"Hey, Luffy, are you finally going to tell us what happened yesterday?" Sanji asked him, while picking berries to fill their food supply.

Stock which, it should be noted, had completely disappeared during the meal the day before. Besides, Luffy still had the huge bump that Sanji's foot had given him when hitting the top of his head, when the blond had discovered that Luffy had devoured all their supplies during the night.

"What are you talking about?" Luffy questioned him, in all innocence.

"I found Katakuri and the others to be very calm yesterday," He remarked, "And coincidentally, that was after you came back, with several facial injuries! What happened in this forest ? "

"Oh, well…that wasn't really me! Just that…" Luffy stammered, not knowing how to lie to him.

Last night, when returning to the cave, after their battle against the primates, Luffy quickly noticed that Katakuri and the others had decided to keep quiet, regarding their fight.

Indeed, one of the monkeys had managed to make a small scratch on Katakuri's cheek and had managed to make him bleed. The boy had preferred that the others not know that the first person who had hurt him was a monkey.

Nevertheless, the others were quite curious to know what happened and if Luffy was the one who fought against them.

"I wonder what happened?" Shirahoshi affirmed. "Luffy-san, are you the one who fought them?"

'' I'd be surprised. " Law retorted, on his computer. " How could he manage to make so many scratches on them without having the slightest nail broken or turned over, or even the slightest trace of blood on his fingers? "

"Never mind." Shirahoshi assured. "To tell the truth, I was afraid that the cohabitation would go wrong! But since this incident, they are really calm and no one wants Katakuri to replace Luffy-san as leader anymore."

"They're waiting for him to make a mistake." Sanji retorted, looking in the direction of Katakuri and the others.

The high school student was not far from them, lying on a rock. He seemed to be sunbathing quite quietly while Luffy's group had to take care of the harvest. However, no one had any desire to go and complain about it, because Katakuri was the only one who allowed Daifuku and Oven to keep quiet.

If Luffy and the others decided to insist on him doing chores, they feared that Katakuri would let his brothers do whatever they wanted. However, while they seemed to be quiet, some tension could be felt between Katakuri and Perospero. Indeed, the eldest of the family always seemed angry with her brother because of their argument.

" If you want my opinion, they keep quiet and wait for Luffy to make a mistake to prove to us that Katakuri is better than him. " The blonde affirmed.

"Honestly, I think Katakuri is scary." Shirahoshi confessed.

"I thought too." Nami asserted, her arm now firmly tied as Katakuri had advised. "Last time, I was surprised that he was having fun tearing my t-shirt and I thought he wanted to touch me! But, in fact, he really cared about my health! Law confirmed that he was right about my bone structure! So I don't think he's that hateful."

" Me, I don't hate him. " Luffy affirmed. "Actually, I find it amusing to know that we will be rivals, in a few years."

"For my part, I don't know if we really can trust him." Sanji retorted.

"For now, let's continue to live like this." Law advised. "The worst thing that could happen to our group would be an internal quarrel that would force us to fight for the right to keep the cavern! Besides, with them here, we can claim to feel more secure against an enemy attack."

Then, closing his computer, he looked more serious.

"On the other hand, now that we are more numerous, I find that our fruit reserves have dropped considerably. need to ration everything! If we continue on this path, it won't take long for us to be in short supply."

It is true that since the arrival of the Katakuri group, seeing berry bushes still full of their fruit was becoming increasingly rare. Katakuri's brothers were big eaters, not to mention the fact that Luffy constantly tried to take advantage of the night to eat on the sly.

And recently, Katakuri had also had to resign himself to eating a few bunches of red berries a day, now that his brothers no longer wanted to hunt in the forest since the attack of the monkeys. If he wanted to eat something other than fruit, he could only rely on Sanji but the blond couldn't catch enough fish to feed the whole group. Only Nami, because of the taste of these berries, still did not eat them and was content with the other fruits that grew here and there.

