bench. Everyone reached out, because the fight with Magnet had pretty much exhausted the whole crew. Her captain always said" Food will help you up again the legs! "And since they saw that Luffy could feed like a world champion after every fight, that had to be true somehow.The team's hands literally flew over the table, and nobody bothered to put the food on the plate, no, everything was pushed straight from the plate into their mouths. Nami, Usopp, Sanji and Zoro stuffed the delicious meal into their throats as quickly as possible, for fear Luffy might eat them all away. In the end it was a real fight for the last bit. Zoro and Luffy had both impaled it on a fork and were pulling it back and forth without breaking eye contact. Usopp wanted to do it with his head, put his fork in and wanted to cut the piece of meat with the knife, but then Sanji radioed him who wanted the last piece for Nami. In the meantime there were 4 forks in the small piece that was just 1 cm² in size. Until now Nami had watched the whole hustle and bustle without comment, but now it was enough for her. With a "Hey guys", she interfered in the action.Her shirt, which she has not changed yet, was torn open during the fight with the magnet, at the neckline, and when she leaned forward she gave the others deep insights. Sanji noticed this immediately and fell to the floor with a nosebleed where he tossed and turned with a red head. Usopp was surprised at Sanji's sudden reaction and when he turned his head in Nami's direction, he rolled over with Sanji. With a grin, the navigator recognized the victory over the two, now she turned to the other two, her last hurdle to the goal. But Zoro and Luffy paid her no attention, so she had to come up with something better. "Hey you two," she tried to say it as sweetly and passionately as possible. She wanted the two to give up their ridiculous fight and get the last piece of meat. But unfortunately the two arguments didn't listen to them at all. "You can't get that bit!" Luffy grumbled. "You neither!", Zoro growled." Give it to me, you swordsman, "Luffy shouted." Only over my corpse, you gummy bear, "countered Zoro. And while the two were getting ready with words, Nami became so over the inattention they were giving her angry that she just reached for her home remedy. And with two blows she had brought the last bit to her and ate it with relish in front of the others. Luffy and Zoro just looked at her angrily and rubbed the two fat bumps, the red glowing ones off their heads protruded.
When night fell and everyone was lying in the hammocks, Nami suddenly got a strange feeling while listening to the nightly conversation of her crew. "I forgot something! I still wanted to do something before we docked! But what? The navigator thought hard, but she just couldn't think of it. All the thinking made her tired and fell asleep with no results.
The next day everything went back to normal.While Nami read the newspaper and kept an eye on the course, Usopp tinkered with bullets, Sanji cooked and Luffy sat on the lamp head, Zoro lay in the shade and dozed in front of him. Since Usopp had exploded one of his projectiles and a loud "BUMM" could be heard, Zoro woke up reluctantly. "Fool," he muttered and was about to go back to sleep when his gaze fell on Luffy. It was strange, but when he looked at him like that, the swordsman had such a feeling that he had forgotten something. Sanji had just come out of the kitchen and read the ship. He noticed Zoro staring at something and followed his gaze. It ended up with Luffy and the cook was about to make a sarcastic comment to Zoro when he was suddenly seized by a feeling that he had forgotten something. Nami, too, was still brooding over the forgotten. "What is it?" Thought the three and so the time passed until evening. After dinner everyone went to bed as usual.When the great snoring concert finally began, Luffy opened his eyes and grinned. He padded quietly up on deck and inhaled deeply the fresh night air only to exhale it again, relaxed. As if automatically he grabbed the rope that was hanging from a hook in the corner, but unfortunately Luffy didn't notice that it was tied. Usopp tied it by the heel to be on the safe side because it was always lying around uselessly somewhere. Luffy only felt the resistance the rope caused. Thinking the part had just got tangled, he pulled tight. But unfortunately that was not the case. And when Luffy put a little more strength into it, he unintentionally tore the big heel out of the wooden wall. The rubber man didn't really notice, but since the heel was right over the crew's sleeping quarters, the others heard it twice as loud and woke up in shock. In the meantime, Luffy had tied the rope around her waist and checked one last time whether it really was holding.Nami, Sanji, Zoro and Usopp have meanwhile arrived on deck. And when the swordsman, the cook and the navigator saw their captain like that, they suddenly remembered what they had forgotten. "That's it!" Said the three and looked at each other questions. "What?" They asked again at the same time. "Luffy has been so strange lately and I wanted to ask him why!", Nami replied and Zoro and Sanji admitted that they had noticed the same thing. "What is he up to?", Usopp looked questioningly at the others and was about to go down the stairs to go to Luffy. "Stay there, then you will know!", Zoro said and grabbed Usopp by the shoulder so that he could not go any further.
