vncnus Chapter 278 Scars
Chapter 278 Scars
Luffy, who was playing the tickle game with Usopp and Chopper, noticed Lucci's gaze and grinned, "Lucci, come on!"
"No." Lucci refused, handing the drink in his hand to Luffy, and distributing the other drinks to Usopp and Chopper.
"You should play with us." Luffy grinned, not caring about Lucci's rejection.
"No." Lucci refused cruelly, turned around and prepared to leave the deck and find a suitable place to take a nap.
"Eh? Why not play?" Luffy chased after Lucci with a drink in his hand, chirping, "Stay and play with us for a while!"
"Luffy, don't you want to play anymore?" Usopp drank the drink in his hand and looked at Luffy's back in confusion as he chased after Lucci.
"No, I want to play!" Luffy responded immediately, turning to look at Lucci and said in a dilemma, "But I want Lucci to play with me!"
Lucci sighed heavily, turned around and looked at Luffy helplessly, and demanded, "Don't play that."
"Sure!" Hearing Lucci's request, Usopp immediately jumped up and shouted, "I have a new game!"
Usopp seemed to be ready for this, and clearly wanted Lucci to just stay, because as he spoke he quickly pulled out two decks of cards from his pocket and held them up to indicate that this was a new game.
It turned out to be a new game! Luffy excitedly pulled Lucci, Usopp, and Chopper together, curiously listening to Usopp introduce the rules of the game.
Soon the game began, it was a special card game. Several people sat on the deck and made a lot of noise, which attracted Sanji who was originally being attentive to Nami and Robin. Zoro and Ki were not affected at all. One continued to sleep soundly, while the other was staying in the lookout to observe the route and dozing off. Robin was still reading quietly.
Nami did come over and play a few rounds with them, but she disliked the fact that their card games did not involve any money, and felt that there would be nothing to gain from winning, so she stopped playing and continued to enjoy her sunbath, occasionally discussing with Robin some interesting news published in the newspaper.
Chopper looked at the card game on the ground curiously. He didn't understand how Luffy and the others played it, but as he saw more and more slips of paper on Luffy's face, he gradually realized that Luffy seemed to be losing.
Lucci looked at the increasing number of notes on Luffy's face and felt helpless. Unexpectedly, Luffy's card skills were so bad that even if he secretly fed him cards many times, it was of no avail. Soon, his forehead, cheeks and chin were covered with notes with funny patterns on them.
In the end, Luffy was kicked out of the game. After all, winning against him was too easy, which made people lack the joy of victory. Besides, there was no place to put his face.
Luffy, who was kicked out of the game, could only sit next to Lucci indignantly, blowing the piece of paper stuck on his nose out of boredom, and occasionally putting his head on Lucci's shoulder, trying to teach him how to play cards, but without exception, he was completely ignored.
Luffy glared at the cards in Lucci's hand with dissatisfaction, then stretched his neck to try to peek at Sanji's cards, but was pushed away by Sanji. He then turned to look at Usopp's cards, trying to disrupt the game.
Luffy, who was blocked again and again, looked at the game that was about to end with boredom. He stood up and looked around the deck, and finally stopped his sight on Lucci with a bright smile on his face. "Hey, Lucci, let's have a sparring match!"
Lucci turned to look at Luffy in confusion, not understanding why he suddenly asked for a sparring match, and then realized that he was just too bored and couldn't wait to find something to do.
"Can you control your strength? Otherwise the fight will damage the ship." Qi jumped down from the observation deck and just saw Luffy asking Lucci to spar with him.
"Of course I can!" Luffy puffed up his cheeks and questioned with dissatisfaction, "I will definitely control it and won't hurt Merry!"
"No, fighting can hurt Merry! You should think of something else to do, such as..." Usopp hurriedly stopped him, trying to divert Luffy's attention "Such as... telling a story! Yes, that's right, tell a story! Luffy, let me tell you a story!!"
"story!?"
"Yes, when I was a child I met a giant starfish on the beach..." Usopp told Luffy a story while playing cards.
Luffy was immediately attracted and completely forgot about his previous proposal. He looked at Usopp expectantly. He liked Usopp's stories.
Usopp saw that Luffy was completely absorbed by his story, and he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. His plan was successful, so he devoted himself to the story even more, vividly describing the unreal plot. "In the end, I killed the giant starfish with my powerful slingshot!"
"Wow! So cool!" Luffy and Chopper looked at Usopp with admiration with starry eyes.
"Only an idiot would believe such nonsense." Sanji complained, "Besides, this is not cool at all."
Lucci looked at the excited Luffy with amusement, his eyes involuntarily lingering on the fishbone-shaped scar under Luffy's left eye. He had noticed the scar on Luffy's face a long time ago, but when he truly understood the characteristics of Luffy's rubber fruit, he realized that it was a serious wound.
His fruit allows all his wounds to heal quickly, and his rubber skin won't let him get scars easily, unless it's a very serious injury. Thinking of this, Luffy frowned, "Luffy, how did you get the scar under your eye?"
The air suddenly became quiet for a moment. Nami, who was still talking to Robin the previous second, stopped the discussion and turned to look at Luffy when she heard Lucci's question. Even Zoro, who was sleeping soundly, seemed to breathe more slowly.
Luffy blinked in confusion, then a very bright smile appeared on his face and he said proudly "I cut this myself when I was a kid. It's my way of showing Shanks that I'm strong!"
"It doesn't hurt at all!" Luffy added.
"You cut your face to prove your bravery?!" Lucci looked at Luffy in disbelief.
"Right!" Luffy blinked and nodded without hesitation, completely unaware of how shocking his behavior was.
The air was silent for a moment, and the next second the Straw Hat Pirate screamed "Idiot! What are you thinking!?"
"Idiot!" Hearing Luffy's admission, Lucci lost his usual calmness. "How could you stab yourself like that in that position?! What if you hurt your eye!? You could lose your eye, or worse!!"
"Yeah! Luffy, how could you think that kind of thing is a good idea!" Usopp shouted in disbelief.
Sanji looked at the proud smile on Luffy's face, took the cigarette out of his mouth, and said through gritted teeth, "That idiot didn't realize the danger of his actions!"
"Can you be any more idiotic!?" Nami yelled at Luffy with her shark teeth bared, she couldn't stop the panic she felt at the thought of them possibly losing Luffy before they even knew him.
"Of course he did." Zoro deadpanned.
Qi also frowned and looked at Luffy, and said seriously, "Luffy! Don't do things that hurt yourself to prove something in the future!"
"Hey! I'm fine!" Luffy put his hands on his hips and looked at everyone who was angry, including the angry Lucci, who he had already assured him and didn't understand why he was worried about it again.