Huge Revolution


VI: Maiden of the Aqua

Previously:

Slowly, the giant whale with its giant orange-bearded blue-finned rider landed before the Straw Hats, as the rider gave a low laugh. "Hohohoho..."

"Who's that old man?" Luffy spoke.

"Idiot, don't you know who he is?" Pappagg yelled in panic. "That man is...!"

"The king of the Ryugu Kingdom of the Fishman Island," Ace breathed as he looked up, not surprising given the sheer size of the man. "Neptune Sama!"


"I can't believe it..." Ace was hoarsely echoing as they rode the giant shark Megalo beside the King of Fishman Island. "I don't believe it... I've never even visited the Ryugu Palace before in my entire friggin' life and now we can because of the crazy shark my brother saved..."

"Stop babbling," Yusei sighed. "Think of it as one of many new experiences gotten only with the Straw Hat Pirates. See, Keimi San and Pappagg San are still in shock, and Luffy San... well, the rest of us... they still keep calling King Neptune 'old man'."

"Many new experiences..." Ace laughed. "With Luffy, yeah... everything becomes a new experience..."

"The first time we met, we took down Gecko Moria," Yusei ticked off.

"What?"

"On our second adventure, Luffy San punched a Tenryuubito in public."

"EH?"

"The third time, I pulled off a five-day streak of planning before arriving at Marineford to mount a rescue attempt on scant information," Yusei ticked off. "I've read the ship's log, and before even that, they burned down Enies Lobby and defeated Cipher Pol Nine, and even before that, they went to an island in the sky and defeated the man masquerading as God there."

"I remember Luffy telling me," Ace replied, dazed. "I can't even count the number of times I nearly had a heart attack at just hearing it..."

"Hey, you two, quit drooling!" Nami yelled at the king and Luffy.

"Some things don't change at all..." Ace muttered, half-grinning. "At least, I can count on Luffy to be essentially the same."

"Oh, I almost forgot, I already invited one of your friends," the king said, wiping up his saliva on the back of one hand. "He's a swordsman. He started drinking on his own before the banquet. It's more fun to have a party with everybody, he's so selfish. I think his name was... Zori!"

"It's Zoro!" Nami and Usopp yelled together, before they were swept off their feet by the slipstream and sent flying.

"Nami San! Usopp San!" Yusei called, heaving a sigh of relief as they caught onto the giant shark's tail.

"My soldiers will find the rest of your friends and bring them safely to the palace, so don't worry, Jamon," the king said.

"Nami, don't you know where they we\nt?" Luffy called behind as the navigator managed to crawl back onto the shark.

"Ah? Franky went to find the family of his old master, and Robin went to investigate the history of Fishman Island. Aki tagged behind Robin," Nami answered. "So we split up again. You didn't have any problem either, right?"

"No... well, there was a little one," Usopp admitted.

"Sanji San met the mermaids, and bled so hard he needed an emergency transfusion," Yusei explained.

Nami sighed. "Ne, by the way, grandpa..."

"Call him 'God of the sea, Neptune Sama'!" in a panic, Pappagg bit onto Nami's head.

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"This place is at ten thousand metres below sea level so why is there light around this island?" Nami blithely continued, leaving the starfish moaning in a heap of pain right beside her.

King Neptune laughed. "The island itself doesn't provide any light. This is the only place in the deep sea that has light so Fishmen started living here a long time ago. And that was the beginning of the Fishman Island. There are the roots of a giant tree called the Sun Tree Eve that transfers sunlight from the surface into the deep sea."

"Transfers sunlight?" Nami echoed. "You mean, there's a tree with shining roots more than ten thousand metres long?"

"Yes, indeed," the king gravely replied. "Scientists try to make some sense out of it, but it's a mystical tree that transfers sunlight to its roots, Jamon. And its respiration supplies air to the sea floor as well."

"It's like the boss of the Yarukiman Mangroves at Sabaody, huh?" Usopp commented.

"Hairy old man, I'm hungry!" Luffy complained, causing Pappagg to yell at him again.

"Hohoho!" the Santa impression Yusei had gotten was only reinforced with that laugh. "We'll be there soon!"

Luffy oohed in awe as the bubble containing the Ryugu Palace came into view. "It's huge!"

"That's the entrance, Jamon," Neptune pointed to a circular gate suspended in mid-air. They neared the gate, the king reaching out a hand to press a very tiny button.

