【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"It's delicious. I've never eaten such delicious meatballs!"

The marines in the cafeteria rushed to the food Sanji had made, exclaiming as they ate.

"The food that chef cooked smells so good that even I, who always supports Jessica, can't help but want to try it!"

"Luckily we grabbed one."

Lucci put down his fork and looked in the direction of the sound. Two young navy soldiers were walking towards him, chatting and laughing. Both of them had trays full of food in their hands. Soon they stood in front of him.

"Hello, do you mind if we join?" one of them asked, pointing with his elbow towards the others in the lobby. "This place is filling up fast."

Lucci tilted his head to look at other tables. He didn't know when the Navy cafeteria was full of people. Lucci was silent for a moment. Inviting the Navy to eat together? This felt really strange, but if he refused, it would be too suspicious. He looked at the two young Navy men in front of him, nodded and said, "No mind, you can sit wherever you want."

After sitting down, the marine who had asked earlier did not hide his curiosity, "I don't think I've seen you before."

"I just transferred here two days ago. My name is Nick." Lu Qi said with a smile, "I transferred from the G-4 base. It's normal that you haven't seen me before."

"I know that G-4 has a beautiful female officer. I heard that she is the dream lover of all the navy officers in that base!" Another young navy officer asked eagerly, "Have you seen her? Is she really beautiful?"

"Well... she is indeed beautiful." Lucci blinked, a little confused by this change, but continued, "But you probably don't have a chance, she seems to already have a boyfriend."

"Really? Are all the beautiful girls taken now?" The young marine sighed loudly and exaggeratedly.

"That's right, my beautiful sister Jessica is also taken. What a pity!" another navy shouted in frustration.

"Hey, how dare you covet the commander's wife?" The young navy smiled and punched the man next to him.

Lucci saw Luffy running into a room with a plate of food in his peripheral vision. He seemed to be in a good mood. He looked away and turned his attention back to the conversation between the two marines. While listening to the conversation, Lucci calmly began to ask questions, "Are you talking about the beautiful lady in the kitchen?"

"Yes, that is the wife of the commander of the Eighth Branch." The young marine winked and said, "You'd better not have any inappropriate thoughts."

"You don't know this news?" another navy asked puzzledly.

"I'm not very familiar with this place." Lucci said with a smile, "The alarm that sounded this morning scared me. Does the G-8 Fortress often get invaded?"

"No." The young navy looked very excited and said excitedly, "Our fortress is actually peaceful every day. This is the first time that someone has invaded our base from the air, and it was a ghost ship."

"It's not a ghost ship." Another navy officer joined the discussion, his eyes gleaming with excitement. "It's the Straw Hat Pirates, and we have captured the pirate hunter Roronoa Zoro."

Lu Qi looked at the marine in surprise, and then asked curiously, "When was he caught?"

"Just before we had dinner, the commander caught him, but we were the ones who sent him to prison." The navy said proudly, "We will soon catch all the Straw Hat Pirates in one fell swoop."

"I haven't had a chance to properly visit our great fortress these past two days." Lucci pretended to be regretful and said, "I don't even know where the prison is."

"Our fortress is one of the largest fortresses in the Navy branch." The young Marine smiled proudly, "I think if you want to visit, you must have someone to accompany you."

Another marine invited enthusiastically, "We are on patrol today, maybe we can show you around!"

"Really? Thank you!" Lucci replied with a smile.

"Then let's go now!" The young navy stood up enthusiastically.

"I'll be right back once I'm done with these trays!" grinned another Marine as he grabbed three people's trays and put them in the sink.

Lucci stood up and waited for his companions with the young marine, just then he noticed Sanji rushing out of the kitchen in a hurry and running to the other side of the kitchen, as if something happened, and the chefs followed behind them.

"Whose room is that?" Lucci pointed to the other door of the cafeteria and asked. He noticed that Luffy had just gone there with the food. "The door on the far left. I just saw someone delivering food there."

"That's our commander's room. He usually eats there." The navy winked and said, "It's a special favor given by our elder sister Jessica to her husband. I heard that it's so that she can watch the commander eat all the vegetables in person."

"Uh..." Luffy looked at the corridor, a little speechless. So Luffy was going to face the commander of the fortress who arrested him? He must have been recognized, and he didn't do anything to disguise himself.

Sure enough, the next second he saw Sanji pulling Luffy out of the door. The chefs quickly surrounded them, and Lieutenant General Jonathan also pushed open the door and came out.

"What happened?" The navy man who was still eating stood up puzzledly and looked at the chefs who were confronting each other in confusion.

"So you really are the Straw Hat Pirates. It's such a waste of your skills to be a pirate!" Jessica said angrily as she looked at Sanji and Luffy who were surrounded by them.

"Give up resistance! Baron's chef is more difficult to deal with than the marines!" the chefs shouted.

"The Straw Hat Pirates?" The sailors obviously didn't expect that the new chef was from the Straw Hat Pirates, and they quickly surrounded the front.

"I'm so sorry, I just happened to come from a place where there are a lot of chefs like this." Sanji said with a grin while holding a cigarette and looking at the chef in front of him, but he couldn't do anything to Miss Jessica, it would be a bit troublesome.

Lucci glanced back, carefully checking their escape route. He believed that they could rush out directly to the back if necessary, but now there was a large group of marines heading towards the cafeteria.

Just when the atmosphere was at its most solemn, a group of marines pushed open the door and walked in, instantly dispersing the encirclement of the chefs and marines. Sanji and Luffy also took this opportunity to run out of the cafeteria.

Sanji pulled Luffy into a corner and successfully avoided the navy. At this moment, he suddenly realized that Lucci did not escape with them.

Sanji took a breath, then lit a cigarette, took a puff, looked at Luffy beside him and asked, "Lucci didn't come out, what should we do now, Captain?"

"Let's go save Zoro!" Luffy grinned and waved his fist. "Don't worry about Lucci, he's very strong!"

"I'm not worried about him." Sanji retorted, then looked out the window at the island and continued, "We don't know where the prison is yet."