ONE PIECE : ENDLESS ADVENTURE

Chapter 36: Family

Nami was reading a book about navigation at her armchair quietly. Next to her was a small empty barrel with a tray of juice and snacks on it. Nami took a sip of the orange juice and sighed in content.

What a wonderful, peaceful day.

The weather was just fine, not too hot but perfectly warm for a relaxing sunbath. The scent of laundry in the air combined with the warm sunlight and gentle breeze perfectly, made a person relaxed both physically and mentally with such comfortable atmosphere.

Everything was perfect only if the background wasn't full of yelling and shouting and also baby crying. Nami sighed frustratingly for the 10th time this day.

"Oi Mina! Take care of Ace while we go to hunt!"

The tall woman with curly orange hair came out from the house with a crying baby in her arms. Nami took the baby and held him carefully expressionlessly, watched the group of people left the house one by one.

Nami sighed to the crying Ace in her arms, held him gently and slowly moved her arms, trying to lure him into sleep. She hummed a lullaby quietly and watched him yawned adorably and closed his eyes slowly, snuggled closer into the warmth of the navigator.

How on earth did a talented navigator ended up babysitting? That's a long story.

Made it simple, Nami sent the baby Ace back to the owner of the house when everyone thought the baby was lost. When she appeared in front of everyone with the baby in her arms, she was immediately being accused of kidnapper.

After some explanation and fist of love, everything seemed to be settle. However, when Nami decided to leave, Ace would clench on her tightly. Even though the others dragged him away, he always manage to escape from them and chased after Nami.

At the end, Nami had no choice but to stay in the house in order to get Ace stay in the house safely. She had no complaint about that after she heard the name of her captain's brother. This might probably be a good chance for her to know more about the past of the idiotic brothers.

During her stay, Nami found out Ace seemed adored her very much. According to Dadan the orange-haired boss's observation, Ace didn't cry a lot usually but after he met her, he would cry whenever she wasn't nearby. Every time Nami held Ace, he would stay quiet and behaved well, even looked adorable for those who took care of him for long time and knew how troublesome he really was.

Nami adjusted her position and let Ace slept peacefully in her arms while she continued her reading. Whenever he had the signals of waking, Nami would move her arms slightly and hummed the lullaby.

However, the noises created by Dadan and the others had destroyed the hard work of Nami. Ace woke up and frowned slightly to the noises, hid his face into Nami's chest.

Nami closed her eyes and took some deep breath in order to conceal the urge of punching someone and left a bad role model for baby Ace. She brought Ace back to his room and put him on his little bed, smiled to his giggles.

"Mina! Go to cook the dinner for us now!"

"10,000 Beli for each meal."

This kind of conversation happened ever since Nami moved in this house. The mountain bandages knew how to cook, of course, but they didn't care much about the taste as long as the food was eatable.

Once they tasted the food Nami cooked, they all grew addicted to the delicious taste of food. For the first time they realized the importance of the taste of food.

Dadan gritted her teeth and took out 10,000 Beli from her wallet unwillingly, passed to Nami. Although she didn't want to spend so much money to this young girl, the food she cooked was real damn good that she had no choice but paid for the cooking fee.