83. 1 billion bellies
"So you are saying if I take your Princess Vivi to Alabasta and I will get... I mean we will get 1 billion bellies?"
Igaram had sweat all over his face listening to this delusional woman who only had money in return. But then again he couldn't blame them. It was very fortunate that a crew member was ready to even help them in lieu of money.
"Hai.. If you can bring Princess Vivi to Alabasta, the King will definitely pay you handsomely."
Igaram lied through his teeth. He didn't exactly promise her 1 billion but a promise of payment. That was fine. Of course, Nami was too far gone to hear that. All she heard was a payment of 1 billion and she was dreaming herself in the swimming pool of cash.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine had already started assaulting them when they found out Igaram was running away with Nami.
"Mr. 0 has sent his regards." Mr. 5 said as he brought out a disgusting booger from his nose and pointed at Igaram. Nami had already seen the power of this Mr. 5 and was ready with her wand.
"Confringo!"
The booger, which was ready to be used as a projectile, burst on its own in the finger of Mr. 5 himself. Confingo was an offensive spell that let things burst into an explosion and in this case the bugger of Mr. 5. And since the booger was already laden with his Devil Fruit powers, the explosion was of higher intensity.
The explosion was strong enough to throw away Mr. 5 backward. Miss Valentine, who had a smile on her face, was dumbstruck seeing that.
"What? A Devil Fruit user? How dare you.."
Miss Valentine rushed out, Nami wasn't ready for that. She was not actually a fighter as of yet and was still learning how to confront her enemies. She wasn't alert and fast enough to confront another person.
As she was inches away from hitting the face of Nami with her high heeled shoes, she herself was hit on her side by a strong hammer. This attack came out fast and out of nowhere. Miss Valentine shrieked out in pain and was flown away several metres on the ground.
"Oh Ken.. You are here... Thank god... You saved me... Thought I would die."
"You should practice your spells more in reality instead of just using them in everyday work."
Nami got embarrassed and just laughed in a hollow manner. She also felt that she would need to practice her combat spells and get herself accustomed to fighting. Igaram's eyes were wide seeing how Nami just confronted a Devil fruit user who worked in Baroque works. And if that was not enough, he was stupefied seeing how Punisher Kenny appeared out of nowhere and took care of Miss Valentine.
Meanwhile Luffy had woken up and was quite angry seeing many bounty lying in their own pool of blood and they accused Zoro for it. Of course he confronted Zoro and both of them had started an epic fight.
It was there that Miss Monday, Mr. Prince and Vivi understood that Zoro had been quite lenient when he was taking down Baroque Works and why their bounties were so high. On the physical level, both Luffy and Zoro were almost on the same level. It was the techniques that made a huge difference.
Zoro and Luffy both restrained themselves in using their signature moves and just fought against each other in raw strength. Zoro was powered by his breathing styles which made his muscles more tough and tensile while Luffy with the help of chakra was able to take his body to a higher degree of strength over the years.
While they fought, the buildings around them were destroyed. Vivi and her friends had to hide in order to be safe. They didn't have any idea of why they were fighting but they didn't want to know either. As long as they were away from Zoro, they were safe but the way these two were fighting didn;t even let them take shelter in a house.
Meanwhile Mr. 5 had finally got up after being hit by his own booger's explosion. He got to see Ken who was standing in front of him looking down. He had never seen Ken before in posters so he didn't recognize him and neither did he care. All he cared about was the woman who had humiliated her and saw her standing behind Ken.
He slowly got up and started walking towards Nami with ill intent only to see Miss Valentine lying on the side clutching her stomach and shivering in pain. His eyebrows creased as he saw that.
"You did this?" Mr. 5 looked at Nami and asked.
"I did this. Is there a problem?"
Mr. 5, at first was surprised and then got angry. He started picking his nose again and it already gave chills in Ken's spine. With no warning, Ken took his Mjolnir and struck the face of Mr. 5. This time he had let go some of his own limitations that he had put in his power. He remembered how Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine assaulted Usopp and Vivi on that ancient island along with Mr. 3, the candle man.
Ken didn't want any of that and just wanted to take care of this bullshit right here. Mr. 5 didn't expect that this random man would hit him and neither did he think highly of him. It was a fast attack without any scope of dodging.
The only thing he could do at that moment was stop the hammer while transferring the power of explosion to the hammer itself and stop it midway. But that didn't help at all.
Mjolnir didn't explode like he expected and it was right at the nose of Mr. 5. The first thing that happened was that a surge of lightning coursed through his body and then his nose broke into countless pieces and conclusive effect was him coughing out blood and just got thumped on the floor with such a force that the ground itself got cracks in it.