Chapter 356 - Bonney's response.

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Third Person POV

Sabaody.

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The Straw Hat crew was in Shakuyaku's bar at the moment, having arrived without alerting anyone, with the ship hidden in the air among the trees thanks to Bepo's power, while everyone was gathered around talking to Rayleigh about the war. Bartolomeo was turned to stone in the middle of the place.

"Why is this person still turned to stone?" Kuina complained, looking at the man with a strange expression.

"We should save him, does anyone know the cure for petrification?! Lami?!" Chopper exclaimed, but Lami wasn't paying attention, fighting Reiju in the middle of the bar.

A bottle broke in the middle of the place while Shakuyaku watched due to the fight between the two women. "You spilled a good whiskey, so that'll be 1 billion berries," he announced.

"What do you mean 1 billion berries?!" Nami immediately exclaimed with a grimace.

"Hey, uncle. You really were in the Pirate King's crew, Ace's father?" Nearby, Lucy was looking at Rayleigh while drinking.

"You could say that... and you left the marines to become a pirate to save your family, you're very brave," he commented.

"Yes, I wouldn't let Ace die! Shishishishi." Lucy said with a smile.

"What a noise, this is too much for a god..." Enel complained nearby, while Hugo stood next to him with crossed arms. Domino was also quietly in a corner.

"Catch this!!!" Usopp was throwing a rubber ball for Chouchou to fetch in the middle of the bar.

"WOOF!" Chouchou was playing without any issues, picking up the ball before bringing it back to Usopp.

"Hahahaha." Yamato was laughing at the counter.

"They seem to be having a lot of fun..." Robin said, sitting next to him.

"How long will it take for Luffy to get here... they'll destroy the bar before he shows up and that woman won't charge cheap..." Nojiko commented.

"Hm?!" Vivi near the window was startled when a huge finger touched her from behind, and she looked at the window with the finger sticking out while a huge eye appeared, with Shirahoshi looking at them from outside the bar.

"There's someone here wanting to speak to Luffy-Sama..." Shirahoshi announced.

"Someone wanting to see Luffy?" Alvida commented, going to see who it was.

"Where's the meistre... I prepared these delicious explosive cookies!!" Baby-5 murmured, crying, while her food was getting cold.

"How scary!!" Bepo exclaimed.

"Nee... that doesn't look very good, maybe you should use Takoyaki." Hachi suggested.

"Hey, don't give her ideas!!" Usopp shouted.

Alvida appeared with a pink-haired woman walking firmly on the ground. "Where is Straw Hat?!" She demanded, as if losing her pride.

"I don't know... Luffy must have gotten lost on the way." Zoro responded, drinking alcohol while everyone looked at him strangely.

"Don't forget to pay 2 billion for the sake, swordsman-san," Shakuyaku requested.

"Hey, you're trying to rob us!!!" Nami exclaimed furiously at the bar woman, while she smoked without caring about it.

"Luffy will be here soon, he has the Eternal Pose to the island." Nojiko responded.

"Alright... I'll wait for him!" Bonney said, sitting in a place while looking to the side with a huge eye staring at her.

"I always liked looking at your hair, it looks so much like mine. Bonney-sama." Shirahoshi commented.

"Don't stare at me like that..." Bonney was slightly startled by the giant mermaid.

It was a moment later that Usopp and Enel sensed something with their observation haki before everyone else. "Luffy is coming!" Usopp exclaimed while it didn't take long for the others to feel it, and the next moment, someone descended from the sky landing in front of the bar with Shirahoshi beside him.

"Finally we're back..." Luffy commented with a smile, looking at their destination finally found.

"Luffy-Sama!!" Shirahoshi immediately exclaimed to Luffy, while he opened a smile.

"Hello wife, we'll soon be home and you can have a space to gather with everyone." Luffy said while placing Rebecca and Monet on the ground.

