"Aah...I really did it this time," mutters Run, stepping out into the streets of Mock Town. A man approaches as he walks away, nearly colliding with him and glaring at him as a result. "Hah, my apologies. Didn't see you there." The red head favors the man with a smile as he passes towards the door to the bar.
"Aaaah! B-B-Bellamy!" shouts the man. "What the hell happened in here?!" The man's shouts draw a crowd of people as the red head slowly fades into the distance. A Captain's word is law to his crew...and Run had gone against that law in spectacular fashion.
"How am I going to explain this to Luffy?"
"Explain what?" asks a familiar voice. Run stops and looks back as Robin approaches, hands full of bags. "Oh, are you talking about that beating you gave to that man and his crew in Pub and Pies?" The red head blinks in surprise and Robin giggles in response. "Why do you look so surprised?"
"You know, I forgot how good you were at gathering information. Walk with me?" Robin nods and the two continue down the street again. "Speaking of information, I don't suppose you've heard anything useful about Sky Island, have you?" An arm suddenly sprouts from his shoulder, holding a piece of paper out in offer. "Oh? A treasure map?"
"It's a map of the island. The town drawn on the left is Mock Town, where we are right now. The 'X' on the right is the location of a man who doesn't exactly 'fit in' at Mock Town. His name is Montblanc Cricket. A man who dared to talk about his dreams and was driven out of the town. Maybe we have something we can discuss with the man." Run stares at the surface of the map for a moment before suddenly grinning.
"Good job! Maybe this will improve everyone's mood." The rest of their walk back to the Merry is made all the shorter by the two of them chatting about this and that. It takes only a few minutes to reach the Merry, and when they're within ear shot they're treated to Nami loudly shouting about what can only be Luffy and Zoro's actions.
"What's with you guys?!" Nami screams. "Are you men or not?! If someone provokes you, then you should just go ahead and beat them up!"
"Well...I hope this map softens the blow," Run mutters, walking around the dock towards the gang-plank connecting the ship to the pier. They take the plank up to the deck, listening to Nami continue yelling at everyone the whole time.
"My, it's awfully lively up here," Robin says in way of greeting.
"Aaah! Robin! Welcome back!" Sanji gushes, completely ignoring the presence of the red head. "Would you like something to eat? Or perhaps I should draw you a bath?"
"And YOU!" Nami shouts, focusing her attention solely on the red head. Run glances over both shoulders, hoping against all hope that perhaps her anger is directed at someone behind him. "How could you just stand there like that?! And then you decide to stay for a DRINK?! Are you an idiot?!" Luffy, who is currently being patched up by Chopper, raises a hand and adjusts his hat as he turns his attention to the red head. "You should have--"
"Did you beat them up?" Luffy asks, interrupting Nami.
"Sorry, Captain," Run says. "There are things I can forget...and others that I can forgive. When someone hurts someone close to me, I can't do either." The two men stand in silence for several long moments before Luffy finally sighs and nods in understanding. Run approaches their Navigator and holds out the map in offer to her. "Robin picked this up in town." He passes on all the information Robin had gathered and watches as she snatches the map from his hands quickly.
"Aah, Robin!" cries Nami. "You're the only one of these idiots that I can count on!" Luffy bounds over quickly, a grin splitting his face to take a look at the map.
"That 'X' is where we're going?!" Luffy asks excitedly. "Alright! Let's go...!"
- - -
They'd set sail immediately for the home of Montblanc Cricket, leaving Mock Town in the distance as quickly as possible. However, they'd barely even begun to round the coast before they found themselves sailing in the direction of another monkey themed ship. Luffy, Sanji, Usopp, Chopper and Run gather at the bow of the Merry, watching the ship grow closer and closer. The ship goes on the alert quickly, recalling all their divers from the water as they scramble to confront the approaching Merry.
"I guess this place is a real hot bed for salvage," Run says, scratching the stubble along his jaw. "Aah, maybe these guys are involved with Masira?"
"Oh! You think so?" Luffy asks, smiling. "I was hoping we'd see that guy again! He was really funny!"
"Hey, hey," calls a voice from the ship. A man with a rather monkey looking appearance approaches the railing of the ship. "Stop whispering over there. Honestly, I got all worked up wondering who you guys are."
"That's quite a reckless face you've got! What species are you?"
"Luffy," admonishes Run. "He can't help it."
