Epilogue

Vivi munched her chips as she flicked through the television channels. Nothing interesting was on. Mostly just commercials…

But wait. That restaurant commercial…that was Nami and Usopp! She quickly un-muted the TV.

Sure enough, "-feminine-sexist."

"That makes no-"

"The workers there spend their time insulting guests. Would you call that a good restaurant?"

Vivi watched Usopp argue with an off-screen Luffy and Zoro, and then Nami wrap it up admirably with a single line. She was giggling to herself: there was no doubt in her mind whatsoever that they had been entirely ignoring the script. They must have had a kind boss if he put up with them and used a commercial like that.

Of course, since Luffy's eating habits left the Straw Hats almost permanently broke, Vivi knew at once that they had probably only done a commercial like that for the money. She was happy with that, considering how she got to see them.

When the commercial ended, she resumed flicking through the channels. To her utter surprise, there she found Usopp, Sanji, and Chopper onscreen. Usopp was talking enthusiastically to an enthralled Chopper while Sanji looked on with an inexplicable expression that only gave away that he was not happy at all.

"-like it was just about to win, and the whistle was only 63 seconds away! Team White was down 3-0! But then their midfielder decided that they simply couldn't lose, since it was too humiliating. So, with only those 63 seconds left, he took the ball, and kicked it high up into the air! Then he ran, as fast as he could, and leapt over everyone's heads. And there, above the head of the goalie, he kicked with all his might, scoring and landing atop…"

Vivi listened to Usopp's story, giggling to herself every so often when Usopp completely crossed over from reality to the absurd. Then Sanji abruptly ended the commercial, and Vivi was thrown into a slightly un-princess-like fit of giggles.

Wherever they were, she was glad to see that they were getting along fine.

Of course, it never occurred to her that they had been ripped off in making those commercials. She assumed that with Nami's love of money, they would have at least signed a standard contract before beginning to make the commercials, ensuring that they were paid some sum for their time, at least, even if the commercials were not used.

If the Straw Hats had known what the Boss had done, they probably would have mauled him to within an inch of his life. No one messed with the Straw Hat Pirates like that!

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately; it depends on how one sees it) for them, the Boss was thrown into jail within the week after the commercials were released. Captain Smoker, who had suffered a demotion for working together with a pirate and neglecting to fight him in favor of spaghetti of al things, captured the Boss and persecuted him under charges of conspiring with pirates. The fact was that he had known that they were pirates when he hired them, and yet he had worked with them rather than turning them in, and so he was found guilty and sentenced to five years behind bars.

Captain Smoker, who had no recollection of making such a commercial (though he remembered the day that he had neglected to fight Fire-Fist Ace in favor of spaghetti, no one else was going to hear about that—and besides, the spaghetti had tasted excellent), appealed to a court against his demotion. As a result he was un-demoted, and let off with a warning (which he ignored).

And the Straw Hats continued happily on along the Grand Line, blissfully oblivious to all of this. Still, Nami did think it was rather odd that there seemed to be the occasional page missing from the newspaper, which she would always find in Robin's vicinity with one section cut out.

But she shrugged it off. Maybe Robin had started a collection of history-related articles in the news or something.

Author's Note: And that is the end! Thanks for reading, everyone! Hope you found it enjoyable!