That was fast

Luffy had fired the front-facing cannon into the sea directly in front of the Merry.

The recoil in combination was capable to slow the ship down enough that only the lamb-head that served as figurehead broke of and no further damage befell the ship.

Of course it wouldn't be Luffy if he didn't immediately make everything worse. In this case by taking it personal and hurling insults and his fist at the whale.

The Merry was smaller than the whales teeth. You knew, because that's how it reacted to Luffy hitting it in the eye.

By opening its maw, causing the Merry to be sucked in.

Inside the whale you met the lighthouse keeper.

“WE HAVE A CANNON AND WE'RE NOT SCARED TO USE IT!!!”

After he had beaten a fishman in almost a fair fight you had expected Usopp to gain some confidence. But right now he was screaming and taking cover behind Zoro.

STARE

“You shouldn't or somebody might die”, the man in the house on the island in the stomach of the whale answered calmly.

I couldn't really blame Usopp for being nervous though. While the whale had swallowed us, Luffy had gone overboard and just a few seconds ago this odd man had harpooned a giant squid, before it could sink the Merry.

Add to that, that this man had an intense way of projecting his presence. To you it was similar to the way Zeff and Mihawk had done it, though on a level that the others, too, could feel it.

“And who exactly do you think will go down?”, Sanji asked with a grin.

STARE

“Me, most likely”, the old man admitted freely.

“Just who are you, old man?”, Zoro wanted to know.

STARE

“It's rude to ask others, before introducing yourself.”

“Of course I am Ro-”

“My name is Crocus, I'm the lighthouse keeper of the twin-cape-lighthouse, I am 71 years old, my bloodtype is AB,...”

And like that we got to know each other, when the whale decided it was time to fight the world.

Crocus jumped into the stomach-acid to dive for a ladder and a small door leading deeper into the whale.

And then, just as you neared the exit, a door was flung open and three people came falling through.

The first one, of course, was Luffy. At this point you had decided to no longer be surprised about such things.

The other two were different. One was in what could be described as a king-costume and had the number nine drawn on his cheeks.

The other one was a blue haired girl wearing a coat and a shirt with a white-blue spiraling pattern. You considered her a girl because even though her body was obviously... well developed, you could also tell, that she couldn't be much older than Nami.

They than tried to kill the whale, when the old man came back. You really tried to stop them, but knocking their guns off mark wasn't really helpful, when you were inside the mark. It was good, that you stood there, what from the outside must've appeared to be in shock, because the old man caught the bullets with his stomach.

His intense aura wasn't for nothing. He took that attack, that was supposed to kill this giant whale and invited you for tea as soon as Luffy knocked the attackers out.

What followed immediately derailed my plan of not being surprised with all matters Luffy. A bit of context: The quakes we had felt inside the whale, Laboon, were because he banged its head against the Red Line. he was banging his head against the Red Line, because he had come to this spot 50 years ago with a pirate crew, that from what Crocus had heard had attempted to leave the Grand Line via the Calm Belt. Laboon of course had a hard time accepting that and so he was trying to break down the Red Line, so he could see them again, which would surely kill him, since as good as a doctor Crocus might be, there was only so much he could do when his mountain-sized patient decided to swim head first into rock.

This was where Luffy came in. His plan to preserve this poor whales life was as follows:

Step 1. Rip off the mast of the ship he was commanding.

The fact that this alone didn't lead to the crew mutinying or dissolving, showed that every single one of you was an insane person.

Step 2. Use the mast as a weapon by ramming it into the scarred skin, where the whale rammed his skull into the Red Line.

Step 3. Punch the whale in the eye, while the whale tries to turn him into a bloody smear on the Red Line.

Step 4. Let's call it a draw.

Step 5. Since this fight was a draw there obviously needs to be a rematch and for Luffy to be able to tell, that Laboon is still up for the rematch when he comes by here the next time, there was naturally no other way than to badly draw his jolly roger on Laboon's forehead.

This worked. Of course it did. Because that's what life was like around Luffy: all problems could be resolved with strategically and tactically applied ****.

That said, our two “guests” had taken the opportunity to get away. Sure you had taken their weapons had Nami help you search for any they might have hidden on their body, but still losing sight of two suspicious individuals could be bad.

