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MidReal Story
Uncharted Seas: Nami's Quest for Redemption
Scenario:Nami from One Piece in her first outfit (White shirt and yellow skirt with sandals and her green bikini underneath)
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Nami
Luffy
Zoro
I was nothing but a kid when I saw Arlong and his crew invade Cocoyashi Village.
The tyrannical fish-man demanded 100,000 Berries from our mayor to let us keep our lives.
That was an amount no one in our village could afford.
My adoptive mother, Bell-mère, tried to fight back.
The fish-man eventually caught her and shot her dead on the spot.
I couldn’t do anything but watch in horror.
The death of my mother left a deep grudge against Arlong in my heart.
But I had to hide it to survive.
I entered the crew as a spy and gave them the information they wanted, and I even accepted Arlong’s deal to join him to save my village.
He valued my ability to draw maps for him.
I could draw accurate maps of any place I’d been to just once.
And that was how I’d survived for eight years in this hell.
Well, it wasn’t like I didn’t try to get away at all during that time.
I managed to steal a Marine ship once and got far away from Arlong Park.
But he caught me within minutes because he had one of his crew members swallow me whole and brought me back.
And he was so mad he branded me on the shoulder with his symbol on my right shoulder as punishment.
That tattoo was now on my left arm after I had the Marine doctor do some plastic surgery on me when we got to Loguetown.
I managed to get away from him for a few days then, but he caught me again and made an example out of that crew member by killing him in front of me.
He said he’d let me go if I could get far away from him once again and come back to him alive after one week.
After all, he didn’t want his favorite mapmaker to get killed by anyone except for him.
So I ran for those seven days straight and managed to get far enough away from him that time to fool him when I came back.
I was hungry, thirsty, and tired as hell then, but at least I was still alive.
And that was how it went.
I tried to get away from him a few more times during the next eight years, but it was no use.
So I came back and acted like a good little slave girl and waited for the right time.
I knew that time would come eventually so I just bided my time and drew maps.
It wasn’t like it was hard work for me anyway.
Arlong was so obsessed with his map of the Grand Line that he never even noticed me taking some of the maps out of his room to keep for myself.
So I ended up with a pile of maps hidden in my room while I was waiting.
The opportunity finally came one day when we got a new crew member named Luffy who said he wanted to go to the Grand Line.
The place where Arlong’s former captain had left behind a huge treasure.
So Arlong let him join us as long as he paid the fee.
Luffy came up with 30,000 Berries by the next day, so Arlong told me to take us there.
The moment we left Cocoyashi Village, I knew it was time.
I just had to wait for the right moment to steal that ship and get away from here forever.
I’m not sure what made him do it, but Arlong decided to tell his crew about his plan to get a new ship that night.
“Once we get that ship, we won’t need this one anymore,” he said.
“But since we can’t let those humans have it back…
“Why don’t we just go ahead and kill everyone in that village?”
His crewmates laughed out loud at that idea.
But my heart sank to the bottom of the ocean along with it.
He promised he wouldn’t touch anyone in my village as long as we gave him his money every month.
But now that we had no more use for them, he’d just kill them?
Why would he break his promise like that?
And why now?
Did this mean that we couldn’t go back to Cocoyashi Village even if I managed to make it out of here?
Would my friends be waiting there for me in vain?
And would they be killed as well?
My heart was in such turmoil that I almost couldn’t keep myself from crying.
And that was what Arlong’s crewmates saw.
So they came over to me and started teasing me.
“What’s wrong, Nami?
“Are you sad because the people in that village will be killed?”
“Or are you just scared that you’ll die with them?”
They were right about what they said.
But I wasn’t about to let them see me cry.
So I just focused on my work again and tried to ignore them.
After all, I had to wait for the right time so I could get away from here alive.
My work was to draw maps of the world for Arlong.
I’d been doing this with my sister Nojiko since I was a little girl.
At that time, it was something fun that we did together and made us happy.
But now it was just a painful reminder of what I’d lost.
So I tried not to think about that and just focused on the task at hand.
It wasn’t like it was hard work for me anyway.
I’d already drawn most of the world by the time we got to the Grand Line, but it wasn’t like they knew that, so I just kept drawing more and more maps to keep myself busy.
But that was something Arlong’s crewmates noticed as well, and it only made them tease me even more.
“So, Nami, when will you finish your map of the world?”
“You can stop pretending to work now,” Arlong said as he looked over my shoulder from behind me.
“We both know it’s impossible to map out the whole world.”
But that was exactly what I wanted him to think, so I just ignored him and kept drawing my maps until it was time to go to sleep.
