One Piece: Who still has dreams?

After saying that, she strode towards the direction of Along Paradise, and then slowly started running, as if adapting to her own strength. At first, she staggered a bit and knocked down a few trees, but soon she ran faster and faster, leaving a trail of dust in her wake before disappearing into the distance.

Nojiko stared blankly in the direction Nami had left.

Redio suddenly asked her, "The Arlong Pirates have a Sea King that looks like a cow. Do you know where it usually hangs out?"

Nojiko stared blankly at him and said, "This... it should be in the waters near Arlong Paradise, I don't know... what are you going to do?"

Redio laughed and said, "It's nothing, we just need a pet to pull the boat."

Chapter 73, Person 2

[Section Headline Series: Executive Vice President Miss Quan, Sunday, 23rd: "I am Sabo, a Staff Officer of the Revolutionary Army"]

[The pursuers on the shore fired their guns into the air in a fit of rage. On the small dragon-flagged boat, which had already successfully sailed far away, the blond young man smiled and extended his hand to Olbia and her daughter, introducing them to his companions: the fish-man master Hak, and his assistant Kelra.]

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[Alon Paradise]

"Hahaha, so much money! Fellow countrymen, come and share it! This gold will be exchanged by that rat guy later, hahahahaha!"

The five-story building was gone. Ah Long sat under the parasol, laughing loudly.

The pools on both sides were packed with all sorts of fishmen, laughing and raising their glasses: "Ah Long, let's have a party to celebrate!"

At the entrance to the wall, fishmen kept carrying items back from the building that Arlong had thrown out. Thinking about how they would use the money Nami handed over to build an even more beautiful house, everyone couldn't help but smile.

"Ah Long, how about we build a park that's even more like the Soap Bubble Paradise this time? New!" Xiao Ba lay by the pool, daydreaming and reminiscing.

When they first surfaced from the dark depths of the sea as children, they saw the dreamlike neon lights of the Sabaody Archipelago. That seemingly unattainable longing was forever imprinted in their hearts.

"Hahaha! Of course!" Ah Long laughed loudly, but suddenly heard a commotion outside and said unhappily, "What's going on?" He glared and saw a fellow fishman being thrown high into the wall.

"Hey!" Ah Long exclaimed urgently, jumping up to catch the fishman. "Fellow countryman, who did this?"

"it's me."

With a girl's voice, the wall of the amusement park over there burst open with a "boom," and five or six fishmen and pirates of various kinds were sent flying in, falling into the pool like dumplings, smashing the stone bottle in the hand of the mermaid statue.

The orange-haired girl walked in through the gap in the wall and said in a complicated tone, "So... you really are that weak."

"Nami...you bastard..."

A Long's forehead veins throbbed, his muscles bulged, his sharp teeth gleamed, and he roared furiously, "Dare to harm my compatriots? Do you really want to die?!"

His eyes widened in fury, and he charged fiercely towards Nami, his long, saw-like nose like the tip of a spear, relentlessly aimed at her heart. This time, he was truly enraged! He was determined to kill!

Nami's pupils contracted slightly, reflecting Arlong's furious figure rushing towards her...

Why is he moving so slowly?

Thinking this, Nami took a step forward, lowered her body, and swung her right fist forward at the same time.

Arlong's face seemed to have been willingly delivered into Nami's fist.

Nami's fist struck his long nose, bending and twisting it bit by bit, like a steel saw. His mouthful of shark teeth were squeezed and broken off little by little by her fist. The fish-man's face distorted and twisted like water, and blood spurted from his mouth, nostrils, eyes, and ears...

"boom!!"

Blood was still splattered on the spot, but Ah Long had already flown back at three times the speed, crashing hard into the edge of the pool and creating a ten-meter-deep cone-shaped crater, with the pool water gushing out.

The ordinary members of the Arlong Pirates in the pool were dumbfounded, staring blankly at Nami who had punched Arlong away.

"I don't know how you did it..." Croobi, the right-hand man of the Arlong Pirates, whose elbows had sharp, fan-like blades, sprinted around to Nami's back and slashed at the back of her neck with the hard wings of his elbows.

Nami turned to look at him, tilted her head in confusion to avoid him, gently grabbed his arm, and swung him into the pool. With a "boom," a wave of water shot up ten meters high, knocking three or four stunned fishmen unconscious.

A sound like a bullet whistling through the air came from the other side.

Nami looked in the direction of the sound and saw that the Kissing Fishman executive, whose mouth was as long as a gun barrel, was spitting a water bullet at her, which was "slowly" flying towards her head.

Nami, recalling Redio's previous battle with Kuro, sped up her run. Before the water bullet could reach her previous spot, she had already reached the kissing fishman and kicked him away.

Without further hesitation, Nami transformed into a blur, taking down all the fishmen present in one fell swoop. She grabbed Hachi and whipped him repeatedly, smashing the mermaid statue to pieces.

"Stop!!!" Ah Long, his nose crooked and his face covered in blood, crawled out of the cone-shaped pit in the pool. Looking at his fellow fishmen groaning on the ground, his eyes were bloodshot.

Nami walked towards him.

