Sky Knight Gan Fall left his name, then gallantly rode away on his ugly bird? Or a horse? ...Anyway, that's what it was, and he departed in a not-so-gallant manner.
Orochimaru hesitated, "Ah... that bird with the Horse-Horse Fruit, it looks like a lame donkey."
Nami looked at his retreating figure: "He should have transformed into something else... Was the cost too low?"
"Who knows..." came a collective sigh from the group.
"In the end, this Sky Knight didn't seem to get to the main point. How do we get to the White-White Sea above?" Robin picked up a whistle, instinctively wanting to put it around Orochimaru's neck, but paused. She then knelt down and hung it around Chopper's neck, patting his head.
"There's a strange cloud over there," Chopper pointed with his small paw at the distant cloud that resembled a waterfall.
As the going merry approached, Luffy noticed a huge gate beneath the waterfall cloud.
It read: "Gate of Heaven."
Usopp grumbled, "What an ominous gate. It sounds like we're going to die."
"Soga, so we're in Heaven... Have we been dead all along?" Luffy and the others swayed, giggling foolishly.
"Click, click," the giggling group heard a sound and saw a small old woman with wings on her back taking photos.
Luffy's mouth hung open, "Is that an angel... an angel? Do all angels look like that? She looks like a sour plum! ( ´ ﾟ ж ﾟ )
A moment of silence filled the air.
Nami tentatively asked, "Excuse me?"
The old woman looked at them, "I am Amazon, the monitor of the Gate of Heaven. Are you here for sightseeing or war?
Never mind, it doesn't matter either way. The fee to enter Heaven is 1 billion Extols per person. There are seven of you, plus one pet.
Actually, the pet is free."
Nami calculated, "1 billion Extols is 100,000 Berries. That's 700,000 Berries... A bit expensive... Can't it be a little cheaper, grandma?" Nami looked pitifully at the old gatekeeper.
The gatekeeper's face was expressionless, "It doesn't matter... I'm just informing you... I'm not a guard or a soldier. I'm just asking for your intentions."
Everyone blinked, feeling that it wasn't that simple, but Nami still paid the money with tears in her eyes. Although they were rich now, her heart still ached.
(In the original story, they didn't pay because they didn't know the currency exchange and had no money, but our Snake Snake is super rich, so how could we not pay?)
"Alright, received. Seven people plus one pet."
No sooner had the gatekeeper finished speaking than a giant lobster suddenly burst out of the sea of clouds. Its enormous body was astonishing. The lobster's two claws tightly gripped the going merry, then unhesitatingly rushed towards the cloud waterfall.
The lobster carried the going merry upstream, its speed increasing. Everyone watched tensely as they quickly passed through layers of mist and arrived at a vast, white sea—the White-White Sea.
The dreamlike Land of God came into view. The going merry docked, and Luffy excitedly jumped off, rolling around in the sea of clouds.
"Hahaha, it's so soft!" Chopper, Usopp, and Luffy happily rolled around on the clouds.
...~(～o￣▽￣)～o...Hahaha...o～(＿△＿o～)~..."It's so beautiful," Orochimaru exclaimed, looking at the white ocean before him, a never-before-seen landscape.
"Robin~ Orochimaru, want to change into swimsuits together?" Nami enthusiastically invited, "Sky! Sea! Clouds! It's truly wonderful!"
Nami excitedly jumped off the ship, "Come down quickly, you can stand on the ground, you won't fall."
Chopper lay sprawled on a cloud, "Ah... so Sky Island is a place that makes you want to sleep." Then he let himself roll down from a height.
Luffy hung from a coconut tree, playing strange games with Usopp, "This is Captain Luffy. This place is so much fun, I don't know how long we should play."
Usopp was piling clouds with clouds? "This is Usopp. I'm going to enjoy myself leisurely first."
Sanji squatted on the ground, looking at strange red flowers. He picked some, intending to give them to Nami and Robin later, then looked around, secretly deciding to save one for Orochimaru too.
Nami stretched vigorously, "There are no Marines here... we can play to our hearts' content."
Robin was relaxing on the beach. Heart-eyed Sanji floated over and tucked a red flower into her hair.
Then he ran towards Nami.
"Nami-swaan~ Here's a flower for you~"
Zoro, barefoot, was somewhat annoyed that his feet were getting wet. He casually picked up a white fox nearby to wipe his feet.
"It's a sea of clouds... why is it wet?"
Orochimaru, having changed clothes, swam over with his snake tail.
"Hey... Zoro... what are you using to wipe your feet?" Orochimaru looked at the fox in his hand, pondering... Is it... unconscious?? He didn't remember Zoro having smelly feet.
"Ah... Gomen," Zoro only then noticed that what he was using to wipe his feet was an animal.
..."This is a fox, isn't it... Orochimaru...? ! ! ! ! ! !"
Zoro looked up at Orochimaru, his ears bright red, then covered his nose and roared, "What are you wearing!"
Orochimaru blinked, "Nami gave me this swimsuit. What's wrong? Isn't it normal??"
Orochimaru carefully examined the swimsuit.
It was a very ordinary off-the-shoulder gown-like swimsuit. Although it looked more like a gown than a swimsuit, only exposing two arms, it was very ordinary.
It was very harmonious and lovely, perfectly up to standard. Anyone looking at it would consider it normal clothing, nothing was exposed at all, so why the expression? (See image in comments section)
It seemed Sanji had been feeding them too much lately.
A melodious zither sound drifted from afar, and Orochimaru instinctively looked over.
Looking at the golden-haired girl with wings, "An angel?" Then his gaze fixed on the antenna-like things on her head... Are those antennae or hair...? Curious... "Pfft..." Orochimaru heard the familiar sound of nosebleeds and turned to look at the group behind him... except for Luffy and Chopper... "Have you all been eating too much lately... Sanji, have you guys been getting extra meals? Look at yourselves."
Nami covered her nose, indicating she was fine.
So, what was wrong with this outfit? Orochimaru stated that he wasn't even human now, he didn't even have legs.
Confused, Orochimaru decided to make them eat something light tomorrow. It must be meat, meat, and more meat every day, leading to such misunderstandings. It was too embarrassing.
"Hasso," the girl greeted the group, but there was no reaction.
"Welcome to Angel Beach in the Land of God. May I have that fox in your hand back?"
"Oh, oh, oh," Zoro snapped out of it and handed the unconscious fox back to her.
The angel girl reached out for the pumpkin-like object in Luffy's hand.
"Do you want to drink that?"
"Mm," Luffy blinked and nodded.
The girl used a small knife to dig a small hole in the bottom and inserted a straw. "This fruit is very hard, you can't bite through it no matter how hard you try. Here, taste it."
"It's so good!! Orochimaru, you try it too!" Luffy offered the straw. The angel girl followed his gaze to Orochimaru, then suddenly spurted blood and collapsed.
The others had shark-like faces, "So you didn't see it! We thought it was really just us eating too much!!"
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