Ding dong! "Yes?"

"It's me, Jamon."

"My king! I'll put down the gateway now!"

"Oh yeah, take this," Neptune gave them two pink corals.

"What's this?" Luffy questioned as he accepted it.

"It's a Bubbly Coral," Keimi explained. "You can make a bubble easily with it."

"Most of the palace is filled with sea water," Neptune answered the unspoken question. "You need a good bubble, Jamon."

As they squeezed the tip, a giant translucent bubble came out of the other end, enveloping everyone into a large watertight bubble.

"This is handy!" Usopp commented.

"Alright, let's go." With that, both the whale and the giant shark entered the gateway.

"It's fast!" Luffy japed as they swam through the connecting corridor.

"Oh, I can't wait to see it!" Nami laughed.

"W- What should we do, Pappagg...?" Keimi held the starfish close.

"As a man who was invited to the Ryugu Palace, I'll become even more famous..." the nervous starfish uttered.

"Your face is twitching," Brook pointed out.

"Well, here we are," Neptune said as they popped out to the grounds of the underwater palace and everyone gasped at their first sight of the royal family's quarters.

The entire thing was outfitted as a grand Chinese-style palace, built perhaps more like a coral reef with fishes swimming around it like sentries. Overhead, a large Chinese dragon grinned down, whiskers seemingly floating about in the water.

"Cool! Awesome!" Luffy laughed.

"Pappagg San's house is nothing compared to this," Brook commented.

"Don't compare!"

"What a beautiful palace!" Nami sighed.

"Very much like a fairytale," Ace nodded.

Sentries on either side of the imposing double gates saluted at the sight of their monarch. "King Neptune is back!"

"We were wondering where you were!"

"Open the gate!"

"The gate will open!"

"Welcome home, your majesty!" Soldiers declared in salute as the gates creaked open and they landed.

Luffy gave a huge laugh at the sight of the long throne room. "This palace looks fun!"

"It's my palace, Jamon!" Neptune declared proudly. "Stay as long as you like!"

"You did it again, huh?" A seahorse Fishman began to yell at the king. "You must learn your place! You went out of the palace on your own again! It's inexcusable to go down to the lower world without guards!"

"Can't take it," the catfish Fishman beside the seahorse sighed.

"It won't happen again, Jamon..."

"He got yelled at..." all the Straw Hats dead-panned.

"It'll be too late once something happens! Don't you know the situation of this country right now?"

"Let's have the banquet already!" Luffy complained amidst stomach rumbles. He then blinked before sniffing the air.

"Luffy San!" Yusei called as he too ran after the captain.

"Oi, Luffy!" Ace too ran after them.

"Oh, where's Luffy? And Yusei? And Ace?" Nami blinked as she turned around to be greeted by empty space.

"He was here a couple minutes ago. That fool can't even stay still for even a minute!" Usopp sighed. "Ace and Yusei must have followed him to make sure he didn't get into trouble..."

"It's no mistake! I can smell food in the sea water!" Said idiot was currently following his nose to more food. "Smells really good!"

"Luffy San..." Yusei sighed as he followed behind.

"Luffy!" Ace called as he ran behind to catch up."Didn't I ever teach you, you don't wander off by yourself! Dammit!"

They followed him, turning lefts and rights before they went through a flimsy barrier to breathe dry air.

"There's no water here," Yusei blinked. "Living quarters, maybe?"

"No time, catch up to him!" Ace ran after the still oblivious Luffy.

"Maybe this is a banquet room," Luffy commented as he approached a set of thick steel doors. "He said Zoro was here already..."

Yusei sweat-dropped at the sight of weapons sticking out of the brickwork. "No way."

"What huge, thick, solid-looking doors!" Luffy then exclaimed. "These walls look very solid too. They look like the ones in Impel Down."

"Come to think of it, yeah," Ace squinted at the bricks.

"They must have really good food inside!"

The other two men's expression remained impassive as they raised a hand to slap their foreheads together, just as Luffy pulled open the door with some difficulty.

"But, Luffy San..." Yusei sighed as his captain went into the darkened room.

"It's dark, this isn't a banquet room," Luffy was thinking out loud as he and Ace walked in. "But there was delicious food! Then, is this food storage? Who cares! I'll have some! I'm starving!"

"Oi, leave some for me," Ace sighed as he reached out for Luffy. "Honestly, you bottomless stomach-!"

