The sea breeze filled the sails, gently blowing the small boat forward across the ocean.
Nami was focused on the compass, occasionally adjusting the ship’s heading.
Out of curiosity, Sinan asked, “Nami, where are we heading right now?” “Orange Town!” Nami answered confidently after confirming the direction of the compass needle.
“Orange Town?
Why are we going there?” Even though he had read the manga and knew Nami made her first major appearance in Orange Town, his memories of the East Blue arc were a bit fuzzy, so he asked her directly.
“To steal some pirate treasure, of course!
I’m a professional thief specializing in robbing pirates.
I heard Buggy the Clown has a navigation chart for the Grand Line!” Nami introduced herself with immense pride.
Hearing this, Sinan broke into a sweat.
Nami truly treated stealing as a highly honorable, legitimate profession.
“Alright then, do your best!
I’ll fully support you.
If we run into any enemies, just leave them to me.” As he spoke, sparks of electricity crackled around his fist.
Nami was happy to hear Sinan’s encouragement, but seeing the electricity sparking around his fist instantly wiped her smile away.
That was a Devil Fruit worth over 100,000,000 Berries!
In the eyes of this money-grubber, 100 million Berries were vastly more important than some superpower.
Of course, the main reason she was annoyed was probably because there was absolutely no way to split a Devil Fruit’s powers and sell half of it.
The sun hung high in the sky, and the ocean breeze was incredibly strong.
Despite being exposed to the harsh sun and sea winds all year round, Nami’s skin remained perfectly flawless.
She truly was a natural-born beauty.
Sailing could be incredibly tedious!
With absolutely zero entertainment and nothing but an endless expanse of deep blue everywhere you looked, it quickly became incredibly boring.
So, Sinan started trying to butter up Nami.
“Nami, are you feeling hot?” “No.” “Nami, are you thirsty?” “No.” …
Although Nami constantly rejected him, she couldn’t withstand Sinan’s endless, relentless pampering.
Soon, a parasol was set up on the small boat, providing cool shade.
Beneath it sat a small table filled with two glasses of fresh fruit juice and a plate of sliced fruit.
As for Nami, she was already sitting comfortably in Sinan’s lap.
He gently massaged her delicate little hand with one of his, while his other hand crept up to gently knead and squeeze her cute, bouncy little rabbits, his nose deeply inhaling the girl’s faint, sweet body scent.
Feeling a certain burning, rock-hard object poking right against her butt, even though they had already been completely naked and intimate with each other, Nami’s face still flushed red as she scolded, “You idiot!
Do you ever think about anything else besides sex?!
Are you entirely useless otherwise?!” Faced with Nami’s scolding, Sinan just chuckled shamelessly, “Well, it’s because you’re just too beautiful, so you constantly steal all my attention!
Besides, I’m definitely not useless!
I actually know quite a lot about mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and literature.
For example, I actually know how to use that sextant you were just holding and how to draw navigation charts.” In the world of One Piece, where the general education level was notoriously low, Nami could definitely be considered a top-tier scholar.
She had dabbled in and studied all the subjects Sinan had just mentioned, and cartography was her absolute specialty.
Hearing Sinan brag like this, Nami, whose face was flushed from Sinan’s hands teasing her breasts, asked suspiciously, “Are you serious?
Didn’t you lose your memory?
You didn’t even know the basic market prices between islands!
Are you just bullshitting me right now?!” In response to Nami’s distrust, Sinan immediately recited the correct usage of a sextant, along with its core mathematical and optical principles.
“See?
I told you I wasn’t lying!
Even though my memories are gone, the actual knowledge is still perfectly intact inside my head.” Sinan showed off to Nami with a smug expression, a confident smile plastered across his incredibly handsome face, leaving Nami staring at him in sheer surprise.
Sinan wasn’t just bragging to stroke his ego; he was intentionally trying to build an image of being highly knowledgeable in front of Nami.
Aside from Nami and Nico Robin, compared to the rest of the idiot Straw Hat crew, Sinan’s general knowledge and insight were undoubtedly on a completely different level.
By showing off to Nami, he was also laying the groundwork so that if he accidentally revealed shocking future events or information later on, it wouldn’t seem completely out of nowhere.
After all, a single slip of the tongue could easily reveal major plot points.
Before he slept with her, Sinan had managed to control himself fairly well.
But now that they had crossed that line, Sinan found it almost impossible to hold back.
He wasn’t entirely sure if it was the Devil Fruit’s influence, but every time he looked at her, he felt an overwhelming urge to just strip her down and fuck her.
“Idiot, you can’t…
mmm…
one million Berries!” At first, Sinan was just holding her hand.
Then he started passionately kissing her lips, and his hands smoothly slipped inside her shirt.
Completely unable to resist his advances, Nami resorted to threatening him with more debt.
But for Sinan, who already owed an astronomical amount, piling on a little more debt didn’t scare him in the slightest.
Given Nami’s cunning, sly “Cat Burglar” nature, she normally shouldn’t have been manipulated by Sinan so easily.
But unfortunately for her, Sinan was literally a walking, breathing human aphrodisiac.
