Pirate: I have a Hollow living inside me!

The pungent smell of blood assaulted their nostrils, and the gruesome scene made their stomachs churn, almost causing them to vomit...

In this bloody scene, two people stand out from the crowd.

Naturally, it's Lox and Kuina.

As for the Buggy Pirates... they have already left.

Lox still needs the other party to take the blame, so he won't kill them.

If something is useful, we should use it properly. The other party is definitely going to take the blame for destroying the Arlong Pirates!

"From this day forward, the Arlong Pirates are utterly destroyed, and your homeland is free."

Rocks turned to look at the two astonished people, his gaze fixed on Nami: "As we agreed, I saved your homeland."

"Now you should have no worries, right, Nami?"

"This...you made this?"

Nami, ignoring the discomfort in her stomach, jogged over here.

His eyes were fixed intently on Lox: "You really defeated them?"

The Arlong Pirates, who have enslaved them for many years, are like a mountain weighing down on the heads of everyone in Cocoyasi Village.

It was destroyed today!

"As you can see."

Lockes nodded: "I will do what I say I will do."

"Where...where is the evil dragon?"

Nami glanced around but couldn't find Arlong. Her expression tightened: "Isn't that guy here? He's the strongest fish-man. If he..."

Lox raised his hand: "He's dead too."

At this moment, Rocks was holding a serrated weapon.

No, this is not a weapon, but the nose of a dragon.

The dragon's body was shattered into pieces by the bombardment of the phantom bullets.

Only the sharp, long nose, made of steel, has survived...

"..."

Nami deeply hates the dragon and wishes she could kill him a thousand times over.

So it was immediately obvious that what Rocks was holding was the nose of a dragon...

"Dead? Is he dead?"

Nami murmured something in a daze.

Tears were already welling up in her eyes, and the last tear fell, tracing down her cheek and landing on the ground.

The fish-man who loomed over her like a shadow, the enemy who killed her mother Bellemere, was dead.

He was killed by Rocks.

With her revenge fulfilled and the shadows erased, even the resolute Nami couldn't help but shed tears.

However, Nami, with her resolute character, pursed her lips and didn't let herself cry out.

"Nami..."

Nojiko, who had also come over, looked at her sister, who was in tears, and didn't know what to say to comfort her.

Compared to her.

Nami was clearly under more pressure.

The other party has sacrificed so much for Cocoyasi Village...

"I'm fine, sister."

Nami wiped away her tears and gave Nojiko a bright smile: "The Arlong Pirates have been destroyed, and we are now free!"

"Ah."

Noki nodded emphatically, her eyes already moist without her noticing.

The dragon is dead.

The Arlong Pirates were destroyed.

She was naturally overjoyed and wept with happiness...

"Thank you, Rocks..."

Nami turned to look at Rocks, her bright smile still undiminished, which was quite pitiful: "If it weren't for you, we don't know when we would have been freed."

"I will keep that promise. I am willing to become your navigator and repay your kindness!"

A promise that was once made perfunctorily and has long been forgotten.

I never expected it to be carried out today.

She hadn't expected this seventeen-year-old boy to possess such strength, even annihilating the Arlong Pirates at his hands.

To fulfill a past promise, and to repay the other party's kindness.

Nami is willing to become the other party's navigator!

"Oh? You agreed so quickly?"

Upon hearing Nami's reply, Rocks joked, "I thought you'd play dumb and pretend this agreement didn't exist. I was already mentally prepared to just take her away..."

"Robbery...?"

Nami was taken aback when she heard Rocks' words.

As if remembering something, she cautiously asked, "You...you wouldn't happen to be pirates, would you?"

"Not now."

Lockes shook his head, paused, and spread his hands, saying, "But that may not be the case in the future."

The reason he's not a pirate now is because he hasn't been targeted by the Navy yet.

Otherwise, a powerful individual named Rocks who sails the seas would definitely be considered a threat by the Navy.

There's a high possibility that he was "made" to be a pirate!

There's no way around it; this is the consequence of bearing the name "Lox"!

"..."

Nami and Nojiko looked at each other, not understanding the meaning of Rocks' words.

Not now?

What if things don't go as planned?

In other words... the possibility of becoming a pirate is very high?

"Don't worry, even if I'm 'made' into a pirate, I won't be one of those low-class pirates who burn, kill, plunder, and commit all sorts of evil deeds."

Knowing their concerns, Locke simply said, "I still have my principles; I wouldn't stoop to doing something like this."

"Is that so..."

Nami glanced at Rocks and nodded slightly.

Then he said firmly, "Since I said I would become your navigator, I will not go back on my word!"

"You saved me and our village. I have no way to repay this kindness except by doing my own thing!"

"it is good."

Lockes nodded with a smile.

Then he called to the others, "Go back first, I have some things I need your help with..."

The navy from the nearby naval branch will definitely come to investigate this matter.

To pin the blame for the Arlong Pirates' demise on the Buggy Pirates, they need the help of the villagers of Cocoyasi Village.

'Splash!'

Just as Rocks and the others were about to leave Dragon Paradise, a huge sea monster with a bull's head emerged from the bottom of the pool.

Its fierce gaze was fixed on the four people in the arena, and it opened its mouth to let out an angry roar: "Moo!!"

what happened?

Didn't it just run off to find food?

Why are all the zookeepers dead after we came back?

Was it done by these humans?

"Is that a Moo!?"

"That monster that can destroy the village!"

Nami and Nojiko were startled by the sudden appearance of the manatee, and their faces turned panicked.

This monster is extremely destructive.

The neighboring village was destroyed by this monster!!

Rocks glanced at him, his Conqueror's Haki concealed, and coldly uttered a single word: "Get lost!"

"Moo~~"

Marine mammals have more acute senses than ordinary humans.

Although Rocks concealed his Conqueror's Haki, it sensed as if a terrifying creature was watching it.

The crushing power from a higher level of life is like a natural enemy; just facing it directly evokes fear.

Then the manatee let out a terrified whimper, plunged its body into the seabed, and turned to flee as if escaping.

I wish I could grow another tail...

"What's going on...?"