"So, this Arlong is a fish man?"

  "Yes, are you familiar with it?"

  "I do. It's rather on on the Grand Line."

  "Then, you should uand the terror of this creature, right?"

  As the two were on the Going Merry, Masa couldn't help but ask Nami about Arlong, trying to uand Arlong from her lips. As expected, after he asked such a question, she quickly told him about everything, especially the might of the fish man who had terrorized her vilge.

  "Not only do they have the power of tehey even swim uer! They are simply invincible! More importantly, their captain, Arlong, is on a different level! So, you should uand how crazy your decision is, right?"

  Masa wasn't a pirate; he was just a king and a pervert.

  Chewing an e that was given by Nami out of nowhere, Masa thought it was kind of sweet yet also sour. It was a nice bance, Masa thought as he listeo her words.

  "Did you listen to me?!"

  "Sorry, the e is delicious."

  "Right?" Nami was happy when her e raised. "It's the best product of our hometown—" Only, she fell silent all of a sudden and said, "Wait, this isn't a time to talk about an e!"

  "You know what? I think that you are under a wrong impression of the fish man."

  "...what do you mean?"

  "It's true that in your pce, this creature is known as the most fearsome creature, but this is because all of the people i Blue are weak."

  "....."

  While Nami waue, she couldn't, so she asked with a bit of curiosity, but tried to mask it with annoyance, "So, how is the fish man on the Grand Line?" All of her life was on the East Blue, so she didn't know about the Grand Line, yet this was normal si was hard for oo travel to the Grand Line, and the majority of people would live and die on their nd where they inated from, sidering the harsh enviro and difficulties of traveling.

  "They are sves."

  "S-Sve?!" Nami was dumbfounded and quickly refuted, "You are lying!"

  "It is." Masa nodded. "They are powerful, right? They are strohan a normal human, which is a good borer."

  "...."

  Nami somehow felt dizzy, but she couldn't refute him, especially when Masa had no reason to lie. More importantly, his tohe way he talked, and his expression as if it were on sense made her fall into a strong doubt.

  "By the way, all of them have tattoht?"

  "Yes." Nami nodded and affirmed his words as she poio her body, showing which parts those fish-men had their tattoos on. "All of them have sun-like tattoos on various parts of their bodies."

  "Then, they are really a sve."

  "...." Nami.

  "You are lying! They are so powerful! How they be a sve?!"

  If the fish-men who killed her mother and haunted her vilge were sves, then what were they?

  "They are." Masa nodded calmly and said, "Their tattoos are used to hide the sve tattoos on their bodies."

  "Sve tattoos?"

  "It's the ugly hobby of the lord of this world."

  "The lord of this world?"

  "World Noble. Have you heard of it?"

  "...I do."

  "Everything, whether it is the nd, sea, and sky, all of them are theirs. They are the master of this world, and those fish men are running away from their master to the East Blue so they live fortably as this is the weakest sea."

  Nami couldn't say anything. She wished that it was a lie, yet she knew well that it was the truth.

  "Did you feel sorry for them?" Masa asked curiously.

  "No." Even hearing all of that, Nami shook her head and said, "Even if they are hurt, it doesn't give them a right to hurt others!" Even if she was a thief, she only went after the pirates and other criminals and probably those with wealth, depending ouation.

  "Well, a heart is something that we 't trol, so there is o think too much."

  "Then... what do you think I do?"

  "I am not sure."

  "If it was you, what would you do?"

  "I kill them. Hurting the people that I love, taking the pce that I am dear, and taking away everything I have. Even if I lose everything, I will take away their everything."

  When Nami saw him, he kept his calm expression after he said those cruel words. It made her chill, yet also... reassurand dependability, but the terror that she had felt for many years was impossible to be erased so easily.

  "Don't get ahead of yourselves! You are not much older than me, yet you say something so crazy! Just be quiet for a while, I will take care of everything!"

  Regardless, as Masa had lent her money, Nami didn't want him to be hurt.

  Yes, this was her duty as a debtor, and she thought to protect her creditor.

  After all, even if she was a thief, she still had some bottom lines, yet Masa only smiled even wheried to knock his head and thought that she was cute, but then again, if Luffy appeared, who would she choose?

  Somehow, Masa was curious.

  As he thought so, it didn't take much time for them to arrive at her home, the Cocoyasi Vilge, which was located among the i Isnds. Still, Nami didn't io go back to her hometown but went to the headquarters of the Arlong Pirates, Arlong Park.

