The Explorer of the Universe
42

Dalton takes Luffy and the others to his house.

"They're not the guardians of this country?" Vivi asked while looking at the citizens.

"They are citizens of this country." Dalton then invited Tanaka, Sanji and Vivi in while Usopp and Luffy were outside playing with snow. "Use the bed there. I'll warm the room."

Dalton immediately turned on the fireplace and then returned to where Nami was lying.

"May I ask you one thing? I don't know where, I'm like I've met you." Ask Dalton.

"Maybe it's just your shadow! More importantly, tell us about the witch! I just checked Nami's body temperature, it's 42 degrees." Vivi.

"42 degrees?!" Dalton was surprised.

Vivi explains Nami's condition to Dalton in great detail.

"Whatever it is, we need a doctor! Where is the witch?" Ask Sanji.

"Witch, yeah. Looking out the window, you see some mountains, right?" Dalton.

"Yes, a very high mountain..." Said Sanji who was stopped because he saw a snow doll made by Luffy. "I kick you guys!"

Sanji destroys the snow dolls made by Luffy and Usopp and takes them inside.

Tanaka just sighed because they had time to play around like that when their friend was critical.

"The mountains are called Rockie Drums. Did you see the castle at the top of the highest mountain?" Dalton.

All but Tanaka saw the highest mountain from Dalton's window.

"The castle no longer has a king." Dalton.

"What's wrong with the castle?" Vivi.

"The witch who is the only doctor in the country is Doctor Kureha who lives there." Dalton.

"What?! A doctor why is his residence that far away?! Then call him here immediately! There's an emergency patient!" Sanji.

"We wanted to contact him, but there was no way to reach him!" Dalton.

"And he calls himself a doctor?! What kind of doctor is he?!" Sanji asked confusedly.

Dalton explains to Sanji and the others about Kureha's doctor.

"Then what happens if there are people who are sick or injured?" Vivi.

"He will come down from the mountain whenever he likes. Then he looked for his patients and took care of them and for his payment he took anything from the sick man's house." Dalton.

"Surely grandma is bad, yes!" Usopp.

"Hey, he's like a pirate!" Luffy.

"But, how did the grandmother get down the mountain?" Vivi.

Dalton explained about a rumor circulating among the residents who saw Kureha riding a train flying through the moonlight by being pulled by a strange creature

"That's why she's called a witch." Strictly Dalton.

"I thought so, right? It must be a snowman! Because there's a snowy mountain! I thought there must be! Witch and Snowman?! Please, don't meet us with them!" Usopp said in fear.

"He's a doctor, but I'm not suggesting you go to him at all. All we can do is wait down the mountain again." Dalton.

Sanji, Vivi and Usopp are confused because they can't get a doctor right away. Luffy was silent as if he was thinking about something.

"We don't have time! Let's go directly to the doctor's office." Tanaka.

Luffy nodded his head and he walked up to Nami.

"Hey, Nami! Nami's! Can you hear me?" Call Luffy wake Nami up by patting her cheek.

"Hey, what are you doing?!" Said Usopp, Sanji and Vivi fiercely while Tanaka was silent.

Nami then slowly opened her eyes.

"Oh, he's up!" Luffy. "Hey, the only way to see a doctor, we have to climb a mountain! We have to climb it!"

"Don't joke! What will happen to Nami?!" Ask Sanji.

"Calm down, I'll carry him!" Luffy replied calmly.

Vivi sleeps in agreement because Luffy's actions are quite dangerous to Nami's life. But Luffy explained that Nami needed a doctor and that Nami should be taken directly to the doctor's place instead of waiting.

"That's true, but it's free! Look how high the mountain is!" Vivi.

"Then is there any other way to save Nami? We can't waste too long, Nami's life is being threatened right now." Tanaka said that made Vivi and Sanji speechless.

"I have to get well soon.I have to fulfill my promise with Vivi. I'm entrusting you, captain!" Nami said as she took her hand out of the blanket.

"I know you must say that! Leave it to me!" Luffy said as he patted Nami's hand.

"Okay, I'm coming too!" Sanji and Tanaka.

"Listen, Luffy! Remember that if you fall even once, Nami will die instantly!" Usopp.

"Although only once?!" Ask Luffy.

"Wait on! Let me tie it tight!" Said Vivi while tying the cloth so that Nami did not fall from Luffy's sling. "A ready. All right, I'll wait for you here. If I come, I'll just overload."

"Me too!" Usopp.

"All right! Yes, Nami! Hold on tight, yeah!" Luffy.

"Yes..." Nami.

"If you really want to go there, I won't stop you, but at least you'll be on the opposite side. If you take this route, there's Lapin. They're ferocious carnivorous rabbits. If you meet their group, your lives will be threatened." Dalton.

