Chapter 241 Prologue
"Let's go! Our next destination is the Kingdom of Alabasta!"

On the Merry, Luffy, his crew, and Vivi were all looking ahead with determined expressions.

During these few days, they first passed through the small garden, where they met the giants Broki and Donli from Elbaf, defeated the assassins sent by Baroque Studio, and obtained the permanent pointer of Alabasta.

However, in this small garden full of poisonous insects, Nami was accidentally bitten by one and developed a high fever after going out to sea. So they temporarily changed their sailing direction and landed in a country with advanced medical care - the Drum Kingdom.

There, he found the witch Dr. Kuleha, and with her help healed Nami. He also recruited Kuleha's assistant - the reindeer Tony Tony Chopper who ate the Human-Human Fruit.

At this point, the Straw Hat Pirates have added another crew member, a ship's doctor who inherited Kureha's extraordinary medical skills.

And now, after leaving the Drum Kingdom, they officially set out for Alabasta.

The goal is to tell the people of the Kingdom of Alabasta the truth about the three-year drought, so as to stabilize the increasingly turbulent country.

During the voyage,
"Ah~ I'm so hungry! Sanji, is the meal ready?"

Luffy jumped off the bow, rubbing his stomach while shouting towards the cabin on the second floor.

"It'll be ready soon!"

Sanji's voice came from inside.

Soon, he came out with two plates of delicious meat noodles.

“Oh, it smells so good!!”

Luffy's nose twitched like a dog, golden light instantly flashed in his eyes, and saliva flowed from his mouth.

Then he flashed in front of Sanji and grabbed the meat noodles in his hand.

Bang! !

Unexpectedly, Sanji suddenly kicked him and sent him flying.

"This is for Nami-san and Vivi-chan. Your share is in there."

Sanji half-closed his eyes and said coldly.

Then his expression changed and he put on a fawning smile like a dog licking his lips. He slid seductively towards Weiwei, who was standing by the side of the boat looking into the distance, and handed a bowl of meat stewed noodles in his hand to her.

"Weiwei, your meat stew noodles are here!"

"Thank you, Sanji."

Weiwei came back to her senses from her worries about the country and took the meat stew noodles with a smile on her face.

"Don't worry too much, Weiwei-chan, everything will be fine."

After noticing the look on Vivi's face just now, Sanji put away his smile and said something soothing in a very warm and caring way.

"Yeah, I know."

"Oh by the way, have you seen Nami-san?"

Sanji looked around the ship and found that Nami was nowhere to be seen, so he couldn't help but ask.

"She should be in her room."

At this time, in the room, Nami was sitting at the table, looking carefully at a newspaper on the table. It was the newspaper she had taken from Kuleha.

"Sure enough, the person mentioned in the newspaper is that guy."

After reading the contents of the newspaper, she looked at a wanted poster next to the newspaper. It was the latest wanted poster with a photo of Goku.

"The Celestial Dragons, the world's nobles?"

she muttered.

Even though she lived in a remote area like the East China Sea, she had heard of this name before, but she didn't know much about its meaning.

Does rescuing slaves from the Celestial Dragons mean challenging the World Government?
She was filled with doubts.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Knock knock knock!
"Nami-san, lunch is ready!"

"Coming!"

After Nami responded, her expression changed as she looked at the newspaper and the reward notice on the table.

Since Weiwei is the princess of the kingdom, she must be more familiar with the Celestial Dragons.

Thinking of this, she picked up the newspaper and the reward notice, then stood up and opened the door.

"Thank you, Sanji. Please put it on my desk first."

Outside the door, when Sanji heard this, his eyes instantly turned into heart-shaped peaches.

"Nami-san let me into her room! Does this mean that our relationship has become closer?"

Ignoring him who was in a cerebral orgasm, Nami walked to the railing and waved to Vivi below: "Vivi, do you know the Celestial Dragons?"

Weiwei, who was slowly savoring the meat noodles, was stunned when she heard her question.

"I know, why do you ask this suddenly?"

Nami came down from the second floor and handed over the newspaper.

"Have you seen this news before? What exactly does the Celestial Dragon represent? Why would the World Government hunt this man down just because we rescued a slave from him?"

