Pirate's Freedom

Early in the morning.

"Good weather~ Today is such a good day!"

In front of his dilapidated old house, Bellmere blocked the rising sun with his hands and looked at the gray-blue sky and slow clouds with his hands on his hips.

"Today is a great day to fix the house!"

"Ha~"

Nami, who was slapping her mouth, and Nokigao, who was rubbing her eyes, also walked out of the half-opened door.

"Woke up so early...Bellemere..."

"Ha~che~"

Nokigao was also infected and yawned.

"Do you need help with the cleaning?"

"I have researched it, and it is indeed as Tata Tot said, this thing is very convenient~"

Shaking the spray can in his hand, Bellmer looked in a good mood and said with a smile.

"No need to work today, let's go play in the village!"

"really?"

Nami rubbed her eyes and asked in surprise.

"Now, here's the meal fee."

Bellmeier generously took out a few Pele and took them to the master Noki.

"Eat lunch outside and be back before dinner."

she said with a smile.

"I'll definitely surprise you then!"

……

"Ha~ow~"

Tata Tot also yawned. He stood outside his shop and looked listlessly at the two people who came over early in the morning.

"Is this why you came so early?"

"Hee hee~"

Touching the back of her head with one hand, Nami, who was actually not that embarrassed, smiled with an embarrassed expression.

"Excuse me~ Tata Tot."

Nuo Qi Gao was a little embarrassed.

"Sorry to interrupt."

"Ha... alas..."

Sighing and yawning at the same time, Tata Tot reluctantly let them into the house and watched them run up to the second floor.

"Ira is still sleeping, please wait for a while."

Tata Tot followed closely behind and went to the kitchen to pour two glasses of juice, handed them to the two people at the table, and then sat down himself.

"Would you like some more breakfast?"

"No, no."

Nokigao and Nami waved together. Not only that, Nami also deliberately placed the juice a little further away from her.

"We've eaten."

Something is wrong...

Tata Tot realized something was wrong.

really.

There was no moment of silence before Nokkigao and Nami looked at each other.

"Since Bellemere doesn't need our help..."

Nami said seriously.

"Tata Tot, we have decided to help you clean up."

"Um?!"

Tata Tot immediately became alert.

"Forget it if Noki is too high, Nami, are you so kind?"

"What! You underestimate me!"

Nami slipped down from the chair and searched under the table for a long time. Finally she found a piece of dust and smeared it on her fingers as if she had found a treasure.

"Look! There's so much dust and it's so dirty that I can't stand it anymore."

She approached Tata Tot, showed him the dust on her fingertips, and spoke plausibly.

"Since it's already so dirty, why not let us help clean it up."

After saying that, she added something superfluous.

"Tata Tote, don't worry! This time it's free~"

"...!"

When the word "free" came out of Nami's mouth, Tata Tot felt a chill rising from his feet.

"..."

Nami and Noki glanced at each other, made some small movements from under the table with pained expressions on their faces, and slapped a Bailey on the table in a pretentious manner.

Bang!

"Tata Tot, I'll take you out to lunch!"

Nuo Qigao also said with confidence.

"You go out first, I will definitely surprise you when you come back!"

"...!!!"

The cold air rushed directly to Tianling Gai, and Tata Tot's hair stood on end.

"I won't eat any food, and I won't drink juice..."

Tata Tot had an expressionless face and glanced back and forth with squinted eyes.

"Tell me, what exactly do you want to do?"

Seeing that the two were hesitant, he threw out a bait.

"If it's easy to negotiate, it's not impossible for me to agree."

"..."

Nokigao and Nami looked at each other, made up their minds, and said in unison.

“We’re having our second orange juice drinking contest!”

Click!

A sound of something breaking sounded out of thin air, and Nokigao and Nami looked around strangely for a while.

"Tata Tot, it's time for your house to be repaired too."

"This kind of thing..."

Tata Toth's voice was deep.

"Why are you so secretive..."

"There's nothing we can do about it!"

Nami sighed sadly.

"after all--"

Nuo Qigao said.

"After the last orange juice drinking contest, you didn't look good for several days."

Although the orange juice drinking contest is a traditional event in Cocoa West Village, it is not a regular event.