And so you all settled down for a bit. Luffy was painting his jolly roger on Laboons head, Sanji was cooking and Zoro had you help Usopp fixing and reattaching the mast to the ship. Then you heard Nami scream in terror from the lighthouse.

You reached her just as Sanji tried to woo/console/help Nami by showing her the meal he had prepared.

“The compass is broken!”

“Compass? Shouldn't you be using a log pose now?”, you asked, remembering the stories of your father.

Crocus was very obviously surprised by our lack of preparation and explained, which was good, since its been quite a time since my father had explained this oddity.

With delight Nami realized that the armband she had swiped from the man with the crown, while checking for weapons was in fact a log pose. It was promptly destroyed by Sanji and Luffy, because Luffy had eaten all the food Sanji had prepared for us.

Speaking of the two strangers, they were brought back to the shore by Laboon along with Sanji and Luffy. You didn't miss the signs: They had a hard time keeping their balance and impaired hearing. An attack against their ears, or much more likely, an explosion, they had attempted to avoid by diving. This might have saved them from fire and shrapnel, but made them even more susceptible to the shock wave. This was concerning, since you were show they had had no explosives on them, when they had left the ship, and Laboon surely would have brought attention to another ship coming here. After all, it was rare for a ship to come here from the Grand Line.

That in combination with the two doing their best to hide not just their injury but pretty much everything about themselves, made you extremely suspicious about them.

So you after analyzing them physically as much as you could without stripping them down, you analyzed them mentally the only way you knew how:

Uchida Joji: 5/100

A professional, huh? You were not surprised to learn, that Mr. 9 was a code name, but you were able to tell this strangers actual name thanks to your devil fruit.

Nefertari Vivi: 6/100

Nefertari Vivi: 2/100

Now that was interesting. You had never been good with names, but this one was so important in world politics, that even you had not forgotten it.

Nefertari.

The name of the Arabasta royal family. But they were not just any family of royals. They were the last of the Tenryuubitu, the world nobles, who walk above the laws. The family, that chose not to ascend to Mary Geoise. The motions they had put forward in the Reverie that didn't pass could be counted on one hand.

And if you were not mistaken...

“Please allow us to join you to Whiskey Peak!”, they begged in unison.

“I don't know. Is it on the way to Arabasta? I heard about Kung-fu-Dugons and I really wanna see them!”, you complained.

They assured you, that Arabasta was on the same lane as Whiskey Peak and as Nami tried to hassle them more for a promise of payment and so they would give away what they were up to, Luffy agreed.

“What is on Arabasta?”, Nami asked in a hushed tone, when the two strangers were out of earshot.

“Her home, I believe.”

“Explain!”, she demanded, as quietly as she could.

“My devil fruit told me, her name was Nefertari Vivi. Nefertari is the name of the Arabasta royal family. I wasn't sure where Arabasta actually is, but they just confirmed that it isn't to far from where they want to go.”

“Seems your hunch was correct, because when you mentioned Arabasta she got nervous as hell.”

“She did? Oh, yes of course I noticed”, you corrected yourself when you saw Nami's look. A mix of shock and amusement.

A blatant lie of course. If Vivi's tell was anything other than a physical flinch, you could pick up with your sixth sense, you couldn't pick it up.

“So... what does that mean?”

“Not sure. I didn't hear about the revolutionaries freeing the country so the only reason I can come up with, why a princess would be running around away from home incognito, is that she's a runaway.”

“My gut feeling tells me, that's not it. Do you think you could use your fruit?”

“Damn, and I thought I was horny”, you joked, but judging by Nami's reaction you had accidently hit the bull's eye.

“...I meant... make her like you more... like if she considered you her friend...”

You grinned: “You know, that I can't push their affection, that much, don't you?”

Nami: 90/100

Nami: 40/100

Nami: 15/100

“Fuck me...”

“Oh, I definitely plan to”, you said, giving her a peck on her cheek and making your way to Zoro, who would no doubt find a way to make you regret asking him for help with your fitness.

As you reached the cabin door you turned around, catching Nami shifting in her chair, while she did her best to work on her maps.

“And before I forget it. About your request”,

Nefertari Vivi: 20/100

“I think I can do something there.”

