Chapter 290 What is a Partner

"What are you doing, Luffy?" Nami turned to look at Luffy, "Are you just going to let him go? Hey, hurry up and catch up with him, go stop Usopp."

Wang Hao shook his head, picked up the magic gun and sat on the bed.

"We have been traveling together for so long, and now we are parting like this?" Nami asked weakly, "Isn't Usopp an important partner? Go stop him! Hey, Luffy, you are the captain, right..."

Tears flowed down Nami's eyes.

"Why don't you say anything?" Nami got up and ran out of the cabin, followed by Sanji and Chopper.

"Usopp, stop, you can't do this, hey, come back!" Nami shouted at Usopp who was leaving.

"Hey, come back!" Sanji also advised.

"Don't go, Usopp." Chopper cried, "Come back..."

A group of people walked out of the cabin and looked at Usopp who was leaving.

"Luffy, I can't continue with you." Usopp stopped and shouted without turning his head, "Until the end, I have caused you trouble. This ship really belongs to you as the captain."

Usopp turned around as he spoke.

"So fight me."

"Monkey D. Luffy."

"Duel with me!"

"Huh? Wait, what did you say?" Nami looked at Luffy in disbelief, then at Usopp.

"I will be back here at ten o'clock tonight." Usopp pointed at everyone on the ship, "Then we will duel with the Merry as the stake. I will defeat you and get the Merry! And then my fate with you will end here!"

After saying that, Usopp turned and left.

"The first rule of Hippocrates: No matter where you are..." Seeing this, Chopper jumped off the boat and chased after Usopp.

Only when Usopp disappeared did Luffy turn around without saying a word, jump down from the second floor and walk towards the mast.

"Luffy." Wang Hao suddenly called Luffy.

Luffy paused and didn't look back.

"Do you remember what I said at Upside Down Mountain?" Wang Hao looked at Luffy's back, "Regarding the Merry, we are also one step away from a duel... Forget it, let's talk about it later."

After hearing Wang Hao's words, Luffy jumped into the cabin under the mast without saying a word.

Nami followed him to the stairs and ran to the basement to find Luffy, while Sanji and Zoro returned to the cabin.

Long Aotian and others went down the stairs to the deck.

Listening to Nami chattering away at Luffy in the bottom cabin, Long Aotian and the others were whispering on the deck.

“Haozi, what’s going on?” Long Aotian looked at Wang Hao who was walking towards him. “When did this ship get so badly damaged? Also, we are outsiders, and you actually…”

Long Aotian lowered his voice when he said this: "You actually want to duel with the protagonist? Aren't you afraid of being kicked out of the protagonist group? What about the main quests in the future? All of humanity is counting on you."

"Remember the night before we went to Sky Island? The Merry was..." Wang Hao briefly explained the reason why the keel of the Merry was broken. "As for the duel between Luffy and I, it's no problem, don't worry. What I'm worried about now is that if Usopp is regarded as an enemy, his physical fitness will be the same as mine. If that's the case, Luffy might lose."

"No." Liu Yuting said suddenly.

Everyone looked at Liu Yuting with confusion.

"Long Nose is your important partner, how could he be considered an enemy." Liu Yuting crossed her arms and looked at Wang Hao and said, "Don't tell me you don't understand the meaning of the word partner."

"That's right." Wang Hao was stunned for a while, then suddenly realized and grinned.

Relieved Wang Hao left everyone to chat on the deck and returned to the cabin.

"So, the Franky family came here during the day." As soon as I entered the door, I saw Sanji pulling Zoro's shoulder and questioning him.

"So what." Zoro could see that Sanji was just looking for an excuse to quarrel, so he slapped Sanji's hand and said.

"Why didn't you beat them all down at that time? That way Usopp wouldn't be attacked. You won't feel guilty now." Sanji shouted.

"In that case, why don't you just stop buying things and get rid of them all!" shouted Zoro.

"As a chef, I'm just buying the necessary ingredients..." Sanji was about to refute but was interrupted by Nami who came up.

"Shut up, why are you still arguing at this time? I have enough troubles already." Nami closed the door and said, "Don't talk about the past anymore."

"Nami-san, this idiot..." Sanji tried to explain but was interrupted again.

Chopper opened the cabin door and walked in from outside with a dark face.

"Chopper, didn't you go chasing Usopp?" Zoro asked Chopper as he walked in.

"I wanted to continue treating him." Chopper said dejectedly, "but he drove me back."

As he said that, Chopper sat on the ground.

"Usopp lives in the city now. He said that you and I are already..." Chopper cried, "You and I are no longer partners. Go back to the ship."

"It's like a lie that we had such a good time this morning." Nami said dejectedly while sitting at the dining table, "If something happens to Robin again, it seems like our group will be torn apart."

"There is something I feel I have to tell you." Wang Hao said suddenly.

Everyone looked at Wang Hao.

"You should know that outsiders can trigger various event copies and pull people into the copies. After the event is over, your memories and the outsiders' experiences in the copies will deviate, just like in Alabasta." Wang Hao said, "And this time during the trip to Water City, I triggered another mission."

"I'm used to it." Sanji said as he lit a cigarette.

"This time is different." Wang Hao shook his head. "Luffy has always had good luck, you all know this, but this time, Luffy's luck is gone, which means you all may die."

"Which dangerous experience we had wasn't a life-threatening one?" Zoro said with a curled lip.

"If any member of the Straw Hat Pirates dies this time, the world will be restored by the power of correction and you will all be fine, but I will be punished." Wang Hao shook his head again and said, "I will be punished and die, including the world I am in, and I will never be able to come in and adventure with you again."

"Don't worry, we will never die!" Zoro said confidently.

"It's too early to brag." Wang Hao rubbed his forehead and said, "All enemies, as long as they are judged to be enemies of the Straw Hat Pirates, will have their physical fitness improved to the same level as mine. This is why I told you that you can't beat them and didn't let you take action when Franky and his family came here. And my current physical fitness is equivalent to twice that of the giants in the small garden. In other words, our enemies are all humanoid monsters, twice as strong as the giants in the small garden."

"How, how is it possible..." Sanji was so shocked that the cigarette fell out of his mouth.