Awesome, I got me a beta reader! So, from now on it'll take at least one day more from before between the uploads, but it's worth it. Ah, but I really should be studying for exams now... I still have three to go, and I'm still not ready with my biology project, and that's due monday.
Gloria: You really should study!
Snoara: It doesn't help~! T-T
They couldn't get nearer to the waterfall due the huge cloud formations blocking their path. The idiot trio had fun, though, but Nami didn't let her go jumping on them too.
The boys saw a gate, and navigating through the small rivers between the clouds they finally got to it.
"...Right..." she stared at the gate. It even said 'heaven's gate', and it looked like a huge golden... star. Or something. She was instantly repulsed by it, gold was nice, expensive and sometimes pretty, but she preferred silver over that.
"Look! The waterfall-looking cloud is really a waterfall! It has cloud of different properties falling down."
"'Heaven's Gate..."
"Bad omen," Usopp turned slightly blue. "It's like we're going to die..."
"Maybe we're all dead already?" Zoro said with a lopsided smirk. He was relaxing over the rail that prevented falling down to the main deck with his arms and leg crossed.
"Oh, that would certainly account for all the weird stuff here," Sanji agreed.
"Huh? We're dead?" Chopper's jaw dropped.
"Heaven eh?" Luffy laughed. "Sounds like fun! Finally goin' there!"
"No, no, no, Zoro, you must be wrong," Gen wagged her finger and laughed heartily. "If we were dead, we'd all be dressed in togas and I would be surrounded by lots of pretty men! ...Also in togas, possibly in leopard-skin loincloths. I'm not that picky." 'Yeah, surrounded by pretty men... but sitting in your lap...' she added in her mind and froze over. 'WHEN have I…? Oh damn.'
"Look! Somebody is coming out!" Usopp noticed.
"Are you here for sightseeing?" the old woman asked. Gen couldn't ignore the pair of small wings on her back. "Or... here to fight?" and she started taking pictures. "Actually, it doesn't matter. If you want to go up each person must pay 1 billion extol entrance fee. That's the law."
"Angel! So that's how angels look like! She looks like a dried sour fruit candy," Luffy was shocked.
"1 billion, how much is that in berri?" Usopp wondered out loud.
"Hmm... I don't remember," Gen thought about it. She knew that extols were a lot cheaper than berries.
"If we, um, don't have the money..." Nami looked nervous.
"You can still pass."
"REALLY!" Usopp's eyes bugged out.
They talked some more with the weird granny, and Luffy announced that they were going through, money or no money.
There was suddenly a pair of claws clamped on the stumps of the broken chicken wings of the Merry. When it came closer to the surface, they saw that it was a gigantic started moving up the waterfall that on closer examination spiralled upwards like a ribbon, almost endlessly. It wasn't, and soon they popped through a hole in the clouds...
...to Skypiea!
They all looked with wonderment at how the island formed from clouds stretched out in front of them with houses and trees decorating it. It seemed that it was more like a group of clouds with buildings on them, connected with bridges of cloud.
Luffy, Usopp and Chopper rushed to the more than shallow water and on the fluffy beach. Zoro dropped the anchor down.
"Anyways, this scenery is really amazing, it's like a dream," the swordsman said.
"Yup... also, seeing their happy faces... hahah, can't really help it," Sanji chuckled and took off his shoes before jumping off with a happy flip.
"You're the same as them..." he sweatdropped. Nami was chased out of her chart room by the south bird that had made its escape. She had gotten rid of her shirt and paraded around in a white and blue bikini top.
"Geez... forgot to let him go earlier..."
"There seems to be people living here, it'll survive," Zoro dismissed it.
"And the anchor?"
"It's down... that soft cloud seems to be the basis of this island."
"Hey... isn't Skypiea...?" Robin walked to them.
"Yup, it's the same as the name on the map that Luffy found! That 200 years-old galleon really went here before," Nami confirmed it. "I never would've thought that a world in the sky like this could exist!" and she jumped down too.
There was a small awkward silence between Robin and Zoro for a moment.
