Chapter 5: A Navigator On board.

Boom, boom...

The sound of cannonballs along with the the frightened cries of the passengers awakened Ace from his deep soothing sleep.

"Pirates are coming, run away!"

"Jump to the sea, at least you may be lucky enough to save a life!"

"I have money, please don't kill me!"

Yawning a little, Ace lazily spread his perception range for inspection.

'Hm, not Alvida? Emperor Buggy?'

The still sleepy Ace couldn't help but mutter in surprise.

Leaving his room, he moved towards the bathroom. After taking a quick shower, he returned to his room, put on his wear, and brought his suitcase along.

On the other side, an orange haired young woman in casual white blue wear was hiding in a secretive place, as her eyes kept shining in ßß shape.

"That flag, it must be 'Clown Buggy', with a bounty of 15 million ßerry. He must be rich."

"It must be. Nevertheless, I don't know if he could spit out more than 100 million ßerry."

Nami nodded in approval, as her eyes lighted as a Christmas tree.

"100 million ßerry!"

'Hmm, not right?!'

Nami was taken back. She slowly turned her head, and was almost scared to death.

Besides her, a very handsome young man was looking at her with a smile.

A very meaningful one.

She hurriedly distanced herself, as she looked at the young man in vigilance.

Although the boy is handsome, for Nami, it's just a little good impression.

'If he is rich, it's not impossible. No, no, what am I thinking about?!'

"You must be Nami, right? I finally found you."

Ace said with a happy smile, as he enjoyed teasing her.

Nami watched his smile absent-mindedly, but soon regained her vigilance, while keeping a safe distance, her mind was soon thrown in chaos.

'Is he one of my victims? No, it's not possible. This beautiful face is hard to forget. A bounty hunter? No, such a tender skin must be from a noble birth...'

Watching her face changing many times, Ace, as if able to read her mind, answered unhurriedly.

"I'm not, stop your wild guesses. My name is Ace, Portgas D. Ace. Also known as 'The Phantom Thief'. An aspiring pirate and a professional thief."

Nami was surprised by the fact that he can easily see through her intentions, angry at the pirate identity, nonetheless, after hearing his alias, she looked at him in shock.

"What? You are that rumored 'Phantom Thief' who stole more than six hundred million ßerry in three days?"

Ace was taken back, and couldn't help but curse inwardly, but in the surface, he just kept a smile.

'Six hundred? Damn those nobles are not any good thing.'

Due to her temporary stay in Goa Kingdom, she was fascinated by the story of the Phantom Thief.

She sailed for years, robbed hundreds of pirate ships and dozens of nobles, but all her hard-earned wealth added up to 57 million ßerry.

Whilst, The legendary Phantom Thief stole 600 million ßerry in 3 days.

It's quite clear how the difference in ability and skill through this striking statistics.

Immediately afterwards, her eyes moved unconsciously towards the big suitcase besides Ace, and her eyes almost illuminated this sea area.

Ace felt funny for a while. He patted her shoulders with approval.

"As expected from a thief I appreciate. It took you only seconds to found out my carefully hidden money."

Nami, who by then, returned to her sanity, blushed in shame, and laughed embarrassedly.

However, she soon asked in a wonder.

"What does your excellency looking at me for?"

"As I said, I'm an aspiring pirate. I heard that the little cat thief Nami is endowed with an almost godly navigation talent, so I decided to recruit you as my first cremate."

Nami's head buzzed at the sudden exaggerated praise.

"Godly or something, it's just ok. No, what am I thinking about? It's impossible for me to be a pirate."

Nami face was deadly serious, becoming a pirate was her pain spot.

She decisively rejected.

But Ace wasn't perturbed. He knew her Achilles heel very well.

Simply put, 'Money'.

"Is that so. I thought if you accepted, I would pass on all my household skills to you. Unfortunately, it seems we have no fate."

Ace carried his suitcase, as his expression showed some disappointement. His feet moved slowly away, in a dramatic manner.

Nami was shocked.

What? The legendary Phantom Thief household skills?

She hurriedly grasped his legs, therefore, she was dragged away for some distance, before she was able to stop his pace.

"Stop, stop. It's not impossible to join. As long as your skills impress me."

Nami flashed a smile, as she tried hardly to provoke him.

Ace smiled a little.

'Took the bait.'

Suddenly, the sound of hurried and heavy footsteps nearing them could be heard.

Nami was fulstered.

"Hurry up, let's hide."

"Don't worry, I'll show you some of my skills."

Then, in Nami's protruding eyes, the handsome man in front of her turned to a blue haired middle aged man with red noise and lips. He was clad in an orange pirate hat, orange cloack with green epaulettes.

Who is it, if it's not 'Clown Buggy'.

Almost, at that moment, a bunch of ugly looking men in tattered clothes appeared here.

"Captain? When did you left the ship?"

An individual of this little group of pirates, asked in wonder.

Suddenly however, he was shocked to find that his crew mates put a distance between him, as they looked towards him with pity.

The air seems to get cold, and the inquiring man couldn't help but shiver in fright.

"Ho, are you asking about the matters of this captain?"

"The Clown Buggy" approached the man slowly...

The man panicked, as he started stuttering.

"No, yes, I just, Captain, not at all, forgive... Aaaaaghh."

