Chapter 197 - Boa Hancock 06.

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Third Person POV

Calm Belt, First Half of GrandLine.

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Luffy woke up the next day and looked at the woman staring at him. 

"Good morning?" Luffy raised an eyebrow. 

"..." She didn't respond. 

"Still mute, well at least don't be a boring woman." Luffy smiled. 

She had another vein on her forehead but kept silent. They didn't speak for the rest of the night and ended up sleeping turned away from each other. 

"Well, anyway, we have to look for something to eat." Luffy got up, and Hancock stood still. 

"Hm? Come on, you might not like me, but at least let's do the basics right?" Hancock didn't respond, but her stomach growled at that moment. 

"See, your stomach is more honest than you! Hahaha!" Luffy laughed while Hancock became a bit embarrassed and ended up standing up as well. 

Seeing this, Luffy led the duo until they found a weird tree. "We have this here! This is great." He murmured and began to break the shell of a tree. 

"What are you doing?" Hancock asked curiously, her tone of voice no longer as arrogant as usual. 

"This? My grandpa used to throw me in the jungle when I was a kid, I had to learn to survive, my sister was with me too, but she was so slow it didn't count. So I ended up adapting." Luffy smiled as he took a yellow fruit from inside the broken shell. 

"Your grandpa threw you in the jungle as a child?" She asked curiously. 

Luffy looked at her strangely, where was that ungrateful witch from yesterday? "Yes... he's Garp, you might understand that?" He said a bit lost. 

"Yes, the marine hero..." She commented and looked at the fruit unsure what to do with it. 

"Don't bite, the shell is hard, you have to remove the stem and the shell falls apart," Luffy said as he removed the stem holding it with the handcuff hand with Hancock and pulled it off with his free hand, "There, now you have to be careful because it will squirt if you pull too fast... Hm?!" Luffy didn't have time to react as Hancock's fruit exploded, soaking both Luffy and her with the juice. 

"..." Luffy. 

"..." Hancock. 

They looked at each other for a while without saying anything to each other, until Luffy snorted with a bit of humor. 

"Hahahahahaha." 

"Hahahaha" 

Both began to laugh finding the situation quite relaxed, "I guess we have to go back to the lake." Hancock ended up saying laughing without thinking and looked at Luffy who stopped laughing at that moment, both stared at each other. 

"Well... Let's get more fruits. Then we'll see about that." Luffy commented finding the situation strange again, because he expected this woman to be the same woman who got him into a lot of trouble, but she seemed different today. 

"Yes, you're right..." She said with a normal tone, but without the arrogance she usually showed. 

Luffy picked another fruit and opened the stem before carefully opening it and joining Hancock in eating. He picked some more fruits and took them to the side of the lake where they had bathed, sitting while they ate quietly. 

"What are we going to do today?" She asked breaking the silence. 

"The ideal would be to find the camp, but I doubt we can do that easily, we have to wait for your sisters..." He commented. 

"You didn't come to train? Then let's do that." She said calmly, leaving Luffy even more confused with her behavior today. 

"What? You want that? You seemed to hate it yesterday." He looked at her with a small smile. 

"Didn't you see how I fought yesterday? But maybe this empress has changed her mind today..." She commented with a blush looking a bit embarrassed admitting something like that. 

"Alright, then. I want to see you keep up then. Let's do that as soon as we finish eating." Luffy commented without losing his smile while Hancock just snorted. 

They ate in silence until they seemed satisfied, "All set?" He said, and she nodded. Luffy stood up, and Hancock accompanied him. They had clothes a bit torn, but they seemed relaxed while walking through the forest. 

"Looks like we found some little friends..." Luffy commented looking at a spot full of gorillas. 

He looked at Hancock by his side and thought of something. "How about seeing who can beat more of them?" He suggested, and Hancock looked at him with a glint of challenge in her eyes. 

"Do you think you can beat this empress?" She commented with a small smile accepting the challenge.

Luffy didn't respond, and he simply took the initiative and ran, with Hancock not wanting to be left behind. The gorillas witnessed a strange scene of two humans running hand in hand as they approached, looking at them as prey. In the next moment, the area turned into chaos with the gorillas enraged after being attacked by strangers. 

It was only after 2 hours of intense fighting that Luffy and Hancock stood in a field of knocked-out giant animals. 

"20." Luffy announced. 

"Tsk. 20." Hancock murmured, a bit dissatisfied. 

