Read the spoiler for new One Piece chapter. I don't know if it is an April Fool joke or real. But GOD DAAMNNN IMU....
ODA IS COOKING.
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Nami's smile froze mid-bite, her fork hovering inches from her lips. "Yeah, I'd love to—wait, what crew member?"
Luffy grinned at her with all the innocence of a child who had just found a new toy. "A pirate crew member, of course! You're going to be our navigator!"
The pasta never made it to her mouth. Nami's eyes went wide, first with shock, then with something that looked very much like a volcano about to erupt. "NO WAY!!" She spun around to face Zoro and Yuji, jabbing her finger at them. "I thought you guys were bounty hunters!"
Zoro blinked, opened his mouth, then closed it.
"Bounty hunters?" Luffy tilted his head like a confused puppy. "But we're pirates." He said so simply, so matter-of-factly, as if he had just announced that the sky was blue. "Yuji and Zoro are my crew."
Something behind Nami's eyes shattered.
She jumped to her feet before anyone could react, shoving her plate away so forcefully that pasta scattered across the table like wounded soldiers. A few noodles fell to the floor with soft little plops. "Hmph! Then I want nothing to do with people like you!"
Yuji stared at the pasta on the table, the pasta on the floor—the pasta that someone, somewhere, would have killed for.
His jaw tightened. "If you're mad, fine. Be mad." His voice was quieter than he intended. "But don't throw away food that was given to you for free. There are people outside these walls who haven't eaten in days—weeks. They'd crawl through fire for what you just dumped on the floor."
Nami flinched as if she had been struck.
For a moment, something flickered across her face, something that almost looked like guilt. But she buried it beneath years of armor, turning her head away with a huff.
"Whatever." Her cheeks puffed out in a childish display of anger that didn't quite reach her eyes. She turned to Luffy again, and this time her voice trembled at the edges. "The thing is—I hate pirates. No, I despise them. From the bottom of my heart." Each word came out harder than the last, like hammer blows against a wall. "Pirates are nothing but worthless thieves who don't care about anything. They kill. They murder. They do it for fun." Her face had turned red now. "They're so cruel they can kill a mother right in front of her children and laugh about it!"
The words hung in the air like smoke.
Luffy stood perfectly still.
Very slowly, he reached up and took off his straw hat, placing it on the table with the kind of care most people reserve for precious treasures. When he looked up, his eyes held none of their usual wild energy.
"I see." His voice was soft, almost gentle. "I get it now."
Everyone stared.
"It looks like..." Luffy's gaze never left Nami's face. "You got unlucky."
Nami's anger flickered, then turned to confusion. "What!?"
"You met a bad pirate." Luffy said, as if explaining an illness. "A really bad one. I can tell, this bad pirate did something terrible to you. That's why you hate us." He paused, thinking carefully about his next words. "But not all pirates are bad. Shanks and his crew? They're good pirates. They only became pirates for adventure and parties."
Nami's mouth opened, then closed, and opened again.
"Wha—what kind of stupid logic is that!?" she exploded. "Bad pirates? Good pirates? There's no such thing! Pirates are pirates, and they're all evil! That's just a fact, you hear me, you stupid—"
She pointed at Yuji and then at Zoro. Her hand trembled.
Then, she stormed out.
The door slammed shut behind her with a satisfying crack.
Zoro exhaled slowly. "Well." He scratched the back of his head. "That was something." He glanced at Yuji. "So... what now?"
Yuji was still staring at the door through which Nami had disappeared, then he shook it off. "We go take on the Buggy Pirates. Simple."
Luffy, who had already pulled Nami's abandoned plate toward him and was systematically devouring the remaining pasta, rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Or..." slurp "...we could find Nami..." chew chew "...and bring her back to join us."
Zoro's eye twitched. "You idiot! She just literally said that she wants nothing to do with us!"
"Yep." Luffy grinned, sauce on his cheek. "But I've already decided, she's going to be our navigator."
Zoro opened his mouth to argue, then closed it. He opened it again but finally just shook his head in defeat. Arguing with Luffy was like arguing with a brick wall—except the wall was dumber and somehow more stubborn.
Yuji chuckled at that, but then suddenly, the entire restaurant exploded.
One moment, Yuji was sitting in a restaurant. The next, he was flying through the air, debris swirling around him in a hurricane of wood and glass. His back slammed into something hard—a wall, perhaps, or the ground; he couldn't tell.
When his vision cleared, he found himself staring at the sky through a haze of dust.
Cough. Cough.
He pushed himself up. The restaurant, what remained of it, lay in ruins around him. A long, straight trail of destruction stretched through the town like a scar, with buildings collapsed on either side and smoke rising from a dozen different spots.
"Luffy!" Yuji's voice was hoarse. "ZORO!"
Movement to his left caught his attention. A figure emerged from the debris, coughing violently and clutching a straw hat to his head.
"OI! YUJI!" Luffy's eyes went wide as saucers. "Where's Zoro? Where's Zoro?"
They found him.
Or rather, they found his legs.
