One Piece: Starting with Coercing and Enticing Nami

Looking at the different improvements his four skills had made over the past two days, Thoth focused his attention on the last one:

"With my current strength, it would be very dangerous to cause a lot of bloodshed in the vast ocean. The small boat can't withstand such violent turmoil. It would be a pleasant surprise to have improved my 'underwater combat skills' a little bit."

Close the panel.

A short while later, Nami jumped off the boat with a small backpack slung over her shoulder, a shovel in one hand, and a large package in the other.

Approaching Toth, he blinked and handed him the large package:

"You carry this."

Thoth smiled slightly at Nami, who was shirking her duties: "You just gave them all to me like that?"

Nami was stunned for a moment, then rolled her eyes dramatically, her face utterly speechless.

"It's not even dark yet, why are you already dreaming? Have you been too tired these past few days? Why don't you go and take a nap later?"

Nami sighed, "Look how tired you are. Never mind, I won't trouble you with this little thing, I'll do it myself!"

With that, he walked past Toth and headed briskly into the forest.

Watching her retreating figure, Thoth rested his left hand on the hilt of his sword and chuckled silently.

"As expected of you!"

Nami turned around and scoffed, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and catch up."

As you venture deeper into the island, the surrounding environment becomes increasingly desolate. There are no high mountains on Coto Island, only dense forests and flowing lakes.

Near the center of the island, at the foot of a gently undulating slope, leaning against a tree, Thoth watched as Nami had already dug a pit more than two meters deep with a shovel.

"Are you going to dig any deeper? You're not thinking of digging a well, are you?"

Nami wiped the water droplets from her forehead, turned around, and grinned: "I can sense that the environment here is quite dry, and there are no underground waterways around here."

Thoth's eyes widened in surprise: "Is it that amazing?"

Nami stopped what she was doing, beaming with pride, and pointed at Thoth. "Alright, get to work. Put down the planks you cut with your sword; I need to fill the hole."

Thoth shrugged, walked over and stuffed several planks, each a meter long and half a meter wide, down the pit wall one by one, and soon an unsealed wooden frame appeared.

Nami picked up the package and stuffed it inside. Thoth covered it with the last wooden plank, making it almost perfectly sealed. With a rustling sound, the shovel kept swinging, covering it with a meter-thick layer of soil.

Finally, Nami covered it with some dry soil and weeds.

With a few minor modifications, it will be virtually undetectable from the outside. After another two days, there won't be a trace left.

Nami stomped her foot on the ground with a loud slapping sound, looking smug: "Not bad, not bad at all. I really am a genius."

"Dig a hole and fill it with soil?"

Thoth, suppressing a laugh, asked her, and Nami immediately narrowed her eyes:

"Thoth, hasn't anyone ever told you that you can be really annoying sometimes?"

“There really is one.” But Thoth grinned: “But only if you can beat me.”

"Tsk!" Nami clicked her tongue, speechless. "Can't you give in a little? I'm a pretty girl, after all, aren't I?"

Thoth pinched his nose, waved his right hand in front of his nose, and looked disgusted.

"Wait until you've washed yourself clean before you come here and call yourself a beautiful girl! You smell awful right now, aren't you ashamed?"

Grinning, Nami was furious. She went up to Thoth, picked up the backpack from the ground, slung it over her shoulder, turned around and left, giving Thoth the back of her head.

"With your sharp tongue, you'll definitely be unwanted in the future, I'm telling you."

Nami's tone was sarcastic, and her voice came from behind her.

"Yes, yes, you're right."

In the dense forest, two people walked one after the other, with Thoth holding the knight's sword named "Steel Breaker".

With a casual wave of his hand, he unleashed streaks of sword light mixed with a strong wind, and a wide road was forcibly carved out.

In two days, Thoth had thoroughly figured out the sword's parameters and could use it in battle at will.

Nami followed two meters behind, her orange eyes darting around furtively.

"Thoth, tell me, we've been here for so long, why haven't we seen any large beasts on this island?"

"The most common animals I see are wild rabbits and mice."

Without turning his head, Toth said, "Maybe you were so smelly that you made them all stink away!"

"Hey, can I punch you?"

Nami said with a grin, "I just don't know if you have any 'I'm talking about this' in your heart."

"Then I'm sorry, but for you right now, that's not possible, because I could make you cry for a very long time with just one punch."

