Night fell.
Inside the cabin, Nami had prepared a simple dinner, and it looked quite good.
Some meat was heated and cooked, along with some canned goods, fresh vegetable salad, and fruit.
Ye Fan tasted the meal she had made.
How should he put it? It wasn't bad; it was edible, but it wasn't particularly delicious either.
This made Ye Fan feel that he also needed to find a beautiful female chef to cook for him every day.
Erina Nakiri would be the best choice.
Ye Fan had seen her during the lottery; her world was a world of cooking.
The better the food one cooked, the higher their status, so she would be the most suitable chef.
However, he didn't know when that would be. Even if he drew her, he would still need a billion Berries.
It wouldn't help him improve his strength at all.
Erina Nakiri's world didn't have any special abilities; if anything, it was the food made by Soma Yukihira.
This wasn't ordinary food; a single plate of egg-fried rice could make Erina Nakiri directly reach...
"It's alright, quite tasty."
After exercising all afternoon, Ye Fan was a bit hungry and ate heartily.
...
The morning sun on the sea was exceptionally beautiful, making the surface of the ocean sparkle.
With a gentle sea breeze blowing, Ye Fan was in a very good mood.
Although the final step hadn't happened last night, everything else that could be done was done.
Ye Fan couldn't sleep; he was full of energy, with strength to spare.
Yesterday's exercise had been effective; it truly was a magical world.
If this were on Blue Star, with the way Ye Fan exercised yesterday, he would wake up this morning with swollen limbs.
Definitely swollen beyond belief, the kind that hurt with every touch or movement.
"Hm?"
Through Nami's perspective, Ye Fan saw a ship approaching.
It had a skull flag, so it should be a group of pirates.
Ye Fan currently needed some money to draw another lottery ticket, and these guys were coming to deliver themselves.
For the protagonist, they were like experience monsters, indispensable for leveling up.
Although their ship wasn't as big as Ye Fan's, it wasn't small either.
Buggy: "..."
The flag of this ship had been thrown away by Ye Fan yesterday; he hadn't yet thought of a distinctive symbol to represent himself.
The pirate flag could be put aside for now.
To outsiders, this was just an ordinary ship, no wonder they dared to approach.
As they drew closer, Ye Fan sensed about thirty to forty heat sources, or people, on the other ship.
He was the only combatant here, so he decided to have Nami hide inside the ship first.
"Nami, there's a situation. You go hide in the ship first; I'll handle this."
Hearing Ye Fan's warning, she looked up.
A medium-sized pirate ship with a skull flag was approaching, and on board stood a group of ferocious pirates with swords.
It startled Nami.
This was exactly what she had been hoping for.
She quickly fled back into the ship's room, closing the door tightly.
She observed the situation outside through a crack in the window.
If things went south, she would quickly escape.
"Hey kid, where's that woman from earlier?"
"Hand her over quickly, and if grandpa's in a good mood, I might even spare your life."
"Hahaha, this fool kid didn't even run when he saw our Tiger Pirates, he's truly an idiot."
"This big ship is now ours, the Tiger Pirates, it will become our main vessel."
...
The members of the Tiger Pirates saw Ye Fan as a young man who hadn't even fully matured, so how strong could he be?
This large ship was probably just a rich young master from some family who secretly took it out to play, and they just happened to encounter him.
They thought he was scared silly upon seeing pirates.
Ye Fan looked at their flag, a tiger symbol on the skull, and indeed, it was the Tiger Pirates.
However, they weren't even mentioned in the original story, so they were probably just a group formed by someone with a bounty of a few million Berries.
After all, the strongest in the East Blue was the Arlong Pirates, who occupied Nami's hometown.
His gaze fell upon a tall, dark-skinned, muscular middle-aged man on the other ship, over two meters tall, wearing a tiger hat.
He should be the Captain of the Tiger Pirates.
These guys must have grown up on steroids!
Ye Fan's current body was only 1.8 meters tall, which, in this pirate world, was just a slightly taller ant.
The taller one was, the more extraordinary; there was no problem with that statement.
And Ye Fan wondered if these people were big from childhood?
Just like the Giant Race, their children were larger from a young age, so it was normal for them to grow so big.
"Boss, this guy's an idiot. We also saw a beautiful woman just now, very attractive."
Luke Walker, who was sitting there, now stood up, looking at Ye Fan with excitement.
He was a formidable pirate with a bounty of 5 million, having roamed the East Blue for several years.
He loved treasure and beautiful women the most; they were both things he enjoyed collecting.
"Kid, I'll give you a chance. Hand over all your treasure and that girl from earlier, and if this old man's in a good mood, I might spare you, otherwise..."
His dismissive tone and arrogant expression, as if he didn't even see him, made Ye Fan find it truly amusing.
These pirates in the East Blue all had an unclear perception of their own strength.
They were in the weakest sea, yet each one acted more boastful than the last; he truly didn't know why.
Luke Walker revealed a cruel smile. He enjoyed torturing beautiful women to death and then throwing them into the sea to feed the fish.
Their screams were so beautiful, so captivating, simply heavenly music.
In these years, he had killed at least eighty, if not a hundred, all of them young women of considerable charm.