ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ ᴏꜰ ꜰᴜɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʀᴏᴜʙʟᴇꜱ // ᴏɴᴇ ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇ

Chapter 12

Reina appeared behind them all, since they actually held their "chatting" at the Lobby. Standing beside her was Dogra, who more or less understand what the argument is about. After all, he was there with Dadan when Magra appeared and informed them of what Ace and Sabo did.

"Nee-chan!" Luffy's eyes blinked in delight before remembering something, "Is the food done?!" He asked with eyes shining.

*Bam!*

"We're not done talking yet!" Dadan yelled.

Ace, seeing that Dadan actually hit Luffy out of the blue, became irritated though it was obvious that the hit was light enough for a kid. Besides, normal punches has no effect on Luffy.

"Old Hag, don't hit Luffy like that! We already told you that we had no choice! If we didn't fight then we'll end up being beaten! Those kids were annoying anyway!" Ace angrily said, his arms being held by Sabo who started to look at him with a little warning, causing him to calm down a little bit.

Sabo sigh, "Ace, calm down."

Listening to their conversation, Reina laugh, catching the attention of everyone. "Dadan-san, you don't have to worry about it. I'll handle this problem so there's no need to have this argument." She said and smiled, "Breakfast is ready. We don't want to extend anymore than it already is, right?"

Dadan was speechless while the three kids quickly ran off towards the Kitchen, with Sabo bowing politely to Reina before hurrying off and following Ace and Luffy.

"They sure are lively." Reina commented, watching in amusement as the three disappeared from her sight.

Dogra sigh, "They're always like this."

On the other hand, Dadan snap out of her thoughts and looked suspiciously at Reina.

"Why are you doing this?" She asked.

Reina pause and turn to Dadan, a clear understanding written on her eyes. "I consider Luffy as my friend, and I'm also the one who encouraged them to fight this earlier so marked this one as my fault. I'll take a whole responsibility for it."

Her words shocked Dadan and Dogra, who has been chatting with Reina for a while, clearly understand the girl a little now so he just felt a slight surprise but happy that Luffy managed to befriend a very kind person.

Before Dadan could asked further, Reina already goes to the dining room.

"Boss, the food would be gone if you just stand there."

"Damn it!"

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While eating, Reina sat beside Dadan, an amusing smile adorning her face as she watched the three kids compete with the other members of the Fraternity over the food.

"You're not going to eat?" Dadan asked, finally getting comfortable and casual with Reina.

Reina chuckled and shook her head. "I've already eaten on the way here. Makino insists I joined her." She said, remembering how Makino dragged her to eat.

"Is that so." Dadan said before looking blankly at the people who're eating.

Reina hummed and noticed Dadan not eating, just drinking her tea. "How about you, Dadan-san?" She asked, not knowing why the older woman ain't eating.

Dadan sigh, "Don't talk about it." She stated before looking at the group of people that eats wildly like some kind of wild animals. "I doubt that's even enough for them."

Reina, hearing the coming especially from a Fraternity leader, laugh in delight. She's clearly starting to like Dadan. It was obvious that she act like she doesn't care when she deeply do, it was just amusing to watched.

A minute after, Reina watched how Dadan, who was silently sipping her tea, got hit by a piece of meat. Then....

*Bam!*

Yet another piece of meat hit the other side of her face, causing Reina to stifled a laugh, covering half of her face to muffled her laughing.

*Pak!*

When a tea cup suddenly flew and hit Dadan straight on the face, Reina can't hold it anymore as she laugh loudly.

Meanwhile, Dadan became angry as she glared at people responsible.

"Don't waste food!" She angrily said, when a wide mouth suddenly bite her head.

"Wahhh!" Dadan screamed, realizing what, or who, it was. She then started running around yelling, "He's gonna eat me!!!"

Reina's eyes were shining in joy and amusement as she laugh here and then, enjoying the show. It was amusing how Luffy looked like a little rabid dog that hasn't eaten for a month, because he was clearly biting Dadan's head like it was food.

"It seems like you're enjoying this, Reina-san."

Sitting beside her at the empty seat where Dadan was sitting a while ago, Dogra smiled and also watched the scene.

"Rei is okay for me, Dogra-san. After all, I'm just 18." Reina said, chuckling as she glance at Dogra before looking back at the others. "It has been a while since I've been in this kind of lively atmosphere."

Dogra blink and nodded, understanding what it was about. "Worked?" He asked.

Hearing that, Reina smiled sadly. It was just a small and short question, but it held many meaning and she clearly understand it.

"Yeah. My work was stressing, to say the least. After all, I lived alone in my house and the atmosphere has Always been silent and cold for me." She said, staring at the ceiling with a sad smile.

Dogra sigh, but didn't say anything. He looked at the kids and thought, Having such atmosphere being compared in something like this, perhaps it was very sad to realized how lonely it must've been.

Because he was in his own thoughts, Dogra failed to noticed Reina's mouth twitched upward, a small unnoticeably dark smirk made it's way to her face before being replaced by a small smile.

"Though it'll changed......soon." Reina mumbled to herself, laughing Internally as she gazed at the three kids who was eating energetically like wild animals that came out from their cages.

My stress might increase, but it would be an enjoyment to have this kids around.

Even if it meant fighting against Garp.