Eventually, having no choice but to listen to the team captain, the crew of the Merry were sailing to the other side of the island, hoping to find the information they wanted. they were looking for.

Nonetheless, not caring whether or not to go to Sky Island, Zoro was lifting dumbbells in order to practice. Doing this for a few minutes, he stopped, hearing moans beside him. Using both hands, Menma tried to lift one of the dumbbells that was on the ground. However, she was unable to move it a millimeter.

"What are you doing ? "

"I… I'm trying to get stronger," the child stated.

However, she eventually gave up and collapsed to the ground.

"It's impossible! It's too heavy."

"Normal! This weighs fifty kilos! Almost double your weight! Do you really think you can lift her?"

"But, it was you who asked me to be stronger."

Sighing tiredly, Zoro grabbed a small dumbbell, which he gave to the child.

"That dumbbell weighs five kilos! Try training with it already."

Lifting the object, Menma had a hard time keeping it in her hands.

"It's heavy. "

"Which shows that you are very weak physically! You have to start your training from the beginning and learn the basics in order to build your muscles properly! There is no point in trying to copy me, because you will only hurt your body! Besides, you better improve your flying ability as well. "

Hearing his last sentence, Menma felt like a shiver, thinking back to the last time she had tried to steal. At first, she had been delighted. Nonetheless, in an instant, she had learned how scary it was to walk away from your friends and find herself, in an instant, with no one to protect her.

"I… I think I'll build up my muscles instead."

Then seeing her leave, with her dumbbell in her hand, Zoro began to growl.

"That stupid kid ... when will she know she's a pirate?"

"Hey, there's a weird boat ahead of us." Usopp asserted.

"Where?" Luffy wanted to know, approaching the bow.

Seeing a huge boat, with the bow of a monkey, Raynare began to growl.

"That gorilla again?"

"No! This boat is different." Vivi retorted.

"But that might not be good news." Sanji remarked.

"Hey, you." A voice suddenly roared.

Showing himself a tall man resembling an ouranutan asserted.

"You are in my territory! May I know what you are doing here?"

Staring at him, Luffy declared.

"You have a weird face ! Are you a human or a monkey?"

"I'm a human, fool."

"Hey, motherfucker! How dare you insult our captain of " monkey " ?" A man roared, dressed in scuba gear.

"Our captain is the only Shojo, the king of the seabed explorers."

"Another monkey inspecting the seabed?" Nami wondered.

"I bet you that Masira and him are brothers." Bruno asserted.

"Shojo?" Luffy repeated. " Who are you ? "

"What?" Shojo's men roared. " You want to fight ? "

"Come on, no need to get upset," their captain asserted. "Hey, kid! Do you know Crocodile, the shichibukai?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Know that he was captured two weeks ago and locked up at Impel Down! Which means a place is now free among the Shichibukais! Do you understand what that means? The Navy is now looking for of a pirate likely to replace him. "

Laughing, he pointed his thumb, before asserting.

"I am the man who deserves to get his place."

"What?" Johnny wondered.

"This… This guy must be incredibly powerful, then," Yosaku asserted.

"Is he that powerful?" Chopper asked.

"Of course I'm powerful! Besides, do you know what makes me so amazing? Have you seen my really long hair? I haven't cut it for 25 years! Awesome, isn't it? "

"You are ridiculous." Several people asserted.

"What ? "

Hardening his gaze, he declared.

"Be careful! When I get angry, I only leave a sea of blood behind me."

Hearing this, Zoro put his hand on a sword, while Raynare already had a spear of light in her hand.

"Are you looking for a fight?"

However, far from seeing Shojo as a threat, Luffy asserted.

"The monkey, we're in a hurry! So can you move your boat? It's on our way."

"Are you deaf or what?" Shojo snarled, "I told you you were in my territory! If you want to pass, you have to pay a pass."

"Do you want bananas?" Sanji asked him.

"Who do you take me for, asshole? For Masira?"

"Masira?" Luffy repeated. "Do you know the guy who looks like a gorilla?"

"What? You met him? Where is he?"

"We kicked his ass."

"Kick ass ... motherfucker."

At that moment, Shojo grabbed a microphone, before ordering.

"Guys! Turn on the airwaves! I'll spray them! HAVOC SONAR!"

Then, in an instant, he began to scream, sounding like overpowering sound waves. Hearing these strange cries, several people covered their ears, while screaming, while their eardrums seemed to be about to explode.

"AHHHHH! My ears."

"What is he doing ? "

Hearing other strange noises, Usopp saw cracks appearing on the floor of the Merry, while the sound waves from Shojo were damaging the boat.

"Merry! He's destroying the Merry."

