Part nine - Once, a liar, a cheater and a deciver met 22/??

- Luffy, you no longer have a couch - Nami reminded of this little fact just in case.

- And we don't have a ship either, - Johnny said.

- We don't have right now, - Luffy waved away. - Yes, and a ... oh! Yosaku woke up.

- By the way, what happened to him? - asked Nami.

- Luffy shot him in the head.

- What for?! - Nami looked at her captain with round eyes. - I mean, why? - The girl immediately rushed to add, as soon as Luffy had time to open his mouth.

Luffy gave Johnny a promising look before answering, causing Johnny to rush to give himself the most innocent look he was capable of, after which the guy turned to Nami.

- I just stumbled.

- And at that moment you accidentally ended up with a pistol in your hand? - not for a moment did Nami believe her captain.

- Why by chance? I got it myself. I already ran after you to help you deal with the pirates when I stumbled. A small mistake. It happens to even the best of us.

Nami stared at her captain as if he suddenly had a second head. Ran to help deal with the pirates? When Usopp talked about his eighty million followers, he even looked more convincing than Luffy now. However, before Nami could continue this otherwise hopeless conversation, Johnny intervened.

- Captain, are we going to help them or what? I think Kuro is about to do something really dangerous.

Johnny was talking about it. Having finally secured the status of "Main baddie", Kuro finished talking. Instead, he bent forward slightly and relaxed his arms and began to sway slightly from side to side. The villagers were perplexed, but the Black Cat pirates went into a real panic. And very quickly, from their screams, it became clear why exactly they panicked.

- He puts himself into a trance to increase his physical capabilities, but instead literally attacks everything in the area, - Luffy summed up, analyzing the cries of the frightened pirates. - Yes, Johnny, you're right, we'd better intervene. I am familiar with the technique he uses to increase his speed, albeit in a less primitive way. And if now he is going to increase his speed even more, Usopp may well die - about the villagers and the pirates, which is remarkable, Luffy did not even mention. This spoke a lot about his priorities in life.

Kuro stopped swinging and said loudly and distinctly:

- Shakushi! (Death Crest!)

And then he disappeared, and Luffy disappeared with him. Before no one had time to realize what had happened, including Nami and Johnny, there was an iron screeching sound - it was Luffy, appearing right in front of the villagers crowding around Usopp and Kai sitting on the ground, blocking Kuro's blow ... with two haki-infused ice cream sticks. And this was when Luffy was quite capable of both blocking Kuro's attack with his bare hands, and knocking him out with one blow - or without any blow at all. It would be natural to act in such a logical way, it would not be interesting at all. Boring. So Luffy stayed where he was, and Kuro disappeared again, after which, two or three seconds later, letting out a loud scream, the pirate fell to the ground with his chest ripped apart. Even the blockage set up by Buchi did not prevent Kuro from reaching the pirates of the "Black Cat".

- Nami, Johnny, are you going to do anything at all or what? - wrapping ice cream sticks in his hands, Luffy asked when the fifth pirate who had been stripped down collapsed.

- Is it really necessary? - Johnny asked doubtfully. - All he's doing so far is killing his team, and I don't see anything wrong with that.Better for us, there is less work, - the guy is almost one to one, repeated the words of Kuro himself. - Moreover, he is not so fast. His speed, of course, took me by surprise at first, but if you compare him at least with the same Sanji, not to mention you or Zoro, he seems to be running on broken legs.

- So come on, break his legs completely! - Luffy jabbed one of the sticks towards where Kuro was methodically dismissing his team. - If you have forgotten, then let me remind you that we are no longer bounty hunters, so we no longer need to kill every pirate.

- In terms of? - Nami did not understand. - We'll just let them go, or what?

- No, if you really want to, then we can kill them all, - Luffy offered kindly. - You choose.

- I don't want to kill anyone! - The girl quickly retreated. - It's just somehow unusual to hear that from you.

- Do not understand why. Do we have any benefit from their death now?

- Yeah, I didn't look at the situation from that angle, - Nami nodded understandingly.

Everything is logical. Now, after the destruction of Craig's armada, and after they finally became pirates, killing other pirates has become almost pointless. The destruction of another pirate team will definitely not affect their reputation in any way. In addition, Luffy was going to raise the pirate flag as soon as they got a ship, and with the painted pirate flag on the sails, selling captured ships would become much more difficult. This is not to mention the fact that they were going to sail to the Grand Line, so now they had no time to sell the ships.

- And what about their treasures? - the girl asked a self-evident question. - Aren't you interested in them either?

Luffy not interested in money? The idea, no matter from ​​which side you look at it, looked absurd. And absolutely impossible.

- Why's that? - Luffy wondered. - It's one thing not to kill them, but their food and money is ours. Seriously, Nami, why should I explain such obvious things to you?

Look, the universe is still in place and working as it should.

- Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! - sighing with relief, immediately obediently obeyed Nami. - Then maybe I'll rob them for now, and you'll finish the rest here? - suggested the girl.

- Yes please! - Luffy said generously.

With the screams of wounded pirates filling the air and the desperate screams of whole pirates, the whole conversation looked pure surrealism ... from the point of view of the villagers and Usopp. That is why they watched everything that was happening with low jaws, and eyes rolling out onto their foreheads. It should be noted that this was a fairly standard reaction to members of the Straw Hat family, or rather to most of their actions. What they considered normal seemed to others ... in general, surrealism as it is.

As soon as Nami obtained Luffy's permission, she immediately went to the boats, on which the Black Cat pirates disembarked from the ship to the shore. Johnny, in turn, did not waste time on trifles, and, drawing full lungs of air, literally flooded the area in front of him with fire. Despite Kuro's rapid and chaotic movement, Johnny could still see him, so he could easily catch the pirate with his fire attack.

This time, the painful yell of Kuro himself shook the air around him, but he, fully justifying his nickname, without being lost, immediately rushed to the water. Some of Johnny's attacks reached such a temperature that he could burn a person to the bone in a matter of seconds. However, Kuro managed to get off with only light burns, burnt eyebrows, badly damaged hair and badly damaged clothing. Not Craig of course, but not bad too. Although from the self-confident dude, what he looked and was at the time of his appearance, not a trace remained. Now he looked more like a wet, shabby, slightly singed rat.

- Flame from the mouth ... you ate a devil fruit, - Kuro did not ask, he claimed. - It seems that rumors about the abnormality of your crew are not an ordinary exaggeration. - Despite his condition, the pirate showed surprising calmness.

- You have no idea, - Johnny grinned back.