One Piece: Kaido the Beast Playing House.

Chapter 942 The Ship Spirit Appears

"This is my design. It is based on my master's original design. By better compressing the space, the original six armed compartments below have been increased to eight. Some things have been temporarily stored inside. You can come in and take a look. Your Viper motorcycle is also inside."

Kairi took Luffy and the others down to the bottom floor and began to introduce. Originally, Franky's design was already perfect, but after years of technological development, Kairi successfully took Franky's original design a step further, turning the original six weapon bays into eight, while the overall space and weight did not increase much.

"Armed bay? The kind from comic books?"

Luffy, Usopp and Chopper all have starry eyes. This seems to be the secret base in the legendary comics, where the legendary combined robots can appear, and the protagonist drives the robots to defeat the enemy!

"Ahahaha, not bad, almost."

Looking at Luffy and the others, Kairi, who liked to be treated warmly, suddenly became a little embarrassed. It seems that being too enthusiastic is not a good thing sometimes.

"Kelly, don't mind them. They are just like that. Just keep talking. Keep talking."

After Nami stepped forward and suppressed the kindergarten trio with one punch each, she said to Kairi with a smile.

"Oh, okay. Well, the first one is compartment one and two. Inside are retractable outer wheels that can help the ship accelerate. It's not convenient to show it now, so I won't introduce it for now. Then there's compartment three, which contains your single-person Vibrator. I made some slight improvements and changed the power output device to increase the speed. You will understand this when you try it out. Then there's compartment four, which is definitely what you are most concerned about."

Kairi said this with a mysterious smile, and pressed the button in front of the door of the compartment with number 4 written on it. Suddenly, the door of compartment number was opened, and a not-too-big figure suddenly appeared in front of Luffy and the others.

"This! This is!"

Nami couldn't help but cover her mouth when she saw the familiar look in front of her.

"Merry!"

Usopp shouted, and immediately Luffy and the others all rushed forward and surrounded the contents of the fourth compartment.

"Using some of the remaining wood from the Merry and the bow material of the Merry itself, we made a small four-person landing craft, the Steam Merry. How about that? It's a pretty good design, isn't it!"

Looking at several people crying bitterly, Kelly touched her nose and said.

"That's great Kelly! This is simply the best gift!"

Usopp turned around instantly and held Kairi's hand, shaking it continuously.

"Hehe, this was actually Master's idea. I just implemented it. After all, compared to a new ship, a ship made entirely of the original ship's wood can more conveniently carry the ship spirit, right, Merry!"

Kelly blushed and scratched her hair. She did not take credit for Franky's contribution. As Kelly shouted, a small figure wearing a yellow raincoat and with an unclear face floated out from the Steam Merry.

"It's a nice little home. I like it very much. Kelly, thank you."

The ship elf of the Merry (hereinafter referred to as the ship elf) thanked Kelly.

"Oh! It's the Merry!"

Luffy looked at the ship spirit that appeared and shouted in surprise, and the others gathered around him immediately. Although they had heard the voice of the ship spirit before, this was the first time they had seen it.

"I'm sorry everyone, I haven't been able to meet you all before due to the hull problem. Thank you very much for your care all the time."

The ship elf was very small, perhaps because the Merry itself was a small boat, and the ship elf's voice was somewhat androgynous, more like the voice of a child. "No, no, no, Merry, it was obviously us who treated you badly before, we should thank you, Merry! I don't know how to steer the ship, so you hit the iceberg, and I also broke your sail. Zoro and the others were also idiots, they damaged many parts of the ship, and although Usopp would go to fix it, he is clumsy. If it weren't for us, you wouldn't have to replace the hull..."

Luffy wanted to grab the ship elf's hand, but the illusory palm passed right through, leaving Luffy with nothing to grab. However, Luffy did not stop talking and continued to mutter.

"Hey! Luffy! It's you who broke the most! Who are you calling clumsy?"

Zoro roared as he hit Luffy on the head with his knife.

"Don't be so stingy, Zoro. I've already said something about myself."

Luffy said with a pout.

"I just don't want to be told that by you, bastard!"

Zoro looked at Luffy and said with gritted teeth, but in front of the ship elf, Zoro really didn't want to draw his sword and ruin the atmosphere. After all, Nami and Kuina over there were already crying.

"It's a great scene, isn't it?"

Just when Luffy and others were howling for the new life of Merry, Franky walked up to Kairi, patted her shoulder and said.

"Yes, they really love their ship. Otherwise, the ship elf wouldn't be born, and they wouldn't cry bitterly at a time like this."

Kelly was surprised by Franky's arrival, but still answered her inner thoughts truthfully. They were obviously not bad people, as they could take such good care of an old ship that should have been eliminated by the times.

"But they are clumsy. Such an excellent team does not have an excellent shipbuilder. If this continues, no matter how much they take care of it, the Sunshine Mile may end up repeating the same mistake as the Golden Merry."

Franky saw the gleam in Kelly's eyes and thought there was potential in this matter. He immediately said that in fact, Franky had always known that Kelly actually longed to sail, unlike himself. Although he also longed to go to sea, otherwise he would not have created those ships with deadly weapons, but gradually, both he and the iceberg were deeply bound to this city, just like Mr. Tom once was.

Once, Pirate King Roger also invited Mr. Tom to board the ship, but Mr. Tom refused. Who wouldn't want to sail on this magnificent sea with his own masterpiece and a group of like-minded partners? But the actual situation does not allow them to do so, because the Seven Waters City cannot do without him, just like it cannot do without Iceberg and Franky now. This special city needs human help.

But Kelly is different. She has not been bound by this city. She is just an ordinary apprentice. Although her craftsmanship is among the best in the entire shipyard, and even surpasses Franky and Iceberg in some ideas, she is not an indispensable character.

Over the years, Franky has been suppressing Kelly and not allowing her to lead a team to build a complete ship independently. He hopes that Kelly will have no regrets in her life, find the most suitable team, build a ship that she is most satisfied with, and set out to see the magnificent ocean, instead of staying here like himself and the iceberg. Her ambition has not been wiped out, and she has not been tied to the giant ship of the Seven Water City.

"Master, what do you mean?"

Kelly is not a fool. As mentioned before, Kelly is a real genius. Naturally, she would understand the meaning of Franky's words. She looked at Franky strangely.

"Ahahaha, it's nothing, it's nothing, I'm just expressing my feelings. You said that Luffy and the other young people are really great, just like the Roger Pirates in the story of Mr. Tom that I told you."

Franky knew that his words were clumsy, but it didn't matter. Kelly would understand no matter how he tried to hide it. It would be better to let her understand it from the beginning and let her think about it herself.

"Master, I told you! I want to keep learning from you! There are many skills of yours that I haven't learned yet."

Kelly looked at Franky and said with some dissatisfaction, but at this moment, a seed was quietly planted in Kelly's heart.

(End of this chapter)