The Daughter of the King (English)

Chapter 04 - The truth comes out

The door to the bandit hideout opened and out ran Ace, Sabo and Luffy. The first mentioned had his pipes in his hand as they ran. "We're off then!" shouted the three. From inside the house, Dadan could be heard yelling, "Hey, Luffy! You're supposed to do the laundry and clean the house!" The person being addressed turned around, stuck out her tongue and pulled on her lower right eyelid. "No way!" Before she continued running. "Uh! Ace, Sabo wait!" Dadan, Magura and Dogura watched them go. "What a terrible bunch of children!" grumbled the woman. "Oh, right," Sabo said, stopping. Luffy couldn't stop herself, ran into him and fell down. The blonde turned around and said, "I forgot something to say!" He took a deep breath and called out, "Hey, Dadan! While we're gone, Bluejam's men might come by. Be careful!" "Bluejam's men might come by..." Dogura began, "Why?" The others just looked at each other until Sabo answered them: "We messed with some of his crew and beaten them up. See you later!" The three looked after them in shock. What had they gotten themselves into? 

"Dadan is certainly an understanding old hag." "But she's still an old hag," Ace replied. "That's correct! Despite everything, she is a bandit. And her face is scary!" Luffy agreed, before her hair briefly caught on some branches and she was stuck for a moment. However, the boys didn't noticed this. "So what do we do?" Sabo asked while running. Luffy had now reconnected with them. "First of all..." "FOOD!" "Alright. Let's get something to eat!"

The three had lit a fire by a river and above it were the remains of a large fish. Ace and Sabo ate from their prey while Luffy watched them drool. You could almost have mistaken her for a dog. "Luffy, you're a devil fruit user?" Sabo asked with his mouth full. "Yup." He turned around. "That explains why you can't swim. You have something too." With that he threw the big fin at her. She ran and grabbed it like a dog before landing on her bottom and beaming with joy saying, "Thank you!" "You're too nice, Sabo!" Ace said to him with his mouth full. "It's no big deal," he replied before turning back to her, "So, what fruit did you eat?" "The Gomu Gomu no Mi" she said with a big grin and threw the fin in the air, before she devoured it in one bite. "Gomu Gomu? Does that mean you're made of rubber?" "Yes, that's right." "So you lost the ability to swim and in turn became a rubber human? How lame," said Ace, who was picking at his teeth with a fish bone to remove leftover food. She stood up angrily and shouted: "That's not lame! I'm going to develop a bunch of unbeatable techniques!" Ace lay on his back before turning to the side and resting his head. "Oh, is that so? Someone who isn't even able to catch a fish themselves shouldn't say something like that." Luffy wanted to attack the older boy, but Sabo held her cheek and her face stretched. "You really are made of rubber, hum? That's so cool!" "Don't play with me like that!" grumbled Luffy. Sabo let go of her and she was thrown forward by the recoil of the contraction. Sabo laughed. "Despite it. Rubber can stretch, contract and expand. It could be very useful in battle." Luffy held her cheek. Just because she could stretch didn't mean you could do that to her again and again! But her grumbling was quickly forgotten when she heard Sabo talking. "I know! I even came up with a new technique yesterday! It's called it ' Gomu Gomu no Fusen '! It can deflect anything, even cannonballs!" "Really? Show me!" "Good! But it's a private screening!" she looked at Ace, "I won't show it to you, Ace! So don't watch!" Ace was lying with his back to her as she turned back to Sabo. "Here she comes! Gomu Gomu no..." She sucked in as much air as she could. Her stomach became larger and fuller and almost resembled a ball. Surprised, Sabo said: "What? What is that? It's incredible! It's getting bigger and bigger!" Ace slowly became curious. Meanwhile, Luffy covered her mouth. Her body had grown considerably and looked like a huge ball with a head, arms and legs. "...Fusen! What do you think? Unbelievable, right?!" she said, covering my mouth. "No, I really can't call that unbelievable." Luffy jumped up and down, not noticing Ace standing up. He kicked the bloated rubber girl and said, "Some exercise will help me digest food better!" The girl shot up into the air and did some rolling. "What are you doing?!" she shouted dully. "Sabo, shoot her back!" "Uh, sure." Luffy came closer and closer. When she was within reach, he kicked her back toward Ace. "Stop it!" She wasn't a ball! "This is supposed to be an unbeatable technique against cannonballs?" Ace dropped and jumped off. "Stop it!" "Then try to block my kicks!" "Stop!" And Ace kicked her in the direction of the river. She hit two rocks before threatening to sink into the water. The boys looked at her in shock. Suddenly she rose out of the water again...she had landed in a crocodile's mouth! Screaming, she disappeared into the beast's mouth as it closed. The boys watched in shock as the reptile spat out the straw hat and dived back down. They shouted angrily after him: "Wait, damn it! We won't just let you eat her and escape!" The reptile seemed to have heard them, because the next moment it came out of the water again. "You bastard!" they shouted and attacked. They threw their pipes into the crocodile's mouth. They got stuck there crisscrossed. "Here we come!" The reptile had no chance.