They made it out of the area where Shojo was singing. But he did tons of damage to the ship, Usopp was repair the ship once again with the help of Chopper. Zoro was repairing the mast. As for (Y/N), his eyes were swirls from the noise but Robin was helping him up.
Usopp: "Seriously... that green orangutan! He wreck the ship even more!"
Zoro: "This ship is really not in good shape. We should get another." he suggested making Usopp angry.
Usopp: "DON'T YOU DARE START SAYING INCONSIDERATE THINGS, TOO!" he yelled as Chopper did the same expression with him.
(Y/N): "My ears... my head... don't complain more, it's not even helping us."
Robin: "You okay?" she placed his head on her lap making the chef's eyes stretch.
Luffy: "Going Merry is an important part of the crew. So let's get down to business!" he said some sword to cheer Usopp as Chopper was still acting mad like the long nose.
Usopp: "Luffy... You're such a...*Luffy breaks a chunk* YOU IDIOT!! ARE YOU REPAIRING OR WRECKING THE SHIP?!"
As they were yelling at Luffy for accidentally breaking the ship making (Y/N) in more pain. They looked on the map and remembered that they left Mock Town and headed east by circling around the island.
Nami: "We're almost there. That man... what's his name again?"
Robin: "Montblanc Cricket." she said while rubbing the ink man's head.
Sanji: "ROBIN-CHAN!! MY HEAD HURTS AS WELL, PLEASE DO THE SAME FOR ME!!"
Nami: "So that man who talks of dreams lives here, huh?"
Luffy & Usopp: "A-AMAZING!!" their eyes went upon the place where Montblanc Cricket.
(Y/N): "I'm feeling better. I don't need anymore." he stands up and tips his hat making Robin laugh.
Luffy: "THAT'S HIS HOUSE?! THAT'S A PALACE!"
Usopp: "IS THIS MONTBLANC CRICKET GUY MEGA-RICH?!"
Zoro: "Idiots. Look closer."
Sanji: "A dreamer, huh? He does seem to be vain."
Luffy jumps down and ran behind the house. He then found that it was just a board with a house behind it.
Luffy: "WHAT THE...?! IT'S JUST A CUT OUT?!" he yelled making the reindeer and long nose yell in sadness.
(Y/N): "Looks can be deceiving guys, looks can be deceiving."
Zoro: "The actual house is only half of it. The rest just a veneer."
Sanji: "He seems like a very cheap guy."
Nami: "What kind of dreams did he talk about that would get him driven out?"
Robin: "I don't know the details, but I heard that he said a huge amount of gold rests in Jaya."
Usopp and Nami were shocked. The navigator's eyes turn into Berries signs again as she yells out gold. Then she immediately commanded Chopper to dig the ground.
(Y/N): "This place is nice, kind of reminds me back at the lighthouse."
Luffy: "Hello. *opens door* I'm coming in." he enters the house.
Usopp: "COULDN'T YOU WAIT A SEC?!"
Luffy: "Hm? There's no one. HELLO!! No answers..."
Usopp: "You idiot, WAIT! What're you gonna do if this guy's dangerous?"
(Y/N) told Chopper to stop digging as Nami picks up a book from a stump. It was an old picture book, she reads the title called "Noland the Liar" and Usopp likes the book already.
Usopp: "WOW, that's a cool title! Nice idea for a book!" he crossed his arms.
(Y/N): "Because it relates to you."
Sanji: "Did you say "Noland the Liar", Nami-san?"
Nami: "You know it, Sanji-kun? But it says it was published in the North Blue."
Sanji: "I was born in the North Blue. I haven't mentioned to you guys, yet?"
(Y/N): "You never told us."
Usopp: "I thought you were from the East, too."
Sanji: "I was living there. This is a famous story in the North. It's a fairy tale, but I've heard that Noland actually existed long ago.
-Timeskip brought to you by Chibi (Y/N) rolling his eyes-
As Nami was finished with the story, Luffy was looking over the water to see bubbles above. Then Luffy fell into the sea making the crew panic.
Nami: "LUFFY FELL INTO THE SEA!!"
Usopp: "*runs to Luffy* WHAT'RE YOU DOING?!" then a man emerged from the sea and got into a fighting position.
???: "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?! You've got guts, relaxing at someone's house without permission! The sea in this area is my turf!"
Sanji: "Hey (Y/N)! Go and get Luffy!" he runs at the man as (Y/N) created a whip.
???: "You're after the gold, aren't you? DIE!" he does a a kick and Sanji dodges.
He did another kick and Sanji dodge it again. Sanji was going to return the favor of kicking but the man stops his foot with his hand. Then he pulls a gun and shoots Sanji in the face, but Sanji ducks underneath the shot.
Sanji: "Don't worry. It didn't hit me." he dodges the bullets as the man kept firing.
