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"How is he?" the feminine voice asked with some anxious tone, looking at Chopper, who was now keeping his stethoscope in his ear while placing the sound amplification part on the woman's belly.
"Your and Luffy's child is doing very well. He's developing, and he seems to be a healthy boy..." Chopper said, looking excited about it as well, since he had also helped take care of Luffy's other children.
"How much time do I have until our boy is born?" Uta asked.
"In six months, you will give birth to him..." Chopper said with a small smile.
"Well, that's great..." she murmured, happy to know that. She already knew it was a boy, with Luffy being able to see it through his Observation Haki, ever since he sensed a part of him growing inside her womb.
Everything seemed fine until they started hearing explosions outside, making the room shake a little. The ship they were on at the moment was the noble ship from the Goa Kingdom that Luffy had stolen. They had found the ship in the middle of the sea, and it was the crew they had been searching for after Luffy's instructions. But as Uta was already having a check-up to see how her pregnancy was progressing, they stayed put.
"It seems things didn't go as planned..." Chopper commented.
"Let's go outside and see what happened..." Uta said as she left, covering her belly again with her dress, while Chopper also packed up his medical equipment. The two left the medical room and headed to the deck.
It didn't take long for them to witness the scene outside where their ship was docked next to another one flying a Jolly Roger.
On this pirate ship, there were a bunch of people lying on the ground, most of them looking grilled after being burned by Reiju's attacks, who was also present.
"It looks like things escalated to this point..." Usopp commented, looking at all the bodies lying on the ground, while he and Reiju were the only ones standing and perfectly fine.
As soon as they reached the ship, they had no flags, and Ideo's pirates thought it was a merchant or noble ship, but it was strange as it didn't bear any insignia on its completely white sail.
Usopp introduced himself as a member of the Straw Hat crew, delivering the message of his captain's invitation, inviting them to Dressrosa. This immediately made the crew of the ship scoff at the invitation; after all, they didn't want to be ordered around by anyone, let alone have to go to a Yonko because he was asking them to come to Dressrosa.
But since it was mandatory from Luffy to at least have them in his newly conquered territory, they engaged in battle.
Luffy wouldn't force them, but he wanted to talk to everyone, even if it meant forcing them to at least meet him. After all, they were potential members of his future fleet. He had decreed that each group of his crew would hunt down each of the crews that had originally become Monkey D. Luffy's fleet, because it would add another level of power to his current strength while allowing him to control the seas. After all, he couldn't be everywhere at the same time.
His fleet and power were much greater than the original Straw Hats. So, hunting them down one by one, he sent each group of his crew to search for them. This group, formed by Usopp, Chopper, Uta, and Reiju, was tasked with finding two pirate groups.
The first was the one before them, the pirates led by the captain of the Longarm tribe, Ideo. But his crew wasn't made up solely of his tribe, known for their exceptionally long arms, as it was a mix of various other members, even including one from the Longleg tribe, with the rest being ordinary humans.
It was an impressive crew, with some members standing out among them, even though they didn't show much power right now, having been defeated by Usopp and Reiju. But they were still brave enough to fight.
Everything was silent at that moment before Chopper sighed. "I think we overdid it. Hey Chopper, can you help us? Everyone's a little hurt..." Usopp said.
"A little hurt?" Chopper exclaimed, making a face from the other ship.
"Don't worry about that..." Reiju said as she stepped on the floor, starting to generate flames all over the ship without burning its hull, while helping to regenerate all the members of Ideo's pirates.
"Well, I guess that's pretty useful..." Usopp murmured. "Now let's wait for them to wake up..."
After that, they ended up returning to their current ship, while Reiju went to the kitchen to prepare something, coming back with a tray of some treats and fruit.
While Chopper and Usopp were playing cards in the middle of the deck, Uta sat at a distance by herself, feeling a bit of the sea breeze touch her belly as she hummed a melody. Reiju then approached her.
"Food?!" But that didn't stop Usopp from exclaiming as he looked at the delicious dessert Reiju had prepared.
"This isn't for you, but for our future mother. She needs to feed her child..." Reiju said in a neutral tone as she passed by them, while Chopper could only look longingly at the pudding being taken to Uta.
