Daily life as a writer in the world of pirates

East China Sea, Golden Merli

"Yo Xi - it's done!" Luffy excitedly raised the flag-sized black cloth in his hand and displayed it in front of everyone.

"Lemon?" Nami tilted her head strangely.

"It's a beer mug!" Zoro lazily opened one eye and said firmly.

"No, no, no - you all guessed wrong!" Usopp shook his head and walked past everyone, shaking his index finger reservedly, "This must be Luffy's self-portrait, right?"

Wanzi held his chin and stared at the two yellow and white graffiti in front of him for a full minute, and finally guessed very uncertainly: "Could it be - a pirate flag?"

"Pirate flag?!" Zoro, Nami and Usopp said in unison, taking a step back at the same time, "No way -"

Luffy put down the pirate flag excitedly, flew to Maruko from a long distance and gave her a big bear hug. He pressed his super elastic cheek against Maruko's right cheek: "Sure enough, Maruko understands me best! No! That’s right, this is the pirate flag I designed!”

"How should I put it? It's you, ha-ha-ha." If such a pirate flag is hung on the ship, she will definitely be embarrassed to the point where her negative emotions will skyrocket and she will open a kaleidoscope! Wanzi turned his attention to several other people for help.

Usopp looked up to the sky and laughed for three minutes. Then he stood up while staring at everyone's impatient eyes: "I am Usopp, an artist who has been professionally graffitiing for 800 years and is known as the soul painter. If you want to draw a pirate flag, please Shout out to Captain Uso-Pu!"

"Baga, hurry up!" Four fists from the front, back, left and right hit Usopp on the head at the same time.

ten minutes later.

"It's done!" Usopp is worthy of being a painter of eight hundred years of graffiti. The newly painted pirate flag has a straw hat and a skeleton, clearly describing Luffy's characteristics.

"Well done, Usopp!" Maruko nodded with satisfaction.

"Usopp, please draw one on the sail, too!" Luffy was obviously very satisfied, raising his hands and shouting, "Now, the Straw Hat Pirates have officially set sail!"

It was obviously still the same few people, but when the pirate flag flew on the observation deck of the Meili, I suddenly felt something was different.

Suddenly, Wanzi sensed a person with weak breathing on the rocks not far away, and she immediately asked everyone to drive the boat to that area.

"Johnny - and Joseph?" Zoro, who was lying on the deck basking in the sun, stood up in surprise. Unexpectedly, he met an acquaintance.

"Brother Sauron?" Johnny choked up as soon as he opened his mouth, "Joseph, Joseph, he's oooo-"

Johnny moved the gray-faced Joseph to the deck, and almost everyone could feel his increasingly labored breathing.

Luffy and Usopp stood next to Johnny, with tears on their faces, feeling that Joseph was going to leave in the next second. Maruko and Zoro were also livid and helpless.

Only Nami squatted next to Joseph, opened his mouth and looked at it for a while, then suddenly showed a relieved smile.

"Damn it, how can you, a woman like you, still laugh!" Johnny grabbed Nami's arm fiercely, with an evil look on his face.

Wanzi reacted quickly, teleported forward, pointed the knife on Johnny's waist directly at the tip of his nose, and said coldly: "Let go."

Everyone was stunned by Wanzi's sudden movement, and the atmosphere on both sides became inexplicably stiff.

Johnny let go of his hand coquettishly. Although Nami was suddenly caught and felt uncomfortable, her heart was still warm after being protected by Wanzi. At this time, she took the initiative to smooth things over: "He has scurvy. He is a sailor who has sailed on the sea. People often get this disease because they lack necessary plant vitamins. However, if treated in time, they will recover in two or three days."

"Luffy, Usopp, I remember there are limes in the warehouse, please get them quickly.

Everyone in the pirate world recovers very quickly. After Luffy and Usopp squeezed limes all over Joseph's face and stuffed more than a dozen limes into his mouth at once, Joseph instantly recovered from his coma. Awakened.

After learning that he had misunderstood, Johnny immediately admitted his mistake, knelt in front of Nami and apologized loudly: "Sister, I'm sorry——"

Wanzi then threw the knife to him as forgiveness.

"But Nami is amazing, she actually knows so much." Maruko held her face in her hands and stared at Nami with bright eyes.

Nami can sail, cook, and knows so much about sailing. She can be said to be the most important person on this ship! Wanzi couldn't help but praise his excellent vision and decisive actions.

Nami stared at the four plus two sailing novices sitting around the kitchen, speechless: "Please, this is common sense!"

"It seems that sailing is not that simple after all." Luffy said cautiously, "We are still missing an important person on the ship!"

Maruko raised his eyes unexpectedly and asked expectantly: "What's missing?"

"It's a musician!" Luffy announced loudly.

Nami punched Luffy on the head: "You don't know how to sail, you idiot!"

Wanzi stroked her forehead helplessly and buried her face under the table. Her embarrassing habit of being a substitute happened again.

"Listen up!" Nami slammed the table, "The sailing time on the ship is uncertain. In order to maintain the health of all crew members, we must consider the nutritional balance during the long-distance journey based on the limited food on the ship. This is sailing A very necessary ability!”