"Hey, what is this?!" Nami immediately looked at Luffy with an unsatisfied tone. "I'm seeing 1, 2 women with you, not 3!! You damn womanizer!" She exclaimed angrily.

"I only brought important people for our crew." Luffy said and pointed to Ceasar in a slightly defeated state chained up. "I brought a scientist, an assistant, and a princess," Luffy declared.

"Who is this marine woman?!" Vivi also appeared, looking suspiciously at Luffy.

"LUUUUUUUFFFFFYYYYYY!!!" Lucy exclaimed from the door, her two arms stretching out to grab Luffy.

She approached a moment later, placing her face against Luffy's cheek until she noticed someone behind him. "Wait, this is Zion!!" Luffy was surprised.

"It's Gion, Lucy," Luffy said, laughing.

"Anyway, how are things, everyone?" Luffy asked them.

"We arrived early in the morning on the island and have been waiting for you since then," Yamato replied, after they had left Fish-Man Island and returned to the surface with a small farewell from the fishmen.

"That's good, we just need to do a few more things, and then we'll head to Skypeia," Luffy said, satisfied, and started to walk. "Now let's go inside, I need to drink something," he said, leaving Monet, Caesar, and Gion tied up outside the bar while he entered.

Luffy walked into the place with most of his crew and was surprised to see someone he didn't expect to be there. "Wait, is that Bartolomeo? What's he doing here?" he said, surprised, seeing a petrified man. "Wait, is Hancock here too?" he asked, not sensing her presence.

"That's not what happened," Usopp said. "He just showed up here, then started exclaiming all our names and suddenly turned to stone," he said with a confused tone.

"Luffy, do you think this is a disease?" Chopper immediately asked.

"No, no, he'll be fine," Luffy shook his head and said before slapping the statue on its back.

"And you're going to kill him like that?!" Chopper shouted, closing his eyes, but it was too late.

The slap on the statue immediately undid the transformation, leaving everyone shocked as the green-haired man fell to the ground.

"Hm?! I was having the best dream of my life, where I saw the Straw Hats in a bar I randomly entered..." Bartolomeo began to murmur but didn't give up on his dream and got up, looking around. "Where are the Straw Hats?" he exclaimed, still thinking he was dreaming.

He turned his face and found someone he didn't expect, Monkey D. Luffy, in front of him, who looked at him indifferently, seeing this peculiar pirate who was supposed to be his fan with this kind of reaction.

Bartolomeo looked at Luffy speechlessly for seconds while everyone watched the scene in the bar, and suddenly, he turned to stone once again.

"He turned to stone again!!!" everyone shouted simultaneously.

"What a strange guy..." Luffy began to laugh. "Leave him be, he's just a fan," Luffy said in the end.

"That's a fan?" Kuina murmured, surprised.

"To me, he's a subject," Enel said.

"Woolf!" Chouchou went next to Bartolomeo and peed on his stone foot.

"You peed in my bar, 500 million in damages," Shakuyaku warned.

Luffy laughed a little and approached the counter. "Give me a good alcoholic drink, Shakuyaku," he requested while the woman brought a bottle of whiskey.

"That'll be 5 billion berries," she demanded.

"Hey, hey," Luffy murmured, but in the end, he drank.

"Master, I made these Takoyaki," Baby-5 approached with a loving expression, handing the food to Luffy after Hachi suggested making them.

Luffy thanked her and ate with the drink, before his mouth exploded, inflating his cheeks, and he only let out smoke from his mouth without any damage. "It's not as good as Hachi's, but it's an explosion of flavor," Luffy said in the end.

"I'm glad you liked it, master," Baby-5 said, placing her hands on her cheeks like a lovesick girl.

"Rebecca, this man is dangerous!" The soldier who entered the bar with his daughter saw Luffy's relationship with the women and immediately disliked it.

Rebecca was speechless, seeing that strange crew.

