While Oliver was helping free Nami and Zoro, the rest were on their way to where the sound of fighting could be heard.
"E-Everyone's going to be okay, right?" said Usopp, a bit scared.
"Come on, you're a man. Luffy and Oliver went off to fight while we stayed behind. Don't you feel frustrated?" Vivi asked him, to which Usopp fell silent.
Then, they heard a loud noise and saw Brogy standing, which made Usopp happy.
"THAT'S FOR MY COMRADE!!" Brogy shouted.
Mr. 3, wearing a wax armor, was fighting Luffy when Brogy punched him, shattering the armor and defeating him in the process.
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"Master Brogy! I'm so glad you're okay!" Usopp said, running over to the giant.
Brogy sat down and burst into tears.
"WAAAAAHHH!! WAAAAAAHHHH!!"
Zoro, Nami, and Oliver arrived covering their ears because of Brogy's cries and saw the others in the same state.
He cried for several minutes, which was painful for everyone around.
"Even his crying is amazing...!" Nami said, covering her ears.
"It's like a waterfall," Zoro said, impressed by the amount of water.
"Look! There's a rainbow next to him!" Luffy shouted, looking at the rainbow.
"My ears hurt!" Vivi said, covering her ears.
"It's not supposed to hurt this much!" said Oliver.
"I feel your pain, Master Brogy!!" Usopp said, crying too.
Brogy kept crying uncontrollably until suddenly Dorry stood up, leaving everyone shocked.
"I think I fainted," Dorry said, touching his wound.
"DORRY!! HOW?!" Brogy asked, teary-eyed and shocked.
"DORRY-SAN!!" Vivi shouted, happy to see him alive.
"Mr. Giant!" Luffy said, equally joyful.
"It might... have been the weapons," Dorry said, exhausted.
"The weapons?!" Usopp asked, wiping his tears.
"Not even Elbaf's weapons can withstand a hundred-year-long battle," Dorry said.
"That's amazing," said Luffy.
"GABABABABA!" Brogy laughed and hugged Dorry.
"Hey, Brogy, don't squeeze my wounds, you'll kill me," Dorry said, trying to get him to stop.
"I'M JUST SO HAPPY YOU'RE ALIVE, MY FRIEND!! GABABABA!" Brogy laughed again.
"Gegyagyagya!"
Both giants began to laugh joyfully that they were both alive, with a few remaining tears still falling.
"A miracle, huh. Sure. How did those weapons even survive a hundred years of battle? Or their hilts, for that matter?" Zoro said.
"I guess they handled them well so that wouldn't happen," Oliver replied.
"TODAY IS A GREAT DAY!! I GIVE THANKS TO THE GODS OF ELBAF!!" Brogy shouted joyfully.
"Hey, Brogy, are you really that happy about knocking me out?" Dorry asked him.
"Don't say that," Brogy replied, punching Dorry on the wound.
"OUCH!! Don't touch the wound!" Dorry complained.
"Gababababa!" Brogy laughed, but Dorry hit him back.
"You wanna fight, bastard?" Brogy asked.
"Of course, I'll knock you out this time!" Dorry answered.
Both giants were now ready and fired up to fight again.
"How can they start fighting again?!" Nami yelled at them.
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The Straw Hats had helped bandage up Dorry and were now resting after the fight.
While they were helping Dorry, Oliver went to retrieve one of the fragments from the giant skeleton.
'I think I'm going to have to start training harder,' Oliver thought as he placed it in his inventory.
He looked at his arm, where a black line had appeared from the sting.
'It doesn't look like the sting from that insect that was going to bite Nami... I hope my resistance can overcome it.'
He put on his coat and headed over to the others.
"Gabababa. You've saved us, we want to thank you somehow," said Broggy.
"Gegyagyagya! I forgot all about our bounties!" Dorry laughed.
"But the real reason they came here was because of me," Vivi said gloomily. "Ouch!"
"Don't talk about that," Nami told her, pinching Vivi.
"Yeah, Vivi, why are you so down?" Usopp asked while eating a cookie.
Luffy, Usopp, and Karoo were eating cookies like it was break time.
"What are we going to do about the Log Pose?" Zoro asked. "Waiting a whole year is too much."
"Yeah! We can't just laugh this off," Nami said.
"You guys, help us somehow!" Luffy demanded.
"What? We can't do anything about the Log Pose," Dorry said.
"Calm down, I'm sure everything will work out," Oliver said as he arrived and lay down on the grass.
Just then, the conversation was interrupted by the shout of a familiar person.
"NAMI-SAAAAAN! VIVI-CHAAAAANNN!! And the rest of you idiots!"
Sanji came running with a dumb smile on his face.
"You're safe! I'm soooo happy!" Sanji shouted.
"Oi, Sanji!" Luffy greeted him cheerfully.
"You bastard! How dare you show up now, after not coming to save us?!" Usopp scolded him.
