Christine's Pirate Journey

Chapter 9: Eat at Baratie

The thick fog provided a perfect cover for their ship, but it also limited their visibility.
That made it hard for Nami to navigate the ship.

Christine was currently cleaning up the pieces of wood and was putting them in a cloth bag.

Once she had finished, she put the bag in the cabin and approached the others.

Nami was currently trying to steer the ship with much concentration.
Zoro and Usopp weren't too far away from her.

Luffy wasn't there though.

Nami noticed Christine and she turned her head a little to look at her.
"How is the damage?"

"Well, the railing is a bit broken and there's just some minor damage on the wood.", she answered.

"Could of been a lot worse.", Zoro mumbled.

"Could of been better.", Nami muttered, irritated.

"Can't see any Marines anywhere.", Usopp leaned against the railing, looking out to the sea.

"Well, you can't see anything in this fog.", Christine deadpanned.

Nami nodded at her statement.
"What we need is a place to stay low and wait out any reinforcements they send after us, but my charts are useless in this fog."

"What did Luffy say?", Zoro asked.

"He's up on the bow.", Usopp replied. "He hasn't said anything since the battle."

"Well someone needs to talk to him.", Nami said. "About this and that other thing."

"What other thing?", Zoro frowned a litte and Christine tilted her head in confusion.

"Oh gee, I wonder.", she said sarcastically. "The vice-admiral-of-the-marines-is-my-grandfather thing."

"Oh that...", Usopp trailed off. "Yeahhh... i don't really know the guy that well."

"It's not a big deal.", Christine shrugged and Zoro nodded as he agreed with her.

Nami turned to Zoro.
"You're his first mate. Kinda seems likr that falls under your job description, hm?"

Zoro grumbled and gave in after a few seconds. "Fine."

He walked away and headed over to Luffy.

Christine turned to Nami and deadpanned.

Nami noticed her look. "What?"

"You just sent the most emotionally dumb person in the world to talk to someone about feelings.", Christine explained bluntly.

"Oh, crap.", Nami realized what she was talking about.

After a few seconds, Zoro came back.
"He seems fine to me."

"Did you even ask him?", Nami narrowed her eyes at him.

"Hey!", Luffy suddenly stood up and went over to them.
"Do you guys smell that? There's something on the breeze.", he closed his eyes and inhaled again.

Christine closed her eyes too anf sniffed the air.
"Wait. I think i do.", she sniffed again.

"Soy sauce... and meat.", he opened his eyes at that last one.

"I can't smell anything.", Usopp frowned in confusion.

"I wonder if his obsession with food has turned into him hallucinating smells.", Nami commented.

"Think he has brain damage?", Zoro turned to Nami.

"I think that every day.", Nami said as she crossed her arms over her chest.