The rest of Zoro was buried beneath a particularly large chunk of rubble, with only his green hair visible above the debris. For a dreadful moment, Yuji's heart stopped.
Then Zoro's leg twitched.
"AHHH! ZORO!" Luffy shouted as he grabbed Zoro's legs and pulled.
Zoro emerged from the rubble like an angry cork from a violently shaken bottle, spitting out dust. "Argh... dammit." He rubbed his head, wincing. "What the hell just happened?"
Yuji pushed a ceiling beam off his shoulders and stood up, testing his limbs. Everything was still working. He moved toward them, checking for injuries. "You two okay? Are you hurt?"
"Just a headache." Zoro grunted.
"I'm okay!" Luffy announced, grinning once again.
Yuji sighed with relief and looked around as the dust finally began to settle. However, his relief soon turned into something colder.
The trail of destruction stretched in a perfectly straight line through the town, with buildings reduced to splinters and the ground itself torn up.
"This is..." Yuji's voice dropped. "This must be the Buggy Cannon."
Luffy's eyes lit up. "Wow! Look at all the damage!"
"Nothing to be amazed about something that almost killed us." Zoro's voice dripping with irritation.
Yuji shook his head. "Remember what Nami told us: Buggy used this cannon to destroy an entire village. No ordinary weapon could cause this much damage."
Something shifted in Zoro's expression. His eyes sharpened, the irritation replaced by something far colder. "Then we take down Buggy the Clown. Fast."
Luffy settled his hat back on his head and grinned. "Then let's do this."
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They ran.
The trail of destruction guided them like a bloody fingerprint, leading straight to the heart of town—toward the plaza, toward wherever Buggy was.
Yuji's feet pounded against the cobblestones. "Luffy! Zoro and I can handle the crew. That Buggy guy is your problem!"
"Fine with me!" Luffy's grin remained unwavering.
Yuji spoke to Zoro. "I'll take the first mate. You take the second mate. Sound good?"
Silence.
Yuji frowned. "Zoro?"
Nothing.
He looked back.
The road stretched empty behind them—no green hair, no three swords, no grumpy swordsman.
Yuji stopped.
Luffy skidded to a halt beside him, looking around in confusion. "Huh? Hey, Yuji, where did Zoro go?"
Yuji just stood there, mouth open, his brain refusing to process what he was seeing.
"For crying out loud." The words came out strangled. "We were running in a straight line. How—how do you get lost running in a straight line?"
Luffy's jaw dropped. "WHAT? Zoro got lost?"
"Yes!" Yuji grabbed his hair. "Yes, he got lost! We need to find him before he ends up in another ocean!"
He pointed down a side street. "Luffy, you go left. When you find him, grab him by the back of his shirt and drag him to the plaza. That's where Buggy will be."
Luffy nodded seriously and gave a thumbs-up. "Got it! Where will you go?"
"I'll run back and see if that idiot somehow made a U-turn into a different dimension!"
They separated.
Yuji ran.
The wind screamed past him as he pushed his body harder and faster, the ground cracking beneath each step.
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He found something.
Not Zoro.
A voice shouted with desperate fury.
"ARGHHHH! DON'T YOU DARE HARM CHOUCHOU, YOU PIRATE BASTARD!"
Yuji veered toward the sound.
The scene that greeted him stopped him cold.
A massive lion—with green fur and a purple mane, easily the size of a small house, reared back on its hind legs, paw raised to strike. Before it stood an old man clad in makeshift armor, a pathetic-looking spear trembling in his hands. In front of him, barely larger than a loaf of bread, a small white dog stood its ground.
Growling.
At the lion.
On the lion's back sat a man wearing a fur vest and an animal-skin hat, his face twisted in cruel amusement. "Well, well. What do we have here?" He leaned forward, savoring the moment. "A pathetic old man, protecting a dog and a store? Aren't you the mayor of this town? What's your name... Noodle... Doodle..."
"It's Boodle, you freak!" the old man's voice cracked with defiance.
"Whatever." The lion tamer waved a dismissive hand. "I'm Mohji, Buggy's first mate. They call me 'The Lion Tamer.'" He nodded toward the store behind the dog. "My friend Richie here is hungry. That pet food store looks like the perfect place for a snack. So move."
The little white dog, Chouchou, growled louder.
Boodle raised his feeble weapon. "Back off, pirate. This is my best friend's store—Chouchou's treasure. I won't let you put a single scratch on it."
Mohji laughed.
"Richie." He pointed. "Get them."
The lion roared.
Its paw came down—
And then stopped.
Yuji stood behind the beast, one hand wrapped firmly around its tail. The lion strained against his grip, confused and unable to move.
"Not so fast." Yuji's voice came out calm. "You overgrown house cat."
Mohji's eyes went wide. "Wha—"
Too late.
Yuji spun around.
The lion and its rider became a blur, the tail serving as an improvised handle as Yuji whipped them in a complete circle. Once. Twice. On the third rotation, he slammed them into the ground.
The impact cratered the street.
Dust billowed into the air.