Sadly Vivi's selfcontrol was significantly stronger than Nami's or Tashigi's. While the latter had agreed to sleep with a total stranger at this point Vivi was instead able quell her hornyness the second she was no longer stimulated. This meant separating her from Mr. 9 and training in front of her. Noticing her lust for you rise up to 22 while she was watching you do squats was a better motivation than Zoro's threats were. The problem was, that Nami was sitting next to Vivi and instead of your legs hurting, your workout was ended when she pressed you against wall of her cabin and heatedly kissed you. Though you wouldn't be surprised if you learned, that Vivi's arousal spiked, whenever hauled your ass away for private use, she had managed to calm herself down again.

Not that you'd had the mind to check in the moment of course.

Even if the Grand Line's … unique … weather had taken your group a bit by surprise despite the warnings, you still reached Whiskey Peak before you could make any meaningful progress with Vivi. In fact you hadn't even formulated a plan to get her to admit that “Ms. Wednesday” was in fact a code name.

Speaking of, she and “Mr. 9” jumped off the ship and swam, to reach the town before the Merry would.

You were immediately suspicious. This town, so **** for food, that they tried to kill Laboon was not only suspicious of pirates, but actively welcomed them by throwing a party for them? And everybody being just to friendly? Not even odd looks when you started hitting on the women sweet-talking Sanji and Usopp, instead simply a third broke of to make heart-eyes at you?

Of course you remained vigilant not to drink and eat too much and only pretended to fall asleep.

Is what you would have liked to have happened.

I woke up back on the Merry having apparently missed quite a lot. Vivi and a large duck called Karoo were apparently now new crew mates and we were in quite a hurry to make it through a channel to leave the island as quickly as possible.

“So you really are Nefertari Vivi? The princess of Alabasta?”, I asked as we reached the open ocean.

“How did you pick that up? I don't recall Nami bringing you up to speed”, Vivi responded surprised.

Before you could stop her Nami answered for you: “Oh, Yuri already knew your name, because of her devil fruit.”

“The name-name fruit. I can instantly tell the name of everybody I meet”, you quickly interjected.

“Why are saying that? Are you worried Vivi would snitch on you?”, Nami complained.

“No I trust Vivi just fine. It's her I don't know what to think about”, you answered pointing with your thumb over your shoulder at the woman had come aboard without anybody taking notice of her.

“My, how perceptive. So you are these notorious Straw hats.” She was slightly taller than Nami and about ten years older from your guess. She had black hair and relatively dark skin, though it seemed, that her natural skin color was a lot paler and she had simply gotten an intense tan. She was wearing a purple fedora, that did little to obscure her brilliant blue eyes.

Vivi was in shock.

“I had a run in with Mr. 8 recently.”

“You killed Igaram!”, Vivi finally brought out, to which she just smiled.

Luffy had different worries: “Who are you?! What are you doing on my ship?”

“What are you doing here, Miss All-Sunday?”, Vivi demanded.

“Hang on, Miss All-Sunday? Which number is she paired up with?”

“Mr. 0! She was the only one, who knew his identity. We found out it was Crocodile by following her!”

“So … is she bad or what?”, Luffy asked.

Nico Robin: 15/100

Even before she responded, you knew that answering that question could not be easy.

“More accurately: I let you follow me.”

“So she's good then.”

“We already thought so. You were also the one, who told the boss, that we had found him out”, Vivi countered.

“Correct.”

“So she's really bad then.”

“What do you want?!”

“Oh, I just found it all so amusing. A princess doing all she can, risking her life, to save her country. How entertaining...ly ridiculous.”

Vivi screamed: “Don't you mock me!”

Sanji and Usopp appeared on either side of her. Sanji had his leg raised, ready to stomp at her stomach, while Usopp had his slingshot aimed straight at her temple.

“Hey, Sanji, do you know, what were doing right now”, the sharpshooter wondered out loud, seeing the chef threatening physical harm to beautiful women.

“Not really. All I can tell is that dear Miss Wednesday is in danger...”

Of course the rest of us had not stood still. Zoro had drawn one of his sword ready to draw another, Nami had her staff out and Luffy and you got into a fighting stance. You slowly reached for the blade Nami had gifted you.

“Miss All-Sunday” gave an anoided huff: “I'd appreciate, if you'd point your weapons somewhere else.”

Your sixth sense was tingling off the charts. You could tell her movement before it happened, somehow everywhere at once. Sanji and Usopp got thrown off their feet, Zoro and Nami got their weapons knocked out of their hands and you could feel, that she tried to throw away your new blade as well.

