"Tsk, tsk, it is indeed a desert kingdom, it's so hot..."

On the coast of Alabasta, a small wooden boat approached a beach.

Both Sora and Paimon put on sun-protective clothing and wore wide-brim hats to block the hot sun.

Paimon lay on Sora's shoulder, his face flushed.

"It's so hot and empty..."

Sora held up a small fan to fan Paimon.

"The closest city to here is Dallaharo. Just get there and be patient."

Behind him, Tina, who was still wearing navy clothes, walked out wearing sunglasses.

"Sir, if you park the fleet so far away in the sea, how can this act as a deterrent? Tina... doesn't understand."

Kong sighed. He had been trying to correct Tina's three views for the past two days, but the effect was minimal. This woman had almost engraved the navy's regulations into her soul.

"Sometimes, deterrence does not necessarily require sticking a gun in someone's face. Intangible deterrence is more convincing than visible deterrence...Forget it, just watch and learn slowly, that's right.

, Smoker and the others called yesterday and said they would arrive in Alabasta in a week. I remember that you and Smoker seemed to be at the same time, right?"

"yes.."

"Okay, you go negotiate with the kingdom and borrow a temporary place from Smoker and others before they come."

"I...I'm going?"

"Why, isn't this your duty as deputy?"

"What about you, sir?"

"Of course I'm going to intimidate Crocodile."

"Are you alone? How is this possible! What if..."

Paimon held his hands to his waist.

"Hey! I'm not a human!"

"Sorry... Tina didn't mean that..."

Sora showed the style of a brigadier general.

"Colonel Tina, this is an order, please execute it!"

Tina's conditioned salute.

"yes!"

"Okay, I'll leave Smog and his family's residence to you. Let's go first."

"Yeah! Eat! No! I want a smoothie!"

“Does this place have smoothies?”

"You can do it with Frost Strike!"

"Kaiya would be so angry if he knew I used his ability to do this."

"This is called making the best use of everything!"

"I'm impressed with you..."

Sora and Paimon walked towards the small town in the distance. Tina could only stamp her feet in place. She had already received the order and could only go to the capital of Albana.

After walking for twenty minutes, Sora arrived at Dara Haro. Most of the buildings here were bungalows, and the skin colors and costumes of the people walking on the road were also very distinctive, similar to Egypt in the past.

"Wow, are all the clothes in desert countries like this? They seem to wear very thick clothes."

"That's for sun protection. In this desert climate, the sunlight during the day is poisonous enough to burn people's skin. Compared with injuries, the heat is more tolerable."

"Hey, it's so pitiful... It's so hot here, so they will be woken up by the heat when they sleep at night."

Sora laughed.

"If I ask you to read more books, you will only read half of them every time. No, they may have to cover themselves with quilts at night."

"Hey! But won't this cover up prickly heat!?"

"Of course not. Remember, desert nights are very cold. Let me tell you a jingle. Wear a cotton-padded jacket in the morning and wear a gauze in the afternoon, and eat watermelon around the stove. This is a typical desert climate."

Paimon swallowed his saliva.

"Watermelon! Sora! They sell watermelon smoothie over there!"

"I'm convinced by you..."

When I came to the vendor, I spent two hundred beli to buy two watermelon smoothies.

"Mmmmm!! It's so sweet! The watermelon here is really sweet!"

Sora also took a large spoonful of smoothie mixed with watermelon pulp and put it in his mouth.

"Indeed...it is worthy of being a watermelon produced in the desert. The watermelons cultivated in this extreme temperature difference climate are sweeter than those produced in other places."

The boss was a cheerful uncle, and he laughed loudly while fanning the cattail leaf fan.

"Brother is really knowledgeable. Are you from out of town?"

"Well, we are here for a trip."

"Then you've come to the right place. Although Alabasta looks barren, the fruits we grow are the best in the world! Want to try our signature well-water watermelon? 1,000 Baileys each.

"

Sora took Bailey out of his pocket.

"It's quite cheap. Come here and help cut it into pieces."

"Hello!"

The boss returned to the shop and soon brought out a dripping watermelon.

"Let me tell you, this watermelon is soaked in cold well water at night and eaten in the afternoon. The taste is really amazing."

After cutting the watermelon, Kong took a piece and bit it, and the sweet and refreshing juice instantly filled his mouth. The watermelon that had been frozen by the well water was not too cold, and the entrance temperature was the most suitable.

Coupled with the scorching hot weather, this taste is simply heavenly.

"Hey, these watermelons are good. Boss, give me four."

A young man's voice sounded, and then a money bag was thrown to the boss.

Like a hamster, Paimon turned around to look at the fruit pulp in his mouth, and then mysteriously leaned towards Sora's ear.

"Song... look, this man doesn't wear any clothes. Isn't he afraid of being exposed to the sun and peeling off his skin?"

Sora reached out and stuffed a piece of watermelon into Paimon's mouth.

"Eat your watermelon."

"snort!"

At this time, the shirtless young man sat down at the empty table very familiarly and asked politely.

"Sorry, sorry, you two, I am indeed a little thirsty. Can I have a piece of yours first? Mine will be here later. You can eat whatever you want."

Paimon's eyes lit up.

"Can you really eat whatever you want?"

"Hahaha, of course."

Sora pushed the watermelon on the plate to the young man.

"up to you."

"Then I won't be polite."

Paimon slowed down her eating speed, and her eyes kept scanning Sora and the young man. She felt that something was wrong in the atmosphere.

Sora sighed.

"You are really not afraid of me catching you."

The young man gnawed the watermelon nonchalantly.

"You're not wearing a military uniform today."

Paimeng was surprised.

"Sora? Do you know each other?"

Sora took another piece of watermelon and gnawed it.

"I didn't take you with me when I went on missions with the old man before, so I got to know him."

"Huh? Is this also a marine?"

"No, pirates, members of the Whitebeard Pirates."

"?!Wait, what he looks like..."
To be continued...