"Rabbit? But we're in a hurry! It's okay, right?" Luffy asked for my approval and Sanji.

"Any path doesn't matter." Tanaka.

"Yes, just kick it!" Sanji.

"Kick it?! Don't be stupid, you can die!" Dalton.

"Calm down! All right, let's go, Sanji, Tanaka! Before Nami dies!" Luffy said and ran.

So too Sanji and Tanaka immediately follow Luffy's run.

However, just a few steps Tanaka immediately dismissed Luffy and Sanji with force. He remembered that there was no need to climb the mountain to meet Kureha.

"Wait a minute!" Tanaka Pinta.

"What's Tanaka?" Ask Luffy.

"What are you doing? We're in a hurry! Nami's life is under threat!" Sanji was angry.

Vivi, Usopp and Dalton also immediately approached the four of them.

"What's wrong? Why did you stop?" Ask Vivi

"Yes, quickly take Nami to the doctor in the castle." Usopp.

Ignoring Vivi and Usopp, Tanaka looked at Luffy. "Captain do you believe me?" Ask Tanaka.

Luffy is confused and Sanji is constantly angry at Tanaka who is stalling for time.

"Luffy do you believe me, don't you?" Tanaka asked who ignored Sanji.

"Yes, I believe you!" Luffy replied firmly.

"Dalton what is the neighboring village far away from this place?" Ask Tanaka.

"No, it's only half an hour from here by snow train, why?" Ask Dalton.

"Luffy, we're going to the neighboring village to save Nami!" Tanaka.

Sanji who was already unable to hold back his emotions immediately approached Tanaka and pulled the collar of his clothes.

"What does it mean we should go to the neighboring village? Isn't the doctor in the castle there?" Ask Sanji.

"We don't need to go there to find a doctor because the doctor will go down to the neighboring village." Tanaka.

Hearing that made them all surprised.

"How did you know the doctor was going to the village?" Ask Usopp.

"Vivi, didn't I tell you that I can sometimes see the future?" Ask Tanaka.

Vivi nodded her head because at that moment Tanaka told her about her disguise that had been revealed but Vivi did not believe it.

" ... As a result I lost Igaram ... Wait a minute, Tanaka, what's possible ... " Tell Vivi who is aware of something.

"Yes, I just had that vision and that vision of doctor Kureha coming to a neighboring village." Tanaka.

Hearing that made Usopp and Sanji surprised while Luffy only fell silent because he did not understand the conversation, as well as Dalton.

"Luffy, we need to get to the neighboring village as soon as possible!" Vivi Pinta.

"Vivi you too?" Ask Sanji.

"Trust me the same Tanaka! We don't have time! We have to go to the neighboring village before the doctor returns to the castle." Vivi.

Although Dalton did not understand what they were talking about, but since it had been asked that way, he immediately prepared a snow carriage.

The sled was quickly ready, but the sled could only fit five people who were supposed to be seven. Nami had to be laid down so that it took the place of two people.

"Me and Usopp will catch up later you can go first." Vivi.

The three of them nodded their heads and Dalton immediately drove the sled pulled by two goat-like animals.

As Dalton said, the neighboring village can be reached only half an hour.

Arriving there Dalton immediately asked a resident about Kureha's doctor and the resident informed him that Kureha's doctor was at the bar to treat a child's patient.

Without a second thought they went straight to the bar with Nami being carried by Luffy.

By the time they got into the bar, a deer was ramming the head of a boy.

"Medical treatment is quite extreme?" Think Tanaka.

"Is he a doctor?" Ask Sanji.

"Look, Sanji's got a deer, let's catch it for food!" Said Luffy who had forgotten their original purpose of coming to that place.

After a while the medical treatment on the boy was completed and Kureha's doctor began to calculate the cost of which reached 50% of the cost of the bar's income.

Of course people immediately protested and alleged that Kureha's doctor was deceiving them by stating that the child was actually not sick or injured at all.

"Is he really a doctor? Not a robber, right?" Ask Sanji.

"Meats, meat, meat, I want to eat venison." Luffy said with water in his mouth.

Tanaka immediately hit his head to wake up with the initial goal, which is to save Nami.

Doctor Kureha wants to leave because her business is done, but she stops when she sees Dalton.

"Yo, Dalton, what are you doing here?" Ask Dr. Kureha.

"Doctor, I have an emergency patient to check on." Dalton said while showing Nami being held by Luffy.

Doctor Kureha immediately approached Nami and examined her.

"I can't do it here, leave him to me, I'll take care of him at my place." Kureha said a little seriously.

"Okay, let's go!" Luffy.

