【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 282 Admiral of the Navy Headquarters

"Wait a minute, you guys are really nothing. You're not listening to me at all. I told you I just came here for a walk. Don't get excited!" Aokiji waved his hands helplessly.

"By the way, you're the one with what's his name? I forgot his name, never mind!"

"How can we just let it go? What are you nagging about?" Sanji and Usopp shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Robin, did you recognize the wrong person? How could this guy be the strongest fighter in the navy!" Usopp turned his head and looked at Robin and questioned. He simply did not believe that such a lazy and confused guy could be the strongest fighter in the navy.

"Hey, don't judge a book by its cover. As a marine, my motto is... lazy justice!"

"As expected, he looks the same as the real person!" Usopp and Sanji complained.

"Anyway, sorry, I'm tired of standing..." Aokiji said as he lay on the ground on his side, and said lazily, "Then let's make it short. I don't want to arrest you, so don't worry!"

"Then leave!" Qi interrupted with a frown.

Aokiji glanced at Qi in surprise and continued to explain, "I came here to find out about Nico Robin who disappeared after the Alabasta Kingdom incident. As I expected, she is with you."

"This guy is so lazy." Sanji complained.

"This kind of arrogant attitude, in a sense, is the behavior of an admiral!" Usopp followed up with a complaint.

"I plan to report your situation to the headquarters. Adding the bounty for one person, your total is... 6 million... plus 7900 million... plus million... Well, forget it, I can't figure it out! Anyway, this is it!"

"Calculate it clearly for me!" Zoro couldn't help but complain.

"Eraser, eraser..."

"Wait a minute, Luffy, stop! Stop!"

"Hmm?" Aokiji turned to look at Luffy, somewhat surprised by the fighting spirit coming from him, as he hadn't done anything yet.

"Let me go, what are you doing!" Luffy struggled and waved his fists. He didn't understand why Sanji and Usopp wanted to stop him. This guy was coming for Robin!

"Don't bring yourself to do that!" Sanji held Luffy down hard to stop him from acting impulsively.

"We can't start first!" Usopp also held Luffy back, and kept admonishing him, "Our opponent is the strongest navy!"

"So what!? Should we just hand Robin over to him obediently!?" Luffy shouted angrily.

"Luffy, don't worry about him." Qi held Luffy's hand and comforted him softly, while staring at Aokiji vigilantly. "Didn't this guy say he was just here for a walk?"

"Ah, that's right, I can't do anything..." Aokiji lay on his side and waved lazily at them.

"In that case, Luffy, let's go!" Qi dragged Luffy to the direction where Merry was docked. "The supplies have been found. Let's go straight back to Merry."

"Hey, Qi, if anyone wants to leave, let this guy leave!" Luffy looked at Aokiji dissatisfiedly. "Get out of here!"

"Your attitude is really bad!" Aokiji said embarrassedly.

"Isn't Luffy still on the Merry waiting for our food?" Qi comforted him. He felt a strong threat from this man. It was too early for them to face an enemy of this level. They should try to avoid a confrontation if possible. If it was unavoidable, he could only think of a way to let Luffy and the others leave first.

"Ah, that's right!" Luffy suddenly realized, then nodded and said seriously, "Since this guy is not here to arrest us, let's go!"

Just as they were about to leave, a voice rang out from the dense forest.

"Are you in the Navy?"

Everyone turned to look in the direction of the sound, and a group of ragged people walked out of the dense forest and knelt in front of Aokiji.

"Who are these people?" Nami looked at the group of people kneeling on the ground in confusion.

"Isn't this an uninhabited island?" Usopp asked puzzledly.

"No, probably the passengers who drifted to this island from the wrecked ship." Aokiji was still lying on the ground, saying lazily, "A month ago, there was a report that a cruise ship was missing in the waters nearby..."

While the group told Aokiji their experiences, Chopper gave them simple treatment and Sanji distributed the leftover food from their barbecue to the refugees.

"On our way back from the gourmet city of Bouchier, our ship collided with a large free-swimming frog. The entire ship was smashed to pieces, and only a few of us survived."

"Frogs can freestyle?" Nami asked in surprise.

"Most frogs can only do breaststroke, right?" Sanji asked puzzled.

"So interesting! I want to see it too!" Luffy shouted excitedly.

"That's the Yokozuna." Aokiji said.

"After going through so much trouble to reach this uninhabited island, we spent a month without food, until we saw a man riding a bicycle on the sea..."

"That's me." Aokiji said lazily.

Everyone looked at Aokiji in surprise.

"Then there's the pirate ship."

"That's us," Nami said with a smile.

"There is an inhabited island not far from here. You should get ready to leave. It's better to get thorough treatment there." Aokiji sat up from the ground and said to the group of people in ragged clothes.

Luffy didn't like this guy who was coming for Robin. When he heard him say this, he immediately objected loudly, "Don't believe what this guy says, he's a navy!"

After a moment of silence

"Is there any problem with this?" the leading refugee finally asked in confusion.

"Ah, that's right!" Luffy was stunned at first, then he suddenly realized, clenched his right fist, knocked it on his palm, and laughed, "That's right, that's right, in the eyes of ordinary people, the navy is the good guys, and we are the bad guys."

"Is this the time to tell jokes?" Usopp knocked Luffy's head and complained.

"Then how are you going to help them?" Qi looked at Aokiji and asked.

"Yeah, you probably don't have a boat. Didn't they say you came here on a bicycle?" Usopp asked.

"No problem!" Aokiji stood up from the ground. "It's not bad to do some work occasionally."

"He certainly can... do that," Robin whispered.

Everyone looked at Robin in confusion and noticed that Aokiji had walked to the edge of the island. He squatted down and put his hand into the sea.

"Stand back a little!"

At this moment, a huge sea monster opened its mouth wide and attacked Aokiji on the shore.

"Danger!!"

"Ice Age!!"

An extremely cold chill emanated from Aokiji's body and flowed to his palms. Almost instantly, the surrounding sea surface began to freeze, forming a huge ice road with almost no end in sight.

Everyone looked at this scene in shock.

"The sea is frozen..."

"Devil Fruit!?"

“This is the strength of the admiral of the navy…” Qi’s face was solemn.

"He is the Ice Man of the Nature-type 'Frozen Fruit'... This is the power of the Admiral of the Navy Headquarters!" Robin was desperate and could not think of any resistance. Sorry... This journey is about to end...