svetikya Chapter 22 We are the Navy, We Don't Laugh
Chapter 22 We are the Navy, We Don't Laugh
Take a deep breath—
"call--"
"Don't be afraid of what I'm about to say," Joseph said with a serious expression.
Smoker, Tina, and the others nodded in agreement.
"We are the navy, we are not afraid."
Brewing—
"The heavenly gold vanished right before our eyes... just like that!"
Inhale—Smoker and Tina exchanged a glance, filled with awe.
"How did you disappear?" Smoker asked.
"Out of thin air, out of thin air, do you understand?!" Joseph spread his hands out.
"We were on the deck at the time."
"The moment the soldier said there was a problem with the gold in the sky, we used the razor to rush into the ship's interior."
"But it just disappeared right under our noses..."
"puff-"
"What are you laughing at?" Joseph glared at Smoker.
"I wasn't laughing. I had an upset stomach and accidentally farted. Go on."
"You mean the celestial gold was stolen?"
Joseph's face showed a look of reminiscence:
"It wasn't the kind of thing that could be stolen or not; it was something truly special! It just appeared out of thin air, you know? There were six of us on the boat at the time, and we could see every little thing that happened. But the Heavenly Gold just vanished right under our noses..."
"puff--"
"What are you laughing at now?" Joseph glared at Tina.
"You farted too?"
"No... beautiful women don't fart. I just exhaled."
"......."
"Could it be the work of a user of the Clear-Clear Fruit?" Tina suggested a possible answer.
Joseph shook his head.
"No! Although the Clear-Clear Fruit can make one invisible, any intruders coming in will definitely make a sound, and it won't escape Madalis's ears! Besides, the Clear-Clear Fruit will also make noise when carrying so many things."
"Could it be a Devil Fruit with teleportation abilities, like... the Door-Door Fruit?"
Smoker proposed a hypothesis.
"No...this fruit is in our hands." Joseph's tone suddenly softened.
"Tina feels there's only one possibility then~"
"What?" Several people turned around and looked at her at the same time.
"A ghost." Tina said seriously.
Smoker was the first to break down, and then the other marines around him followed suit in a chain reaction.
"Pfft—"
"Pfft—"
"You've gone too far! I've put up with you for too long!" Joseph's forehead veins bulged.
"I ate something bad and I farted."
"You were clearly laughing! You never stopped!"
Smoker regained his composure:
"Mr. Joseph, we are from the Navy, we are rigorously trained, we do not laugh."
"How about this, Mr. Joseph? We'll report to the Navy Headquarters first, and you can take the remaining two ships of treasure back to Mary Geoise. We'll let you know when we have any news."
Joseph suppressed his anger, nodded, and led the CP0 members toward the last two ships.
These navy personnel won't help him investigate properly, since they belong to two different agencies.
The Navy is under the jurisdiction of the Navy Headquarters, so even if the gold was lost, it wouldn't be their fault, since the real escort was CP0.
After Joseph walked away, another burst of laughter erupted behind him.
Hahahahaha.
Joseph's face darkened further as he heard the laughter behind him.
"Go back and check on Bruno, the owner of the Door-Door Fruit."
Joseph once heard a saying: When all the impossibilities are eliminated, the remaining answer is the truth.
What if there really is a traitor within their CP department?
Someone has to be accountable to the Celestial Dragons; one death is better than them all dying...
After everyone had left, only Smoker and Tina remained on the deck.
Smoker suppressed his smile, exhaled smoke, and revealed an inscrutable expression.
"Could it be related to Queen Connie?"
Smoker is not stupid; on the contrary, he is very capable of solving cases.
Connie's appearance was too coincidental.
But right after she appeared, the golden sky above the warship disappeared.
The timing was too coincidental.
"Tina doesn't know..." Tina also exhaled a smoke ring from her cigarette, giving an ambiguous answer.
"Are you planning to report this to your superiors?"
Smoker took a deep drag on his cigar, letting the embers burn down to the base, before exhaling with satisfaction.
"call--"
Smoke swirled around.
"Why report it?"
"What does this have to do with us?"
"Weren't we here to capture pirates? Helping them transport goods is just something we did on the side."
He was already dissatisfied with the Celestial Dragons' exploitation of the people for celestial gold.
Kurt was overjoyed that he had a way to quietly snatch the Heavenly Gold back from them.
In this way...
Next spring, hopefully fewer people will starve to death in the Kingdom of Sobel...
After all, what he believed in... was the same as Garp's: justice rooted in his heart.
"Reporting to Colonel Smoker, we found this in the missing cabin."
The soldier handed Smoker a note with a black spider pattern printed on it.
"spider……"
Smoker's expression turned serious.
"What does this pattern represent?"
Why did the perpetrator leave it at the scene? Does it have any special symbolic meaning?
The two pondered for a while, but found no clues.
Smoker frowned, gazing at the sea, its surface rippling slightly from the rain, and couldn't help but sigh:
"These are turbulent times..."
Jewelry Bonney, who possesses the dangerous power of the Year-Year Fruit, successfully set sail.
The appearance of a giant cruise ship representing the unknown nation of Kakin Empire.
There's also the technology that allows ability users to resist the effects of Seastone.
Now another spider has appeared that can steal the gold from the sky out of thin air, even under the surveillance of CP0.
Smoker stepped out of the deck and onto the railing, his clothes soaked by the rain, and white smoke rose in the dim light.
He lit another cigar, put it in his mouth, took a deep drag, and his expression flickered in and out of focus in the glow of the cigar.
He always felt that something completely unknown was happening in the South China Sea.
This feeling of being out of control intensified his unease.
Tina also came to the fence.
"What are your plans next? Are you coming back to headquarters with me to report?"
The rain soaked the cigar, but Smoker, with his amazing lung capacity, took deep drags, keeping the cigar burning.
"You should go back now."
"This matter is beyond our ability to resolve. Let's report it to the Marshal and the others for a decision."
"I plan to try and catch up with the direction that giant cruise ship fled."
"I don't know why, but I always have this feeling..."
Smoker stubbed out his cigar, tossed the butt on the ground, then couldn't resist lighting another one, taking a deep drag, and slowly said:
"I always felt that all of this... was related to that huge cruise ship."
……
Kuroro, of course, was unaware that Smoker was uneasy about the series of events that had occurred in the South China Sea.
If he knew, he would only say one thing:
You wouldn't believe it, but I was the one who did all this!
He had already returned to the Black Whale, and his handsome face was practically beaming with a wide grin.
The amount of treasure obtained was secondary.
From the moment he completed the theft of the heavenly gold,
The phrase "[The Thief's Ultimate Skill]" kept flashing.
"This time it's really big..."