One Piece - I Am A Different Luffy! BOOK1!

Chapter 21 - Trip to Syrup Village.

[Chapter Size: 1443 Words.]
Third Person POV
Somewhere in the East Blue Sea.

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After two days in the middle of the ocean, a Marine ship was anchored in the waters, while Luffy used the power of his Devil Fruit to slow down the ship, almost coming to a stop. Next to the Marine ship, there was a smaller and peculiar boat.

"What is this?" Yamato couldn't help but ask in amazement.

"This is a speedboat!" Luffy said proudly. He purchased it using the system, taking an existing model in this world and adding a few modifications.

The young man with the straw hat used his money from the shop system to buy and assemble a steam-powered speedboat.

"What's a speedboat, Luffy-Sama?" Shirahoshi looked curiously at the small, peculiar boat with an engine at the back.

"This is a small motorized boat that can move faster than most boats in this world. It will be a secondary boat for the crew, mainly used by Lami as she delivers the heads of the pirates we captured while we were here in the East Blue," Luffy explained proudly.

"Incredible!" Yamato exclaimed with starry eyes.

"YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT A MOTOR IS!" Lami said from the side, thinking that the tall woman with horns was missing a few screws in her head.

Luffy had an appreciative look for Lami at this moment. Although the concept of a motor wasn't new to this world, as they had a sea train in Water 7, for most people, it was strange and unfamiliar. Lami in the original story had a damn submarine like Law, so it's no surprise that she's the only one who has an idea of what a motor is.

"Anyway, I'll teach Lami and Bepo how to operate the speedboat with the fuel now. Please wait for me to finish before we continue our journey," I said, jumping onto the boat, with Lami and Bepo following me.

"But first of all, where did you get all of this? Did you already have it in your pocket?" Lami asked, curious. It was a recurring question among the crew, but everyone inclined to the idea that Luffy had these things before they met him, and he had simply shrunk them and kept them until the occasion.

"No, I got these with the money we obtained from Buggy. It's pretty hard to explain right now, so I'll do it another time. Let's focus on the boat's operation for now," Luffy planned to talk about the concept of the shop later; now he had other concerns.

While Luffy explained the concept and the manual of the speedboat, on the Marine ship, everyone was looking at that strange, small motorized boat. A woman with orange hair was standing beside them.

She was dressed as a French maid, nothing too sensual, but she had her own uniform, like Baby 5. She held a mop in her hand, squeezing it tightly, with veins popping on her head.

"I'm a maid? A maid?!" Nami was furious with her fate in the midst of all these pirates, as her role was to clean the ship and attend to the captain's requests.

"First, he doesn't see me as a navigator and brings me into his crew as a maid. Now he's making me wear this uniform and asking me to keep cleaning the ship?! Damn you, Luffy, you're lucky you hid all that gold, but I'll find it! I'll take it along with the reward you'll receive from Buggy!" Nami was furious at first, but soon had a malicious smile at the prospect of getting all that money from this crew.

"So, I'll keep cleaning the place until I get that money!" She was determined as she resumed her task with a rather happy demeanor, which left everyone who knew her intentions quite concerned as the maid cleaned with a scary smile.