"...What about you?"
"Aah, I'll go too."
"I've never thought... that sailing and landing can be adventurous too," the woman smiled. Gen popped with a happy smile between the two and put her hand on her back for support... not the brightest idea, her knees betrayed her and she had to seek support from the ship's rail.
"Oops, sorry Robin-chan. Hm, this sucks," Gen sulked. "Ah well, life goes on. See, Robin? There are still good hearted people in the world~!"
"Hmm... sure..."
Luffy's yell reached them from the shore. "Haaaaa! This place is filled with the scent of adventure!"
The crew was excitedly looking all around the shore, marvelling foreign plants and Nami was overjoyed that the hand of Marine forces didn't reach here. Zoro and Robin got off the ship, but Gen had to go back to her room to get her bag and Greg.
"We're here, Elmo!"
"Please don't call me that, Gloria-sama..." he sweatdropped.
"I'm sorry I forgot you here for so long."
"Ah, no hard feelings. But remember, on this island... bunnies have big ears and big teeth," he gestured to his bunny form's soft fabric ears.
"Hm, true. Come on, let's go see who this Altur guy is."
"Altur?"
"My guard."
"I know him... unfortunately."
"Really? What's he like? He sounded polite on the letter," she remembered.
"That's because he doesn't write his letters himself. I doubt he even can."
"Oh... okay?" she raised one eyebrow and returned to the others.
The first thing she noticed was the soft sound of a harp...
"Ahh..." she sighed in bliss. "Heso!" she waved at them, remembering the word.
"Heso!" the girl answered back. She truly was beautiful, but the antennas on her head were a tad bit... weird.
"You really know thing and two about this place, huh?" Usopp looked at Gen with suspicion.
"Yup!"
"Are you from the Blue Sea?" she asked. Now Gen also noticed the white little fox with a very narrow muzzle and a puffy tail.
"Yeah, we came up from down there," Luffy answered. "You live here?"
"Yes, I live here. This is the Angel Beach of Skypiea. Hihihi, that's a conasshu, you want to drink it?" the angel girl asked him. He had two melon like fruit under his arms. The girl took one of them and carved a hole to the bottom of it, plopping a straw through it. "Alright, enjoy! I'm Conis."
"Hi, I'm Gen."
"Nice to meet you!"
"YUUUMMMMM!" Luffy showed his appreciation for it.
"It's that good?"
"If there is any problem, I am willing to help you," Conis said with a smile.
"Yes, I have a problem," Sanji said with a straight face. "Your gaze burns a hole in my heart- aa!"
"Go away!" Nami pinched his ear and took his place. "There are so many things we want to know. To start up, everything here is unbelievable."
"Yes, don't hold back. Ask anything!"
Gen sat on the soft clouds and gazed at the white, endless sea. She was letting her mind go blank and hummed something random. Before she noticed, Zoro tapped her on the shoulder that it was time to move on.
"Hm? When'd he come here?" she pointed at Conis' father, Pagaya. He had goggles on his bald head (not counting the antennas) and a big basket on his back. It seemed that the waver had been presented to them also, since Nami was left to the beach. Luffy was quite jealous of her, he had tried to ride the thing and failed epically.
"Hey, there seems to be some sort of factory on the other side!" Usopp noticed while they climbed some goddamn long stairs.
"You are looking at the cloud cutting factory?"
"Cloud cutting factory?"
"They're not cutting rocks?"
"The factory cuts the cloud into blocks for easier application in construction," the older angel said.
"Clouds can be cut to blocks?"
"Everything is so illogical."
"Didn't you pass through milky way to come here from the sea?" he marvelled.
"Milky way?" Zoro was walking next to him. "You mean where the shrimp hauled us through... the route that looked like flat noodle?"
"That's an artificial cloud channel. There are two natural cloud types in this place. The kind your ship sailed on is called the sea cloud. The floating type that you can walk on is called the island cloud."
"Wait wait wait!" Gen walked in step with the man. "They really were clouds? Not, not water?"
