The Explorer of the Universe
16

Moments later a muscular and clear-faced man in a black chef uniform and a white apron covered his waist until his knees appeared.

He who thought the restaurant customer was a god was surprised by what Sanji did.

"You again, the insolent Sanji! What are you doing to the customers?! And more importantly, he was a Navy Lieutenant!" Said the ugly man when he saw Sanji strangling Fullbody.

"Disturb the fun, but what's her name?" Think Tanaka.

"What do you want, brash chef? Don't get all familiar and call my name!" Sanji.

"A brash chef like you has no right to call me a brash chef! Without customers this restaurant will not run! Injuring customers like that, what the fuck are you?!" Said the ugly man.

"Why indeed? He didn't appreciate food at all, and again he insulted the chef." Sanji then let go of his giggling at Fullbody.

"That's why I taught him a lesson." Sanji Strictly.

"What kind of "restaurant is this? A restaurant should not treat customers like this. I will destroy it. I will destroy this restaurant! I'll destroy it! I'll call the government and then..." Fullbody.

"Then I'll shut your mouth here." Saying Sanji with a creepy face.

As Sanji was about to hit Fullbody again, he was stopped by the other chefs. Then suddenly seen Luffy who appeared by falling from the roof of the room with the restaurant owner who is also a former pirate.

"Ah, just surprise me." Luffy

"O-Owner, what are you doing here?!"

"Damn it, even the roof of my restaurant is broken. It's all your fault, boy!" The restaurant owner.

"Old man himself ruined it!" Bela Luffy's.

"What are you doing, Owner?! More importantly stop it, Sanji!"

"Hey, Sanji! You're making a fuss at the restaurant again, aren't you?!" Owner's speech.

"Be quiet, old man!" Sanji was angry.

"What did you say?! Who do you think you're talking to?! Are you planning to ruin my business?! You idiot!" Said the owner then kicked Sanji in the face.

"You too, get the fuck out of here!"

The owner also kicked Fullbody in the face.

While Sanji, the owner and the ugly man immediately argued, ignoring Fullbody.

Then a Marine soldier appears to report something to his commander, Fullbody.

"Le...Lieutenant Fullbody! Ki...We're in trouble!"

"Well, this restaurant is so noisy, yeah..." Luffy commented.

"Pirate Member Krieg escaped from the ship's prison!"

"What?!" Shouted Fullbody.

"One of them escaped when we captured seven of them." Report the Marine soldier.

"Stupid, when we caught him three days ago he was starving! And we haven't been feeding him since!" Snatch Fullbody on that soldier.

"I really..."

The soldier's words were cut short because someone shot him from behind and it was the prisoner who managed to escape.

The visitors immediately shouted and ran to save themselves. Tanaka who saw that just put on a flat face saw that.

"We're getting another customer." Said the ugly man with a look of disdain.

"I hope he's not the one who wants to go berserk in my restaurant." Speak to the owner with ease.

"Pirate, huh?" Ask Luffy.

Tanaka gets a chance to get close to Luffy during the commotion.

"Luffy, how's the negotiation going?" Ask Tanaka.

"I was asked to work unpaid here for 1 year, but I'm still trying to persuade the old man." Obviously Luffy.

Tanaka nodded in understanding then turned his head to look at the man who had just shot the Marine soldier who was already sitting on one of the chairs and raised one of his legs on the table.

"Whatever you can, bring me some food. This place is a restaurant, isn't it?" Ask the man and he looks very messed up.

"Welcome, you brash!" Say ugly man with a smile but speech is not in accordance with the service of the restaurant in general.

"I'll just say one more time, bring me some food." Said the man.

"Sir, I'm sorry, do you have any money?" Ask an ugly man.

"Do you want me to shoot?" Threaten the man while pointing his gun to the head at the ugly man.

"So you don't have any money?" Reveal the ugly man who then attacked the man. "If you can't pay for food, you're not a customer!"

Then the man's stomach rang because he was very hungry.

"Oh, is your stomach ringing, pirate?" Ask an ugly man.

"You know I'm hungry, bring me some food soon." Pinta the man.

"If you're not a customer, get out there!" Snapped the ugly man who kicked the man out.

The ugly man hit the man so hard that he almost knocked him unconscious.

"Patty, you broke my chair." Said owner.

Tanaka saw Fullbody sneaking out of the room.

"Based coward! Wasn't he a Marine officer, he should have arrested the man again for shooting his subordinates." Think Tanaka.

