Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

Hearing Reina's words, Reiju fell into deep thought. She really hadn't thought about it in this way. She didn't pay much attention to her younger brothers. Although they were usually together, they didn't talk much, so Reiju hadn't noticed anything different.

However, after receiving Reina's opinion, she decided to go back and observe it carefully.

"If they really have changed in personality, you'd better not tell them!" Reina said softly upon seeing this. "They might not be able to accept a sudden change. This kind of slow change might be better for them. Don't tell Judge either!"

"I understand, thank you for the kind reminder, First Mate!" Reiju said gratefully.

She had originally planned to tell Ichi and the others after discovering the anomaly, but she figured they would be the first to be unable to accept it, because for them, emotions were superfluous and an obstacle to their becoming stronger.

After leaving Reiju, she returned to the Vinsmoke area. To show how much Whitebeard valued them, he had previously designated a territory for them on the island.

However, apart from Reiju, the other Vinsmoke family members are not present. They have accompanied the Whitebeard Pirates' captains to fight on the island of the extraterrestrial visitors.

Recently, due to the lack of powerful extraterrestrial visitors, not only the Whitebeard Pirates, but also the Revolutionary Army and the Navy have increased the frequency of their attacks on them. This is partly to force their powerful members to show themselves, and partly to take the opportunity to gain some luck and fortune.

Only the Red-Haired Pirates and the Straw Hat Pirates were not involved because they were not in the North Blue due to the Uta incident in the South Blue.

However, precisely because of this, the extraterrestrial visitors had no intention of attacking the Straw Hat Pirates' and Red-Haired Pirates' territories. They were already struggling to defend, let alone launch an attack.

Chapter 1068 The Straw Hat Crew Arrives

After Reiju left, Reina planned to rest, but before he could even wash up, there was another knock on the door.

"Who?"

Reina asked helplessly as he walked toward the door.

"First mate, it's me, Izo!"

Reina opened the door, and there stood Izo, the captain of the 16th Division, who looked somewhat hesitant.

"It's you! Did you come to see me for something?" Reina yawned and asked.

"Yes! There are some things I'd like to talk to you about!" Izang took a deep breath and replied.

"Hmm?" Reina noticed that Izou's expression was a bit off, so he put away his laziness and said, "Come in and sit down! What happened?"

After a moment's hesitation, he said, "I want to leave for a while!"

"Leave?" Reina was taken aback and asked, "Where to? Tell me what happened first, and we'll figure something out together. Don't just say you want to leave out of the blue!"

Izo quickly waved his hand and said, "It's not that I'm leaving the pirate crew, it's that I want to go back to Wano Country for a while!"

Reina sighed and said, "You better explain yourself! It's just going back to Wano Country, why are you making such a face?"

Izang touched his nose somewhat embarrassedly and said, "Isn't it because everyone is planning to launch an attack on the extraterrestrial visitors? It wouldn't be right for me to leave at this time!"

"Hahaha..." Reina laughed loudly upon hearing this, "Those guys are hoping you leave now, so there will be one less person competing with them for the power of destiny!"

Upon hearing this, Yizang laughed as well.

He knew that what Reina said was impossible; he was just trying to comfort him and tell him not to worry about this.

If the Whitebeard Pirates were to engage in internal strife over something like this, they wouldn't have gotten to where they are today.

"Is there some kind of problem in Wano Country?" After exchanging a few words with Izo, Reina tentatively asked.

"It's not a big problem!" Izo said somewhat embarrassedly, "It's a letter from General Momonosuke asking if I could go back and help him train his army!"

“Training an army? Doesn’t Wano Country already have the Red Army? Who are you to train an army?” Reina asked in surprise.

Izo is quite strong, but he excels in spearmanship. Especially after Reina taught him close-combat spearmanship, Izo's strength has increased significantly compared to the original story. However, when it comes to training an army, he probably can't compare to the native Red-bearded samurai. After all, Izo has been with the Whitebeard Pirates since he set sail in his early years, and he doesn't have the same familiarity with the samurai of Wano Country as Kin'emon and the others.

Hearing Reina say the same thing, Izo sighed and said, "Yes! I also said the same thing to General Momonosuke, but the general said that I have lived in the outer sea the longest and know more. If Wano Country wants to open its borders, it must be prepared to make contact with the outer seas. But Wano Country does not have that ability or preparation right now, so he wants me to go back and help!"

Upon hearing this, Reina understood Momonosuke's meaning. This was not to ask Izo to go back and train the army, but rather to bring back news from the outer seas to the country, so that the people of Wano Country could better understand the outer seas, and incidentally, to broaden the horizons of the Wano Country army.