"I think he needs to learn some self-awareness," Oliver said, looking at him like a lost cause.
When he arrived and saw Dorry injured, he was startled.
"What the hell?! Are you Mr. 3?!" Sanji shouted, surprised to see a giant.
"Hey! How do you know about Mr. 3?" Nami asked him.
"Well, up until now I've been..."
Sanji began to explain the place he had found and that he had answered the call from Mr. 0 meant for Mr. 3.
"You talked to Mr. 0?" Vivi asked him.
"Yeah, I guess so. I think he thought I was Mr. 3," Sanji told them.
"So you told him we were dead?!" Vivi asked again.
"Yeah, that's what I said," Sanji replied.
"Now they'll finally stop chasing us... but we're still stuck on this island!" Usopp said, half happy, half upset.
"We're stuck? Do you have something else to do here?" Sanji asked. "Oh, right, I found this."
Sanji showed them an Eternal Pose to Alabasta, and everyone celebrated.
"Thank you, Sanji-san!" Vivi thanked him, giving him a strong hug. "For a moment I thought all was lost!!"
That hug almost killed Sanji from too much female affection.
"Alright, everyone—Senbei Party!!" Luffy said, holding two cookies and clinking them against Nami's.
"Wait... Oh no, Luffy! There are only three left, we can't have a party!" Usopp told him.
"The party can wait. Let's go, Captain! We don't have time to lose!" Nami reminded him that they had to leave.
"Oh, right. Hey, you didn't forget our hunting contest, did you?" Sanji asked Zoro.
"Oh... Well, whatever, I won. I got a pretty big rhinoceros," Zoro said.
"A rhinoceros? Can you even eat that?" Sanji wondered.
Upon hearing that, Broggy and Dorry thought for a moment about a hunting contest.
"Alright, Mr. Round Uncle and Mr. Giant! We have to go now!" Luffy told them.
"Alright, seems like you're in a hurry," Broggy said.
"What a shame. I guess we can't stop you! I hope your country is safe," Dorry told them.
"Yeah, thank you," Vivi thanked them.
"Well, don't die!" Luffy said goodbye to the giants.
Everyone said their goodbyes to the giants and headed back to the Going Merry.
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Upon arriving at the Going Merry, Zoro and Sanji began arguing over which hunted animal was the biggest.
"No man, look, mine is definitely the biggest," said Sanji.
"Yeah, sure," replied Zoro.
Sanji and Zoro kept going on about their hunting competition while the rest just had to listen.
"They sure are loud," said Oliver, watching them already fight.
"How long are they going to keep that up? We can't carry them whole, so cut what we need and let's go," Nami told them.
"Yes, Nami-san!" shouted Sanji.
"Hey, can't we bring a bit more meat on board?" asked Luffy.
"Idiot, if we bring any more, the ship won't be able to stay afloat," Nami told Luffy. "Do you want to sink it?"
"Such a shame to waste so much meat," said Vivi, looking at the two animals.
"Waste it?" asked Oliver. "We'll take all of it."
"We can't. The Going Merry doesn't have that much space," Nami told him.
"But I do," said Oliver.
Oliver walked over to where Zoro had cut the animals and stored all the leftover parts that wouldn't fit on the Merry into his inventory.
"Eh? How did you do that?" asked Vivi.
"Magic," said Oliver.
They set off on the ship, and soon spotted the two giants.
"Wow, look, it's the giants!" pointed out Luffy.
"They came to see us off!" exclaimed Usopp, happy to see them.
"This is a big reason why you small humans..."
"...won't be able to reach the next island,"
said both giants, catching everyone's attention.
"They gave their lives to preserve our pride."
"So no matter what kind of enemy you face..."
"WE WON'T ALLOW OUR FRIENDS' PRIDE TO BE DAMAGED!!!"
"Trust us! Keep going forward!! No matter what happens, keep moving forward!!" shouted the giants as they prepared their weapons.
"Alright!! Let's move forward!!" ordered Luffy to the rest.
"What are they going to...?" Zoro tried to ask.
"This is goodbye. We'll meet again someday."
"No doubt about it,"
said both giants.
"Look straight ahead!!" shouted Nami.
In front of the Straw Hats' ship appeared an absolutely massive fish.
"There it is. The Island Eater."
"WE SHALL OPEN A PATH IN THE NAME OF ELBAF!!" shouted the giants once again as the Straw Hats prepared to try and evade.
Some of them were scared, since they were heading straight toward the monster, but the giants were ready for the situation.
"The Island Eater. That damn giant colorful fish," said Dorry.
"It's not just its size that's impressive. It's the size and length of the islands it passes after swallowing them whole. Like a massive piece of excrement called the Island of Nothing," said Broggy.
The two giants remembered their adventures upon arriving at that island, and got ready to attack.
"HAKOKU!!"
Both giants delivered a powerful blow with their weapons, breaking them in the process. The resulting shockwave killed the Island Eater and allowed the Straw Hats to escape.