He shot forward into the darkness with Luffy as the latter jumped to search for food.

Yusei froze, listening closely. "Breathing...?"

"Oh? Did I hear someone?" Luffy's voice was loud and clear. "This coral is like pudding!" he laughed later.

"Luffy," Ace's voice was stern. "I don't think... this is coral..."

"Is somebody here?" a high-pitched feminine voice gasped.

"Ah, someone is here-!" Yusei sighed.

The lights flicked on to flood the room with illumination as Luffy shouted, presumably falling. Yusei could only stare at the bedpost of the largest bed he had ever seen, and it current occupant, well, occupants.

"W- What's wrong with you?" the same voice stuttered. "W- What are y- you doing o- on my b- body? W- Who are you, sir?"

"Er, sorry for my idiotic brother's actions," Ace tried to comfort what must be the biggest female mermaid in history.

"What, it was a big person- I mean, mermaid!" Luffy exclaimed.

"Y- You came here to k- kill me like the o- others, didn't you?" the pink-haired red-finned giant mermaid accused though she was clearly on the verge of tears. "B- But I'm not scared! B- Because I'm Neptune's d- daughter! S- So I'm not s- scared... not scared... "

She broke out in a crying fit as Yusei leapt up onto the bed by climbing up the pink sheets. "Somebody! O Tou Sama! O Nii Sama!"

"Oi, oi! I didn't do anything to you, did I?" Luffy called over her crying, clearly flustered. "Oh, come on! What's with you?"

"Luffy!" Ace whacked him lightly upside the head. "Be nice to ladies!" he turned towards the rather pretty mermaid. "Well-" He quickly dodged the torrent of tears that were staining the sheets.

"Oi, oi, whoa!" Luffy dodged them. "What's going on? I'm just a pirate who came here looking for food!"

"Shield Wing!" the faithful bird cawed as Yusei grabbed on, flying up to the mermaid's face. "Miss. Look at me."

It was the no-nonsense tone that broke her fit into silence as light blue met deep cobalt.

"Do I look like someone here to kill you, miss?" Yusei slowly pronounced, taking care to draw on that hidden aura that children seemed to like. Well, the orphans at home had liked him enough... "We are here completely by accident, miss."

"Yeah, I just-" Luffy's mouth was sealed shut with a quick slap of the hand from Ace.

"Don't ruin it!" he hissed.

"Ah..." the mermaid blinked. "You aren't... here to kill me?"

"No," Yusei soothingly informed her. "We just came here completely by accident because Luffy San was looking for food. My apologies for disturbing your rest, princess."

He then blinked. "Do you hear that-?"

Luffy jumped up, deflecting the axe heading for her in time to throw it up and hit a wall instead.

"What's that axe? Where did it come from?" Luffy panted.

"Shirahoshi Hime Same!" the cry of the seahorse was unmistakable even at this distance.

"Ah, somebody's coming!" Luffy said.

"Please, hide us?" Yusei said to the blinking princess.

"I'm sorry to do this!" she quickly replied as she picked up both brothers.

"Are you alright?" the seahorse merman demanded upon entry.

"Did you get hurt?"

"N- No!"

"You were crying louder than usual – we were worried!"

"What are you-?" Luffy was shut up with judicious applying of Ace's hand again.

"Who opened this door?"

"Was it an intruder?"

"I- I'm sorry to make you worry!" the princess answered. "I think I had a bad dream..."

"Hey...!" Ace shifted his palm back forcefully.

"No, I heard somebody for sure!"

"No, that's... um... well..." the princess sounded more flustered. "My stomach made a noise!"

"A- Are you sure?"

"Sha!"

"Who is it!"

"Sha!" the giant shark Yusei recognised as Megalo flinched upon being stabbed lightly.

"Megalo! Welcome home!" the princess greeted as the shark swam over.

"Oh yes!" the seahorse spoke again. "There is something I have to tell you. It's about Strawhat Luffy, the pirate who saved Megalo."

All three men froze at that.

"He is suspected in the kidnapping of some missing mermaid girls," the sea horse merman reported. "And due to Madame Shyarly's prediction, all of the Straw Hats are considered as an uncertain but potential risk so we've decided to lock them in the palace prison. We took the swordsman who came to the palace first into custody while he was sleeping due to intoxication. The three members who just arrived are probably in custody by now, too. But their captain, Strawhat, who was with them, might have noticed our intentions along with two other notable people with him, Shooting Star Yusei and Fire Fist Ace, and they ran away. They are probably hiding somewhere in the palace so please be careful. We'll catch the rest of them on the island and defend the country at any cost."

