One Piece: Starting with Coercing and Enticing Nami

It must be said that although rats are greedy, their bases are built like fortresses.

Most pirates in the East Blue are basically not capable of breaking through here.

They visited the base, had tea, and obtained the information they wanted.

Tot, carrying his suitcase, was escorted out of his base by the rats.

Watching Thoth's departing figure, the mouse's eyes held a strange expression: "A great white shark is about to emerge from this sea."

The adjutant beside him changed his expression slightly. "Colonel, that guy did it on purpose, didn't he?"

"Intentionally? You mean to make an example of him?" The rat sneered, "Since he wants to kill pirates, then let him do it."

This world may not have much else, but pirates are like locusts; he can't kill them all.

The East China Sea is vast, and pirates set sail every minute and every second.

I don't care if he kills me or not, as long as he pays enough, I'll provide him with services.

Go, call the heads of villages and towns in the surrounding waters. If they spot any pirates, they must immediately inform me.

Didn't they often call to urge us to provide assistance? Isn't now a perfect opportunity?

Since that kid wants to clean up those troublemakers in the sea for me, then I'll make sure he's never idle.

"And if that happens, the pirates will be killed in the villages and towns that come to report the news. Do you think they'll dare refuse if I ask them for a management fee?"

The adjutant's eyes lit up immediately, and he looked at his superior with admiration. He had to admit, his superior really had a lot of ideas for making money!

……

Back to the Wavebreaker.

It was already dark by then.

Johnny Joseph is exercising on the deck.

The cabin was brightly lit, and as soon as Thoth entered, a tiger's roar echoed through the room.

Thoth raised an eyebrow, looking at the little tiger girl on the sofa being held in Nami's arms and having her fur dried with a hairdryer:

"Did you give it a bath?"

Noki nodded with a laugh: "We washed it while we were taking a bath, it was all smelly."

As soon as she finished speaking, Tiger Girl let out a low growl of dissatisfaction, which was immediately silenced by a slap on the head from Nami.

Tiger Girl let out a muffled whimper.

He raised his head, his icy blue tiger eyes filled with resentment. He gritted his teeth as if to say, "You just wait, I'll remember this grudge."

Thoth smiled, sat down next to Nami, placed the suitcase on the table, and looked at Nojiko with a smile, saying, "The Berries inside will be stored in the safe under your room later."

Johnny Joseph said that each person would receive 100,000 in pocket money.

Who would have thought that the funds on a ship would be stored not in the captain's safe, but in the navigator's room?

This is called "the darkest place is under the lamp".

Of course, there was also a sum of tens of millions of pesos stored in Tot's safe.

Nami stopped in her tracks, staring wide-eyed at Thoth: "So much pocket money?"

What about mine?

Toth was speechless. "Most of the money is with you, and you still want pocket money?"

Nami blinked and chuckled, "Yeah!" Thoth rolled his eyes at her.

"There are few people on our ship now, so we can just give whatever we can think of. But when there are more people in the future, we'll need a specific set of rules."

For example, the monthly allowance for officers on board, the monthly allowance for ordinary crew members, the salary for trainee crew members, and so on.

Without rules, nothing can be accomplished.

Upon hearing this, Nami's lips twitched, and she couldn't help but complain, "I have a feeling I'll be heartbroken to death later."

Seeing this, Thoth teased, "Should I find another sailor who knows economics and management to manage the accounts?"

Nami immediately bared her teeth: "You wish!"

However, at this moment, Nami stroked her chin and pondered, "But it's not impossible. You have to find someone who can do the accounting and is trustworthy. Then you can have him be my deputy."

After all, I always feel that when we have more money in the future, I will be too busy to manage, and I don't want to spend a lot of energy on accounting.

"I have two things to do: cultivate myself and take measurements and draw plans. I'm not like you, a hands-off manager who just asks me for whatever you need."

However, as she spoke of this, a figure suddenly flashed into Nami's mind. A cunning and annoying fellow she had dealt with several times.

She had contacted and cooperated with that guy several times, but each time, she didn't gain any advantage.

Although I really don't want to admit it, that guy is indeed very shrewd and capable.