"Silly, clouds are water," he laughed. She sagged.
"I hate this place already... Too confusing."
"But they're not just normal clouds, right? You can swim and sail..."
"Correct. This is because the molecular make-up on the cloud here is different. I heard that there is a mineral called seastone in the blue sea..." Pagaya recalled.
"Seastone? It's because of that?"
"Ah! Of course!" Gen hit her palm. "That's why it's...!"
"You're talking a lot by yourself over there," Zoro commented.
"No, what are you saying? If we had one thousand cats I wouldn't make a jacket out of them! What are you, Cruella DeVil?" she turned to her side as if talking with someone.
"..."
"Is something wrong with her?" the angel girl asked Sanji with a concerned face.
"That mineral contains a special substance... we call it 'pairopuroine'. It's a molecular substance that gets ejected to the air by volcanic eruptions. When it comes in contact with water in the air, sea cloud and island cloud are created."
"Uhh... what?" Gen's brain made a stop. "Now I'm veeeeery confused."
"What are you talking about?" Robin asked her.
"I-" she cut herself off before she managed to slip. 'Man, that wannabe god is listening on everything that we do...' "I'm just... look! A marshmallow!" she pointed to a random direction and ran off. 'No, seriously, this doesn't make sense at all! If all these clouds are full of seastone particles, why am I this useless!'
They reached Conis and Pagaya's house. They could see Nami with the waver out in the distance.
"We're home! Altur-san! We're back!"
FHUMPH!
"Hi, sweet cheeks!" a young man who could be labelled as a boy too, in her opinion, appeared out of nowhere and sat cross-legged in front of them. He had a big grin on his face telling mischief. His black hair was swept back and up into a spiky crest. He had a red splash on it and two white lines running on the sides. His smart eyes were a pale grey and his nose a little upturned. Altur had a pair of loose fitting leather shorts and a way too short grey vest held closed with an iron belt. He, like the rest of the citizens on the sky island, had wings on his back, but these were bigger and they had black feathers on the outside. The insides were white. "Heyoo! You must be lil' lady Gloria?" he gave a two-fingered salute.
"Oh, umm... yes. You must be Alt-"
"TEEEREEENTUUUNN YOU BASTARD!" there was a yell and a blur tackled her new guard. He had a look of horror before Greg took him away.
They looked how the two rolled away to have their 'touching' reunion. "...Right."
"Please, everyone, come this way!" Conis gestured towards the living room.
"Gen-chan, did you know that punk?" Sanji asked her, pointing at the direction the two had went.
"Hm, in a way. He's Altur Terentun, a demon."
"Another one?" Zoro turned to look at her. She had only seen that face on dogs guarding properties.
"Yes, another one. He's supposed to be my bodyguard while I'm here," she told them.
"A bodyguard? What for?" Conis asked.
She waved her hand. "When one is this popular, you need a couple of 'em! Tsihii~!"
"You're not popular," Zoro said flatly.
"I'm on a history book."
"YOU ARE?" Chopper's eyes bugged out.
"Yup."
"The one you received not long ago?" Robin asked.
"That one!" Gen gave the victory sign.
Sanji went into the kitchen with Conis' father as the rest of them piled in the spacious and very tidy living room. It seemed that the cook tasted something that had gone bad and started yelling at Pagaya.
"Sounds like he's having fun!" Luffy smiled.
"He's overjoyed at seeing the rare sky cuisine," Usopp nodded. Robin looked around.
"I know we've just come here, miss... but could you tell us more about those 'dials' you mentioned before?"
"Oh, of course! Let's see... how should I explain this...?" she touched her chin with her fingertips.
"Weird shells that do stuff," Gen offered her.
"Ye-yes, but no," she waved her hand.
Luffy picked up one shell. "What's this?"
"Please try saying something into it."
The boy thought if for a minute and raised the shell to his mouth. "Usopp's a moron!"
"Why, why, why'd you say that~?"
"Now try pressing the apex of the shell," Conis instructed.
"Ah, like this?"