"I'm Human, you idiot!" the man shouts back. "Looks like you're pirates. Did you know that Crocodile, one of the Shichibukai, was defeated? When you consider my abilities, that position may come to me. So, I've been getting all worked up waiting for them to contact me."
"Eh? So you want to be a one of the Seven Warlords?" Luffy questions him.
"Naturally. But the best part about me is that I haven't cut my hair in all the twenty-five years of my life."
"Aah...that's kinda dumb. Can you move aside? We're trying to get through."
"First you insult me and then you demand I move?! This is MY part of the sea, if you want to pass you've got to pay the toll!"
"Oi, oi...you know, that guy is talking a lot like Masira," Usopp suddenly points out.
"Masira?! What about Masira?!"
"We kicked him off the ship," Sanji tells him bluntly.
"K-Kicked?! You kicked him?! This is revenge! I'll talk revenge for my brother!" Before they can explain further the man produces a microphone, and strikes a pose. "Havoc Sonar!" He begins wailing like a banshee at the top of his lungs into the microphone. They watch as the man's own ship begins splintering and cracking.
"Is he really destroying his own ship?"
"It's amazing!" Luffy gushes, grinning. "Destroying his own ship with just screaming!" While some of them are content just to stand and watch, Nami quickly urges them to set the sails and begin bypassing the ship in their way. Which proves to be a good idea when the sound waves reach their ship, and begin destroying IT as well. "Aaah! He's destroying the ship!"
"We need to leave!" With haste they set sail at full speed, moving as quickly as possible to get out of range of the sonar attack...
- - -
After making their escape they sail around the island towards the home of Montblanc Cricket. They spend most of their time repairing the Merry, listening to Usopp's complaining the whole while. Usopp drives nail after nail, attempting to patch the ship as best he's able...but he's no shipwright and the damage is wracking up quickly.
"Seriously," huffs Usopp. "That damn orangutan! He wrecked the ship even more!" Run chuckles a bit in response, driving nails through the steel plates holding the Merry's mast in place.
"Relax, relax," Run tells him. "We'll pick up a shipwright before you know it, and this will all be behind us. Until then we've just gotta keep the Merry afloat." It takes them quite a while to finish their repairs, made all the more difficult by Luffy's attempts to help resulting in more damage, but when they've finally finished they gather on the upper deck of the Merry.
"We're almost there," Nami says. "What is the man's name, again?"
"Montblanc Cricket," Robin tells them. "He's a man who's talks of dreams got him thrown out of Mock Town." When the man's 'house' comes into view, Luffy and Usopp are amazed by the sheer size of it. Unfortunately, they're disappointed when Zoro urges them to take a second look, and they discover that the gigantic 'mansion' is in fact nothing but a wooden cut out hiding the man's real home. Luffy stretches his arms out towards the shore, covering the distance with ease while the rest of the crew waits for the Merry to sail closer.
"So, what kind of dreams did he talk about that got him thrown out?"
"I don't know the details but I heard he claimed a large amount of gold rests somewhere in Jaya."
"Is there some buried pirates treasure around here?"
"Well, who knows?" The Merry has barely reached the shore before Nami has cleared the railing and has Chopper digging up the ground with his antlers. They drop the anchor and then disembark the ship, all of them spreading out to have a look around. Luffy wastes no time in entering the man's home, calling out as he does. Run follows after him quickly.
"Aah, c'mon, Luffy," Run says, ushering him back towards the door. "Even if it's unlocked you can't just invite yourself inside. It's rude."
"Aw, but how else are we gonna talk to him?" Luffy whines, as Run closes the door behind the two with his heel. "I just wanna ask him a few questions!"
"Dahahaha~! I know, I know. But he's not gonna wanna talk if we invade his privacy like that." Nami finds a book sitting on the man's hand table outside his home, and she begins reading it a loud to the crew. It's all about a man called 'Noland the Liar', and is apparently quite a well known fairy tale as Sanji immediately recognizes it as something widely published in the North Blue, where he originally comes from. In the middle of the fairy tale, Run notices Luffy squatted down by the shore, staring into the ocean and slowly approaches.
"Oi, oi, Run!" Luffy calls, noticing the red head. "Look! Bubbles!"
"I see that," Run says, squatting down beside him.
"What do you think it is?"
