Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

“Who knows!?” Marco shrugged and replied.

He didn't know why Reina was behaving so strangely.

"Is it because you didn't accompany him in his training that day and he's angry?" Vista hesitated for a moment, then asked with a smile.

"I don't think so. It's very likely related to a treasure map!" Joz shook his head and said in a muffled voice.

"A treasure map?" The group was somewhat surprised. What did this have to do with a treasure map?

So Joz recounted what had happened that day, and he felt that Reina seemed to value those treasure maps very much.

"Forget it, it's not a big deal anyway, let him be!" Marco pursed his lips, telling everyone not to pay any more attention to the matter.

A few days later, they arrived at the island marked on the treasure map. It was an uninhabited island, and the process of retrieving the treasure was not as difficult as Reina had imagined. After finding the place, they easily found the treasure, which consisted of some gold and jewelry.

Although they are indeed valuable, these things are not very meaningful to them. What they prefer is the process of finding treasure and the joy of finding it.

After sending the sky island down and storing the treasure there, Newgate planned to hold a banquet on the island that evening.

"Sachi, is there enough food for tonight?" Reina asked with a smile as he came from the Sky Island and was preparing food for the banquet.

“There shouldn’t be any problem, we have enough food reserves!” Sachi said with a smile.

"How about we go down to sea and catch something?" Reina raised an eyebrow and asked with a slight smile.

His main goal was to take up some of Sachi's time so he could have a legitimate reason to help prepare the food, since he was still officially a chef! This way, he could attend the banquet and complete his work duties at the same time, killing two birds with one stone.

"Oh? Does the first mate want to have a food hunting contest with me?" Sachi asked with a smile, also intrigued.

"A competition? What competition? I want to participate too!" Hansen, who happened to be passing by, heard Sachi's words and immediately came over and said.

“Sure! We’re planning to take advantage of the time we still have and go out to the ocean to get some food. Let’s see who gets the biggest piece of food with the most edible meat! How about it?” Reina hadn’t really planned to do this at first, but now that things had come to this point, he couldn’t back down, could he?

"Let's get this straight, you can't use your weird stuff, otherwise it won't be fun!" Hansen already knew about Reina's magical bait that could catch fish 100% of the time.

“Of course!” Reina nodded and said.

"How about we join this interesting match?" Vista, along with Marco, Joz, and others, had come over at some point.

“In that case, let’s ask around and see who else wants to participate. If we’re going to play, let’s go big. I have two jin of liquor left, as a prize for the winner, how about that?” Reina said after thinking for a moment.

What was originally just a small excuse to stall Thatch turned into a food hunting competition for the entire crew, and even Whitebeard became somewhat interested.

"Brother, it's no fun if you participate. Why don't you be the referee? How about it?" Reina knew that Whitebeard was just craving those two pounds of liquor.

"Don't worry, Dad, watch how I get the liquor from Reina's hands!" Joz shouted with great enthusiasm.

"Tch~ A mere ability user dares to spout such nonsense? Can you even catch fish in the sea? Or can you catch a sea king?" Reina said disdainfully.

“Hey… since we’ve participated, the rules can’t just be limited to food from the ocean. There are plenty of wild animals on this island, so they should count too, right?” Marco stepped forward and said with dissatisfaction.

Whitebeard nodded and laughed, "Gurarararar... That's right, from now on, sunset is the deadline! Whoever catches the biggest prey wins! Whether it's from the sea, an island, or even the sky, it doesn't matter, as long as you can catch it and bring it over!"

Seeing that Whitebeard had already spoken, Reina didn't object, nodded, and said, "Alright, anyway, there aren't any large animals on the island, so you can just wait to admit defeat!"

"Gurarararar... Children... Begin! Show me what you've got, and don't let that brat Reina take the good wine back!" Whitebeard laughed as he announced the start of the match.

To be honest, there aren't many large sea monsters or even large fish in the waters near the island.

Therefore, to capture large sea monsters, you must stay far away from the island.

"Chabes!" Reina shouted, and Chabes, the water lizard, immediately stood up from next to Dr. Assie and ran towards Reina.

"Everyone, I'll be going now!" With that, Reina mounted Chabes and rode off across the sea.