"Damn it!" Gin growled. "This guy is not that shabby."

"Are you sure?" Zoro asked him.

Watching Shojo's boat, he saw his crew writhing in pain, as they were touched by his sound waves. In addition, his waves also pulverized his boat.

"This fool is destroying his own boat."

"Everyone! Let's hurry for away from him," Nami ordered.

However, as everyone tried to activate, the repairs Usopp had just made were breaking down.

"Oh no! The Merry will sink! The Merry will sink."

"We have to stop this guy."

At that moment, Shojo stopped screaming.

"Um?" The pirates wondered, turning to him.

Trying to struggle in vain, Shojo was gripped by dozens of hands, four of which forced him to close his mouth, preventing him from using his voice.

"Hmmmf hummmm?"

"CLUNCH!" Robin said.

Immediately, the hideous sound of broken bones was heard, as Shojo's bodies twisted in all directions, before crashing to the ground.

"BOOOOSSSSSSSS ! "

"It's done." Robin assured.

"Robin-chwan! You are the best."

"Quick! It's time to go," Nami ordered.

"AYE ! "

And, a few minutes later, Usopp was fixing the Merry again, all the while cursing Shojo.

"That damn macaque will pay me for it."

"Finally, Sanji was right." Bruno asserted. "Instead of spending our time fixing it to delay the inevitable, we better pay us a new ship."

"I don't want to hear about this anymore."

"Still, the monkey is far from causing the most damage," Zoro retorted, attempting to repair the damage done to the mast. "If this continues, the Merry won't even be able to take us to the Sky Island. "

"SHUT UP ! "

"Of course it will," Luffy retorted, sporting a confident smile. "Merry is our precious companion, and I know it will continue to enable us to sail to Raftel! We can be confident in its durability."

"Luffy…" Usopp said, still about to sob.

However, he saw Luffy slam a nail with a heavy hammer, which pulverized some of the repairs he had just made.

"Oops! It's broken!"

"LUFFY! Are you trying to repair or destroy the ship?"

"Sorry ! "

"We have to do it more slowly," Menma assured, grabbing a plank of wood.

However, her wick she had on the top of her head suddenly caught fire, just like the plank she held in her hand.

"AHHHHH!" She cried, throwing it on the floor.

"Idiot! It's going to catch fire."

"Why did you burn that plank?"

"I did not do it on purpose. "

"Put out this fire."

"Oops! I broke another piece." Luffy asserted.

"LUFFFFYYYYYYY ! MENNNNMMMMAAAA ! "

Preferring not to kill herself unnecessarily, Nami was inspecting the map Robin had found.

"Once we have left Mock Town, we go around the island from the east, to arrive at the place indicated."

"It's not far from the port where we were staying." Vivi remarked. "Nevertheless, nothing to say whether this famous Cricket can really help us."

"Frankly, I doubt it," Nami admitted, folding the map over. "If he's been exiled, it's probably because he's mad or senile! Anyway, we're almost there."

Looking ahead, Gin asserted.

"This guy might be crazy, but he seems to have a lot of money."

"What ? "

"AMAZING!" Several people shouted.

at that moment, a huge castle could be seen at the exact location of the cross that was drawn on the map.

"What…?" Nami wondered, really not expecting to find a huge castle.

"Is this king a king or what?" Lucy wanted to know.

"Idiot! It's a fake castle."

"What ? "

Already stretching out his arms, Luffy grabbed a boulder to get to the island. Then he hastened to run towards the castle.

"I'm going to visit it first."

However, he stopped quickly, and gave a disappointed look, noting that the castle was only half of a house, against which someone had laid a huge piece of wood that he had designed in front. of a castle.

"It's just a wooden facade."

"Disappointment." Yosaku said, looking at half of the house. "This guy is really poor actually."

"What did you expect from a guy like him?" Bruno wanted to know. "By the way, what could he have said to get kicked out of Mock Town?"

"I don't know the details." Robin confessed. "May apparently he claims everywhere that this island hides a mountain of gold."

Immediately, Nami and Raynare's ears began to move, while they repeated. "

"GOLD ? "

"Pirate treasure?" Zoro wanted to know.

"Too cool." Menma asserted.

For his part, exiting the boat and starting to walk around the half of the house to examine it, Sanji eventually saw a free one sitting on what looked like a wooden table.

"Um?" He said, picking up the book. "Norland, the king of liars? Damn it, that brings back childhood memories."

"A children's book?" Lucy wondered.

"I know him." Vivi asserted. "Father brought it to me from one of his political meetings in North Blue! It seems this book is very popular there."