When the smoke cleared, Mohji lay sprawled in the depression, his eyes spinning. Beside him, Richie the lion whimpered once before going still.
Boodle stared.
Chouchou stared intently.
Yuji dusted his hands off.
"H-how..." Boodle's voice trembled. "Who... who are you?"
"Yo." Yuji offered a small wave. "Name's Yuji. Hey, have you seen a guy with green hair? Like, really green? Carries three swords. Looks permanently annoyed?"
Boodle blinked. "U-uhh... n-no."
Yuji sighed. "Of course not. That would be too easy." He walked toward the unconscious Mohji, hoisted him onto one shoulder like a sack of potatoes, then grabbed the lion's tail with his free hand and began dragging him.
"Wait!"
The old man's voice stopped him.
Yuji looked back.
Boodle stood there, trembling, tears welling in his eyes. "Why? Why did you help us? I don't know you, and you don't know me. So why?"
For a long moment, Yuji simply looked at him, the old man who had been willing to die for a dog and a store, and the little white dog who had stood up to a lion.
He smiled.
"You don't need a reason to help others."
Then he turned and walked away, dragging an unconscious lion behind him.
Behind him, Boodle repeated the words like a prayer: "You don't need a reason..." He looked down at Chouchou. "Do you think the same thing, my boy?"
Chouchou barked.
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BOOM
Yuji's head snapped up. In the distance, near the plaza, a massive fireball soared into the sky, followed by a cloud of dust large enough to engulf entire buildings.
He was moving before the sound had finished echoing.
Mohji bounced on his shoulder, while Richie the lion bounced behind him, dragged by the tail. Neither of them seemed to mind.
Yuji burst into the plaza.
And then stopped.
Destruction.
That was the only word for it. The entire plaza had been devastated, buildings collapsed, cobblestones torn up, and smoke rising from a dozen craters. In the center of it all lay a massive cannon in pieces, its barrel twisted and broken.
"YUJI! YOU FINALLY MADE IT!"
Luffy's voice.
Yuji spotted them off to the side, Luffy waving enthusiastically; Zoro leaning against a wall with his arms crossed; and behind them, Nami, pale as a ghost and trembling like a leaf.
"What the hell happened here?" Yuji demanded.
Luffy's face split into an enormous grin. "Oh, oh, you should have seen it, Yuji! That Boogie guy blew up the whole tavern with his Bunny Cannon!"
"Buggy." Zoro corrected flatly. "It's Buggy."
"Bunny, Boogie—same thing!"
Yuji pinched the bridge of his nose. "How did this happen? Explain everything from the beginning."
Zoro shrugged. "Well, after you two got lost—"
"We didn't get lost—you got lost!"
"Whatever. After we got separated, I found the witch here trying to sneak into Buggy's treasure vault." He jerked his thumb toward Nami, who flinched. "Then some guy with a weird haircut showed up—Cabbage, I think? Said he was the second mate. He attacked for no reason, so I took care of him."
"Took care of him?" Yuji raised an eyebrow.
"Knocked him out." Zoro's expression unchanged. "But the fight made noise, and more pirates showed up. I took care of them too. By the time I was done, I ran into Luffy running toward the plaza. We met up here, and that's when the clown showed up."
Luffy nodded enthusiastically. "He was SO MAD, Yuji! His face turned bright red, like his nose, and he yelled a lot. Then he fired this HUGE cannon at us!"
"I thought we were dead." Zoro admitted. "But then Luffy here..."
"Bloated himself like a balloon!" Nami's voice cracked as she finally spoke. Her eyes were wide and unfocused, still trying to process what she had seen. "He bloated himself like a balloon and deflected the cannonball!"
Luffy beamed. "It bounced right back! BOOM! Right into the Boogie!"
"Buggy." Zoro sighed.
Yuji processed the information. He looked at the destroyed cannon, then at Luffy's innocent grin, and finally at Nami's traumatized expression.
He dropped Mohji to the ground.
"Well." He gestured to the unconscious first mate and the lion. "I found Buggy's first mate. He was bullying an old man and a dog, so I took care of them."
Luffy peered at the lion with fascination. "Whoa! Is that a real lion?"
"Was." Yuji corrected. "Now it's a very large, very unconscious house cat."
Luffy giggled softly.
Zoro smirked. "First mate, huh? With this, Buggy's crew is finished, just the clown left."
Behind them, Nami's legs gave way.
She hit the ground like a sack of flour, her body trembling, her eyes fixed on the three men before her—three men who had casually dismantled a pirate crew, three men who had survived a cannon blast to the face, three men who—
Luffy had inflated like a balloon.
Zoro had cut down hundred pirates as if they were nothing.
Yuji had dragged a lion away.
"Wh-what..." Nami's voice came out as a whisper. "What are you people?"
Luffy looked at her, tilted his head, and grinned.
"Pirates."
Nami's face turned pale.
"M-monsters." She breathed. "You three... you're absolute monsters."
Luffy's grin grew even wider.
"Yep! And you're going to be our navigator!"
In the distance, somewhere amid the rubble, a very angry clown began to stir.
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