"Huh? The first mate is really cunning!"

"Yes, yes! How can we let Chabes help? Doctor, hurry up and bring Chabes back!"

Many crew members shouted loudly, but Reina ignored them. He couldn't use Moonwalk, nor was he a power user like Aokiji; he simply didn't have the ability to cross the sea.

Although Dr. Asie usually lives on the Sky Island, everyone knows of his existence. Occasionally, when the Sky Island descends, everyone will go to the Sky Island to take a stroll, so Dr. Asie is not a stranger to everyone.

As for Chabes and Elizabeth's abilities, they received unanimous praise from the entire crew, especially from ability users like Marco and Jozu, who were very envious.

"Hey, how about we team up?" Olga's eyes darted around as she called out to Marco, who was deep in thought about how to catch his prey.

"Oh? How do you want to cooperate?" Marco asked, surprised.

Olga may not be very strong, but she has a lot of clever ideas. However, everyone thinks she is just a child, so they usually take good care of her.

“Elizabeth and I will go out to sea to lure prey, and you can follow me in the air! We’ll split the prey equally, how about it?” Olga said with a smile.

"A tie? But if that happens, wouldn't we both lose the game?" Marco shook his head and said, "How about this? We'll do it your way. You decide what to do with the first one, and it's yours. The second one will follow my orders, and it's mine! What do you say?"

Olga nodded, gave Marco a high five, and said, "No problem, let's get out to sea first and find a place to talk!"

"Those things on the mountain are mine!" Since Joz couldn't go out to sea, he had no choice but to choose a small mountain on the island, which was home to many ferocious beasts, although they hadn't found any huge wild animals before.

After exchanging glances, Vista, Sachi, Laqué, and the others each got a lifeboat and went out to sea.

The other ordinary crew members either chose to hunt wild animals on the island like Jozu, or went directly into the sea to see if they could catch anything.

Over there, after Olga and Marco reached the distant sea, she cautiously looked around and then took out a small jar from her bosom.

"You want to cheat?" Marco, who had only turned his arms into wings, was taken aback and immediately recognized that the small jar contained Reina's kind of bait that could catch fish 100% of the time.

“Cheating? I didn’t cheat. I wasn’t using this to fish. I just accidentally dropped a little bit!” Olga said with a sly smile.

Marco was speechless. It was originally just a game based on luck, so even if they won, it wouldn't mean much!

"Don't worry, given Reina's personality, he'll most likely use it too!" Olga said with a confident expression.

Marco thought for a moment, then surprisingly nodded in agreement.

Because Olga's words made a lot of sense, and even the reasoning she used just now sounded quite similar to Reina's tone.

Meanwhile, Reina, who had already left the island far behind, indeed took out a small jar, opened it, took out a few baits, and then "accidentally" dropped them into the sea, saying, "Oh dear~ this is terrible, I accidentally dropped them! What am I going to do!"

At the same time, apart from Vista, the other members of the crew who went out to sea all took out the bait they usually kept and threw it into the sea next to them.

A short while later, the white-bearded man sitting on the beach drinking a little wine frowned and looked at the distant sea. He sensed that something was wrong.

"These kids... they're just too reckless!"

"Oh? What's wrong?" Dr. Assie asked curiously.

"It's alright... let them do whatever they want! Glug glug glug... let's drink!" The white-bearded man shook his head, raised his wine glass, and said with a smile.

"They're here!" At the same time, from different locations on the sea, Reina, Marco, and the others opened their eyes and exclaimed in unison.

Chapter 62 Treasure Pack

“Those guys… they really did use it!” Vista sensed powerful life energy emanating from several places nearby and immediately said with a wry smile.

He naturally had Reina's bait on him, but he thought it was just a normal hunting competition, and everyone had said before the competition that they wouldn't use that kind of bait. Unexpectedly, apart from him, the other guys all used it at the same time.

"Oh no... I can't sense their size!" Over there, Reina, who was riding on Chabes, had the best mobility, so after he discovered that someone else had used bait, he planned to intercept them.

However, his Observation Haki had only been awakened for a short time. Although he could sense life energy, he could not sense its specific form, so he had to go to the one with the strongest life energy.