"Looks like it's a tie, how about we move on to the next group of animals?" Luffy commented, and Hancock nodded. 

For the rest of the day, neither Hancock nor Luffy seemed interested in returning to the camp. They continued to explore the island, encountering a group of giant snakes. 

"10." 

"... 10" 

"Shall we move on to the next group then?" 

Encountering a group of giant wolves. 

"30" 

"30." 

Giant zebras. 

"20." 

"20.." 

Giant leopards. 

"10." 

"10." 

Giant lions. 

"10." 

"10." 

They stopped fighting only at night. Luffy picked some more hidden fruits and a wolf, grabbing a piece of wood and imbuing it with haki, he began to cut the wolf to prepare dinner. He had the sword, but it was in a small version in his pocket, so he couldn't increase its size with the handcuff on. 

"This is good." Hancock had to admit while eating the meat after Luffy heated it on a fire he created. 

"Glad you liked it. Unfortunately, I can't put any seasoning on the food." Luffy commented, pointing to the handcuffs. 

"Yes, we'll have to stay like this a bit longer..." Hancock commented, not seeming dissatisfied. 

She ate in silence next to Luffy, and as soon as she finished, she looked up at the starry sky in the middle of the forest. "You know, my sisters also have the slave seal like me..." Hancock spoke, and Luffy looked at her a bit surprised. Since he already knew this information, he didn't expect Hancock to take the initiative to tell him here. 

She stopped looking at the sky and looked at him, "Can you really get rid of it for me and my sisters?" She looked with a glimmer of hope. 

Luffy was silent for a while. "Yes, as I said, I'll do exactly what I said." Luffy said confidently. 

"Did you really kill two Celestial Dragons?" She asked another question. 

"Yes." 

"But how? Doesn't the government know about this? How can they let you roam free?" She asked, bewildered. 

"It's hard to say, they must surely know, and I thought I would have the CP0 and other forces on my tail, but they are strangely quiet..." Luffy commented, looking ahead, still unsure why the government hadn't sent major forces after him yet. 

"Do you think you can survive?" 

"Yes, I would do something like that. It won't be the government that will stop my goal, which is to become the Emperor of the Sea....." Luffy spoke with a sparkle in his eyes, something that caught Hancock's attention. 

Hancock looked at him for a while. "Emperor of the Sea...." She murmured, before starting to laugh. "Hahahahahaha. You really are a fool, Monkey D. Luffy." Luffy looked a bit displeased by her laughter but was also surprised that she called him by his full name. 

"But you know... I like that." She smiled at him at that moment, and both looked at each other for several seconds.

There was something emerging there, and neither of them knew what to do at that moment. Luffy was a ladies' man, but it wasn't right to lay hands on a woman who was handcuffed and almost naked in front of him, especially since she had been looking down on him until the day before. He was torn between his desire to kiss this woman and his pride in not being with someone who had insulted him so much. 

"I think it's better if we sleep, we have to break our tie in our little game." Hancock broke the tension, most likely because Luffy did not take the initiative and also because she was lost, having never had to deal with this kind of situation before. 

"You're right, let's sleep." Luffy agreed, and they both lay down on a bed made of leaves on the ground, against each other while their hands remained joined. 

As Luffy lay down to sleep, he was unaware of the internal conflict his bed partner was having at that moment. 

Behind Luffy, Hancock had a blush on her face; she was in conflict. 

'Why am I acting like this?! I should hate this man!' She screamed internally. 

'But I've been like this since he touched me, I should be disgusted by that man, but my heart is racing and I can't stop thinking about him!' 

'Moreover... why can't I stay mad at him anymore?! Did he do something to me?' 

'Yet, I feel happy here... I should hate this place, being trapped with this pirate, but I seem so well...' 

'And now I'm believing his words, when he says he will remove my mark and my sisters'... I feel I can trust him... I wish I knew what's happening...' 

Hancock was making a series of inquiries about her situation, unaware that she was contracting the most fatal disease a queen of the Amazon Lily could acquire. Perhaps it was Luffy's promise, perhaps because he was not enchanted by her beauty like all the others, perhaps it was his strength, his conversation and ambitions, or even his beauty, because Hancock had to admit that Luffy was the most handsome man she had ever seen. But one thing was certain, Hancock had been struck by the arrow of love just one day after meeting this man, and her condition would only worsen being so close to the person her heart began to develop a passion for.

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