him to move recklessly.
"How about we find Zoro-aniki a doctor?"
But Zoro himself rejected the suggestion, and Ignis also thought that finding a doctor now wouldn't be possible.
"The doctors around here would have to be in Arlong Park, and we don't know what the situation is inside."
After a moment's thought, Ignis handed the Heartsteel he just forged to Zoro.
"What's this, I don't need armor." Zoro straightened up, pretending to be fine, but the corners of his mouth were still tight, and his wounds must still be painful.
"These injuries aren't a big deal, I'll just have a drink and be fine."
"Wear it, it'll help, and you'll have to give it back to me later."
People in the One Piece world had cheat-like recovery abilities, they could be covered in bandages and wounds, but be hopping around a few days later. The Heartsteel's innate base health regeneration would be extremely useful for his injuries, and if the already high base recovery ability of the people here was increased by 200%, it would be incredibly broken.
A recovered Zoro would be more combat-capable.
Hearing this, Zoro didn't decline, and just took it as Ignis storing it for him for a while.
After putting on this strange armor, Zoro immediately felt that something was off.
A surge of qi and blood rose up, his body felt like it was getting stronger, and his wounds started to itch.
Was this healing?
Even though he was still a ways away from a full recovery, he was truly shocked by the effects this armor provided.
If the best doctor in the world treated him with the best medicine, this would probably be the effect.
Zoro unwrapped his bandages, and saw that his huge wounds were slowly healing, in this situation, he might be fully healed in a day.
After arranging most of the tasks, Ignis headed to Arlong Park alone.
"Ignis! You have to bring our navigator back!"
Luffy's shout came from behind Ignis as he moved forward.
Ignis didn't turn his head, and just raised his hand behind his back in an ok gesture.
I'll definitely bring her back.
After all, without her,
With just your navigation skills,
We might not even be able to enter the Grand Line!!! I'm still planning on using the big shots in the Grand Line to farm gold!!!
The wind on the island was light, and felt pleasant on the skin, the trees were lush and green, and the climate was mild.
If it wasn't for Arlong's rule, living here would definitely be a happy thing.
All the beautiful scenery changed after reaching the village.
The roads were broken and full of potholes, the houses were charred, and the trees were broken.
A sense of desolation rose from this, this was probably the masterpiece of the Arlong Pirates.
Just then, a fat-headed fishman came up and stopped Ignis, he looked like a patrolman.
"Hey, stop!!"
"You look unfamiliar, you don't look like someone from this island, where did you come from?"
Ignis immediately started his performance mode, the Marines around here seemed pretty bad, so he'll just pretend to be a Marine.
"I'm from the nearby Marine Base."
"Marine Base? Oh, you're one of Captain Nezumi's men, right."
Captain Nezumi, what the hell was that? Hmm, it did sound familiar.
"Yes."
"That's not right, if you're a Marine, where's your Marine uniform?"
The fat fishman became suspicious of Ignis again, Ignis didn't have a Marine uniform.
"I'm from the Marine Base's new unit, the disguise unit, we disguise ourselves as ordinary people to carry out investigations."
"Oh, you Marines are amazing."
"I'm here to investigate the situation at Arlong Park, to help you build more buildings."
Hearing that Ignis was here to help the fishmen with construction, the fat-headed fishman's attitude immediately changed.
"Thank you for your help, please come in."
He bowed as he let Ignis in.
See, he even has to thank me.
It seems like fishmen aren't very smart in general, but it might just be that people in this world aren't very smart in general.
Strutting with an air of arrogance, he swaggered into the island.
Pretending to be a Marine was really useful.