Luffy's shout attracted the attention of other companions.

"Weiwei! It’s really Weiwei! She’s here! And Kalu too!"

The companions were delighted and laughed joyfully:

"Hurry up and turn the boat back, let’s go pick up Weiwei!"

"Miss Weiwei! I love you! You are really back!"

"Weiwei! We'll pick you up right now!"

Qin Lang looked at his happy friends with a smile, but sighed in his heart.

"Unfortunately, friendships are like the tide, coming and going as time goes by.……"

"Everyone……"

Weiwei smiled with tears in her eyes as she looked at the savior pirate ship that gave her country a new life.

This was the dream ship that she had rushed to in her dream yesterday.

Just now, for a moment,

Weiwei really wanted to rush to it in her dream.

But...

Weiwei choked up, tried hard to control her sadness, and shouted:

"……I'm here to say goodbye!"

On the Meili, the expressions of the companions gradually solidified.

"……"

Luffy's expression was the most obvious.

His originally wide-open smile turned into confusion.

"What did she say just now?"

Qin Lang smiled and said:

"She's here to say goodbye, don't get excited. Just listen to her quietly……"

Sanji's smile gradually turned dull, and Zoro's barely perceptible smile also became calm.

Nami's joyful eyes dimmed again, and Chopper's waving hands slowly dropped.

Usopp's originally straight nose also drooped down, and Qin Lang watched the expressions of his companions with a smile.

Weiwei picked up the Den Den Mushi intercom on Kalu's body and said with a loud smile:

"I can't leave with you! Thank you very much so far!"

In the Kingdom of Alabasta, the people who were listening to Weiwei's speech looked at each other in confusion:

"What is Her Royal Highness the Princess talking about?"

"Who is she talking to?"

In the distance, several warships were approaching slowly.

They had received news that reinforcements were about to arrive.

Someone noticed this scene and recorded it:

"In the distance is Princess Vivi of the Kingdom of Alabasta. She seems to be talking to the Straw Hat Pirates?"

"Strange, she should be giving a speech in the Aruba Palace!"

"Write down everything she says, and then see if anyone from the Straw Hat Pirates responds!"

"yes!"

……

Weiwei didn't notice that the navy was watching her every move, and she smiled and shouted loudly:

"Although I also want to go on adventures with you!

But I really can’t abandon this scarred country and do such a willful thing!

After all, I love my country deeply! I love this country so much!"

Weiwei cried with choked sobs:

"Because I miss my motherland...

So, I'm sorry, my friends!

I can't go on this adventure with you!"

"Weiwei……"

On the Meili, the faces of the companions showed smiles of understanding and admiration.

This is the Weiwei they know.

That brave princess who was not afraid at all for her motherland, even when she was alone against the criminal group headed by King Shichibukai!

"Sorry guys, I decided to stay here……"

Weiwei recalled the adventure she had with her friends.

Encountering a giant in the small garden...

The battle with the Baroque Works...

The sufferings that our friends suffered for themselves in the Kingdom of Alabasta……

"If we can meet again someday, can you still call me your partner?"

Weiwei's tears burst out and flowed uncontrollably down her cheeks.

In the distance, the navy on the warship was faithfully recording Weiwei's words.

"Once the Straw Hats talk to the princess, it will be confirmed that the princess and the pirate are in cahoots!"

"The princess is a pirate's friend? Is the princess also a pirate?"

"No way! ?"

……

"Calm down, Luffy!"

Before Luffy opened his mouth to yell"We will always be partners", Qin Lang popped out a wax mask to seal Luffy's mouth and reminded him:

"The navy noticed Weiwei's behavior over there. Talking to her now will only harm her."

"Woo woo……"

Luffy pulled off the wax mask in his hand and calmed down.

Nami agreed softly:

"Qin Lang is right. If the navy collects evidence that Weiwei is related to us, even if Weiwei is a princess, she will definitely be tried and convicted by the World Government.

Qin Lang smiled faintly:

"So be it, leave silently!"

The partners looked at each other in despair.

They could not respond to Weiwei's last request.

That would leave evidence that Weiwei was an accomplice of the pirates.

……

"Partners……"

Weiwei didn't hear an answer for a long time, and her expression gradually dimmed.

Did her actions really make her friends sad...

Weiwei lowered her head in disappointment.

""Ga! Ga! Ga!"

Kalu suddenly shouted loudly in surprise, flapping his wings on Vivi's shoulders.

Vivi looked up blankly and followed Kalu's wings. She found that the companions on the boat were all facing away from them and raising their left hands with an X drawn on them.

Qin Lang stood on the far left, leaning against the guardrail and raising his left hand high.

Zoro put his right hand into his trouser pocket and raised his left hand high.

Chopper stood on the guardrail and tried to raise his left hand high.

Usopp shook his left hand vigorously. Luffy stepped on the debris on the ground and raised his left hand high. Nami pinched her waist and raised her left hand high.

Sanji held a cigarette in his mouth, rolled up his sleeves, and raised his left hand high.

"Partners……"

Weiwei covered her mouth with her hands and trembled all over

"Goodbye, Your Highness."

Qin Lang raised his left hand with a smile, and flicked his fingers with his right hand.

Above the Meili, a raised left hand made of black smoke appeared, and the transparent X on the arm was clearly visible.

"……"

Weiwei and Kalu also raised their left hands high towards the Merry.

Before leaving the ship, in order to distinguish themselves from the fake partners of von Clay, the partners raised the bandages on their left hands and made a promise to each other.

"From now on, no matter what happens, this mark on my left wrist will……"

Everyone raised their left hands and said in unison:

"……"It's the proof of our partners!"

In silence, the message that we are always partners has been accurately conveyed to Weiwei and Kalu.

In the distance, dozens of naval warships are coming through the waves.

The naval reinforcements have arrived. The shells are fired at the Merry.

"Haha, why don't you leave with the sailors firing off cannons in farewell?"

Qin Lang smiled and controlled the black smoke and mist in the air with both hands. Like rain, he dropped countless X-shaped fists of his left hand and blasted the densely flying artillery shells.

"Smoke·Friendship Left Fist Rain!"

The shells were exploded in the air by countless fists of smoke, turning into brilliant parting fireworks.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The shells exploded in the sea, causing the seawater to fall on the Straw Hats.

"All right! Let’s set sail!"

Luffy jumped high, waving his left hand and yelled:

"Set sail! Kids!"

All the partners jumped up together, waved their left hands and shouted:

"Set sail!"

Qin Lang looked at the approaching navy warship and said with a smile:

"Navy, don’t ruin other people’s moods! Black mist and sea!"

The naval warship in the distance was approaching, but it was shrouded in the oncoming black fog area.

"Flares!"

Even if flares were launched, they could not get out of this foggy area no matter what.

Dozens of warships were worried about hitting each other, so they could only stop in place and could not move forward.

On the warships that had not yet entered the foggy area, Hina could only To be able to watch the Meili go away

"Humph, Hina is angry! Hina is angry!"

……

Goodbye, Kingdom of Alabasta.

Goodbye, Weiwei

……

Qin Lang turned around and looked at the Kingdom of Alabasta moving farther and farther away in the distance. He looked at Vivi and Kalu waving their left hands and said with a smile:

"treasure"

……

The Kingdom of Alabasta chapter ends.