Luffy glanced back and forth between the meatballs and the refrigerator, and suddenly understood everything: "Souga, so we need a chef from the sea, right?"

Hey, hey, hey, there it is again, what does that strange shining look mean? ! Maruko's head is full of black lines, and he can never figure out what's going on in Luffy's brain.

"If you're talking about being a sea chef, I know a place." Johnny leaned against the wall and posed, "That's the sea restaurant very close to the Grand Line - Barati!"

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The elegant violin, the permeating aroma of food, the beautiful sea view - this is the restaurant on the sea, Barati!

"Ring ring ring——"

The urgent avoidance signal bell rang, and a naval warship several times larger than the Meili sailed past the Meili.

The admiral with dirty pink hair and a long scar on the right side of his face lowered his head and looked down at the group of people on the ship, murmuring: "It's a pirate flag I've never seen before."

"I am Captain Iron Fist Hobbody of the Navy Headquarters. Who is your captain? Tell me your name!"

"I am Monkey D. Luffy, the man who wants to become the Pirate King!"

"Hahahaha, I didn't expect anyone to say this now. It's so funny." Hobodi didn't take this seriously at all. You have to know that this is the weakest place in the East China Sea. What powerful pirates can there be?

Hobodi turned his attention to Johnny and Joseph who were sneaking around the cabin: "I know you two, you seem to be bounty hunters who specialize in hunting little people, right?"

Johnny, who originally didn't want to conflict with his own navy, suddenly stood up. He took out a thick stack of bounty orders from his pocket and waved them in the air: "Hey, kid, who are you looking down on? All the pirates here are the targets of our two brothers!"

The bounty orders fell on the deck like a goddess scattering flowers. Bucky the Clown and Creek were among them. The one at the top was Aaron, the fishman with the highest bounty in the East China Sea, with a bounty of 20 million.

Hobodie didn't bother to say anything more, and said "sink it" to his navy, then entered the restaurant with his female companion in his arms.

"Boom—"

Huge cannonballs were fired from the warship, aiming directly at the mast of the Merry. Luffy grabbed the mast and the sheep's head with both hands, and used his body as a slingshot to pull back. However, the moment the cannonball rebounded, his right hand slipped and let go of the sheep's head, and the rebounded cannonball also turned around. It turned and hit the back chef of Barati restaurant.

"Who did this-" There was a loud roar in the restaurant, and two men in chef uniforms came out and dragged Luffy inside.

But Nami's attention was not here at all. From the moment Aaron's reward order fell at her feet, her eyes were fixed on Aaron's photo on the reward order and could not move away.

During this period of free and happy journey, she almost forgot what she was still carrying. This place was very close to the Grand Route, and she had to leave as soon as possible! Nami squeezed Aaron's reward order tightly and made up her mind.

"Nami, what's wrong?" Maruko squatted down next to Nami curiously, noticing that she didn't seem to look well.

"It's okay." Nami raised her head and showed a bright smile to Maruko, without any abnormalities, "By the way, has Luffy been captured? Let's go in and see!"

Nami didn't take the initiative to say it, and Wanzi couldn't press him. He kept this matter in mind and nodded to Nami.

Barati Restaurant at this time, chef's bedroom.

"I'm sorry for damaging your shop. I will definitely compensate for it!" Luffy made a standard soil seat and knelt down on his knees with a guilty look on his face.

Luffy's eyes slowly lifted from the ground. The person in front of him only had one intact foot, and the calf of the other foot was supported by wooden sticks and iron pieces.

"Ah - your feet!" Luffy didn't expect to blow up his feet. Tears burst into his face and he lay down even more guiltily.

"Idiot, this foot is an old injury! But the cost of rebuilding the roof of the restaurant, my medical expenses, and mental damages are all related to you. How do you plan to compensate?"

The man who spoke wore a half-meter-high chef's hat, and his golden beard was braided into two pigtails, hanging stubbornly on both sides of his mouth, like a scale. The man leaned on the bed with a big golden knife, showing a strong momentum.

"I have no money!" Luffy replied loudly and confidently.

"Hahaha, I haven't seen such a frank guy in a long time. If you don't have money, you have to work part-time to pay back the money. You can work here as a helper for a year." The man didn't seem to be in a bad mood.

"One year?!" Luffy said in shock, then shook his head wildly, "No, no, I'm going to the Grand Line to find the One Piece!"

Luffy raised a finger tentatively: "One week!"

The man shook his head decisively.

The corners of Luffy's mouth twitched downwards, and he added a finger hesitantly: "The two weeks?"

"Boy, don't bargain with me here!" The man's expression changed at a moment's notice. He supported the bed with his right hand, rotated his whole body 180 degrees, and hit Luffy hard with his left leg with the stick.

Luffy shouted aggrievedly: "Wait a minute, I can help you work first, but my crew members are rich!"

The man took out an apron from the bedside and threw it on Luffy: "Go to work quickly!"

So when Maruko, Nami, Zoro and Usopp stepped into the restaurant together, they heard this greeting: "Hello, welcome - is any of you Miss Maruko Uchiha?"