Luffy hadn't noticed his friends yet and carried on as normal. He sat on the lamp head and watched the calm water that was below him. Since the sails were not set, the Flying Lamp did not move either. Only the slight current left them rocking gently back and forth, almost unnoticed.Luffy took another deep breath in the night, then got up and without one of the crew members even thinking, the straw hat jumped into the water. "RUFFY" shouted the entire crew and everyone immediately rushed to the rope to fish their captain out again. He was now panting on the deck. When he opened his eyes, he looked at his hand. His previously almost closed eyes got bigger and bigger when he noticed that nothing was inside and with a horrified "I almost made it!" he sat up in no time at all. "Damn, I almost had it. Why? I already had it in my hand!" he stared at his empty hands in disappointment. "Luffy?", Nami asked softly. Only now did he realize that he wasn't alone and asked "What are you doing here?" "You nut, we were worried about you. Do you have a total bang now? Why are you idiot jumping in the water? HÄ?", Nami snapped at him in her great anger."So that's why his clothes were wet!" Zoro thought to himself. "He probably wanted to do the same thing when I was watching him back then!", Sanji thought and was about to ask what Luffy actually wants in the water when the rubber man got up and went back to the edge of the ship. "Wait! I can do it this time!" He said before jumping again. "Luffy!", Nami and Usopp want to pull Luffy out again, but Sanji and Zoro prevented them. "We should wait a moment," said Zoro calmly. "But he will drown!" Nami wailed. "Nothing happens to the bumbler. It seems to be very important to him. I don't know why!", Sanji countered and lit a cigarette. He paid attention to the air bubbles that could be seen in the water. When only a few appeared, Sanji took the rope in his hand and together with Zoro he pulled the limp body of the straw hat boy out of the water. He was holding something tightly against his chest."Is ... is ... is he ... about ... dead?", Usopp asked, startled and he began to cry. "It's your fault, you morons!", Nami yelled at Zoro and Sanji and stared at Luffy's lifeless body. "Oh what, you need more to get death", grins Zoro and nudges his captain in the side with his foot. Immediately afterwards the pirate spat out a huge fountain of water and shortly afterwards he opened his eyes again. He was grinning and when Luffy sat up he started to laugh out loud. "Do you have a bird, or what? How do you come to scare me like that?", Nami hissed, but had to smile when her friend apologized with a loud "SORRY". "And what's the point now?", Usopp asked and looked eagerly at what was holding Luffy so tightly. “Here!” Luffy proudly presented his secret. "WHAT?", The crew fell in horror. Because what Luffy held so proudly in his hands, for which he actually risked his life and which kept his friends in suspense, was nothing more than a wrapped piece of meat on a hook."Where did you get that from?" Sanji asked, amazed. "Two weeks ago there was such a storm and a lot of the food went overboard. I saw a piece of it, with a hook on it, got caught on the bow and I wanted to get it. Here Sanji, cooking Do you give it to me? ", the straw hat happily passed his" treasure "on to the cook. He inspected the tender meat and noticed that it remained stable due to the storage in salt water. "Sure I'll cook it for you. But not until tomorrow," yawned the Smutje and made his way to bed. The others followed him and Usopp added, shaking his head, "And that's why all the stress?"

Luffy formed the bottom of the group. He stopped for a moment on the deck, took a blossom from an orange tree and turned around so he could see the starry sky. He looked up at the moon and whispered, grinning, “No, Usopp. I just wanted to swim again!” Then he lowered his head and looked at the fingernail-sized flower in his hand.The wise blossom reminded him of a star and he thought of the promise he had made to the red Shanks. He decided to repeat the oath he had taken at Rivers Mountain on that little, delicate and fragrant thing. Grinning, but with the greatest seriousness in his eyes, he swore "I'll be a famous pirate, find the legendary One Piece and then I'll be the king of the pirates". With that, Luffy blew the flower out of his hand and went inside to join the others. The wind, however, caught the blossom and carried it