SailorStar9: With Chapter 181 uploaded, I present Chapter 182 this fic. For everyone who put this fic on your favorited and followed lists and/or story alerts, thank you, but remember everyone, a lot of authors (myself included) sustain on readers' reviews.

Pairings: Ace/Sasha, sibling Luffy/Sasha and Sabo/Sasha, Background Protector!Law/Sasha

Disclaimers: One Piece belongs to Oda Eiichirō-sensei. Me, on the other hand, own absolutely nothing, except my OC, the pairing and the fic idea.

Chapter 182: Arc 12: Face-Off! Sasha Vs. Big Mom!


"Minister of the Left!" one of the sentry soldiers reported in. "Sir Pekoms and Baron Tamago are here."

"Big Mom's subordinates are here again?" the Minister of the Left echoed. "And so soon after their last confrontation with Jinbe and Fire-Fist. Go and inform Fire-Fist about this."

"Right." the soldier took off.


"Again?" Ace exclaimed after the soldier told him of the island's unexpected guests. "And here I thought they'll leave this place alone for a while longer. Guess that can't be helped. Please inform the Left Minister to take me to them, I'll settle this once and for all."

"And if your means of settling the situation means yet another fight, they'll just keep returning, you realize." Sasha deathpanned.

"And what do you propose go about settling this?" Ace posed the questioned.

"Have the Minister of the Left bring the Tamate Box." Sasha instructed the soldier. "If we can use the national treasure of the Fish-Man Island to stop Big Mom from encroaching Whitebeard's territory, then it's worth it."

"At once, My Lady." the soldier hurried off.


"You two again?" Ace shook his head, facing off against Pekoms and Tamago on the streets. "And I thought you two would back off after Jinbe-sensei and I kicked both your asses the last time."

"You don't know how terrifying Mama is." Pekoms argued. "Make her mad and you'll be annihilated!"

"And just because Pops' dead, you people think his territories are up for grabs." Ace challenged, his fists igniting with flames.

"Ace, we're here to negotiate, not start another fight." Sasha reminded, entering the negotiation area with the Minister of the Left beside her, the catfish Merman bearing the Tamate Box in his hands.

"That's Thalassa Sasha." Pekoms referred to his pile bounty posters. "No doubt about it. What's such a famous pirate doing here? No way!" his Mink senses alerted him of Sasha's real identity, the Water Dragon Goddess' Divine Haki flooded the street, the surrounding Fish-Men and Merfolk stood in awe as the revered Goddess of Fish-Man Island revealed herself. "Has the Dragon Empress been reborn?"

"Subordinates of the Yonkou, Big Mom." in Queen Selena mode and her bident in hand, Sasha addressed Pekoms and Tamago. "You will leave Fish-Man Island."

"What was that?" Pekoms snapped. "I can't move!" he found himself rooted to the ground by the sheer pressure of Selena's Haki.

"Pekoms," Tamago chided, finding himself in a similar state. "Let us find a peaceful solution to this, soir. We can't do anything in the face of this incredible Conqueror's Haki."

"This is... the Dragon Empress?" giving in to his Mink instinct, Pekoms kowtowed before the revealed Goddess.

"Bon day to you, my Lady." Tamago introduced himself. "I am a soft-boiled member of our pirate crew. "I go by the name of Baron Tamago, soir. Please at least remember my name, sil vous plait."

"Of course, you would not return to Big Mom empty-handed." Sasha assured. "Minister." she looked at the Minister of the Left who then presented the Tamate Box to Tamago. "Return to Big Mom with the Ryugu Palace's greatest treasure, the Tamate Box, and in exchange, Big Mom will leave Fish-Man Island unmolested."

"Mama, this is Tamago speaking." Tamago answered Big Mom's Den Den Mushi call. "We... ran into a problem."

"If it's the Fire-Fist brat, take him out!" Big Mom roared over the Den Den Mushi.

"It's not that..." Tamago stammered. "It's Thalassa Sasha... she offered the Fish-Man Island's national treasure in exchange for us to leave Fish-Man Island untouched."

"The Fish-Man Island's national treasure..." Big Mom's interest was piqued. "Interesting. Leave the receiver on, Tamago. You are a very interesting child, Thalassa Sasha; it takes an extraordinary person to negotiate terms with me." she addressed Sasha. "Very well, I will leave Fish-Man Island alone, but instead, I'll change my target to you. Thalassa Sasha, I'll remember you. Come to the New World!"

"Indeed." Sasha replied. "Just you wait. I also have something to settle with you: you're too dangerous to trust. The Fish-Man Island is still my late father-in-law's territory. I refuse to allow someone like you to infringe on it."

"That is a... rather interesting way to propose, Sasha-hime." Ace teased, hugging his partner from the back. "And here I thought I should be the one doing the proposing."

"If I'd left it up to you, I'd probably have to wait till I am forty." Sasha joked back.

"You brats!" Big Mom snapped, enraged by the quite obvious flirting that came from the receiver's other end.


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