Chapter 457: Drunken Dragon

Chapter 457: Drunken Dragon



Cherry let out an impressed whistle. "That's one big danger noodle..."

She got a few exasperated looks for that. Nami even said, "Would it kill you to be serious? Just sometimes?"

"It might?" Cherry replied. "If I was being serious right now, then I'd already be over there trying to hack Kaido's head off."

"Absolutely not!" Kin'emon chimed in. "If you are going to get yourself killed pointlessly, at least do so the day before the raid so that any wounds you deal to him will be fresh and weaken him!"

"Hey now, I wasn't the one suggesting I go fight Kaido. That was Nami," Cherry deflected.

"I was NOT!" Nami half shouted through gritted teeth, as if afraid that Kaido would overhear her.

"Was too," Cherry said. "Anyways, I wasn't planning on fighting Kaido. Like, at all."

"What?" Kin'emon's eyes widened, much to Cherry's amusement.

"I'm not going to hold my captain's hand all the way to the end of the world. He picked this fight, so he can fight it himself," Cherry explained casually.

Cherry was only a little surprised to see Jinbe nod immediately in understanding. "The future king of the pirates cannot be cowed by a mere emperor."

"You can't be serious!" Nami objected.

"Oh, so I have to be serious, but Jinbe isn't allowed to be? So unfair," Cherry muttered.

"I'm sure that Luffy can beat him," Brook said.

"I don't doubt that he can beat him!" Nami threw her hands up in exasperation. "But we're pirates! Pirates don't have to fight fair and honorably! We should gang up on the overgrown lizard and be done with it!"

"I agree with Cherry and Jinbe," Sanji said, startling Nami. "This is about reputation as much as freeing Wano. No one will respect Luffy if he wins like that."

"W-well..." Nami found it difficult to argue with that. She turned to the person in question in some vain hope that he wouldn't do something so reckless, except... "Luffy...? Luffy? Luffy?!"

Luffy was not where he had been standing, but charging down the mountain towards the town.

"Luffy-dono!" Kin'emon called after him, but it was too late.

"Damn it, I'll go after him! Everyone else stay out of sight!" Law said before giving chase.

"Haaah, there he goes..." Cherry sighed. "This probably won't end well..."

"Well, then why don't you go stop him?!" Nami demanded.

"Luffy isn't stupid; at least, not that stupid. He can learn from his mistakes," Cherry said. "I guess I'll stick around awhile to make sure he doesn't die, though..."

and sleep.

-

"What the hell, man?!" Cherry complained. "I go through all the trouble of not fighting Kaido, and the bastard blasts us all for shits and giggles!"

Cherry meandered over to a hole in the ground where she sensed her friends hiding. "You all

alright down there?"

"Just peachy," Pedro replied.

"I saw my life flash before my eyes!" Brook exclaimed. "Or I would have-"

"If you had any eyes. Yeah yeah, we get it," Nami said, clearly in a bad mood.

"Oh, that's funny!" Shinobu said. "It might have been funnier if the delivery was better,

though."

Brook glared at Nami. Or he would... if he had any eyes.

"More importantly, are you alright dear? You stepped away before I made the hole!" Shinobu

called up.

"No big deal. I was going to block it completely if you hadn't dug in the way you did, but fortunately I didn't need to draw attention to myself," Cherry replied.

"Ah, okay..." Shinobu said, wondering just how strong this younger woman was to casually claim she could block a blast that blew the top off a mountain. "As long as you're fine."

Cherry turned to look at the town again just in time to see Luffy's elephant gun smash into Kaido's head. "Luffy just punched Kaido."

"Nooooo...!" Nami held the sides of her head in her hands. "Why is he so reckless!"

"How is it looking?" Jinbe asked.

"Well, Kaido's getting back up like nothing happened, so... bad?" Cherry scratched her chin. "Luffy's running back here, the fool. We're either fine or all dead, so pay attention to the fight

you started!"

'Hm? Is that the horse lady?' Cherry squinted her eyes at the scene. "I gotta go, guys! That Speed chick got taken out somehow, so I need to make sure Tama is okay!"

Cherry was off, no longer to be seen at the top of the hole.

"Who's Speed and Tama?" Chopper asked.