"Well, who's to say?" Luffy continues staring at them seriously, as if considering something and Run chuckles a bit in response. "Alright, alright, stand back." Run leans forward and reaches a hand out towards the surface. He's barely moved before a hand suddenly shoots out from below the surface and grasps his wrist. "Oh! Time out! Time--!"
"AAAHHH! SOMETHING'S GOT RUN!!" Luffy bellows, pointing at the hand and drowning out Run's shouting. Everyone's attention immediately turns to the two of them, the story and book falling by the way side. It pulls sharply, nearly taking the red head in before he can firmly plant a hand on the ground and stop himself fast. He grips the person's wrist tightly, the color vanishing from the hand before he yanks back in response. The person is hauled up out of the water, and goes sailing through the air to land on his back like a fresh caught fish. "It's a person!" The man suddenly rolls onto all fours before sprinting to his feet. He begins gently rubbing his wrist while staring daggers at all of them.
"Who the hell are you?!" demands the man. "You've got a lot of guts relaxing at someone's home without their permission!"
"Whoa, relax, pal!" Run tells him, holding his hands up with a disarming smile. "Look, we're just here to ask some--"
"The sea around this area is my turf! You expect me to talk to some thieves trying to steal my gold?! Just die!" The man rushes forward quickly thrusting his palm out towards the red head's chest the moment he's within range. Run simply side steps the attack, and immediately ducks a kick expertly aimed at his temple.
"Look, we just wanna--" Before he can finish he finds himself face to face with the barrel of a pistol. His grey eyes widen in surprise as the shot goes off...and if not for his quick reflexes he'd have taken the bullet right to the head.
"RUN!!" everyone exclaims, watching the cloud of gunsmoke clear to reveal their unharmed First Mate. The way his head is leaned back it's amazing he didn't strain or break his neck. Instead the two men separate from each other quickly, and the man raises the weapon once again.
"Don't!" The man's outstretched arm begins to tremble and the weapon drops from his hand moments before he collapses. "Uhh...pal...?"
- - -
"Oooh, he's got the bends," Run says, standing beside the bed with arms crossed. "He should bounce back from that after a while, right?" After gathering the man up, who they discovered was in fact Montblanc Cricket, they carry inside and lie him down on his bed. Chopper, having examined him while unconscious, tells them that he's suffering from Caisson Disease which is more commonly known as decompression sickness. It's a result of surfacing too quickly, and not allowing the nitrogen bubbles that formed in his blood stream to dissipate. Normally, it wouldn't be too much of a problem but it seems that the man has been diving again and again without allowing the sickness to go away and now he's running the risk of dying from it.
"Yes, he should be fine when he wakes up," Chopper assures them. "We just have to wait." They intend to just wait quietly for the man to awaken...that plan falls through, however, when the door to his home is suddenly thrown wide open and two VERY familiar monkey-faced men shove their way in.
"Old man, what's going on?! Is everything alright?!" demands the two. Upon noticing the whole crew gathered they immediately question them; demanding to know what they did to Cricket.
"Aah, we're taking care of him," Luffy tells them. The truth it may be but the rest of the crew is absolutely sure that they'll never believe them...at least until they break out in tears.
"You're so kind!" When the two started crying, Chopper immediately ran them all out of the house to make sure that his 'patient' had some peace and quiet while he was resting. While the two are calm, Luffy takes the opportunity to strike up a conversation with them.
"So, you two live here?" Luffy asks.
"Aah, well, the old guy's house is the headquarters of the Saruyama Alliance, after all," Masira explains. "But we usually sleep on our ships cause his house is too small." While the three are laughing and chattering on Zoro, Usopp and Run are standing next to Cricket's house, watching them.
"How can he get along with them so well?" Usopp mutters.
"Probably cause they've got a lot in common," Zoro reasons. The door to the house is thrown open several minutes later and Chopper comes storming out shouting that Cricket has finally woken up. They all immediately gather inside his home, finding the man sitting cross-legged on his bed, a cigarette in his mouth.
"Oi, oi, old guy!" Luffy says quickly in way of greeting. "We wanna ask you a question!"
"Aah, yeah," Cricket replies, taking a long drag on his cigarette. "Sorry for causing you trouble. I just thought you were more idiots after the gold." The mere mention of gold was enough to excite their navigator, although they ignored her for the moment to focus more on the task at hand.
"We wanna get to the sky island! Tell us how to get there!" Rather than a helpful response, Cricket suddenly breaks out into laughter. "Oi, Oi..."
"You guys believe in sky island?"