Vivi put down the meat stew noodles in her hand and took the newspaper, but she knew what Nami was talking about without looking at it. After all, when that incident came out, it caused a sensation in the entire Grand Line.

After taking a quick look and confirming that it was that incident, she put the newspaper down.

Then he said solemnly: "Nami, the Celestial Dragons represent the sky!"

"sky?"

Nami was stunned.

"Well, I will take this opportunity to explain it to you so that you won't be confused about what to do when you encounter a celestial dragon in the future."

Vivi thought that Luffy and his group basically came from the East China Sea, and probably didn't know much about the Celestial Dragons, so she decided to explain it to them.

Soon, after everyone finished their meal, they gathered on the deck and listened to Weiwei's explanation:
"The Celestial Dragons are the most noble aristocracy in the world, enjoying all the privileges. They..."

Nami, Sanji, Zoro and others listened very carefully, but Luffy felt a little bored. He yawned and wanted to sleep.

About ten minutes later.

"That's about it. You should now understand what the Celestial Dragons represent."

Weiwei breathed a sigh of relief and felt a little smoke in her throat.

"Gah!"

Weiwei's mount, a cute duck named Kalu, fetched a glass of water and handed it over.

"Hehe, thank you, Kalu."

"Gah!"

Kalu saluted and said that this was what he should do.

"Are there still such powerful people in the world? Disobeying them is disobeying the world government."

On the other hand, after listening to Vivi's explanation, Nami's face was full of disbelief.

No wonder Vivi said that the Celestial Dragons are heaven. Isn’t the World Government that rules the entire world heaven?
"Heh, no matter who they are, if they dare to hurt Nami-san and Vivi-chan, I will kick them all away!"

Sanji slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and his cold expression combined with these words made him look surprisingly handsome.

However, the next second, his serious look disappeared.

"Nami-san! Vivi-chan! Are you touched? Are you in love with me?!"

He raised his hands high, and his enchanting figure kept sliding between the two of them.

"Humph, you are such a loser."

Zoro crossed his arms and curled his lips in disgust. Then, the corners of his mouth slightly raised: "A Celestial Dragon? I wonder what it would feel like to chop him up."

After Weiwei's explanation, he had already imagined the Celestial Dragons doing all kinds of evil.

His knife would never show mercy to such people.

"Ahhhhh this is so scary! We must not encounter the Celestial Dragons!"

After getting on the ship, Chopper, who automatically joined the Gallant Team, hugged Usopp tightly, with tears on his frightened face.

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Looking at Luffy who was daydreaming and Zoro and Sanji who were eager to try, Vivi sighed helplessly.

Forget it, just leave them alone. It’s not easy to encounter the Celestial Dragons.

"Hmm? Nami, what's the bounty you have?"

At this moment, she inadvertently saw the bounty order in Nami's other hand, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"You probably haven't seen him yet. The person on the wanted poster is the one in the news."

Nami handed over the bounty order.

"This is?!"

After taking the bounty order and taking a look at it, Weiwei's pupils couldn't help but shrink.

She had seen Wukong's original bounty order, but she had never seen the second version.

"So this is what he looks like."

She was filled with emotion.

Although she is a princess and a noble, she still approves of Goku's act of rescuing slaves from the Celestial Dragons.

Of course, she could only think about such things in her heart and dared not say them out loud, so as not to bring disaster to her own country.

"Hey, isn't this the guy we met before?"

Usopp, who had come over at some point, exclaimed after seeing Goku on the wanted poster.

"Humph! Didn't you say before that the portrait wasn't of him? The description on this wanted poster is exactly the same as that one!"

Nami said unhappily, her hands on her hips.

She had previously thought that the bounty poster with only a portrait belonged to Goku, but Usopp and the others thought it was not, which made her doubt her own judgment.

After this confirmation, she was finally able to hold her head high and give the other party a good scolding.

"It's really true!"

After reading the above introduction, Usopp couldn't help but widen his eyes.

Then, as if he thought of something, his face suddenly turned pale and he stammered, "Wait a minute! Then, then, that means that the man we saw some time ago, he, he, he, he is the one who injured the Celestial Dragon and is being hunted by the World Government!!"

