"Yah! Where is this place?"
Kokoro felt the world spin before her eyes, and in an instant, she had been transported from the classroom to a town with European-style architecture.
Nayuta, on the other hand, was much calmer, simply looking around curiously… after all, with her abilities, even if she traveled to the Dragon Ball World, unless the enemy blew up the Earth directly, it wouldn't be easy to kill her.
"So beautiful! So beautiful!"
"How can we possibly win against this?"
"You can take everything away, I'll bear what's left..."
"Aaah... why did you leave? I finally felt my heart move for once, yet you made me lose so completely."
Soon, Nayuta and Kokoro noticed that on the dock of this European-style town, not far from them, a group of men lay on the ground with hearts in their eyes, drool at the corners of their mouths, muttering to themselves.
The women around them, looking at their men with a mix of disappointment and anger, shouted:
"What the hell are you doing?"
"Everything has been looted. How are we supposed to get through this winter?"
"You useless men!"
Kokoro couldn't help but ask: "U-Um... what happened?"
A middle-aged woman, who had just kicked her useless husband twice, softened a bit seeing such a cute little girl and explained: "It's those bitches from the Kuja Pirates."
"Pirates? Bitches?"
Hearing these two words, combined with the state of the men on the ground, Nayuta quickly pieced things together and asked:
"Are they... beautiful?"
The middle-aged women fell silent.
Women, after all, are naturally hostile towards other women more beautiful than themselves.
Receiving the silent confirmation from these women, Nayuta and Kokoro grew even more curious, 'Just how beautiful must they be to turn these men into this state?'
Then, the woman gave the two cute girls a simple explanation:
The Kuja Pirates had another nickname on this sea: [Idols of the Sea]
They came from a country called Amazon Lily. Whenever they raided other islands, they barely needed to fight. As soon as the crew members showed their faces, countless men would voluntarily offer up their supplies, allowing them to plunder an entire town's resources without expending a single soldier.
Hearing this explanation, not just Kokoro, but even Nayuta was a bit speechless.
'Such a thing exists?'
"We've truly come to an interesting world."
Just then, a familiar voice sounded. Kokoro jolted, turned, and ran towards the source of the voice.
"Makoto-nii!"
But she had barely taken one step when she was lightly bumped aside by Nayuta next to her.
Helplessly watching Nayuta occupy Makoto's embrace, Kokoro pouted in grievance.
Seeing this, Kotonoha quickly stepped forward to hold her sister.
Utaha, Yui, Megumi, and the others standing behind Makoto were also astonished when they saw the men lying on the ground with hearts in their eyes.
They had also heard the women's angry explanation.
These men had originally heard that pirates had invaded, so they picked up weapons and came to the port to resist. However, upon seeing the women called Kuja, they voluntarily handed over the town's money.
Among them, those in blue and white uniforms were Marines tasked with maintaining order. They were also lying on the ground, drooling and twitching uncontrollably.
"Even so, this is too much, right?" Kei muttered quietly. "It's one thing if it's just civilians, but even the people responsible for guarding are like this?"
Kei couldn't help but wonder just how beautiful that group of female pirates called Kuja must be.
Yes, this round of the Reincarnation Game had brought in quite a few new players —
The Shirogane siblings, Shirogane Miyuki and Shirogane Kei, the Fujiwara sisters, Fujiwara Chika and Fujiwara Moeha, all the Nakano Quintuplets, the Shinomiya Family's young lady, Shinomiya Kaguya, quite a lot...
Makoto chuckled: "It's okay, at least that narcissistic woman Hancock didn't turn them into stone."
Seeing the state of these fishermen and Marines, to be honest, Makoto was a bit surprised… Hancock hated men so much, yet she didn't petrify them.
Just then, the middle-aged woman next to him looked puzzled: "Hancock? Young man, what are you talking about?"
"Hmm?" Makoto raised an eyebrow at the woman.
The woman, annoyed, kicked her husband again: "These fools turned into this state because they saw Gloriosa and Shakky."
Another woman beside her added: "Mainly that bitch Shakky."
Makoto: "..."
Makoto fell silent.
'G-Gloriosa? Shakky?'
'Damn, how many years ago was that?'
He had thought it was that PTSD-ridden woman Hancock who had turned these men into this state, but hell...
Smack!
Makoto slapped his forehead.
There weren't many things that could irritate him, but this definitely counted as one.
"Makoto-sama?"
Seeing Makoto's action, Megumi and the others cast worried glances… they rarely saw their man make such an expression.
'Was this world that dangerous?'
Yu and the others, on the other hand, secretly rejoiced: 'If this world was very dangerous, didn't that mean we might have a chance to take a hit for Commander?!'
[Welcome everyone to this round of the Reincarnation Game]
[Current instance world: Pirate World]
[Each round will release designated objectives. Complete the quest to return to the real world. Rest assured, time in the real world will be completely frozen during the game.]
Just then, the Reincarnation System's newbie guidance sounded in the minds of new players like the Shirogane siblings and the Nakano Quintuplets, briefly explaining the game rules and where Makoto and the others' superpowers came from.
"Yotsuba, have you transmigrated before?" Ichika instantly realized something and shouted to her fourth sister.
Now she understood everything.
Although Yotsuba had the best athletic ability among the five sisters, it wasn't to that extent. After all, her current speed could crush Usain Bolt's.
'So you've been getting a head start.'
Yotsuba hung her head and didn't answer.
The five sisters coming to another world together should be a happy thing.
Although when she traveled to the Chainsaw Man World last time, she had Megumi and others to look after her, it wasn't the same as her own sisters.
But Yotsuba was unhappy… she felt this was a little secret between her and Makoto, and now that secret was known to her other sisters.
"Ma'am, is this the New World or Paradise?" After sighing deeply, Makoto turned and asked the woman.
The woman didn't understand his meaning for a moment.
Seeing this, Makoto rephrased: "Is this the first half of the Grand Line or the second half?"
[New World] and [Paradise] seemed to be names that came into use after the Great Age of Pirates began… one representing the second half, one representing the first half.
The first half of the Grand Line was called [Paradise] because the New World was completely dominated by the Four Emperors, leaving no room for other pirates to develop, so the more spacious first half of the Grand Line was called Paradise.
And now, with Gloriosa and Shakky still serving as captain and first mate of the Kuja Pirates, the Great Age of Pirates was naturally far from beginning, and the terms [Paradise] and [New World] wouldn't exist yet.
The woman explained: "This is Malad Island, in the first half of the Grand Line."
Okay, a place he'd never heard of.
After all, there are thousands of islands in the One Piece World... the protagonist Luffy and his crew probably visited less than one percent, or even less than one-thousandth.