Chapter 442

If this moment is a dream, let it never wake up again...

"This girl is actually so excited she's gone completely foolish."

Zoro said this with his mouth, but as he looked at Sima Di, who had fainted in Luffy's arms, a certain unclear emotion flickered in his eyes.

On Nami's side.

At this time, Zoro, who should have been dueling the swordsman Ryuma, ran off to find Sima Di, and the person who took Zoro's place was actually Nami!

This is probably the legendary main debt paid by the shadow.

Nami's hand holding the Divine Technique was trembling.

"Stop! Let go of that skeleton! Let me... pfft, you guy, if you have the guts face-to-face... pfft, what the hell am I even saying!"

Nami was so nervous her tongue wouldn't work properly.

"Um... um... Franky, you say something!"

Franky raised his right hand, his expression serious. "We are here to help the skeleton retrieve his shadow!"

Ryuma looked at the bizarre duo.

"Yo-ho-ho, it looks quite interesting. Especially that Miss, I admire your courage to rush up and fight even when you know you can't win... If you can truly defeat me, returning the shadow to you wouldn't be impossible."

"Is this guy really determined to wake up?"

"It's two in the morning, it's long past bedtime. Let him sleep for a while; I'll handle the rest."

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"You make it sound like I'm the villain... never mind, I'll try that method. If he doesn't wake up, you're responsible for carrying him."

"What method?"

"Sima Di! Your manuscript was stolen by zombies!"

Zoro thought for a moment and used the method Usopp had once used on them.

Sure enough, the two watched Sima Di jump up like a reanimated corpse, his brows knitted and eyes bulging, with rage reaching the sky.

"Which zombie dares to steal my manuscript! Is an old man hanging himself because he thinks his life is too long?"

"So there's actually a method like this..." Luo Weiwei was surprised.

"Hmm? Who are you? Luffy! The grown-up version?" Sima Di turned his head and saw him.

"Yes, it's me. As you wished, I've grown up." Luffy looked at him with a doting smile.

Sima Di unconsciously stepped back and covered his mouth with both hands.

Oh my god! So he wasn't having a beautiful dream just now? It was real! And... he's smiling! He's smiling at me! This has to be a lie! Why does he have to look so handsome, you jerk! This isn't fair at all!

Wait! If all this isn't a dream, then after he fainted just now it was... Come to think of it, didn't he just jump out of his arms?

My heart... seems to be beating a bit too fast...

Seeing Sima Di's eyes roll back and him about to faint again, Zoro immediately stepped forward, blocked Luffy, and grabbed Sima Di by the neck.

"If you dare faint again, I'll go back to the ship right now and burn your manuscript!"

"I... I understand. Let go, I'm suffocating..."

Sima Di slapped at Zoro's hand.

"Good to know." Zoro finally spared Sima Di.

"But... cough, cough, speaking of which, Luffy, why are you here?" Sima Di quietly moved away from Zoro to avoid the other guy attacking again on a whim.

Zoro's grip strength wasn't normal; if he lost control even slightly, Sima Di would have gone straight to the King of Hell's court.

Speaking of which, what exactly is Zoro so angry about? Is it worth hitting so hard? Did he do something to offend him?

"I heard your voice and saw your latest bounty poster... I originally wanted to go to Water 7 to find you, but I didn't expect to get trapped here." Luffy said.

"You heard my voice..." Sima Di was stunned. "Does that mean my cry for help back then really reached you?"

"Looks like I wasn't hallucinating." Luffy smiled slightly. "Although I don't know what method you used, the voice definitely reached me... and things like traveling through time and space... everything that happens to you is so incredible."

That cry for help back then, Sima Di himself didn't even know how it was transmitted; thinking about it carefully, maybe it was related to surpassing Observation Haki.

The rules for surpassing Observation Haki were not clear to begin with.

The little girl from the Sky Island, Aisa, was born with the ability to surpass Observation Haki; without any training, she had the power to cover most of the Sky Island and listen to the "Voice of All Things".

The Navy's exclusive prophet, Myukuru, was also a possessor of surpassing Observation Haki. According to Zi Zi Busheng, his own precognitive ability could foresee turmoil and changes within fifty years.

Sima Di's lie-detection, precognition, and modeling domains were all within the scope of surpassing Observation Haki.

Although there was no concrete grasp, it was speculated that the mermaid shark from Fish-Man Island, Xia Li, was also a possessor of surpassing Observation Haki.

Finally... judging from the data Sima Di collected, among the Four Emperors under Big Mom, the one named Xia Luote...

Perhaps later, if Sima Di is fortunate enough to meet a user of surpassing Observation Haki, he might be able to wait for a more specific method of use?

"Is that so..." Sima Di's cheeks were flushed. "But speaking of which, Luffy, you really have grown up. When I first saw you, you were only this tall. Now you're two heads taller than me; it's a bit strange."

"Hmm, I also noticed your madness has gotten worse. Before it was just silly smiling, now it has upgraded to fainting. Really, you're still the same as before, worrying me."

Luffy said this, with an unmistakable smile in his eyes.

"That's not called madness, okay! Really."

"Then what do you call it?"

"Call it... call it... it should be... who knows!" Sima Di's cheeks were already as red as they could possibly be.

Zoro watched the two interacting speechlessly; one had an unmistakable smile in his eyes, the other looked utterly like a lovesick girl.

He... seemed a bit superfluous.

"Hey, hey, hey, leave the conversation for after dawn. I'm afraid Luffy's side still needs our help." Zoro interrupted the two without mercy.