22 Chapter 22

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On a big table, one could see filled with food. Mainly all meat dishes. And, Luffy and a certain six-armed monkey diving into the feast. They ate as if their lives depended on it, having no manners at all.

But from time to time they would moan from the foodgasm.

While Luffy stuffed his face with food. The monkey was doing the same with six of his arms. There was a bit of tension between them as they would try to steal each other's food.

Getting them into silly fights that lasted for a few seconds, before they moved their focus back to stuffing food. And before long the whole plates filled with meat were over.

"God! That was good." Luffy said as his stomach was inflated with food, "Island Bird meat sure is one of a kind… I wonder how sea king tastes?"

The six-armed monkey on his side was also in the same state as him, slouched back on his chair with an inflated stomach. And hearing about eating sea kings it quickly perked up.

"Oh, so you want to eat a sea king?" Luffy mused, "and I thought you were mad at me."

The monkey huffed away.

The plates that were filled with meat were, now only had huge bones on them. Makino came to the room with some lamonade in hand. "Who wants some Juice."

"Me!"

"Khi!"

After the round of juice was over Makino giggled seeing both Luffy and the odd monkey.

"You know, you are the most awesome cook in the world." Luffy praised now that the food was over. "Man we have to hunt some more of those birds… they taste delicious."

The monkey didn't comment but he was just as happy with the food. But he was still a bit mad at Luffy and the other human. His mood had something to do with what Luffy did.

After coming back from the hunt, and taking the oversized chicken to Makino. She had suggested giving his new friend a bath. The monkey did accidentally gets sprayed with blood when Luffy chopped the oversized chicken.

So he took his new friend for a wash. Which he didn't like, and even with all the protests, Luffy dragged him and cleaned him up.

The monkey hated every moment of it. Of course, Luffy did it for his own good. It wasn't like the rubber boy enjoyed seeing his friend's misery. Sure the monkey might have made him chase after him for some time, but he wouldn't be so low to seek revenge on him. That would be awful.

"Well thank you," Makino said, smiling. She sat near the six-armed monkey and started petting it.

The monkey was a bit hesitent at first, but now after eating he didn't protest much. And so he enjoyed the petting. Also after the much-needed clean-up, the monkey looked quite amazing. Silver white fur with blue highlights that dragged from behind his head to his tail.

"But you have to be careful hunting such large birds, I don't want you to end up in the sea with your condition."

Luffy just smiled. In a way, Makino was the best big sister one could ever hope for.

"Oh, and by the way. Does your new friend have a name?"

Luffy looked at the curious monkey. "No… not yet. I think?" The monkey nodded as if agreeing with Luffy. "Do you want a name?"

The monkey scratched his chin with one of his right hands while the other two right hands were scratching his head. It kinda looked cute, and Makino practically squealed and hugged the creature who enjoyed it.

Luffy had a bit of suspicion it was one of those monkeys that acted all cute to get a woman's attention. Huh, such a simp.

The monkey thought like this for a while, before agreeing. "Wu Khi!" He did a six-handed thumbs-up with it.

"So do you have any names?" Luffy asked.

Makino thought for a moment. After befriending the creature Makino was the first one to know about him.

"Well, what about Sparky." Makino said, "I mean you guys hit off as friends on the first day. That got to have some spark. I remember Luffy wouldn't befriend anyone in the village that was around his age, so you got to have something sparky underneath your cute fur."

Luffy wasn't going to comment as to how it didn't make any sense to him. But his new friend liked it, so now he was Sparky. Though in Luffy's opinion the name would have suited him more if the six-armed monkeys had some red highlights in his fur rather than blue ones. But meh… he went along with it.

After that, we called it a night and went for the bed.

Luffy was actually quite happy with his new monkey partner. While hunting down the giant island bird, he had seen the monkey push down the panicked bird, which was what… five times its size. That was also the reason why Sparky was half-covered in blood.

It made sense not anyone could use the rokushiki techniques without strength behind them. He would be a good training partner if the monkey was up to it.

The monkey could copy his techniques with just observation, training with him would be fun.

Luffy was actually curious as to how the monkey got here. He was half sure that this kind of weird animal only appeared on the grand line. But then again wasn't there an island where a jack in the box lived, maybe from there? Who knows? He didn't question the logic behind it. Not that this world had that many to begin with.