"You, Reina, not only did you use the bait yourself, but you also tried to steal my prey?" Seeing Reina running towards him, Lakyo laughed and cursed, then began to quickly swing the meteor hammer in his hand.

"Hmm?" Seeing that Reina and Laco had taken the lead, the others were not to be outdone and also attacked the sea kings that were moving towards them from the sea.

Marco, being an ability user, had to stay in the air, constantly monitoring Olga's movements.

"Damn it, those guys did it on purpose, they attacked prematurely and alerted the Sea Kings. Olga, be careful, the Sea Kings might launch an attack!" Marco's expression suddenly changed in the air, and he said to Olga below.

"Don't worry, although I don't have your abilities, Elizabeth won't be attacked by sea kings!" Olga patted Elizabeth's neck and said with a smile.

She had barely finished speaking when Elizabeth began to feel uneasy. Then, she suddenly let out a strange cry and started running in another direction.

Marco, seeing this, dared not be careless, for he had already spotted a huge shadow beneath the surface of the sea.

"Boom~~ Boom boom~~~ Boom~~"

No fewer than ten sea monsters suddenly emerged from the surface of the sea in various places and stared at the humans in front of them.

"Gulp..." Hansen swallowed hard, looking at the sea king whose eyes were bigger than his own, and said, "This is troublesome... Did we go too far?"

The crew members near the island naturally noticed the commotion and quickly emerged from the water, running towards the beach.

"Hehe...then I won't hold back!" The one who wanted to make a move even more than Birena was Laco. He swung his meteor hammer and struck the nearest Sea King.

"Croak..." In front of him was a giant sea king with a frog's head. When Laco's meteor hammer struck, the frog croaked, opened its mouth, and stuck out its tongue, trying to swallow the meteor hammer.

"My flail isn't so easy to eat!" Lakyo chuckled, his Armament Haki completely covering the flail.

The frog-like sea king's tongue finally made contact with the flail, but the two seemed to be evenly matched. The frog's tongue was bounced back, and Laco's flail did not gain any advantage either.

"Rose Dance!" Next up was Vista, who wielded a rapier in each hand. As he made his move, rose petals seemed to fall around him.

His opponent was a giant eel-like sea king. When Vista slashed, the giant eel simply swept its tail across the opponent's body.

With a strange cry, Vista severed the giant eel's tail, instantly staining the sea red with blood.

The giant eel sea king immediately tried to dive into the sea to escape, but Vista would not let it get away. During its descent, Vista stepped on the giant eel's severed tail and then delivered two intersecting slashes directly to the giant eel.

When Vista made his move, the others followed suit. Reina kicked Chabes on the head and then jumped toward the Sea King he had chosen.

It was a sea king with a head that looked very much like a thunder dragon. When it saw little Reina coming towards it, it didn't make any extra movements and simply opened its mouth to eat Reina.

"Whoosh! Slash!"

Reina took a deep breath, drew his Muramasa sword, and just as the sea king-like creature was about to devour him, he slashed it across the nose.

Muramasa, as if he hadn't encountered anything, directly tore apart the opponent's skin and muscles, and instantly the nose of the Thunder Dragon Sea King was cut open by Reina.

In pain, the Thunder Dragon Sea King shut its mouth and rammed its head into Reina.

Reina, however, used the opponent's head to completely ignore the impact and then slashed at the opponent's neck.

"Pfft~~"

"boom……"

The enormous, thunder dragon-like head was severed by Reina's blade, but as it fell, Chabes caught it and returned it to its body.

"Hey... I didn't expect this guy to have such a powerful impact force!" The impact of the Thunder Dragon Sea King was not ineffective; rather, Reina directly absorbed the energy of the impact and then released the impact force when he slashed at the opponent's neck.

This allowed him to easily sever the opponent's neck. Otherwise, even with Reina's swordsmanship, wielding a Muramasa sword, he wouldn't have the strength to sever the opponent's neck with a single strike.

The battle began quickly and ended just as quickly. Apart from Marco, who was still trying to catch the second Sea King, everyone else had already dealt with their respective opponents.

When they returned to the island, the crew was working hard to salvage the sea kings they had killed. Although there were quite a few of them, there were definitely too many sea kings for them to eat.