"No!" Hachi rushed over, covered in wounds, and pinned Arlong down with both hands, raising his arms in surrender. His head was covered in blood as he pleaded with Nami, "Stop hitting him, New..."

"..."

Nami stopped, glanced around, and sighed wearily, "Anyway, I'm not interested anymore. I'm giving you half a day to get out of here, you hear me?"

She didn't want to see that scene anymore, so she turned and left.

"Thank you! Thank you!" Hachi breathed a sigh of relief and kowtowed repeatedly to Nami's departing figure, so many times that the floor cracked from the impact.

Ah Long's eyes were bloodshot, and he shoved Xiao Ba away: "Are you crazy? Kneeling before humans?!"

Xiao Ba said helplessly, "She's become so powerful, we can't beat her, let's go, Ah Long, let's go."

Ah Long said angrily, "Just a few days ago she was just a weak human woman! How could she suddenly become so powerful! Unless...!"

He suddenly realized something, and gave a cold, cruel smile. "I know! She must have used something similar to the legendary 'poison' from the Dragon Palace, overdrawing her life force to gain arm strength comparable to that of a fish-man! Hahaha... Pathetic humans, even with all their might, they are only trying to catch up with the innate abilities of the noble fish-men!"

Hey! Fellow countrymen!

Arlong, his face covered in blood, violently straightened the long, serrated nose and roared maniacally, "Call everyone back! If we wait any longer, Nami's power will definitely be used up. Tonight, we'll... wipe out everyone in her beloved Cocoyasi Village! Hahahaha..."

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Nami wiped the fish-man's blood from her fist and walked on a road in the suburbs after leaving Arlong Park. Suddenly, she saw Redio and her sister Nojiko sitting by the roadside.

"Did you let them go?" Redio asked her.

"I'm tired," Nami said softly. "I beat them all up; they'll be scared away."

Redio asked, "You couldn't beat them before either, so were you scared away?"

Nojiko hesitated, but was stopped by him.

Nami remained silent and tried to leave, but Redio pressed down on her shoulder and whispered in her ear, "Have you forgotten how Bellemere died?"

Nami's pupils contracted sharply, and her whole body trembled.

"This story began because of you," Redio's gentle voice echoed in her mind.

Nami didn't want to pay attention. She wasn't a cruel person, nor did she want to become someone who only knew how to abuse force. Otherwise, what difference would there be between her and those fish-men?

She lowered her head and headed home.

"Nami, you're back." Bellemere stood at the door with a smile, a cigarette dangling from her lips.

The foster mother sighed at her son for stealing the book, saying, "If you wanted it, why didn't you tell me? It's just a book; I have some savings of my own."

Nami slowed her pace.

Arlong held the gun to Bellemere's forehead. Blood streamed down her face as she smiled and said, "Nojiko, Nami, I love you."

"Bang!!" A gunshot rang out.

"Hahahaha! Under my control, those without money must die! Do you understand, you inferior race!" Ah Long's nightmarish figure and maniacal laughter echoed overhead once again.

"A world map, huh? I'd really like to see it!"

Hearing her mother speak of her dream, Nami smiled gently and said, "So, this map of the island you drew today is the first step towards Nami's dream?"

"Nami, I love you all."

The gun was pressed against my mother's forehead.

"Bang!!"

You will never see me achieve my dream...

"So what if we're not related by blood? Is that really that important? I won't allow you to spout nonsense again!" This was the first time Bellemere had ever been so angry.

I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said those things. Although we're not related by blood, you're my beloved mother and sister...

The gun was pressed against my mother's forehead.

Bellemere gently grasped the gun barrel. "Nami, your mother is a righteous marine. How can we let these pirates who have ravaged our homeland get away with it?"

She snatched the gun and handed it to Nami.

Nami accepted the gift with tears in her eyes. Seeing her mother's encouraging gaze and smiling expression, she said to her, "Go, just for my sake."

“Belmel………………”

Nami murmured to herself, tears streaming down her face. Through her blurred vision, Arlong's face became clearer and clearer. Blood kept gushing from his mouth, and Nami's fist was deeply embedded in his chest.

She was bewildered to find that she had somehow returned to Alon Paradise.

Croobi's fins were torn to shreds, the Kissing Fishman's long beak and head were mangled and rotten on the ground, Hachi's eight octopus arms were gone, and his remaining half-body lay on the edge of the pool, his long-dead eyes still staring blankly at the replica of the Sabaody Park sign on the ground...

The entire area around the swimming pool in the park was filled with the gruesome corpses of fish-men and pirates. They had all been torn apart by brute force, their bodies ripped open, their heads blown off.

"Cough, cough, you, hehe..." Ah Long tried to speak, but Nami punched him through the chest, shattering his heart. All he could do when he opened his mouth was gushing blood.

His consciousness began to blur, and he thought he was glaring at Nami with furious eyes, but in reality, his eyes were limp and beginning to glaze over.

With a thud, Nami casually tossed him to the ground, leaving him stunned.

"Cough cough, cough... I won't... I won't..." Ah Long crawled on the ground, leaving a thick trail of blood. He struggled to crawl towards the pool that was already stained red, but suddenly his long nose was stepped on by a foot, and he could no longer move.