Chapter 19: East Blue Arc: End of the Fishman Empire! Nami's My Friend

"You plan on making her the navigator of some shabby boat?" Arlong mocked. "You'd only end up wasting her talent. Just look. How many people in this world can draw such accurate charts? The girl has a gift. There's nothing as unfortunate and foolish as letting a natural-born talent go to waste. Staying here and drawing sea charts is the greatest happiness for her."

"This pen is strained with blood." Luffy noted, picking up the feathered quail that had fallen off the desk.

"Nami's charts are absolutely vital if I'm to attain world supremacy." Arlong continued. "She's going to continue drawing sea charts. For my ambition. And once her charts give me full knowledge of all the world's seas, we fishmen will be invincible and the world will be out empire. Our first stepping stone is this island and the East Blue. Could you efficiency use the girl as that?" The Shark Sword hasn't moved a bit? He frowned when Luffy rested a hand on one of the jagged blades of the saw sword. "What!?" he gasped when Luffy shattered the blade under his hand.

"Use?" Luffy glared.

"Sorry you two." Sasha heaved in an exhausted breath as the healing dome receded. "That's as far as I can go."

"Don't worry about it." Zoro assured.

"What do you take her for?" Luffy demanded.

"An inferior creature, but a smart girl." Arlong chuckled. "If all other human are sewer rats, I'd say she's a cheeky-as-hell cat. After all, she is adorable. And I'm going to keep feeding her and buying clothes she likes. She'll have everything she needs to live. All she needs to do is keep drawing charts for me. She will forever be my tool."

In response, Luffy kicked the desk out of the room.

"A desk?" Sanji blinked, seeing a falling desk falling out of the room.

"What do you think you're doing?" Arlong demanded as Luffy proceeded to demolish the room. "Stop that!" he roared, slashing at Luffy who jumped and dodge the attack, the sword slash cutting a pile of charts into half. "My charts!" he exclaimed as Luffy continued to kick another stack of charts from the room. "Damn you!" he slammed Luffy into a undamaged wall. "I spent eight years making her draw those. I invested eight years in these charts. In my ambition. You've gone too far, you damn rubber man!" he swore, biting down on Luffy's shoulder.

"'Fishmen are great and 'sea charts' this.'" Luffy retorted, grabbing onto Arlong's nose. "'Circumstances' that. I don't know much of that stuff. But I finally figured out how to save her." he pushed Arlong off him, twisting the sharkman's nose at the same time. "She can't go because this room is here. If she doesn't want to be here, then I'll just destroy it all. Gum-gum..." he extended his leg upwards, breaking through the roof.

"Don't get cocky!" Arlong snapped. "Arlong Park can't ever be brought down by you inferior beings." he straightened his nose. "Shark Tooth Drill!" he opened his mouth and tunneled towards Luffy.

"Battle-Axe!" Luffy brought his foot down just as Arlong bit into his body. He stomped his foot down through the building, along with Arlong straight through every single storey of the pavilion.

"I really need to talk to him about structural damage." Sasha muttered, the trio having escaped with the gathered crowd as the pavilion collapsed due to the impact.

"Is that what you focus on!?" Sanji exclaimed, exasperated.

"Nami!" Luffy yelled from on top of the rubble. "You're my friend!"

"Yeah!" Nami nodded, tearing up.

"Arlong Park has fallen!" the villagers cheered.