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  Nami, her gaze fixed on Coby, challenged him with a hint of pyfulness in her voice. "Do you want to bet again?" Her refereo their previous bet, which resulted in her 'relut' first kiss.

  This time, although she pyed the role of reveting to win back, Coby knew she was doing it on purpose to get closer. So he smirked and said, "Sure."

  Nami's eyes sparkled with a mix of challenge aement. "If you lose, you owe me a fancy di the best p this sea," she decred, her voice fident.

  "And if you lose?" Coby inquired, his smirk widening.

  Nami leaned closer, a pyful glint in her eyes as she challenged Coby. "And what do you want?" she asked, her voice a tantalizing whisper.

  Coby's smirk deepened, his gaze log onto her beautiful eyes. He leaned in, their faces mere inches apart, their breaths mingling in the charged air. Nami's eyes fluttered closed, expeg a kiss, but Coby's voice came as a soft whisper, "You take me to a fancy di the best p this sea."

  Her eyes snapped open, a flicker of disappoi crossing her features. "Only that?" she queried, her toraying a hint of unfulfilled expectation. She had hoped Coby would take the moment further, but he held back, maintaining the pyful tensioween them.

  Realizing he had caught on to her unspoken desires, Nami's cheeks flushed with a mix of embarrassment and annoyance. 'Bastard,' she thought, cursing him under her breath for his teasing games.

  The atmosphere in Baratie was lively, the ctter of dishes and the chatter of ers creating a backdrop to their banter. Luffy, pletely oblivious to the exge, was engrossed in his meal, his focus solely oe in front of him.

  Zoro, leaning back with a rexed posture, watched the iion with an amused expression. He was used to the antics of his crewmates, finding their dynamitertaining.

  Usopp, oher hand, was still visibly shaken from the discussion about the Krieg Pirates. His eyes darted around nervously, as if expeg dao burst through the door at any moment.

  Coby, notig Usopp's disfort, reassured him with a fident pat on the back. "Rex, Usopp. Being part of this crew means fag challenges head-on. We've got each other's backs."

  Usopp rying to draw fort from Coby's words, but his expression remained anxious.

  Meanwhile, Nami, still miffed by Coby's tease, decided to ge the subject. She turned her attention to Luffy, who was now stag empty ptes with a satisfied grin. "So, captain, what's the pn after we leave Baratie?"

  Luffy, his mouth full of food, replied with a muffled voice, "Find more crew! We need a musi. And a doctor. And maybe a few more people."

  Zoro chuckled, shaking his head at Luffy's endless appetite for both food and adventure. "Oep at a time, Luffy. We still o vihe foolish cook to join."

  Sanji, who had been busy i, emerged with another round of dishes. He skillfully navigated through the tables, his eyes occasionally darting towards their table, though he maintained a safe distance.

  As he pced the dishes oable, Luffy immediately lunged for them, his enthusiasm undiminished by the feast he had already devoured.

  Usopp, now slightly more rexed, joined in, though his appetite was siderably more modest than Luffy's.

  Coby observed the crew with a sense of te. They were an odd bunch, each with their unique quirks and strengths, but together they formed a unit that was greater than the sum of its parts.

  Nami, with a sigh that mingled exasperation with resignation, stood from her seat. "Since Coby said he'll join in two days, are we supposed to just wait here?" Her voice carried a hint of weariness, her eyes refleg a need for solitude a.

  Luffy, his face brightening at the prospeore time to indulge in Sanji's ary delights, nodded enthusiastically. The idea of waiting didn't bother him in the slightest, especially when it meant he could eat as much as he wanted.

  She sighed helplessly as she got up, "I will return to the ship. I need a rest." As she walked back, Coby looked at her back. Unsure if she would still ditch them to return to her isnd or e . Either way, he would let her decide.

  Two days ter, the retive calm of the restaurant was shattered as a patron, his voice quivering with fear, stuttered, "K-k-krieg pirates!" He poiowards the sea, his hand shaking untrolbly. The mention of the Krieg Pirates sent a wave of panic through the patrons and cooks alike. Patty, who had previously beaten Gin with fidence, was now sweating profusely, his posure slipping away in the face of the impending threat.

  Usopp, who had only just begun to rex, felt a cold shiver run down his spine, his body tensing up as if ready to flee at a moment's notice. Coby, Luffy, and Zoro, oher hand, stood up and moved towards the window, their curiosity piqued by the annou.

  Peering out, they saidated ship slowly sailing towards them. Its appearance was haunting, a ghostly vessel that seemed to carry with it an air of doom and despair.

  "That ship is a wreck," a patron murmured, his eyes wide with disbelief as he stared at the ghostly vessel approag Baratie. The sight was unnerving, the once great galleon now nothing more than a ravaged shell, its sails torn and its hull battered beynition.

  Sanji, leaning against the doorway with a cigarette dangling from his lips, added with a grimace, "That wasn't the work of men. They must have sailed through a typhoon." His voice carried resped pity for the crew that had endured such a camity.

  The restaurant fell into a tense silehe usual ctter of dishes and chatter of patrons repced by a collective, anxious breath-holding. Then, as if ohe door swung open, and a giant of a man appeared. His massive form filled the doorway, a looming presehat immediately dres and murmurs of fear from the patrons.

  But as the figure stepped into the light, it became apparent that he was not the threat they had anticipated. Held uhe arm by Gin the giant was revealed to be D, the feared captain of the Krieg Pirates. However, the man who stood before them now was a mere shadow of the infamous pirate lord. His once imposing figure was now bent and broken, his eyes dull with the sheen of defeat and desperation.

  "Please," Krieg rasped, his voice barely a whisper as he struggled to maintain his stance. "May I have some food and water? I have money. Lots of money." His plea itiful, the sight of such a notorious pirate reduced to begging for the bare ies striking a chord of both pity and fear among those present.

  While the patrons and cooks of Baratie murmured and scoffed at the sight of the once-feared D looking so shabby and desperate, Luffy and Sanji saw something else — a man brought low by hunger and perhaps misfortune. As Krieg wobbled aually colpsed to the ground, the stark reality of his dition became evident. Gin, with desperation and urgency, pleaded for help. "Food and Water, please. I beg of you. If you don't help, he will be doomed!"

  Patty couldn't help but ugh at the sight. The dread D, the terror of the seas, reduced to this pitiful state. "How rich! What a ugh! This bum is the dreaded D?" His ughter filled the restaurant, filled with mockery and disbelief.

  Gin, uerred, insisted with a voice strained by desperation. "This time I've got money! We're ers!" But Patty was unmoved. His mind was set oing the Navy, a ce to rid the seas of a notorious pirate. "Don't feed them a crumb. Just grab them!" he barked.

  The other patrons chimed in, their voices a chorus of fear and s. They talked of the danger Krieg posed if he regained his strength, how he would pilge the restaurant, and that he deserved to die for his crimes. The se was clear: D was not wele here, not even for a cup of water.

  In the midst of the chaos, Luffy observed Krieg with a ptive gaze. He uood the fear that Krieg inspired, but he also saw a human being in dire need.

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