The Chronicle

Chapter 37

“I’m soooo hungreeeehhh…” I whined as I lied on the deck on my abdomen with stuck out tongue, “And it’s getting hooooooott…” I whined again.

Apparently, our food stocks were suddenly disappeared in a night and we only ate breakfast with normal portions for the girls. But of course, it’s not full for me and I was eating my delicacies stocks until it empty an hour ago, and I’m still hungry.

“Now tell me, who is the one that eating all the portions for all of us for our journey to Alabasta?” I heard Sanjii-san asked and I turned my head, seeing my dear big brother and his partner were interrogated by the Cook.

“No, no, no, we don’t know anything about it.” Luffy answered as he was sweating a lot and looking sideway, waving his hand in ‘I don’t know anything’ moves.

“W-woof.” The hybrid replied, also looking sideway.

“Hey, why do you two keep looking away? Look straight into my eyes.” Sanji-san said. “Now, let me ask you once again. How is it that the rations for eleven that I had saved up for our journey to Alabasta suddenly disappeared in the middle of the night?” he asked again before crouching down and grabbed Luffy by his lower face.

“Resistance is futile, you’d be a terrible poker player.” Sanji-san stated while Luffy just grumbling things. Sanji-san stood up before leaned down, “Hey, there’s something around your mouth.” He said.

“CRAP!! LEFTOVERS?!” Luffy exclaimed as he smacked his hands onto his mouth, not realizing his stupidity.

“SO IT WAS YOU!!!” Sanji-san kicked Luffy and Flame away hard before turning to Nami, who was looking at the scene upstairs while I just stared at it with dead eyes because of hunger. “Oh Nami-san! Can you believe that asshole?! You gotta buy me a refrigerator with a lock!” he said with love mode.

“Yeah, now that you mention it…” Nami trailed off as both her and my eyes turned to the other three that were fishing but we saw that they were kind of chewing. “Our lives probably depend on it…” she said.

I stood up as Usopp said, “Gulp… okay, better catch some fish for Sanji-kun.” While Carue just quacked. I smiled sweetly as I approached them and put my hand on Usopp and Carue’s shoulder before slammed them up hard, making them fell down from the railings while I was fuming at them.

“Stupid assholes…” I muttered and lied back down on the deck near the others that were talking about Crocodile, the Shichibukai, which being the hero of Alabasta or some shit like that.

“Ja, I just need to kick his ass right?!!” Luffy asked as he punched the air enthusiastically.

“Yes… first we’ll stop the rebellion. If we can drive the Baroque Works out of Alabasta, my country will be saved.” Vivi said.

“Wait, hold on.” Usopp interrupted, “How the heck does this Baroque Works’ system work, anyways? ‘Mr.’ this, and ‘Miss’ that…” he continued as Zoro wakes up.

“The system is simple. At the top is Crocodile, ‘Mr. 0’.” Vivi started, “There are 14 ‘agents’ who take orders directly from the boss, 13 men and 1 animal. All their names are ‘Mr.’ plus a number. They are paired with female agents who compliment their particular powers.” She continued.

“Mr. 13 and Miss Friday are special in that they punish the other agents for failure. All the agents from Mr. 5 up are called ‘Officer Agents’. Most of them have DF powers. They don’t act unless the business is extremely important. Below them are the frontier agents. They command the basic units. Their job is to raise funds for the company around the entrance to the Grand Line. That is the secret criminal organization ‘Baroque Works’ in a nutshell.” She finished.