After thinking of this horrible fact, his body trembled like a sieve, holding his head and shouting: "It's over, it's over! He helped us defeat Arlong at that time. If the World Government knew about this, they would not list us as his accomplices!!"

"A bounty of 1.2 million, and he did something like that. I never thought that guy had such an identity."

Sanji took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then lit it, took a puff, and blew out smoke rings, his eyes extremely deep.

"This is quite worthy of his ability to come and go without a trace."

As Weiwei listened, her little mouth gradually opened wider.

"Wait! Are you saying that you met this person before?!"

"Yeah, they've only met once, but I've met them twice."

Nami sighed and told him what happened when she met Goku before.

"That's the situation. I thought he was just an ordinary traveler, but I didn't expect he had this identity."

"This is really true."

Weiwei didn't know what to say.

After doing that, the other party actually ran to the East China Sea and happened to meet Luffy and the others. It was really fate.

"It's okay. Even if you are his friends, as long as you don't injure the Celestial Dragons like he did, the World Government will not list you as accomplices."

Looking at Usopp who was still holding his head in despair, Vivi kindly comforted him.

"Really? That's good, that's good!"

Usopp instantly revived with full health.

In the Kingdom of Alabasta.

The city called Rainland is where Crocodile's base is located.

In the center of the city, there stands a magnificent casino called Rain Banquet. A large number of citizens and tourists come in and out of here, spending money like water.

And underground, in a huge unknown underground space, a gloomy man with a slicked-back hair, a scar across his face that ran across the bridge of his nose, wearing a black fur coat and holding a cigar in his mouth, was sitting comfortably in his boss chair, puffing away smoke.

He is the mastermind behind the civil strife in Alabasta, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea - Crocodile!
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"Is everything done?"

He asked without turning his head after hearing familiar footsteps behind him.

"Of course, Mr. 1 and his partner Miss. Double Finger, Mr. 2, Mr. 4 and his partner Miss. Merry Christmas, as well as the Billion Elders and Million Elders have all received orders to rush over to us."

"They will probably arrive in four days."

Robin, who had just returned here not long ago, walked down the stairs, folded his hands, and spoke softly.

"Yes, I understand. The Utopia Project has been in the planning for several years and can finally be carried out now."

Crocodile turned his chair and looked at Robin with a cruel smile on his face.

Of course, his smile was not directed at Robin, but at the country he was in, the country that was being played around by him.

In the past few years, he has been hunting pirates causing chaos in Alabasta as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, and sometimes even directs and acts in his own shows to gain the people's trust in him and regard him as a national hero.

On the other hand, he took advantage of the side effects of the forbidden dancing powder, causing drought for three years in the inland cities of the Alabasta Kingdom, except for the capital and the rainy land. He secretly pushed the responsibility to King Cobra, causing the unaware people to become increasingly dissatisfied with the king, and they formed a rebel army and wanted to rebel.

Finally now, his preparations are completely complete, and he can launch the final Utopia plan to seize one of the three ancient weapons hidden in the kingdom that is said to be able to destroy the world - Pluto!
"Next, let us wait quietly for the wailing of this country."

He picked up the red wine on the table and drank it in one gulp.

His eyes were filled with strong expectations for the success of his plan.

Soon, another four days passed.

That morning, on the ocean outside Alabasta, the silhouette of the Merry appeared from afar and got closer and closer as time passed.

"Is that Alabasta?"

On the bow, Luffy sat cross-legged here, looking out at the desert country in the distance with raised eyebrows.

"Yes, I don't know what the situation is like in the country now."

Weiwei stood at the bow, her hands tightly clasped together, looking worriedly at the familiar motherland ahead.

Ever since she learned that 400,000 of the king's troops had betrayed the king and joined the rebels, instantly reversing the power advantage between the two sides, she has been worried, fearing that the rebels would have started fighting with the remaining king's troops before she arrived, causing unnecessary casualties.

She stubbornly believed that whether they were the royal army or the rebel army, they were all innocent and should not be harmed in any way.

Therefore, she must try her best to tell everyone the truth, expose Crocodile's true face, and prevent the entire country from shedding a drop of blood because of the other party's manipulation!

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(End of this chapter)

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