Thank you very much, Mirathin, for your reviews! I know for katana, but I though sabres or swords could design them too… So you felt love in the third chapter?... Maybe you're right! Who knows? (yes, me… And French people too : ) )
Well, second part of French One Piece before chapter 6. I forgot an important character: Going Merry! In France, it's "Vogue Merry" (Voguer: to sail) In France, there are 32 tomes. The next (33) will come in July. We wait two month between two tomes. SBS are translated. We have also Red Grand Characters and Blue Grand Data File, and Color Walk.
Now, Chapter 6!
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Chapter 6: Why so much hate?
Sanji had a nose bleeding when he came on the deck… Three wonderful persons were bronzing, in swimsuit. Robin, dark blue swimsuit, Nami, garish pink without much textile, and Opale, black swimsuit which harmonized with the girl, all of them lying down on couch.
"MY DARLINGS! Do you need sun cream?"
Nami rose, lifting up her sunglasses.
"Robin has already done it two minutes before!"
"Ah…"
No luck… Sanji came two minutes too late… In a vexed look, he went back in the kitchen. Opale burst out laughing.
"Hehe, poor Sanji, we are nasty with him!"
"Yeah!" Nami exclaimed in a smile. "But it's funny to make fun of him! A FREE occupation!"
And the two girls laughed, while Robin smiled, reading. It was sunny and hot, perfect day to bronze for the girls.
"The thing I prefer, after action, is calm", Opale murmured turning on her belly.
"Me, the thing I prefer before calm is money!" Nami said. "Pay your debts and keep your friends!"
"It seems you lead the boys by the nose", Opale realized.
"They are not very smart in this crew", Nami replied. "In youth crisis!"
"Ah, guys", Opale laughed. "Well, luckily they are here, if not we couldn't laugh!"
New laughs.
"If I'm right, the next island must be a summer one!" Said Nami, changing of subject.
"No doubt about it", Opale replied. "This sun, this warmth…"
Chopper appeared on the deck, in his Walk Point aspect, sticking out his tongue, half closed eyes.
"It's too hot…"
Behind him, Usopp hold a thermometer.
"Waouh! 30°C!" The long noise boy exclaimed, just wearing shorts, sunglasses in front of his eyes. "My poor Chopper, at Drum, it was 30°C under zero!" (30°C:86°F and -30°C:22°F)
"Really!... Too hot…"
"Take off your costume!" Usopp laughed.
Chopper took his human form, under the surprised look of Opale who lifted up a few seconds her sunglasses.
"I think I have sunstroke… Or did he eat a Zoan?"
"That's right!" Nami said.
Usopp fled, shouting, followed by the angry reindeer because of the mockery.
"Human Zoan", Nami added.
"They always amaze me, Evil Fruits", Opale sighed. "I have never seen Chopper in this form, and I was surprised… Zoan… Three forms… two more transformation with the original one… I forgot it!"
Robin turned a corner.
"You need a few to marvel…"
"I admit it", Opale replied with a colder voice than with Nami. "Evil fruits are a strangeness of nature, and they impress me…"
Nami realized the change of Opale's voice. But Robin seemed to not care.
"Indeed… A huge mystery of the world", Robin said, smiling and looking at Opale. "One of the huge mysteries…"
Opale felt a shiver. The word mysteries pronounced by Robin didn't seem innocent for her, especially the woman said it with a rather honeyed voice in comparison with the rest of the sentence. But the young woman didn't reply. She looked away from Robin. Nami didn't understand. Why so much hate between them? Visibly, she couldn't let them together alone, because the red hair girl could forecast a thunderstorm for certain…
"Opale, Robin", she began to say quietly. "Why do you hate each other?"
Silence. Opale raised her eyes at Robin, Robin at Opale. Then laughs.
"I would like to know if I said something funny", Nami though.
"Hahaha! Nonsense Nami!" Opale exclaimed.
"Fufufu!" Robin added laughing quietly. "Don't worry, Nami, everything's all right..."
