One Piece's Vice Captain 2

Chapter 381: The World Songstress Who Hates Pirates

After making countless foods for the fans to replenish their energy, Uta flew over to reminisce with his childhood friends, "Luffy, everyone, did you have fun?"

"It's Princess Uta!" Usopp's eyes lit up, but he quickly calmed down.

"There are so many fun things~", Chopper also jumped around happily.

"Woo!" Baozi bared his teeth vigilantly and was soon caught by Franky with one hand.

"Hahaha, the concert was SUPER interesting. I'll take Baozi to eat first. He must be hungry." Franky grabbed the howling snow leopard to prevent it from pouncing on him and biting him.

"If Luffy's friends are so happy, I'm honored too~" Uta smiled and looked around at all the people on the reef, then suddenly turned his head and leaned in front of Luffy, his hair shaking like rabbit ears, "Is this everyone?"

"No." Luffy shook his head, and before Uta could be relieved, he added, "An Ke is not here. She is going to play somewhere else for the time being."

"Encore?" As a singer, Uta is very familiar with this word. Usually at the end of a performance, the audience will shout this word and want the singer to return to sing a few more songs.

"Well, this is the name she gave herself~", thinking of the owner of this name, Luffy couldn't help but smile a lot happier and gentler.

Even though the girl had suffered so much torture and despair in her childhood, she still stubbornly wanted to restart her life. She was like a faint but inextinguishable starlight in the endless darkness, making him subconsciously want to get close to her and protect her.

"Wow, it seems like she's someone very important to you," Uta also noticed the change in Luffy's expression when he mentioned that name, and quickly remembered his mission. He raised his hand anxiously and pointed at the straw hat he was wearing, "She shouldn't be the only one, right? That hat is clearly..."

"It's true," Luffy corrected with a smile, and suddenly thought of something, stretched out his hands to hook Ace's neck and pulled him over, "And this is Ace, he's my brother!"

"Hi," Ace was already used to the feeling of being strangled, so he naturally raised his hand to greet.

Zoro and the others looked at the arm that was wrapped around Ace's neck, and silently admired his calm expression. [As expected of Luffy's big brother, he didn't suffocate even in this way...]
"Hey? Do you have a brother?" Uta was surprised. When she knew Luffy as a child, she never heard him talk about having a brother. And since something happened, she has been living in isolation in Elegia. She only came into contact with the world through the video Den Den Mushi two years ago, but she is not very clear about the major events happening in the world.

Seeing Uta's surprised look, several people present were actually a little surprised. In the war that shocked the world two years ago, everyone who paid attention to that war should know that Ace and Luffy are brothers. Why didn't Uta, who had been broadcasting live via Den Den Mushi, know this?
"Yeah!" Luffy nodded vigorously and mentioned his other brother happily, "And Sabo too, we are sworn brothers~"

"I see. Nice to meet you." Uta shook hands with Ace and winked mischievously. "I thought Luffy's brother would be willful and mischievous, but I didn't expect him to be so gentle and reliable."

Hearing this, Zoro, Nami, Chopper, Sanji and Usopp nodded in agreement. When they first met Ace in Alabasta, they couldn't believe that such a polite and gentle person could be Luffy's elder brother.

"What?! Ace was very easy to get angry when he was a kid, and he often beat me!" The Straw Hat Captain protested angrily.

"Haha..." Ace felt a little guilty when he thought of his attitude towards Luffy when they were children.

After Sabo disappeared in an explosion at sea, he learned Sabo's gentle and polite side in order to take care of his young and crying brother for Sabo's sake, although he still occasionally lost his temper and made impulsive decisions.

"Then you guys continue to reminisce about the past, I won't disturb you," Ace nodded slightly to Uta, pressed Luffy's head hard, and then returned to his original position.

"Yeah~", Uta waved his hand, then looked at Luffy with a smile, "Luffy, it's rare to see you, let's have a long-awaited match!"

Luffy looked a little amused, "Now there's no way you can beat me?"

Uta retorted unhappily, "What are you talking about? I've won 183 times in a row!"

"No, I'm the one who won 183 times in a row!" Luffy corrected immediately.

"So who won?" Nami was curious, "What kind of competition was that?"

"I've had various duels with Luffy in the past, such as knife throwing, arm wrestling, etc.~" Uta recalled the previous small competitions, and suddenly an idea flashed and snapped his fingers, "Right!"

A large number of musical notes swept her and Luffy away like a tide, and a huge red carpet several meters wide and more than ten meters long appeared in the air. After the musical note whirlwind brought the two of them to the red carpet, two basins of the same number of chicken legs appeared at the end of the red carpet, and at the other end was a sturdy bull.

The ability to do whatever she wants is too incredible to Zoro and the others, so they remain vigilant, even though the girl is a friend Luffy has known for a long time.

"This place is just like Anko's illusion world. Whatever you imagine can come true." Ace expressed the thoughts of the people present, but they did not feel any hostility at the moment, nor did they know what Uta's real goal was.

On the flying carpet in the sky, Uta was introducing the rules of this duel, "Chicken leg eating competition, the one who finishes first wins~"

"Wow, I really miss it!" Luffy also remembered the games they often played when they were young. He turned around and looked at the bull that was ready to move. "You even prepared this?"

"Of course," after everything was ready, Uta announced the start, "Then get ready, go!"

The bull at the other end immediately rushed towards them with all his might, and the two of them started grabbing the chicken legs and gobbling them up at the same time. The Straw Hat Captain, who always swallowed the food in one bite, deliberately slowed down but was still much faster than her.

