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[Smoker: "Damn it!! How is that Straw Hat kid so strong!! Even I can't resist the pressure of his Conqueror's Haki..."]
[Buggy: "Smoker, you should be content!! He just stunned you, he didn't do anything else to you."]
[Smoker: "He wouldn't dare!!"]
[Alvida: "...Red Luffy has nothing to fear. It's because you have a good reputation in Loguetown that Red Luffy didn't want to harm you. If your reputation was like Captain Nezumi's, he probably would have come straight to your door and beaten you to death in your base~~~"]
[Coby: "Although Alvida's words are unpleasant, they are indeed facts! Red Luffy does things with principles!! As long as you don't belong to the evil he defines in his heart, even if you provoke him a little in front of him, he won't bother with you~~~"]
[Gol D. Roger: "This kid... not bad!"]
[Monkey D. Garp: "Do you even need to say that? Stupid Roger!!"]
[Gol D. Roger: "Hahaha!!"]
[The Going Merry rides the wind and waves. Not long after setting out, they encounter stormy weather~~~]
[Luffy and Nami are sitting near the window, huddled together looking at the nautical chart~~]
[Sanji is fuming in the back, wishing he could kick Luffy away and take his place!!!!]
["Huh? Wait!! This stretch from Loguetown to Reverse Mountain, isn't this part of the East Blue climate zone?"]
[Luffy suddenly frowns, pulls out his navigation notebook from his person, and immediately wants to flip through it to confirm if he remembered correctly.]
["No need to flip, you didn't remember wrong. This is indeed the East Blue climate zone. What's wrong....???"] [Nami looks at Luffy doubtfully.]
[After three months of spending nights together, Luffy's current navigation skills can be said to have perfectly inherited Nami's mantle. So, at this moment, when Luffy frowns, Nami's heart also tightens!!!]
[Luffy spreads out the nautical chart, points to the sea route marked by someone, and says: "Zero degrees north, according to the ocean currents of the East Blue climate zone, even if we encounter stormy weather, as long as we follow this current, we should be able to reach Reverse Mountain by sailing straight along this route!"]
[Hearing Luffy say this, Nami becomes even more puzzled: "Yeah! Aren't we sailing along this route right now???"]
[Luffy shakes his head gravely: "No!! The ocean currents have changed our course! We are at least thirty degrees off the course on the nautical chart!"]
[This change isn't happening in an instant, but gradually deviating bit by bit.....]
[Under this kind of situation, it's impossible for the others on the ship to notice!!!]
[But Luffy's Observation Haki has already reached the advanced level of Observation Haki, his perception is extremely sharp!!!]
[Of course... this doesn't mean that reaching advanced Observation Haki in construction mode¹ can perceive this kind of change!!!]
[It also requires excellent navigation skills to be able to distinguish this change through Observation Haki~~]
[It can be said... in this world, those who can simultaneously meet these two conditions are absolutely as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns...]
["Course deviated by thirty degrees..."]
[Nami's beautiful brows furrow slightly~~~]
[Although she can't perceive this change in the Going Merry's course...! But she fully trusts Luffy...!]
["Damn it!! Quick, turn the rudder back!!!"]
[Suddenly, Nami exclaims and stands up.]
["What's wrong?"] [In the lounge-cum-meeting room, the chart room!!! Everyone else is startled by Nami.]
[Nami ignores the others, instead looking at Luffy: "According to the course you mentioned, if we continue like this, we will enter the Calm Belt!!!"]
["Calm Belt? What kind of place is that?"]
["Is it a sea area with no wind? Isn't that perfect?"] [No wind is good!]
["Yeah! No wind is good!"]
[...]
[Zoro and the others don't understand the Calm Belt, asking one after another with innocent faces.]
[Luffy originally didn't know either, but after three months of diligently drilling into Nami's room every night, he certainly knows what the Calm Belt means now!!]
["Then what are you waiting for!! Quick, turn the rudder!!!"]
[Without waiting for Luffy and Nami to get up, Buggy immediately jumps up and rushes to the control room!]
[He was, after all, someone from the Pirate King's ship; of course, he knows how terrifying the Calm Belt is...]
[Soon~~~]
[The entire group braves the storm, gathered on deck, with Luffy personally at the helm.]
["This ocean current is really strange! It keeps guiding the ship towards the Calm Belt. I must correct the ship's course at all times!"]
[Luffy says while sensing the direction of the current below.]
[Only after several hours does that centrifugal ocean current force disappear.]
[The stormy weather has also cleared up. In front of the Going Merry, the outline of Reverse Mountain can already be seen~~~]
[Eustass Kid: "Is Straw Hat kid over there just making things up about some ocean current change? Didn't they arrive safely at Reverse Mountain?"]
