The Daughter of the King (English)

Chapter 21 - A cry for help

She didn't know how long she had been walking when she saw three beings in front of her. These beings look at the wreck of Sanji's boat from afar. One of them reminded the black-haired woman of a stingray. He had grayish skin and triangles? on his arms. Like the other two creatures, he was taller than her and muscular. He had black hair that he had braided into a very long braid and two smaller ones on his head. He wore a blue uwagi that half-covered something red on his chest. The Uwagi was held together with a black Obi. The being on the other side had dark blonde hair that reached his cheeks. He also had blue skin and big lips like an archerfish. He wore a blue tank top combined with brown shorts. He wore a yellowish pearl necklace around his neck and the same symbol as Nami's was on his right arm. Except he had two other tattoos in the form of stripes and dots wrapped around his arm. The last of these creatures, standing between the two, bore great resemblance to an octopus. He had pink skin, six arms with suction cups, his mouth protruded wide, and human legs. His hair was gray and shaped into five spikes. A red sun was depicted on his forehead. He also wore a horizontally striped orange and red suit with an orange kitten and a pale green haramaki wrapped around his waist. She saw the octopus man point his arms at her and say, "Look! That person over there! She's not from the island!" The three stood in the middle of the street to cut her off. "Are that fishman?" she murmured quietly. She was getting closer and closer to them. The three looked at her as she walked past them, ignoring them. Luffy hadn't gotten far when the octopus man turned around and called after her: "Hey, wait!" She stopped and turned around. "Huh, did you just call me?" she asked innocently. "Y...you! Who are you? What are you doing here on the island?" "Why do you care?" He didn't know the answer to that. "Well...well you're probably right. Like you said." "I'm Luffy and I'm just taking a walk." "A walk?" With that, the black-haired woman turned around and continued on her way. Out of the corner of her eye she saw him taking a cloth out of his suit with each of his hands and waving after her. "Well then have fun!" Where did he keep them? "Hey, smartass, where are you going?" one of the others asked. "How should I know?" she replied, but didn't turn around again. Although she had already moved a little away, she could still hear the three of them clearly. "What a friendly girl." "But who is she?" "She didn't seem intimidated by us. A very suspicious person." Luffy rolled her eyes when she heard that. As if she could be intimidated so easily!

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~ Cocoyasi Village ~

She had already been walking for a while whenshe arrived at a village. The villagers all looked down the street. She stoppedin surprise and followed there gaze. A group of men approached her. A slim mancovered in scars walked in front. He had black hair, a mustache and wore atypical brown police uniform. There was a small windmill on his cap. Directlybehind him was a man wearing a hood-like hat with rat ears that said"Marine" on it. He also had a gray coat on and strange whiskers onhis face. Along with a brown goatee. Behind him was a whole troop of marines.Everyone had their heads bowed so that their eyes were in shadows. Luffy didn'tknow why but she couldn't stand the coat guy's grin. She stood quietly as thegroup approached. "What kind of business does the Navy have with Nami?" askedthe man with the windmill. The guy with the cord hats laughed, which sounded alittle like a mouse squealing, before saying, "You don't have to worry aboutthat. Just take us to her." The group walked past Luffy and didn't give her aglance. The black-haired woman watched them go. There was something about theguy's voice that she didn't liked and it didn't help that her seventh sensekicked in. Something was up.

She had sat down under a palm tree at the sideof the road, put her arms behind her head and was watching the road for awhile. She just couldn't get the policeman's windmill out of her head. The wayit turned gave her an idea. "Oh, I just thought of a new move!" she said toherself, grinning. "Doctor. Doctor!" the windmill man's voice suddenly sounded.The black-haired woman looked around in surprise, the Marineheinis were nowhereto be seen. A small crowd began to form when an older man came running."What happened Genzo?" "Nojiko was shot!" "Bywho?" "Captain Nezumi."* "Captain Nezumi?" She couldsee a shock of orange hair among all the people. The straw hat wearing womanstood up and squeezed past the other people. She had just made it to the middlewhen Nami stood up with her head bowed. "Hey, hello Nami! What's up? Can I helpin any way?" she asked the orange-haired woman, who had her back to her. Sheturned around, looked at her angrily and snapped at her: "You're stillhere?!" Luffy shrank back a little before Nami roughly grabbed her by thevest and pulled her closer. "None of this is any of your business and now getaway!" She pulled hard on her vest again so that she lost her balance and ranaway. The black-haired woman landed roughly on the floor. The people hadalready disappeared into the doctors practice with Nojiko, Genzo and the doctorwhen she stood up again and sat sulkily under the palm tree she had previously satunder. "What's her problem?"