Chapter 194: Glitter Immunity

Chapter 194: Glitter Immunity



Cherry had been keeping her Life Sense active ever since they had dived below the surface. This was mainly to keep an eye out for sea kings that Takako may have trouble dealing with.

However, something else entered the periphery of her Life Sense's range. It was a smaller sea king followed closely behind by a number of humans. Likely the sea king was pulling a ship along, which incidentally meant they were gaining on the Thousand Sunny at a steady pace.

Most importantly, Cherry recognized one of the human's devil fruit as one of the other pirates that was present at the fake Straw Hats' gathering.

'Does he want revenge? No, why would he want revenge? I made him so sparkly, after all.' Cherry thought.

Cherry sent a command to Takako to take some distance with the Sunny so that she wouldn't be seen when the other ship was in visual range. Wouldn't want to scare them off before they had a chance to make their intentions known, would we?

Cherry returned her attention to the others where Franky had finished explaining why Hachi hadn't been there to guide them to Fishman Island as he had promised and that Bartholomew Kuma had actually saved them and helped to protect the Thousand Sunny during the last two years.

"Eh? Where's the octopus going?" Luffy noticed.

"She must have found something tasty to eat. She'll be back soon enough, she won't go far." Cherry lied.

Nami squinted her eyes in suspicion, so Cherry decided to shift the topic.

"Usopp, come over here." Cherry commanded, pulling a barrel over.

"Huh? What for?" Usopp asked, both curious and a little anxious.

"I'm going to see how diligent you've been with your exercise. Don't think I'll let you off the hook just because you lost all that weight." Cherry said, placing her arm in the position for an arm wrestling match.

"There's no way I can beat you, though..." Usopp lamented.

"Oh, I want in on this." Zoro said.

"If Mosshead is playing then so am I! Also I get to hold Cherry's hand, huhuhuhu..." Sanji said. Thus began an arm wrestling tournament amongst the brawnier crew members.

"Aside from the normal rules, you also can't break the barrel. If you break the barrel, you get to do all the ship's cleaning for a month." Cherry added.

Cherry let Usopp push against her hand with all his might for half a minute before she was satisfied with his progress and ended his suffering instantly.

"I knew I couldn't win..." Usopp complained.

"How about you try against me then, Longnose-kun?" Robin squared up against him with a smile.

Usopp thought about it and accepted the challenge. He knew Robin was stronger than she looked, but he'd grown a lot since two years ago. Surely he stood a good chance against her! *WHAM*

Usopp's hopes of a close match were shattered without mercy as Robin slammed his hand against the barrel with ease. He couldn't even make an excuse like he wasn't ready as they had a countdown and everything.

Usopp's tearful eyes landed on Nami and he thought 'Ah, at least I'm only the second weakest...'

*Whack!*

As if she'd sensed his rude thought, Nami bonked his head.

"Baaah!" Merry tried to cheer him up.

"Merry says that you could beat her at arm wrestling too." Chopper translated.

"Thanks, Merry..." Usopp scratched her chin.

"Oh! Because Merry would be disqualified for not having any arms, correct?" Brook accurately concluded.

that. Least of all a logia type.

"Should we throw him overboard?" Franky suggested.

"Please, no! I'm sorry, I really mean it! I only became a pirate to pay my sick mother's medical bills! Have mercy!" Caribou begged, waving his sleeve arms about and prostrating himself

towards them.

"Oh no! Your mother is sick?!" Chopper believed him without hesitation.

"Don't be stupid, Chopper! He's obviously lying!" Usopp said, having a great deal of

experience in the realm of bad lies.

"Let me ask you, where did you find that sea cow you had pulling your ship?" Nami asked.

"Oh, hello there- GEH!" Caribou was interrupted by Sanji's foot kicking him in the face.

"Stop leering at our navigator and answer the question, you bastard!" Sanji demanded. "We just found it swimming around the area. It's the mark of a pro undersea traveler to have a sea king pull your ship..." Caribou answered.

"Really?!" Luffy exclaimed. "Cherry, you should have Takako pull the ship!"

"No. Takako is a proud princess who would never stoop so low." Cherry stubbornly denied.

"Boo! Stingy!" Luffy childishly complained, before going around the ship in search of a sea king that would satisfy his standards to pull the future king of the pirates' ship.

...

"What the hell is wrong with you, you damned sea cow?! You left Big Bro back there all alone!" Caribou's younger brother, Caribou, shouted in panic.

Momoo the sea cow didn't hear anything he said though. He was too caught up in his own

panicked state to listen to them.

*SWOOSH*

A colossal deep blue limb shot up from beneath and wrapped around Momoo. A second followed immediately after and wrapped around the ship.

They were brought over to the creature's face where its gigantic eye observed them with cold disregard, like a man might do to a group of ants.

The pirate crew shook in fear at the sheer immensity of the beast. Only one word could escape

their quivering lips.

"""KRAKEN?!"""

The tentacle that was gripping the sea cow that was frozen in terror and the one holding the

ship started to pull the two apart, until the ropes binding the sea cow to the ship's bow

snapped.

The Kraken casually tossed the ship aside and swam away with the sea cow, which was presumably its next meal.

The pirate crew's collective heartbeat gradually calmed down and they thanked God for sparing their lives, the first and only time they have ever genuinely prayed.

Takako on the other hand, gleefully forgot all about them and started swimming back to Cherry with the sea cow she was asked to grab for her.