Nami sighed, and stood up with a vexed look.
"Where are you going?" Robin asked.
"Take a shower", Nami replied waving. "I think I have illusions because of the sun, not good…"
The navigator entered in the cabin… -"Oh Beloved Nami! You have a WONDERFUL dye!"-
Opale and Robin stayed alone, if we didn't include Luffy who was on his position on the prow looking at the sea, and Zoro asleep on the look-out post. They were stared at each other in silence, during a long minute before went back to their occupation.
"Thank you, Robin…" Opale murmured in an unconcerned voice.
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"Zoro?"
The boy grunted and opened an eye to see Opale. He was lied down in the shade, on the back deck, after his keeping time.
"Don't you see I'm busy?" He grumbled rubbing his eyes. "Whadyouwant?"
"Do you agree to teach me sword techniques?"
He yawned stretching, and looked at Opale.
"Do I have the look of a fight teacher?"
"Er… You have sufficient capacities to be one", Opale replied.
"Mwof… Can't you learn alone as I do?"
"Sorry for disturbing you"
Opale sighed, and began to come back at the front of the ship.
"HE! Opale!"
The girl stopped walking, and turned her head to see Zoro.
"Tonight, midnight, we will train but not fight. You will saw how I do, and you will manage it alone…"
"Thank you!" Opale exclaimed in a smile. "Thank you, Zoro Sensei!" (Sensei: professor)
"Leave the Sensei", Zorro cut. "You will look at me, and manage alone, right? I have to train too!"
Opale sat down on the deck near where Zoro was lying down. He sighed.
"What else?"
"Why do you train with your swords, Zoro?"
The young man raised an eyebrow.
"Does it disturb you?"
"No", Opale said in a smile. "But I was just thinking about it…"
Zoro sighed.
"I promised to someone to become the best swordsman in the world… To succeed in it, I have to train, and defeat Mihawk…"
"Mihawk?" Opale asked. "Isn't he a Sea Knight?"
"Yeah", Zoro answered. "The best swordsman in the world too."
Opale smiled.
"You must have capacities to defeat him", Opale said in a confident voice. "You're strong…"
"I hope so", Zoro sighed. "But it wasn't the case during our first battle…"
Opale looked at Zoro with a surprised look.
"Is it the truth?"
Zoro grunted. To answer to Opale, he took off his T-shirt… and let appear his large scar on his chest. Opale held back a yell.
"Is it enough now?"
"Sorry Zoro", Opale murmured. "I'm too curious… So, he let you alive, this famous Mihawk…"
"Try to understand why, to train with a toothpick for the next time?"
Opale raised her shoulders, smiling.
"Maybe you would like to take a nap?"
"Excellent idea", Zoro grunted, closing his eyes. "zzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz..."
"Good nap, so…"
"zzzzzzZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz…"
Opale didn't disturb more the green haired boy.
"OPALE!"
The girl was about to jump. She ran to Luffy who called her.
"Look at that, Opale! You've mail!"
"What?"
Luffy, in a huge smile, pointed with his finger a sort of squinted pelican, with the initials of Grand Line Post Office on a mail-bag it had around its neck. The bird opened its beak, in which a snail phone was hidden, which said with an answerphone voice:
"You have a new message! A mail to Miss Opale, on Road of all Perils… BIP!"
The pelican opened its mail-bag with a beak blow, and took a letter.
"The post office pelican will wait for the reply during twenty four hours, provided it will be fed during its stay. Thanks for choosing Post Office Pelican for your mail!"
Opale took out the envelope of the beak, and sat in a nook to read her letter.
"She has got a mail?" Usopp exclaimed. "It's uncommon to see this type of pelican on our ship…"
"Maybe it's because it never came on the ship before", Sanji declared.
The pelican stared at Sanji with an interested look, its eyes looked like plates. The snail phone commented it:
"After a long flight, a Post Office Pelican merits a gift for so many lost calories."
