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I was taking out my treasure stash as I know what will happen after this. We're all back to the ship to find Nami and Luffy is talking to Pagaya-san, showing him the old waver. Usopp and Zoro are both giving me weird looks as I walked out from the Girl's Room with a big sack in hand. I jumped off from the ship and approached Luffy as Pagaya-san checking on the old waver and I heard some commotion from the long stairs from before, telling us and the suspicious looking ship to stop right there. Huh. The thing I hate from this Arc is finally here. What a pain in the ass!
As the people, the Skypiea's police force, the White Beret, finally at the end of the stairs, they all suddenly starts crawling on the cloud, which making Luffy to face-fault at the weird sight. The White Beret then stood back up and greeted both Pagaya-san and Conis with that 'Heso' greetings, which resulting another face-fault from Luffy, asking what are they talking about before the one who seems like the leader of the White Beret starts looking at us sharply.
"You!" He called, "You are those citizens of Blue Sea who illegally entered Skypiea!" he exclaimed.
"Yea we sure did." I answered bluntly, which making both Pagaya-san and Conis shocked about that.
"EEEHH!? Illegal trespassers!?" both of them asked in shock and disbelief.
"Yea. We don't have this place's currency and that old woman from the gate said that we can pay or not pay, it doesn't matter." I answered them and put the big sack I've been holding on to the white cloud down, "I got some treasures and things from the Blue Sea, but I dunno if it's enough for everything." I added.
"'Tresspassing'?" Luffy echoed in confusion, "What did we do anyway, Eri?" he asked me.
"Remember that old woman from the gate before we got up here?" he nodded, "That granny reported us for trespassing even though she's the one who said that we can go without paying the toll."
"Oh yeah! I remember that granny!" He said.
"There is no point denying. We already received this from the watcher of Heaven's Gate, Yamashin," so that's her name, "It's a picture taken with Video Dial." The White Beret leader said, showing a picture of the others in his hand. "Not paying the toll's fee is only Class 11 Crime. After you received the punishment, you will immediately become regular tourists." He explained calmly.
"How about this though?" I thumbed the big sack right next to me, "I think this should be enough for everything, right?" I asked.
"Boys! Check it!" The other members of the White Beret took the big sack, which actually needed a few members to drag them away from me. Weak.
After a few minutes, they all finished checking the amount of beli in that sack and announced that the amount of the beli is more than enough to pay the tolls, which making the leader nodded at that.
"It's good to know that you want to cooperate with us. You can just pay the toll fee for 700.000 beli before instead of paying for 7 million beli because of the punishment." The leader said calmly.
"7-7 million beli!? That's too many! With that amount of money, you can literally buy tons of rice!" Sanji-san exclaimed, "Eri-chan! I know you're humble and all, but you don't need to pay it all! We should just discuss this together with Nami-san first!" He told me from the ship, which kinda unusual of him to tell me that and being his usual self instead his swooning mode.
"Nami will never want to pay it. She'll probably just gonna hit this guy using Pagaya-san's waver while going back here." I replied while thumbing the leader of the White Beret. I really need to know his name though…
"But still. Did you break this waver?" the leader of the White Beret asked as he saw the old waver, starts checking on it himself while both Pagaya-san and Conis start to panic. "Breaking Sky Island's properties by Blue Sea citizens are also a crime. In fact, it's Class 10 Crime!" He continued.
"No, no, no. Excuse me, but this was theirs to begin with…" Pagaya-san tried to explain it to the leader.
"Theirs? There shouldn't be waver in the Blue Sea. If this was stolen from Sky Island, it's a Class 9 Crime." The leader continued.
"We found it from a wreckage ship that fell from the sky, so it's basically ours. We just got here, why we immediately steal something from here?" I asked calmly as I tried to calm Luffy down.
"PLEASE WAIT!"
Ah, the Sea Witch is back.
"AAAHH! NAMI-SWAAAAN! YOU'RE SAFE!"
"Luffy! Eri! Don't oppose those men!" Nami told us.
"I'm not opposing them. I'm trying to solve all of the problems here before you tried to do something regretfully." I replied.
"Hey Nami! Can we afford to pay a fine of 7 million beli!? Eri just paid it, but still! That's a big amount of money!" Usopp exclaimed.
"7 million beli… Oh, so we just need to pay a fine… 7 million beli…" oh god there she comes.
Nami actually added the speed of the waver and about to run the leader over using it, but I quickly stop her by holding the waver using imbued haki hands. I glared at her and she actually flinched as she woke up from her anger.
"What are you trying to do, Nami?" I asked her with hidden anger, still holding onto the waver, "You almost hitting this guy and giving ALL OF US A BIG TROUBLE! STOP ACTING BEFORE YOU THINK!" I yelled at her in pure anger. She paled at this and the waver finally stop moving around as she finally come to her senses and jumped off from the waver with guilty face. I huffed in anger as I put the waver down carefully before I turned around to face the leader, who's a bit shaken up because of that.
"Sorry about that. Are you hurt somewhere?" I asked him.
