Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

"Hahaha... I see... I see..."

"As expected of the first mate! He's really something... Hahaha..."

"Oh my god, I'm dying of laughter!"

The surrounding crew members laughed so hard they rolled around on the deck, and Reina smiled and joked with them, putting everyone's worries to rest.

“It seems… something’s different!” Marco looked at Reina, who was mingling with the crew. He felt that Reina seemed to have changed, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

As the sun set, the battle between Whitebeard and Baron Redfield had lasted all day. The island's environment had been completely ravaged by the two of them, and if the fighting continued, Reina couldn't guarantee that the island wouldn't be sunk by them.

"Hey~~~ Time to eat! What time is it? Don't you have any sense of time? Hurry up and come eat!" Reina shouted towards the center of the island, using a thick wooden stick to carry a small sea monster.

Sure enough, after a while, the sounds of battle ceased, and the two tattered figures emerged from the middle of the island. Upon seeing the crew members having a banquet on the shore, Whitebeard laughed and began eating the small sea king next to Reina.

Not to be outdone, Barolorik Redfield on the other side started eating the other one.

"Aren't you afraid I'll poison you to death?" Reina joked, watching Barolorick Redfield gulp down his food.

Barolorik Redfield paused, then continued eating, saying, "If you really do that, I deserve to die!"

"Pfft, hahaha... First mate, you've been looked down upon? Hurry up and poison him!" A crew member nearby, overhearing Reina and Barrorick Redfield's conversation, immediately said with a grin.

Reina rolled his eyes at the other man, ignored him, picked up the violin beside him, and began to play the banquet's must-sing piece, "Binker's Wine".

After a hearty meal and drinks, Whitebeard and Barolok Redfield did not continue their fight. The battle had already been interrupted, and there was no point in continuing it. Both of them were already clear about each other's strength.

During the banquet, Reina kept trying to recruit Baroric Redfield into the pirate crew, but Whitebeard didn't say anything, and Baroric Redfield didn't seem to have any such intention.

That night, after receiving his wages for the day, Reina was about to go to rest when he found Whitebeard sitting on the ship's railing, seemingly waiting for him.

"Brother, is something wrong so late?" Reina walked over, plopped down next to the white-bearded man, and asked with a smile.

"You've noticed it yourself, haven't you?" Whitebeard asked abruptly.

Reina was taken aback, then nodded somewhat dejectedly and said, "Yes! So, Big Brother wants me to disembark?"

"Gurararara... you idiot... you're my little brother!" Whitebeard slapped Reina on the head and said with a laugh.

“But I don’t seem to fit into this family!” Reina naturally knew what Whitebeard was asking, which was why he thought Whitebeard would let him off the ship, because his dream and goal were not to become the Pirate King or the strongest being.

All he wanted was family.

"Everyone has their own secrets and their own personality. In a big family, we need to be tolerant and understanding of each other! There are so many people on the ship, and everyone has different personalities, hobbies, and dreams. It's not that there are no conflicts, but because we are family, we are tolerant and understanding of each other!"

Because we're family, we'll never abandon any of us! Haven't you already realized your problem? Although I don't know what caused it, I know you're my brother, Edward Newgate, and that's enough!

Whitebeard seemed to transform into a caring older sister tonight, offering Reina words of encouragement and inspiration.

"Phew~ Thank you, brother, I understand, but... it might take some more time!" Reina nodded and said.

"Is it because of... the influence of the pirate crew we were in before? Is it that makes you wary of everyone?" Whitebeard asked curiously, despite his previous statement.

Reina shook his head and said, "Maybe it's somewhat related, but it's mainly my own fault!"

“Baroric Redfield is different from us, so I didn’t invite him to the ship before. He himself knows that his personality doesn’t get along with ours, so he didn’t accept your invitation!” Sure enough, after Reina said that, Whitebeard didn’t continue to ask questions, but explained why he hadn’t invited Baroric Redfield together with Reina before.