"O my customers, please enjoy the food!" Patty said after finishing hitting the man and immediately took him out of the restaurant.

Luffy went somewhere and Tanaka went outside to see the poor man.

At that moment, he saw Sanji who gave the man a plate of rice with his side dish.

"Eat ... " Sanji said casually while smoking and leaning his back against the restaurant's guardrail.

"Shut up, get out of here! Even if I am in this state, I will not accept people's mercy. Get rid of this food!" Said the man who still maintained his pride despite being dying.

"Stop babbling and eat fast! To me, whoever's hungry is a customer." Sanji Strictly.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not your customer." Said the man, and his stomach rang.

"The sea is vast and cruel, yes. It's scary to lose food and water in the ocean, so heavy. I understand how hungry people feel more than anyone else. You can die defending your pride, but if you eat and live, wouldn't your future be better?" Sanji Clear.

Tanaka immediately approached the two of them and told the man.

"Hurry to eat before you get caught by the ugly man who hit you earlier, don't think about self-esteem in a situation like this, you can die in vain when you think of such a thing, you can die in vain, life is more important than that" Tanaka said.

The man immediately ate Sanji's food and cried.

He said the food he ate was the best he had ever eaten.

Sanji just smiled hearing that.

"I found a good chef." Said Luffy on the second floor balcony.

Tanaka then gets acquainted with Sanji, as well as invites the chef to join the straw hat pirates and of course Sanji immediately rejects him.

However, Tanaka does not force Sanji to join because he will also join when invited by Luffy.

Moments later, Luffy who was on the second-floor balcony jumped onto the first-floor terrace.

"Hey chef, you join me! Be the chef on my pirate ship!" Take Luffy with his lunch.

Although Luffy invited her, Sanji still turned her down because she still had a debt she had to pay to the owner of the Baratie restaurant, where she works at the moment.

"Sanji, he's my captain, Monkey D Luffy, his name." Said Tanaka who introduced Luffy to Sanji.

"Aren't you the one who fired a cannonball at this restaurant?" Ask Sanji.

"It was unintentional, I just protected myself and threw it in there!" Bela Luffy's.

"Heh~, so the old man is a pirate, huh?" ask Luffy.

"The old man had considered this restaurant his treasure and all the cooks who worked here, they were all former pirates." Sanji reveals the identity of Baratie's restaurant.

"Well, I guess they deserve to be chefs at a restaurant where pirates are free to enter and exit." Sanji.

"It's really scary this restaurant." Luffy said innocently.

"Yes, it's like it's the state of this restaurant, there are even customers who come just to see the fight between the chef and the pirates." Sanji.

"Ah so so, that's why the old man told me to work for a year. Hey, be a member of my pirate." Take Luffy again.

"Didn't I reject it? There's a reason why I should keep working at this restaurant." Sanji Clear.

"No, I refuse!" Luffy said firmly.

"What do you mean?!" Ask Sanji.

"I refuse your refusal! You're a great chef, be a member of my pirates." Luffy.

"Hey, listen to what I'm saying!" Sanji said in annoyance.

"What's your excuse?" Ask Luffy.

"I'm not gonna tell you." Answer Sanji.

"Didn't you tell me to listen?!" Said Luffy who returned the word Sanji.

"I just want you to accept what I say! I can cut you into three pieces, you brash straw hat!" Said Sanji who was upset that Luffy did not listen to him.

"What did you say?! If you vilify my straw hat, I'll beat you up, you'll be rude!" Luffy.

Tanaka could only sigh at seeing them fight without being able to stop them.

"Sorry to interrupt your conversation." Suddenly the man.

"What's up?!" Said Luffy and Sanji together who turned their attention to the man.

"I'm Gin from the Krieg Pirates. You're a pirate, too, right? Do you have a specific purpose?" Ask Gin.

"I want to be the pirate king by getting One Piece and I'll sail to the Grand Line." Luffy replied casually.

Hearing the name of the Grand Line made Gin shocked and speechless.

Tanaka knew why Gin suddenly fell silent like that because after all he was one of the Grand Line's sea survivors.

"Seeing you who is looking for a ship chef, it looks like you still have a few members?" Ask Gin.

"Yes, he's my sixth member." Answer Luffy casually.

"Why do you want to make me your member?!" Shouted Sanji who did not accept.

"Because you're a good man, I'll give you a warning." Gin said with a serious look.

"Grand Line is a place you should avoid, you're young, you don't have to be that reckless." Advice Gin.

