Chapter 243: Fairy

Chapter 243: Fairy



Cherry was pretty pissed off right now. She didn't reckon that Doflamingo was the type to perv on young girls, so Rebecca's overly revealing armor was probably only meant to humiliate her. She wasn't about to accept any of his excuses, though.

'I need to calm myself...' Cherry thought to herself.

The method by which she would do so was to hunt down one of the 'fairies' that were so well known in Dressrosa. Cherry figured that the small creatures scurrying around with unusual strong life forces was a good bet. There was even one sneaking around the colosseum.

Cherry disappeared in a flash of high speed movement and snatched something small as it tried to scurry past her feet unnoticed.

"Geh! I've been caught by a human!" The small creature cried out.

It looked like a tiny person with a big head and pointy nose, its body was pear shaped and had a bushy tail. The hair and tail were both hot pink and it wore a green sock hat, coat, and pants with little brown boots.

The 'fairy' struggled with all his might in Cherry's grip, but even with his physical strength that was greater than a grown human man's he could not budge Cherry's fingers even a little bit.

"Well, hello there. Aren't you just the cutest?" Cherry said.

"Huh? Do you really think so?" The fairy paused in his struggling and asked innocently.

"Of course!" Cherry assured.

The fairy burst into tears. "The human thinks I'm cute! Even though I'm a man! This is the worst day of my life!"

Cherry was caught off guard by the sudden outburst. She hadn't intended to make him cry, although she secretly thought it was kind of funny.

"Don't cry, I was just teasing you. It's my favorite pastime, teasing strong masculine men." Cherry lied.

"R-really?" The fairy's crying slowed down.

"Sure." Cherry affirmed.

"Oh, so I am a big strong manly man! I knew it! HAHAHA!" The fairy seemed to gain tremendous confidence.

"Yes, and that big strong manly man is currently trapped in the dainty little hand of a weak and helpless woman." Cherry said with a smirk.

"Ehhhhh?! S-so I'm really not a big strong manly man after all...?" The fairy started to tear up again in despair.

"I'm just teasing you again, of course. I'm obviously super strong myself." Cherry smirked. She liked how horrendously naive the little guy was.

Cherry set the little fairy boy down on the ground and gave him a military salute. "Good luck with your mission soldier!"

Meppi made an attempt at mirroring the salute, only for it to look rather odd with his unusual proportions. "You as well!"

Meppi scurried away with remarkable speed for his little legs, Cherry chuckling at the sight. "Right, then." Cherry expanded her Life Sense across the city to find the transponder snail the search and destroy group had on them to fill them in on the factory's location.

Except they had split up. Franky was with Kin'emon heading out of the city... and Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji were inside the colosseum. Because of course they were.

...

Ten minutes earlier.

Rock'em Sock'em's sock jaw dropped when he saw a familiar face hidden behind an obvious fake beard. He didn't know why Luffy was here, but he sure was glad to see him. Also extremely embarrassed, but definitely glad too!

Nevertheless, he wouldn't let this chance slip away. Thunder Thigh needed all the help he could get, his army of Tontatta just wouldn't cut it against Doflamingo and his crew. Rock'em Sock'em straightened his top hat (not unlike a certain pipe wielding blond's) and tuxedo that let him walk about freely, as it was fairly normal for stuffed toys to wear clothing. He also made sure his bandolier of grenades was properly secured under his coat, he couldn't risk someone spotting them.

He approached the group of black coat and bowler hat wearing old men that stuck out like a sore thumb with hasty steps.

"Psst!" Rock'em Sock'em made the classic 'I'm trying to get your attention, but discreetly' noise and tugged at Luffy's shorts.

"Hm? A monkey wearing a monkey suit?" Luffy said, causing Rock'em Sock'em to snort. He knew that Luffy would get the joke.

"Hey, Luffy..." Rock'em Sock'em motioned for him to lean down, then whispered something

into Luffy's ear.

Luffy's face contorted with confusion, embarrassment, and shock. "H-how do you know

that?!"

"Because I'm actually Sabo." Rock'em Sock'em lied.

"Ehhhh?!" Luffy exclaimed, drawing more attention to the group.

"Let's go somewhere more private to talk..." Rock'em Sock'em led him, and the rest of the

curious group of fake old men, into an isolated alleyway.

"Who's Sabo, Luffy? Do you know him? What did he say to you?" Franky asked, thinking

maybe this was something that came before he joined up with the Straw Hats. He looked at Sanji and Zoro and found they were just as ignorant as he was.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om