The sound of people eating could be heard—more like Luffy stuffing his face in.
He ate any food he saw: meat, fried meat, even vegetables. If it was food, he would eat it.
Usopp moved his food around, avoiding Luffy's attempts at stealing his shit. He really was not trying to go through this again.
He would eat his food by himself.
"Luffy, back off, it's mine!"
"The food on the table is for anyone to take it." That was Luffy's defense, and Usopp was not having it.
When Luffy tried to reach for his food again—
A mini explosion went off as Usopp used it as a shield.
{Gum-Gum.....Vacuum}
{Bomu-Bomu Repellent}
As Luffy started to suck everything toward him, Usopp, meanwhile, used his Devil Fruit to keep the food away, creating mini explosions to stop it from going into Luffy's mouth.
"Stop it, you two. You're going to break everything," Nami said, annoyed. Like, come on—they had just started eating and this shit already happened.
Zoro, meanwhile, was chugging down beers like it was nobody's business.
Shit was good.
"And what delicacies do you serve here?" Sanji asked, already trying to get some recipes so he could cook that shit himself later.
"So good," Chopper said, munching on some sweets. He really liked them.
"Take your time. Make sure not to choke," Robin said. Of course, she was acting like the mother figure while Chopper happily enjoyed his meal.
"These are the guys who saved the city?" Paulie was confused. These were the people who saved them?
He scratched his head. So these were the people they were guarding until the Navy was gone.
They had been looking for the Straw Hat ship. Little did they know, the Straw Hats currently didn't even have a ship to leave the island.
The Straw Hats didn't look like much.
"And for the last time, please wear better outfits, lady." He was annoyed at Nami's skimpy clothes. She was a proper lady—why the fuck was she dressing like fanservice for gooners or some shit like that?
As Chopper chomped down on some food, he suddenly paused.
"Where's Kairo?" He hadn't seen his crewmate in a while.
Luffy, who had just finished devouring enough food to feed a family of six, rubbed his belly and said, "He said something about business he needed to handle or something like that."
Chopper nodded at that.
So probably ninja stuff.
Pov change.
Kairo looked at the fruit in his hand as it slowly changed, turning into a greenish fruit.
The Door-Door Fruit.
"That should be all of them," he said to no one in particular. He had made sure to kill every single CP9 member—except Lucci and Kaku, since he remembered seeing them in the latest episodes of One Piece.
The latest one he personally watched was around the middle of Egghead. Like Zoro fighting Lucci—he died before the Elders were summoned. That didn't mean he wasn't spoiled by the manga, though.
It just meant he died before the octopus had time to shine.
Yet...
His blade gleamed, and two new fruits appeared before him.
That was good.
Maybe he could use them. It wasn't like being dead meant they were no longer useful.
He turned around, looking at the several spies he had caught from the World Government.
"You will do nicely."
With a single hand seal, papers enveloped their bodies. The reanimation jutsu needed a living anchor, and they just so happened to be willing participants.
Well—about as willing as one could be.
Anyway, he got two new puppets: Kaku and Lucci.
He wondered if he could sneak them back into the Navy.
He pondered it for a bit. He could try implanting fake memories, making them think he did something to them—something that would explain why they looked so beat up.
Nah. That wasn't going to work. His other self had already decided to be a prideful dumbass, so Imu would be on guard against tricks like that. Which meant this plan wouldn't work.
This day couldn't get any worse.
As if on cue, a flyer fell from the sky. He looked up and caught it.
He wondered what the news was about.
Apparently, Akainu was supposed to come to the island, but he was called back—too volatile to handle a sensitive mission like this.
Instead, Kuzan was coming... along with the hero of the Marines. The living embodiment of a bum himself. The man who would let Imu crack his wife if it meant keeping the status quo.
Who's going to protect the Marines, headass? {...I will let it go eventually...}
Kairo paused.
It seemed like he didn't like Garp at all. Something about waking up one day and seeing the so-called hero of the Marines Galaxy Impact your people didn't sit right with him.
He was justified in his hate.
Well, now all that was left to do was synchronize with the fruits he had obtained, learn some new abilities, and maybe sell them on the black market later for some cash.
Yeah.
He could do that.