Then, unaware of the thoughts of these last two, Luffy turned his attention away from Baby-5 and looked to the side where Rayleigh was drinking. "Have you thought about what I said?" he asked while the older man smiled.

"Yes, I will go with you," he said in the end, and Luffy smiled, satisfied.

"Great, now... first of all, let me introduce our new crew member on the main ship. This is the princess of Dressrosa, I kidnapped her, and next to her, her father, turned into a toy," Luffy said, leaving everyone a bit surprised.

"Why did you bring a princess from Dressrosa, Luffy?" Nojiko asked, but unlike her sister, she was just curious.

"It's simple because I desire Dressrosa as our territory in a year, and when we take down what's left of the Donquixote family, we'll enter a war against Kaido, and at that moment, I want to have someone from that country as a member of my crew, like most of our territories," Luffy declared. He also had plans for Viola but would leave that for the future.

Then Luffy began introducing everyone to the new crew member. They started talking among themselves for the next few hours, while he finally noticed the girl in the corner of the bar next to Domino, looking at him like a hawk. He sighed and stood up. "Come, Bonney, let's talk," he said and began to walk away. Bonney followed him a moment later as they moved a bit away from the bar to talk.

"Can you really save my father? Besides, your crew members beat him up. I hope he's alive; otherwise, I'll kill you!!" Bonney accused, and Luffy just smiled, seeing only a daughter wanting the best for her father.

"He'll be fine. After the war we fight in Wano, we'll go to Egghead, where we'll find the cure for your father with Dr. Vegapunk, and I promise to do everything in my power for that," Luffy declared, and despite her frustration, Bonney looked serious before nodding, trusting Luffy's words.

"And Joyboy, are you really serious about that?" she couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, but she's not ready for it yet. But in a year, I'll make sure Joyboy is finally in this world," Luffy said.

"Why don't you say who it is once and for all?" Bonney looked at him with suspicious eyes.

"It's still a secret," Luffy declared.

In the end, Bonney nodded, and a system message saying Bonney was officially a member of his crew appeared in front of Luffy.

'More pink-haired women,' Luffy thought, now having five of them in his crew.

"That's great. You have a crew here, right? I'll ask Bepo to accompany you to your ship, and he'll bring you flying back here," Luffy said, and Bonney nodded.

Bepo ended up leaving with Bonney shortly after, heading to her ship. In the end, Luffy still chatted a bit with his crew while the festive atmosphere returned to normal, as always, the same atmosphere that had started since the beginning of their journey, in East Blue, to this point.

It was only after some time, with Bepo arriving with a ship picked up from one of the docks with Bonney and also bringing a ship with Luffy's face on it, along with Bartolomeo's crew, as Luffy had asked his Mink, that they began to prepare to depart. Black Pearl started descending at this moment. In the end, everyone began boarding the ship, including the official crew, Rayleigh, and a petrified Bartolomeo.

"Ahh, help me!!" Caesar exclaimed, but Hugo was taking him to the prison while Reiju ended up taking Monet.

"Mugiwara!!!" Gion woke up at this moment while Luffy approached her.

"Here you're safe," he said, while the woman looked at Luffy, confused.

"Zion!!" Lucy also exclaimed, seeing her awake while waving cheerfully at her.

"Lucy, did you really leave the Marines?" she murmured, while Lucy, already over such things, just stuck her tongue out at her.

Her gaze fell on Luffy. "Why did you bring me here?!" She saw him approaching until he got close enough to cut her ropes and hand her sword back, leaving the woman stunned and confused.

"I brought you from the other world precisely so no one would hurt you. Here you're safe. You can return to the Marines, Bonitinha," Luffy said, leaving Gion speechless next to Shakuyaku, smoking a cigarette, watching Luffy jump onto the ship as it began to take off to the sky along with all the other ships that belonged to Luffy.

Now their next stop was Amazon Lily since they were going to remove the entire island from the location while more than seven ships departed, flying from this Sabaody towards the Calm Belt.

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