Nevertheless, on its own, the arsinotherium, which seemed to have taken up residence here, ate, without forcing itself, three times our consumption.

"I saw some bushes in a clearing, a little further." Shirahoshi assured. "We can always go there to renew our stock."

"In that case, I'd appreciate it if Katakuri and the others came to help us." Nami affirmed. "It's good to say that they are protecting the place! But we have never been attacked! So, as much to say that they are useless."

"We charge you to go tell them that." Law told her.

"Huh…finally, I pass." The redhead said.

A person who had been watching them for a while decided to join us, smiling.

"You seem to get along very well despite your multiple quarrels." Tashigi remarked.

"Tashigi-sempai?"

"It's miraculous, isn't it?" She questioned them.

"What are you talking about?" Nami asked her.

"A flight attendant, a bossy girl, a stalker, and our high school prodigy are a group led by someone who has never taken school seriously."

"I'm not a stalker." Sanji muttered. "I'm just trying to get a girlfriend."

"If I may say so, why is your leader Luffy-kun and not Law-kun?"

"Simply because this guy takes on the role of leader better than me." Affirmed Law. "Nevertheless, I still say that Katakuri seems to have more leadership skills than him."

"I want Luffy-san to always be our leader." Shirahoshi retorted, who was still afraid of Katakuri.

"How do you deal with each other?" Tashigi wanted to know. "It seems you get along a lot better than Katakuri and his brothers."

" Huh, that is… " Luffy stammered. "It's quite hard to explain."

"It's nothing." She assured, smiling. "Anyway, I will do everything I can to bring you back safe and sound! Both your group and mine! I will never abandon anyone on this island! Your place is not here, but at home, with your family and friends! For this, we must work hand in hand to survive and so we can wait for help to arrive without worrying about our safety."

" She is right! Above all, we must not lose hope and start fighting against each other! This island may be unknown on any map, there will be a time when a plane will fly over it and give the coordinates of its position so that people can study it! On that day, we will finally be saved! »

"I completely agree with you." Nami agreed.

"Me too! Let's all work together and we'll get there." Sanji chimed in. "And then I could finally see Vivi-chan and the others again."

"You're right." Luffy affirmed, shaking his fist in front of him. "After all that we have been through, since we have been here, we have finally found a place where we can regain our strength and rest a bit! It is already a good start, and there is no question of s 'stop there.'

At that moment, he heard a crashing sound. Immediately, his gaze fell on the body of his main teacher who had just collapsed on the ground for no reason and lost consciousness. To tell the truth, no one had understood what had just happened.

" But that … ? "

"Tashigi-sensei?" Nami questioned.

"What happened to her?" Sanji wanted to know.

"She collapsed suddenly." Shirahoshi frightened.

Without wasting a second, Law quickly put his hand on her forehead and took her pulse. His diagnosis was quickly established.

"She's hot! She must have a lot of fever."

"What's going on?" Asked Katakuri, who was alerted by our shouts and rushed towards us, followed by his three brothers.

"It looks like she got sick." Nami explained to him.

"Go back there in the cave." Katakuri ordered, to his brothers.

" Damn, but what happened to her?" " Luffy wondered. " She lost consciousness for some reason that escapes me! Is it fatigue? No, that wouldn't explain the fact that she was hot! She is sick ? Strange, she seemed in great shape, just a minute ago. »

Behind him, continuing to nibble berries, the two ptilodus didn't seem to understand what was happening. Noting that Shirahoshi was no longer paying any attention to them, they ended up leaving, heading for the forest.

"What happened?" Tashigi wanted to know, opening her eyes.

During the two hours that she had dozed off, the other survivors, be it the members of Luffy's group or that of Katakuri, had stayed by her bedside, waiting for her condition to improve. The patient, lying on one of the sheet beds, tried to come to her senses and understand how she had arrived there.

"Are you okay?" Shirahoshi questioned her, putting a small wet towel on her forehead. "You passed out all of a sudden and it looks like you have a high fever."