"No… Fortunately, I'm not." He answered slowly, "W-well, as all of that settled, I suppose I get to let all of you go. Please take your time here. Heso!" He contied, making that weird gesture with his hand behind his head, pointing out two fingers, which also followed by the other members before they left, much to both Pagaya-san and Conis' relieves.
I let out a sigh before I turned my head sharply to Nami after she gives the waver back to Pagaya-san, which making he paled up a bit on what's coming next.
"Just what IN THE HELL'S NAME ARE YOU THINKING ON ATTACKING THE GUY LIKE THAT, NAMI!?" I yelled at her as she flinched, "I KNOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY LEFT BECAUSE OF LUFFY AND ME, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN ACT RECKLESSLY LIKE THAT! WE CAN JUST HAVE A GODDAMN PEACEFUL CONVERSATION WITH THEM WITHOUT ANY FUCKING VIOLENCE FOR ONCE JUST LIKE YOU ALWAYS FUCKING WANTED TO! BUT WHAT WERE YOU ABOUT TO DO JUST THEN?! SLAMMING PAGAYA-SAN'S WAVER RIGHT INTO HIS FUCKING FACE JUST BECAUSE OF MONEY!?" I panted out as my face is so hot and red because of all anger I stored inside me all exploded out while Nami seems like she's about to cry and I sighed to try to calm myself down.
"Listen, Nami. It's not that I'm angry at you or hate you, but sometimes you also did the same as Luffy does; acting before you think and that frustrates me. You can just tell me if the money stash is almost out, and I can just go off to somewhere to steal some pirates' treasures or something! Just—" I stopped my sentence as I took a deep breath and let it all out. "You know what? Let's just… I'm just gonna leave for a moment to calm myself down. Don't try to search me unless I'm back." I told all of them and turned my heel away as I walked away from there with my cap shadowing my eyes, leaving the others speechless there.
I keep on walking so that I'm at the end side of the beach and I sat down on the white cloud near the edge of the beach, letting the wave of the sea water nearing my feet. I hugged my legs as I rested my forehead on my knees before dark auras start to appear around me comically.
I did it again! I should really stop exploding my emotions all over the place again and spews it all to someone! It happened a few times already! Curse this stupid personality of mine!
While I was frustrating over myself comically and actually hurting myself, I didn't realize that Takao is actually following after me, only to see me acting weird and all, which relieved him that I'm not that depressed and mad anymore.
I turned my head and jumped up in the air for a few feet in shock when I saw Takao. What the heck!? I didn't realize that he's here!
"Ojou-sama. We should go back…" He started.
"No way! What if Nami is actually upset at me for yelling at her! She's three years older than me and usually, older people will get mad if someone younger than you is yelling at you and telling you some true shits! Every elders are like that!" I replied with frustrated gestures. Great! Now Nami is definitely going to hate me!
"Actually, Nami is not mad at you. She actually accepts your words and she also said that she'll be more careful on what she acts now." Takao said, "she also the one who sends me here to come and get you back to discuss something." He added.
"She did?! Why though? I yelled at her, shouldn't she be angry at me for that?" I asked back in confusion. Back on my place, it's a disrespectful on yelling or talking back at someone who's older than you, whether it's for justifying yourself because you're the right one or telling a truth even though the elder one is the one at fault. It's unfair, I know, but that's the one that shaped my personality.
There's no Justice in this whole world. Never was, never will.
"No, she didn't. She actually admits that it is her fault." Takao answered.
…
"…Okay then." I replied slowly as I walked up to him, "But if she actually got mad at me, I will sue you for betraying and lying to me." I told him with serious face before mounting him in his Griffin mode, which making Takao to sweat-drop at this before he takes off back to where the ship and others are.
But the ship is nowhere to be found.
…
"Something happened to the ship and the others." I said, "Takao. Let's go back to Pagaya-san's place."
"Roger that." He replied as he flew toward Pagaya-san's house's balcony. There, we found just three members of the Strawhat; Luffy, Sanji-san, and Usopp.
"Sup everyone?" I greeted them as Takao landed on the balcony, which taking everyone's attentions and they called my name.
"Where are the others?" I asked them.
"They got held as hostages by the God along with Merry!" Usopp answered and this confused me. Why? Because I settled the problem with the White Beret down already! What the heck is going on this time!?
WHY EVERYTHING NEVER GOES AS PLANNED GODDAMNIT!?
A/N: Eyyy, I have returned. Another short chapter, I know, but better than none, right? Right. And LOL, wonder who destroyed Eri-chan's plan like that? I can bet you that Eri-chan is going to get pissed off. And to my lovely readers out there, Eri-chan's reactions here is 50% mine, but try to guess which part. It's actually easy as this part is my least favorite part in the arc.
Review Time!
To gamelover41592: Thanks! Let's just hope I can finish the arc by the end of February!
To Shu: Thank you! xD Hmm, I dunno about that… I don't think I can do that though, knowing that Enel never died; he just got blasted off to the moon (if I'm not mistaken) and still kicking well! Sorry to disappoint you! Dx And aww, thanks! I always miss you too! 333
To JayH120: Kinda spoilerish, but the one who ruin Eri-chan plan is actually her opponent in this Arc. XD
And I think that's all! Thank you again for sticking up with me and this story! Love you all~! 333
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