"Are you saying it doesn't exist?!"
"Aah, who knows? I know of someone who once said it did. But people now call him a legendary liar. His family became a laughing stock forever. It's an old North Blue tale that almost everyone from there knows...Noland the Liar."
"You know, come to think of it, his full name was actually Montblanc Noland...could he be your relative?" Cricket sighs heavily, and then nods in the affirmative. He explains that the man is a VERY distant relative of his from far back in the family. He also tells them that although the family was driven out of their country and have kept a low profile since, they're still denounced as a liar's family. Even so, Noland died believing in what he found, and no one could convince him otherwise.
"Aah! I get it!" Usopp exclaims. "You're looking for the city on the sea bed so you can clear the family name and prove to everyone that Noland wasn't a liar!"
"Don't be an idiot!" Cricket yells, pointing his pistol at the man. "Whether or not the man was a liar, or even a great explorer has NOTHING to do with me! Can you even begin to understand how a child would feel being laughed at by strangers just because he's the descendant of such an idiot?!" After several tense moments of silence he finally lowers the pistol. "This has nothing to do with that. At the end of the day I could care less about any of it. I'm not doing this to prove the man's innocence...this is a duel. A duel between the man who threw a wrench in my life, and me."
"What about those two out there?" Run asks, motioning with his chin towards the door and the two captain's outside it. "They seem like good people...are they helping you?"
"They're fans of the story. They joined because they believe the gold exists. They do as they please without any regard for how I feel. Honestly, simple minded idiots like them...make me feel relieved."
"Well, putting that story aside...I wanna go to sky island, old guy!" Luffy bellows. "So tell us how!" Cricket heaves a heavy sigh in response, and then reaches over to pull a book from the many gathered in a row in front of the window. He tosses it to Nami, instructing her to read a passage from it. She reads from the log book, Noland's log book, and it appears to be an entry regarding something called a 'waver' that can generate wind to move on days where there isn't any. But it was what she read after that that really got their attention.
"'Speaking of sky island, one of my good friends showed me a live 'sky-fish'. It looked very different from anything I've seen before! Though, it's still an unknown area to the crew and myself, I hope to one day visit this sea in the sky!'" Nami reads a loud.
"It's just like Robin said!! I wanna go there so bad now..!!"
- - -
After all the excitement had finally died down somewhat, Cricket called them outside and sat them down around his small table. He told them that if they were all that set on trying to find the place, then he was going to help. He was going to explain everything he knew about sky island, although, it was little more than speculation, and it was up to them whether or not to believe it. He starts by explaining the strange phenomenon that occasionally happens around these waters...something they had already experienced first hand.
"The sky will suddenly turn dark, as if it's the middle of the night," Cricket tells them. "This sudden night fall is caused by dense clouds called 'cumuloregalis clouds'. They produce no wind and no rain. When they gather, it's enough to block out all the sunlight. One theory is that these are actually fossilized clouds that have been in the sky for thousands of years. So...if a sky island does exist, it must be on those clouds." Naturally, Luffy is chomping at the bit to go and find those clouds.
"Alright, let's go!" Luffy bellows, standing from the table and turning to face Zoro and Run. The swordsman sits with arms and legs crossed with Run stands beside Robin, his hands in his pockets. "Zoro! Run! Let's go find those clouds!" The two slowly stand, stretching and brushing themselves off. Unfortunately, Nami has to 'gently' remind Luffy to stay on task.
"Now comes the real problem...the Knock Up Stream! It's a current that propels air, and anything else caught up in it straight up into the sky! Using it, you could potentially reach those clouds." He pauses for a moment, letting this sink in. "However...if everything I've just told you turns out to be wrong, then the only out-come is that you'd fall back down to your deaths. You'd have to put your lives on the line to do this!" Naturally, Usopp is immediately against going to this island and riding this strange stream.
"Well, let's go then!"
"Aah, no risk, no reward, right?" Run agrees, grinning in response. "After hearing the story, I've just gotta see this place."
"Don't get ahead of yourselves," Cricket retorts. "Even a ship in mint condition wouldn't stand a chance if it were caught up in the Knock Up Stream. Your ship would be torn apart in an instant." He stops to take a drag on his cigarette. "But, don't worry. I'll have Masira and Shojo help get you there. But only after we strengthen that ship of yours."
"We don't have that long," Nami tells them all. "The longest we can stay here is one more day before the Log Pose begins to reset."
