"Miss Wednesday is really brave."
"She truly is someone who dared to infiltrate an enemy organization as a spy."
Usopp and Nami on the ship watched Tom and the others disappear into the distance, commenting as such.
"I'm pretty bored too. I'll go for a walk."
Zoro tilted his neck and scratched his head, speaking to Nami and Usopp. He genuinely looked like he had nothing to do.
"A walk?!"
Usopp's jaw dropped at Zoro's words. He truly couldn't understand how Zoro and the others thought. This was clearly a dangerous island, yet they kept going ashore one after another.
"Zoro, wait a second."
Sanji, seeing Zoro about to disappear into the island, suddenly remembered something and hurriedly called out to stop him.
"I forgot to remind that stinking fisherman. If you see any edible beasts, help me take them down and bring them back."
Sanji had been busy preparing bentos for Luffy and Vivi and forgot to ask Tom to bring back other game. Now that Zoro was also going ashore, he asked him to help.
"Got it. I'll take down some beasts you couldn't handle."
Zoro turned and left, throwing those words over his shoulder.
"You, stay right there!"
Hearing that, Sanji couldn't hold back. If he didn't do something, wouldn't it be admitting he was inferior to the green-haired guy?
"What?"
Zoro turned back annoyedly, addressing Sanji on the ship.
"I can't let that slide. You think you can catch bigger game?"
Sanji put one foot on the ship's railing, a cigarette in his mouth, looking equally annoyed at Zoro as he challenged him.
"Obviously!"
Zoro replied matter-of-factly to Sanji by the railing.
Soon, the air between Zoro and Sanji grew thick with gunpowder. If Tom were here, he'd surely come to break up the fight, telling these two amateurs to step aside—with him around, hunting would never be their turn.
"Since the stinking fisherman isn't here, let's have a hunting competition between us!"
Sanji couldn't stand Zoro's I'm-better-than-you attitude anymore and decided to let the facts speak.
"Your luck is pretty good. If he were here, you'd only be third best."
Zoro believed that in pure hunting, he was not as good as Tom, but was absolutely stronger than Sanji. So calling Sanji "third" couldn't be wrong.
"Keep talking. You'll find out who the real third is soon enough!"
Sanji jumped off the ship, saying to Zoro, "Listen up. We're comparing how many kilograms of meat one person can get!"
"You're wrong. It should be tons!"
As Zoro said this, he chose a path completely opposite to Sanji's and headed deep into the jungle.
"Save the big talk for after you bring back the game!"
"You'll be the one embarrassed then!"
After each throwing out a final remark, Sanji and Zoro quickly left.
"Why is everyone like this?!"
"I understand how you feel. Don't cry. I'm on your side."
Nami and Usopp sat back-to-back against the railing, both teary-eyed. No one on the ship listened to them. Now they had all gone off to wander around the island, leaving just the two of them on board, feeling immense pressure.
A beast's roar came from deep within the jungle ashore, shaking the leaves with a loud rustle. Nami immediately screamed: "AHHH!!!"
"You're really unreliable."
As a man, Usopp, seeing Nami so easily scared, was the one with a dark cloud over his head, saying Nami was unreliable.
"That's what I should say!"
As they argued, Nami remembered something. She vaguely recalled reading something about Little Garden in a book before, but couldn't remember the specifics.
So Nami ditched Usopp and hurriedly ran to the bookshelf in her room on the ship, flipping through book after book. But after a while, she still hadn't found the book describing Little Garden.
While Nami searched for information on Little Garden, Tom was on the island having the time of his life.
"Watch this! Panther Cavalry Charge!"
"Whoa! My panther got eaten!"
"Alright, next! Tiger Cavalry Charge!"
"Whoa! The giant tiger got stomped to death!"
"Let's try something else! Mammoth Cavalry Charge!"
"Whoa! The mammoth got bitten to death!"
Vivi watched as Tom rode, in turn, a large panther, a giant saber-toothed tiger, and a mammoth, charging the Tyrannosaurus rex, only for each newly captured mount to tragically suffer the T. rex's brutal mauling.
Despite the string of failures, Tom showed not the slightest discouragement and instead grew more and more excited. Looking at him, he had completely forgotten about her and Luffy, leaving her so shocked her mouth hung open.
With no mount, Tom was chased all over by several T. rexes. In the process, the pursuing dinosaurs trampled countless plants and knocked over many other beasts, making the dense jungle extremely chaotic.
Tom would occasionally look back, using his fishing rod to hold back the T. rex snapping its gaping, bloody maw at him, seemingly testing his strength against it.
This T. rex was extremely ferocious, with a huge, narrow snout. The sharp, slender fangs in its mouth were like shark teeth. Vivi was sure that one bite would mean death or at least severe, crippling injury.
Over six meters tall and nearly twelve meters long, the T. rex's rapid running caused slight tremors in the ground, thudding loudly, its long tail leaving a distinct drag mark.
Vivi also noticed Tom seemed deliberately leading the five T. rexes into shady areas without sunlight, where he then played with them to his heart's content.
Yes, in Vivi's eyes, Tom was playing. He wasn't simply attacking the T. rexes he'd lured, but teasing them back and forth in the shady parts of the jungle.
One moment he'd jump behind a T. rex and fiercely strike its tail with his rod, making it roar in pain and grow more enraged, relentlessly chasing him. The next, he'd trip them from the side, making them faceplant into the dirt.
Even Vivi, a bystander, could clearly feel that Tom was having the time of his life, utterly absorbed.
With Tom temporarily safe, Vivi looked at Luffy, who was constantly jumping from head to head of some Diplodocus. The Diplodocus seemed completely unaware of Luffy's presence, just eating leaves from plants over twenty meters tall.
The Diplodocus was over thirty meters long with a short torso. Its neck was almost as long as its tail. While eating the extremely tall, tender, and juicy plants, it constantly swung its whip-like tail from side to side, smacking away any carnivorous dinosaurs trying to sneak attack.
Vivi originally wanted to call Luffy down, but he said the dinosaur was a herbivore and wouldn't eat him. He stood on its head to enjoy the view, spotting a large crater in the distance that looked like a volcanic crater.
Seeing Luffy and Tom each playing on their own, she temporarily didn't know what to do.
She was still confused about what Tom meant by "Jurassic Park." Why was he so excited, playing wildly like a madman? Did he come to this island just to play with prehistoric animals?
When Vivi came back to her senses, she saw an unbelievable scene: the five T. rexes that had been chasing Tom were now completely exhausted.
Yes, the five exceptionally ferocious, powerfully built T. rexes were now limply collapsed on the ground, unable to get back up.
Vivi didn't see Tom land any heavy blows on them. How did they collapse?
"What did you do to them?"
Vivi rode Karoo over to Tom, curiously asking.
"Because dinosaurs are cold-blooded animals. So I led them into areas without sunlight and kept rapidly draining their stamina, causing their body temperature to plummet. When it drops too low to sustain normal bodily functions, they're at my mercy."
Tom squatted on a seemingly spent T. rex's head, gently stroking it as he explained to Vivi.
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