After Usopp had several bumps on his head, Luffy coughed when he saw Orochimaru's eyes.
"Orochimaru, stop! Usopp, right... Is your father Yasopp...?" Luffy awkwardly acted.
Usopp instantly revived.
"Yasopp is indeed my dad's name," Usopp said, falling from the mountain in shock. "But how do you know?"
"Ah... everything just now was a misunderstanding... because of this and that..."
After explaining, a group of people sat together in a restaurant, eating with great enthusiasm. Luffy mumbled with meat in his mouth,
"I saw him when I was little."
Usopp excitedly leaned over, "Ah, my dad was on Shanks's ship!"
"Hmm, you look exactly like him, so I guessed it the moment I saw you."
Usopp rubbed his still aching head, his tone filled with doubt.
"Recognized at a glance?"
"Yes, yes," Luffy buried his head in his meat. Orochimaru, who was eating slowly, stepped on Luffy's foot, and Luffy reacted.
"So... I stopped Orochimaru immediately, otherwise you would have been killed by Orochimaru, mistaken for a Pirate Crew attacking us."
⊙⊿⊙☞ Luffy pointed at Orochimaru.
Only you could fool Usopp with such a flawed lie.
"I've heard so much about you that my ears are calloused. Yasopp is an excellent Pirate Crew member," Luffy said with some emotion.
"That's good then, nei~ I wonder if we can find a wealthy family in your Village to get a large ship?" Nami suddenly interjected.
Orochimaru slowly cut the apple into pieces, eating them one by one while thinking, "Emmm, how should I deal with that glasses guy from the Black Cat Pirate Crew...?" He looked up and saw Usopp saying, "We're not close," and then running away.
Orochimaru casually fed Luffy a piece of apple.
"Does he think we're all fools? His lying is on par with Luffy's."
"Mm-hmm..." Nami and Zoro nodded in unison.
Then three children burst in.
"We are the Usopp Pirate Crew!! Pirates! Where did you take our Captain Usopp?!"
"Ah... this meat is too delicious," Luffy patted his stomach contentedly.
"Meat? Did you guys eat the Captain...?" The three children shivered.
"Your Captain, huh..." Zoro put on a fierce face, grinning like a complete villain. "We ate him."
Orochimaru licked his lips, his voice hoarse, "Are these three little children new food...? I love fresh little children."
Orochimaru stretched his neck out, flicking his tongue.
The three children screamed in horror, "Monster!!!..." Then they looked at Nami, "She-devil!!!" and fainted, foaming at the mouth.
Orochimaru didn't understand... why they fainted when they saw Nami.
"They say children can see the essence of things... So Nami is scarier after all?" Orochimaru mused.
Nami roared with a shark-like face, "You guys said those strange things first! I'm definitely better than you three idiots, violent maniacs, and monsters!!"
"But what about these three children?"
Zoro suggested leaving them with the shop owner, as they were all acquaintances. He also inquired with the owner and learned that the house on the hilltop belonged to the richest family in the Village. The group then headed up the mountain to see if they could get sponsorship.
Arriving in the yard, they saw Usopp punching Klahadore in the face because of his father.
The subsequent development was the same as the plot. Luffy and Usopp discovered the Black Cat Pirate Crew's conspiracy. Usopp decided to fight the Black Cat Pirate Crew alone for the Village, with Zoro and Nami helping.
Orochimaru rescued the injured Merry and informed Kaya of Captain Kuro's plot. The three children were not involved. Luffy, who was even stronger than in the original plot, quickly dealt with the Black Cat Pirate Crew.
Orochimaru had originally planned to sell Kuro for money, as he needed a lot of funds for his laboratory once they had a ship. However, he suddenly remembered that Kuro's bounty had been canceled due to his faked death. What bad luck... He simply threw Kuro and his broken ship into the ocean.
To thank the Straw Hat, Merry gave Luffy the schooner he had built years ago.
"This is the going merry."
Orochimaru inspected the ship and very solemnly stated his requirement that Luffy's group not crowd into one place to sleep. He converted the upper storage room into Orochimaru's laboratory and living quarters.
If you ask how to store food without a storage room, Orochimaru said he was enough, mentioning his system backpack. Moreover... the existence of such a warehouse would only lead to a group of people starving nine times in three days. Other commonly used sundries could be piled up in the cannon room opposite, as there weren't many.
While thinking, he heard a howl.
"Ah ah ah ah ah... help me stop!" Usopp, carrying huge luggage, rolled down the mountain. Zoro and Luffy each gave him a kick, forcibly braking him.
"I've decided to set sail!"
"We're already Companions, aren't we?"
Usopp bid farewell to Kaya and embarked on his journey to become a brave sea warrior, so that he could be worthy of Kaya in the future, right?
The clear blue sky was cloudless. Zoro lay sleeping on the deck, Usopp played a Pirate Crew game alone, Orochimaru occupied Luffy's exclusive sheep's head, lying on it drowsily sunbathing, and Luffy was lie on the ground, sneaking around, doing who knows what.
"Look! This is the Pirate Flag I drew. Now that Usopp has joined, there are five of us, so we need our own symbol!"
On a black cloth, a terribly ugly, seemingly broken skeleton was crookedly drawn... Zoro broke out in a cold sweat, "Is this our symbol?"
"How is it? Pretty good, right?" Luffy grinned foolishly.
"A Pirate Flag is a symbol of terror... but in a way... it is quite terrifying."
Orochimaru jumped off the sheep's head, did a 180-degree spin in the air, and landed precisely on Luffy's head, knocking him to the ground.
"Ah... gomen," he apologized half-heartedly.
Luffy, with sharp teeth, stood up and roared, "Orochimaru, you did that on purpose!!! It was definitely on purpose!! You sly snake!!"
"Oh... is that so...? (๑ºั╰╯ºั๑)"
"This is where I, the great, need to step in!" Usopp rolled up his sleeves and quickly drew a new flag, which received unanimous praise.
Afterward, on an island full of animals, they encountered Gaimon, who was stuck in a box. Orochimaru was a little restless... How did this person survive with all his bones broken and stuck in a box, and still live a normal life? And there were so many strange animals on this island. He really wanted to capture them as experimental subjects... But he was met with unanimous opposition from everyone and had to give up. Before leaving, he still lingered, reluctant... "Nah... everyone... can't I really take them?"
Orochimaru put on an innocent, pleading face, his expression clearly saying, "I want them."
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"Dame!!!! No!!! Absolutely not!!!" Everyone, including Luffy, reached a consensus.
Orochimaru looked back three times, reluctantly watching Gaimon, who was clutching animals and trembling.
Finally, Zoro couldn't stand it anymore and simply carried Orochimaru on his shoulder and took him away.