"That's fine. The next Knock Up Stream will happen tomorrow afternoon." While everyone else is ready to go, Usopp immediately begins questioning the man. Why would he go out of his way to help people he's only just met? How can he be so sure it'll happen again so soon? He raises several valid arguments...that seem to fall on deaf ears. "You're right, it's not one hundred percent certain...but it's your only chance, isn't it?" The door to Cricket's home is suddenly thrown wide open, and Sanji comes jumping out to announce dinner is ready. "Let's go. Take it easy at my place and have some food." While everyone else follows the man back into his home, Usopp and Run remain behind. The red head watches their sharp-shooter sink to his knees slowly and approaches.
"Try not to worry about it," Run assures him, smiling down at Usopp. "Everything will turn out fine, I promise."
"Run...can I ask you something?" Usopp ventures, earning a nod in response. "Am I really...that miserable and cowardly?"
"What? No. It's fine to be scared of the unknown. But over-coming that fear?" Run reaches down and gives him a firm pat on the back. "That's what being a brave warrior of the sea means." After several long moments Usopp begins sniffling and then nods firmly in agreement before standing. "There he is! There's that brave warrior!" The two turn and head back towards Cricket's home quickly. The dinner grows into a party within seconds of everyone getting inside Cricket's house.
It's all a blur of food, drinks, laughter and chatter. Usopp spends time teasing and then pranking Masira by making him eat one of his Tabasco bombs, Cricket is drinking and calling for Nami to sit by him with Sanji attempts to ward him off. Zoro, Shojo and Run spend their time drinking together. While it's nothing new to the rest of the crew, Shojo is surprised by just how high the red head's alcohol tolerance is. He seems to drink it like water, honestly.
"Dahahahah~! This is some pretty good stuff!" Run laughs, slamming his empty mug down on the ground in front of him. "C'mon! Yer fallin' behind, Zoro! Don't tell me you're going to pass out again, are you, light weight?" The swordsman immediately slams his own mug down.
"You wanna repeat that?!" growls Zoro. "I can out drink you any time, red!"
"Ohh! Struck a nerve, have I?" Run picks up a bottle and fills both of their mugs with a grin on his face. "Well, let's not talk about it let's be about it! Bottoms up, Zoro!" The red head lifts his mug, draining it's contents with several quick gulps before he slams it back down, followed several seconds later by Zoro. "Dahahaha~! Good, good! Shojo, join us! It's more fun when everyone drinks together!" The man hesitates for a moment before lifting his own mug. "Go, go, go!" The man finally empties his mug to a round of applause from the red head. "Well done!" He picks up the bottle and quickly begins to fill their mugs. As he sets the bottle down he notices Robin sitting away from the group, flipping through a book. Run stands with a mug in his hand and approaches quickly with a grin on his face. "C'mon! Don't just sit in a corner, Robin! Let's have a drink!"
"Alright, alright," Robin concedes, standing quickly with his help. "But at least have some water with your drinks." When Run turns he finds himself suddenly face to face with Cricket.
"I saw gold in the skull's right eye," Cricket says seriously. "That tear stained sentence was the last thing Noland wrote on the day he was executed. Even now, those words make no sense to me. That's why we dive! That's the dream we chase!"
"To dreams, then!" Run exclaims, raising his mug high towards the man. "And to those who dare to have them!"
"Yeah! To dreams and dreamers!" Everyone raises a toast, the party resuming the next moment. Cricket continued talking to them about strange birds and the like while everyone sits in a circle around the food and drinks. Run shows no sign of slowing down, although he does chase each drink with a cup of water as Robin's insistence. When the little reindeer attempts to pour himself a drink rather than allow him to take the mug, Run picks it up himself with a grin on his face.
"Hey, I can drink too!" Chopper protests, reaching for the mug. "I'm a pirate, after all!"
"Dahahahah~! A pirate you say?" Run asks, looking at the mug in his hand before reaching out and picking up a different cup. "Then here! Try this!"
"Ohh! Juice!"
"See! What kind of pirate drinks grape juice?" Chopper immediately begins yelling at the red head who only laughs louder in response, actually reaching out to pat him on the head. "I'm just teasing, Chopper! You ARE a real pirate, ya know!"
"O-Of course I am, dumbass! I-I don't need you to...pat me on the head, dumbass! It doesn't make me happy to hear that at all!"
