The Explorer of the Universe
30

The four of them continued to run towards the dock by continuously beating the Marine who was blocking their way.

"Why is there a storm?" Ask Zoro.

"Didn't Nami tell you about this?" Ask Tanaka.

"Do you doubt Nami, the stupid swordsman!" Said Sanji who was angry while kicking a Marine soldier very hard.

"Who are you calling stupid!" Said Zoro who was also angry while slashing Marine soldiers.

Tanaka sighed to see the two people who could fight in the condition of beating Marine soldiers.

"Let's run, run and run!" Luffy. "But where is the port?"

"Go that way!" Point to Zoro who gives the opposite direction from where the port is located.

Once again Tanaka sighed because of Zoro's actions. "He is indeed a directional blind master!" Think Tanaka.

"Not in that direction, just go straight! We'll get to the port soon!" Tanaka said, giving the real direction.

The Marine continued to chase behind the four of them.

"Stop!"

"Sit's quiet down there you fucking pirate!"

"Catch 'em! Don't let it get away!"

"They're so stubborn! Want to stop and beat them up?" Ask Zoro.

"We don't have time for that." Answer Sanji.

Suddenly a woman appeared not far from the front of the four of them who were still running towards the harbor.

"Who's that pretty girl?" Sanji asked with lope-lope eyes.

"Sergeant major Marine, Tashigi!" Answer Tanaka.

"So you're Roronoa Zoro, a pirate and that man is also a pirate. I have you guys lying!" Tashigi.

Tanaka raised one eyebrow. "When did we both lie to her? He didn't ask if we were pirates or not?" Think Tanaka.

"If he asked like that, would the master answer him?" Ask Honjo.

"Of course not" Tanaka thought with a smile.

"Basic impostor!" Sengo Assertive.

"Hey! I haven't lied to him, so I don't accept being charged like that." Think Tanaka.

Meanwhile, Sanji who heard that Zoro knew Tashigi and lied to her became angry.

"Nani?! What have you done to that girl?!" Ask Sanji.

"I didn't get to introduce myself back then, so I never lied to you." Reply Zoro who ignored Sanji.

"That's right, you never asked if we were both pirates or not? Next time be smarter, pretty girl!" Tanaka said in a mocking tone as well as seducing Tashigi.

"Villains like you hold such great swords, that is unforgivable! Wado Ichimonji, leave it to me!" Tashigi.

"My two swords are just ordinary swords, not extraordinary swords like Zoro's, do you want to take them as well?" Ask Tanaka.

"Hey! Who do you call a sword? We are both the greatest swords the world has ever created!" Said Sengo who was angry but ignored just like that with Tanaka.

"Take it if you can." Zoro.

Zoro and Tashigi started fighting.

While Luffy, Sanji and Tanaka stopped a bit far behind Zoro.

"Bad you! How dare you attack a woman!" Sanji.

"Please don't interfere! It's a fight between Roronoa Zoro and myself. Leave us!" Tashigi.

"You heard that, right? You guys just go first." Zoro Pinta.

"Let's go." Luffy said and ran away.

"Zoro remember, straight on from here, don't turn right or left at all, even though you think to it, never do it, ignore it! Stay straight, follow this path!" Tanaka followed Luffy behind him.

At a glance as I passed by Zoro and Tashigi, I saw Zoro smiling with a grin.

"Hey, Zoro! If you hurt him, you'll die in my hands!" Sanji said in annoyance.

Some of the Marine warriors who were chasing straight away stopped to support Tashigi, the rest continued to chase after Luffy, Sanji and Tanaka.

"The end of the road is visible! The port is in front!" Said the happy Luffy.

Right in front of the three of them was a burly man with a white jacket left open and collared in black fur.

The man is a cigarette addict, Smoker, the Marine captain in charge of the Marine base in the town of Loguetown.

He stood blocking the path of the three of them which made the three of them stop running.

"Who's there?" Ask Sanji.

"I, Smoker, the Marine captain in charge of the Marine base on the island." Answer Smoker.