Thinking about this, Nami hesitated, wondering whether she should recommend her to join the crew.

However, she quickly glanced at Thoth, her eyes flashing, and she knew she was going to get her revenge.

Since we can't win with our brains, we'll just have to crush her with force.

So, a decision was made.

"Thoth, you weren't joking just now, were you?"

Nami spoke earnestly.

Seeing this, Thoth met Nami's eyes and saw a sly glint in them.

"What? You have something in mind?"

Thoth asked her, and Nami took a deep breath and stared straight at Thoth as she said:

"I have a friend who's more of a sworn enemy than a friend. She's incredibly clever and cunning, but she's also kind at heart."

I'd like to recommend it to you.

Upon hearing this, Thoth became interested, his eyes filled with curiosity: "Tell me, someone who can earn your praise and admiration must be no ordinary person, right?"

"The Phantom Thief, Karina. Do you know her? Like me, she's a thief who specializes in stealing treasures from pirate gangs."

She's the same age as me. Although she doesn't have my natural talent for navigation, she's incredibly smart—the smartest person I've ever met.

"Have you ever had a bad experience with her before?"

Thoth suddenly asked with a smile, and Nami's face immediately turned dark with anger, her chest aching with rage.

Seeing Nami's appearance, Thoth understood. The Phantom Thief Karina herself knew, both in her past life and in this one.

She was an exceptionally intelligent best friend of Nami's, with whom she had a love-hate relationship, and in the future, she would become a world-class, super-popular singer.

Seeing Thoth's smiling face, Nami took a deep breath and glared at him fiercely: "That's right, I've been humiliated by her before, so I want her on our ship so I can bully her as much as I want in the future."

"You really hold a grudge! She's really unlucky to have messed with you and you've been holding a grudge against her ever since."

Thoth smiled and stroked his chin:

"I heard about her from the rats. I heard that she is currently in some sea area around here."

Nami exclaimed in surprise, "Really? Then I'm really lucky!"

At this point, Nami looked at Thoth and asked, "So? Interested?"

Thoth's eyes flickered slightly. "I'll find the rats to check for her whereabouts first."

Nami blinked, a slight smile playing on her lips:

"That's good. We'll let her do odd jobs first, like washing our socks."

……

Five days have passed in the blink of an eye.

For five days, Thoth led them to wander in the surrounding waters.

While guiding them in their training, he also went out to fight pirates.

But during these days, they only encountered one group of pirates with a total bounty of 980 million.

They were easily dealt with by Tote and his five men.

It was four o'clock that afternoon.

On the vast, boundless sea.

A single-masted sailboat drifts in the wind.

At that moment, not far from the ship, Thoth's figure suddenly surfaced from the sea, panting heavily, a smile appearing in his eyes:

"Swordsmanship, reaching a high level, acquires the skill characteristic, Sword Stance."

It has the same characteristics as sword stance.

However, compared to the light and agile approach of swordplay, saberplay places greater emphasis on power and imposing presence.

The fusion of the two forces allows Thoth to make better use of his body.

Thoth gripped his knife, channeling his inner energy and spirit to condense his aura. With a thought, he swung the knife, and in the blink of an eye, a slashing beam flew thirty meters away.

In an instant, it carved a trench several meters deep into the sea.

Looking at his masterpiece, a thoughtful look appeared in Thoth's eyes. "The momentum of different combat techniques can be combined."

As the essential principles of knife skills were integrated into swordsmanship over the past few days, Thoth vaguely felt that:

"Quantitative change will lead to qualitative change."

"The next combat technique we'll learn is spearmanship."

Back on the ship, after watching Johnny and the others practice for a while and offering some guidance, Thoth picked up an iron spear from the weapon rack and went to the deck to begin practicing.

"Is Brother Tote going to learn marksmanship again?"

Johnny watched as Thoth changed his weapon, a look of amazement in his eyes.

"As expected of Brother Tote, most people can master one weapon until they die of old age, but he's already practicing the third weapon, isn't he?"

Joseph was equally amazed.

Over the course of these days, they have been completely won over by Thoth's personal charisma and combat skills.