"No, the sled I'm wearing is only two people, leave him to me, you can wait here or climb the mountain to be in my residence." Obviously doctor Kureha.

Sanji refuses as he cannot hand Nami over to a stranger just like that, but Tanaka assures Sanji Nami that he will be fine with Kureha's doctor.

"Chopper bring the sled here!" Doctor Kureha called for a deer wearing a hat on his head.

Chopper immediately left the bar and quickly carried a sled in front of the bar.

Luffy put Nami on the sled, doctor Kureha got on the carriage and went straight to the castle.

"Let's go to the castle too." Tanaka.

"Yes!" Sanji and Luffy.

The three of them immediately went to the highest mountain where the castle was located with the direction of Dalton.

Tanaka, Luffy and Sanji continued to climb the mountain, which piled up snow, making them a little difficult to run or walk.

"It feels a little cooler, yeah. The wind is getting stronger too." Luffy.

"Then why are you still wearing such shorts? Just seeing it was horrified to myself!" Sanji.

"This is my policy!" Luffy's.

"What do you mean police? That's the right policy!" Say Sanji correcting Luffy's word.

"Yes, that!" Luffy. "Oh yeah, do you know? People in the snow country never sleep, you know!"

"Why is that?" Ask Sanji.

"When they fall asleep, they die!" Luffy.

"Don't be stupid! Which one is that where?!" Sanji.

"Really, loh! Someone told me that once!" Luffy.

"Surely Usopp, right?" Sanji asked who immediately guessed Luffy's informant.

Suddenly a small sized animal named Lapin attacked the three of them, but they easily avoided it while continuing to climb.

"No! I heard it at my hometown bar!" Deny Luffy.

Lapin attacked again which they only avoided without anyone to fight back. When a tree falls, we jump.

Lapin continued to attack until finally Sanji was upset and kicked Lapin.

"Who the hell is he?" Ask Sanji.

"The beast is called Lapin, didn't Dalton tell you about the beast?" Answer Tanaka.

"Snow is here in one go, yes." Luffy.

Then in front of us stood many large-sized Lapin. The small-sized Lapin that Sanji had just kicked stood beside the large lapin with an injured cheek and let out tears.

Little Lapin was like a child crying and complaining to his parents after being hit.

"Do you want what they are?" Ask Sanji.

"They are white and big-bodied, definitely polar bears! It's not wrong anymore!" Luffy.

"No, lapin, that's the beast's name." Denying Tanaka.

"He jumped?!" Sanji said when he saw one of Lapin jump and would attack the three of them.

They also avoided his attacks.

"It's a lie, right? Why is he moving like that? He's a gorilla, yeah." Sanji.

"No, he's a polar bear!" Luffy.

"Gosh how many times have I told you that they're lapins!" Said the angry Tanaka.

"But this much?!" Sanji.

Tanaka just stared flatly at the group of Lapin in front of him.

"We must go to the castle as soon as possible, Nami is waiting for us! Get the fuck out of you, you fucking rabbit!"

"It's up to you to call them, tired of me telling you." Tanaka Mumbles.

"They're coming!" Said Luffy who saw a lapin jump to attack them.

"Yes!" Said Sanji who was preparing in a fighting position, as well as Tanaka and Luffy.

Tanaka takes Honjo out of his scabbard because he doesn't want to kill the creature.

Sanji kicked Lapin who attacked it but, "Damn! In the snow like this, my kicks don't really matter!" Sanji.

They were then attacked simultaneously by the Lapin.

Of course, even though the environmental conditions were very detrimental to the three of them and benefited the lapins because that place was their habitat, Tanaka, Luffy and Sanji could still provide a balanced resistance, he said, maybe even stronger than those lapsins.

They continued to run to avoid the Lapins rather than fight them in order to reach the top of the mountain faster.

"They're coming?" Luffy.

"No, nothing." Sanji said as he saw no more Lapin chasing after him.

"Alright, looks like we managed to run." Luffy.

"No, not yet." Sanji.

We saw a group of Lapin already on the hill in front of us.

"Great!" Luffy.

The group of Lapin then jumped.

"What are they? Are they hungry because we're upset?" Ask Luffy.

"No, wait a minute. Don't-don't.they!" Said Sanji who felt bad things were going to happen. "They really did it! It's a lie, isn't it?"

"Hey Sanji, what's wrong? What the hell is going on?" Luffy.

"We have to run!" Tanaka

"Eh, run? Run where?" Ask Luffy.

"Where is no problem! To a higher place! The avalanche! Avalanche's approaching!" Shouted Sanji.

They also ran to avoid the avalanche made by the lapins.

"Those damn rabbits I won't forgive, damn it!" Shouted Sanji.