Two days later.

Cocoa West Village, Dragon Paradise.

Aaron's image is very worthy of his identity as a shark man:

Nearly three meters tall, with blue skin, fierce eyes like falcons, full of sharp teeth, and a long jagged nose as sharp and hard as a hacksaw.

Add to that the muscles he had as many steel ingots all over his body, and the large red tattoos that were imprinted on his chest and arms.

It looks like a daunting...

Big hooligan leader.

Aaron is indeed just a big hooligan leader.

Although Aaron has always claimed to be a superior race, shouting every day that he wants to establish an "evil dragon empire" and rule the world's human race...

But what the future Fish-Man Empire Emperor has done over the years is basically -

Collect protection money.

The great power of the Evil Dragon Empire is only twenty villages around Cocoa West Village.

The only thing that has to do with the grand cause of building an empire is probably the charts of the East China Sea that the dragon forced Nami to draw.

On this day, Aaron once again thought about the national events of the "Fishman Empire":

"The mouse, is it coming over today?"

"That's right."

His loyal subordinate, the fish-man karate master, Kroobi immediately replied:

"The date we agreed to meet with Colonel Rat is today."

"Humph!"

Ah Long snorted coldly, and his face suddenly became much uglier.

While collecting protection money from innocent villagers, he also has to pay protection money to the local navy Colonel Rat...

Because Aaron and his gang are after all fishmen from the Great Passage, if there are no corrupt officers to cover them up, they will definitely be a very dazzling character in the eyes of the navy.

In order to secure the position of the local tyrant and the village tyrant, Ah Long had to swallow his anger and send money to Colonel Rat regularly.

Of course, the proud Aaron will not admit that he is paying protection money.

"This weak, filthy inferior creature!"

Ah Long used Ah Q's spiritual victory method without a teacher:

"When we fishmen rule the seas in the future, I must make that greedy rat spit out all the money it swallowed!"

"Yes, yes!"

The doglegs nodded yes one after another, as if the great Fish-Man Empire could be built tomorrow.

But Aaron's face is still not good-looking, because he is actually more greedy for money than Colonel Mouse. Every time he had to pay a bribe to Colonel Mouse, Aaron felt his heart bleed.

And once Aaron is in a bad mood, he will seek comfort from the process of abusing the weak.

So Ah Long pondered for a moment, opened his mouth and asked angrily:

"Why hasn't the ransom been paid this month?!"

His voice was tyrannical and cruel.

"I've been urging it, but I haven't been able to get enough money over there."

One of his subordinates replied tremblingly.

"Can't make it up?!"

Ah Long's voice was full of displeasure, and the corners of his mouth opened a cruel arc:

"That's good..."

"I'll go over and help them myself!"

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Cocoa West Village.

A group of villagers are gathering in the village with sad faces.

"Ugh..."

Sheriff Ah Jian looked at everyone's faces with a depressed expression, and asked helplessly:

"Can't you really scrape together any more money?"

"If you don't pay the ransom this month, I'm afraid that the bastard of the evil dragon will use the problem to wreak havoc in the village again..."

"There's really no way!"

A pale villager said in a deep voice:

"Recently, the harvest has been average, and the crops in the fields have not yet reached the harvest season."

"We just can't scrape together any more money!"

Each villager in Cocoa Yasi Village needs to pay 100,000 Bailey's ransom money to the dragon every month to protect himself from being killed by the fishmen of the dragon pirates.

Such a burden is too heavy for a remote village that has nothing to produce except agriculture and fishing.

"Or..."

One of the villagers timidly proposed, "Why don't you go to Nokigao to make some money?" ”

There was silence.

Ah Jian's face was even more gloomy as water, and this ugly face made the long scar on his face even more hideous.

Not only Ah Kin, but all the villagers actually know the meaning behind this...

Nokigao is Nami's older sister, and she barely survives by planting orange trees on weekdays.

Asking Noki to raise money, in fact, to put it bluntly, once again put the burden of protecting Cocoa West Village on the shoulders of Nami, a lonely girl.

The villagers don't want to do this, but they are always cornered by the cruelty of life.

Ah Jian trembled, and his heart was full of pain.

Unable to protect the village as a sheriff, he is forced to shift the blame to Nami, whom he values as much as his daughter, again and again.

"Ah Jian, Ah Jian!"

But an excited female voice suddenly came from the side.

Everyone followed the sound, and saw a blue-haired girl running towards this side with excitement on her face, waving a newspaper in her hand.

This good-looking girl is none other than Nami's sister Nokigao, whom they just talked about.

"Nokigao, what's going on?"

Ah Jian reluctantly squeezed out a difficult smile, he tried not to be so ugly in front of the child.

"Look at this!"