It is usually held in years when there is a bumper harvest in the orange fields and oranges cannot be sold at high prices. It is held by Noqigao and Nami, and all the children in the village are invited to participate. The prizes raised are rich and it is very popular among the people.

The competition itself is of course irrelevant, and borrowing the grocery store is of course no problem, but the problem is...

Putting his elbows on the table, Tata Tot lowered his head and rubbed the center of his eyebrows vigorously.

In the last orange juice drinking competition, Ila fought bravely and won the second place.

……

Late at night two years ago.

The first orange juice drinking contest was a complete success, and the bustling grocery store ended.

"...!"

There was a rustling noise in the attic, and Tata Tot was suddenly awakened. He sat up, frowned and looked into the distance.

——Inexplicably, a large submarine volcano that was about to erupt appeared in the waters near Cocoa West Island.

In three minutes at most, a 3-meter-high tsunami will wash over Cocoa West Island, and before the impact of the tsunami spreads, the violently changing crust will wipe out all the islands in the surrounding seas, including Rogge Town. Sinking to the bottom of the sea together.

Realizing this, Tata Tot did not hesitate. His heart moved, and the vast power caressed it in detail. The magma cooled, the cracked strata healed, and an impending disaster disappeared invisible.

However, the matter did not end there.

Hundreds of millions of light-years away, a beam of gamma rays with energy exceeding the total solar radiation of trillions of years was leisurely traveling through the universe. In the next second, it fell into a wormhole that appeared inexplicably and headed straight for Tata. Toth's house.

To be precise, it will hit the small attic above accurately, and in the next few seconds, the entire planet will turn into an extremely hot molten mass.

Of course, this kind of thing couldn't happen under Tata Tot's nose.

The wormhole and the gamma rays inside were extinguished by him in the dark universe.

Not letting down his vigilance, Tata Tot watched intently.

However, at this moment, the slight sound of opening and closing the door sounded in the small attic, and Tata Tot clearly heard the sound of Ila's tiptoeing footsteps.

"..."

Tata Tot, who understood, covered his forehead, not knowing what to say.

As expected, the situation escalated as time passed.

——Before Ila secretly took care of her bed-wetting sheets, Tata Tot had already begun to worry about the supermassive black hole at the center of the river system.

……

To sum it up briefly.

The biggest operating cost of the last orange juice drinking contest was that Tata Tot had to spend several days re-stabilizing a black hole that was about to transform into a white hole.

As for Nami...

Anyway, judging from her attitude of never forgetting it after so many years, she must be making a lot of money running this event.

"Last time in the orange juice drinking competition, I won the card of [Smog the Smoker]!"

She said so triumphantly herself.

"Brodore Smoker was transferred to Rogge Town?"

Raising his eyebrows, Tata Tot understood something.

As the first naval powerhouse to be printed on a card with the rank of colonel, Smoker has indeed attracted a lot of attention, not to mention in the East China Sea where he has the greatest influence.

This is not only because of his status as a natural ability user, but more importantly, in the past [Advance War], he has proven himself through astonishing results.

"I'm not [Brigadier General Smoker]!"

Frowning her little brows, Nami emphasized dissatisfiedly.

"My card is [Colonel Smoker]! It's a very rare card that's out of print!"

"..."

With Smoker being promoted to brigadier general, WES indeed stopped issuing his [Colonel] cards.

Of course, [Colonel Smoker] is more cherished than [Brigadier General Smoker], and it can even be said to be valuable.

Beside, Nami, who was lying on the table, was still talking non-stop, introducing her wealth code in detail.

"He is only 24 years old this year. Aokiji is also a brigadier general at his age. [Smoker] Smoker... he will definitely become a general in the future!"

Speaking of this, Nami's eyes shone with golden light. She clasped her hands and looked forward to the future with longing.

"When the time comes, I will send this card to the auction, and it will definitely fetch a sky-high price!"

"And then what?"

Tata Tot sighed.

"And then……"

The light in her eyes suddenly became clear, and Nami showed a bright smile.

"I will use this money to buy an excellent sailboat and sail it around the world. I must draw a real [world map]!"