"That's right!" Sanji asserted. "I grew up in East-Blue, but I was born in North Blue! That's where I got to know this tale."

"North Blue?"

"A book inspired by Usopp?" Raynare wondered.

"OYE!"

"What's the story?" Lucy wanted to know.

"This book traces the imaginary adventures of Norland, a man who claimed to be an explorer," Sanji explained. "Even though it's a tale, it seems Norland really existed."

"After having traveled to distant lands, he returned to his kingdom, after claiming to have discovered a city of gold." Vivi adds. "Overjoyed, her king has launched an expedition so that he can obtain this gold! Unfortunately, while this expedition has caused the death of many people, it ends up on an island where not a single gram of gold was found! the king claimed Norland was a liar and ordered his execution! And Norland's last words were "The gold of the island has surely been swallowed up by the sea."

"Great as a children's book." Said Gin. "What's the moral? Is lying wrong?"

"Apparently Usopp never read this story." Raynare remarked.

"Are you going to stop?"

"There is also something else to know." Robin asserted.

"What?"

"The name of Norland! It's Montblanc! Montblanc Norland!"

"Montblanc?"

Few interested in this story, Luffy looked at the surface of the water, just in front of the front of the castle and saw many bubbles burst on the surface.

"Um? A fish?"

At that moment, a hand grabbed him and made him fall into the water.

"AHHHHHHH!"

"Luffy?"

Coming out of the water, a shirtless man rushed to the rest of the pirates.

"Band of intruders! Who are you?"

Getting into a fighting position, he asserted.

"You are in my territory."

Then, seeing him run towards him, Gin used his tonfa to stop a kick. Nonetheless, surprised by his power, he felt himself take a step back.

"What ...? He's pretty strong this guy."

"I'll take care of it," Sanji assured, pointing his leg at the stranger.

However, turning to face him, the blond drew a gun and started aiming at him. Pulling, he aimed at the head of the cook, who had to bend the front of his body back to avoid the projectile.

"Ugggghhh! He almost got me."

"Motherfucker!" Gin roared, preparing to hit the stranger.

Nonetheless, he stopped, causing the man to suddenly collapse to the ground.

"What…? What happened?" Johnny wanted to know, as he was Yosaku pulling Luffy out of the water.

"Too strong! They defeated him with the force of their auras."

"Fool! That's another thing," Gin retorted.

Seeing the stranger wincing in pain, Chopper approached him. Then, examining it for a few moments, he finally gave orders.

"Take him into the house."

"What?"

"Be quick."

"Decompression?" Zoro repeated.

"Is he sick?" Luffy asked.

"Yes! He has a disease that affects various." The doctor agreed, putting compresses on the stranger's body. "Normally, it's not supposed to be chronic like here! It's caused by the difference in pressure underwater! The nitrogen present in the muscle tissue is forced to degas and turns into bubbles! It's those bubbles! Present in his body that affect his blood circulation and muscles. "

"I didn't understand anything." Luffy confessed.

"Going down deep in the water and going up too quickly, it's bad for our body." Bruno summed up, heaving a sigh. "In my world, even children know it."

"Is it because of us that he's in this state?" Lucy wanted to know. "When he saw our ship arriving in front of his house, he must have ascended quickly and this deteriorated the condition of his body."

"Hard to say." Chopper confessed. "Nonetheless, I think he has a habit of diving every day and unreasonably."

"Why is he doing this?" Nami wanted to know.

Walking towards her, Robin ends up grabbing a photo that was behind the navigator.

"Looks like he's a treasure hunter too," she said looking at the photo, where he could be seen with Masira and Shojo.

"The two monkeys?"

"BOSS!" Suddenly cried two voices.

"Damn it!" Sanji said.

"The two macaques." Gin included.

"BOOOOOOSSSSSSS!" Shojo and Masira shouted, entering their house.

Stopping when they saw Luffy and the others around the owner of the habitat, they roared.

"What are you doing here?"

"The monkeys." Chopper and Usopp shouted, stepping back.

"What? Do you want to fight?" Raynare wanted to know.

"Eevee!" Her pokemon said, bristling the hairs on her tail.

"What did you do to our boss?"

"We're healing him." Luffy replied calmly. "So instead of bothering us, wait outside until he gets better."

"What?"

Looking at their boss's body on his bed, Shojo asked.

"Is he sick again?"

"Huh?" Bruno wondered. "It is not the first time?"

"No! He used to complain every now and then of his chest pain! But usually he didn't feel any pain after a few hours," Shojo explained.

"However, for the past few weeks, he often faints unconscious." Masira continued. "We know it's because of his many dives! But he refuses to listen to us."

