Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 226 Returning Usopp
"Sail!!", Luffy gave an order, the sail of the mainmast was lowered, and the ship slowly left the coast along the current.The Franky family were still cheering.

Luffy seemed to be sitting on the round platform under the mainmast with a relaxed face, crossed his legs and rested his hands behind him, but his face was covered with fine sweat, and he put the wooden box containing the demon sword beside him.

"Wait a minute, Luffy." Seeing that the person she wanted to wait for came late, Nami looked at the captain a little anxiously, and Chopper on the side was also anxious.

"Is it really okay, Straw Hat Kid?" Franky looked at the person sitting there with his hips akimbo, "Don't wait for that person."

"I'm waiting." Luffy tried his best to smile, but the cold sweat on his face showed that he was anxious, "After hearing what Sanji said, I didn't leave that house empty. I waited there all the time. I didn't see him either. Here's his answer..."

Reaching out and pushing the sunglasses, Frankie frowned and looked at Luffy's forced smile, "Straw hat boy..."

"That guy can continue working happily alone, and he won't give up on the pirates. It would be great if he can think about it at sea in the future, hahaha..." Luffy said with a smile, but the dry smile did not Take it easy.

Robin looked at Luffy's appearance, and then at Zoro sitting there, only to find that his hand holding Hedao Yiwen was so forceful that his veins bulged, and his brows were furrowed with patience, indicating that he also waiting.

"Boom", the sudden sound of the cannon interrupted everyone's thoughts, and the subsequent continuous shells exploded in the sea around the ship, causing the ship to shake unsteadily and speeding up the ship's departure from the coast.

Frankie walked quickly to the side of the ship, and when he saw the warship with the head of a dog biting a bone coming around from the other side of the water capital, he knew what had happened, "Oops, the warship Catch up!"

"Grandpa?!", seeing that ship, Luffy felt a little incomprehensible.

"Hey, Luffy, did you hear that? I'm your grandpa, I'm your grandpa!!" Lieutenant General Garp, who was standing at the bow of the warship, shouted with a loudspeaker, full of air The sound reached everyone's ears.

"Grandpa, what are you doing? Didn't you say you weren't here to catch us?" Luffy yelled back.

"But a lot of things have happened, I'm sorry, you'd better bury me in the bottom of the sea!" Lieutenant General Garp yelled mercilessly, completely ignoring the fact that there was his grandson on the pirate ship above, "Take it as an apology Alright, the old man will deal with you alone!"

"Ugh????"

After receiving a heavy shell that was bigger than his fist from the sailor on one side, Lieutenant General Garp easily weighed it a few times in his hand and threw it at the pirate ship in front, "Fist bone- Meteorite!!"

"Boom!!", the shells shot over at a faster speed than firing from the turret, blasting between the coast and the ship, and the violent waves pushed the pirate ship farther.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!!", Sanji, who was taken aback by the momentum, looked at the people on the warship, "Are you...throwing shells empty-handed??"

Sauron directly pulled out his two intact knives, and was also frightened by the powerful cannonball, so that he shed a few drops of cold sweat, "It's more powerful than a cannon, and it's not a baseball!"

"Hahahaha," Lieutenant General Garp laughed smugly, clenched his fists full of pride, "Recently, his strength has dropped a bit, this is not okay~~"

Seeing the figure in the distance who took off his coat and was about to fight, Nami took a few steps back with cold sweat on his face, no longer clinging to the idea of ​​waiting for Usopp, "There is no other way, let's run away first! Otherwise The new ship will be blown to pieces!!"

"Bring another thousand shells here!!" Lieutenant General Garp said with a confident smile, and the sailors who received the order immediately moved in an orderly manner, and rows of black shells were pushed on small carts. come over.After moving his wrist, he stared at the pirates in the distance as if he had set his sights on prey, "Let's start, kids. Don't try to escape from me, wake up!!"

"Boat at full speed!! Don't let it get hit by a shell!!"

"Oh!!"

Sanji, who was standing on the back deck staring at the warship, took the time to look in the direction of the city of water, biting his cigarette and still couldn't suppress his inner anxiety, "Is that guy really not coming??"

The nose moved, and Chopper suddenly yelled excitedly: "Hey, everyone!! It's Usopp. Usopp is here!!!"

"Really?" Robin, who was about to walk to the back deck, stopped, got the ship doctor's affirmative nod, smiled, and continued to walk to the back deck.

"Shhhhhh!!" "Boom boom boom boom", at this moment, meteor-like artillery shells flew towards the sailing ship, and Lieutenant General Garp on the warship was already throwing shells with his hands with full firepower.

And Usopp, who just arrived at this time, saw the pirate ship that was attacked by countless shells, and when he saw it moving away without looking back, his eyes widened in amazement.Then he yelled and jumped towards the Hulk Island regardless of the obstruction of the people around him, and yelled all the way: "Hey, everyone!! Wait for me!! My uncle has returned intact!!"

On the back deck, it was already a hard battle. Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji tried their best to deal with the continuous and powerful shells. Franky and Robin also tried their best to help, but they were still a little overwhelmed.

Chopper, who smelled Usopp, has been loudly reminding the people in the battle: "Hey, Luffy, Sauron!! Usopp is here!!"

"Protect the ship!!!", as if he couldn't hear Chopper's words at all, Luffy shouted loudly, and continued to concentrate on dealing with those shells.

