"Ja-ha-ha-ha this time you came back pretty quickly!"
Arlong looked at Nami entering and spread his arms to the sides with a smirk. The palms were different from the human, between the fingers were eardrums.
We smiled coldly in response and moved to Arlong: "Yes I came back early, because there is enough money."
We put a suitcase in front of Arlong: "There's exactly a hundred million here, you can count."
Arlong looked at the suitcase, raised his head, and with a smile came up: "No need to check, I'm sure you couldn't go wrong, now the village of Kokoyaxi belongs to you."
Hearing Arlong's answer, Nami couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Our agreement is over, can I leave?"
"Of course."
Aron said with a rapacious smirk: "But... If you leave, it won't be the same as it is now."
Initially, when Arlong said "Of course."
"What will change?"
Nami's voice began to tremble.
Arlong calmly replied: "You know, this is my territory, the territory of the Arlong Pirates. The opportunity to buy the village is based on the fact that you are a member of my team, only so I can give you part of my territory."
"But if you leave the Arlong Pirates, then we will no longer be connected, and your village is on my territory... ha ha ha-ha."
Arlong went on to say with irony in his voice: "But we are free, you can leave my team anytime, I do not stop you."
"..."
Hearing Arlong's words, Nami's smile disappeared and her face turned white, she clenched her fists tightly and shouted: "The agreement was not like that! Your promise was different!!"
"I did everything in accordance with our agreement, the village came back to you, you are free. But our agreement did not specify what would happen after that. I didn't promise to leave my territory and leave the island."
Arlong looked at Nami: "or... Will you stay on my team? In that case, we will continue to be comrades. The village will belong to you, there will be no problems between us. But if you suddenly decide to escape, I will destroy the whole village.
"The Hateful..."
We shuddered and said through the gnashing of teeth.
Although she expected this situation, she still could not accept it. This is unacceptable. The agreement was completed, but in the end almost nothing will change.
No.
The difference is still there. Until she leaves the Fishman Pirates, the village of Kokoyaxi will be safe. Arlong will no longer terrorize the village.
But...
We lowered our heads, our fists clenched even tighter, and our bodies trembled.
This cannot be changed, she cannot escape from the Arlong Pirates, for the sake of the village she will sacrifice her freedom, will always obey Arlong.
"I'm not going to do this.
In Nami's head there were figures of Bellmere, Nojiko, Genzo and other villagers. My eyes were unwittingly filled with tears.
Despite the pain and disappointment, she cannot be free just for her own sake, to renounce the village and its inhabitants. In exchange for defending the village she must pay with her freedom, she is alone in exchange for the whole village, it is worth it.
The decision was cruel and cruel to himself.
The desire for freedom, the thirst for adventure, the dream. We were only 15 years old, it was very hard, she could not stop shaking and sobbing.
Tears rolled down her cheeks, but Nami could not refuse Arlong.
Nami's aspiration is still adamant. Even if the heart is desperate, even if it knows there is darkness ahead, but for the sake of the villagers, it still gritted its teeth and made a decision.
But.
As she raised her head and was about to turn to Arlong, her hand lay softly on her head.
"It's a decision, you don't have to make it."
Ron, standing behind us, said softly, "You're my navigator, how can you stay here and draw maps all your life?"
Nami's body stopped shaking, tears stopped flowing, instead of despair there was a sense of hope.
Ron finally intervened.
Even before a monster like Arlong, he still decided not to back down.
"Yes? Who are you?"
We were emotional, it's hard to talk. Arlong looked gloomy at the intervening Ron, who put his hand on Nami's head.
Ron's hand slipped off Nami's head, he stepped forward and grinred to Arlong, showing a smirk.
"I'm a regular... fisherman."
At the end of the phrase, Ron waved a magic wand in his right hand, and embracing Nami with his left hand immediately bounced back.
Arlong at first frowned, Ron seems vaguely familiar. As soon as he remembered that this is like the guy who saved Nami, the red arrow of flame flew in his direction.
"! ! !"
At that moment Arlong felt the fear of death. He was suffocated by a suffocating feeling, he instinctively began to evade backwards, breaking the sunbed.
But the distance was too short and the flame's arrow was too fast before it could begin to move, Arlong was struck by the arrow of flames.
Boom!
There was a loud explosion and the flames spread to the sides, completely engulfing Arlong.
A terrifying roar could be heard from the area covered in flames.
"Aaaaaaaa!!!"
Arlong's vitality is really incredibly strong. Even in a head-on collision with an explosive ignition, did not die instantly, instead a shocking roar erupted.
Arlong couldn't accept it at the moment. Why could Ron suddenly launch such a powerful fire attack? How can he have that power? It's just an ordinary person who needed Nami's help to save.
Because of the terrible pain, he began to lose his ability to think.
Along fought madly on the ground, hoping to extinguish the flames. But all to no avail.
Earlier, embracing Nami, Ron rushed back, avoiding the range of the explosion of fiery ignition, because the distance during the conversation was too short. Now he continued to hug the shocked Nami and shied away from riding Arlong.
We were stunned by this scene, almost did not react to anything.
"Aaaaa!!"
Arlong continued to scream in pain, he instinctively rolled in a certain direction, in Arlong Park there is a pool connected to the sea. We need to get to him to extinguish the flames.
However, he will not have a chance to escape.
Ron left Nami and walked towards Arlong, holding a magic wand in his hand: "Still alive, life force is incredibly high... no, rather, it is worth saying that the skin of a fishman is good enough to hold back some of the force of the flame?"
After finishing the phrase, Ron waved a wand.
The wind blew around and instantly formed a furious wind blade, seven or eight threatening blades of wind headed towards Arlong as he was about to throw himself into the pool.
Click! Click! Click!
Along was not instantly cut into pieces, instead the sounds of the cut bones were heard, blood splattered around.
Arlong's scream stopped. The body lost the last remnants of vitality, pieces of charred meat and blood streams fell into the pool, the water turned red.
"..."
We sat on the ground and watched the stage in silence.
At that moment there was only a sense of unreality of what was happening. This monstrous monster, which could not cope with neither the Marines nor other pirates, just died?!
Just like that... Just?