After all, there will be no progress if we just work behind closed doors, and they don't know how big the gap is between themselves and the outside world.

So Reina nodded and replied, "Momonosuke's idea is good. It's indeed not the time for Wano Country to open its borders yet, and they do need your help right now. However, if you go back, I suggest you take some books with you. That would be better than going back by yourself!"

Izo's eyes lit up. He hadn't thought of this method before. With books, the people of Wano Country could learn about the world through them. So Izo quickly asked, "Does the first mate have any recommended books?"

“I can’t help you with that, you know I don’t have time to read right now! But Robin should be back in a few days, so if you’re not in a hurry, you can wait and have Robin recommend some books for you!” Reina shrugged and replied.

Upon hearing that Robin was coming, Izo immediately said that he could wait a few more days.

Since many Wano Country samurai are currently fighting alongside Luffy, he needs to bring back the injured samurai who can no longer fight to Wano Country. So, he originally planned to go to the Straw Hat crew's territory first. Now that he hears that Luffy and his crew are coming, he can go back with them.

After chatting with Ying for a while, Reina finally had time to rest. He quickly washed up and went to rest.

For the next two days, Reina mainly dealt with issues at the front-line base and did not participate in the fighting. The fighting at the front was handled by Marco and Laco.

On the third day at noon, the Straw Hat crew finally arrived. Luffy, carrying Uta who was still frozen, found Reina.

"Uncle Reina, we're here!" Seeing that Reina was already waiting for them, Luffy carefully put Uta down and greeted Reina loudly.

"You're here? Was the journey smooth?" Reina said with a smile. "I've already sent someone to inform Reiju; she'll be here soon!"

On the Straw Hat crew's side, quite a few people have ties to Whitebeard. Not to mention Robin and Reina's relationship, Luffy and Ace, these two brothers, haven't seen each other for a long time. However, Ace is currently guarding Luffy's territory, so they won't be seeing each other today.

Besides Luffy and Ace, Nami is also Marco's sister-in-law, so Reina would definitely inform Marco when Nami arrives.

There's also the relationship between Sanji and the Vinsmoke family. Although their relationship isn't good, Sanji and Reiju are very close, so they'll definitely have a good chat after they meet.

However, Uta's situation is more urgent now, so when Marco and Reiju arrived, they did not immediately catch up, but instead planned to first determine whether Uta could be saved.

"Marco's Flame of Regeneration can help Uta break free of the seal. After the ice is broken, Chopper will need to examine Uta. After being frozen for so long, there must be some damage to his body. Also, Reiju should check him out to see if the toxins in Uta's body can be absorbed!" Reina made the arrangements after everyone had arrived.

"Shouldn't we wait for Shanks? This girl is Shanks' child after all. It might be better to unseal her after he arrives!" Marco asked Reina.

Reina shook his head and replied, "The longer Uta is frozen, the more damage it will cause, so the best option is to break the freeze as soon as possible! As for Shanks, I don't think he'll mind!"

If it were before discussing it with Whitebeard, Reina would definitely have waited until Shanks arrived before taking action. But now that the goal is to save Uta, it's best to lift the ice seal as soon as possible.

Chopper nodded frantically beside him. He knew how damaging freezing was to the body. Although he had tried his best to keep Uta frozen along the way, it would definitely be better to break free of the freeze as soon as possible!

Chapter 1069 Rescue Begins

As arranged by Reina, Marco first used the Flame of Regeneration to free Uta from his frozen state, and then Chopper immediately stepped forward to give Uta a thorough check-up.

Although Marco's Regenerative Flame does not cause a burning sensation on the body, it is indeed a type of flame, and it is perfectly capable of being used to remove the ice. Moreover, the Regenerative Flame has healing effects, which can be used to provide initial treatment for Uta's body.

After a moment, Chopper breathed a sigh of relief, nodded to Reina and his companions, and said, "Although Uta's body tissues were somewhat damaged, the toxins were frozen, so they didn't continue to spread!"

Upon hearing this, Reiju stepped forward, intending to try and absorb the toxins from Uta's body.

Luffy and the others were also quite concerned; whether it would work or not depended on Reiju. If it didn't work, Luffy really didn't know how to tell Shanks the result.

Sanji, Nami, and the others now understood why Marco had Shanks arrive before providing treatment.

If Uta can't be saved, they really don't know how to explain it to Shanks.

It wasn't that they were afraid Shanks wouldn't believe them; it was just that it was difficult to bring up such a thing.

So everyone was watching Reiju nervously, afraid she would say she was powerless to help.