Nuo Qigao panted and ran to Ah Jian, and handed the newspaper in his hand to Ah Jian without taking a break.

"Huh?"

Ah Jian took the newspaper for some reason, and glanced at the headline casually:

"A long feature report on Galen, the knight of the East Sea?"

"Who is this?"

Nuo Qigao said excitedly: "Don't worry about this, you look down!" ”

Ah Jian glanced his eyes under the title, and his emotions suddenly became three points more excited than Nuoqi:

"Nami ?!!"

"How did she get into the newspaper?!"

"What?"

The villagers shouted in shock.

Without saying a word, they gathered around and looked at the newspaper with concern on their faces.

I saw a photo on the newspaper:

Nami, dressed in a luxurious princess dress, stands side by side with Galen, who is dressed in a white suit, smiling slightly at the camera.

An elegant and touching one, the other is as perfect as the "knight and princess" written in the newspaper.

The villagers looked confused.

They didn't have time to guess, and their attention was completely absorbed by the richness and excitement of the feature.

After a long time...

Ah Jian asked in disbelief, "Na, Nami, she... Looking for a boyfriend?! ”

"Seems so."

Nokigao nodded solemnly.

It is quite natural to draw such conclusions ...

Because the main content of the love story about "Knight Galen" in the newspaper is all adapted by Nami herself under the temptation of Wallace's sky-high interview fee.

It turns out that the simple plot of the knight and the thief meeting has been enriched into a singing and crying love story under the joint operation of Nami and Wallace.

"Nami she.. Have you all grown up to this age? ”

Ah Jian just continued to repeat the sentence to himself.

He has always regarded Nami as a daughter, but now he suddenly has a sense of loss that the cabbage in the family has been arched by a pig.

But the attention of the other villagers was all focused on the "pig"...

"Nami's boyfriend..."

A villager said with a look of disbelief on his face: "It's such a powerful man?!" ”

Another villager chimed in excitedly:

"It's not just powerful..."

"That guy seems to be a high-ranking nobleman in a big kingdom!"

"Ugh..."

Ah Jian's thinking can't turn a corner:

"With Nami's status, wouldn't it be bad to find such a strong boyfriend?!"

"Don't think about this yet!"

A villager said excitedly:

"If Nami's boyfriend is willing to help, our village will be saved!"

Everyone has clearly thought of this.

Their faces, which had become yellow and thin because of the difficult life, also surged with a strange rosy color of excitement.

"Oh?"

A dark voice sounded behind everyone: "Your village is saved?!" ”

The villagers' bodies trembled in unison, and a layer of cold sweat soon appeared on their foreheads.

Immediately afterward, a tall shadow blocked out a large area of sunlight.

Everyone turned their heads with difficulty, and saw that the fish-man dragon was standing behind them with a few younger brothers, all with cruel and tyrannical smiles on their faces.

The bustling village suddenly returned to an oppressive dead silence.

"Hahaha..."

Ah Long laughed out loud and said in a rough voice:

"I think I've heard something very interesting, right?"

The pair of sharp eyes full of murderous intent swept over the villagers:

"Nami, she... Isn't it a little restless?! ”

The villagers lowered their heads, not daring to look at the dragon.

"Bring that newspaper!"

Ah Long casually instructed the little brother beside him, and said with a cruel smile:

"You still want to rebel against my rule?"

"I want to see who it is that makes you dare to be so arrogant!"

The newspaper that the villagers were holding in their hands was quickly delivered to Ah Long, and several fish-man brothers also approached with some curiosity.

"The Righteous Knight of the East China Sea?!"

Aaron only glanced at the title and sneered disdainfully:

"Inferior race, in the end! Are you still expecting such a thing as a Knight of Justice? ”

Aaron continued to look down...

His face suddenly became gloomy, and it looked like he had eaten two catties of-

I saw that the newspaper recorded the glorious achievements of Galen, the righteous knight of the East China Sea, in just three days.

The news of punishing the Steel Knife Pirates and defeating the corrupt navy of Rogue Town is shocking enough in the weakest sea, the East China Sea.

But the next thing is the main thing -

Defeat One Piece crew member and best friend of the Four Emperors, Bucky the Clown...

Defeated Captain Smoker of the Navy Headquarters in three rounds...

Compete with the naval hero Karp, win or lose...

A book of swordsmen who even the swordsman of the Navy Headquarters is impressed by...

"Boss, boss?"

A fish-man boy shivered and couldn't help but say, "Let's run?!" ”

“......”

Ah Long, who had been invincible before, trembled all over his body and didn't say a word.

Complex emotions fermented in his chest, and finally broke out in the silence for a long time:

"Run!"

Rumble!

Artillery roared.

Ah Long followed the prestige, only to see that his beloved dragon park had already ignited a dazzling fire.