I'm in One Piece, and I'm Luffy's childhood friend.

“You two!!!”

Sanji now deeply regrets not being with Nami and Robin.

........

The Raven followed the Cloud River.

Luffy and Usopp were still chewing on pancakes.

"Want a sky pancake, Sanji?"

Luffy asked.

"No! Listen to me, I'll steer the boat. You all keep an eye on your surroundings!"

Sanji refused, saying he was too angry to stand.

At that moment, Luffy realized, "Wow, when did we get to such a high place?"

We walked along, but it was still very quiet, which felt a bit off.

Sanji thought to himself.

"That's strange. It clearly said there were four priests. I thought the four cave entrances led to the places guarded by the four priests... Could I be wrong?"

Sanji was pondering this, and at that moment, the background music was...

"Hey Usopp! Pass the ball!"

"Okay! No problem, no problem!"

"I told you to take a good look!!!"

Sanji was so angry that his sharp teeth were showing, and he wished he could kick those two off the stage.

But then an unexpected situation arose.

The ball Luffy threw at Usopp popped open, and a snake crawled out of it and lunged at Usopp.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaah!!"

Usopp reacted quickly, immediately crouching down and covering his head to avoid the snake's bite.

Luffy immediately came over and kicked the snake and the ball away.

"You bastard! Get out of here!!"

"Phew, that gave me a real fright."

Luffy was panting and having fun when a snake suddenly jumped out. He wasn't scared, just startled, you know, that kind of "sudden" feeling.

"Sanji! There are more cloud balls ahead!"

"Kick it away!!"

A snake just jumped out. Usopp is now quite averse to these balls, which is normal for a person.

"hateful!"

"Are all the clouds floating here snake nests?"

Sanji got up and kicked her, guessing at the same time.

Then the ball on his foot exploded instantly.

He was clearly wrong.

Chapter 280 How about I bring them all here to be your priests?

Shrine area.

Bai Yun was fanning Enel, smiling to his face but cursing behind his back.

Enel's Observation Haki allows him to see the shape of Haku's mouth and face. You can't tell what he means just by looking at his mouth, but his expression clearly shows that he is very dissatisfied.

"What, you're not convinced?"

“Indeed, what kind of priest uses a fan? That would be a waste of talent.”

Bai Yun didn't pretend and admitted it directly.

"Heh, you think it's a waste of your talents? Then I'll give you a choice: go kill your companions in the forest and at the altar now, or stay here and fan the wind."

Enel remained relaxed, sitting on his throne with his left elbow resting on the armrest of the chair and his fist supporting his head.

"Let's stay here then, haha."

Bai Yun chuckled twice.

Enel responded with another cold snort.

"Heh, what's wrong? Aren't you going to become a priest? You can't bear to leave your companions?"

Bai Yun stopped. "That makes sense. After all, we've been partners. How about I bring them all here to be your priests?"

"roll."

Enel replied succinctly.

"Haha, just kidding. May I ask, great God, what are your plans to do with them?"

Bai Yun asked.

Enel suddenly opened his closed eyes. "Useless things should disappear, including this land!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Yun smiled but remained silent. It's a pity you couldn't overcome the protagonist's halo.

"Keep fanning."

Enel closed his eyes again and ordered Bai Yun to continue fanning.

Bai Yun flashed a white eye for a third of a second, then continued slapping his face.

"Okay~"

.........

Return to the forest of the Trial of the Ball.

Sanji kicked the cloud, but instead got himself into a firecracker-like explosion. At such close range, the three of them were blasted black, with smoke billowing from their heads.

First came the snake, then the bomb.

Luffy suddenly found it uninteresting.

"What on earth is going on?! These [balls]!!!"

At that moment, the voice of a fourth person finally came from the stagnant forest.

"Hehehe... I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes out of the clouds."

"That's called [Amazing Cloud]!"

Who is it?!

The sudden sound startled the three of them, and they immediately looked in the direction from which the sound came. They saw "a ball" sitting on a strange cloud, or more accurately, a person whose body was shaped like a ball.

"Hehehe, Hasso, first of all, thank you for choosing my Ball Trial."

Daigo said as he stood up.

Usopp was the first to react.

"It looks like a ball; that's one of the four priests Bai Yun mentioned!"

On Angel Beach, Bai Yun described his impression of the four priests to McKinley.

One looked like a ball, had a spider-like hairstyle, was bald, and there was another one I don't really remember.

Clearly, the round guy standing in front of Luffy and his two companions is the one Bai Yun mentioned who looks like a ball.

So, Luffy complained.

"Are you the trial of the ball, or are you the ball yourself?!"

Da Wu didn't answer, but instead started dancing on the Surprise Cloud. To call it dancing was an exaggeration, as his round figure only allowed him to bounce from side to side.

Sanji observes Daigo.

"Is this guy the priest?"

A sarcastic remark from Usopp.

"He seems kind of silly."

In short, let's focus on the most important issues first.

"Hey! Tuanzi, how are Nami and the others?"

Sanji shouted.

The name "Tuanzi" (团子) is quite fitting for the round and plump Dawu.

However, when asked whether he looked like a ball or a dumpling, Daigo didn't deny it, and still had a faint smile on his face.

"You mean the sacrificial offerings? I don't know anything about that. They're going to die anyway, even if they're lucky enough to escape."

"No matter what, it's a dead end."

Da Wu smiled, but what he said wasn't funny at all.

"What did you say!!!"

Sanji called out anxiously, after all, they were his comrades, and most importantly, Nami and Robin were there.

Da Wu jumped up again.

"Hehehe, compared to them, you should worry about yourselves. Let me make this clear: if you can't beat me, you can forget about advancing any further."

Chapter 281 Lost in the Forest

This side of the altar.

The wind is gentle, and the water is still.

Everything seemed peaceful.

But Bai Yun knew that soon, the bird-riding Asura, one of the four divine officials, would arrive.