【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

All night long their ship and Von Clay's Swan sailed along the Santa Rosa River. Oh, Von Clay was Mr. 2. After he became friends with Luffy and the others, he told them his real name.

When the sun came out they were fighting a fierce naval battle with the navy, but more often they were bombarded unilaterally by the navy because they had no more shells to fight the navy.

They were mostly dodging, and although Luffy was able to bounce the shells back, there were too many of them, and there were eight ships attacking them, and they weren't even entirely using shells, they were mostly using spears to attack them.

Now the position of their ship was too awkward, they could neither move forward nor backward, because the eight ships had been forming a formation of two ships in a group surrounding the four directions of Merry, and no matter how they moved, the formation would move with them.

"Think of a solution quickly!" Nami shouted anxiously while standing on the observation deck. If they continue like this, they will definitely sink.

"There's no time to fill the hole!" Chopper in human form crawled out from under the deck and shouted anxiously.

"There's no other way. We can only defend three sides, and we can't take care of the other side at all!" Sanji said as he kicked aside the spear flying towards them.

"If it's a close combat, we are fully confident." Zoro said, gripping the knife tightly in his hand.

"Isn't that the strange hypnotist who hypnotized Luffy in Usopp's village?" Qi asked, looking at the person who was shouting on the ship due south, while knocking aside the flying spear.

"Isn't he a pirate? Why is he in the navy?" Nami asked curiously.

"Wow! Usopp, you are so awesome!" Luffy cheered.

It turned out that when Usopp was discussing the hypnotist on the opposite naval ship, he used the only cannon on the ship to destroy the ship, and then the ship next to him that was very close to it was also sunk.

"Great, Long Nose, you successfully broke through the southern camp!" Xiao Feng shouted happily, and then ordered his men to leave here immediately, especially after knowing that the colonel of the Navy Headquarters who was in charge of this sea area was also there.

Xiao Feng looked at the Straw Hat Pirates who still did not make any movement and urged them anxiously, "What are you still doing! Run quickly, as long as you rush out of that point in the south, you can escape with minimal losses! If you continue to move forward like this, you will definitely be killed!!"

"You go first, we can't go." Luffy said firmly while looking at the navy in front of him.

"We have an appointment at East Port at 12 o'clock. We don't have time to take a detour. We must go straight." Nami added.

"We are going to meet a friend!" Luffy said happily, holding his hat.

When Xiao Feng heard Luffy's words, he was stunned with shock. He didn't expect that they were still thinking about their companions in such an emergency, and even thought it was worth risking their lives to meet them.

After a moment he made a decision that he would let the little straw hat take his friend away safely to pick up his partner, then he jumped back on his ship and began to disguise himself as Luffy, sailing the ship to the south, using himself as bait to lure the navy away.

Luffy, Chopper and Usopp watched Xiao Feng fighting with the navy and shouted with emotion, "We will never forget you! Xiao Feng!!"

Afterwards, the remaining navy chasing them was easily dealt with by Luffy and his crew. After all, the fruit ability user was no longer there, and this situation could not stop them at all. They soon arrived at the East Port of Tamarisk as agreed...

Zoro listened to the voice coming from the island's radio and said directly, "Did you hear that voice? It was Vivi's voice."

"It seems that Vivi won't come." Sanji slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette and continued, "Her voice seems to come from the celebration in Arubana.

"It just sounds like Vivi's voice!" Luffy retorted with a pout while leaning on the railing.

"Let's go, it's already past 12 o'clock..." Nami said softly.

"There's no way she wouldn't come! She must be down there, let's go down and find her!" Luffy shouted stubbornly.

"Hey, no, the navy is coming again!" Usopp ran over from the rear deck in panic and shouted.

"How many ships do they have!" Zoro shouted angrily.

"Give up, Luffy, she is different now than when she was with us!" Sanji advised.

"Wait a little longer." Qi comforted, "Maybe he's still on the way."

"Everyone!!" The next second after Qi finished speaking, Weiwei's voice came from the port.

"Look, here she comes!!"

"Go over there!" Luffy and Usopp shouted excitedly. When they were about to dock the boat, Vivi's next words stopped them.

"Sorry, I can't go with you! Thank you so much for your time!" Weiwei used the microphone to loudly convey her words to everyone, "Although I also want to go on an adventure...but I love my country too much, so I decided to stay here. If we meet again one day, can you still call me partner?!"

Luffy was about to shout back but was stopped by Qi "We can't let the navy know about our relationship with Vivi."

"That's right, if the navy finds out, Vivi will be convicted!" Nami agreed.

"Luffy, let's respond with this." Qi pulled off the bandage on his hand, revealing the symbol they had originally decided on as partners.

"Yeah!" Luffy nodded heavily, and then everyone turned their backs to Vivi, silently raised their left hands, and revealed their logos. Even if they couldn't respond to Vivi with what they wanted to say, they could tell her through this logo that they were her partners no matter what.

……

"It seems that the navy is no longer following us. We must have gotten rid of them." Zoro said, looking at the endless sea behind him.

"Um……"

"I say... why are you so weak!" Zoro looked at the five people who were sighing on the second-floor railing, with anger flashing in his eyes. "If you didn't want to be separated from her so much, you should have taken her away by force."

"Wow! Savage..." Chopper cried.

Nami agreed with Chopper's words "Bad..."

"Green algae head..." Sanji muttered unhappily.

Luffy imitated Sanji and muttered "Three Swords Style..."

"Hey! Wait, Luffy, Three Swords Style isn't a swear word!" Usopp was surprised that Luffy didn't know how to swear.

"Four Sword Style..." Luffy corrected.

"Hey, one more strike won't do any harm!" Usopp said in shock. As a pirate, how could he not swear? So he explained, "Listen carefully, Luffy, isn't there a kind of stinky natto? For natto, you can say "you..."

"Don't teach Luffy a bad lesson, Usopp." Qi interrupted Usopp nonchalantly from the observation deck. "Also, Ms. Robin, who has been hiding in the room, shouldn't she come out?"