One Piece: From Picking Up Red Hair's Broken Arm

Chapter 37 My brother! Champion!
An hour later, home.

"I'll review what happened during your month at sea. Can you help me confirm everything and see if there's anything wrong? First of all, did you grow more than ten centimeters taller?"

"Yes, it's puberty, it's normal."

"Won the Kendo Tournament Championship in Asakura Island?"

"Yes, I won the championship accidentally."

"And he also foiled a major conspiracy on the island and became a well-known figure in the East China Sea?"

"Yes, but it's not that famous. The popularity comes and goes, but it will soon be forgotten."

“And then he became a billionaire!!!”

"Yes, 400 million Baileys. I withdrew 50 million, and the rest is still in the bank. Here, the card is here."

Bellmère took a deep breath to calm himself down, but when he looked up at the muscular man in front of him, his vision went dark and his body fell backwards.

Xia Nuo hurriedly supported him, "What's wrong, Bellemeier?"

"I'm fine, let me go and let me digest it alone..."

Bellmère sat cross-legged on the carpet, staring at the coffee table in a daze for a long time.

He took the water that Xia Nuo handed over and drank it all, and finally slowly accepted the reality.

"I told you, I told you." She murmured, "Your bloodline must be extraordinary. It started to awaken as soon as it reached a certain age. Your parents must be some very important people, maybe even royals..."

"No, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with blood, right?"

Xia Nuo was puzzled. "It's just winning a championship and making some money. It's all good things. Why is it so hard for you to accept it..."

"I'm talking about height! Height! It's nice to grow during puberty, but who grows more than ten centimeters a month?"

Bellemeier angrily punched Shanuo's calf. "What are you doing? Do you know that during the month you were away, I knitted you two sweaters, three pairs of long johns, and half-finger gloves and full-finger gloves..."

"Now I can't wear any of them anymore, I can't use them anymore, I can only take them apart again, wuwu..."

So this is why I’m sad!

Xia Nuo held his forehead and suddenly noticed the thick stack of newspapers piled up on the wooden cabinet next to him. He couldn't help but exclaim, "During the time I was away, you still bought newspapers every day?"

"I was worried you might have missed something if you didn't buy everything outside."

Bellemeier curled his lips. "But I didn't read it. The newspaper has been here all the time. A while ago, your deeds in Asakurajima caused a lot of uproar. I only found out about it when I heard the neighbors talking about it. I couldn't sleep well all night."

"Where were Nami and Nojiko? What were their reactions?"

"What do you think?"

Bellmère said unhappily.

She was worried and a little relieved at the time, and tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep well.

Nami and Nojiko didn't think too much about it. They were extremely excited, especially Nami, who wanted to jump to the sky.

She ran from one end of the village to the other every day to show off, wishing to let everyone in the village know that her brother had become a big shot in the East China Sea.

Even the big white dog at the entrance of the village had to be pulled by the ears and scolded by her several times every day, so that it would run away with its tail between its legs when it saw her.

Not to mention the two budgies raised by our neighbor next door. Now their favorite words to repeat are "My brother! Champion!" and "My brother! Hero!"

Xia Nuo was sweating profusely after hearing this.

For the next while, I'm afraid the chickens, ducks, and geese in the village will all look at me with something strange in their eyes. He shook his head, took the stack of newspapers, and sat down on the sofa.

I was just thinking of reading it through to see if there was any news worth paying attention to.

At this moment, the door was suddenly quietly pushed open a crack, and a dirty orange-haired figure tiptoed in from behind the sofa, shoes in hand, and headed for the bathroom...

"come over!"

Bellemeier said fiercely, "Do you think I'm blind? Can't I see a little clay monkey entering the house and two lines of dirty shoe prints on the ground?"

Oops! There's always a loophole! Nami turned her head and looked at the two black marks on the ground. She slapped her head in frustration. If she had known earlier, she should have secretly climbed through the window from the kitchen!
"Tell me the truth, where were you going? When you left this morning, didn't you say you were going to the bookstore to read?"

"I'm not lying, Bell-mère. I went there to read books at first, but the bookstore was too small. I've almost finished reading everything I'm interested in, such as navigation and nautical charts... Eh? Brother?!"

But Nami was halfway there with her head down when she suddenly noticed someone lying on the sofa next to her. When she saw the familiar face, her eyes widened in surprise.

"When did you come back!"

She cried out in joy and threw herself into Xia Nuo's arms, raising her hands to pinch the latter's cheeks. "You didn't even call me back, that's too much... Ugh! It hurts!"

But she rushed too hard and her nose hit Xia Nuo's hard chest. Her nose suddenly felt sore and painful that she almost cried.

"Tsk tsk tsk, it turns into Buggy."

Xia Nuo looked at her red and swollen nose and teased her with a gloating look.

But when he looked down and saw that his shirt was covered in mud, and turned to look in the mirror, he saw two dirty palm prints on his face. His face suddenly turned dark and he could no longer smile.

"Hehe, a little~~"

Nami's evil plan succeeded, and she made a face, "Serves you right. Who told you to sneak away alone that morning without even saying goodbye to me and Nojiko!"

"I'm just worried that you two will become crybabies."

Xia Nuo wiped his face vigorously with a towel and said unhappily, "Besides, I trust Nuo Qi Gao. If you, a troublemaker, had followed us to the dock that morning, you might have sneaked onto the ship while we weren't paying attention. I don't want to carry a burden around with me."

"Who's the burden?! I've grown up a lot now and I'm really good at fighting! Just now, the two monkeys in the mountains teamed up and I beat them all over the ground!"

"Monkeys in the mountains?"

Bellmère sensed something and was furious. "Wait! You got yourself so dirty? Did you go to the mountains to fight monkeys?!"

"There's nothing I can do about it."

Nami blinked, looking innocent. "I held up the newspaper photo and told them my brother was the champion, but they continued eating fruit from the tree, rolled their eyes, and ignored me. I got so angry I threw rocks at them, and then we started fighting."

This unlucky kid!

Bellemeier gnashed his teeth, grabbed her ear and took her to the bathroom, "Wash yourself clean! Seriously, if you do it again, I'll teach you a lesson. I won't even ask you to learn from Shanuo. When will you be as sensible as Nojigo?"

squeak~
The door was pushed open again, and Shanuo on the sofa and Bellmère at the bathroom door subconsciously turned their heads to look over.

The dirty blue-haired girl appeared at the door, her face and nose bruised, her pants torn in several holes, and only one shoe left.

She was surprised when she saw Shanuo, but then she met Bellemeier's murderous gaze and couldn't help but shrink her neck and smiled awkwardly:
"Well, there's a reason. I was talking to the big goose at the village entrance about Brother Shanuo, and it lost its patience and tried to run away halfway through. So I started a fight with it, but unfortunately I almost won..."

In the last chapter, the price of Luffy’s straw hat was raised. I have seen everyone’s comments. It’s not a temporary reduction in combat power. It was set in the outline long before the book was published. The main reason is that we don’t want the prices of props to increase.

The prices of props in the mall are not set very high. A few thousand is considered extremely rare. The prices of most products are controlled in three digits. It is not difficult to obtain a straw hat. If you give hundreds of thousands or millions of points and then the prices skyrocket, then it is just a joke. TT
I'd also like to thank a fellow reader for pointing out that the last two characters of Keke Yaxi Village's name were written backwards. I initially thought it was a change in the mainstream Chinese translation, but when I compared it with the Japanese version, I realized I'd inexplicably been remembering them backwards. The previous edition also had them written backwards, and no one had corrected me in all these years. I declare everyone is Yunzi! Me too!

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(End of this chapter)