Chapter 96: I

Hearing Li Xiao’s words,

Nami was instantly stunned,

and stood frozen on the spot!

After a long while,

she stammered and continued to ask:

“Y-y-you, you mean, th-th-that, eight, eight, eight hundred million berries, was m-mine… oh no, was yours?”

Li Xiao nodded with some helplessness,

ruffled Nami’s orange hair,

and said:

“Do you hang out with Luffy all day, to the point that your brain has been assimilated by him too?”

“If it wasn’t my money, would Crocodile have specifically named you?”

As soon as Li Xiao said this,

Luffy, who was nearby, was immediately displeased,

and leaned in with a fierce look, shouting:

“Hey! What do you mean by that! I…”

“Get lost!!!”

Before Luffy could finish his sentence,

he was punched flying by Nami, who was roaring with anger!

Subsequently,

Nami’s legs went weak,

she collapsed onto the ground,

and burst into loud sobs!

“Waaah! Waaah! Eight hundred million berries! My eight hundred million berries!”

“I’ve never seen that many berries in my whole life!”

“Waaah!! I thought that money belonged to Vivi, I didn’t know it was mine! Waaah!!”

“Luo Bin, why didn’t you remind me at the time!”

“Waaah!!”

Faced with Nami, who was collapsed on the ground wailing,

Luo Bin rubbed her nose helplessly,

and said softly:

“I thought you knew…”

It would have been better if Luo Bin hadn’t said anything,

but with that,

Nami cried even harder!

“Waaah!!! How would I have known!!!”

“Eight hundred million berries! How much treasure would I have to find to get that back!”

“Should we go back? I’ll go find Vivi and get the money back!”

“Waaah!!! A whole eight hundred million berries!”

“My eight hundred million berries! They’re just gone like that!!!”

“Waaah!!”

In fact,

for Li Xiao,

if those eight hundred million berries were gone, they were gone!

He wasn’t short on berries anyway,

and had no real need for them!

At this moment,

Nami’s appearance

looked exactly like a child who had lost their favorite toy!

Li Xiao found it both cute and funny,

and even had a sudden whim

to use his supernatural ability to summon wind and rain

to conjure a small dark cloud over Nami’s head,

giving her a precise, artificial downpour

to set the mood for this sad atmosphere!

But after thinking about it,

Li Xiao gave up!

After all,

for this child,

losing eight hundred million berries was already like a bolt from the blue,

and her heart was probably shattered into pieces,

so he shouldn’t kick her while she was down!

A moment later,

inside a tavern in Mock Town,

the members of the Straw Hat Pirates sat in a row,

eating and drinking to replenish the energy they had consumed in the previous battle.

At this time,

Chopper had also woken up,

and was hanging out with Luffy and Usopp.

Under the repair of Li Xiao’s spiritual power,

the injuries in his body had recovered quickly,

and although he was still bandaged in various places,

they were actually just superficial wounds!

With his physical constitution,

he would recover naturally in a couple of days.

Among the group,

only Nami looked sad and listless,

drinking her wine while muttering in a low voice:

“Eight hundred million berries… my eight hundred million berries…”

Seeing this,

Li Xiao shook his head helplessly,

and said:

“Alright, alright, it’s just eight hundred million berries!”

“If you add up all the gold on the Sky Island, let alone eight hundred million, there’s eight billion berries worth!”

As soon as these words were spoken,

the eyes of the Straw Hat crew turned toward Li Xiao,

their eyes flashing with brilliance,

as if they had the words “I’m interested” written on their foreheads!

However,

before they could even ask,

a voice rang out in the tavern!

“Sky Island? Hahaha… mmph!”

Before the man could laugh out loud,

a smoking man beside him hurried forward,

and covered his mouth tightly!

Then, he squeezed out a smile at Li Xiao,

and hurriedly dragged him out of the tavern!

After leaving the tavern,

the smoking man dragged the man who had spoken earlier

to a distance of several dozen meters away,

before stopping!

He threw him to the side,

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grabbed him by the collar, and cursed angrily:

“Are you f***ing new to Mock Town?”

“Have you forgotten the battle that happened in town earlier?”

“Don’t you remember who that man is?”

“And you dare to mock him?”

“Who the f*** gave you the guts!”

“If you want to die, don’t drag me down with you!”

Hearing this,

the man who had spoken earlier finally reacted,

immediately recalling the sword strike that had severed the sea,

and was suddenly filled with lingering fear,

breaking out in a cold sweat!

Mock Town was a town where a large number of pirates gathered,

and because it was located on Jaya,

countless pirates who had heard the legend of the Sky Island came here every day to search for the legendary Sky Island!

Pirates like him,

who stayed in Mock Town for a long time,

saw many people who wanted to find the Sky Island,

and whenever they met someone who firmly believed in the existence of the Sky Island,

they couldn’t help but mock them a few times,

and it had even become an unconscious, habitual reaction!

The reason was simple:

these pirates had once been members of those searching for the Sky Island,

but after a long and bitter search, they couldn’t find it,

and they didn’t have the courage to ride the Knock-Up Stream to explore the truth between life and death!

Gradually, they had lost their fighting spirit and dreams,

spending their days in the tavern,

mocking and denying the dreams of others

to maintain their own small, remaining sense of superiority!

It was somewhat ridiculous to say,

a group of weaklings who had lost their dreams

mocking a group of strong people who held onto their dreams,

and doing it tirelessly day after day!

Just now,

when he heard Li Xiao’s words,

he had subconsciously started mocking,

not even noticing who the person speaking was!

If the smoking man beside him hadn’t covered his mouth in time

and dragged him out,

he was afraid that by this time next year,

the grass on his grave would be three yards high!

Thinking of this,

the man who had spoken earlier patted his chest in lingering fear,

and said to the smoking man beside him with a grateful look:

“Brother! Thanks to you just now! Otherwise, I would have been dead for sure!”

“I, Awang, really didn’t misjudge you; you are my true good brother!”

"I, A-Wang, truly did not misjudge you; you are the only real brother I have!"