37: Chapter 37 Icarum's Request"Mr.5, Miss Valentine, what are you doing?Aren't we comrades in Baroque Works?" Miss Wednesda suppressed her fear and tried to appear calm.Hearing Vivi's words, the two burst into laughter as if they'd heard something hilarious.After laughing enough, Miss Valentine wiped away her tears of laughter: "Hahaha, comrades?Don't make me laugh.How could we be comrades with a princess of such high status?You think we wouldn't know you joined Baroque Works by hiding your identity?You're sorely mistaken.From the beginning, the boss knew your identity.The reason he didn't expose you was just to play with you.He sent the Unlucky Duo to kill you, but the boss didn't get any news and sent us to check.And guess what?You survived!Those two good-for-nothings must have met their end.With your and Mr.9's strength, you couldn't have killed them.You must have done it, Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates."
Luffy didn't answer, which was taken as tacit agreement with her statement.Icarus, who had been severely injured earlier, stubbornly stood up and stood in front of Vivi.He pulled on the ropes on both sides of his hair, revealing six machine guns hidden inside, and said firmly, "Princess Vivi, you should run away.Let this old minister hold them off."
After saying that, Icarum charged towards Mr.5 and Miss Valentine without hesitation.He frantically pulled the rope, and the machine gun spat out countless tongues of fire.Vivi watched sadly as Icarum covered her escape.For her country, Vivi suppressed her grief and whistled.A giant duck came running from the shadows, ready to carry Vivi to the port, but Mr.5 blew it away with a booger.However, Mr.5 controlled the power, only causing them minor injuries, as there were still some questions to ask.As for the heroic Icarum, he wasn't so lucky.After being blown away a second time, he rolled his eyes and passed out.After dealing with the situation here, Mr.5 said to Luffy and Zoro, who were about to leave to wake up their companions, "You think you can just leave so easily after killing our Baroque Works people?Shouldn't you pay a price?"
Both men were extremely confident in their abilities.Mr.5 was a user of the Blast-Blast Fruit, capable of exploding any part of his body, while Miss Valentine was a user of the Light-Weight Fruit, able to freely manipulate her weight between 1 kilogram and 10,000 kilograms.They had long heard of the Straw Hat crew's exploits, but in their eyes, it was nothing more than child's play.Mr.5, not wanting to waste any more words, simply pulled a booger from his nostril and flicked it at the two men – a classic "Booger Fantasy Cannon."
"A weight of 10,000 jin"
The two, who had killed countless enemies with this move, were extremely confident.However, their usual trick was easily dodged by Luffy and Zoro.Seeing their deadly attack evaded, the Booger Man was somewhat incredulous and kept flicking boogers from his nostrils at the two.The two kept dodging, and the loud noise of the booger bombs hitting the ground woke up the sleeping Straw Hat crew.Seeing the firelight in the distance, everyone was startled and rushed towards Luffy and his crew with their weapons.After Luffy dodged countless boogers, he finally lost his temper and used his "Shave" technique to appear in front of Mr.5, who was still picking his nose, and delivered a blow to him with Gum-Gum Vulcan Gun.Mr.5, after being hit hard, coughed up a mouthful of blood and passed out.Miss Valentine, seeing her partner injured and still fighting Zoro, panicked and floated onto Luffy's head, using her weight to.The weight was adjusted to maximum and slammed down on Luffy at incredible speed.Luffy shifted to his left, and Miss Valentine brushed past him, crashing to the ground.Just as she was about to get up and continue fighting, Luffy punched her unconscious.Icarus, who had just woken up on the ground, saw Luffy easily defeat two chief commanders from Baroque Works and was utterly dumbfounded.He couldn't believe what kind of monster he had intended to fight.At that moment, Luffy's crew arrived and were nearly shocked by the horrific scene before them.After Luffy explained, they realized they had fallen into a trap.Just as they were about to leave, the weakened Icarus suddenly stopped them, kneeling down and respectfully pleading, "Straw Hat Luffy, I have a favor to ask, and I hope you can help me."
"Since it's an unreasonable request, then let's not say it, so as not to make everyone uncomfortable." Ignoring Ikarum, whose CPU was practically smoking, Luffy went straight to Vivi, who was slumped on the ground, and with acting skills worthy of an Oscar, pretended to be surprised and said, "Oh, not bad.I didn't expect that the assassin who used to do odd jobs on my ship would actually be a princess of a country.Since your status is so illustrious, why did you fall so low as to become an assassin?Is it because your family doesn't like you?"
Upon hearing Luffy's words, the girls immediately conceived millions of words of a novel in their minds.Vivi bit her lip, unwilling to answer Luffy's question.At this moment, Icarus limped over to Luffy and knelt down again, pleading once more, "Straw Hat Luffy, I would like to ask you to help me send Princess Vivi back to her country, Alabasta, and to help the princess defeat Baroque Works."
Nami stepped out from behind the group and asked, voicing her doubts: "So what exactly is this Baroque Works organization?Why is a princess like you involved, and why are you asking us to help you defeat it?"
Looking at Icarus, who was groveling and begging for help, and thinking about the chaotic state of her own country, Vivi finally spoke up to explain to everyone, "Baroque Works is founded by the Seven Kings."Crocodile, one of the Warlords of the Sea, built a large criminal organization.My country suffered a three-year drought due to the side effects of using a forbidden substance called "Dancing Powder" in a neighboring country.He then framed my father, the King of Alabasta, for this, leading to a rebellion among the unsuspecting populace and a major war with the royal army.This war plunged my country into chaos.Crocodile, the mastermind behind it all, was hailed as a national hero for defeating pirates attempting to invade Alabasta.My reason for risking my life to infiltrate was to uncover the truth.Now that the truth is clear, I want to return to my country quickly, inform the people, and stop this unnecessary war."
As they spoke, Vivi broke down in tears, unable to contain her emotions.Faced with the weeping princess, Icarus didn't know how to comfort her, and could only look at Luffy with hopeful eyes.Usopp and Nami, upon hearing that the leader of Baroque Works was a Shichibukai, desperately tried to dissuade Luffy.They didn't want to fight one of the World Government's most notorious pirates so soon after entering the Grand Line."Helping you isn't impossible, but you must understand that I'm a pirate, not a benevolent person.If I help you this time, we'll be facing a Shichibukai, so you'll have to pay a corresponding reward.I don't ask for much, 1 billion Berries.That way, we'll not only safely return your princess, but we'll also definitely defeat Crocodile and destroy his Baroque Works.How about it, isn't this a good deal?"