"Ok ok, I understand", Sanji murmured. "I will give you a fish"
Luffy came near Opale, who was reading her mail. The straw-hated boy discreetly put his head above Opale's shoulder, who move the letter so as to Luffy couldn't read it. He raised his shoulders and put his head in an other position… Moving again… Other position…
"HAVE YOU FINISHED READING ABOVE MY SHOULDER?"
The straw-hated boy started when Opale raised her fist, as Nami, in his direction. He didn't insist more and moved away with a despite look. Then he stopped and turned over to Opale.
"Who is it?"
"My ex…"
"Who?"
"MY EX!"
"… What is it?"
Opale, sweat drop version.
"Give up… Have you ever got a girlfriend?"
Luffy picked his nose with an interested look.
"Na…"
"Not surprising…" Opale murmured with a disgusted look.
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Waiting for midnight to come, Opale decided to play, on the deck. In the look-out post, Robin. Near Opale, the Post Office Pelican, asleep. It was around ten and an half. So, the girl played her usual repertory of music, until…
"BIIIIIIIIP! You now have seventeen hours to reply!" The snail phone informed, waking the pelican.
"Wow", Opale murmured, stopping playing. "I understand stupid bird… If not you will wake us every hour during the night!"
"Stupid you!" the answerphone voice of the snail phone replied.
Opale sighed.
"Don't move, I will write it, the answer you are waiting for!" The girl grunted. "Interdiction to call to order, otherwise the others will throw you overboard! AND ME AT FIRST, I WILL THROW YOU IN THE SEA!"
Opale in an angry movement took off her sunglasses to stare at the pelican… then she opened its beak, stared at the snail phone.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?"
"Er… yes…"
The snail phone hid its eyes because of the fear, while Opale walked quietly, to the girls' room, after putting on her sunglasses.
"Ah! It's you, Opale!"
On the way, the young girl met Nami who was climbing from girls' room.
"You come at the right moment, Nami!" Opale exclaimed in a smile. "Could I borrow you a piece of parchment?"
"Of course… Well… A piece of parchment, 100 Berrys. You have free ink for this time!"
"Thanks, Nami!"
They saluted. Nami went out, Opale went in the girls' room. She lighted a lantern on Nami's desk, took off her sunglasses, took a piece of parchment, a feather and a bottle of ink. With the letter she received under her eyes, she began to write… then…
"!"
An eye just appeared on the ink bottle, which Opale pushed away, by miracle, without turned it upside down. Then her sunglasses were caught by a hand, which throw them… to Robin, who just appeared at the top of the steps. The woman caught them.
"Fufufu…"
"What do you want of me", Opale roared staring at Robin's eyes.
"Calm down, mysterious young woman", Robin murmured. "You don't want the others of our crew to see you as that, right?"
Opale came to a standstill. One point for Robin.
"That's better now", Robin said in a honeyed voice.
"What are you looking for?" Opale calmly asked.
"I would like, if you agree, to start from scratch about our relationships."
Opale raised her eyes at Robin, a mocking look on her face.
"You are in no position to say that", Opale criticized. "It wasn't me who was aggressive when we met the first time, and I keep a bad memory of it."
"It's the past"
"But it gave me a bad first memory of you", Opale cut.
"You have to learn to forget young lady."
Opale sighed.
"I lose my temper… I lose my composure… Sorry…"
"That's OK", Robin replied.
"I didn't think you would ask it…"
"I understand", Robin said. "The crew had problems because of me in the past, and they forgive me. I would like you to forgive me too, if not they would realize there is something wrong between us… And they would ask why."
"You are right", Opale answered, looking away. "Even Zoro seems to trust you… Maybe I would let you a chance."
"Unless you would like to make the crew doubting because of your nature against me…"
"… Thanks, Robin…"
The woman came down, and came near Opale, who stood up. Then the two women shook their hand.
"Well… It seems important to you…"
Robin threw the sunglasses to Opale, who caught them.
"I agree to start from scratch"