By spending 300 AP (Adventure Points), Luffy could easily acquire Sunny.
Luffy was also curious about how the ship he purchased would appear.
Could it be like fruits, suddenly appearing and ending up in your hands?
Soon he had an answer.
"It-it's a ship!" Koby was the first to notice an anomaly in the sea.
Luffy and Nami looked in the direction together.
They saw a pirate ship with a flag of a skull and a straw hat slowly approaching them in the sea, a few hundred meters away.
Straw hat?
Nami looked at the ship and then at the straw hat on Luffy's head.
"Is that your ship?"
"No, he is our ship."
"I have not yet agreed to join your crew, not until I confirm that your grandfather is indeed a vice admiral." Nami glared at him.
Grandfather, you are truly something. Even thousands of miles away, you were able to help me recruit the first member of my crew.
Luffy chuckled lightly and instructed Koby, "Bring that fat woman upstairs."
"Yes... Luffy-sama."
Koby was on the verge of tears.
Leaving the wolf's den and entering the tiger's mouth.
However, her small arms and legs were unable to move Alvida even by an inch.
At the end...
Luffy would never do this alone.
In the end, Nami and Koby worked together to get Alvida to the Sunny.
"You really know how to boss people around...!!"
Nami, covered in sweat, walked into Sunny's activity room and saw Luffy lying on a comfortable sofa, holding a drink in his hand.
"You worked hard, Nami."
Luffy lifted his eyelids, looked at her and smiled. "That room over there has a bathroom, you can have it."
Feeling sticky all over her body, Nami didn't refuse.
She found the room with the bathroom, quickly locked the door and let out a sigh of relief.
"This guy doesn't look like a pirate..."
Nami entered the bathroom and started taking a shower, thinking about her current situation.
She was a thief from a young age.
She had seen all kinds of pirates.
But Luffy didn't give him the same feeling as those pirates.
Pirates in general weren't that easy to talk to; they were generally very fierce and brutish people.
"If what he said is true, as long as I report the village's situation to the Marine Headquarters, I won't need to do this anymore! Arlong can't be a Vice Admiral's match, right?"
Nami, who had limited experience, now believed that they needed a vice admiral to deal with those fishmen.
"It would be great if this could be easily resolved..."
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Activity room.
Luffy opened the Adventure Shop again.
"There are 300 coins left, I better spend them."
After evaluating today's items, he finally chose two.
[Fruit Haki]: After consumption, randomly awaken a type of Haki. If you have already awakened, increase proficiency.
[Price: 200 adventure coins.]
[Lifespan Fruit]: After consumption, gain one year of shelf life.
[Price: 100 adventure coins.]
With a flash of white light, two fruits appeared in Luffy's hands.
The fruits were small, without spiral patterns, just different in color. The Lifespan fruit was red, and the Haki fruit was black.
The awakening fruit that Luffy ate earlier was white in color.
Without hesitation, he immediately ate the black fruit.
In the next moment, he could feel a new power.
The Haki he awakened was... Observation Haki.
Observation Haki gives the user a sixth sense of the world around them, allowing them to sense the presence, strength, and emotions of others, even if they are out of sight or far away.
It also grants limited precognitive abilities, allowing the user to perceive their opponents' intentions and predict their actions and attacks before they happen.
Luffy calmed down and listened to the sound of Nami taking a shower, even hearing her murmur over him...
He also heard Koby on deck, cleaning the floor with a rag.
Don't get me wrong.
It wasn't Luffy who forced Koby to work, it was the boy's own choice.
Perhaps he thought that if he didn't demonstrate any value, he would be killed.
Anyway, Luffy left him alone.
When they got to the marine base he was going to send this boy away.
"Observation Haki is quite impressive. If I remember correctly, at an advanced level it allows the user to predict a short period into the future."
Luffy deactivated Haki.
Mainly because the sound of Nami taking a shower could easily lead someone to have inappropriate thoughts.
Looking at the other fruit in his hand, Luffy got out of his Gear fifth.
As soon as he left, a strong feeling of weakness came over him.
"I knew it would be like this... Huh... Good thing I prepared in advance."
He quickly ate the fruit, and the consumed life force was replenished in an instant.
There was even a surplus.
...
Half an hour later.
Nami, who had finished showering, wiped her wet hair with a towel and entered the activity room.
"Luffy-san..."
"No need to be so polite, you can call me Luffy, Captain or Mark if you prefer."
Luffy waved his hand.
"Mark?"
Nami was surprised.
She could understand the first two, but what did that last one mean?
"Speaking of which, what happened to your hair..."
"Do you want to know?"
Nami rolled her eyes.
Without thinking much about it temporarily, she sat down, took out a sea chart, pointed to a coordinate and said:
"Luffy, we need to get to the nearest Marine Base, right here, 153rd Marine Branch."
"153rd Marine Branch?"
Luffy frowned slightly.
He felt like he had some impression of it.
"What there was?" Nami noticed Luffy's expression and asked nervously.
(This guy wouldn't go back on his word, right? It wouldn't be a lie, would it? Don't give people hope and then destroy it so easily!)
Luffy easily understood Nami's emotions and couldn't help but smile.
"I just feel like it sounds familiar."
"This branch is quite famous," Nami breathed a sigh of relief, "The captain of this branch is a man named 'Morgan'."
(So it was that place.)
Luffy thought to himself.
This can be considered a coincidence. That place also had a certain guy with a head like green seaweed.
To be honest, Luffy didn't really want to invite men onto his ship.
But considering future battles, it was probably inevitable to have male fighters.
"Well, let me think about it. I think it would be good to buy a few more ships to form a large fleet."
Inviting Nami earns you 500 coins.
Zoro's aptitude shouldn't be less than Nami's.
With the points he will earn, he will be able to buy another ship later.
Captain of the 1st Division of the Straw Hat Fleet, Roronoa Zoro, also known as Green Seaweed Head.
"Then let's go to Branch 153." Thinking about this, Luffy nodded.
Nami's face showed joy.
This guy's expression was very confident, he didn't look like a fraud!
"At our current speed, we should arrive around noon tomorrow." She said happily.
"Got it, now go make some food, I'm hungry."
Nami: "..."
He really knows how to boss people around!
She got up angrily and went to make food.
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The next day.
[You sailed the East Blue for a day] [Earned 10 adventure coins.]
(Very little!)
[You have arrived at the new island, Shells Town] [Earned 100 adventure coins.]
Oh, not bad.
At noon, as predicted by Nami, the Sunny arrived at the port of Shells Town.
(End of chapter)