"No, Luffy, you can't do that, it's a shell-"
"USOPP'S A MORON!" "WHY, WHY, WHY'D YOU SAY THAT~?" the dial mimicked.
"Wow! Even the shell hates you!"
"No! That's your voice!" They were both bug-eyed at the new toy presented to them.
"So that's a dial?" Zoro said out loud.
"Yes, it's a tone dial. It records sound and then broadcasts it later. It's a special shell, only in the white white sea," Conis said. "Mainly to record music."
'Damn, I really, REALLY miss my Mp3 right now...' Gen sighed inwardly in misery.
"There's no bottom to the sea. How does these things survive?" Zoro asked.
"We get them from the edge of the beach."
"If this is what a dial is... I don't understand how it can power the waver," Robin commented.
"That's not it," the angel chuckled and picked up another shell from the table. The girl proceeded on telling how the breath dial functioned, but Gen's mind and feet started wandering. She went to the balcony where Usopp and Luffy were standing and gazed at the far heavens. She noticed that the two demons were now sitting in peace with each other on a bench under a tree outside. Neither was speaking, but it seemed more like that they were communicating with the silence. Eerie like all netherworld, but cool.
"Hey! It's Greg and that other guy!" Usopp saw them too.
"Yeah! The new dude looks like a woodpecker," Luffy stated.
"A woodpecker?" Gen raised an eyebrow. "Oooi! Altur! What species?"
"Hu? Me?" He pointed at himself. "I'm a black woodpecker!"
"You were right..." Usopp and Gen sweatdropped while Luffy cheered.
"Conis-chan, can you ride the waver?" Sanji asked.
"Ahaha, barely. It has many different models, actually, the skateboard, the little ship..." she laughed nervously.
"And skates?" Gen asked.
"Yes, those too."
"That's niiice, I want to ride on a waver..." Luffy sighed. "And we have one too~."
"Yeah, but it's broken, remember. Plus it's been 200 years. No way it can still move!" Usopp said.
"Not necessarily. The dials are made from the remains of shellfish. As long as the shell is still intact, they can work practically forever."
"Hear that?" Luffy grinned.
"You still can't ride it."
"I can still wish..."
"I bet there are other kinds as well. Like this one," Robin pointed at the lamp standing on the table. Conis started listing different kinds of dials from hot dials to the scent dial.
'It's like modern day electronics turned One Piece,' Gen marvelled. '...Mp3...!'
Greg and Altur sat on her both sides in the table as Sanji put down plates and plates of wonderful sky-sea food. It was awesome, so even Zoro didn't have time to say about the sitting order.
"So, how do you guys know him?" Gen pointed to Altur.
"He showed up here a few weeks ago and he's been helping us around," Pagaya said.
"Yes! Might I introduce myself, I'm sir. Altur Terentun, the head of the Zephyr forces! I'm a demon."
"Just like Greg..." Chopper said.
"Hai!" he grinned. "Though I was surprised to see this little tadpole here, too!"
"I'm not a tadpole! I'm a Stream!" there was a tickmark on Greg's head.
"Then, what about 'creek'?"
"NOT GOOD EITHER!!"
"He's a river..?"
"Yes, Chopper! He indeed is a river! Once when I was on my journey I even had to fight one!" Usopp lied.
"COOL~!"
"If you fought a stream demon, you wouldn't sit there right now," Greg said. "There are two main sects of demons that fork into other species. I am a good example of the other one, the elementials."
"Isn't that supposed to be 'elemental'?" Sanji asked blankly.
"No, it's elemential. Then there are the beastial demons, like him," he pointed at Altur. "Elementials are a lot more harder to kill than beastials. You could almost compare us to logia and zoan type devil's fruit users. The differences are the same."
"So, it's a mystery fruit demon."
"Um... you got it wrong now..." Usopp sweatdropped.
"Then how do you two know each other?" Gen asked next.
"Hmm, I was his auntie's sugar boy," Altur winked. Several people spluttered to this, and Greg's face turned red. She had never seen her side-along demon this flustered.
