HIS《Doflamingo X Reader》

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“Pudding’s Café… at Cacao Island?” You muttered to yourself, bemused, watching Cracker's figure quickly grow smaller as he ran after Luffy at a superhuman speed, “I don’t know where that is.”

How were you supposed to make it there in an hour on foot? How was he going to lead Cracker off his scent? And who was Pudding exactly? Brulée and Katakuri mentioned that name earlier. You wondered what connection Luffy could have had with her. If he wanted you to meet him at her café, on an island where everyone would be his enemy, he had to trust her, right? But Brulée and Katakuri sounded as though they were also familiar with her.

If you wanted to go to her café, you needed directions or someone that could get you there. You had no choice but to go back to Brulée’s house.

You would have to apologize, naturally, regardless of the fact that she did abduct you and you were being coerced into marrying into her family. Then again, your situation would have been worse if you weren’t taken away from Kid. Big Mom wanted to complete her end of the deal which was to protect you, and you wouldn’t want to be kicked off her home and be left stranded out at sea for either the marines or Kaido’s crew to find you.

“Hey… I’m sorry for calling you all those mean and nasty things. You know what, getting married doesn’t seem so bad after all,” you rehearsed your apology aloud as though you were speaking to Brulée, “I met Cracker, too. He’s not so bad, though we barely spoke to each other. I’ll ignore his attempts to kill my friends…”

You paused and sighed heavily. For the first time in a while, you felt very tired. You had put your ankle through too much strain, too. You got down and crossed your legs as you sat on the grass.

“Your apology almost sounds sincere. I’ll acknowledge it, for your sake,” you noticed a mirror appear in front of you, but you kept your head lowered as the upper half of Brulée’s body appeared through it.

“No, I am being honest,” you started, your voice soft and filled with uncertainty, “I’ll marry him. I was thinking that it was about time I burned some bridges. I want to see Pudding.”

Of course, you wanted to keep all of your memories. You needed to see Pudding. You didn’t know where her café was, let alone Cacao Island.

“If you so wish… however, we have our orders to help my brother with that Strawhat brat. I’ll give you directions. It’ll give you a chance to see your new home for yourself, and enough time to think about everything,” as she spoke, Brulée reached her hand out of the mirror and handed you a piece of paper, “It just so happens that you’re both supposed to have lunch with Mother today. It’s the perfect opportunity for you two to get acquainted with each other. Mother will be so happy to have lunch with the two brides.”

Before she moved back into the mirror, she added, “And be sure to dress decently. You’re not some rogue pirate anymore. Get rid of those rags.”

You pouted after she left and whispered, “I was never a rogue pirate.”

You looked down at the piece of paper and saw that it was an amateur map with directions to a place called Whole Cake Chateau in Sweet City. The map also included the other smaller islands, including Cacao Island, which you noticed was at least three islands over, while Sweet City was right next to the Seducing Woods.

“How does he expect me to make it all the way over there in an hour?” You asked in dismay over Luffy’s unreasonable request. Judging from the map, you assumed Sweet City was a good thirty-minute walk away, and Cacao Island would take you ages to get to it. That was excluding the time you would have to spend having lunch with Pudding and Big Mom.

Either way, you didn’t have the time to waste by waiting about it. Since you would be meeting Pudding in Sweet City, how you would get to her café was something you would have to figure out upon meeting her.