Chapter 13: Shooting Alvida Away"Koby, who is the most beautiful woman on the sea?"
A plump, freckled woman carrying a spiked club yelled at a short, chubby boy with pink hair and large glasses.Startled, the boy, named Koby, stammered, "Uh, uh, of course it's you, beautiful Miss Alvida!"
Hearing what she wanted to hear, Alvida laughed triumphantly, then casually sent Coby away to do odd jobs.Only after Coby had walked a distance and made sure no one was around dared to complain, "If I were a powerful Marine, I would have arrested that old fat woman long ago."
Just as Coby was complaining, Luffy and his two companions happened to land behind him.Hearing the noise, Coby turned around and was immediately startled by the sudden appearance of the three people.He asked in a trembling voice, "You, you, who are you?Why did you suddenly appear?"
Luffy looked at the diminutive Coby in front of him and asked knowingly, "My name is Monkey D.Luffy, this is my girlfriend Uta, this is my crewmate Kuina, by the way, who are you?And is there any food on this ship?I'm starving."
After saying that, Luffy, regardless of Coby's wishes, dragged him around looking for food.Uta and Kuina smiled helplessly and slowly followed behind them.After struggling to break free several times, Coby could only be dragged into the cabin by Luffy.Soon, the group found the food storage room.Upon seeing the food, Luffy immediately pounced on it and began to eat heartily.The rest of the group found a clean place to sit down, and Coby began to recount his miserable experiences.Uta and Kuina looked at Coby, who had been working as a errand boy for pirates for so long because he had boarded the wrong ship, with eyes that said, "Luffy-san, why did you fall from the sky?"
Seemingly uncomfortable under the two women's gazes, Coby looked at Luffy, who was eating with great relish, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with me?I set sail to become the Pirate King.As for why I fell from the sky, that's my ability.My crew and I encountered a whirlpool on our ship, so I used my ability to fly.I happened to see a ship here, so I flew over."
"Sea, sea, Pirate King, impossible, impossible, impossible, it's impossible!How could he possibly reach the pinnacle of this great pirate era?He'd die!" Upon hearing Luffy's reply, Coby immediately shook his head frantically, denying Luffy's dream.When Uta heard Coby deny her boyfriend's dream like this, she immediately became unhappy.Just as she was about to do something, Luffy punched Coby to the ground.
"Why did you hit me, Luffy-san?"
Coby covered his face, puzzled, and asked, while Luffy took off his hat and uttered his classic line: "Me?It doesn't matter if I die.I've decided to become the Pirate King, and I don't care if I die fighting for it."
Looking at Luffy's resolute expression, Coby fell into deep thought.After a long while, he raised his head and said, "I've never had such thoughts.Can I even do it?Joining the Navy with the determination to die and capturing those bad guys is my dream, my dream since I was a child.Can I do it?"
Luffy said he didn't know either, while Coby, as if on steroids, declared he didn't want to do menial jobs for the rest of his life anymore.He wanted to escape, become a Marine, and catch villains like Alvida.Just as Coby was confidently preparing to leave, Alvida, hearing the commotion, smashed through the deck and descended from the sky, angrily asking Coby who he was going to catch.The once confident Coby immediately hid behind Luffy, leaving Luffy and the others speechless."This little coward wants to be a Marine?He's such a coward," Uta whispered in Luffy's ear.Luffy shook his head helplessly.In his previous life, Coby was known as the "King of Deserters" in various online games, and his bizarre actions during the Marineford War made netizens extremely disgusted with him.
Alvida looked up at Luffy and his crew and breathed a sigh of relief.Hearing the noise, she thought it was the pirate hunter Zoro.But when she saw the two women behind Luffy, the jealousy in her eyes almost materialized.
"Koby, the most beautiful thing on this vast sea."
Alvida was interrupted by Uta before she could finish speaking.Upon hearing Uta's words, veins bulged on Alvida's face.Uta asked Koby, "Hey, who is this ugly, old, fat woman who looks uglier than a pig?Do you know her?"
The pirates who rushed over upon hearing the commotion gaped in disbelief, barely daring to breathe.They remembered that a new pirate had been beaten so badly by Alvida's spiked club that he was rendered helpless just for saying something rude.Now, this seemingly defenseless girl was saying such things.With this buff stacked up, even a god couldn't save her.
"What are you saying, you brat?Unforgivable, unforgivable!" An enraged Alvida swung her spiked club at Uta.Seeing this, Luffy immediately grabbed Uta, pulled Kuina along, and jumped onto the deck.He then kicked Coby onto the deck as well.Looking at the surrounding henchmen, Luffy had no desire to fight and handed the task over to Kuina.Kuina did not disappoint Luffy, using only a few simple sword moves to cut down the henchmen.
"What?How is this possible?How could the East Blue have a swordsman as strong as a pirate hunter?" Alvida, who had just managed to climb up, was shocked by the scene before her.She couldn't fathom how she had managed to offend such a jinx.Luffy stood before her, hands on his hips, a hint of disdain in his eyes.He looked at her as if she were a frog trapped at the bottom of a well.The other man thought himself powerful, but he didn't realize his true strength.So weak.
"How could a frog in a well like you know how big this world is?" Luffy's voice was laced with sarcasm."No wonder you can only roam freely in the weakest sea, the East Blue!" His tone was firm and confident, as if he had already seen the vast world.The wind blew his straw hat, and his figure appeared exceptionally tall in the sunlight.His companions stood behind him, their faces showing the same disdain and pride.
Alvida's face darkened upon hearing Luffy's words.She straightened up and swung her spiked club at Luffy, determined to kill the boy who had insulted her.However, her attack was nothing to Luffy.He easily dodged Alvida's attack, then suddenly stretched his arm back, shouting, "Withered Wood Withered Wood Fall - Freeze Rocket!"
Before Alvida could react, she was blasted away by Luffy's Gum-Gum Rocket and frozen in place by the accompanying ice power, falling into the sea.Luffy didn't care whether she lived or died.Meanwhile, Coby stared at the scene with his mouth agape, unable to recover for a long time.