[Trafalgar Law: "Probably not! Hasn't he been correcting the course all along?"]
[Scratchmen Apoo: "Although I don't understand navigation, my navigator did say that the East Blue climate zone shouldn't have ocean current deviations."]
[Kizaru: "Indeed, it is so. The sea area from Loguetown to Reverse Mountain is a typical East Blue climate zone; it's almost impossible for ocean current deviations to occur."]
[Gol D. Roger: "Haha! Have you all forgotten? Didn't the ship of the Buggy Pirates over there also deviate into the Calm Belt in the previous whiteboard video?"]
[Kizaru: "Although that happened, Straw Hat's ship over there should have been blown over by the storm. But Red Luffy over there said it was an ocean current deviation, that's impossible!"]
[Ben Beckman: "Indeed, that place shouldn't have ocean current deviations."]
[Eustass Kid: "That's what I'm saying! Red Luffy over there must be making things up~~~"]
[Usopp shouts excitedly: "Wow!!! As long as we enter that canal, we can enter the Grand Line!!"]
[Roronoa Zoro: "Grand Line.... I'm here!"]
[A look of longing appears in Buggy's eyes~~~]
["Luffy!! We're about to enter the Grand Line!! I can draw the nautical chart of the Grand Line!!!"] [Nami shouts excitedly~~~]
[Just as everyone is incredibly excited~~]
[Rumble rumble!!!]
[The sea area to the right of the Going Merry suddenly erupts as if a volcano has gone off!!! Countless giant waves surge towards the sky!!!]
[Immediately after, a Sea King that looks like a continuous mountain range rises from the sea surface!!!]
This scene directly causes the chat room to explode.
[Shiki: "Hey!!! What's going on here??? This isn't the Calm Belt!!"]
[Portgas D. Ace: "Nani!!? Aren't these Sea Kings the ones we just saw in the Calm Belt in the whiteboard video??? Why did they collectively leave the Calm Belt and appear here....?????"]
[Sengoku: "How could this be... Could it be that these Sea Kings are chasing after the Straw Hat Pirates and appeared here?"]
[Garp: "Looks like it, this possibility is very high!!"]
[Rocks D. Xebec: "How could this be??? I've never seen such an outrageous thing in my life!!"]
[Shiki: "Correct yourself, it's last life!"]
[Rocks D. Xebec: "Get lost!! I still have a chance to be revived!"]
[Charlotte Linlin: "What exactly is going on with these Sea Kings? This old lady can't understand it~~~"]
[Dozens of Sea Kings rise from the sea surface towards the sky, blotting out the sun~~~~]
[The seawater is fiercely parted, forming a sea trench, which only slowly dissipates after hitting the walls of Reverse Mountain~~]
[When one of the tallest Sea Kings rises, it directly lifts the Going Merry into the air from below...]
[At this moment, the Going Merry is like it's placed on the face of this Sea King, simultaneously completely exposed to the view of all the Sea Kings...]
!!!!
[Everyone in the Straw Hat Pirates directly turns into idiots, each one "ah-ing" non-stop, so scared they can't even make a sound!]
[Nami is relatively close to Luffy, and is directly scared into collapsing onto Luffy's body...]
[She hugs Luffy and "ahs" non-stop~]
[Vinsmoke Sanji: "Ahhhhh!!! Bastard Red Luffy!! He actually took advantage of Nami-swan!!!"]
[Roronoa Zoro: "Idiot, look clearly, Nami-swan initiated the hug~~~"]
[Nico Robin: "Fufufu... I bet 100 Beri that Nami over there did it on purpose."]
[Tony Tony Chopper: "Probably, right? Nami over there should like Luffy over there~~"]
[Trafalgar Law: "Isn't this obvious~~~"]
[Franky: "Seconded! Ow~~ Super!!!"]
[Marine Headquarters, Marineford~~]
[Whitebeard watches this scene, speechless!!!]
[He turns his head to his beloved son, Roger: "I completely believe what you said now~~~~~"]
[On the other side, Kozuki Oden also exclaims: "Yeah!! Captain Roger said before that these Sea Kings came to see the king of this era. I thought it was a bit exaggerated... But now, it's absolutely as Captain Roger said!!"]
[Marco mutters to himself: "So, the ocean current deviation Red Luffy and his crew encountered earlier was actually caused by the Sea Kings stirring things up at the bottom of the sea... But they didn't succeed, so now they just collectively came from the Calm Belt. How could one not think of Joy Boy, right?"]
["Absolutely correct!!!"] Roger laughs heartily.
He can now be certain that Luffy is definitely the person the world has been waiting for....!!!
[...]