"He should have." Chopper asserted. "If this man had had any discomfort in the water, he would have drowned! He must stop diving."

Seeing him continue to heal the man, the two monkeys suddenly began to cry.

"Thanks for taking care of him."

"Huh?" Johnny and Yosaku wondered.

"You live here and the man with the chesnut head is your boss." Luffy summed up.

"Hey! His name is Montblanc Cricket." Masira growled. "He's our boss, so don't disrespect him."

"It's strange! You all look like monkeys, except your boss."

"Hey, we're not monkeys." Shojo retorted, while Masira laughed.

Seeing them arguing, Lucy wanted to know.

"Are we not meant to be an enemy?"

"Don't try to understand." Zoro advised him. "Let's say it's a reunion between the gorilla, ourangutan, and the marmoset."

"What are you reaching to join them, green haired gorilla?" Zoro questioned.

"Shut up, raven of doom."

Meanwhile, being groaning, Nami declared.

"When I see these two monkeys, I really doubt there is any gold here."

"Honestly, you couldn't believe these weird rumors, Nami-san," Vivi asserted.

Suddenly, opening the door of the house, Chopper asserted.

"Luffy! He woke up."

"Truly?"

Entering the house, he asked.

"Chesnut head, are you okay?"

Sitting down, still trying to light a cigarette, the man began to growl.

"Boy, are you calling me a 'chestnut head'?"

Yet, just inhaling smoke, he preferred to forget this detail and declared.

"I thank your crew for saving me! When I saw you, I thought you had come here to steal my gold?"

"Your gold?"

"What?" Nami wondered, poking her head out the window. "Do you really have gold?"

"Calm down, sister-Nami." Yosaku advised her.

"We didn't come for the gold but to find a way to get to the sky island." Bruno asserted.

"Sky island?" Cricket repeated.

"Chestnut head, do you know how to get there?" Luffy asked him.

Staring at him for a few moments, the man suddenly laughed.

"Do you really think she exists?"

Surprised, the crew watched the man who represented their last hope laughing and showing he didn't know any way to get there.

"All for nothing," Sanji understood. "Strangely, I'm not even disappointed."

"Sky Island doesn't exist?" Luffy wanted to know.

Stopping laughing, Cricket asserted.

"Like you, I don't know if it exists! But I know someone who claimed that it existed. Unfortunately, he is known worldwide for his lies."

"Montblanc Norland." Robin understood. "Even today, we still laugh at our family because of it."

"Tsss! Regardless, I don't hold any grudges against my ancestor! Because I know he was a straightforward and honest person."

"But what about the story of the tale?" Nami asked. "And what connection between him and the celestial island?"

"According to the book, Norland's first words were, 'The island's gold has been swallowed up by the sea!' And he was portrayed with a broad, silly grin. "

"He must have been humiliated during his execution." Bruno understood.

"It happened 400 years ago." Norland asserted simply. "Nonetheless, he has a lot of mysteries surrounding his death."

"Hmm?"

Continuing to smoke, Cricket asserted.

"Strangely, I thought he died during his execution! Yet just a few months ago, all traces and evidence of his execution have disappeared."

"Huh? I don't understand."

"I have gathered evidence over the years to prove my ancestor's words and I have also gathered many testimonies from people who saw him die! Yet three months ago, I have suffered a painful migraine, while I had no recollection of how his execution unfolded! And all the historical evidence I had gathered had suddenly disappeared! As if ... As if no one in this world could not exactly say how my ancestor died! Only this book claims that he was killed in front of the crowd. "

"What does that mean?" Gin wanted to know. "That he wasn't executed?"

"I don't know! Before, I believed in it! May or today, if you ask me how its execution took place, I no longer have the slightest idea, since the day I had that weird headache! I felt like someone had ripped out part of my memory. "

Staring at him, the pirates didn't quite understand what he was trying to say. Finally, he asserted.

"Let's stop talking about this! This story makes me look like a fool."

"But if you dive into the water, it's to find this city of gold." Usopp understood.

"Don't say anything." Cricket roared, firing a gun.

Stooping in time, Usopp cried out in fear, as the bullet punched a hole in the wall above his head.

"MOM!"

"Whether my ancestor told the truth or not, I don't care! You don't know what it's like to be laughed at all the time by people just because your ancestor was an idiot! Other morons of ancestors who tried to travel the world in an attempt to show Norland hadn't lied! Ashamed of belonging to this family, I left and became a pirate. "

"Are you a pirate too?"