"Ha! I won't cry!"

At that moment, Toth's eyes flashed, and he stopped. Immediately afterward, a rustling sound came from a bush in front of him.

Nami warily shielded Thoth in front of her, placing her hands on his lower back and peeking out nervously to look around.

"What's wrong? Is there danger?"

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Suddenly, a black leopard nearly three meters long burst out of the bushes.

Its green eyes gleamed coldly, and it bared its teeth while crouching low.

Thoth could clearly sense that Nami's body stiffened behind him.

"You should be fine, right?"

Nami's tone changed slightly.

At that moment, seemingly sensing the panic emanating from Nami, the black panther suddenly leaped into the air, its sharp front claws whistling as it swiftly attacked.

Just then, a clear and melodious bell sound rang out from under the black panther's neck.

Surprise flashed in Thoth's eyes, but his hands moved quickly. With a flick of his arm, a sword light disappeared from bottom to top in the blink of an eye.

With a soft "plop," a burst of blood erupted from the black panther's jaw.

Amidst a piercing scream, Tot delivered a powerful kick, sending the black panther flying.

The black panther flew straight three meters away, crashed into the grass, and rolled several times.

However, apart from his jaw being split in two, the black panther was not seriously injured. Thoth calmly watched the black panther get up from the grass. Judging from the feeling of the kick just now, the panther seemed to have tightened its abdominal muscles.

eccentric.

The black panther stared at Thoth with sinister eyes, spitting blood and growling. Thoth moved, but the panther turned and ran with remarkable agility.

It was extremely fast, and in the blink of an eye it had rushed more than fifty meters away.

As expected of a cunning leopard.

Pursuit.

With his eyes fixed on its receding figure, Thoth swung his legs forcefully, relentlessly chasing the trail of blood on the ground.

At the same time, hearing the hurried footsteps behind her, Nami was also following closely behind.

Ten minutes later, after passing through a low-lying forest, Toth stopped in front of a rocky hill several tens of meters high.

Examining the bloodstains on the ground, they made their way to a secluded, half-meter-wide crevice in the mountainside, hidden by bushes.

There were scratches and bloodstains under the bushes.

Thoth's eyes flashed, and he crouched down, sword raised, and chased after them. As they entered, the crevice widened and the space grew larger.

Until several tens of meters later,

The space in front of them was wide open, and a dimly lit but very spacious cave appeared.

With his eyes narrowed, Thoth noticed that the black panther, which had lost too much blood, was lying on a blue stone at the very back.

The weakened black panther stared intently at Thoth's approaching figure. Suddenly, it let out a low growl and leaped out. In the instant it got close, Thoth turned and swung his sword.

In a spray of blood.

A ferocious leopard head flew out.

Thud! The body fell to the ground.

Swordsmanship proficiency +1.

Just then, Nami followed in, holding a flashlight. The light shone on the black panther's corpse, and she pursed her lips.

"What a lousy guy, who did he have to mess with? Huh?"

Suddenly, after Nami shone her flashlight into the cave, she discovered a decaying wooden box in a corner and exclaimed with delight, "An unknown treasure trove?"

He jogged over, opened the wooden box which clearly had no hidden mechanisms, and found a small pile of gold coins and a box full of moldy, rotten Berries.

Next, she found a smaller metal box inside the treasure chest. She took it out and used a metal piece she carried to pry open the lock. Then, her eyes widened in confusion:

"Why would it be fruit?"

020. Decision!

"How strange!"

"This is completely illogical. The outer box has been rotting for at least decades, and the Bailey inside has all rotted away. How can this fruit still be intact?"

"It's this pinkish-white thing that looks rather eerie. It doesn't look like anything good, does it?"

Nami muttered to herself, while Thoth, who had come to her side at that moment, looked at the fruit in the metal box that resembled a large peach and had an unusual presence under the flashlight beam.

The marks of time seem impossible to leave on this place.

Moisturized and smooth.

It has a translucent outer skin that looks like a glossy water film, and underneath the skin, it looks like pinkish flesh covered with spiral-shaped arabesque patterns.

The top is a grass-green fruit stalk.

Reaching into the tin box, Thoth picked up the fruit, just as Nami's flashlight shone on him. A thoughtful look appeared in Thoth's eyes.

Soon, he had sorted out the information related to the fruit from his mind.