Once they understood the plan, Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro quickly donned their bubbles, excitedly moving their limbs, ready to launch a full-force attack on the Kraken.
Orochimaru merely yawned listlessly, not even glancing at the three of them.
"Nami, I'm going back inside to rest for a bit. The rest is up to you guys!"
Nami's eyes immediately widened, and she shrieked, "Luffy, wait! What's wrong with you three? You haven't even tied your safety ropes! Don't go! Come back!
Orochimaru, you too! Don't be sleeping at such a critical moment! Honestly! All of you are so willful!"
Orochimaru rubbed his somewhat sore eyes. Indeed, he still disliked low temperatures. Although he had mostly overcome it, he still felt a bit drowsy... But had he forgotten something... Never mind... It's not important.
Orochimaru burrowed under the covers, closed his eyes, and contentedly drifted into dreamland.
Under the Kraken's fierce attack, the sunny plummeted directly into the descending current, and the surroundings were instantly enveloped in endless darkness.
At this moment, Caribou seized the opportunity of the sunny's deep crisis, quietly transforming himself into a blob of mud, and, like a loach, hid inside a wooden barrel in the corner.
He secretly gloated in the barrel.
"Hehehe... This is perfect. The monster trio fighting the Kraken aren't here. In this deep sea, only wearing a temporary bubble and then being thrown out... they're basically confirmed dead."
Franky, who was walking downstairs, heard a faint movement from the barrel and stared intently at it.
Caribou was still lost in his thoughts, continuing to scheme.
"Although it's a pity I couldn't get the Straw Hat's head, cutting off the heads of these guys will also prove that the Straw Hat is dead. Hehehe."
Franky slowly leaned over without making a sound, watching Caribou, who was smirking to himself in the barrel, from the side.
Caribou, completely unaware, was still happily fantasizing.
"But don't rush, Caribou, you need to be patient. If I kill them all here now, this ship won't be able to move.
Their navigation skills are pretty good, though. Once the ship reaches Fish-Man Island, that will be their death day.
However, the first mate and the two women can be kept; they'll definitely fetch a good price.
Hehe, although I don't know why the Donquixote Family isn't really into human trafficking anymore, he definitely has connections. With some networking, I might just make a fortune."
Franky blinked, staring intently at the mud-like Caribou. Caribou, who was smirking, seemed to sense something, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Franky staring at him.
He silently squatted down... collected all the mud into the barrel, slowly put on the lid, and pretended not to exist.
Franky instantly pulled out a wooden hammer and nailed the barrel shut.
"Found you!!! Do you think I'm an idiot!!!"
Caribou couldn't help but scream, "No!!!"
Brook looked at the barrel in confusion, "How did he get in there?"
Franky's face was solemn, "We were careless. If this guy wasn't an idiot, we would have been in danger.
His body can liquefy like mud, losing its original form.
It seems this thing is actually a Logia type. It just occurred to me, Orochimaru should have blinded him, right? Yet he's perfectly fine. He must have used his elemental form to dodge it... He must have been pretending to be hit earlier, deliberately letting us catch him."
Caribou kept jumping inside the barrel.
"Let me go!! Let me out!! Big brother in the swim trunks! I'm willing to be your servant! Let me out!"
Franky couldn't be bothered to listen to Caribou's excuses and casually threw him into the storeroom.
When Orochimaru woke up again, he was violently thrown awake. Yes, thrown awake. He had slammed directly into the main door.
Orochimaru pushed the door open, rubbing his eyes as he walked out, his mind still a bit fuzzy. "What happened? Did the sunny sink? Ugh, this light is so dazzling..."
Orochimaru, who had slithered out in his half-snake form, shielded his eyes with his hand, staring blankly at the scene before him. "Sunlight?"
Luffy excitedly pointed upwards and shouted, "Hey! Everyone! Come quick! Look up! Look up!"
The group covered their eyes, trying to look up. Usopp, shielding his eyes uncomfortably, looked up and said, "It's too bright, I can't see anything."
"Hey, Nami! Is that it?" Luffy looked in that direction with an excited expression.
Nami looked at the log pose, smiling exceptionally brightly: "No doubt! The pointer is pointing to that island! That's Fish-Man Island! It's surrounded by a giant bubble, and there are even clouds inside! There might even be air!"
The group excitedly discussed Fish-Man Island. Orochimaru also reacted, taking out his long-unused system camera and starting to take pictures.
"This is truly magnificent... An island at the bottom of the sea... A never-before-seen landscape."
Orochimaru's heart couldn't help but ripple with emotions, giving rise to many feelings.
It wasn't until this moment, witnessing Fish-Man Island, that he truly realized he was in another world.
After all, in the world of Hokage, such a peculiar sight could never exist. This completely unfamiliar landscape before him undoubtedly clearly indicated that he had stepped into a brand new world, entirely different from his past.
Orochimaru suddenly narrowed his eyes and smiled (*ฅ˘ฅ*)
"Ah... I'm really looking forward to it... Fish-Man Island... I wonder what new and exciting things there will be."
Luffy saw Orochimaru's silly smile, paused for a moment, then said seriously,
"Orochimaru... I think you shouldn't be looking forward to it. For some reason, I always feel like you're going to cause trouble."
Orochimaru's laughter abruptly stopped, as if someone had suddenly choked him. He glared at Luffy through gritted teeth, almost transforming.
Nami quickly ran over, grabbed Orochimaru's arm, and tried to mediate,
"Well... well..., don't be angry with him. He's just an idiotic Captain."
However, Luffy seemed to think of something else and put on another idiotic expression ( ˭̴̵̶͈ ᐜ ˭̴̵̶͈ )
"Ah... I'm really looking forward to it... What kind of meat will be in Fish-Man Island's cuisine?"
Nami, with a shark-like face, punched Luffy on the head.
"You two really are brothers! How do you have the nerve to mock Orochimaru with that look on your face!
Hurry up! Wake up your 'Little Squid' (meaning the Kraken)! Make it take us to Fish-Man Island!"
As Nami spoke, several sea beasts suddenly appeared, claiming to be the New Fish-Man Pirate Crew.
For some unknown reason, Luffy suddenly became childish in the conversation, sticking out his tongue at the group of Fishman.
"Idiot! Why should we become your subordinates!"
Orochimaru looked at Luffy's strange face, his mouth twitching, and punched Luffy on the head again.
"You're hideous!! What are you doing! Where's your Haoshoku! Just deal with them! Don't waste time!"
No sooner had Orochimaru finished speaking than the air suddenly compressed, a huge impact came, and the sunny soared into the air, the group being slapped onto the deck by bubbles.
Orochimaru lay spread-eagled on the deck, his mind blank for a moment... What happened?
Soon, the sunny broke through the outer bubble of Fish-Man Island and plunged into the seawater.
Orochimaru had only one thought at this moment... He was going to kill Franky.
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