Orochimaru, feeling utterly lost, even had a fleeting thought of abandoning Luffy and seeking refuge with Doflamingo.
But he held back. Now, Orochimaru's mind was filled with the thought that his foolish brother had actually hit him!
He wanted to complain... No... He couldn't let anyone know... It was too embarrassing... Especially that idiot Ace.
Orochimaru, deep in thought about how to get revenge, didn't notice Chopper peeking from the corner.
After all, the crew implicitly agreed that Orochimaru was thin-skinned and feared stimulating his fragile heart, so Chopper was the best comforter.
But what the crew didn't know was that when Orochimaru and Doflamingo were being all lovey-dovey in Dressrosa, his dignity was pretty much gone, because Doflamingo wasn't very mindful of the occasion. After many such instances, Orochimaru had grown somewhat accustomed to it.
At this moment, Orochimaru felt powerful and fearless.
So what if he got hit! Doffy had hit him before.
But the nature of it was different. This feeling of being suddenly hit by the idiot Luffy made Orochimaru's rare sense of self-respect surface again. His self-respect wouldn't allow him to be lectured by an idiot!
Although he had already been lectured, Orochimaru still felt wronged, his whole body radiating with furious flames.
He had been tricked! He! Orochimaru! Had been tricked by an idiot!!
Who was he! He was Orochimaru! Since coming to the Pirate World, he had never been tricked by anyone!
As Orochimaru was thinking about how to prank Luffy, he looked up and saw the Reindeer at the door, looking at him piteously.
Orochimaru felt a little guilty. Had he scared Chopper?
| ू ๑ • ́ ㅿ • ̀ ๑ ) Chopper cautiously peeked.
"Orochimaru... are you okay... Does your butt still hurt... Do you want to eat?"
Orochimaru instantly felt... it would be better to strangle this cute creature... Guilt was non-existent.
Seeing Orochimaru ignore him, Chopper quickly ran over with the plate, "Da da da," carefully scooped a spoonful of cheese-baked sweet potato, gently blew on it, and offered it to Orochimaru's mouth.
"Sanji made this especially for you, he said eating something sweet when you're unhappy makes you feel better. This is your favorite cheese."
Orochimaru didn't even think, opening his mouth to eat the dessert Chopper fed him.
Seeing Orochimaru start to eat, Chopper finally breathed a sigh of relief. Eating meant he was fine.
In the following days, Orochimaru lived a life of being fed by everyone in turns.
Until one time, everyone was eating in the restaurant, and Orochimaru was still letting Robin feed him.
Sanji suddenly reacted, his eyes red, staring at Orochimaru and roaring, "You're already well! Why are you still letting Robin-nee feed you!"
Everyone else then realized, without noticing... Orochimaru also froze for a moment, then reacted, taking the plate from Robin's hand.
"Sorry, I got used to it, I forgot."
Everyone's mouths twitched. Got used to it? Forgot? How long had it been since you ate by yourself! Where have you been enjoying yourself for the past two years!!!
Especially Sanji, he was so angry his whole body twisted, almost going berserk.
"You actually enjoyed yourself for two years!! Did you forget about me!!!"
Brook patted Sanji's shoulder and gently comforted him, "Well, well, well... Although I don't know what suffering you endured...
Let's just fully enjoy this new journey now, let's sing a song together ( ◦ ˙ ▽ ˙ ◦ )"
Sanji turned his shark-like face towards Brook and roared, "Don't encourage me! That only makes me more sad!"
The noisy group didn't notice that deep in the tranquil seabed, a pirate ship was silently and slowly approaching the sunny.
"Big brother! Found them! Straw Hat is right ahead," said Caribou, who was on that ship, carrying a shovel and with a chameleon on his head, pointing at the sunny.
Caribou rubbed the bump on his head and shouted at his subordinates,
"You little idiots~ Are you sure the person who just stepped on me is on this straw hat's ship?"
"Uh-huh," his younger brother Caribou nodded blankly.
Caribou looked at the sunny sinisterly, "This time, we must sneak onto their ship. I didn't expect those guys on Sabaody Archipelago to be fakes, what a failure."
On the deck at this moment, Luffy looked up at the seawater, "How far have we descended?"
"Even the light can't penetrate," Usopp said, looking up and walking backward up the steps.
"We should have passed through the photic zone and are almost through the twilight zone, it's definitely over 1000 meters," Franky said, as a mini mechanical hand extended from his palm, picking up a dish from the bento box with chopsticks.
The mechanical hand instinctively fed it to Orochimaru's mouth. One instinctively fed, the other instinctively ate.
Franky, who was about to open his mouth, blinked and looked down, only to realize he hadn't fed himself at all. He looked up awkwardly, pretending not to see.
He then took another bento and started eating.
"It really feels completely different from being in a submarine, it's like flying in the sky," Robin said with emotion, looking around.
"In the sky, huh..." Nami sighed, "I need to put the knowledge I learned in Weatheria over the past two years into practical use for navigation."
The group chatted idly with emotion.
Chopper excitedly ran over, "Whales! There are whales!"
Following Chopper's voice, everyone looked in that direction, only to see two giant whales passing by the sunny, one white and one blue.
Brook excitedly called out to the blue whale,
"Laboon!"
"No, that's Whitebeard-ossan!" Luffy also excitedly joined in the commotion.
Orochimaru said "Oh," it really did resemble the Moby Dick. He took out his picture transponder snail and snapped a photo, planning to send it to Whitebeard when he had time.
"Hey, hey, you still have the mind to admire whales? There's a 70% chance we'll sink, 70%!" Usopp grumbled, taking out his long-range telescope to observe the distance.
"We can't be this relaxed anymore, Orochimaru, you tell them too, honestly... The probability of safely reaching Fish-Man Island isn't even half. If it breaks, are we going to make Orochimaru carry us to Fish-Man Island?
Although so far there haven't been any troublesome sea beasts, Sea Kings, or other obstacles... Hmm?? What's that?"
Usopp mumbled, looking left and right, and suddenly spotted a ship speeding towards the sunny.
"There's something at 6 o'clock! It looks like a pirate ship!"
As Usopp's voice fell, a pirate ship violently crashed into the sunny. Everyone stumbled, only Orochimaru remained casually seated in his chair, holding a teacup, unconcerned.
Caribou's pirate ship continuously rammed into the sunny, and the ship's coating shook constantly as if it would break at any moment.
When the two ships were close, their coatings merged, and Caribou was the first to pass through the bubble and onto the sunny, sticking out his tongue in a frenzy.
"Hehehehe."
Luffy blinked, looking at the person sticking out his tongue, and instantly remembered. Wasn't this the person Orochimaru had stepped on from the sky?
Then he looked with a shark-like face at Orochimaru, who was calmly drinking tea.
"!! Orochimaru! It's you again!!"
?????????
Orochimaru tilted his head, looking utterly confused, "Huh?"
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