Part eight - Demons of East Blue 5/??

Now it was Johnny's and Yosaku's turn to be ... mmm ... perhaps if you use the word "dumbfounded" it would be a gross exaggeration. After prolonged communication with Luffy, any member of the Straw Hats, willy-nilly, built up a thick shell of indifference - otherwise with such a captain there is simply no way. It certainly didn't make them completely impenetrable - especially when it came to Luffy himself - but it took something really serious to actually stun Nami, Zoro, Johnny or Yosaku. That is why, when the pirates around the guys started babbling in fright that all the hunters who attacked them were immortal, Johnny and Yosaku ... were surprised. Yes, the word "surprised" fits very well. Not too much, but the guys were really surprised. And they were puzzled. Again, not too much, but they still experienced a certain degree of bewilderment.

- Where could the rumors about our immortality come from, if I have never died in front of strangers? - Yosaku asked aloud.

- Died, and more than once, - Johnny disagreed with him.

- Yes, but everyone who saw me die later died themselves, so they don't count.

- ... Maybe someone still managed to survive and spread the appropriate rumor?

- Then why about our immortality, if only I ate the corresponding fruit?

- Honestly, I don't know myself ... but if you want, I can voice the name of the main suspect, - Johnny offered kindly. - I'm sure that whatever all this means, he has something to do with it.

- … You don't have to bother yourself, - Yosaku sighed, knowing so well what name his friend wanted to voice, and then took a sealed cigar out of his pants pocket.

- I thought you were trying to quit? - With a questioning note in his voice, Johnny commented on his actions.

- Yes to hell with him ... after death you always want to smoke a little ... bastards! They shot my cigar! Ryu, burn them all! Although no, stop, half of the cigar survived ... better let me light a cigarette ... good ... now you can burn them all ... but although, okay, let them live ...

It only took a couple of puffs for Yosaku to finally become more nice. Meanwhile pirates, having lost the last crumbs of their courage, in one voice began to beg Craig to flee:

- Don, we must run, run!

- We cannot defeat them if they cannot be killed!

- It's impossible to defeat them, impossible!

- Please, Don Craig!

- ALL SHUT UP !!! - Craig snapped loudly in response. - Idiots! At least once would have tried to think with your own head! If they really can't be killed, then we'll just catch them and throw them into the water. Their immortality cannot be anything other than another manifestation of the Devil Fruit's power.

- It seems that he became the most important here, not only because of his most terrible sense of taste, - Johnny said slightly surprised, after listening to Don's words. - Gold-plated armor and diamonds in gloves? Is he serious at all?

- As Luffy-aniki would say, the guy is clearly trying to compensate for something, - Yosaku replied, blowing a cloud of smoke into the sky. - By the way, this bastard is mine. It was on his order that I was killed.

- Hmm ... and then with whom to fight?

- The power of Devil Fruit or not, but you can't defeat Don Craig, - as if just waiting for this question, a short, thin guy with two ...

- It's tonfa, isn't it? - Johnny asked Yosaku uncertainly, looking at the guy's weapon.

Two sticks really looked like tonfa, just not wooden, but iron, and even with two balls at the ends, each ball the size of a cannonball.

- It's Gin! "The Devil" Gin! Is he really going to fight these monsters?

- Mma, mma… Gin-san, don't be in such a hurry, let me join you too.

- Mother of God, what's this? - appreciated the new character Yosaku.

Tall, thick, with some kind of glass, like a fortune-telling, ball on his head, vaguely similar to a large pearl, and hung with iron shields. Literally hung! Two large shields covered his entire torso, front and back, another pair of shields covered his knees, another pair covered his elbows, and a third hid his hands. In the center of each shield, again, were inserted glass balls that looked like large pearls. The first impression of such a "protection"? The guy is a complete idiot! And, as Johnny and Yosaku knew perfectly well, he was very lucky that Luffy was not around right now, otherwise this idiot would have been dead already. Especially because of those clown shoes of his, on the toes of which small pearls also "adorned". On the other hand, the guys themselves felt an acute desire to kill this clown as soon as possible. Very revealing.

"Luffyizing" is not just an incurable disease, but an incurable and constantly progressing disease. Nami was the only one who realized this simple truth, which is why she often arranged bans for a couple of friends from communicating with Luffy - if there is no cure, then at least slow down! She would have forbidden Zoro, but, realizing how much time the swordsman spent next to their captain, mentally waved her hand at him - there was nothing to save there. The girl, of course, considered herself the most stable, so she sincerely believed that Luffy would no longer be able to change her even more, which is why she did not even try to limit herself from communicating with Luffy ... Yes, somewhere inside a monster, carefully raised by Luffy, the naive girl Nami still continued to live, but she did not have long to live.

- Pearl-san! If Pearl-san and Gin-san fight together, then even if they are immortal monsters, it will still be very bad for them!

- You seem to have found someone to fight with, - Yosaku chuckled.

- Let's hurry, then, - Johnny nodded. - Zoro-aniki and Luffy-aniki are already finishing off the last ships, - the guy pointed to the side, where another ship had just been cut into pieces. - If we don't hurry, they will come to ashore and kill everyone themselves. Although, to be honest, I don't really want to fight this idiot, - he shook his head in the direction of the one whom the pirates called "Pearl". - And did you hear his voice? I think he's a fagot. And his name? Pearl? I mean, Pearl? I've only met prostitutes with that name!

- But the second one seems to be normal, - tried to cheer up his friend Yosaka. - Yes, and he has a good nickname.

- "Devil"? - Johnny snorted. - There is only one real Devil in this world, and we both know that he wears a straw hat.

- It depends on which side you look at, - Yosaku disagreed. - The one with three swords is also quite suitable for this role.

- The one with three swords is just a killer of flesh, but the one with the straw hat is the most natural Soul Eater. The flesh is mortal, and the soul is immortal, so who is the greater Devil? Rather, which one is the real Devil? One who kills mortal flesh or one who devours an immortal soul?

- Hmm, you can't argue against such arguments, - Yosaku was forced to agree.