"Mugiwara no Luffy I will catch you! You won't be able to get off this island unless you defeat me!" Said Smoker who attacked suddenly with the power of his devil fruit, Moku Moku.

A bunch of smoke surrounded Luffy's body and made him unable to move.

"Akhhh! What'sthis?" Ask Luffy.

Sanji wanted to attack Smoker, but was stopped by Tanaka because it would be useless. The power of the devil fruit moku moku can make the body of the eaters become smoke.

"You go first to the ship, me and Luffy will follow." Tanaka Pinta.

Sanji paused for a moment and then nodded his head.

"I trust Luffy to you, Tanaka!" Sanji. "You two need to hurry to the ship so we can quickly go to the Grand Line."

Tanaka nods his head and sees Sanji running back but Smoker doesn't let that go.

The cigarette addict turned his left hand into smoke to catch Sanji. Of course Tanaka did not stay silent.

"I'm sorry Sanji!" Said Tanaka who used his force to throw Sanji into the sky, right in the direction of the Going Merry ship.

"Arghhh! Damn you, Tanaka!" Shouted Sanji.

Smoker who saw that was shocked and looked at Tanaka with great caution.

"Are you also a user of the devil fruit?" Ask Smoker.

Tanaka just kept quiet, not answering that question. He took Honjo out of his scabbard and prepared to fight.

"Take off Luffy, we can talk nicely, no violence happens." Pinta Tanaka with a tone of intimidation.

"Yumpp! Don't want to answer, it doesn't matter I'll catch you all!" Said Smoker who attacked Tanaka.

The attack could have been avoided by Tanaka and then used force power to push Smoker a few meters back.

"What are you doing?" Smoker asked who was confused because he was suddenly hit by something invisible and made him retreat.

"Only a fool would tell the secret of his power." Said Tanaka with a smiling grin.

Suddenly, Luffy, who was still trapped by Smoker's smoke, struck a punch by extending his hand.

"Gomu got your gun!" Shouted Luffy.

But the punch passed Smoker's head just like that because the head of the cigarette addict turned into smoke.

"Free, I ate the demon fruit of Moku Moku. My whole body can turn into smoke!" Smoker then slams Luffy's body. "What's wrong? Did you get here just for your abilities?"

Tanaka did not stay still, he ran towards Smoker and slashed her horizontally right in the belly of the heavy smoker man.

However, the slash passed because Smoker turned his stomach into smoke.

"I told you, it's free!" Said Smoker who slapped Tanaka with a collection of smoke that made the man fly into one of the buildings and hit very hard to make the walls of the building crack.

"Awww, that hurts a lot!" Said Tanaka who felt pain in his back due to the impact.

Luffy again attacked Smoker with a punch-piercing.

"Gomu gomu gatling gun!" Shouted Luffy, but it didn't hurt Smoker at all.

"Why did the pirate never learn from his stupidity." Said Smoker who turned the part of his body that was hit by Luffy into smoke.

"By defeating you, I can go to the Grand Line. I am the one who will become the Pirate King!" Shouted Luffy.

"In a moment, you won't be able to talk like that anymore!" Said Smoker who directly attacked Luffy with his smoke.

He pushed Luffy against the wall and made him unable to move. Luffy did not give up, he launched a counterattack by launching a punch towards Smoker's stomach.

But again, the attack was unsuccessful because the cigarette addict turned his stomach into Smoke.

"Damn!" Luffy

"You understand that, right? You can't even go to the Grand Line. Like I said before!" Smoker suddenly appears behind Luffy and then slams Luffy's body to the ground.

"So just like this is the fugitive ability of 30 million berries? Looks like your luck's over." Said Smoker who held Luffy's body from being able to move anymore.

He took his gun, Nanashaku Jitte who was on his back but was held back by someone wearing a green rain coat.

"Finally he came too, if he could be serious.' Thought Tanaka who got up and saw that.

"I don't think it will." Said the green-coated man.

"You?" Said Smoker who was surprised by the presence of the green-coated man.

"What's wrong? Who's in there?" Asked Luffy who could not see because his head was held back by Smoker.