"Is that so?" Gen held in the laugh.
"NO! But, ah... they did go out for a few decades..." he sagged.
"And she called me sugar boy."
"Please, not at the table."
"Okay, okay, lil' Lady-"
"Gen."
"Right, Gen. His Highness wanted to tell hello to you, but he's been too busy as of late," he sighed. "And I'm put to this babysitting gig... but not complaining, 'specially when there's all these hot chicks around, hehehe~!" he smiled and wiggled his eyebrows at Robin and Conis.
"His personality is coming clear to me now."
"Yes, Gloria-sama."
"Somebody tell me what's with all these demons and who's 'His Highness'?" Usopp inquired. "Are you a princess?" he asked Gloria.
She turned to Greg. "Am I?"
"Yes... something like that..." he tilted his head. "I don't think that that's still the actual term to it..."
"Yes Usopp, I'm a princess."
"AMAZING!" Luffy exclaimed. "WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL THAT YOU WERE A PRINCESS?"
"Please, Luffy, yell a little louder, I don't think the people on Blue Sea heard you yet!"
"OOKAAA~-!"
WHACK
"DON'T!"
"A princess...?"
"I knew your beauty had something to it!" Sanji steamed and bowed. "My la-"
Gloria shot him an annoyed and tired glare. "Don't. Seriously, don't."
"If you're a princess, what country do you have?" Zoro asked.
"I don't."
"What? You don't have a country?" Luffy's face crunched up. Then he seemed to come to some conclusion. "Ah! Maybe you lost it to someone like Crocodile too!"
"Sorry to disappoint you, but no."
"Wasn't your mother a sea serpent?" Chopper asked.
"A sea serpent...? A princess...? Demons...?" they all tilted their heads in apparent confusion. Gen sweatdropped.
"You are quite the odd one," Robin stated.
"Even the mystery mermaid was better," she sighed and continued eating.
"...Who are you?" Luffy asked her, making the air suddenly in the room very stiff. The fork going into her mouth stopped mid air, and all turned to stare at the girl. She didn't want to look at him, but then put on a fake smile:
" 'M Gen!"
They all continued in a heavy atmosphere and it was Sanji who broke it finally, wondering out loud where Nami was. This made the sky people very worried.
"In Skypiea, there is one place where no one should ever enter. That place is very close to this island, with waver, one can reach there very fast..." Conis said.
"The place no one should ever enter... what's that?"
"The Holy Land, it's where the God lives... Upper Yard."
One...
Two-
"In the place you must never, ever enter!"
"Yes."
"By 'God', you mean the God?" Chopper asked. "God lives on Sky Island?"
"Yes, because Skypiea is God's land, it is ruled by the almighty God Enel," Conis said. Her expression looked bothered.
Gen's eyebrow twitched.
"Almighty God?"
"God Enel knows everything that goes on in this world," Conis continued. "He's watching over us, always."
"Always! Even NOW!" Usopp and Luffy stood up.
"Of course."
"Eh! He's watching over us at this very moment!" Chopper looked around, like he could see his ugly face looming in some corner of the room. Gen didn't look, but wasn't surprised if it really was there.
"Hmph. God, huh?" Zoro scoffed and drank from his glass.
"Zoro, you don't believe in God?" the reindeer asked.
"Dunno. I don't care whether God exists or not. It's never mattered to me one bit."
Gen wanted to laugh so hard. He didn't believe in god, yet he was sitting in the same room with... a half.
"Well, not that I have anything against anyone who wants to believe."
"Pfft...!"
"Are you laughing?"
"N-No...!"
"So, this God who lives on Upper Yard... Have you ever seen him, Conis-chan?" Sanji asked. He had lit a new cigarette.
"No! I've never seen Him!" She held her hands up. "We cannot set foot on Upper Yard. Ever..." she looked sad. The wind bell chimed softly. "The Holy Land is forbidden."
"Is that right?" Luffy grinned. "A place we must never, ever enter, huh?"