"Hey!! Chopper, the weather is good today, let's go fishing!!" Usopp, who started to implement his return plan, shouted while running, and then denied his words, after all, the object of his shouting was on a ship On the ship under constant attack, "By the way, now is not the time to do this. By the way, I have some good news for you. When I go back, it doesn't matter to be the deputy captain!!"

Hearing this, Luffy froze, and suddenly recalled something in his mind:
…………

——'Hey, Luffy~, can I be your vice-captain? ', the girl asked in a soft voice, with her back facing the sea and the long slits blown by the sea breeze covering her face, she couldn't tell what she looked like.

—'Well, good! ’, the younger he replied in the affirmative, with his usual big smile

………………

"The deputy captain is already there!" Luffy who suddenly yelled shocked the people around him. He didn't know what was going on with his refusal in person.

After cutting a few cannonballs with a knife, Zoro looked at Luffy with a serious expression on his face, not knowing why he suddenly said this.However, inexplicably, he actually agreed with what Luffy said in his heart.

"The deputy captain is already taken..." Luffy muttered to himself, he didn't know who he was talking to, but he didn't regret saying this, knowing that it would hurt the heart of the partner who wanted to come back .

Kicking a cannonball that shot into the cabin, Sanji looked at Luffy who was suddenly motionless with a bad expression, "Luffy, what are you talking about?? You know it's just an excuse for him to come back!"

"I know!", punching the incoming shells.Luffy squeezed out a few words, "But, the vice-captain is here!"

"Who the hell is that?? Why did you reject Usopp so directly??" Chopper had already started to shed tears.

"We'll talk about this matter after we've settled this matter! No matter what Usopp says now, as long as it's meaningless, we'll treat it as if we didn't hear it!!" Sauron shouted coldly, and then he passed by with a knife. After the cannonball was cut in half, the following sentence was added, "There is indeed someone who is the deputy captain of this ship!"

"Why did Zoro even say that to you?!" Nami, who had no idea what the two of them were thinking, yelled, her eyes turned red but she couldn't get any explanation from them, so she could only stomp her feet hard and watch In the direction of Hulk Island.

"Why... you say someone is there? Luffy..." Usopp, who was really hit, gradually slowed down, staring at the ship that was gradually going away with wide eyes.But Usopp, who didn't want to be separated from them like this, gritted his teeth and endured the slap in the face just now, and continued to run forward with a smile on his face, "It doesn't matter if the deputy captain is there!! I just need to go back!! Hey, Luffy, everyone!! I know you must be very happy!! Is that so??"

Usopp suddenly recalled his declaration of leaving the Pirates unfeelingly a few days ago, and tried hard to pretend that it was not the case, "You know I was joking at that time! We are partners!! Let him Let's go! Hey,!! You talk!!!"

Usopp, who had already run to the very edge, gasped and looked at the ship that did not respond, and at the ship that kept leaving under the gunfire, he couldn't believe that none of his former partners had ever looked back at him glance.

"Stop joking, what is this... Are you really planning to break up with me...Is that so, forget it..." Usopp clenched his fists and looked at the pirates going away, pretending to be calm but his body Trembling unceasingly, then knelt and sat down weakly.He knew it was his fault, it was he who insisted on saying a lot of things that hurt his companions, it was he who said a lot of things that violated the majesty and status of the captain, and it was he who said that he would leave the Pirates forever.

All these reasons were planted by him, and he didn't dare to think about the indifference of his partners now, but he didn't want to swallow the bitter fruit he planted, and he didn't want to be separated from them.

My indifferent words about leaving the Pirates just happened, and I can still think of every word I said, the hurt and unbelievable expressions of my partners when I said those words.

Usopp, who was kneeling on the ground, slowly raised his head to look at the pirate ship that was gradually going away, his trembling body still couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes.In the end, he still couldn't force himself to watch them leave calmly, and watched himself being left behind. Finally, the words full of annoyance and remorse blurted out
"sorry!!!!!!!!!!"

The tearful Usopp doesn't care how embarrassed he is now, he only knows that if he doesn't do anything else, he will leave those partners forever.With this feeling in his heart, he cried loudly, begging their forgiveness, "I want to save face, I'm sorry!!! I was wrong!!!!"

Hearing this, the long-awaited people on the boat showed gratified smiles, and their happiness was self-evident.

"I know it's embarrassing now, even though I said I'm leaving the team, can you let me take it back!! Can you!! I beg you!!", Usopp cried out in embarrassment Then, the face completely discarded is just for the partners on the boat to respond to their feelings, "Let me follow you! Let me be your partner again!!"

The wailing full of sadness was blurred at the end, and the meaning of the original words could not be heard.But everyone on board knew what the words that came to their hearts were.

The tears that flowed out had piled up on the ground to form a puddle, and Usopp was sobbing constantly, when suddenly he saw a hand stretched out from the sea in front of him.A little unresponsive, I looked along the long arms, and saw the captain who was also crying and shouting to himself: "Idiot!! Catch me quickly!!"

"Oh!!!!", Usopp grabbed the hand excitedly, and tears of excitement flowed from his messy face.

Zoro, who was standing next to Luffy, looked at Luffy crying with a smile, and said in a low voice, "Are you an idiot too?"

"Wow!!", Sanji, who directly ignored the cannonballs and began to jump up happily, had a rare childish side.And Nami wiped away the tears in her eyes, choked up with a sob and said with a low smile: "You guys are really ashamed..."

After bringing Usopra back, Luffy ignored the tears in his eyes, jumped up and shouted loudly: "Prepare to escape this shelling and prepare for the next adventure! Brothers!!"

"Oh!!"

(End of this chapter)