"It wasn't by choice! I just wanted to escape the family curse! And one day I found myself captain of my crew! And ten years ago my ship docked on this island by the largest of It was ironic that the man who hates his name the most landed on the same island as his ancestor 400 years ago! Of course, I didn't find any gold, but I realized that it was my fate to try to find this damn city of gold! gold is just a kind of duel against the man who rotted my life. "

Hearing this, Johnny and Yosaku started to cry.

"What a sad story."

"Boss-Cricket, you really are a man."

"What about the monkeys?" Luffy asked.

"It's just two idiots who believe in Norland's honesty," Cricket said.

"Seriously?"

"The ocean is deep here! The loneliness is all the more felt! Me, I spent all my days diving, again and again! And one day, these two brothers burst into my life and we decided to make me their boss. two brothers who keep arguing as well as two betas, but to be honest they saved me from my loneliness. "

Hearing this, Usopp also began to cry.

"Sorry for misjudging you."

For their part, having listened to the story without saying anything, Zoro and Raynare affirmed.

"It's ridiculous. "

"OYE!"

"I don't care about that." Luffy asserted. "What I want for me is to go to heaven."

Despite his rudeness, Cricket laughed. Then he asserted.

"There might be a way. It all depends on whether you're willing to risk your lives."

Being in a bar, a man was having a drink. Smiling, he put down his glass, while declaring.

"This place is truly a paradise! One more drink, please."

"You seem to be in a good mood today," asserted a female bartender, with angel wings. "

"Of course! Tomorrow is the anniversary of my meeting my best friend! HAHAHAHA! It's been 400 years since we met."

"Yes! It's impressive." Asserted the young woman, thinking that he was completely drunk. "If you want, I can bring you a coffee."

"Perfect! And for my mate ..."

"He doesn't want anything," a man retorted, with a hood over his head to hide his face.

Surprised by his aggressive tone, the young woman preferred to move away from the duo. Seeing this the first man affirmed.

"You didn't have to be hostile."

"I hate this place," his sidekick asserted. "This island fills with clouds ... these people with wings ... it pisses me off."

Finally, deciding to leave the bar, he declared.

"But soon, I could give back to my descendants what is rightfully theirs."

Immediately, a breeze moved his hood a bit to reveal tattoo-covered skin, while the man walking behind him had a brown face, identical to Cricket's. "

Who will join Luffy's crew?

Before Shells Town: Raynare - 38 million - (Highschool DxD) / Lucy Heartfilia (Fairy Tail)

Arc Shells Town: Roronoa Zoro - 60 million -

Kuro Arc: Usopp

Arc Baratie: Sanji / Gin - 32 million -

Arlong Arc: Nami / Johnny / Yosaku

Bow Drum: Chopper

Alabasta Arc: Nico Robin / Eevee (Pokemon) / Bruno -52 million- (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure) / Nefertari Vivi -25 million- / Menma (Anohana)

Skypiea Arc :?

Arc Enies Lobby: Franky

Arc Post Enies-Lobby :?

Thriller Bark Arc: Brook

Punk Hazard Arc:?

Tesoro Arc :?

Dressrosa Arc:? /?

Wano Kuni Arc: Jinbei /?

Post Wano Kuni Arc:? /?

Arc Battle Teach:?

With other characters:

Buggy: Alvida - 21 million-, Magi - 29 million (OC), Bull (OC), Kuro - 37 million -, Morgan - 17 million -, Megumim - 105 million (Konosuba), Zala (Miss Doublefinger) -35 million, Babe (Mr 4) - 3.2 million, Drophy (Miss Merry Christmas) - 14 million, Willy - 20 million, Needless - 57 million

Arlong: Syra (OC)

Milhawk: Alice (OC)

Wapol: Musshuru

Crocodile: Noscula (OC), Mr 6 (OC), Miss Halloween (OC)

Garp: Sakura (Zombieland Saga); Jin (My Hero academia); Emma (The Promised Neverland)

Im: Light Yagami (Death Note)

Cobra: Neni (M. 9)

Sengoku: Shinichi Kudo (Detective Conan)

Shanks: Nana Shimura -840 million- (My hero academia), Utsuro -970 million- (Gintama)

Individual: Reiner ( Shingeki no kyojin ), Garou (One Punch Man), Pit (Kid Icarus), Babidi (DBZ), Orochimaru (Naruto); Mirko (My hero Academia), Samus (metroid), Team Rocket (Pokemon), Hunter J (Pokemon), Zancrow (Fairy Tail)

Gold D. Roger (formerly): Igneel - 1.380 billion - (Fairy Tail), Acacia (Toriko), Bardock (Dragon ball Z), Hiruzen Sarutobi (Naruto), Utsuro - 970 million (Gintama), Nana Shimura - 840 million ( My Hero Academia)

Xerec (formerly): Aizen (bleach)