You quickly moved up to grab what your sixth sense told you was her hand and felt rosy soft skin. And within that moment what you felt got even softer until it felt like touching a flower petal in the wind. You looked down and saw nothing.

“My, how very perceptive... To get back to your question:..”, she had to wait for everybody to calm down, first because they were wondering about her devil fruit, than because she took Luffy's hat.

“So you are this Monkey D. Luffy. How unlucky. Your first stop on the Grand Line and you pick up a princess, that is hunted by Baroque Works.

However what is even more unlucky is your course: The island your log pose is currently pointing towards is called 'Little Garden'. We don't even have to do anything, you'll won't make it away from there.”

Over Luffy's protest she continued: “Don't you think it'd be stupid to just let yourself get wiped out?”

With that she, without threw Luffy's head back to him and tossed a small object to Vivi and you had a hard time processing, what she had done exactly. You could clearly tell, that she had not moved her hands, yet your sixths sense somehow told you, that she did... and did not.

“This eternal pose would allow you to skip Little Garden. It points to the island right before Alabasta; Nanimonai.”

“Why would you give this to us?”

“It's a trap, isn't it?”, Zoro surmised and were inclined to believe him. You were certain, that the name “Nico Robin” was familiar, though you couldn't quite remember what the story during which your father might have mentioned this woman, had been. Something about hunting her, but that didn't quite add up, since at that time this woman would have still been a little girl.

Just by going what had been said: If everything she had said was true, than this meant she wanted to sabotage Crocodile's plan to some degree, but not so much stop him, before he could start his coup. Your best guess was, that she wanted him to go through with his plan, but fail.

This was concerning, since she could easily safe thousands of lives, by simply leaking the crucial information better. In this case taking her up on the offer was indeed the smart thing to do, since this way they avoided one obstacle, throw off their pursuers and maximize the likelihood of reaching Alabasta early enough to prevent the worst.

If she was lying, than blindly following this log pose was certain ****.

You had made up your mind: The best way was to accept it, pretend to follow it and than take course for Little Garden as soon as they were out of sight. Depending on whether she had told the truth they would then be met by assassins, or not. And depending on that their route could be continued.

Sadly Luffy had a far easier solution: “Don't tell me where to go!”, and before anyone could stop him the eternal pose was only a pile of glass shards.

“I see,”, Robin said without showing whether this outcome was much of an inconvenience to her, “I do appreciate high spirited people. If you do make it to Alabasta, let's meet again,” she said as she made her way off the ship.

“No!”

She chuckled while hopping off board. “Let's go Bunchi!”

Bunchi appeared to be a large tortoise swimming in the opposite direct of the Merry.

It took all the time to morning to get everybody up to speed.

“So this sixth sense of yours has nothing to do with your devil fruit?”

“No it doesn't. So far everybody we've met, who was a successful pirate on the Grand Line seems to be able as well, so I think it's learnable...”

“So what does your devil fruit do? From what Nami let slip it allowed you to find out my name.”

“It allows me to tell, how much a person likes me”, you chose to omit the other functions of your power, especially the active use.

“I also think, that it makes people warm up to me quicker.”

“Really? Why do you think so?”

Nefertari Vivi: 14/100

Nefertari Vivi: 22/100

Nico Robin: 20/100

Nico Robin: 4/100

“Just a hunch”

On the way to little garden you actually had planned to get closer to Vivi, who was no longer diligently suppressing her lust for you, and of course spend more time alone with Nami, but Zoro had different ideas. He usually slept, while the deck was busy, only to wake up when everybody was recovering from the stress. And when Zoro was awake it was training time.

When you reached Little Garden you quickly volunteered yourself to watching over the ship as well as Nami and Usopp and just laid down on the deck, dozing of despite every muscle in your body screaming bloody ****.

You were woken by two shrill screams. One you had heard often enough: it was Usopp. So nothing to worry about.

The other one was Nami and so, against the objections of your various body parts, you moved yourself into an upright position and opened your eyes and were amazed:

Your father had told you stories of John Giant and the others giants that now served as captains, vice-admirals and anything in between. Your father had told the story how they joined full of bitterness: A human trafficker (or rather just “trafficker” since her victims were mostly non-human), who went by the name of “Mother Caramel” and the World Government was one of the biggest customers of her “orphanage”.