She approached the pregnant woman and offered the tray. "Here..." she said. Uta looked at her, smiling as she took the food.
"Thank you..." Uta said.
"It's nothing. You need to eat and take care of that child growing inside you..." Reiju stated with a small smile.
"And you, don't you plan on having one too?" Uta asked curiously, eating the pudding with desire, while looking at the cook who was part of her husband's harem.
"I took that herb, like most of the women who share a bed with Luffy." Reiju replied, as she didn't plan to have children and used a natural contraceptive herb that the people of Skypeia had to prevent pregnancy. She didn't want the responsibility right now, and she, along with most of the women, chose to use the herb due to all the confusion and turmoil they were about to face at sea.
"But that doesn't mean I don't want to be a mother." She continued. "Maybe I'd like to have a few brats." Reiju couldn't help but smile as she looked toward the horizon. "But I want everything to calm down first."
She didn't want to give her children the same kind of childhood she had, not that Luffy would ever be like her father. She would never believe that, but it had left her a bit traumatized, and she didn't even want to imagine the possibility of her children experiencing the kind of life she and Sanji had in Germa 66.
"I'm sure Luffy wouldn't mind having a bunch of kids." Uta responded with a smile.
Reiju nodded and began to leave, before returning to the kitchen and later coming out again with food for Usopp and Chopper, the latter being quite excited to have pudding to eat as well.
On the pirate ship, one of them finally stirred. "Huh, what happened?" Ideo finally woke up with a huge headache, surrounded by the fallen bodies of his comrades, all defeated.
He began to remember what had happened when some of the Straw Hats came to his ship, giving some orders, which he mocked, and they ended up in a conflict, only to be miserably defeated.
'Damn... they're monsters...' Ideo thought as his gaze fell to the side, where the noble ship still stood.
At that moment, someone already aware of his awakening jumped from one ship to the other, and Ideo saw that arrogant long-nosed man appear in front of him.
"I see you're awake," Usopp said with an arrogant smile.
"You... you bastard!" Ideo growled.
"As I said before, you have two choices: one, talk to Luffy in Dressrosa, or two, get beaten until you agree with the first option," Usopp said with a malicious grin, nothing like the boy who left Syrup Village almost two years ago.
"You think I'll agree to this just because your captain is an emperor? You're not the first emperor who's tried to convince us," Ideo said with determination.
In the next moment, he was slapped on the head, causing him to fall to the ground without having time to react. He felt his world spinning, frustrated, before getting back up. His long arms hung by his sides as he looked at Usopp, frustrated and even a bit fearful.
"Come on, man, this won't help at all. I don't think he's going to force you into our fleet if you really don't want to join, but he still wants you to at least go and talk to him. I know you can at least do that..." Usopp said, and Ideo just had a frustrated look.
When his gaze fell on his fallen crewmates, all defeated, he clenched his fists before turning back to the young man. "Alright..." he admitted, realizing he had no choice. "I'll talk to your captain then... At least have a conversation like he wants."
"Great, we'll wait for your crew to wake up before moving on," Usopp said.
In the end, instead of going to Dressrosa alone like the Yonta Maria Grand Fleet, the noble ship was followed by Ideo's pirate ship, as they sailed towards a special place.
"So, are we heading for the second pirate group we're hunting? This Cavendish...?" Chopper asked, holding a wanted poster of the second target of their group, showing it to everyone.
"Yes, this is Cavendish, one of the Supernovas from two years ago... He was prominent until the Worst Generation emerged. It seems he's quite arrogant, and as Luffy warned and made clear, he's also hostile to the members of the Worst Generation, which includes two of us on this ship." Usopp said, glancing at Reiju, since both of them were pirates considered Supernovas with bounties over 100,000,000 berries.
"Alright then, let's head there," Reiju said in the end, and the ship continued sailing in that direction.
In a village on an island a few dozen kilometers away, there was a man showing off while several women gazed at him with hearts in their eyes. He wore a hat and held a flower in his mouth, trying to appear gallant. Many women seemed to be enchanted by his every move.
But in the midst of this, no one noticed when suddenly, his face changed. He began to smile strangely, as if he were about to act with a much more deadly personality than his current one.
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