The Devil Fruit hadn’t just given him an outrageously handsome face that dealt lethal emotional damage to young girls.
His natural body scent was also a highly potent sex drug for women.
As long as a woman spent enough time around him and absorbed enough of his pheromones, she would eventually be entirely at his mercy.
The ability was undeniably shameless, but who ever said Sinan considered himself a righteous, morally pure saint?!
Just as Sinan was about to pull off the young girl’s shirt entirely, the small boat suddenly lurched violently, as if it had slammed into something.
Hitting something in the middle of the ocean was never a good sign.
It could very well mean a Sea King attack.
Although the East Blue didn’t have massive or mid-sized Sea Kings, there were still plenty of predatory fish significantly larger than the Lord of the Coast.
Out here on the open water, Sinan, as a Devil Fruit user, was completely dead weight in the sea.
If a Sea King flipped their little boat, they would be utterly screwed.
The violent collision instantly snapped Nami out of her lust-fueled daze, and she instinctively hugged Sinan tightly.
The two of them were sitting near the bow, so their view behind the boat was blocked by the cabin.
A small fishing boat flying a pirate flag suddenly rushed out from the side.
Three pirates armed with cutlasses immediately came into view.
One was a scrawny guy with sunken cheeks wearing a skull-patterned hat; another was a skinny guy with an afro; and the third was a fat guy.
The three of them roared aggressively at Sinan and Nami, “Hey!
Stop your ship right now and hand over all your valuables!
We’re underlings of Buggy the Clown!” Seeing these three weirdos immediately jogged Sinan’s memory.
If he remembered correctly, these were the exact three idiots who were first scammed out of their treasure and boat by Nami, and then later beaten up by Zoro.
Of course, none of that mattered right now.
For a man, having his weapon fully loaded and primed, right on the verge of plunging it in, only to be suddenly interrupted—that was an absolute taboo.
It was the kind of thing that could literally cause erectile dysfunction.
Sinan didn’t even give these three clowns a chance to speak a second sentence.
Holding Nami tightly with one arm, he raised his other hand, aiming his open palm directly at the three pirates.
Lethal arcs of electricity violently sparked across his hand.
“Palm Lightning!” BOOM!
A blinding flash illuminated the sea.
The sheer voltage violently tore through the air, producing a deafening, thunderous boom right beneath the bright, sunny sky.
A brilliant bolt of blue-white lightning blasted from Sinan’s palm, instantly splitting into three jagged lightning spears that pierced straight through the bodies of the three pirates.
Struck directly by the high-voltage lightning, the three pirates suffered varying degrees of severe burns.
Fractal lightning burns crawled across their skin, their hair stood perfectly on end, and their limp, paralyzed bodies collapsed heavily into the ocean.
Splash!
Splash!
Splash!
Sinan’s sudden, lethal attack gave Nami a massive fright.
After all, based on the usual customs of people in the One Piece world, you typically had to exchange at least two lines of tough trash-talk before throwing hands.
It was incredibly rare to see someone attack as ruthlessly and instantly as Sinan did.
“Sinan!
Why did you just outright kill them?!” Nami gasped in shock.
“They were holding swords and trying to rob us.
I highly doubt this is the first time they’ve done something like this,” Sinan replied simply.
Hearing Sinan’s reasoning, Nami—who had grown up entirely under the terrifying shadow of pirates—instantly understood the cold truth behind his words.
In the end, she chose to remain silent.
Just last night, Sinan had been shaking like a leaf after witnessing a murder.
Yet now, he killed without the slightest hesitation.
It just goes to show how quickly a person can change.
Possessing a lethal weapon naturally breeds the desire to kill!
For many things, the only reason we restrain ourselves from doing them is simply because we lack the power to do so!
Having eaten a Devil Fruit and gained overwhelming power, Sinan’s ego had naturally inflated a bit.
Of course, he acted so decisively because, deep in his subconscious, he genuinely believed that the vast majority of pirates completely deserved to die.
If he were facing an unknown Marine, Sinan might not have been able to pull the trigger.
Marines weren’t universally good, but the overwhelming majority of them did serve their purpose in protecting innocent civilians.
Having grown up beneath the red flag, Sinan held a deep reverence for the people’s soldiers.
For the Marines, who were functionally similar to those soldiers, Sinan wouldn’t easily strike to kill.
And as for killing…
Nami had blood on her hands too.
It was just that Sinan’s execution was far more abrupt and decisive.
Take these three guys in the original story, for example.
After Nami tricked them out of their boat and treasure, they were intentionally led straight into a violent storm she had predicted, causing their ship to capsize.
If Zoro hadn’t miraculously shown up later, those three idiots would have ended up as fish food anyway.
Regardless of the justification, the presence of death always makes the atmosphere heavy.
Sinan purposely changed the subject and said to Nami, “Since members of the Buggy Pirates showed up here, it means we’re very close to Orange Town.
Plus, there’s a treasure chest on their boat!” Hearing the words “treasure chest,” Nami was instantly possessed by the spirit of a money-grubber.
Her somber eyes immediately morphed back into giant $$ symbols.