Chapter 214: The Matter Ends

When Nami walked down from the dog-head ship and arrived at the ruins of Arlong Park, she was still somewhat dazed.

The shadow of her childhood, the monster she had worried about for so long, the mountain pressing down on Cocoyasi Village, that Arlong who colluded with the Marines and claimed to be a superior species wanting to enslave humans, along with the Fish-Men under his command... had they just finished like this?

From beginning to end, this whole thing was just a matter of one punch from Garp; having settled the Arlong Pirates so easily, for a moment, Nami felt as if she were dreaming.

It wasn't until a large group of Marines dragged Arlong out from the ruins that Nami finally came back to her senses, clearly realizing that the Arlong Pirates had been completely destroyed.

"Mother... everyone... the Arlong Pirates are finally finished! Everyone doesn't have to suffer under the oppression of the Arlong Pirates anymore!"

After shouting excitedly twice, Uchiha Feiyu coughed behind Nami:

"Aren't you going to search Arlong Park? I remember there should be quite a lot of property left behind by Arlong there!"

Treasure left by Arlong?!

Nami, who was originally emotionally expressing her feelings, had both eyes turn into the shape of Belly after hearing this; ignoring the fact that she was just being sentimental, she charged straight toward the ruins of Arlong Park:

"Move aside, let me handle this! I've long known where that guy Arlong's secret treasure room is!"

Some Marine soldiers who were carefully exploring the ruins were pushed aside by the excited Nami, and this little cat burglar lived up to her name, easily finding several treasure rooms and digging out a huge pile of Belly and treasures.

Watching Nami rolling around in the Belly and treasures, Uchiha Feiyu shook his head and came to her side:

"Stop acting crazy here. These are the Marines' spoils of war, not your treasure. Why are you so happy?"

Nami, who was rolling in the pile of treasure, suddenly stiffened; she raised her head, looked at Uchiha Feiyu... and the Marines staring at her from the side, a mournful expression appearing on her face:

"Ah?! This... surely you can't share even a little bit with me? I'm the informant after all!!"

"Don't be silly, give all the money to the Marines! I believe Vice Admiral Garp will distribute this money to the citizens who were harmed by Arlong."

Uchiha Feiyu spoke up to persuade her, and upon hearing this, Nami stood up listlessly.

Although even if all of Arlong's treasure were left to Nami, she would likely have given most of the money to the villagers of Cocoyasi Village in the end, seeing a large amount of treasure being carried away by the Marines made Nami feel heartbroken to the extreme, to the point where she couldn't even breathe.

As for Uchiha Feiyu, he didn't care much about these treasures; with Garp present, it wasn't convenient for him to directly drain those Fish-Men, so he could only watch the fun from the side, especially finding it amusing to see Nami's tearless, crying expression.

The cleanup went very quickly; under Garp's pair of Iron Fists, even those Fish-Men with lighter injuries and mobility didn't dare to make trouble, all having been scared out of their wits by Garp.

After all, having wiped out the entire Arlong Pirates with one punch and destroyed Arlong Park with the resulting shockwave, in front of such a monster-level powerhouse, these ignorant Fish-Men had long since been terrified and dared not provoke the Marines again.

Even Arlong, who hadn't even made a move before being knocked unconscious by Arlong Park, didn't dare to utter a word when he saw Garp; he had originally wanted to be the heavyweight character appearing as the finale at Arlong Park, but he hadn't expected that Garp's one punch would send him and his base flying together, turning him into a clown.

When fighting Kizaru, Arlong could still convince himself that the opponent only had a powerful Devil Fruit, but seeing this punch from Garp, Arlong truly felt a sense of despair; whether it was himself, that Jinbe, or even their former big brother Fisher Tiger, what difference did it make when facing this punch from Garp?

With such a monster of a human around, the Fish-Men would never have a chance to rise again in this lifetime.

A group of Fish-Men, wearing Handcuffs and looking like dried salted fish, were stuffed into the bottom of the dog-head ship and escorted to the Marine Zhibu, going straight to prison to accompany Colonel Rat.