Zoro: "Idiot... You shouldn't underestimate your opponent." he slowly unsheathe his sword.
But they stopped fighting when the man dropped his gun and fell to the ground. (Y/N) finally pulls Luffy out of the water. Then they get the guy into his house and Chopper was treating him.
Chopper: "Bring more cold towels! Open up the windows!"
Zoro: "Caisson disease?"
(Y/N): "Is he going to die or something?" a thought bubble appeared showing a grave.
Chopper: "It's a sickness that divers sometimes get. But it doesn't usually become a long-standing condition. Due to a lack of decompression when surfacing from the seabed, the nitrogen dissolved in the blood gets released quickly and form gas bubbles at that time. Since the gas bubbles expand inside and outside of blood vessels, they cause problems to blood flow, muscle and joints." the reindeer explained.
Luffy: "So it's some bizarre phenomenon, huh?"
(Y/N): "Then he must've kept diving every no and then without time giving those bubbles to disappear from the body."
Nami: "Why? What for?" she asked but the doctor didn't know.
Chopper: "He's taking a risk. In some cases, caisson disease can... cause death."
(Y/N) took a look at the picture on the wall to see two faces from before and the guy in the middle. Then heads popped out of the door.
Masira & Shojo: "OLD-TIMER! ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!" they both yelled immediately causing Usopp and Chopper to freak out.
Usopp: "THEY'VE COME TO KILL US!!"
Shojo: "WHY ARE YOU GUYS HERE FOR?!"
Masira: "WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE OLD-TIMER?!"
(Y/N): "We're saving this guy's life, so go do salvaging or singing." Usopp stops to tell the ink man that it's no use.
Usopp: "THEY'LL NEVER BELIEVE THAT! THEY'RE SAVAGES, YOU KNOW! EVERYONE, THROUGH THE WINDOW!"
The two started crying after what they've heard from the top hat.
Masira & Shojo: "You... GUYS ARE SO NICE!" they cried as Usopp and Chopper fell down to believe that it worked.
-Timeskip brought to you by Chibi (Y/N) spinning around-
Luffy: "You guys live here?"
Masira: "Well, the old-timer's house is the headquarters of the Saruyama Alliance."
Shojo: "But we sleep on our ships most of the time because there's not enough space for us in a house like that."
Usopp: "Why are they getting along so well?"
Zoro: "They can probably relate to each other."
(Y/N): "Basically same minds think alike..."
The three primates kept having their conversation about each other. Chopper comes out the door to tell that the guy was getting better, they entered the house to check him.
Luffy: "Hey old diamond-head! I wanna ask you something!" the man pulls out his cigarette and puff out a smoke cloud.
Cricket: "Sorry I caused you trouble. I thought you were just more idiots after the gold."
(Y/N): "You're kind of correct." his eyes went to Nami who had Berries sign in her eyes again.
Nami: "WHAT?! You have gold bullion?"
Usopp: "Don't go after it."
Cricket: "Is that your question?"
Luffy: "Old guy, we wanna go the sky island! Please tell us how to get there!"
Cricket: "Sky island?" he starts breaking into laughter.
(Y/N): "Yeah? You know how to get there?"
Cricket: "You guys believe in such a place?" Nami was going punch him but Usopp stopped her from doing it.
Luffy: "THERE'S NO SKY ISLAND, OLD GUY?!"
Cricket: "No one knows. I know someone who said there is. But people call him a legendary big liar! His family became a laughing stock forever."
(Y/N): "Sounds like someone we know..."
Usopp: "IT'S NOT ME!" he shouts.
Cricket: "There's an old story that most North Blue people know. "Noland the Liar" is the one."
Usopp: "LIKE I SAID, IT'S NOT ME! HE'S GOT A DIFFERENT NAME, RIGHT?!"
Sanji: "Come to think of it, Noland's name is, if I'm not mistaken, Montblanc Noland. Could it be that you're Noland's..."
Nami: "A DESCENDANT?! Could this place be the island in that story?!"
Cricket: "He's my granddad's grandad's grandad's... He's my distant ancestor... What a nuisance. I doubt there's a drop of his blood in my body... Although the Montblanc family was driven out of country then, and has kept a low profile, people continue to denounce our family to this day. But no one in the family hates him."
Chopper: "Why is that?"
Cricket: "Because Noland was an extraordinary honest person."
(Y/N): "But he's called a liar on the book..."
Cricket: "Noland's last excuse in the book is like this. "That's right! The mountain of gold sank in the sea!" A stupid-looking face is drawn in this book... but he shed many tears and died a regrettable death. He was sure that the island he reached was Jaya, where he found the wreckage of a city of gold. He felt that there's no way it was just an illusion. Noland insisted that the ruins had submerged due to crustal movements, but everyone thought he was making excuses out of desperation. Noland was executed in front of the laughing onlookers, and only the name "Liar" remained."