"I don't know! But I don't think it's serious! I must have caught a cold, that's all! Sorry to have worried you."

"Your…your eyes." Nami suddenly shouted.

Not quite understanding what she meant, Luffy also looked at Tashigi's eyes and saw that they had changed color.

"I have a feeling your eyes are red." He remarked.

"What? My eyes? Red?" The young woman wondered, pretending to feel her eyes.

"He's right." Oven affirmed, leaning towards her. "And it even looks like they're slightly puffy."

"Let me see." Law ordered, taking off her glasses.

After watching her eyes for a good minute, he had to face the facts.

"I don't know what she has, exactly! In any case, there must have been a vein that pierced near her eyes! That would explain the redness as well as the slight swelling of the latter. "

"And is it serious?" Nami asked.

"I can't say anything."

"So now we can catch diseases that are unknown to us." Sanji concluded. "Each time we manage to escape a danger, another has to fall on us without warning! Anyway, forgive me, Tashigi-sensei if what I'm about to tell you will scare you, but, it is obvious that no one here can treat you like a real doctor!

Everyone looked at him immediately.

"What?" He wondered, not understanding that this kind of truth should be kept quiet. " What did I say ? "

" A disease? " Luffy repeated. " It's true that if we get sick on this island, we won't be able to do anything to heal! Tra-o has some knowledge of medicine, but it's not enough! »

" Too bad our family doctor isn't with us. " Oven said to Daifuku. "Being a nurse, I'm sure she could have helped us with the…"

He fell silent when he noticed that his brother was shaking all over as if he were cold.

"What's up with you, Daifuku?" The boy wanted to know.

"I don't know." His brother told him. "I feel like I've just been put in a fridge."

Suddenly, Oven noticed that his brother's eyes were a little more scarlet than usual. "

" Damn it ! "

Fearing the worst, his brother put his hand on his forehead and saw that he too had a fever. "

"You're feverish too! And besides, your eyes are starting to turn red."

"What?" The others were alarmed, looking at the new patient.

"It's good! I'm fine." Daifuku assured. "But I admit to being a bit cold."

" He's also a member of Katakuri's group and he has the same symptoms as Tashigi-sensei. "Stated Law. " So that would mean that this disease … "

"Let us see." Shirahoshi advised him, walking towards him.

Seeming to be seized with a bad feeling, Luffy wanted to stop her.

"Wait, Weak-hoshi..." Luffy began.

"Leave!" Katakuri yelled suddenly, putting himself between Daifuku and Shirahoshi.

"What?" Shirahoshi panicked, noticing that he was doing this to keep her away from the patient. "Why are you screaming?"

"This cave now belongs to my group." He exclaimed. "Others get out of here."

Everyone turned to him, wondering if they had heard the boy's order correctly. Even Oven and Daifuku looked at him with a surprised expression. Of course, it didn't take long for the first protests to break out.

"What did you say?" Nami questioned him. "You want to get us out of here? No way! We were there before you."

"Why are you angry with us when we help your companions?" Shirahoshi asked.

"Hey, Kaku-i! What are you talking about?" Luffy questioned him.

Katakuri suddenly looked him straight in the eyes. As if a link had suddenly united their two spirits, Luffy understood that he was certainly not going to answer him and that he left him no choice. In the end, Luffy eventually declares.

"It's okay! Do as he says."

"What?" Sanji wondered.

"Take your things." Luffy ordered.

"Luffy, why do we have to…?" Nami began.

"I said " Let's go. " "

Looking at each other, Law and Sanji groaned in displeasure, before finally grabbing their things and taking the girls'. Then, under the menacing eye of Katakuri, they left the cave.

"Actually, Katakuri is really just a filthy rat." Nami growled. "To think that I started to think he wasn't that bad! I was wrong to want to show him sympathy."

Currently, she was shirtless, while Shirahoshi examined the improvement in her arm bone. Law, for his part, was on his computer, and trying to make a find on his databases, concerning the disease which had befallen the group of Katakuri.