  However, Masa chuckled when he saw Arlong Park for the first time sihis pce was like the Saobody Park that he just destroyed in the past. It seemed that, like a human that made all of those fish-men into sves, Arlong Pirates also wao do the same with the people of the i Isnds by mimig that hideous pbsp;

  "What's so funny?" Nami asked with fusion.

  "Nothing. It isn't good fun, so it's better that you don't know."

  "...you make me curious."

  "Anyway, someone is ing. And there's Marines over there."

  "Hmm?"

  Nami quickly saw a Marine ship on the side Park, which fused her, but then a few fishermen quickly came toward her.

  "Oh? It's you, Nami."

  "I wonder who you were before."

  "Eh? Who is this?"

  When all of those fish-men saw Nami, they quickly became familiar, but when they saw Masa for the first time, their bodies tensed subsciously since even if a long time had passed, the trauma of their childhood still remained and they saw the dignified aura around Masa, all of them couldn't help but feel nervous as if they returo the hell-like experience during their lives as a sve in the past.

  All of them suddenly lost their voices as they faced Masa, who looked at them boredly.

  Say something! Say something! Say something!

  Move!

  They felt humiliated, yet they were frozen in fear, but Nami couldn't see that and just said, "...he is just someohat I found and saved."

  "So... he is just a civilian?"

  "He is."

  "...."

  Everyone sighed in relief, and then one of them quickly wao mock Masa tain their small pride, but Nami said, "Anyway, where is Arlong? I have collected all the money! Now, you o keep your promise!"

  "...what? You did?!"

  Everyone was surprised.

  "100 million bellies! I have collected them!"

  Somehow, all of them turheir gaze to Masa, eared regal despite his on clothes. It was just whehought of letting Nami meet Arlong sihey waheir captain to determine everything—

  "Oh? Someone has collected 100 million bellies? That's impossible, right? I think that you must have robbed the nearby town to do that! As a Marine, I 't let you go! Everyoch her!"

  All of a sudden, the atmosphere started to ge when a Marih a mouse-like appearance came up with a sinister and evil ugh.

  However, what was se was the fact that this Marine was apanied by a saw-shark fish-man, walking side by side as if they had known each other.

  "Arlong!"

  "Oh, Nami, stealing isn't good. You should know that, right?" Arlong then looked at Nezumi and said, "Then, she is in your care, Nezumi."

  "Leave it to me, Arlong. I 't let go of su extreme and evil thief to haunt and terrorize East Blue! As a Marihis is my duty!"

  As Nezumi said so, he also looked at Nami with a bit of lust, lig his lower lips before he ughed together with Arlong.

  "No way..."

  Who could Nami trust?

  The Marine, who everyorusted, had been w with Arlong, the pirate whom Nami hated the most.

  Moreover, the promise that Arlong had given to her by tellihat he would sell her vilge to her for 100 million bellies so they would leave had all been a lie!

  How could she even stand this?!

  "Shahahaha!"

  "Hey, Arlong, I have—"

  As the two had furoying Nami's hope by w together, all of a sudden, they felt tense, especially when they noticed that Nami wasn't alone and by her side, a young man appeared.

  Who?

  Subsciously, in their minds, Masa had exuded this special aura that made them tense as if they met a superior being, but the two of them quickly soon realized how troublesome their situation was sihe pirate and the Marines had worked together to squeeze the value of all the residents of the i Isnds.

  "Masa?"

  Nami, who was in her deepest despair as she cried, felt a gentle hug, but soon, that hug became tighter as she suddenly saw everything ge as if they had teleported to another pstantly.

  Yet, as Masa left, Arlong and Nezumi also quickly escaped from the terror of Masa and quickly thought to kill Masa, but—

  Tear!

  All of a sudden, a powerful pressure swept everyone, and a gigantic air bde cut through the water, then ezumi in half and Arlong's nose and hand, causing Nezumi to die and Arlong to scream in pain.

  "AAARGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!"

  Yet, even so, the air bde didn't stop and cut down Arlong Park along with the nd before disappearing into the distaer causing so much destru.

  "Arlong!"

  "Captain!"

  As the Arlong Pirates members and the Marines were in a panic, they quickly saw a lone man on the small boat with a gigantic sword that was even bigger than himself, yet when all of them saw him, what they felt was nothing but terror and fear.

  Nami was also dumbfounded, but Masa eechless since he had hought that his visit to the East Blue would bring him so much trouble.

  The Stro Swordsman in the World.

  Dracule Mihaeared before them.