The person is wearing a straw hat, and starts with the power of words!

"I knew it... Never mind, I can't see anything anyway, it's better to just wait until tomorrow to remove the bandage."

"Don't you still have Ah Yin?"

"Um... well... I think it's better to see for yourself."

Sima Di stood there the whole time as he spoke, as if he were blocking something behind him.

Zoro had no idea what Sima Di was up to, so he shrugged.

"As you wish."

After saying that, Zoro left and returned to the deck to be a dutiful watchman.

Sima Di breathed a sigh of relief after Zoro left.

"Phew, that was terrifying. But..." Sima Di looked behind him, "This attempt failed again. How strange, where did I go wrong? No! I need to hurry. I don't have much time left... Uh, I feel like I've heard that phrase before?"

About several tens of minutes later, Sima Di felt a slight vibration coming from the deck. He released the modeling field and found that the Franky family was quietly approaching Zoro.

Sima Di ignored it, knowing that Zoro could handle these matters.

A while later, Sima Di felt a chill and quickly enveloped the Merry in his modeling field.

"What...it turns out it was that long-nosed shipwright who came to see the Merry." Sima Di breathed a sigh of relief.

Kaku's aura was so powerful that Sima Di felt such a strong sense of threat.

"He should be alright, I'll continue..." Sima Di's body ignited with blue light again.

-

"I really... have no face to see everyone! Four hundred million Berries were stolen. We were finally... able to repair the Going Merry... Waaah... I really have no face to see everyone! Waaah!"

Usopp, severely injured, was abandoned on a busy street by the Franky family.

"You're badly injured... You'd better not move! Usopp, you stay here! I need to hurry back and get reinforcements. I'll also call Chopper to heal you! I heard their lair is just ahead, we'll go and destroy it in a bit!"

Nami felt terrible looking at Usopp, whose face was covered in blood and who could only whimper.

"Stop crying! Don't worry about the money that was stolen! Listen, Usopp! Stay here and don't go anywhere! I'll be right back!" Nami rushed back to the Going Merry with the last remaining 100 million.

However, shortly after Nami left, a flustered person came up to Usopp.

Usopp looked up and saw a middle-aged man in a black suit. The man's face looked very strange, somewhat like... a donkey.

“Usopp…I know you are Usopp.”

"I... am... and you are?"

“I know the heart is on your ship. Give this to him, and he'll know what to do. You must give it to him personally.”

Usopp felt something black and rectangular being shoved into his hand.

"Heart...who is Heart?" Before Usopp could finish his sentence, the person ran away.

However, now is not the time to dwell on this.

Usopp put the long, black object into his bag, then leaned against the wall and struggled to get up.

"I must get those things back..."

81. Perhaps there is only one chance.

The Going Merry.

Sima Di felt that no matter how hard he tried today, there would be no progress, so he got up and went out to see the current situation.

Chopper and Sanji had already returned to the ship by then.

Sanji's eyes lit up when he saw Sima Di. "Young Master Sima Di! So you didn't leave after all~ I wish I hadn't gone down there! By the way, this is Water Seven's specialty, Water Meat. Would you like to try some?"

"Thank you." Sima Di took it and took a bite. The meat was indeed silky smooth and delicious, with an excellent texture. "This... I definitely need to stock up on more!"

“Yes, Young Master Sima!” Sanji replied.

"Hey, Sima Di." Zoro's expression was serious.

"what happened?"

"You...you should have known by now."

"What? My modeling domain is silent again."

"Just now……"

Zoro was about to explain when he was interrupted by a voice.

"Sima Di! Zoro! Sanji! Chopper! Something terrible has happened!"

Everyone looked over and saw that it was Nami, who looked flustered.

Nami arrived and explained what had happened: Usopp had been robbed of 400 million Berries and beaten badly. Luffy had already headed to the Dismantling Shop.

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately set off, while Nami and Sima Di stayed behind to protect the last 100 million Berries.