"Ghah! Luffy! What the hell are you thinking right now!" Usopp shook the boy by his vest when he saw the face he was making. "Listen what she's saying! 'Must never, ever enter' means you ABSOLUTELY must NOT go there, Luffy!"
"Is that right~? Is that right~? A place we must never, ever enter... Huh~?" and he chomped on a piece of bread.
'He definitely wants to go...'
"But, even if you're not allowed to go there, God will still forgive you, right? He's nice, right?" Luffy asked.
"But... breaking a law that God has created is sacrilege," Conis said.
"Is that so? Oh well. Whatever." Good going Luffy, that attitude will take you long... or six feet under. Ten thousand and six from here.
"So, what are the consequences of entering this forbidden Upper Yard?" Robin asked.
"W-Well..." Conis averted her eyes to her father.
"Well?"
"You will not return alive, we believe," Pagaya said.
"W-Won't return alive!"
Sanji's eye widened and a small, strangled voice escaped him before the cig fell on the floor.
"You're worried about Nami-san, aren't you?" the old man asked. "It'd be best if she didn't go too close to Upper Yard."
"NAMI-SWAAAN!" he was yelling over the railing in a second.
"Let's go there! We'll go find Nami!" Luffy was excited.
"Is Nami really a part of your plan!" Usopp's teeth turned shark-like.
Gen was sitting quiet and staring into her hands resting in her lap. She was pretty ashamed, all those secrets she had been holding onto them were suddenly weighting down on her. 'This surely will not end well to me...Huh!'
There was a loud crack, but it was somewhere far away. It sounded a lot like a lightning...
"You know future," Zoro said slowly, not sure if he was to say anything to her when she was having that expression. "You know what will come of this."
"Y-Yeah... I do..."
"Are you worried?"
"Are you?" She bounced the question back.
"Anyone should be when the psychic is," he shrugged.
'Yeah... but I'm not really one...'
"Alright! Let's go find Nami!" Luffy said with determination. "Oh! Wait, let me finish this first..." he stuffed his face with some more sky fish.
"What if something happened to Nami while you're wasting time here! Put it down! We'll be back soon enough!" Sanji was anxious.
"Actually, we don't know for sure if she really went there, so please don't act recklessly... If we anger Enel, this will become very problematic..." Conis said.
"Ah, by the way, you said you had a broken waver," Pagaya remembered. "If it's not too much trouble, let me check it. I will repair it if I can."
"My father's a dial boat engineer," Conis explained.
"Really! Thanks!" Luffy was still eating.
They walked back to the shore and Luffy fetched the old waver as the others returned to the ship to ready it for sailing. Gen sat on the shore with Greg and Altur on her side, and the sea demon rubbed her back in console.
"This is not going well..." she sighed.
"Come on, stop brooding that much! With those heavy thoughts, you'll end up bringing the whole cloud down to the blue sea!" Altur poked her arm.
"I can't help this. I feel guilty... And I don't get this place..."
"Ah, you mean your powers?"
She nodded and looked at the woodpecker with lost child's eyes.
"That's simple: the seastone isn't the only thing that gives out the power of the sea. Kairouseki is actually composed of two minerals, 'the lock' that can fly high with the volcanoes and stuff, and then there are 'the key' particles that are too heavy to reach clouds. When the molecules are moving freely, the minerals separate from each other. Without the key the sea stone loses its potential and thus is harmless to devil's fruit users. That's why the idiot and the tanuki can even walk," he gestured to them. He didn't seem to know that Robin was one, too.
"What does that have to do with me?"
"When the lock is alone, the kairouseki won't give off the power of the sea. Down on the ground level you're always close to the sea or land, where the sea stone is complete and gives off power."
"Hey, what does the key mineral do when alone?" Greg asked with a frown.
"Oh? The excess just floats in the air, unless it finds a sea mineral to attach to. It sometimes can attach itself to other minerals, but that's a matter of it's own."
"Gloria-sama... when I asked from Chopper-san about your blood and what had he found out, he said that the blood cells try to form a protective film against something that's in the air. I wonder..." Greg smoothed his hair.
