8 Chapter 8: Bounty

- One Piece World ~ Cocoyasi Village on the Conomi Islands -

Two hours later.

The banquet was already in full play, and everywhere you looked, you could see villagers happily celebrating the death of the Arlong gang.

"Wait. So you tell me that Arlong and that gang were also Pirates? Aren't pirates the bad ones, then?" Harry asked, a bit surprised since it seemed like he himself was now one such pirate. 'Wouldn't that be bad?'

"Bahhh. Of course not! Pirates are the freest on the whole sea." Luffy said while holding meat in his hands.

"That actually didn't answer my question..." Harry said awkwardly.

"What do pirates even do?"

"Of course, it's to go on an adventure with your trusted crew!" Luffy again answered.

'Can he answer one of the questions with even one real answer?' Harry thought with some worry for his future life. 'I do need to travel to different Islands to play with the Gacha, so there shouldn't be any problems, I guess...'

"Where is Nami in the first place? Why didn't she come?" Harry asked himself while walking away from his new friends. He still didn't know what pirates are, but at least he talked with his new so-called crew and saw that all of them are good people with their own individual goals.

'The four of them don't seem to be the bad kind of people at least.' Harry looked around and finally saw a figure sneaking toward the blue-haired girl that he had seen in the past. It seems like Nami just came over and still has some tears in her eyes. She was also wearing some weird straw hat that Harry had seen on the pirate flag that Luffy had shown him before.

After he watched them for some seconds and saw that the blue-haired girl pointed a finger at Harry, he quickly turned around. Harry thought they caught him watching them and felt a bit stupid.

Harry turned around instantly, wanting to hide his embarrassment, but when he had already started to walk away, he suddenly felt two slender arms coming from behind, surrounding his waist. 

What he also felt but tried to blend out were two mounts that pressed into his back. 

He reflectively twitched for a moment but stopped when he understood who was hugging him at the moment.

That knowledge didn't help Harry that much since when he understood who hugged him, his whole face started to flush red, and when he turned his head toward Nami, the only thing he could see was her hiding her face in his back. Hence, it was lucky she didn't see his flushed face, but that didn't mean the blue-haired girl couldn't see it. 

It was a bit embarrassing when he saw her starting to laugh at him while showing him a thumbs-up.

The Blue-Haired girl had already talked with Harry and didn't think he was someone she had to worry about.

After two minutes of hugging, the two of them suddenly heard someone breaking the weird atmosphere that appeared after one minute, and at the same time, Nami also let go of Harry.

It was good that Harry's face returned to normal after some time, so Nami didn't see anything. When Nami stepped back, she looked into his green eyes with a smile and then turned to Sanji.

"Why are you two ignoring me? Harry, what are you doing to Nami-San!!"

"-San?" Harry muttered, not understanding what it meant.

Nami just smiled while walking in Sanji's direction, and without knowing, she suddenly appeared behind him and hit him on the head. Hard.

"Don't interrupt me thanking him for his help!" She screamed at him.

Ignoring the now blond man lying on the ground with a big red bump on his head, she walked to Luffy, who was sitting at the fire, watching them with a laugh.

"Thank you also, captain. It seems from now on, you will also have a Navigator in your crew." She said with a smile while taking the straw hat on her hat in her hands only to press it onto Luffy's head.

"Ahahaha. Of course! Let's continue the banquet for some days, and after that, we will set Sail to the grand line!!!"

....

Two days later.

- 16th Marine Branch in East Blue -

"Yes, Rear Admiral Sir, we collected all the required information in the last few days! The person who seems to be the leader of the Straw Hats is named Monkey D. Luffy, and the person who joined them after killing all the Arlong pirates is named Harry." Captain Nezumi reported.

Nezumi was in contact with the Marine Headquarters on the Grand Line for the last few days to report the news of the super rookies that suddenly appeared in east blue.

In the last few days, he sent some of his subordinates to visit the banquet the villagers hosted to find out more about these pirates. 

Still, the only things he could report were the names and that this Harry guy seemed to know nothing about this world, which probably meant that he came from one of the isolated islands of the east blue.

"Oh no, there is still one important information that we found out. This Luffy seems to have eaten the Gum-Gum Fruit and is a rubber person, and this Harry said he had eaten a fruit with the name of Crush-Crush and transformed into a Crush person." Nezumi added. Luffy's devil fruit was probably already known to the marine, but Harry, who appeared out of nowhere, was not.

"Crush-Crush Fruit? Is there such a fruit? I will forward it to the information department later. We already decided to give this Luffy character a bounty of 27.000.000 Belly and Harry one of 25.000.000. They should be out this week, so be prepared for the following aftermath. We also informed Smoker to capture them when they arrived in Loguetown." The other voice said.

With these last words, the Marine Headquarters cupped the line, and it grew silent inside the Room of Captain Nezumi.

"Well, let's see how you will escape in the future. Chichichichichcihchi." Nezumi said to the empty room while his weird laugh sounded through the whole room.