"Alright, stop teasing Chopper," Robin chastises him, pouring herself a drink. Cricket surprises them all by suddenly producing several golden bells and placing them in front of them. He explains that he'd recovered them from the sea floor during several of his dives. Cricket tells them that they aren't the bells he was talking about but actually bell shaped ingots.
"Ingots," Luffy echos. "So that means there was a city after all."
"No, you could find that much gold in any old ruin," Shojo counters.
"But it does prove that a civilization in this area," Robin asserts. "Ingots are made to have a standardized weight. Which means they were used for trade."
"Exactly," Cricket continues, producing a solid gold bird statue. "The strange bird calls I mentioned belonged to this. It's called a South Bird, and they still exist on the island today. They've been used by sailors for...oh, shit! We need to go into the southern forest now! Right now!" Cricket tells them that the Knock Up Stream is directly south of the cape, and that they'll have no way of knowing which way is south once they're on the ocean. Compasses don't work on the Grand Line, after all.
Naturally, they need to capture one of these birds since it'll always show them the right direction...
- - -
'Crunch!'
"Boy, this place is lousy with bugs, huh?" Run asks, lifting his foot with a wet squelch following. He stares down at the twitching head of the giant centipede for a moment before scanning the forest once more. "Dahahaha~! It seems like everything here wants to take a bite outta us!"
"Indeed," agrees Robin, stepping closer to the centipedes body. "We should be careful not to end up as dinner. Still...it's not nice to just kill everything here."
"That's what it gets for trying to attack us," Zoro tells her. After leaving the party they'd split up into groups to search for the bird. The bird's strange calls echos through the forest and Robin turns in it's direction.
"Did you hear that? This way." Without waiting for them she goes running off into the darkness. The take off after her, the strange call continuing to echo through the forest. Each call of the bird seemed to come with some...strange reaction from the forest. Every call seemed to result in a small army of insects getting in their way, which slowed them down somewhat as Zoro and Run had to stop to beat them back each time.
"I can hear the call, but it doesn't feel like we're getting any closer," Robin says, watching them sweep the bugs aside. Eventually Robin, Zoro and Run regroup with the others, who seemed to be having the same problems as they had. Fortunately, though, Luffy and Chopper had at least seen the bird they were after. Usopp began complaining about how they couldn't catch one, even with all of them running about.
"You're included in that too," Sanji retorts.
"Aaah! There!" Luffy suddenly says, pointing up towards one of the tree's and a strange bird perched in it's branches.
"It says, 'You're never gonna catch me,'" Chopper tells them, translating it's calls. In the middle of it's gloating, however, arms suddenly sprout from it, wrapping it up and sending it falling out of the tree.
"There," Robin announces. "It's easy to catch if I can see one." With the bird caught, they all quickly make their way out of the forest and back towards Cricket's home...only to find the place completely trashed. And not just his home, either! Cricket, Masira, Shojo and even the Merry are completely beaten and broken!
"Old guy! What happened?!" Luffy demands, rushing to Cricket's side.
"Sorry," Cricket responds. "I'm truely sorry. There was nothing we could do! But...But we can still strengthen the ship before sunrise!" He slowly leans up, breathing heavily. "No matter what! The three of us can do it!" Nami, who had been sifting through the ruins of his house, suddenly comes running back to them.
"It's gone!" Nami cries. "His gold is gone!"
"Don't worry about it."
"What do you mean?!" Usopp demands. "You spent ten years diving for that gold!"
"I said don't worry about it! It's not your problem! So...even if the gold is gone, don't worry about it. If the Saruyama works on it, then we can definitely reinforce and repair your ship! No matter what, there won't be any problem with your departure tomorrow." Zoro walks over to what is left standing of Cricket's home, and stares intently at one of the walls. So intently, in fact, that Run walks over to have a look as well.
"What is it, Zoro?" Run asks, staring at the symbol painted on the standing wall.
"Oi, Luffy," Zoro calls, turning to look back at them. "Look at this. It's Bellamy's mark, right?"
"I guess I didn't quite get my message across the first time. Luffy, I know you don't want to fight them...so, I'll head back to town and--"
"No, I'll take care of it myself," Luffy tells them.
"Don't be an idiot, Luffy!" Nami complains. "We set sail in three hours! We don't have time!"
"Oi, Robin, if I run along the coast I can make it there?"
"You can," Robin confirms.
"Alright! I'll be back by dawn...!"