"Huuh? So, do you think that this 'key' mineral... could be it?"
"What are you blabbering about?" Altur looked at them blankly.
"My blood turns purple while on dry land, but stays red in the water," she said half-heartedly.
"Really?" his eyebrows shot to his hairline.
"Yeah..." she wasn't paying attention to their talking anymore. She had spotted movement and now just stared at the weird phenomenon. "I spy with my little blue eye... something retarded."
"They're crawling." Greg sweatdropped. "In plain sight, too."
"Squad, halt!" the weird men stopped and got up. "Heso!"
"Heso!" Conis and Pagaya greeted them back.
"What are you talking about?" Luffy asked.
"Hey Luffy! Ignore them! Let's go get Nami-san!" Sanji's voice reached them.
"You! You are those citizens of Blue Sea, who illegally entered Skypiea!" the 'boss' of those creepy crawlers boomed. This surprised Conis and her father. "There is no point denying. We already received this from the watcher of heaven's gate, Yamashin. It's a picture taken with photo dial!" he had a stack of pictures in his hand. Luffy's face was first, she could tell.
"This can't be! It's not possible! There may be a mistake, captain MacKinley! Pagaya tried to find a reason. "They're not bad guys...!"
"Please stop arguing, just admit it! The situation is not serious enough to cause panic," MacKinley said.
'My butt...' Gen rolled her eyes.
"Maa, maa. That guy is such a pain~," Altur had his pinky in his ear.
"Did you ever pay?" Greg asked him.
"Nope."
"Figures..."
"And you would?"
"...no."
"How did you get past the guard then?" Gen asked.
"Are you blind? I've got wings!" he pointed to his back.
"So do other people here..."
"Yeah, but I can actually use them. See?" he fluttered them like a butterfly.
"W-WHAT!" Usopp's voice brought her back to the present issue. "How much is that in berri!"
"Uhmm..." she pointed at them and looked at Greg.
"The punishment of higher payment."
"Ah."
"Berri... that's the dollar value of the Blue Seas. In berri... 10,000 extol is 1," MacKinley counted quickly. There was some talking on the Merry's deck.
"WHAT! THAT'S TOO MUCH! With that much money you can literally buy tons of rice! We risked our lives to get here! Why do we have to pay that much money!" Sanji bellowed.
"If you had paid in the first place, it would've only been 800,000 berries."
"THAT'S STILL A LOT!!"
...wwwuuuummm...!
"Nami's back," Gen announced quietly.
"I'll give you a warning. We are the white beret, direct servants of the Priests. If you continue to deny, your criminal status will worsen!" the man said. "Also, this waver, it looks broken! If you broke it, then it's a class 10 crime. The one about citizen of Blue Sea braking properties in Sky Island..." he pointed to the old waver.
"No, no, no. Excuse me. This was theirs to begin with..." Pagaya said.
"Theirs? There shouldn't be wavers in the Blue Seas, if this was stolen from Sky Island, it's a class 9 crime."
"What crime-class would it be if I said that Enel is a stuck up piece of- mmmph!"
"Please, M'Lady! Don't speak so loud!" Greg covered her mouth.
"So noisy. Stop or I'll really send you flying with a punch!" Luffy had a tick mark on his head.
"PLEASE WAIT!" Nami yelled when she got close enough.
"AAAAHH! NAMI-SWAAAAAN! YOU'RE SAAAAFE~!"
"Luffy! Don't oppose those men!"
"But these guys-!"
"Don't oppose them? Hey Nami! Can we afford to pay a fine of 8 million berri?" Usopp asked.
"...oh... so we just need to pay a fine... of 8 million berri..." she muttered to herself. The waver sped up and...
...hit MacKinely right in the face.
"IT'S TOO EXPENSIVE!"
"Oi..." Zoro and Usopp hit air.
"Guah!"
"Captain~! I'm back!" Nami sang. "Ah! Because of their illogically high fine, I lost it right now...!" she realized.
"That's a bit too late now, Nami!" Gen piped up.
There ye go.