Your father had also told you about what he had called the most effective giants in service of the Government: Two giant pirates, tricked into guarding the gates of Ennies Lobby with the promise that their captains would be let go. Captains the Government had no idea where they were.

Father had explained, how giant soldiers were very inefficient when fighting strong individual enemies. Due to their strength the marine giants were used to simply swipe towards their enemies and have them die. Any opponent that was either fast enough to avoid these basic attacks, or hardy enough to take the hit was usually capable of taking them out, either by wearing them down or simply by subjecting them to something they had very little experience with: overpowering them.

All of this was to say, that your father spoke of giants rather dismissively. These great warriors of the island of Elbaf.

One of which was looking at them right now.

“Gababababa!”

Sure, your father had told you, that giants were easily over 15 meters tall, but seeing a 21 meter man with bushy blonde beard and a horned helmet right in front of you was an entirely different matter.

You were so in awe, that what the giant said and how your friends were scared for their lives completely passed you by.

It took until Nami and Usopp were bringing up the three barrels of various **** you had on board for cooking and cleaning, that you finally woke from your stupor.

“Thanks! The least I can do as thanks is invite you over to my place for lunch!”

“AWESOME!”

“Yuri!”, Nami whisper-shouted.

“YOU ARE A GIANT FROM ELBAF!”

“Gabababa! You can stop shouting, little one! Yes, I original came from Elbaf. My name is Brogy. Who are you?”

“YUR... I mean: I am Yuri, these two are my friends Nami and Usopp. Our other friends left the ship to explore the island.”

You turned to Nami excitedly: “He's a real giant from Elbaf!”

By the time you reached Brogy's camp the other two had recovered from their shock.

Nami: 88/100

Somewhat.

At that moment your focus was on something else: “... They can't be much older than a hundred years, so maybe they are just to young to have learned to fight properly.”

“Gabababa! Marines are marines, whether they are giants or humans! Gabababa! But enough about you! Non off you have eaten anything! Come on! Dinosaur is delicious!”

You looked down, and indeed: Nami and Usopp had not fully recovered from their shock and were sitting next to me slack-jawed and non of us had touched the lump of meat, that was bigger than the three of us together.

“Ehm...” finally Nami came back to herself, “How long does the log pose take to lock onto this island?”

“Don't worry, you'll have plenty of time to eat up! It takes pretty much exactly one year!”

“WHAT?!”, both Nami and you screamed in shock.

“Didn't you notice all these skeletons around here? They are from travelers, who came here and didn't last that long. Some died to the dinosaurs. Some died to the heat. And some even committed suicide. My brother and I collect their corpses, if ever somebody comes to take them back to their homes...”, Brogy elaborated solemnly.

So far you had not even thought about how this giant was living here, but it was obvious that he had considered some of these travelers friends. Just as you wanted to ask him about this and the brother he mentioned a volcano erupted.

You had thought by that point, that you had gotten used to seeing a giant. The way you squeed, when you saw another one, proved you wrong.

Dorry was not as stout as Brogy, as far as a being, that towered over dinosaurs could be called stout. Seeing the two giants going at each other with full **** was a sight to behold.

And as sudden as the fight had started, it had stopped. The volcano had erupted again and they called it a draw.

When Brogy returned you earned the ire of both him and Usopp by calling their battle stupid: “What's the point of fighting for honor? One day you'll die for honor and you won't even know, whether you still got it.”

“A girl just won't get it!”

“Usopp, have yet thought about how we are going to leave here in time to save Vivi's home?”

He paled, already expecting an answer he wouldn't like.

“The only way I see, short of setting sail without a course, is hoping that Crocodile is stupid enough to send somebody to kill us here, instead of waiting in Alabasta's harbours.”

“You... mean...”

“Exactly. Our best shot is waiting for assassins to try and **** us. I'd suggest we go back to Merry, to make sure they won't sink it. Brogy, can you tell Dorry and our friends about our plan?”

“Do you have to leave?”

“The people after us might chose to simply sink our ship, if we don't guard it. You can still visit us as much as you like!”

“Well then... I wanted to give Dorry some of the **** anyway!”

The plan had been, for Usopp to train his nerves, by shooting the dinosaurs in the eyes, you to train combat skills, by killing the beasts and Nami to keep watch, so none of them would sneak up on you.