Nevertheless, sighing several times, he showed that his research was in vain.

"It's true that he had no right to chase us away." Shirahoshi agreed.

" But the worst part is that you let him, Luffy. " Nami reproached him. "Talk about a boss! Were you afraid to retaliate?"

"That's not it, Nami." Luffy retorted, while sitting behind a large rock with Sanji and Law. "He actually did it to protect us."

"Huh? How does chasing us from the only place on this island where we were safe protect us?"

" It's simple though. " Sanji declared. "I had a hard time understanding him, but I finally realized he was doing this for Tashigi-sensei's health! It is known that it is not recommended that several people remain in contact with a patient! Since her immune system is now underperforming, we must prevent any of us from contaminating her further with our germs.'

"It's not just that." Law retorted, rubbing his eyes. "Only some members of his group are infected with this strange disease! They must have caught it some time before they met us! That's why he wanted us to stay away from them and that's put himself in quarantine! He was afraid that it was contagious and that we were affected by this virus. "

"Is that true?" Nami wondered. "In this case, he really wants to protect us."

"You are amazing, Luffy-san." Shirahoshi congratulated him.

"Huh? For what reason?"

"You understood katakuri just by looking him in the eye, right? That's very impressive."

"It's just that Kaku-i isn't someone who actually enjoys hurting others." Luffy stated. "Seeing him act like that, I knew he was doing it for a good reason."

"Hey, Law! Did you find anything useful?" Sanji questioned him.

The boy didn't answer him. In fact, he seemed lost in his wits, and looked like he was about to fall asleep standing up.

"Law?" Luffy wondered.

Seeing him not answering him, he gave him a light pat on the shoulder and, immediately, Law collapsed on his side. "

" What is … ? "

"LAW!" Sanji shouted, slapping him awake. "What's up with you, man?"

"Are you okay?" Luffy questioned him, putting the flat of my hand on his forehead.

He noticed immediately that he was hot.

"You have a fever too! Why didn't you say so sooner?"

"Fe …fever?" repeated the boy, in a weak voice. "Don't talk nonsense! I feel... in great shape."

He then opened his eyes and the two other boys could notice that they were red.

"What's going on?" Nami asked, arriving with Shirahoshi.

Nevertheless, Sanji positioned his arm in front of them, in order to stop them.

"Don't come any closer."

" What ? "

" Law is infested too. " Sanji explained. "So it's not just the Katakuri group that is plagued by this outbreak."

" That's not true. " Luffy exclaimed, hugging his friend before starting to run.

"What are you doing?" Sanji questioned him.

"I'm going back to the cave! We can't leave him there."

" Is it already too late for us? »

"Kaku-i!" Luffy called after arriving at the entrance of his old home. " We have a … "

He suddenly saw Oven and Daifuku lying on the ground. The two brothers seemed feverish. Beside them, Perospero sat against a wall. From the noises he was making, he was having trouble breathing and his eyes were turning red.

"Is he tainted too?" Katakuri asked him, who was crouched next to Tashigi.

"Are you... Are you the only one who isn't sick?" Luffy questioned him, noticing that his eyes were still the same color as before.

" It would seem. "

"But how...?" Luffy panicked.

"Apparently we're... dealing with... an epidemic." Perospero concluded.

"And virulent too." Katakuri remarked.

"Go away." Nami ordered, to a ptilodus, which had just pecked a berry from the stockpile of provisions.

After finding that the quarantine had no effect, Luffy's group returned to the cave to treat the sick as best they could. Lying on the ground, Law, Oven, Daifuku and Tashigi seemed even more in pain than before. Perospero, meanwhile, was, despite his condition, still seated and seemed to refuse any help from Katakuri.

Not knowing what to do, Luffy looked behind him to see Shirahoshi in front of Law's computer. Also looking for a solution among the databases reserved for Law's medical research, Shirahoshi did not know where to look exactly, to facilitate his research.