About three hours later, it got dark, and only the setting sun on the horizon burned the clouds red.

All the Straw Hat crew members, except Robin, were on the Going Merry. Although they were each doing their duties as usual, a heavy atmosphere hung in the air. Some say that plants are the most sensitive creatures to human emotions. Even the orange trees at the stern of the Going Merry looked listless, some even wilting.

Perhaps the orange tree also knew that something was about to happen.

Usopp awoke from his coma.

He learned from the crowd about the revenge that was being sought for him, and he was both happy and frustrated.

The frustrating thing is, that money is gone forever.

Usopp kept apologizing to everyone, but he couldn't express his remorse no matter what he did. Meanwhile, Luffy brought up the idea of ​​changing ships, flipping through a price list.

The two started arguing after exchanging a few words. Usopp accused Luffy of being ungrateful and refused to believe that the Going Merry was no longer able to sail.

“Hey… what are you guys saying? The Going Merry can definitely be repaired, right? Oh, right, Sima Di, you're the first mate, you should be telling Luffy to stop being so reckless. Saying things like changing ships… …” Usopp turned his gaze to Sima Di.

"Actually, we didn't want to abandon the Going Merry either..."

"Hey! Sima Di!" Usopp immediately interrupted Sima Di, "Isn't the vice-captain's job to assist the captain? He can't give out ridiculous orders! Now it's your turn, you should advise Luffy!"

At this point, Usopp was rambling incoherently, saying whatever came to mind.

Sima Di was silent for a moment, then put on a serious expression. "...Besides assisting the captain, the vice-captain's duties also include faithfully carrying out and implementing the captain's orders. Let alone abandoning the Going Merry, which is beyond repair, even if Luffy asked us to abandon ship—with the Going Merry completely undamaged—I would still carry it out."

"The Heart Pirates... but I've never called myself a Heart. I don't claim to be the tenth generation either. But what you said about history is correct; the seventh, eighth, ninth, and third generations of Spades did indeed have that name. And this information is known only to a select few..."

Emperor Sima sheathed the Ghost Cry again, thought for a moment, and said.

“I… choose to believe you, but only half of it, because you can’t be some Trafalgar Law. Besides, it’s safer for this dangerous thing to be in my hands, isn’t it?”

"If you want it, it's yours."

The other person's tone was quite indulgent; this was the fourth person to speak to him like that today.

But Sima Di wasn't sure if he was hallucinating. Right after he finished speaking, his vision of his body blurred for a moment, like an old television set malfunctioning.

"That was just now..."

Emperor Sima was about to ask a question, but he interrupted him.

"No time! I have to get you out of here right now!" Luo grabbed Sima Di's hand without further ado. "ROOM!"

One second. Two seconds. Three seconds...

The two of them stood there dumbfounded, nothing happening.

"Uh...ROOM?" Sima Di asked, tilting his head.

"Damn it, can't I use my abilities anymore? Sima Di, give me Ghost Cry," Luo said.

His commanding tone made Sima Di forget that he needed to be on guard, and he handed the Ghost Cry to the other party without thinking.

Only after giving it to him did Sima Di realize what he had just done. How could he have so inexplicably given him the weapon? What if…

"Sima Di, stand behind me." Luo stretched out his hand and blocked Sima Di behind him.

"okay."

Strangely enough, Emperor Sima complied with his words once again without showing any aversion.

The doors to the mental hospital where patients are held are specially made, and even Luo had some difficulty opening them.

Sima Di's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief.

How could a steel door several feet thick, used to detain critically ill patients, be opened like that? Just two stabs and a kick? Even a Swiss bank vault would probably only require two more stabs, right?

The breaking down of the door also triggered the alarm.

The alarm blared, echoing throughout the entire mental hospital.

"Stop spacing out, let's go."

Luo tossed the scabbard of the Ghost Crying Sword to Sima Di, just so he could free up a hand to grab Sima Di's and leave this maddening place.

-

The two fled frantically.

A narrow corridor.