The obvious flaw in your plan was, that the reason Usopp's nerves needed training. As soon as the first dinosaur could so much as be heard he ran away, which made Nami run after him to get him to stay with the group. And you ran after Nami, hoping to protect her.

After a few seconds you could no longer see her and only kept track of her thanks to your sixth sense. Suddenly she stopped and looked to the side.

“Luffy?”

You focused your sixth sense on where she was looking. “Nami! It's a trap.”

You woke up with your ankles stuck in something white, that was hard as stone and similar white stuff raining down on you making you cough. You looked around. To your left were Vivi, Zoro and Nami, who looked mostly unharmed. You were on what appeared to be on top of a giant white torte. In front of the torte were the assassins who caught you: The blonde woman with the parasol, who had immobilized you by simply sitting on you, the dark skinned man, who had flicked something your direction, that exploded, when you dodged and the source of the white stuff you were stuck in. A lanky man, whose hair was shaped into the number three. His nose was still bleeding from when you had kicked him with the shackle he had attached to your feet to stop you, after you had dodged the first attack of the blonde jumping down on you.

“You finally woke up! We didn't have any orders to kill you specifically, but after the fight you put up I thought of giving you the honor of dying to my candelabra and become a beautiful wax statue!”

“This is wax?”

“Hehehaha! It is! Of course my wax is as hard as iron, so there is no chance you'll free yourself!”

“I take that challenge!”, you declared, even though you barely had the start of a plan: Since devil fruit or not, your trap was still made of wax. Even if it was way harder than normal wax, it should still melt, if it got warm enough. Indeed the flakes raining down on you came from four candles that were spinning above you. What you needed was a way to generate enough heat, so you could free your feet. The blonde was no opponent to you, the explosion man would free your friends, if he attacked you were still close to the candelabra and if you could free yourself in the first place you could likely no-sell Mr. 3's attacks.

Sadly you had made your challenge within earshot of two people, who to your knowledge were allergic to using their brains in battle: Zoro and Brogy.

Zoro attempted to cut off his own legs and Brogy tried attacking the assassins head on. All that did was all three ganging up on him. His movement impeded by a see of wax he got explosions to the face until he toppled over and lastly having his hands and feet pierced and pinned to the ground in the most brutal fashion.

Thankfully Luffy and Usopp showed up.

And Usopp showed, that he did have nerves of steel, but only when it was really on him. He figured out a way to in one step free you, deliver a hard blow to Mr. 3 and distract explosion man and blonde woman all at the same time. He gave Vivi's duck Karoo a rope and instructed him to run all over the candelabra and around Mr. 3, who had covered himself in a wax armor. And while the blonde assassin sat on Usopp apparently torturing him, he drenched the rope in oil. Then he gave Luffy the sign to bring Mr. 3's hair, which lit up, while he was using his powers, in contact with the rope.

My planned strategy, to take whatever means of navigation the assassins had, would have failed, if it hadn't been for Sanji:

The assassins themselves only had an eternal pose for Little Garden on them (one had to wonder, how you would get your hands on that). The eternal pose to Alabasta was delivered, when Sanji had stumbled upon their hideout, impersonated Mr. 3 on the Snail with Crocodile and declared them dead, and then killed the messengers: A vulture with guns and an otter with claws.

Of course, not everything was perfect:

“When those animals attacked me, I thought for he'd found me out, but I kept a cool head, and told him, Luffy had gotten back up again, and fooled him!”

“Damn, you should've told him, one of us had showed up!”, you lectured him, as he was bragging to Nami, Vivi and you.

“What?”

“Announcing a kill before confirming it is a rookie mistake. I don't think Crocodile believes, that Mr. 3 would make such a blunder,” Vivi concured.

Nami blanched: “You mean, we're still being hunted?”

“Hey, Nami. Stop panicking and think slowly: We've just beaten Mr.3, Mr 5 and their partners. That means short of coming after us himself the worst thing Crocodile can do is throwing Mr. 1 and 2 at us. Now you might think, that we nearly died but actually it could hardly gone better for Mr. 3. We split up, so he could take most of us on one at a time. Luffy was trapped under a mountain. He caught all of us with our pants down and Sanji wasn't even with us. And we still won without any major injuries! I mean I think I could've easily taken Ms. Valentine in a fair fight!”