"Weak-hoshi, can you find anything?"

"I…I really don't know." She confessed. "Only Law-san would tell us what to do! All I can tell you is that this disease makes people who have it extremely weak!"

"Is there such a known disease in our world?" Alexia wanted to know.

"I don't know." Nadia repeated, reading the symptoms of certain illnesses. "The first symptom to appear is a feeling of being cold! Then, their condition keeps getting worse and no medicine that Law-san asked me to take seems to be working! Besides, the symptoms stop becoming more and more serious! Their blood-soaked eyes, for example, is a bad sign."

In short, anything could still happen to the sick.

"Law..." Nami said, looking at the boy. "If only you could tell us what to do."

"Let's try to calm down." Sanji cried.

Being in the process of crushing fruit to make compote, so that the sick can swallow it, he affirmed.

"At the moment, we can only say that they are feverish but ... nothing tells us that they are victims of a fatal and incurable disease! Let's try to stay positive and avoid stressing them further. "

Then approaching Daifuku, he tried to wake him up to make him eat.

"All we can do is let them rest, hydrate them and feed them! Hey, open your eyes."

Nevertheless, Daifuku remained lying down and seemed unable to make the slightest movement.

"Huh…maybe it's not a good idea to wake him up." Shirahoshi remarked.

" They need to eat. " Sanji retorted. "Otherwise they will weaken and their immune system will suffer the consequences."

Suddenly, Daifuku straightened up suddenly, putting his hands in front of his eyes. Surprised by this gesture, Sanji had immediately stepped back, and narrowly missed dropping the compote intended for the patient. He finally pulled himself together and confessed.

"You scared me! Hey, do you feel like you can eat?"

"My eyes hurt." The sick man complained.

"Let's see." The blond offered, taking his hands away from his eyes. "It doesn't have to be very bad."

Unfortunately, he was wrong.

"What…?" Nami cried, seeing the state of his eyes.

Biting his lip, Sanji couldn't hold back his surprise.

"What's… happening to me?" Daifuku wanted to know, realizing that something was wrong. "I can't see anything at all...and I'm in a lot of pain."

The poor boy had both eyes that had swollen almost fifty percent and small trickles of blood escaped from his eyelids. Seeing that, I was sure they were about to burst.

"Oh my god." Shirahoshi panicked, falling backwards. "But why is he like that?"

Seeing everyone panicking, Daifuku stressed out more.

"What's going on? How are my eyes? I can't see anything."

At that moment, Katakuri pushed Sanji away and stood in front of his brother.

"Hey, Daifuku! It's me! Calm down."

"Katakuri...what's wrong with me? How are my eyes? What...What...?"

Daifuku suddenly let out a howl of pain, while putting his hands back on his eyes. Screaming for long seconds, he frightened the others, who could only listen to his agony. Then, he ends up collapsing on the ground, all of a sudden. He gave no sign of life as soon as he hit the ground.

For a few seconds, no one had dared to move, witnessing this death worthy of a horror movie.

According to frozen, like the others, Katakuri approached his brother's body, before grabbing his wrist to feel his pulse.

"He… He's dead?" Perospero questioned.

In response, Katakuri suddenly hit the ground.

" DAMN IT ! "

Everyone still able to understand the reason for his action displayed expressions of terror.

" But how could such a thing have happened?" Could this disease be fatal for us? »

With Luffy: Law / Shirahoshi / Nami / Sanji

With Katakuri: Perospero / Oven / Tashigi (teacher)

With Ace : Thatch / Moda / Marguerite / Whitey Bay / Namur / Atmos / Goldenweek / Gaimon / Squardo / Tate

Other passengers: Usopp / Coby / Vivi / Zoro / Chopper / Johnny / Yosaku / Kid / Wapol / Musshru / Smoker (teacher)

Died: Dalton (pilot) / Kaya / AO / Mero / Curiel / T-Bone (teacher) / Koza / Pudding / Apoo / Daifuku

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