At this point, both older men froze as Luffy's stomach rumbled loudly.

"Ah!" the princess started.

"I just heard something." the seahorse said.

"D- Did you? Isn't it just your imagination?"

"No, I'm sure I..."

"No, it's just your imagination!"

"Yes... anyway, I feel bad we have to arrest the people who saved Megalo's life!"

The princess shushed the hyperactive shark.

"...Hime Sama, you're acting strangely. Are you hiding-"

"Minister of the Right, we have to go."

"Oh, it's been five minutes already. We're going to go now."

None of them moved a muscle as the doors creaked closed.

"Lock the doors tightly!"

Finally, all of them sighed.

"Luffy, don't eat my hand!"

"Erm... thank you very much!" the princess held up the three men in her hands. "I was being very rude to you before, Please forgive me! I didn't know that you were the one who saved Megalo's life."

"Sha, sha!" the shark agreed.

"May I call you...?" she blinked.

"Ah, this is my captain, Luffy," Yusei indicated the grinning captain. "The other man is Ace San, and I am Yusei."

"May I call you... Luffy-sama, Ace-sama, Yusei-sama?"

"Ah," Luffy absently petted Megalo.

"Just drop the honorific," Ace smiled warmly at her.

"Luffy-sama, you are a pirate – does that mean you are a bad person?" the princess inquisitively asked.

"Mm... I don't know. You decide," Luffy shrugged.

"Okay..." she started. "Oh, they said that our soldiers took your friends into custody..."

"Yeah, but that's fine," Luffy answered. "You guys can't keep them under control anyway."

"How true..." both men nodded in agreement.

"Is that so?"

"Don't worry about it," Luffy shrugged. "Now, tell me, what was that axe? Who threw it? From where?"

"I know who did it..." she looked forlornly at the axe. "His name is Vander Decken Sama. He holds a grudge against me for refusing to marry him. That man has a devil's curse called Mato Mato. He can strike me any time or anywhere with a thrown weapon since he designated me with his mark. That's why it's too dangerous for me to leave this Hard Shell Tower..."

Luffy's stomach rumbled.

"I'm hungry!" Luffy moaned.

His attitude immediately changed upon seeing the giant plates of food that was the princess's meal. "Yum! Can I eat this?"

"Luffy San!" Yusei began just as Ace sighed in defeat.

"Go ahead."

"Yum!" Luffy started on a bread bun one and a half times his height.

"He wants to marry you but he's trying to kill you?" Ace questioned, peeling part of the crust off. "It doesn't make sense, does it?"

"It's been ten years already," she replied.

"For ten years? You must be bored!" Luffy exclaimed, still with mouth full.

"In addition, my father made a rule that soldiers can't stay here for more than five minutes."

"Heh?"

"That's why, Megalo is the only one I can talk to. He's my dear friend."

"So that's why they wanted to have a banquet for us," Yusei nodded. "It must've been cancelled now."

"I wonder why they wanted to put Megalo's liberators in prison," the princess wondered. "I heard that Madame Shyarly Sama's predictions are unbelievably accurate. That explains why everyone is afraid, but..."

Se started as Luffy vacuumed up a whole string of seaweed. "Anyway, you humans eat a lot even though you're so small!"

"No, it's just Luffy San," Yusei shook his head.

"That hairy old man said... that we were gonna have a banquet, but... he kept getting scolded..." Luffy spoke in between bites.

"Luffy San, that's rude."

"So I couldn't wait any longer... and I followed the smell." he swallowed the next bite. "By the way. Did they call you Hime?"

"Yes."

"Are you the Mermaid Princess?" Yusei stared up. True, faces might be comparable to Boa Hancock's, but he never really paid attention to aesthetics.

"Yes, I am King Neptune's daughter. My name is Shirahoshi."

"Shirasu*?" Luffy turned to look.

"Shirahoshi."

"Hmm. That's hard to pronounce," Luffy complained. "Oh, I wanna eat that too!"

Both men sighed with the conviction of having lost as the princess giggled.

