Restaurant Baratie at Sea

East Blue, Orange Town.

Just a tiny town, for some reason, after having sent away a group of pirates and then received the marine forces.

At this moment, the mayor of the town is standing with the townspeople in fear and anxiety, "The situation is like this, Marine-sama, those pirates took the town's food and then left."

"In other words, there is no more food in the town?"

"Yes, that's right."

"That won't do." Longinus sighed and said to Smoker, "Is there a way to get food?"

Smoker said with a grave face, "Even if we buy food from the nearest town, it will take almost three days to get here."

The East Blue is a vast area, and the branch warships' speed performance is far from the headquarters; three days, indeed, is the fastest speed.

Hearing that these marines were thinking about their food, the mayor couldn't help but say with gratitude, " We can wait for three days, thank you, marine-sama, thank you, thank you so much!"

If it is their ship, a one-time can not bring back too much food, not to mention that in the middle to face the threat of pirates, uncertainty is too many factors.

By the time they bring back the food, maybe the townspeople will have starved to death!

Seeing that Longinus was still hesitating, Smoker proposed, "How about sharing the food on the warship with them?"

"Our soldiers are also human beings, this kind of thing, don't say it again." Longinus said with a rare seriousness.

"Yes!" Although he was criticized, Smoker was not half resentful.

It was naturally their good fortune to have such an officer who thought about his subordinates.

"At a time like this, it looks like I'm going to have to pick up my old habits again." Longinus untied his coat of justice and threw it to the side, and Tashigi caught it with her hands hurriedly.

Longinus headed for the sea when he was said, then took a fish leap and jumped into the sea.

The mayor hesitantly asked, "Sir, he is going to ..."

"To catch fish." Smoker said succinctly.

The mayor and a group of townspeople blinked their eyes; how much fish would they have to catch to have enough to eat?

Tashigi, on the other hand, said with a leap of joy, "Longinus-sama is really too gentle, his first reaction to hear the news is not to go to arrest the Buggy Pirates, but to worry that these townspeople who were robbed will not be able to eat."

"Indeed, this is the justice that the Marine should have!"

Smoker also rarely reveals a trace of a smile, "The more easily neglected details, the more you can appreciate the justice practiced by senpai."

Tashigi nodded her head and then asked, "Why would the Buggy Pirates come to grab food? Shouldn't the pirates all go for the treasure?"

Smoker mused, "Such an extensive search has not been able to find traces of the Buggy Pirates, it seems, they are hiding in some deserted island. When the food running out, only then they have no choice but to come out and grab the food."

Tashigi looked nervous, "That means, the Buggy pirates are probably in the nearby sea on the deserted island?"

Smoker nodded heavily, "Most likely, next, it is the time to fight with the Buggy Pirates to the death!"

Boom!

The sea ripples, the tide surges;

The next moment, they saw Longinus came up dragging a small sea king class of about thirty meters in size.

"This, this is ..." a crowd of townspeople looking at this appalling scene, astonished, speechless.

They finally understood what the white-haired marine officer's mouth meant when he said "fishing".

The marines were much more relaxed; after all, this scene did not look as shocking as the last flying beast.

"This sea king class, should be enough for you to eat half a month." Longinus controlled his body to extremely fast and subtle amplitude tremor; when he approached the crowd, his body's clothes had dried.

"That's enough! That's enough! Thank you, Marine-sama! Thank you, Marine-sama!" It moved the crowd of townspeople to tears.

"When you experience happy things, shouldn't you smile and laugh to your heart's content?" Longinus said with a smile as he took the coat handed to him by Tashigi.

"Uh-huh!" The townspeople wiped the corners of their eyes and laughed happily.

The surrounding soldiers were straightened up; didn't they join the Marine Corps just to guard this laughter?

"Well, we should also set out to capture the group of pirates, if we let them escape, it may bring disaster to other places again." Longinus smiled and turned in the direction of the warship.

Behind him, there was the frantic sound of thanks from the townspeople.

The warship went offshore and returned to the sea.

"How wonderful! It was a joy to help!" Tashigi smiled happily and then spat out her little tongue, "Although we didn't help at all."

Longinus, however, said with a gloomy expression, "This time we were just in time, but the next time, and the next time? This era is still too fragile after all, even if the pirates did not kill, but the mess they left behind after plundering can make a town towards destruction!"

Tashigi asked, somewhat confused, "Can the problem really be solved only by completely eliminating the pirates?"

"As long as this sea still exists, the pirates will not disappear, all we can do is to make this era a little more gentle." Longinus smiled.

"On the Grand Line, a project called the Train Network Project has already begun, and as long as we have the network of trains laid out between the various seas, everything will go in a good direction."

Tashigi's eyes twinkled with tiny stars; although she did not understand much, this did not prevent her from offering worship and admiration to Longinus-sama.

At that moment, Smoker came over and reminded, "Senpai, it's almost noon."

"Oh! Is it time to start the lunch?" Longinus asked.

"Hmm." Smoker nodded, "It's a coincidence to say that just ahead in the sea is the sea restaurant Baratie."

Looking in the direction Smoker was pointing, what came into view was a giant ship shaped like a sea fish.

"The sea restaurant Baratie? I heard that is the most famous restaurant in the whole East Blue!" Tashigi exclaimed.

"That's right. This sea restaurant has no fixed location, often drifting around in the East Blue area, in order to taste the food of Baratie, many people even sail out to the sea to try their luck." Smoker said.

"It seems that its cuisine is indeed very popular." Longinus nodded slightly.

"They also have an interesting concept of providing free food specifically for those who have nothing to eat at sea."

"Specializing in providing free food for the people who have fallen on hard times? It seems that their boss must be a very kind person."

Seeing Longinus show his appreciation, Smoker only struck while the iron was hot and said, "Senpai, you come to East Blue once in a while, and you happen to come across the most famous sea restaurant in East Blue, then why don't we eat our lunch here?"

"Taking such a big detour, just to arouse my interest?" Longinus smiled and shook his head, "Okay, I will go."

"Only, we are not the only ones who are going, call all the soldiers and let's all go together. Something like food is more delicious when we all share it together!"

Published in Qidian, August 28, 2019