After her hands touched Uta's body, Reiju was already sensing the toxins in his body. If she couldn't even sense them, it meant she couldn't detoxify Uta. If she could sense them, then the next step would be to absorb the toxins.

However, if the toxin takes root too deeply, her abilities will also be unable to absorb it.

Fortunately, there were no problems in the first part. Reiju sensed a large amount of toxins from Uta's body, and these toxins were quite delicious to her because her ability was to feed on toxins. The more potent the toxins she consumed, the better it would be for the growth of her abilities.

Sensing the toxins within Uta's body, Reiju didn't hold back and brought her mouth close to Uta's lips, because she needed to do so to absorb the toxins from Uta's body.

But in that tense moment, Sanji suddenly kicked Luffy away.

Everyone looked at the furious Sanji with some confusion, and Luffy was also completely bewildered, as he hadn't done anything at all!

However, Luffy quickly realized something and covered his mouth, saying, "Sanji, I didn't steal the food from before!"

Everyone was speechless. Wasn't this just admitting guilt without being asked?

Sanji casually lit a cigarette, looked at Luffy, and said, "I didn't kick you because you stole the ingredients!"

"What? You should have said so earlier! You scared me to death! I thought we'd been found out!" Luffy breathed a sigh of relief and replied.

Reina was speechless. Luffy, the captain, was really lacking in prestige. He was kicked by his own chef and didn't even ask for a reason.

Before Reina could even react, Sanji kicked Luffy again, sending him flying once more. He then went to Nami's side and said, "Nami-san~ you saw it too, right? That guy always likes to steal food. The giant mousetrap we bought before doesn't work anymore. How about we buy me a lockable refrigerator?"

Without a word, Nami shoved a big punch into Sanji's face. "How can you hit Luffy like that in front of everyone? Doesn't the Straw Hat Pirates have any face? If you're going to fight, you should do it in private! And is this the time to talk about the refrigerator?"

But she just kept beating up Sanji like that, did she forget about Reiju standing next to her? She's Sanji's older sister!

Fortunately, Reiju, who was busy treating Uta, did not notice the commotion.

But as Nami got angry, not only Sanji, but even Luffy obediently admitted his mistake.

Marco was speechless, covering his forehead.

After being beaten up by Nami, Sanji finally revealed why he kicked Luffy.

"You little brat... you were poisoned before too, weren't you? Reiju didn't detoxify you like this, did she?" Sanji said to Luffy, pointing at Reiju who was sucking the poison from Uta's lips.

Luffy looked completely bewildered, because he didn't remember at all. But Chopper added insult to injury, nodding and saying, "Yes, that's exactly what we did back then. Brook was envious for a long time!"

Looking at Chopper's innocent expression, Reina wondered if he was really stirring things up on purpose. Didn't he see the burning flames in Sanji's eyes, flames of envy and hatred? That's why people say that the look in someone's eyes when they want to kill them can't be hidden.

Brook seemed to recall the time Reiju cured Luffy's poison, and smacked his lips a few times, which completely ignited Sanji's anger. Sanji raised his foot and kicked Brook, while Luffy clapped and cheered, which made Sanji immediately rush over.

"Is that guy... an idiot?" Zoro was speechless. Wasn't he just asking for trouble?

Nami, on the other hand, didn't want to pay any attention to these guys; they were just a bunch of idiots.

Over there, Reiju was detoxifying Uta, but after a long time, she finally looked up and said, "I've absorbed some of the toxins, but it's very difficult to remove them completely. The toxins have been in her body for too long, and they're very potent. It will probably take some more time to completely remove them!"

"It's alright, it's good that it can be resolved. But it seems that Uta will have to stay here for a while! Luffy, are you staying here or going back?" Reina breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Reiju could indeed cure the poison.

"Of course we'll go back after Uta is fully recovered!" Luffy said matter-of-factly.

However, Nami and Jinbe immediately reminded Luffy that they had been out for quite some time, so they had to go back as soon as possible.

Finally, Reiju took Uta, who was still unconscious, to the hospital so that she could take better care of him and receive better treatment afterward.

While waiting for Reiju, Reina had already told them about the situation in the North Blue, so Nami, Jinbe, and others all believed that they had to go back and take charge as soon as possible.

Now that Uta has a cure, there's no need for them to stay here any longer. Shanks and the others will definitely come later, so it's better for them to take care of Uta then.

When Luffy heard what his crewmates said, he didn't object. He planned to rest for a day and set off to return to his territory early tomorrow morning.

"Robin!" Just as the Straw Hat crew was about to leave, Reina called out to Robin.

"What's wrong, Father?" Robin stood there, looking at Reina with surprise. They had only been separated for a short time. Did he have something to ask him?