"The World Government wants your head." Smoker.

"The world is waiting for our answer." Said the green-coated man who then suddenly the wind blew very hard.

The strong wind really made the city of Loguetown into chaos and with that wind Luffy was saved from the clutches of Smoker.

Tanaka quickly stuck his sword on the ground so as not to get carried away by the wind. As the wind stopped blowing, he still saw the green-coated man standing on the spot.

"Thank you, for your help, commander of the revolutionary forces, Monkey D Dragon." Said Tanaka who put Honjo into his scabbard again running away to approach Luffy and the others.

"The man ... For some reason I could feel something so overwhelming to her, she could have been a dangerous person to the world government!' Thought Dragon while staring at Tanaka who ran away.

"Hey! Are you guys all right?" Tanaka said when he got to the messy dock and met Luffy and the others, except Nami.

"Luffy!" Call Nami.

The five of them saw the Going Merry ship sailing away with Nami. The ship was carried by a strong sea current due to a storm.

"We must hurry, or our ship will be carried away by the ocean currents." Said Sanji who ran towards where a ship was still anchored, as well as Zoro and Usopp.

Tanaka just stayed on the spot while preparing himself very well for Luffy's carefree actions.

"Yoh!" Luffy said then ran towards the opposite direction with his three crew.

Luffy then extended his body backwards.

"Gomu gomu rocket!" Shouted Luffy with a smile.

"Oh no!" Usopp.

"Wait..." Sanji.

"It's so annoying!" Zoro.

"Haaa~" Tanaka breaths while holding tightly Honjo and Sengo so as not to fall.

Luffy crashed his body into the four crew members, causing the five of them to be thrown towards the ship and then hit the Going Merry sail.

They all fell on the ship with the position of overlapping and unfortunately, Tanaka was in the lowest position.

"Quick get off my back! Heavy! Tanaka. "Why am I at the bottom!?"

Luffy and his three crews instantly rose to their feet so Tanaka could finally feel relieved.

Then a wave so strong about the Going Merry that made the ship sail to the right and left irregularly.

"It feels like this ship is about to capsize!" Luffy.

"Look at that light!" Nami said as she pointed at the spot of the light that was lit from a tube-shaped building.

"Lighthouse island?" Ask Usopp.

"That's our guide light. That light was the entrance to the Grand Line!" Obviously Nami.

"So the Grand Line is there?" Ask Luffy.

"How's it?" Nami asked who wanted to know Luffy's decision on whether to continue the journey or not.

"But are you sure you'll be sailing in a storm like this?" Ask Usopp.

The four of them just smiled, not answering from Usopp's question. Tanaka was still lying on the floor of the ship because he started to feel seasick.

Although he was already used to ship shocks while sailing in the ocean, still he was not used to ship shocks as the storm progressed.

"Yes! Let's have a little party to commemorate the beginning of our journey!" Sanji said as he picked up a water barrel in the middle of the five of them.

"Oi!" Usopp.

"Yes, let's do it!" Nami.

"I'm going to find All Blue!" Said Sanji while putting one foot on the water barrel.

"I'll be the Pirate King!" Luffy said while doing the same.

"I'll be the Greatest Swordsman!" Zoro said the same.

"I'll make a map of this world!" Nami did the same thing.

"I-I will be a brave sea knight!" Usopp said the same.

The five of them saw Tanaka who had not done so.

"Do you have to do it in such a situation?" Think Tanaka.

"Basic weak! Just got seasick! Are you really a pirate?" Sengo asked but was ignored by Tanaka because he was not in the mood to argue with her.

Tanaka tried to get up, resisting his nausea to do what the five of them did.

"I'm going on an adventure to the whole universe and get the greatest adventure of all time!" Said Tanaka who put one foot on the water barrel.

"Universe?" Ask Usopp.

"Early end this!" The true Tanaka Pinta feels very nauseous.

"Let's go to the Grand Line!" Luffy.

"Yes!" We all raised our feet and broke the water barrel.

They all laughed while Tanaka headed straight to the edge of the ship to spit out his entrails.