“I was reckless!” Reina nodded and said.

Seeing that Reina had figured things out, Whitebeard patted Reina on the shoulder and left with a smile.

Reina had already realized the difference between himself and Marco and the others when he met them during the day.

All the crew members on the ship were united around Whitebeard, but Reyner was different. Although he was also by Whitebeard's side, he did not live with Whitebeard at the center.

To put it simply, as a transmigrator with a system, he believed he was the protagonist and would eventually become the strongest being in the world.

According to this world, Reina harbors ambition deep down. Although he is currently somewhat lost and without goals due to his own reasons, his ambition to refuse to submit to anyone is ingrained in his very bones.

This is the biggest difference between him and the other members, and it's something he only realized today.

Moreover, after careful consideration, he actually began to doubt himself, wondering if joining the Whitebeard Pirates was the right choice.

After all, we've lived together for several years, and our feelings for each other are quite deep.

Moreover, Whitebeard's words just now made Reina realize that there was actually no conflict between these things. So what if he was a transmigrator? He still had to continue living in this world.

"No matter what, you'll always be my brother!" That was the main message Whitebeard had just conveyed, and it was also what deeply moved Reina.

In fact, there are many crew members on the ship who, like him, have their own goals, but that doesn't stop them from becoming a true family.

Having figured everything out, Reina hummed a little tune and went back to rest, while Whitebeard sat in his room, a slight smile playing on his lips, and muttered softly, "What an idiot..."

The next day, Reina didn't show anything unusual; he was the same as usual. But sensitive people could still sense that something was different about Reina.

"Hey~~ Reina~~~ Come quick, I've found a big fish!" In the distance, Olga, riding on Elizabeth's back, seemed to be being chased by something, running quickly towards the location of the pirate ship.

Reina put away the Hyōrinmaru in his hand; his swordsmanship training time was over. Then he turned his head to look at Olga.

“Sachi… Olga brought back food, go and prepare it!” Reina called out into the cabin.

Sachi, carrying a kitchen knife, emerged from the cabin. His eyes lit up when he saw what was behind Olga, and he immediately exclaimed, "Okay, I'm coming right now! This is good stuff!"

When Sachi and Olga returned to the pirate ship, the crew members curiously gathered around them.

"Sachi... what is this? Is it tasty?"

"Yeah, it looks really weird!"

Even Reina, who was standing nearby, seemed to be attracted and stopped his physical training to run over.

"Don't underestimate this thing, it's a world-class culinary ingredient. Olga really helped us a lot this time!" Sachi said with a smile, looking at the strange fish that was entangled in the net and still struggling.

"That's... look who's in charge!" Olga said with a smug smile and arrogance.

"By the way... what is this thing? Is it really edible? It's flat and can you really eat it?" Reina poked the strange fish that was entangled in the net and asked.

"Don't underestimate it! This is a type of flounder, perfect for frying or making into four-happiness rolls. It's a top-quality ingredient!" Sachi explained with a smile. "The most amazing thing is that this fish is hermaphroditic and can reproduce on its own!"

"Oh? It's that amazing?" Reina said, stroking his chin as if he was considering something.

Chapter 82 Trap

"Huh?" Everyone looked at Reina, who didn't seem to be joking, and showed expressions of surprise.

“There’s already not enough space on the sky island. Are you planning to build a lake?” Marco asked, frowning.

Reina waved his hand dismissively and said, "It's fine, compressing the space for those land creatures won't be a problem!"

That's right, Reina plans to keep this strange flounder on the Sky Island. He had already been thinking about it when Sachi mentioned that it was hermaphroditic.

"You'd better let the Doctor go! Those creatures you released on the sky island, the Doctor went through a lot of trouble to separate them, and now you want to raise something in the water? If the Doctor finds out, he'll kill you!" Even the usually composed Vista shook his head and refused.

“It’s alright, aquatic creatures are easy to raise. Just put each type of fish in its own pit. This time, we’re not raising them all together like we do with land animals!” Reina said with a smile.