A big hand easily caught the pirate head, and lifted him easily.

The pirate resisted desperately, but to no avail. Tears and blood from the seven orfices spilled all over, while the other pirates who watched this were scared to pee.

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The Clown seems to be bored, so he casually throw the man. It's just this casual throw sent the poor man for hundreds of meters before colliding with sea, generating a cannonballs like explosion sound effect.

Giving them a look, they almost cried in fright. So they hurriedly run away with different excuses.

Nami who watched everything from start to finish, seems to discover something amazing.

From the initial surprise, fear then an amazing discovery.

She actually stood from her hidden place. Approached the retreating pirates, but no one seems to see nor care about her.

They just run besides her, some even almost collided her with her body. As if she doesn't exist in their point of view.

After some moments, Nami looked at the clown Buggy that turned back to a handsome and charming youngster again with eyes full of curiousity and excitement.

"That, Invisibility? Disguise? Body transformation?"

Nami's tone was full of confusion, but her eyes were glittering.

Ace looked at her with a smile.

"Do you want to learn?"

"I do..."

Nami nodded her head affirmly.

"Then do you want to become a pirate with me?"

Nami hesitated for a while, but still nodded.

Her brain was already exploring the infinite monetary possibilities. With those two skills, she can easily execute her thieft actions more comfortably and freely.

Ace watched her with a winning smile.

The current Ace, after mastering eleven talismans power, can easily applied it or even granted to others, so he wasn't really bluffing.

In addition to trick her on board, he wanted to use her to generate more money for him. After all, she must have a lot of intelligence he hardly knew, additionally, he wasn't really fond of sneaking over everyday and emptying people's treasuries.

"Ok, Nami, your first mission is to rob Clown Buggy treasures."

Hearing 'rob', 'treasures', these two keywords, the still dazed Nami sobered instantly.

"Don't worry captain, it's just... How to divide?"

Nami asked in an embarrassed way. Real or fake, only she knew.

"Don't talk about this again. I'm not that stingy. You can take it all for yourself. After finishing your task, I need you to show the way towards other wealthy patrons."

Ace said generously,

'Anyway your money is my money, what's the point of dividing.'

Nami was elated, and her 'captain' body seems to be submerged in godly light.

'Love...Love!'

With a thought, the big suitcase floated from the ground, as it started hovering behind Ace.

Once again, Nami's heart was full of joy.

'Another useful ability! I must learn, learn...'

Ace moved towards the rescue boats section, while the motivated Nami run excitedly towards Buggy's ship.

...

As expected by Ace. Nami easily stole all the crew's wealth, and joined the patient Ace.

Looking at the happy Nami that didn't mind rowing, you could tell how joyful she was.

Ace asked in curiosity.

"Where are we going next?"

Nami hummed, as she answered happily.

"Hm huhu, Captain, not far from here, it's Grim Island, and it's my original destination. there is a massive 'Event' organized out there. If it was in the past, I dare not to wave much, but after your enlightenment, I think I can do more."

Ace's mouth twitched in amusement.

As the little boat trotted away, Ace suddenly looked at Buggy's ship that's about to turn into a black dot, and felt that he should pay him some greetings.

"Nami, pass me your stick."

Nami looked at him in daze, but still did so.

Ace waved the stick slightly, while probing its enduring capacity.

Protecting it with an armament coating, he cut lightly towards the far away pirate ship.

Then, in Nami's incredible eyes, along with the stick in Ace's hand, a huge black red slash-like wave, about a hundred meters or so divided the sea into a massive gully.

It was akin to a scar, that kept enlarging, without any intentions to stop, and in Nami unbelievable eyes, the huge pirate ship thousands of meters away, was cut evenly in two sections.

"How is that possible?!"

Nami said with a fearful tone. Her body shivered in incomprehension.

In her cognition, humans are weak and Arlong may be stronger than the pirate king Roger.

After all, his wrist power was ten times a human, he can also sink a small warship, while the legendary Roger, Garp, or so are just weak humans.

Suddenly seeing the always smiling and cute captain explode with such a inducing natural disaster blow, she felt her whole three point of views impacted dangerously.

Is the captain a monster in human skin?!

Ace tsked by the side.

"Although I stopped using the sword years ago, it's still stable in great swordsman level."

Nami looked at her captain who was clearly pretending, as if asking for praise, but she wasn't annoyed.

Rather, all her fears seems to melt away, and a fire called hope was suddenly ignited deep down in her heart.

Her look towards Ace was suddenly more accomodating and tender than before.

She seems to broke away from the illusion that fish men are 'awesome'.

At least Arlong isn't as scary as the captain.

On the other side.

Loud wails and fearful cries sounded all over.

Human body parts in different shapes and sizes could be seen floating all over this bloody colored sea section.

A bloody mist pervading all around which showcases the terrifying power of that 'slight' slash wave.

The sea was still in a divided state until now.

The survivor passengers desperately rowed their intact ship in unison, full of desire to distance themselves from this bloody purgatory.

A blue haired man with red nose in a tattered cloack laid on a wood plank within this bloody environment.

He looked so miserable and sad.

He looked like a man with a story.

"Who is it? Who is it that sneak attack the mighty Buggy."

"Don't let me find you!!!!"

The poor buggy who was the sole survivor, roared wildly, as he vowed solemnly to take revenge.

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