“... When you say it like that...”

Not to mention, that we'll likely meet them at sea and they are devil fruit...”, you were about to explain the logistics of fighting on a ship, when you couldn't swim, when the time came for Dorry and Brogy to give their parting presents. A being surfaced in front of you. It was so mindbendingly large, that you suffered sensory overload and could only stare motionlessly as what the others described as a goldfish swallowed the Merry.

Inside of the creature you were unable to observe just what the two giants were doing, but the result was that the Merry was blown out of a newly created orifice in the sea monster.

You really wished you could say, that you were helpful during your next obstacle, but the truth was, that you had somehow managed to sideline yourself for the entire duration.

Nami had gotten sick. While you could quickly identity an insect bite on her stomach as the most likely cause, you had nowhere near the necessary expertise to actually treat your girlfriend. You did manage to convince Vivi, that you wouldn't reach Alabasta in an acceptable time, if Nami was out of commission … after Nami, barely able to stand saved you from dying in a cyclone.

Then, when you were apparently being boarded by a different pirate crew, lead by a devil fruit user, who tried to eat the Merry, before Luffy politely yet firmly encouraged his departure, you were below deck watching over Nami.

Then, when you finally found an island and Vivi convinced the people there, to let Nami see a doctor you actually made the conscious decision to sideline yourself: “Somebody needs to carry up that mountain, so that'll obviously be Luffy. Who ever comes with him has to be strong enough, so we don't have to worry about slowing Luffy down, that means either Sanji or Zoro. He should also be not a moron, so Sanji is going.”

While the others agreed and the two of them got going Zoro protested: “What the hell are you talking about! Are you saying I couldn't watch over Nami?”

“Listen, whoever goes with Luffy has to be able to convince the doctor to treat Nami. Now I'm not saying Sanji is the best negotiator or even intelligent, but if it had been you, who had picked up Mr. 3's den-den-mushi, you would have corrected Crocodile, after he adressed you as Mr. 3”

“Well, duh, I'm not Mr. 3!”, he said with a grin that made it obvious even to you, that he actually understood, what you meant.

And he got back at you for the insult.

“Come on! You can't get cold, if you keep moving!”

“My legs are going to fall off!”

“I goes you're right, enough running. Time for push ups!”

And some time later you got caught in an avalanche. By the time your thoughts could focus on anything other than the temperature you were in a provisionally restored home in the village, that had been hit by the avalanche, with a man in scrubs staring at your eyes.

“What?”

“I asked, whether you are related to a man, who went by Sabishi Yoshiro.”

“You knew my dad?”

“I knew it!”, the doctor exclaimed excitedly.

“I... I'm a bit surprised, you would remember him so well, that you could recognize me as his daughter.”

“The two of you have really similar eyes.”

“No, I mean yes. But what's the story with you? I mean it must've been about twenty years ago, that you met him...”

“Seventeen. And I don't know how I could forget him. He came in, stating that he was an agent of the world government showing papers in the kings face and demanding treatment. So I treated him. The cause for his sickness was most unusual: He had been shot into the lung by a bullet made from a poisonous material normally only found in the North Blue. The knowledge I had on the poisoning symptoms were from exposure through skin and inhalation, not from direct contact with blood. I surgically removed all the shrapnel in his chest and stitched his lung bag together, but that was all I could do for him. I can say without bragging, that if he had been treated by any lesser doctor, your father would not have made it another week. Honestly I'm surprised he made it here with that hole.

However the poisoning proceeds extremely quickly, when there is direct blood contact. How long did he live, when he made it home?”

“About 14 years.”

“You want to know the oddest part? About half a year later I met another person with the same poisoning. Sadly I doubt this person made it for that long. The poisoning was way more advanced. The patient was throwing up blood to the point that they were about to die from blood loss.... Out of curiosity: Where did your father spend the remainder of his life?”

“At home... in the East Blue. We lived on a small island close to the Calm Belt.”

“Huh, he must've crossed through there.”

“What? How do you figure that?”

“Well... I don't know how to tell you, but either your father was impersonating an officer, or he was a deserter. You see, when your father left, the king made some calls to complain about your father's behavior only to be told, that your father was not a government agent.”

And so you left the island again and only learned back on the Merry, that Luffy had recruited a talking reindeer. And together with Luffy you learned, that the reindeer was also a trained doctor.