Wiping out the Arlong Pirates was just a matter of one punch for Garp, but the subsequent cleanup took several days.

First, they combed through the Marine Zhibu from top to bottom, arresting those who needed to be arrested and warning those who needed to be warned; once finished, the entire Marine Zhibu was left with only the ordinary low-level Marines.

Subsequently, these Marines worked without rest to distribute the treasures looted from the Arlong Pirates to the residents of nearby islands who had been oppressed by the Arlong Pirates.

This should have been the job of the Marine Zhibu, but unfortunately, the Marine Zhibu was now no different from being paralyzed and certainly couldn't complete this task.

By the time everything was done, seven or eight days had passed.

Early this morning, Uchiha Feiyu had another sparring match with Garp, and half an hour later, having exhausted his stamina, he was pinned to the ground by Garp.

"Kid, you should have awakened Haki by now, right?"

Garp shook his fist, feeling that this warm-up exercise wasn't bad, and looked at Uchiha Feiyu, who was lying on the ground, with a curious expression as he asked.

"I felt that when I was hitting you, the sensation was a bit off; it seems you've become a bit harder."

Uchiha Feiyu, lying on the ground, rolled his eyes; he was currently bruised and swollen, covered in sweat, with several bumps on his head, and he spoke helplessly:

"Having been beaten by your Haki so many times, if I still didn't have any realization, wouldn't I be an idiot?"

"Who says? My idiot grandson was beaten by me from childhood to adulthood, but he still hasn't learned Haki even now."

Garp took a bag of donuts out of his clothes and complained while chewing and swallowing.

"That's because you never told him about the concept of Haki, right? Otherwise, with your grandson's talent, he should have learned Haki long ago."

Garp shook his head upon hearing this:

"Haki isn't something where the earlier you awaken it, the better. When you're young, physical fitness is the foundation of utmost importance; only by practicing Haki after reaching adulthood can you achieve twice the result with half the effort."

"Haki is something where hard study is never as fast as progress through combat; obsessing over Haki when young while neglecting the development of physical fitness is actually a very short-sighted behavior."

"After all, even if you practice Haki from childhood, it's actually not as fast as finding a strong enemy to fight after awakening Haki, while polishing physical strength cannot be as easy as Haki; it must be honed from childhood to develop all physical potential after reaching adulthood."

These words of Garp could be called pearls of wisdom, and they also explained why he didn't teach his grandson Haki from a young age; naturally, he hoped his two grandsons wouldn't be distracted when they were young.

In fact, Garp's teaching was clearly not problematic; Luffy being able to defeat strong enemies by doing sit-ups was largely because Garp had honed his physique from a young age.

Luffy's growth path in the later stages was exactly as Garp had expected; apart from the Devil Fruit, other things like Haki training were indeed just practiced casually, and after a few fights, he could catch up to those veteran powerhouses.

"Tsk, so if I want to practice Haki well, I still have to engage in life-and-death battles?"

Uchiha Feiyu raised his hand and clenched his fist; jet-black Haki coiled around his hand, causing his entire arm to take on a black, metallic luster.

"Isn't that nonsense? All Haki powerhouses have almost all experienced many life-and-death battles with powerhouses of the same level; otherwise, their strength wouldn't have reached this level."

"Is that so?"

Uchiha Feiyu looked at his arm and said faintly, a strange look flashing in his eyes.

"By the way, kid, I'm leaving tomorrow; I hope I won't see your name on a wanted poster by then."

Garp said, and Uchiha Feiyu glanced at him:

"Rest assured, someone like me won't do such low-class things like Arlong."

Anyway, in this world, Uchiha Feiyu couldn't absorb Qi and Blood and Soul on a large scale like in the Naruto World; after all, Genjutsu couldn't be used in this world, and every absorption had to be done by himself personally. If there were really millions of people, he would be exhausted to death just by doing it.

Since there was no way to take the quantity route, he could only take the quality route, so Uchiha Feiyu would likely engage in battles with many powerhouses in the future.

As for Black Qi offerings... the One Piece World was a completely chaotic evil camp; even if he carried out large-scale killings, as long as there was a pretext, the Marines would turn a blind eye.