Originally, the sky island only had some cattle and sheep. Later, they passed by more and more small islands and encountered a lot of delicious food. Many of the creatures were quite strong, but Reina captured them alive and threw them onto the sky island.

The problem was that he didn't manage the island after he dropped it there. One day, a crew member was feeding the captive wild animals when he was attacked by them. If he hadn't been discovered early, something terrible might have happened.

Enraged, Dr. Assie ordered the slaughter of many of them, and the rest were separated and kept in captivity.

They held several banquets in succession to finish all the food.

“Then you can talk to the professor yourself!” Marco said to Reina, taking out the Den Den Mushi (snail phone) that connects to the Sky Island.

"Huh? Do I have to do this kind of thing?" Reina said with dissatisfaction.

“Leave it to me! Let me do it!” Olga said, jumping out at this moment.

She likes more creatures on the floating island. Now, besides the ones that run on land, there should definitely be more creatures that swim in the water. It would be even better if she could catch some flying creatures in the future.

Upon seeing Olga's intervention, Marco and the others fell silent. Dr. Asie never refused Olga's requests.

So after bringing Olga and the strange-looking flounder to the sky island, Reina planned to abandon them.

"Forget it, I'll go up and take a look. I doubt the doctor has any experience feeding these flounders. I'll go up and talk to him!" Sachi said with a wry smile, shaking his head as he saw Reina go back to practice his physical skills.

If the professor were to actually dig a hole, fill it with water, and then throw the halibut in, it would be a complete waste of this top-quality ingredient.

That day, under Sachi's guidance, the Sky Island's animal keeper gained another member who needed care.

Seeing Olga's happy expression, Assie decided not to pursue the matter with Reina. In his eyes, nothing was more important than Olga's happiness.

When Sachi came down, he chose a tiger on the sky island as the ingredient for today's meal, and returned to the pirate ship with the animal keeper's reluctance.

A few days later, while the Whitebeard Pirates were sailing normally, the Den Den Mushi on the ship suddenly received a distress signal.

"Navigator, look at the chart. Are there any islands around?" Marco asked the navigator after receiving the message.

“According to our nautical chart, there are no marked islands around!” the navigator said, shaking his head.

"Then how do we find the person asking for help?" Joz asked, frowning.

“Brubrub... Brubrub..." At that moment, the Den Den Mushi rang again.

Marco answered the phone, but the calls for help were still coming in intermittently.

“Hello…Hello…Where are you? Tell me your coordinates!” Marco shouted into the phone.

"I...I'm at...XXX·XXX...Quick...Quick, come save me!" The Den Den Mushi gave out coordinates, and the navigator quickly determined the other party's location, which was a sea area they had not yet explored.

"Captain Marco, what do we do now? Should we go over there?" a crew member asked Marco.

"Go ask Dad! See what he says!"

So a group of people ran to the captain's cabin and found the white-bearded man drinking.

"Gurararara... Fools, this is obviously a trap!" Whitebeard said with a chuckle.

"A trap?" Everyone was startled and said in disbelief.

“That’s right. On this vast ocean, unless it’s an extremely urgent situation where someone desperately needs help, most people wouldn’t use this method to expose their location. After all, they don’t know who’s on the other end of the Den Den Mushi! The fact that this person was able to call twice means that his situation isn’t that critical. The reason you all feel that way is because he created it himself!”

Whitebeard nodded and said.

"What? That bastard actually dared to deceive us?"

"Let's go! Let's find him and show him how treacherous the world can be!"

The crew members started arguing. Who were they? They were pirates from the Whitebeard Pirates!

"Father, since it's a trap, let's just ignore it!" Marco stopped the surrounding crew members and said softly.

"No! Why not pay attention? Aren't you curious? Who exactly is setting this trap? I am Whitebeard..." Whitebeard shook his head and said.

So, under Whitebeard's orders, the navigator immediately instructed the helmsman to change course and head towards the target.