[Pirate] I! Orochimaru! I will never split! Chapter 188

A group of people’s faces were filled with black lines as they stared blankly at the two brothers.

Luffy’s appearance was one thing, but why was Orochimaru joining in the fun? Didn’t you just steal the spotlight?

Sanji shook his head helplessly, quickly stepped forward, bent down, and carefully picked up Orochimaru as if he were holding a treasure. Then, he straightened his leg sharply and kicked Luffy in the face.

“Hey, get up!”

Luffy’s head tilted from the kick, his eyelids twitched, and he groggily opened a slit. Then, his mouth opened wide, and he let out a long yawn, the sound exceptionally loud in the silence.

“Ah…٩(๑´~`๑)۶ That was a good sleep.”

Luffy wasn’t sure what had happened. He was still drowsy, groggily raised his hand to scratch his head, with a bewildered expression on his face (ㅍᯅㅍｷ).

Luffy’s gaze unintentionally shifted to Jinbe’s face, which was covered in tear stains and crying bitterly.

“Huh… Jinbe… you cried.” Luffy’s eyes instantly widened as he spoke with a hint of surprise.

Jinbe quickly wiped away his tears in a panic, forcing himself to respond calmly, “What are you talking about? How could I cry?”

Luffy looked around bewildered, his eyes full of confusion. “What?”

Jinbe seemed a bit annoyed by Luffy’s persistent questioning. “You’re so annoying! I already said I didn’t cry.”

Luffy blinked his big eyes, took the sleeping Orochimaru from Sanji’s arms, and mumbled,

“Oh, I didn’t expect Orochimaru to fall asleep too. Is Jinbe’s story that boring?”

Sanji, with a dark face, roared at Luffy, “This is clearly your problem! How could you two fall asleep in the blink of an eye? Your sleep quality is way too good!”

Ignoring the farce over there, Nami came before Shirahoshi, looking up slightly, her eyes full of curiosity as she gazed at the giant mermaid princess before her.

“Your name is Shirahoshi, right?” Nami asked softly.

Keimi nervously corrected, “It’s Princess Shirahoshi, Nami-chin! This is the kingdom’s princess!”

Shirahoshi nodded gently, lowered her eyes to look at Nami, and delicately wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her slender fingers.

“Yes, I’m truly sorry. Whenever I think of my mother, tears just can’t stop flowing.”

Nami gazed at Shirahoshi with an extremely serious expression. “What a great mother!”

Shirahoshi heard Nami’s heartfelt praise, a proud smile spread across her face, then she lowered her head slightly and met Nami’s gaze, “Yes! You’re ‘Nami-chin’, right?”

Keimi quickly waved her hands beside them, looking a little flustered, “No, no… Princess Shirahoshi, ‘Nami-chin’ is a term of endearment… The real name doesn’t have ‘chin’ in it.”

Shirahoshi’s face was beaming with a bright smile, her eyes full of joy as she happily gazed at Nami.

“Although this is our first meeting, I feel like we’ve been friends since childhood. It brings a sense of peace to my heart.”

“Is that so? Perhaps our experiences are a bit similar,” Nami said, looking at Shirahoshi, and they smiled at each other.

Orochimaru slowly woke up, yawning sleepily. He took a warm towel from Sanji’s hand, casually wiped his face a few times, then put a bubble around himself and floated directly in front of Shirahoshi.

Orochimaru raised his hand and stroked Shirahoshi’s head as if petting a pet, his movements natural and casual.

Keimi’s eyes instantly widened, and she flapped her hands anxiously, “Oro-chan! This is the Princess! Not Pappug! You can’t touch her like that!”

Orochimaru’s forehead twitched slightly, and he muttered to himself, “What kind of weird name is ‘Oro-chan’? Even if they add ‘chan’, he should be ‘Orochimaru-chan’, right?”

Orochimaru looked directly at Shirahoshi and said gently, “Shirahoshi is a very polite and good child… As a reward for being a good child, would you like me to help you revive Queen Otohime?”

“EHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

At these words, everyone was shocked, a string of exclamation marks seemingly about to burst through the screen.

A group of people collectively stared, dumbfounded, at Orochimaru, their jaws dropping in disbelief.

“Can something like that even be done?!”

Orochimaru looked at Luffy and Jinbe with a headache, his face full of helplessness. “Why are you two surprised? Weren’t you both there when Roger was revived?”

Jinbe’s mind went blank for a moment, and he blurted out instinctively, “Wasn’t that just an inflatable doll?”

Orochimaru felt a wave of speechlessness. He felt his silence at this moment was deafening, and he said testily,

“Do you think Sengoku would be wary of a silicone model? That was real… it was just a soul attached to a puppet…

If that had been fake, Sengoku would be retired by now.”

Orochimaru couldn’t help but inwardly slander: This fat fish is probably an idiot too… Why does Luffy always pick idiots to be around him?

At this moment, Princess Shirahoshi’s emotions were slightly agitated. Crystal tears quietly slid down the corners of her eyes as she asked with a trembling voice, “Can something like this truly be done? Is there anything I can do?”

Orochimaru gazed at the young girl before him with a rare gentle look.

She’s truly dazzling, a princess perfectly fitting a fairy tale.

Beautiful, kind, polite, brave, and strong. Although she cries a lot, that’s also a bonus.

It’s hard for anyone to dislike such a perfect creature, I wonder if I can keep her.

In Orochimaru’s eyes, starlight seemed to slowly gather, growing brighter and brighter ଘ(੭☆ᵕ☆)੭* ੈ✩‧₊

His small wings excitedly fluttered, his eyes shining, and his whole body was almost glowing.

Shirahoshi saw the light in Orochimaru’s eyes and, for some reason, felt a sense of danger. She timidly called out, “Orochimaru-sama…”

Chopper, Nami, Luffy, Sanji, and Franky, upon seeing the light in Orochimaru’s eyes, instantly understood something.

Their mouths couldn’t help but twitch violently a few times. They were too familiar with that look and instantly grasped Orochimaru’s inner thoughts.

So, the few of them roared in unison towards Orochimaru with shark-like faces,

“Don’t even think about it!! Absolutely not!”

Orochimaru’s narrow eyes were filled with an expression of grievance, his eyelids slightly drooped, and his usually cunning and wise gaze became somewhat dim.

The snake felt wronged; he hadn’t even said anything yet. These people were so annoying, his lower snake tail was even drooped and coiled into a ball.

Shirahoshi looked at the somewhat dim Orochimaru and, full of worry, quickly extended both hands to carefully cup Orochimaru in her palms.

“Orochimaru-sama, are you alright? Is it very difficult…?”

Shirahoshi looked at Orochimaru with sincere eyes, tears welling up.

“Even if you cannot revive Mother, it’s alright.

Just having this intention from you has already made me incredibly grateful.

To me, this intention is more precious than anything.”

Shirahoshi’s fingers unconsciously tightened slightly, trying hard to hold back the tears in her eyes.

“As humans meeting for the first time, you and Luffy-sama have already helped me so much, so please, don’t trouble yourself too much.”