But regardless, with a large number of Pirates available to practice on, Uchiha Feiyu wouldn't target World Government member nations; as long as he didn't move against World Government member nations, he wouldn't be identified as a Pirate.

However, whether he would move against the Marines in the future was another matter.

After this training ended, Garp didn't stay long and left the East Blue directly with his dog-head warship; Uchiha Feiyu rested for two days, digested everything he had gained from sparring with Garp, and then went to find Nami.

In Cocoyasi Village, in an orange grove behind the village, Nami was picking oranges with her sister, Nojiko.

In fact, after learning the news of the Arlong Pirates' destruction, Cocoyasi Village had already held a grand banquet; during the banquet, Nami had also let go of her inner burdens and disguises, and was hailed as a hero by the villagers of Cocoyasi Village.

This period of time was perhaps the happiest days Nami had spent in Cocoyasi Village since reaching adulthood.

"Nami, are you really prepared to set sail?"

Nojiko, who had healthy wheat-colored skin and hair that was blue with a faint hint of white, looked at her sister with a cheerful expression that carried a touch of teasing.

Yet the faint trace of anxiety that appeared in her eyes showed that this sister was not entirely without worry for her younger sister.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to be a Pirate; I've even survived the Arlong Pirates, so what else could possibly stump me?"

"Besides, sister, you saw it yourself—I am now a Devil Fruit Ability user; with a Devil Fruit Ability, I'm not exactly weak, even in the entire East Blue, am I?"

Nojiko recalled Nami's sudden invisibility ability, her strange, rapid movement, and even her ability to glide on the sea, and had to admit that with such abilities, Nami's survival skills were definitely far superior to the average person.

Moreover... she also knew the process by which Nami had obtained the Slippery-Slippery Fruit, and was vaguely aware of the value of the Slippery-Slippery Fruit; just by observing over these past few days, Nami's skin, which had been changed by the Devil Fruit to be incredibly smooth and delicate, was enough for Nojiko to understand the value of this Devil Fruit.

Nojiko did not know much about strength—being able to be immune to bullets was already magical in her eyes—but she understood a woman's pursuit of beauty very well; if this Devil Fruit were placed in front of those nobles who were not short on money, selling it for several hundred million Belly would be easy.

Uchiha Feiyu had given this Devil Fruit, which could sell for at least several hundred million Belly and keep an ordinary person worry-free for a lifetime, directly to his sister; if his sister suddenly changed her mind and said she wasn't boarding the ship, that young man who looked so easygoing would probably have to slash his way from the east end of Cocoyasi Village to the west with a blade!

"Nami, you're here!"

Speak of the devil, and he shall appear; just as Nojiko was thinking about this partner of Nami's, the hero who had also saved Cocoyasi Village, Uchiha Feiyu had already appeared in the orange grove.

"Feiyu, do you want to eat an orange? These oranges are very sweet!"

Nami picked a large, golden-red orange and threw it directly to Uchiha Feiyu; Uchiha Feiyu reached out to catch it, peeled off the orange skin, and took a bite—it was indeed full of sweet and sour flavor.

"Old man Garp has already left with his subordinates, so it's about time we set off too."

While eating the orange, Uchiha Feiyu said to Nami; Nami blinked her eyes slightly and nodded gently:

"Has Vice Admiral Garp already left? Then we should indeed go."

"But Feiyu, we don't seem to have any ships... do we still have to use that small sailboat of mine from before?"

"That's fine, we'll make do with that small sailboat for now; we'll head to Loguetown to scout around, and when the time comes, if we see any pirate ships or things like that, we'll just seize one!"

"For the time being, let's act as Bounty Hunters! Actually, an adventure group would work too, it's just that our numbers are a bit small right now, so we can't sail any large ships."

Nami crossed her arms, looked at Uchiha Feiyu, and frowned slightly:

"You're really casual; I always feel like this plan of yours to set sail was just something you thought up on the spur of the moment."

"Speaking of which, Feiyu, why are you trying so hard to set sail? Looking at you, you don't seem to want to be the Pirate King or anything."

(End of this chapter)