(Y/N): "So that's the reason you've been diving into the sea. You wanted to find the city of gold on the seabed, you're one crazy person doing that."
Usopp: "So you're doing it to clear the Montblanc family's name!"
Cricket pulls out a gun and shoots a bullet. Luckily, Usopp ducked just in time to save his head, and yes, he was crying in fear.
Cricket: "How honest my distant ancestor was, or how great an explorer he was, HOW NOTHING TO DO WITH ME! Can you understand how a child would feel being laughed at by strangers just because he's the descendant of such an IDIOT?! THAT'S HOW I GREW UP!"
Everyone was silent to hear more. Over four-hundred years, many of his family member sailed to restore the family's honor, but they all went missing. Cricket was ashamed of his family doing such a thing. He ran away and later on became a pirate. But he didn't want to become one, he became one to escape Noland's curse. Over time, he had his own crew, that's when he eventually entered Grandline. Ten years after, his ship reached an island by accident. Strangely enough, only Cricket, who continued to hate his family and Noland the most. The island didnt have the city of gold like in the book. Cricket felt like it was destiny when he stood on a cape of the island. He found out that, there's was no place to escape to. That's when he started to try and find the city of gold under the sea, but was a duel with the man who ruined his life. He want to set a record straight before he dies.
Usopp: "*wipes tears* This is indeed a man's..." he continues to cry more.
Luffy: "Then, what about them? Why are those monkeys, here?" he asked Cricket.
Cricket: "Those guys are fans of the picture book."
Nami: "That's a simple connection..." she sweat dropped.
(Y/N): "Tell me about it."
Cricket: "It was five or six years ago. They heard a rumor about me and barged in on me. They said, "We think Noland's gold definitely exists!" The sea around here is deep. In the dark, cold sea, you're haunted by deeper solitude. I just dived and searched alone every day. They just came into my life and became my underlings without my permission, and they play around. Single-minded idiots like them... make me feel relieved, to be honest. Do you understand?"
Usopp: "I do. Yeah, real comrades give each other strength and..." he continues to cry and shake a bit.
(Y/N): "Enough with those primate brothers, how do we get to the sky island?"
Luffy: "YEAH! HOW DO WE GET THERE, OLD GUY!"
Cricket: "Hehehe... You're a hasty one! I to,d you, the witness to the sky island is that Noland the Liar. *pulls a book* If you have anything to do with him, you'll be laughed at like me."
Luffy: "WHAT?! HE'S BEEN THERE, TOO?!"
Cricket: "Unfortunately, this doesn't confirm he did, but..."
Nami: "A logbook? Could it be Noland's?" she asked and Cricket told that she was right.
He got to the page and threw it to Nami to read.
Nami: "Amazing... A logbook from 400 years ago... Sea Ephemeris Year 1120, June 21st, Sunny. We left Villa, a cheerful town. Following the Log Pose, we should be heading east-northeast from the harbor. We got a rare item from the bumboat that we came across during the day. It's a ski-like one-person boat called a waver. *Luffy, Usopp & Chopper gets closer* It's a mysterious boat that can generate wind and move even on a day without wind. It seems that you need to get the hang of it to ride, and I couldn't manage it. Right now, it's become a perfect toy for my crew. WHAT IS IT?! I WANT ONE!"
Luffy, Usopp & Chopper: "NEVER MIND THAT, KEEP READING!"
Nami: "The power of this seems to be a product found only on the sky island, and I hear that many peculiar things like that exist in the sky. Speaking of the sky island, one of explorer friends showed me a live skyfish. I was surprised at how strange the fish looked."
Sanji: "Skyfish?" he wondered.
Nami: "To our ship, it's still an unknown area, but as a sailor, I'd like to go to the sea in the sky one day. Montblanc Noland... He said "the sea in the sky" guys!"
Luffy: "IT'S JUST LIKE (Y/N) AND ROBIN SAID!!" he yelled in excitement at Usopp.
Usopp: "AND IT SPUNDS LIKE THE SKY ISLAND WAS A PRETTY NORMAL THING FOR PEOPLE BACK THEM." he yelled at Luffy with happiness shaking Chopper of his head.
Cricket went outside to the two monkeys fighting.
Masira: "Old-timer! How do you feel?"
Cricket: "Better than anything."
Shojo: "Glad to hear it!" Masira and him kept fighting until Cricket told them to stop.
Cricket: "Shut up and listen. Do you like those pirates?"
Shojo: "Why'd you ask?"
Cricket: "It seems like they want to go to the sky island at any cost."
Shojo: "If that's where they're heading, then there's only one solution."
Masira: "Old-timer, they'll get killed immediately if they're on their own."
Cricket: "Exactly... *cross arms* so why don't we give them a hand?"
-To be continued-