Zoro was finishing preparing the Merry when Luffy and Oliver arrived with Usopp and Sanji.
"Get on! We're leaving right now," Zoro said, already on the ship.
"Are they still asleep?" Luffy asked, seeing how Sanji and Usopp weren't even moving.
"We have to wake up these morons," Oliver said.
"Come on, we don't have time to stay here!" Zoro shouted, rushing them.
"Wait, Karoo is still missing," Vivi said, unable to find a duck.
"Do you mean him?" Zoro asked, pointing to the duck that was right next to him.
"What?!" Nami and Vivi shouted angrily.
"He was already here when I arrived," Zoro emphasized.
"Let's go! If we leave now, maybe we can sail through one of the river currents and escape faster!" Vivi said.
They quickly got on the Going Merry to start departing towards the sea.
"Hey, how many are going to chase us?" Luffy asked.
"I don't know. Baroque Works has 2,000 members, and I've heard there are several towns like Whiskey Peak in the area," Vivi said, trying to answer him.
"Then hundreds might come!" Nami told her, thinking about their pursuers.
"It's possible. So you can see the seriousness of knowing the Boss's identity," Vivi said.
"We got ourselves into a big one and we just started in the Grand Line," Oliver said, sitting with his hat over his face.
"That's more entertaining!" Luffy said with a smile.
"What do you find entertaining about a Shichibukai chasing us?!" Nami yelled at him.
At that moment, Sanji and Usopp started to wake up, looking around and realizing they were on the Going Merry.
"Hey! What's going on?! We've already left?! Let's stay another night! It's a fun place and the women are sexy!" Sanji shouted, trying to make them turn around.
"Yeah! Do you think there will be better places than this where we are going?! We are pirates, let's enjoy this! It hasn't even dawned yet! Are you listening to me?! Let's turn back!" Usopp shouted in the same state as Sanji.
"Fun? I'll show you what's fun," Oliver said, going after both of them and giving them a beating, leaving them partially knocked out.
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They left the island as they finally passed through the fog, so they already felt relieved to have gotten away from the island.
"You have to be careful not to hit the rocks with the ship. Well, at least you have escaped," a mysterious woman said.
Everyone looked where the voice came from and saw a black-haired, blue-eyed woman wearing a leather outfit; the top part was a purple corset that exposed part of her torso, a miniskirt of the same color, along with a cowboy hat.
"Where is Mr. 8, Miss Wednesday?" the mysterious woman asked.
"You're the one who did that to Igaram!" Vivi said upon realizing who she was.
'Nico Robin. It would be weird if she said her name,' Oliver thought.
"I don't care, I want to know why you are on my ship!" Luffy shouted.
"Why are you here, Miss All-Sunday?!" Vivi shouted angrily.
"Who is she?! And what number does she go by?!" Nami asked.
"Mr. 0! She is the only one who knows the true identity of the Boss, so we followed her. That's how I discovered the Boss's name!!" Vivi explained to her.
"Oh, actually, I let you follow me," Miss All-Sunday said.
"Hey, she's a good girl," Luffy said without understanding the situation they were in.
"I knew it! And then you informed the boss that we knew, right?!" Vivi asked her.
"Ohhh, she's a bad girl!" Luffy said.
"What are you trying to achieve?!" Vivi asked her angrily.
"Hmmm... You were so serious, so I had to cooperate a little. It's so ridiculous that a princess thinks she can make an enemy of Baroque Works and save her country," Miss All-Sunday said in a mocking tone.
"Shut your mouth!!" Vivi shouted at her angrily.
When Vivi realized it, Sanji, Usopp, Zoro, and Nami had their weapons pointing at Miss All-Sunday.
"Uh, Sanji. Do you know anything about what's going on?" Usopp asked, aiming with his slingshot.
"I don't know. But it seems this woman is dangerous to Miss Wednesday," Sanji said, aiming a gun at her.
"Would you mind not pointing those dangerous things at me?"
When Miss All-Sunday said that, Sanji and Usopp fell from the second floor, and Nami along with Zoro dropped their weapons.
"A Devil Fruit?!" Zoro asked.
"What kind of power is that?!" Nami asked.
"The Flower-Flower Fruit, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that grants the ability to sprout multiple body parts of its user. If she attacks you, damage the parts that appear, that way she can also be hurt," Oliver explained to them.
