37 Chapter 37: I Want To Tell You A Story

Third Person's PoV:

"What language is this song from? I've never heard of it." Nami calmly said as she was enjoying her own delicacy.

"Now that you mention it, I've never heard of this kind of music before either..." Johnny also added his own opinion. His hands, however, were too busy fighting off the cruel rubbery arm.

"You guys can't understand the language...? But you can understa— never mind..." Josh just sighed dejectedly. He was very confused about how this was possible.

With his face scrunched up into an 'I'm thinking' pose, Josh fired his brain cells into thinking for the solution. 'I understand them...they understand me....I can only speak English...they don't understand English..??'

'If that's true, then how come I understand them?' Josh questioned himself. Subconsciously, his hands never stopped to grab another of the so-called "manga meat". They were simply too good to pass up.

[The Host was imprinted with the main language of the world of One Piece upon arrival. After the imprinting, the Host became able to speak and understand Japanese as if it is English. This is probably the reason why the Host didn't feel any difference.]

The system answered Josh's questions. Josh nodded. This definitely made sense...but he had a problem with that.

'Can you stop messing with my mind, body, and soul without permission!? I appreciate some of the things you've done, but we need to draw a line somewhere.' Josh said in his mind. He didn't like the fact that the system just messed around with him whenever it wanted to.

While some of the things the system did without asking were actually beneficial for Josh, it didn't mean the System wasn't invading Josh's privacy.

[If that's what the Host wishes....]

The system replied back with a bit of regret in its voice. Josh just shook his head. If he didn't put a collar around a dog, that dog just might burn down his house.

'You can stop the music..they don't even understand. You know what? Play Bink's Sake.' Josh commanded the system. Josh grabbed another bottle of wine and downed a fifth of it. Just then, the song started changing.

"Yohohoho...yohohoho! Yohohoho...yohohoho!!"

Luffy's ears immediately perked up. This song was a memorable one for every pirate.

While the other song was something new and fresh, a classic like Bink's Sake would be accepted by any pirate in the world.

For the next half hour, the banquet became even more livelier. There was not only eating, drinking, and fighting over food, there was also terrible singing that everyone can only laugh along at.

"Is he still not full yet?" Sanji poked his head out of the kitchen and asked. He had been back to the kitchen multiple times and cooked table fulls again and again. Even Sanji was sweating through his clothes.

"Hahaha...keep'em coming, lover-boy!" Josh shouted back at him. Not caring at all that he could lift offsome of Sanji's burdens.

"We're also out of ingredients....again." Sanji complained miserably.

"Then go get more!" Luffy ordered.

On the other side of the dining table, Zoro was sitting there quietly. He didn't know how to feel when the man he was aiming to defeat as if Mihawk is his sworn enemy was sitting right in front of him.

Zoro wasn't complaining much though, because the food was good and the wine was even better.

After another boisterous half hour of eating, Luffy finally started to show signs of slowing down. Most of the people were already done eating much sooner and were just making conversation.

"I'll take my leave now. Thank you for the food." Mihawk said expressionlessly as he got up from his seat.

He took one last look at the crew before his eyes lingered on Zoro and moved on to Josh. 'These brats...are going to be powerful. Especially that last attack. He made me use 70% of my full power.' He thought.

If Josh knew what Mihawk was thinking, he'd definitely be certain that Dracule Mihawk was related to a talking purple alien cat.

"Tell Akagami that we'll be in Paradise within a week or so.." Josh sent him off with a smile. He was thankful for Mihawk, even though he got his ass handed to him.

Without another word, Hawkeye left the little room and made his way onto his boat and silently drifted off into the abyss of the sea. A faint smile was on his face as he went back to the Grandline in a good mood.

Once everyone settled down from the excitement, Josh looked towards Nami. His expression softened a bit as he sympathized with the girl's plight.

"Nami, do you hate the fish-men pirates?" Josh asked out of the blue.

Without any hesitation, Nami replied with a self assured tone, "Of course I do!"

"Then do you hate pirates?" Josh asked again without pause. Nami had no idea where Josh was going with these questions but she answered anyway with a firm nod.

"Last question, do you hate fishmen?"

This question stunned the girl. Emotions boiled up inside her as she considered these words. The rest of the crew observed curiously at the two conversing people.

"Every fishmen I met were horrible. So yeah, I hate them.." Nami finally answered after some deliberation. She was very honest with her answers.

Her whole life, she had hated those fishmen who oppressed her and her fellow islanders. Deep down, she wished for all of them to suffer a horrible death.

Josh finally got the answers he was not hoping for. This was the real world, there was bound to be some lingering feelings of resentment and prejudice against Fishmen in Nami's heart.

The navigator hadn't experienced the Grandline yet. Nor had she met Camie and Pappagu. She hadn't been to Fishmen Island yet. It was only logical that there would be some sort of ill feelings towards fishmen in Nami's heart. Thus is the way a human works.

"What's going on? I'm not following." Zoro commented from the side. He was truly lost. This was the same for everyone who had no idea about Nami's current situation.

"I appreciate your honesty. I want to tell all of you a story....the story of a hero." Josh relented. This was his true aim all along. He wanted to inform the crew about the story of a particular fishman.

"This is the tale of the 'Adventurer' Fisher Tiger."