[All the Sea Kings are curiously watching the deck of the Going Merry~]
[It's just that their eyes are very large, so it's impossible to tell what exactly they are looking at~]
[But Luffy can feel it, the gazes of all these Sea Kings are directed at him....]
[Are they looking at me???]
[Luffy feels puzzled in his heart~]
[But this kind of thing seems a bit too absurd...]
[He immediately shakes his head, banishing this absurd thought from his mind~~~]
[At this moment... the Sea King carrying the Going Merry coincidentally lets out a sneeze...]
[Achoo!!]
[The Going Merry instantly slides down its long face towards the sea surface below~~~]
["Ah~~~~"] [Nami cries out caught off guard. Then, realizing something, she quickly shouts: "Wait until the Going Merry hits the sea surface, everyone row for your lives!!!"]
[...]
["Okay!!!"]
[At this time, it's absolutely impossible for anyone to refuse Nami's suggestion~]
[However, just as the Going Merry slides off the head of this Sea King, Luffy leaps up!!!!]
[Leaving the deck of the Going Merry~~]
[...]
["Luffy!!!"] [Everyone exclaims....]
[...]
[However, Luffy doesn't answer. Instead, his four limbs suddenly stretch out, like helicopter rotor blades,¹ instantly grabbing onto the four hooks on the Going Merry's hull!]
[Immediately after, he takes a deep breath!!!]
["Gum-Gum... Hot Air Balloon!! ——"]
[The surrounding air, as if encountering a vortex, rushes violently into Luffy's stomach~]
[His stomach instantly inflates into a rubber balloon larger than the Going Merry...]
[At the same time, he covers the surface of his belly skin with Armament Haki~]
[Under the watchful eyes of dozens of giant Sea Kings, the Going Merry hot air balloon floats towards Reverse Mountain~~~~]
[Capone Bege: "Ah~ No way!!! It can be done like this??? His fruit ability is too ridiculous!"]
[Eustass Kid: "This even involves changing forms..."]
[Roronoa Zoro: "Uh... when can we over here also enjoy a Luffy-style hot air balloon?"]
[Franky: "Don't even think about it, the Thousand Sunny is too big. Even if Luffy blows up his belly, he won't achieve that buoyancy~~~"]
[Tony Tony Chopper: "Ah... then there's no way..."]
[...]
[Under the blue sky and white clouds~]
[The Going Merry hot air balloon flies directly to the entrance of Reverse Mountain before slowly descending onto the sea surface~~~]
[Luffy and his crew look back. Those Sea Kings have already slowly submerged.]
["Luffy, your actions just now were too dangerous!! Flying right in front of so many Sea Kings like that, they had countless opportunities to eat us!!!"]
[Nami says with lingering fear.]
[Sanji nods repeatedly: "Yeah, Luffy! In that kind of situation just now, we should have waited for the Going Merry to fall into the sea, then used the cover of the waves to escape quickly."]
["Yes, the hot air balloon was comfortable, but it was too risky!"] [Usopp says.]
[Luffy, however, smiles: "Actually... I had a strange feeling just now. It was like those Sea Kings didn't have any ill intentions towards us. And facts prove it, they indeed didn't attack us~~"]
[Usopp looks stunned: "Hehehe!!! That's a good outcome!! But what if 2.4 you guessed wrong... then wouldn't we be doomed~~~"]
[Sanji takes a deep breath: "Exactly, Luffy, that method just now was too risky!!!"]
["I'm sorry, nakama... for making you worry..."]
[Luffy shows a sincere apologetic expression~~~]
[Afterward, he strokes the Going Merry's figurehead, smiling slightly: "But... I also promised Merry, as long as I'm alive for one day, I will absolutely not let her get hurt~~~"]
[Hearing these words, Usopp and Sanji's faces instantly freeze!!!]
[Yeah...]
[Just now, because they were scared, they only thought about the safety of the people on board~~~]
[But what about the Going Merry.....]
[...]
[Falling from such a height onto the sea surface, although it wouldn't break apart, the force of that fall would definitely cause considerable impact to the Going Merry!!!]
[What's more, Luffy's method ultimately not only allowed them to escape the Sea King area safely but also prevented the Going Merry from getting damaged...]
[Looking at the results, Luffy's method was right!]
[Usopp shows a look of remorse: "Luffy, I should be the one saying sorry... I'm sorry!"]
["And me! I didn't consider Merry, I'm very sorry!!!"] [Sanji strokes the Going Merry's railing, shouting in a deep voice.]
[...]
[Nami also purses her lips: "Luffy... I'm sorry..."]
["Ahaha!!! What are you all doing? In that kind of situation, your first thought was the safety of your nakama, that's not wrong at all!!!"]
["However, remember this in the future, Merry, ah... is also our nakama!!!"]
["Yeah!! Merry... our nakama!!!"]