Chapter 22

He is a knight who swore to protect the Princess!

Isn't Vivi exactly the one he swore to protect?

"Exactly! How could you be so excessive!" Luffy nodded in agreement.

Sima Di spread his hands helplessly.

"Listen, you guys, at least hear the conditions I'm proposing before you say anything."

"Right! At least hear the conditions first!" Luffy stood beside Sima Di, backing him up.

"Enough! I don't agree!" Sanji's attitude was firm.

"Exactly, exactly! I don't agree!" Luffy......

"So noisy!"

"Bam!"

"Bam!"

With one hand and one foot, Sima Di and Sanji sent Luffy flying on the spot until he was nowhere to be seen.

"I say, you lot should also learn to listen, you bastards." Sima Di sighed and said: "My condition is very simple. Vivi, right? I really admire your resolve to set sail in order to save your country, so...... come be our companion!"

"No problem! I agree...... Huh?" Vivi was a little stunned.

She suspected she had misheard!

"You didn't mishear." Sima Di smiled and said: "Once you become our companion, then helping a companion save her country—isn't that exactly what we should have been doing from the start?"

The reasoning wasn't wrong, but......

Vivi didn't understand, why did it have to be her?

Robin was invited by Sima Di because she had the "ability" to help everyone find Laugh Tale.

But what did she have?

"Haha! I agree with this condition too!" Nami hugged Vivi and laughed: "Someone willing to sacrifice herself for the sake of her country's people is sure to be a great companion!"

Just like Nami's sacrifice for Cocoyama Village in the past!

"But......" Vivi was still hesitating.

"No buts! Princess Vivi! You must agree to this condition!" Sanji changed his tune in a flash.

This made Sima Di unable to help shooting him a sideways glare.

"Didn't you just say you wouldn't agree no matter what the condition was?" Sima Di mocked.

"I was careless, I'm sorry!" Sanji apologized decisively.

Good grief!

To get Vivi to join the crew, Sanji could also bend and stretch as needed.

Vivi swept a glance at the others.

Everyone cast Vivi looks of approval and smiles—clearly, they all greatly approved of this princess who fought so hard for her country's people.

Only Laboon stood with puffed cheeks and hands on hips!

She hadn't forgotten,

The woman before her had previously planned to hunt her and eat her as food!

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20. Nami's potential! Robin walking into the tiger's den!

Seeing the puffed-cheek Laboon, Vivi also felt a little embarrassed.

"Sorry, Laboon, earlier I was going to......"

"Enough!" Laboon said unhappily: "Your original intention was also for the people of this town. Considering you're not actually bad, I'll punish you by continuing to teach me to read!"

Although Laboon had spent fifty years with Crocus, she knew everyday conversational phrases.

She was, in truth, an illiterate.

With such a simple condition that was basically giving her a way out, how could Vivi refuse?

These people on this ship......

Are really nothing like ordinary pirates at all!

"Then...... I'll be counting on all of you from now on!" Vivi said sincerely: "Once Alabasta is rescued, I will set sail and go on adventures together with everyone!"

The sea......

Is also Vivi's dream!

But as an only daughter, she had responsibilities she had to bear, so she could only bury this dream deep in her heart.

Now, saving her people has instead allowed her to rediscover her dream—could that not be the best of both worlds?

Why,

Even Igaram only showed a troubled expression, and did not actually stop Vivi.

His thinking was also simple—King Cobra was still young, he could still have more children!

Until this moment,

Luffy also came limping back, just in time to hear Vivi's words.

He immediately said excitedly: "To welcome the new companion's joining, let's hold a ban......"

"Banquet my ass!" Nami punched a big lump onto Luffy's head: "Get on the ship! We're rushing to Alabasta, Vivi's kingdom is still waiting for us to rescue!"

"Eh? Well then, fine, we'll hold the banquet after we beat that crocodile guy!" Luffy went along with it readily.

Not a shred of a captain's dignity.

And Sima Di's gaze fell on the big lump that had been knocked onto Luffy's head.

Luffy...

But he's a Rubber-Man!

An ordinary blunt strike absolutely couldn't hurt him, only......

Armament Haki!

Although up until Sima Di transmigrated, Nami's vivre card had never shown any Haki.

That didn't mean she didn't have it!

It was just that she might not have gone to dig it out yet, after all, learning about weather, controlling and developing the Clima-Tact had already taken up most of her time.

Perhaps,

Nami had long since awakened Armament Haki, and was even a talent with "innately awakened Haki," she just had never developed it.

Later on, Crocus could be asked to give everyone a popular-science session on Haki.

For now though......

"Let's go!"

"Target — Alabasta!"

Vivi nodded and whistled at the sky.

A few seconds later,

a large orange-yellow duck came charging over, its speed like a gust of wind, and it nuzzled up against Vivi when it reached her.

"This is my mount, Running Fast, he's a land-duck unique to our Alabasta, just as smart as Laboon~"

However,

Luffy didn't hear any of those words, but stared at Running Fast with a "giant meat bone" gleaming in his eyes.

"Sanji! Quick! I want roast duck!"

Running Fast:? っQ?;)っ

"Bam!"

Nami pulled back her fist and hauled Luffy, whose eyes had rolled back, toward the Going Merry.

"Don't mind this guy, he's just talking nonsense."

"Mm-hmm!" Sanji nodded frantically: "Princess Vivi, rest assured, I definitely won't help that idiot prepare Running Fast!"