"I don't think you're such a bad person," Shirahoshi considered. "Luffy-sama seems nice, Ace-sama as well, and Yusei-sama seems like a reliable person..."

"Here it comes again," Ace predicted.

"Enough," Yusei rolled his eyes.

"Do you seek adventured since you're a pirate?" Shirahoshi asked.

"Uh."

"Oi! Don't take all the meat!" Ace ran after the younger D.

"Oh, yes! Have you ever seen the sun?" the princess seemed to have drifted into a dream world. "There are stars in the night sky, aren't there? And there are different kinds of flowers and hairy animals! Have you ever been to a green place called a 'forest'?"

"Yes, there are stars in the night skies," Yusei answered. "Many different kinds of animals and flowers grow in the world, especially in forests. When night falls in the forest, all you have to do is look up, and you can see the stars. Even if you're lost in the forest, you can find your way."

"Eh? Really?" the princess looked happy.

"Yes." Yusei nodded.

"Oh, that's a big cheek pouch!" Shirahoshi poked Luffy's ballooned cheeks, causing the rubber-man to spit out some.

"Stop it! What are you doing?" Luffy squawked.

"P- P- Please..." Shirahoshi began to tear up. "Don't yell at me like that! Luffy-sama is a scary man as I thought..."

"I don't know what to say anymore..." Ace just rested his forehead on his knees.

"Oi, oi! I didn't do anything to make you cry! Stop!" Luffy began. Yusei merely raised an eyebrow at seeing how the captain's demonic metabolism had rendered him lanky again.

"I have never been yelled at by anyone before..."

"You may be big but you're a coward and a crybaby!" Luffy exclaimed as Shirahoshi began to cry, turning back to the food. "I don't like you!"

"What?"

The shark began to berate Luffy in the only way it could, i.e. through irate motions and noises, as its mistress took to hiding under the blankets.

"No one ever said such a horrible thing to me..." Shirahoshi sobbed under the blankets. "How awful you are! Please leave now! I can't take it any more!"

"I'm full!" Luffy sighed at the empty plates which must have contained enough food to feed ten men. "Thank you for the food! So you've been here for ten years, huh? It could make you sick!"

"I'm sorry, Shirahoshi Hime," Yusei gently poked the blankets. "Luffy San can be rather blunt..."

"Luffy-sama, please leave now...!" the sobs did subside though.

"Yusei, we just found another use for you!" Luffy grinned. "Pacifying crybabies!"

Yusei smiled. It was a smile as brittle as a knife."Luffy San?"

Both brothers swallowed, shivering.

"Hey. Isn't there anywhere you wanna go?" Luffy offered.

"Eh?" the red tail froze upright in the air for a moment. "Of course, there are a lot of places that I want to go..."

"That's what I thought," Luffy grinned. "Then let's get out of here!"

"Eh?"

"Let's go for a walk!"

Ace slapped his forehead. "Although he's right, it wouldn't kill him to at least consider..."

"Luffy San has no brain for that sort of thing," Yusei shrugged.

"No... no, I'm not supposed to do that!" Shirahoshi protested.

"Why? Let's go!" Luffy was stopped by Megalo, sulking for a moment before smiling again. "You're gonna be okay!"

"Huh?" Shirahoshi and Megalo looked startled.

"If something is thrown at you again, I'll deflect it!" Luffy offered.

"Eh?"

"As I thought," Ace muttered, completely nonplussed. "How does he always do these ridiculous things...?"

"And I actually thought it would be relaxing," Yusei murmured. "So, between voluntary kidnap of a princess, or obeying the captain's orders...?"

"Well, hurry up and get ready!" Luffy told the princess. "Let's go out, right now!"

"Eh? R- R- Right now?" her expression fell. "B- But I... I mean, I still..."

"Still what?" Luffy argued.

"I- It's too sudden so I still... um..." her expression fell. "I can't sort my feelings out. Could you give me a little more time?"

"It's just a walk, it's not a big deal," Luffy sighed, but let her be. "Don't take too long. I don't like you after all."

"Don't repeat that," Ace whacked the younger D as the princess began to cry again. "Even Yusei's magic has a limit."

"Alright, alright!" Luffy called up to Shirahoshi. "I'll wait so just make up your mind."

"Oh." Yusei sat straighter a few moments later. "I have the sixth sense that tells me that some of our crew as inadvertently caused trouble that will lead to some troublesome repercussions."

Ace grinned. "Excellent. Lead the way."

