🔶 POV: Alex (Infinite Hotel)
Luffy's words hit me like a spiritual punch to the soul.
"I might have found the One Piece."
In THAT voice.THAT tone.The seriousness of a man discovering the meaning of life…over the smell of food.
I stare at him.
The Straw Hats stare at him.
Naruto stares at him.
Goku stares at him.
And I—I break.
I lose it.
Not just a chuckle.Not a snicker.
I LAUGH.
I LAUGH SO HARD I WOULD BE CRYING IF I HAD TEAR DUCTS.
But—before laughing like an absolute lunatic—I flick a thought, and the drool flood covering the floor vanishes instantly, leaving the marble spotless.
Because yes:apparently their drool had accumulated knee-deep despite being in an infinite extradimensional space.
I'm not dealing with that.I'm laughing, not drowning in multiversal idiot saliva.
And Luffy—Luffy stands there dead serious, tears streaming down his face, looking like he just solved the greatest mystery in his world.
It's too much.
My laughter echoes through the lobby, bouncing off ceilings twenty stories high.
The Straw Hats are horrified.Naruto is confused.Goku thinks I'm happy about food.
And I can't stop.
This is the funniest thing I've ever experienced in two lifetimes.
🔶 POV: Kakashi
I step inside the lobby—and stop dead.
Naruto is drooling.Goku is drooling.That straw-hat boy is sobbing about treasure.The air smells like heaven.
But none of that is what grabs my attention.
No.
What grabs my attention is the ten-foot-tall faceless giant in a suit laughing like a maniac, echoing like a demon in an opera hall.
"…Naruto," I say slowly."What. Did. You. Do."
Naruto looks at me, tears streaming down his face from the food smell."I didn't do anything, Kakashi-sensei! It just smells so good!"
I sigh.
Today is going to kill me.
🔶 POV: Sakura
I march in—ready to drag Naruto out by his jacket—and immediately freeze.
Naruto is drooling like a wild animal.That straw-hat kid is crying harder than he did at Merry's funeral.Some orange-gi maniac is smiling at the ceiling like the food smell answered all of his existential questions.
And in front of all of them—the faceless giant is LAUGHING HYSTERICALLY.
I point at him.
"H-HEY—STOP LAUGHING! THIS IS SERIOUS!"
The giant doesn't even notice me.
Great.
First Naruto walks into a death trap.Now I look like the only sane person in a room full of idiots.
🔶 POV: Jiraiya
I expected traps.Explosions.Curses.Illusions.
I did NOT expect a sentient hotel entity laughing itself to death because some rubber kid declared he'd found the One Piece through SMELL.
I slowly take out my notebook.
This is going to be a long research project.
🔶 POV: Bulma
I'm a scientist.A genius.
I've seen time travel.Aliens.Androids.Alternate timelines.Gods.
But THIS—THIS is absurd.
A building with infinite interior space.Impossible architecture.Smell waves stronger than Capsule Corp's air purifiers.And a faceless avatar LAUGHING like he found the equation for comedy itself.
I rub my temples.
This is going to be complicated.
🔶 POV: Chi-Chi
Goku teleported us across the continent for FOOD.
Now some giant is laughing about something I don't understand.
I'm too tired for this.
🔶 POV: Vegeta
I walk in, arms crossed.
I see:
Kakarot drooling
Another idiot in a straw hat crying over treasure
A blond ninja boy vibrating from hunger
Their adult handlers losing sanity
A giant faceless monstrosity LAUGHING like a deranged god
I stare for five solid seconds.
Then I say:
"…I hate this place."
🔶 POV: Piccolo
This is… problematic.
The spatial distortion is unreal.The energy signature is untraceable.The being laughing is not alive in any conventional sense.I sense no malice, but infinite potential.
This will require caution.
A lot of it.
🔶 POV: Nami
I walk in behind the others—and the smell hits me so hard I nearly fall backward.
But THEN—
I see Luffy.Crying.Sobbing.
"…I found the One Piece," he said.
I cover my face.
"He's serious. The idiot is SERIOUS."
I'm going to strangle him.
🔶 POV: Sanji
I smell it.
This food…
It's beyond gourmet.Beyond art.
I drop to my knees.
"…Whoever cooks here…Whoever they are…They're a GOD."
Then I see Luffy crying and nearly throw him across the lobby.
🔶 POV: Robin
Fascinating.
A dimensional structure that laughs.
Reality is beautiful today.
🔶 POV: Zoro
I stare.
"…I wasn't drunk enough for this."
🔶 POV: Alex (final beat)
The laughter slows.
I straighten my suit.Look down at the sea of horrified adults—
and politely say:
"Welcome to the Infinite Hotel."