Uta looked at the few chicken legs left on his plate. He wolfed down the food while raising his left hand. The spinning phonetic symbols on his palm turned into a large glass of juice. "Here you go."

"Wow, thank you!" Captain Straw Hat, whose attention was suddenly diverted, happily took the glass of juice.

Uta grabbed the remaining chicken leg and stuffed it into his mouth, then jumped off the flying carpet before the bull approached. Luffy, distracted by a glass of juice, was knocked off by the bull. The bull, having completed its mission, turned into musical notes and disappeared after a few seconds. "You're so cunning, Uta! Did you just break the rules?"
"Here you are, the sore loser~", Uta made a naughty face, then leaned in and asked in a low voice, "Since I have won, then tell me, where is Shanks?"

"I don't know." Luffy shook his head.

"Then what's the matter with your straw hat?" Uta pointed at his straw hat with disbelief.

"He left it here with me." Luffy pulled his straw hat. This was indeed the agreement between him and Shanks.

Nami looked at them and asked curiously, "Speaking of which, since Uta is Shanks' daughter, why doesn't she go on an adventure with them?"

Luffy also remembered that Uta suddenly didn't come back that year, "Come to think of it, you seemed to disappear suddenly."

Uta's expression froze slightly, and then he just looked at the dilapidated building in the distance.

"Because I often wait for Shanks and the others to come back and tell stories about their adventures, but one day they came back listlessly, and I thought you had met with an accident." Luffy tried hard to think about what happened twelve years ago, and then remembered Shanks' explanation at the time, "Then Shanks said that you got off the ship in order to become a singer."

"......" Hearing this, Uta's expression was a little difficult to describe. Although he was smiling, he didn't feel much smile.

Luffy didn't notice her forbearing expression and asked curiously, "So Uta, why did you give up being a pirate? You used to like the Red Hair Pirates so much."

"I just want to be a singer more than a pirate~" Uta smiled and answered with a cheerful and proud voice, "Look, in just two years, I have gained so many fans around the world through singing~"

Uta seemed a little out of touch with the world and asked a question that seemed obvious to everyone, "Speaking of which, Luffy, what are you doing now?"

"Luffy is now one of the Four Emperors, don't you know that?" Usopp asked the question that many people had in confusion. You know, this matter was widely reported in the news before.

"People who don't care about the pirate world might really not know anything about it," Robin said with a smile, although she was also wondering why they seemed to have no idea what was happening in the world.

"I'm a pirate now~," Luffy replied proudly, stretching out his hand to take the meat with bones prepared by the blond chef.

"Really? A pirate?" Hearing his answer, Uta couldn't control the expression on his face, but still tried his best to maintain a smile.

Zoro, who had been on high alert against her the whole time, noticed the change in her mood and grasped the hilt of the sword with his right hand.

The napping island cloud flew from the blue whale's arms to his head and nestled on it, staring at Uta obediently with its big dark eyes.

"That's right, I want to be the Pirate King~", Luffy seemed not to notice the change in atmosphere, and stated his goal of going to sea with a smile.

Uta still smiled, but he advised seriously, "Hey, Luffy, don't be a pirate~"

After hearing this, even the most obtuse person would have noticed something was wrong. Since Uta is the daughter of the Pirate Four Emperors Shanks and someone Luffy knew when he was a child, she should know what Luffy wants to do. So why did she advise him not to be a pirate anymore after they met again?
"Let's live happily here together. All your friends are my fans, right? So let's live happily here together~", Uta created more interesting and fun things, but Luffy was looking around absentmindedly, "Luffy, are you listening?"

"Uta, nice to meet you, the meat is delicious, the song is beautiful, and we've finished talking." Luffy, who felt like he had been here for a long time, was ready to leave, "Then I'm going to find Anko, she won't be happy staying alone for so long~"

Uta became anxious and asked, "Do you want to find someone? Where is she now? I can bring her here~"

"Bring her here?" Luffy looked at her warily, but soon smiled and waved his hand in a relaxed manner, "No need, we can find her ourselves, and then we will continue our adventure~"

"Do you have to leave?" Uta looked at him, expecting a denial.

"Yeah, you have something you want to do now, that's good." Luffy smiled brightly, swung his arms and prepared to turn the island upside down to find a certain Persian cat, "Goodbye~"

"I won't let you go," Uta's smile was a little distorted, "Luffy and you all have to stay here forever and live happily with me~"

"It seems like it was you who did it," Zoro had just pulled out his sword when he suddenly turned sideways to avoid the musical note that was thrown out of nowhere.

"Zoro, don't attack yet." Luffy raised his hand to stop him, "There is no reason to attack now. I won't fight her."

"What other reasons do pirates need to give for their actions? Destruction without reason is your style, right?!" Uta flew into the air on the musical note, looking at everyone with hatred in his eyes, "Since Luffy's friends are all pirates, then there's no need to be polite~"

"Princess Uta suddenly looks like a villain!!" Usopp was shocked by her look.

Dao Yun Duoduo blinked her big eyes and said innocently, "Are you going to kill her?"

"You look more like a villain!" Usopp was really scared by the white cloud.

"Not yet, that's Lord Luffy's friend." Blue Whale took it down and continued to hold it in his arms.

"She looks like she wants to destroy us now," Nami clenched the weather stick, but couldn't do anything because of the captain's words, "Why does she, as Shanks' daughter, seem to hate pirates so much?"

(End of this chapter)