"Hey, are you ready?" Luffy shouted to Shirahoshi. "Let's go out!"

"I'm sorry... I can't go..." the answer was spoken in a low murmur.

"Why? You said there's a place you wanna go to, didn't you?" Luffy pouted.

"But, if I do something like that, it's going to cause a lot of trouble for everybody in the palace!" Shirahoshi protested.

"If I stayed here for ten years, I'd go crazy!" Luffy pointed out. "It's in return for your food. I'm coming with you. Yusei and Ace are definitely following too! So where do you want to go?"

"Don't pull me into it!" Ace yelled, albeit half-heartedly.

A light pink blush sprinkled on her cheeks. "Um... the Sea... To the Sea Forest! But no, that's just a beautiful dream of mine. To really go out there, I just can't do such a selfish thing..."

"Why are you crying just saying where you want to go?" Luffy yelled at her.

"I- I'm sorry, I can barely bring the courage to say it," Shirahoshi apologised. "P- Please don't get mad! You're scaring me, Luffy-sama! I can't... until that wish comes...!"

"Wish?" Yusei echoed.

"A dear friend of the royal family comes to the Ryugu Palace now and then," Shirahoshi explained. "He tells us news and stories of the surface world that I have never seen. One day... in the wake of the Marineford War, two years ago... he told us of a miracle."

"Somehow, I get the feeling she's talking about it," Ace muttered.

"That dear friend... he spoke of a great man who could create miracles..." a dreamy look came over her eyes as she retold the tale. "He spoke of a man, who commanded a white dragon... a man who descended upon the battle like a shooting star... who granted the most desperate wish of a young man in the battlefield... he promised that when the fallen star comes, I could go out...!"

Yusei flinched as he saw Luffy's expression turn pensive, no doubt recalling the sequence of events of Marineford.

"Luffy..." Ace whispered.

"You're such a troublesome person..." Luffy sighed, just as a tremor rocked through the whole tower. "What's with that huge noise?"

Another boom.

"Is he throwing things at you again?" Luffy commented. "Man, what a jerk!"

Shirahoshi cowered as the staccato booms increased in pace and volume.

"Shirahoshi Hime, do you trust us?" Yusei decided to broach the subject. "You will be able to go out and enjoy the sun. Believe us, since our captain has promised you his protection."

Tear-streaked eyes glanced at Yusei, as the sniffing was stifled. "Y- Yusei-sama?"

"That fallen star would take forever to fall if you don't take the first step to find it," Yusei half-smiled. "Well? Rather than wish for it in your heart with no results, take the first move... and go out for the first time. So... where have you always wanted to go?"

"I've always wanted to go to the Sea Forest," the princess answered wistfully. "All throughout these ten years... but thankfully I was kindly told that it's dangerous outside the tower. I'm so afraid to leave to go anywhere outside! Luffy-sama... Yusei-sama... are you really going to take me outside?"

"Ah!" Luffy answered.

"And, you will really protect me?"

"A promise is not to be broken," Yusei answered honestly.

"Yeah, leave it to us! You'll be fine!" Luffy grinned.

Shirahoshi sniffled, as she began to cry again.

"Hey, if you're gonna cry I won't take you!" Luffy hurriedly said. "And to be honest, you have to take me there. I can't swim."

"I'm sorry, I'm just so happy..." Shirahoshi sniffed.

"Man, you're such a crybaby! And such a wimp!"

"I remember a bigger wimp," Ace muttered.

"Oi, Ace!" Luffy pouted before turning back to Shirahoshi. "But, if we go outside, you're so big they'll notice you right away..."

"Yes, I'm sorry."

"So I have a great plan!"

From Luffy's eyeing of Megalo, Yusei could already guess the plan, and he did not like it much. "Luffy San."

"Eh?" Luffy turned to regard the handyman.

"If we are going to do what I think we will, then, I will have to shrink Shirahoshi Hime a bit," Yusei pulled out a bunch of cards. "Are you ready, Shirahoshi Hime?"

"Cards...?" the mermaid whispered, confused. "What are you...?"

"I am Fudo Yusei, handyman of the Straw Hat Pirates," Yusei answered. "It is my job to facilitate the captain's plans, no matter how ridiculous they may be. Do be prepared to be... shrunk. Otherwise I believe that poor Megalo will have quite a time swallowing."


*Baby sardine

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