Chapter 157 Shasha Fruit (Asking for Monthly Votes)
Chapter 157 Sand-Sand Fruit (monthly votes required~)
The Pickup Feature...
This is a magical feature that is rarely triggered, but every time it is triggered, it will definitely bring surprises to Nami!
However, it is not known whether this feature has a cooling setting in the real world, or whether there is really no treasure nearby that is worth triggering...
Since entering the Grand Line, they have also experienced many islands.
Twin Capes, Whiskey Mountain, Little Garden, Drum Island...
But among these islands, Nami did not feel the Pickup Feature triggered once.
And just when she almost forgot that she had such a feature...
Her Pickup Feature was finally triggered again!
It's just a little strange that her Pickup Feature was triggered twice in a row!
This feeling is very strange.
It's like you got a treasure map and are looking for treasure according to the route above it...
Suddenly someone took a larger treasure map and directly covered the previous treasure map.
And the treasure location of this treasure map is more obvious, and the scale of the treasure is also more huge!
Under Nami's strong request, the Sand Bandits finally had to obey.
There was no other way.
Who told them that their lifeline was in Nami's hands!
Fortunately, this time, Nami did not let them walk for a day and a night like before.
Just as the sun rose to the center of the sky and was about to fall, Nami, who was originally sitting on the captain's throne, suddenly stood up and shouted to the pirates at the helm:
"Stop!!!"
The unsure Sand Bandits were stunned.
But Lasha was still quick-witted and took action immediately after hearing Nami's voice. With his agile posture, he retracted the sails.
A moment later.
Under Nami's leadership, the curious Sand Bandits followed her to a huge dry fruit tree.
"It's the Shale Fruit Tree!"
After seeing Nami's target, Lasha immediately reminded her.
Shale Fruit is a common fruit in the wilderness desert of the Kingdom of Alabasta. It is non-toxic, edible, tastes average, but contains a small amount of water.
It can be regarded as a kind of fruit used by these sand bandits on a daily basis.
However, soon, Lasha and others found something unusual above this shale fruit tree...
"Huh!? What is that!?"
Lasha suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed to a strange fruit stuck on the branch.
This fruit is very conspicuous.
Because it is not only 3-4 times larger than the ordinary shale fruit, but the whole shape is completely unrelated to the fruit.
Instead, it is more like a colorful cactus growing in the desert!
But if you look closely, it is not difficult to find that there is a layer of light and strange lines on the surface of the peel.
And Nami is not unfamiliar with this line.
On her collection-the slippery fruit, there is also a same line!
Nami suddenly murmured in surprise: "Is this... a devil fruit!?"
After observing carefully for a moment, she immediately said with certainty:
"That's right! It's a devil fruit!"
I see.
No wonder the previous feeling was suddenly covered!
It turned out that there was a more valuable treasure next to me!
Nami stepped forward with joy, and under the envious and greedy gazes of the sand bandits, who dared not to cross the line, she quickly flew to the side of the devil fruit and took it off.
"Now, I am a woman with two devil fruits!"
"I really love this feature!"
Nami laughed, with a golden glow in her eyes.
...
...
In the evening.
The red sunset illuminated the desert into a red ocean. With the breeze blowing, layers of fine sand were rolled up, causing the ocean to have red waves.
Nami, who had a good harvest, boarded the warship of the Baru Baru Sand Bandits and returned to the camp where the Merry was docked without rushing.
"Hey~ Nami, you are back!?"
Luffy, who was biting a huge leg of meat by the campfire, saw the figure falling from the sky, and his face immediately showed a look of surprise.
The straw hats who heard his voice also turned their heads instantly.
Sanji, who was grilling, immediately turned his legs into a whirlwind of flames and quickly came to Nami's side.
"Ms. Nami, I'm so glad you came back safely!"
"Try it..."
"This is the special love barbecue I made for you... It contains the style of the desert!"
"Hey, hey, hey~ Sanji, you just said the same thing to Robin, right?! Saying the same line to two girls, it's too lame!?"
Usopp, who was standing by, saw that Sanji was offering the barbecue that should have belonged to him, and immediately complained.
Zoro heard this and immediately laughed and slapped his thigh, laughing mockingly.
"Asshole!" Sanji, who was exposed, immediately put down the barbecue in his hand angrily and fought with Zoro and Usopp.
In the chaos, they even accidentally involved Chopper, who was eating obediently next to them.
The angry Chopper immediately transformed into a strong man and continued to expand the scale of the brawl.
"Really? There are outsiders here! Please don't embarrass me!"
Nami shook her head helplessly, and then looked at Red and Robin by the campfire, with a look of surprise on her face.
After all, the return of the two of them means that the Seven Warlords of the Sea who endangered the Kingdom of Alabasta has been captured by Red and his men.
And in this way, she can have a good discussion with King Cobra here about the follow-up cooperation plan!
Red told her that in his plan, the future Kingdom of Alabasta will become an important base for the Straw Hat Pirates in the first half of the Grand Line.
Since it is a base, in addition to the most important military force in this world, the rest is naturally the indispensable economy.
And the value of the economy lies in circulation!
The circulation of the economy will bring more currency!
In other words, in the near future, the Kingdom of Alabasta will bring endless wealth and resources to their group!
Of course, the premise is that they can really build the so-called utopia-Pokémon Park.
But Nami is not panicked about this.
After all, Red's ability is there, and their success is a success that has long been destined.
And the work she needs to be responsible for is to set up a reasonable and feasible profit plan for this park that has not yet been built.
"Huh~"
Thinking of the park plan, Nami's eyes immediately scanned the area around the campfire.
The four people of Zoro who were fighting in a group, Red and Robin who had just returned, Luffy who was eating, and Ace who seemed to regard Smoker as a good buddy after getting drunk and began to persuade him to drink.
Nami was puzzled:
"Strange, where is Vivi? Why is she not here!?"
"Princess Vivi~"
Robin, who had finished eating and was reading a book by the firelight, seemed to suddenly remember something interesting, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing an intellectual smile.
"Princess Vivi is busy rehearsing on the Merry now!"
"Maybe she doesn't have time to have dinner with us~"
"Rehearsal?" Nami raised her eyebrows in confusion, "Forget it, it must be something related to your Pokémon park plan, right?"
Knowing that Vivi was right beside them, she didn't care.
Instead, he took off the backpack behind him and showed it to Chihong, while showing a sly smile:
"Chihong, do you know what kind of fruit this is?"
"Fruit!?" Chihong, who was about to eat the barbecue, was suddenly stunned, and then a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, looking at the strange cactus in Nami's package that looked like it was covered with a layer of sand.
The next second, the surprise on his face became more obvious.
Because the fruit in Nami's hand happened to be the devil fruit he had seen in the video.
And what's more coincidental is...
This is actually the devil fruit eaten by Crocodile, the ability user he just killed - the natural sand fruit! ! !
"Oh my goodness~!"
The shocked Chihong quickly put down the skewers in his hand, looked at Nami who seemed to have known that he would do this, and then praised generously:
"Nami, the picking up characteristics match you, a money-grubber..."
"It can be considered that this characteristic has picked up a treasure!!!"