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Chapter 62: Heading for the Grand Line!
After Ganyu's figure disappeared over the horizon, Tashigi hurriedly led the fleet rushing from the square to the harbor.
The scene before her instantly stunned her.
Captain Smoker was dragged ashore from the sea by several Marine soldiers, soaked and looking wretched.
"Captain Smoker! What happened?"
Tashigi hurriedly ran over.
In his panic, he didn't notice the jitte Ganyu had just dropped from the sky.
She tripped over the weapon with a "plop," lost her balance, and fell into the sea.
"Sergeant Tashigi!" The sailors were stunned and exclaimed one after another.
Fortunately, Tashigi was not a Devil Fruit user and was a Marine with excellent swimming skills.
Soon, she poked her head out of the water, shivering.
"It's so cold..."
Tashigi climbed ashore with trembling arms, soaked like a drowned rat.
Her soaked Marine uniform clung tightly to her body, outlining her curves, making many Marine soldiers blush and turn their faces away.
Smoker, having just caught his breath, spat out a few mouthfuls of seawater.
"Give her a coat too."
Seeing this, he first ordered the Marine officer beside him to bring her new clothes, then said angrily:
"Idiot! That woman used magic to freeze the seawater; of course, it's cold!"
"Frozen?"
Tashigi was draped in a coat by a Marine, wrapped inside, and she turned her head with a puzzled look.
When she saw the sea view, she couldn't help but widen her eyes.
All I saw was...
On the turbulent sea, a straight, hundred-meter-long frozen road appeared.
At the end of the ice road, on the distant horizon, a pirate ship flying a straw hat skull flag was slowly sailing towards the navigation light symbolizing the Reverse Mountain thousands of meters away.
.....
On the Going Merry.
Thunder roared through the sky, fierce winds blew the sails, and heavy rain pounded the deck.
The Straw Hat Pirates consisted of six members: Luffy, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, and Ganyu, who had fallen from the sky.
Everyone stood around a wooden barrel.
Although everyone was soaked, hair sticking to their faces, clothes clinging to their bodies, their faces were all brimming with smiles.
In the distance, the mountain peak shone with dazzling light; that was the entrance to the Grand Line.
They were finally entering the Grand Line!
The six of them looked at each other and smiled. Luffy was the first to stomp heavily on the wooden barrel and shout loudly.
"I'm going to become the Pirate King!"
"I want to become a brave warrior of the sea!"
"I'm going to become the world's greatest swordsman!"
"I'm here to find the All Blue!"
"I'm doing this to draw a map of the world!"
I'm doing this to...
Everyone shouted their dreams loudly, their voices full of passion and inspiration, even drowning out the sounds of waves and heavy rain.
But.
When it was Ganyu's turn, she opened her mouth, looked at the five pairs of expectant eyes, but suddenly couldn't speak.
She stood there blankly, stunned, a hint of confusion in her eyes.
What was her dream?
In her previous life, her dream for eighteen years was to get into a good university. After getting into university, her dream became finding a good job after graduation. But unfortunately, before she graduated, she transmigrated to this world.
Now, she possessed a brand-new body, a different gender, and naturally joined the protagonist group.
Logically speaking, her dream should be to accompany these people who once only appeared on screens on adventures, witness Luffy become the Pirate King, watch Zoro become the world's greatest swordsman...
But could this dream really be considered her own?
"Ganyu, hurry up and tell me!"
Seeing Ganyu silent for a long time, Luffy couldn't help but feel anxious. "How can you not have a dream!"
"Yeah, just say something, like becoming the world's greatest archer or something?" Usopp suggested while scratching his wet hair.
Sanji rested his chin on his hand, squinting his eyes to carefully examine Ganyu's whole body. Ganyu was also soaked by the rain; she already wore little, and now...
Sanji wiped the blood from the tip of his nose and said, "How about the title of the world's most beautiful woman? In my opinion, this title should have been awarded to Miss Ganyu long ago!"
"Ahem."
Nami nodded in agreement, although she herself was a woman, she couldn't help but admire Ganyu's authoritative bearing.
She thought for a moment, suddenly her eyes lit up. "Becoming the world's strongest woman is possible, right? Ganyu might become the world's strongest woman in the future!"
"What kind of nonsense is this..." Ganyu sighed helplessly, feeling her companions' ideas were too outrageous.
Zoro suddenly looked at Ganyu with a smile and said, "She can have more than one dream, right?"
"Well..."
Everyone was startled hearing this, silent for a moment, then suddenly raised their heads.
"Yes!"
"If it's Ganyu, she could easily achieve multiple dreams at the same time!"
"Hehe, the world's most beautiful woman and the world's strongest woman, I'm so lucky to be on the same ship as Miss Ganyu!"
"Hey, Ganyu, shout it out! I can't wait!"
"Wait, you guys aren't... serious, right?" Ganyu bit her lower lip, eyes flickering slightly, tone carrying a hint of disbelief.
"Of course!" ×5
Everyone responded in unison.
"This..."
Ganyu was speechless for a moment, silent for a long time, then smiled helplessly and nodded.
She lifted her slender legs clad in black silk stockings, the tips of her shoes gently touching the edge of the wooden tub. She raised her hand to smooth her hair messed up by the sea breeze, cheeks flushing, closed her eyes, and softly said:
"I... in order to become the most beautiful person in the world... the world's greatest archer... number one in the world..."
After Ganyu loudly finished reciting this shameful dream, she slowly opened her eyes, only to see five faces with cunning smiles.
Ganyu's expression froze.
"Pfft!"
She actually shouted it out!
"Haha, Ganyu, you're so cute!"
Luffy and Usopp laughed until they fell to the ground, Nami laughed until her whole body shook, Sanji tried hard to hold back his laughter but the corners of his mouth kept twitching, Zoro watched with interest as Ganyu's cheeks turned from rosy to bright red.
"You guys!"
Seeing this scene, Ganyu immediately understood she had just been tricked by them!
These guys likely planned their prank while she was fighting Smoker alone!
This was really too much. She was seriously considering it just now.
In a short time.
Ganyu was both ashamed and angry. She covered her burning cheeks with both hands, stomped fiercely on a certain green-haired swordsman's shoes, then viciously rubbed a certain rubber man's face, and angrily returned to the cabin alone.
Bang!
The bedroom door slammed shut, Ganyu collapsed on the bed, burying herself under the quilt.
Too embarrassing, she didn't want to go out all day.