"Grand Line is just a small part of the entire ocean in the world, if you want to become a pirate, there are other infinite oceans that you can navigate." Obviously Gin.

"So, it seems like you understand very well about the Grand Line, huh?" Ask Luffy.

"No, I don't know anything, and I don't understand anything about it. I'm more afraid of that place." Said Gin trembling.

"Why did the pirate Krieg become this timid?" Ask Sanji.

"Who is Krieg?" Ask Luffy.

"Don Krieg was the strongest and fiercest pirate in the East Blue and had a pirate fleet of 50 pirate ships." Sanji.

"50 pirate ships! They sound so strong." Luffy.

Tanaka just nodded his ass and Gin seemed to be preparing to leave.

"See you." Pamit Gin's.

"But I still want to go to the Grand Line." Luffy.

"Yes, just do as you please. I'm a stranger, so I have no right to stop you. But I was just trying to warn you. And Sanji-san, thank you very much! I owe you my life, the food you gave me was the best. I can come back, right?" Ask Gin.

"Come anytime!" Answer Sanji.

Moments later Gin leaves, the restaurant owner shows up and sees Gin's plates and glasses.

Sanji immediately threw away the glass and the plate to remove evidence that he gave Gin free food and drinks.

Gin prostrates himself before the restaurant and then sails away in a small boat while the restaurant owner orders Luffy and Sanji to return to work.

Tanaka decides to enter the restaurant, looking for the whereabouts of Nami, Zoro and Usopp.

Usopp waved his hand so that he could see them and immediately approached the three of them.

"Where have you been?" Ask Zoro.

"I was with Luffy, he invited someone to join us." Tanaka.

"Who? Is he strong?" Ask Usopp.

"Why do you ask him if he is strong or not? Should you ask him if he can cook good food or not? we want to recruit a chef, not a fighter." Tanaka.

"You're right, so he's a great cook?" Ask Usopp.

"Perhaps, I don't know yet, but I do believe in Luffy's decision that he won't recruit just anyone as a member of his pirates." Tanaka.

He looked at the dishes that were already available on the table and what he chose was a snack in the form of cream bread.

A little while later Luffy appeared, coming out of the kitchen due to being chased away by the chefs after making a fuss at the place.

"Yo, waiter!" Call Nami.

"Heh, you guys?!" Luffy.

"I heard you had to work for over a year here! Do I have to be captain now?" Usopp asked with a grinning smile.

"Do we have to change the pirate emblem?" Zoro asked in jest.

Tanaka just kept quiet while enjoying the cream bread, not interested in teasing Luffy.

"You guys are good to sit here and eat a lot, and I have to suffer! This is not fair!" Reveal Luffy's anger and ignore Zoro and Usopp's jokes.

"It's your own fault, isn't it?" Zoro asked with a grunt.

Luffy purposely peels and puts his upsil into Zoro's drink.

"Eat this upil!" Said Luffy who made Usopp hold his laughter looking at that.

Tanaka just shook his head and sighed at Luffy's childlike behavior.

Zoro casually took a drink glass that was given upil by Luffy. When he was about to drink, he immediately choked the drink into Luffy's mouth and made Luffy finish his drink.

Zoro knew about what Luffy did to his drink so he pretended he didn't know to let Luffy off guard.

Nami and Usopp laughed loudly, while Tanaka just quietly enjoyed the bread which this time was just a dry bread that he dipped in a corn soup.

"I don't think you're doing anything like that!" Said the angry Zoro.

"Ouch! My stomach hurts!" Said Luffy who behaved like he was in pain, although he said his stomach hurt but what he was holding was his neck.

"Oh, angel of the sea! Thank you for meeting me with you! Oh love, smile under my suffering. For your sake, I am even willing to become a pirate or a demon!" Say Sanji with lope-lope eyes.

"That's tragic, so many obstacles between us!" Said Sanji who was still eyed lope-lope, even lope-lope was hovering around him.

"Isn't that obstacle me, Sanji?" Ask the restaurant owner.

"Old man!" Shouting Sanji was surprised to see the owner who appeared suddenly.

"Who?" Nami asked who was directed at Tanaka because he was sitting in front of her.

"He's Sanji, the chef Luffy wants to recruit and the old man owns the restaurant." Reply to Tanaka who still enjoys his food.

"This is a good opportunity, why don't you become a pirate with them? You're not needed in this restaurant!" Pinta the owner firmly.