Chapter 223: Cabernet's Biggest Fan

Chapter 223: Cabernet's Biggest Fan



"Wow! It really is a winter wonderland over there!" Luffy said, admiring the view of the snow covered mountain on the other side of a boiling and freezing lake. "How are we going to get across this lake, though?"

"An impossible task." Cabernet nodded her head sagely.

"..." Robin stared at the winged woman and her captain, incredulous at their obliviousness.

"We can just fly over-" Zoro suggested before blocking a kick from Sanji.

"How dare you suggest that a lady should carry a mongrel like you! Are you even a man?!" Sanji raged.

"Hm? What's that?" Luffy pointed at the top of a ruined building where something that looked like a large light green bird sat.

The creature spread its wings revealing itself to be some kind of half-bird woman that had a sinister smile on her face. She flapped and began flying away.

"Hey! I have wings too!" Cabernet said, suddenly flying parallel to the bird woman beneath her.

The woman nearly jumped out of her skin in fright, she hadn't even seen Cabernet move! She made panicked evasive movements in an effort to put distance between them. Terrifying her further, however, Cabernet didn't even change her relative position to herself. It was like the both of them weren't moving at all.

"What's your name I'm Cabernet- Woah!" Cabernet said.

She transformed her wings into freezing blades and slashed at Cabernet. They were far away from the others in the group, so the bird woman tried to be a bit heavy handed in her methods of losing Cabernet.

"Cold!" Cabernet exclaimed, blocking the attack with her arms. The feathers left shallow cuts on her skin.

"What?!" The bird woman was shocked. As far as she could tell, Cabernet hadn't even used haki to defend herself, yet her feathers that were sharper than most swords barely did a thing to her.

Cabernet swung her arms to grab at her. The bird woman was too slow, but Cabernet's arms passed through her body as it turned to snow on contact.

"That's cheating!" Cabernet complained.

'I can't run because she's too fast. I can't attack because she's too tough. I can't even drain her strength by lowering her temperature because damned Lunarians are said to be able to live in extreme environments of any kind, and that's assuming she didn't just fry me first!' The bird woman, Monet, found herself in a real pickle.

"Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry about that, you startled me!" Monet said with an apologetic smile.

Cabernet, who was rearing for a fight, stopped. "Huh?"

"This is all just a big misunderstanding. I'm actually your biggest fan! Not too many winged ladies around, I'm glad you're giving us such a good name." Monet praised.

The group of odd centaurs firing upon them were quickly set upon themselves by an angry rubber man, chef, and swordsman who just so happened to be in need of winter clothes as well. Unfortunately for the centaurs, they were wearing winter clothes and had just fired upon those three men's companions.

"Where did they come from?! I'll take care of them my- OOF!" A massive crocodile centaur with a brown beard said, before he was bashed in the back of the head by a headbutt from a

golden-fleeced ram and knocked out cold.

"Baaaah!" Merry gave an adorable war cry.

"Yohohoho! You've become quite fierce, my ovine friend!" Brook laughed and joined the fray.

Seeing their boss get done in by a sheep of all things didn't help the centaurs' morale in the slightest. Those that remained immediately gave up and dropped their weapons, raising their arms high in the air in fear.

Those among the centaurs unlucky enough to wear the same size coats as the Straw Hats were deprived of them and left to fend off the cold with their own skin.

"If you feel cold you can cuddle together for warmth." Cabernet suggested helpfully.

The centaurs could only hold their tongues when they wished to complain. Cabernet had burned through three coats with the flames on her back before giving up.

"Hmmmm..." Luffy hummed in thought. "I want to use this guy as a horse, but Merry knocked

him out..."

The centaur he was talking about was the large brown bearded crocodile centaur, named Brownbeard surprisingly. He was actually already awake, but he was pretending in an attempt

to escape these whack jobs.

"Perhaps if we set his beard on fire, he'll wake up?" Robin offered darkly.

"I've just woken up!" Brownbeard exclaimed aloud, his terrible acting not fooling anyone

except Luffy and Cabernet.

"Shishishi! Perfect timing, you can be our taxi service!" Luffy chuckled.

"It's not a taxi service if we aren't paying him." Zoro remarked.

"Sure it is. We aren't paying because we're pirates, not because he isn't a taxi service." Sanji

retorted.

'I'm a pirate too, damn it!' Brownbeard wanted to cry.