"My, so you know about this Devil Fruit," Miss All-Sunday told him, impressed.
"What can I say, one has to be prepared for anything," Oliver told her, staring at her.
'What an interesting subject,' Miss All-Sunday thought. "Don't get upset. Right now I have no orders, I have no reason to fight with you."
In a flash, she took Luffy's Straw Hat, making him angry.
"So you are Captain Straw Hat, Monkey D. Luffy," Miss All-Sunday said.
"GIVE ME MY HAT, YOU WRETCH!! DO YOU WANT TO FIGHT?!" Luffy shouted at her angrily.
"You have bad luck. You are carrying a princess whose life is threatened by Baroque Works, and the princess is escorted by a very small number of pirates," Miss All-Sunday said, looking at them from above.
"But the worst luck of all is the island the Log Pose is pointing to. The name of that island is Little Garden. You surely won't make it to Alabasta. Even if we don't attack you, you will be destroyed even before having seen Crocodile," she told everyone.
"Anyone can pretend to be brave. If you knew the difficulty of what awaits you, you wouldn't be so sure about moving forward," she said, returning Luffy's hat and a Log Pose.
"An Eternal Pose?!" Vivi said, surprised to see the object.
"You will be able to skip all of that. This needle points to an island right before Alabasta. It's a route that none of our members know about, so they won't follow you," Miss All-Sunday explained to them.
"What? Why is she helping us?!" Nami said without understanding.
"Obviously it's a trap," Zoro said.
"It could be," Miss All-Sunday said, and then stayed looking at them.
Vivi was thinking what Miss All-Sunday's trap could be by giving them a Log Pose, but without having time to think, Luffy grabbed the Eternal Pose and broke it.
"Are you crazy?!" Nami shouted at him, kicking Luffy in the head. "She gave us a fast way to get there! What if she was really on our side?!"
"That doesn't matter! You don't decide the route of this ship!!" Luffy shouted at Miss All-Sunday.
"Oh... Too bad," Miss All-Sunday said. "I don't forget people like you. We will meet again, if you survive."
Miss All-Sunday jumped off the ship where she got on a turtle to get away from the Going Merry.
"Well done, Luffy. It could have been a trap where hundreds of ships were waiting for us," Oliver said, placing a hand on Luffy's shoulder.
"Hey! Explain what's going on!" Usopp shouted, looking for an explanation.
Oliver had to explain to Sanji and Usopp so they would understand what was happening and what they were going to do.
"I understand. Well, that's bad. I'm sure we can do something," Sanji said, smoking. "Alright! Now that this sleeping knight is awake, I promise you will always be protected."
"Good thing I was sleeping!" Usopp said, relieved.
"Yeah, how lucky that you were sleeping and that's why we had to go looking for you," Oliver said.
"Hey, is there no more snow?" Luffy asked.
"How do you want snow?" Zoro asked him.
"There's snow! You were asleep so you don't know. Is it going to snow?" Luffy asked Vivi.
"Well, it's not that it never snows here, but the first stretch of the ocean is special. The 7 magnetic fields that extend from Reverse Mountain vary everything," Vivi explained to everyone. "So don't lower your guard. It's rare to have trips as violent as the last one, but remember this: this is the most difficult ocean to cross. The golden rule is this: Don't underestimate the sea!"
While Vivi explained that, Sanji went to the kitchen to make different desserts.
"Hey, idiots! Do you want to try my special drink?!" Sanji asked.
"Yes!" everyone shouted, angering Vivi.
"Can you believe it?! They don't care about anything!" Vivi shouted.
"Does it even matter?" Nami said while passing her a dessert as she ate one herself. "They know what to do when the weather..."
"Well, I guess... But they seem totally unconcerned!" Vivi said, somewhat frustrated by the rest of them.
"Relax a little. Your worries will disappear. This ship is just like that," Nami said with a smile.
The ship was quite cheerful, which made Vivi's worries fade away a little.
"Look, everyone! A dolphin!" Sanji said.
Everyone looked at the dolphin, seeing that it was quite fantastic, until little by little it started getting bigger and bigger.
"It's gigantic!" Usopp shouted.
"Alright! To your positions!" Luffy shouted.
Each of them took a position to overcome the difficulty and continue advancing on their adventure.
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