Chapter 838 Nahana
Alabasta, Nahana.
As a port city, the economic development here is not inferior to that of Magnolia, the city where "Fairy Tail" is located, or Hargeon where the story of Fairy Tail begins and ends. It can even be said that it is more prosperous than these two cities.
There are two reasons for this. First, Alabasta is a kingdom built in the desert, and its material needs are greater than those of a normal country, so its exchanges with the outside world are more frequent. Second, the perfume here is world-famous.
After several days of sailing, Kira followed Smoker and others to this city.
"Ohhh!! It's quite spectacular! The cities in the Grand Line are indeed different!"
Since coming to the world of pirates, Kira and his crew's journey was not actually very long. Before that, both the Sea Restaurant and Cocosia Village where they landed were small places, and the small garden was an ancient jungle with almost no people. Therefore, in the end, they had only been to one city, Rogue Town.
Now seeing the prosperity of Nahana, I naturally became interested.
"Perfume City... I'm going to walk around the streets!"
As soon as they landed, Ultear planned to leave the main group, and took Melty with him. Then he turned to look at Erza, Lucy and Wendy, "Do you want to come with us?"
"No, I'm not interested in perfume!"
"I... I'm still young..."
Erza and Wendy's successive rejections made Lucy, who was originally a little excited, hesitate a little: "Then...then I won't go either."
Who is Urrutia? A senior social figure who has been in the dark guild for many years and even lurked in the Council as an undercover and got to the top, if he didn't have a keen eye, could he have achieved this? Obviously, it's impossible!
So she saw through Lucy's insincere words at a glance, but in order to save Lucy's face, she was very considerate and didn't point it out. Instead, she went straight up to her, grabbed her arm and dragged her away. However, at the same time, she also had a teasing smile on her face: "Let's go, girls have to learn how to dress up to win men's hearts~"
“Eh?! No… don’t do that… Really, this is too much trouble! Let me make it clear, I’m just accompanying you to take a look!”
Golden retriever tsundere is nothing more than this!
Looking at Lucy who was dragged away, then followed Urrutia, and even quickly moved between the perfume shops and offered to try the perfume, Natsu behind her lightly complained: "How weird~ Lucy said no, but she didn't resist at all..."
"Girls are all like this, Natsu." Happy crossed his arms and said pretentiously like an experienced veteran, "It's their characteristic to say one thing and mean another!"
"You little brat!" Erza punched Happy without any mercy.
Gray stretched out his arms and said, "Kira, give me some money! I want to go for a walk, too. I'm tired of staying on the boat these past two days."
Actually, their group hasn't officially opened their business yet, so all the money they earned before is with Kira. He doesn't feel comfortable letting someone else manage the money.
Looking at Gray's outstretched hand, Kira raised his eyebrows, obviously a little surprised, but he didn't refuse. Instead, he took out one million Baileys from his personal space and threw them to him, and asked curiously: "Why? You want to buy perfume too?"
"What do you care about me? How can you go shopping without money?! Maybe I'll happen to see something I like and want to buy later!" Gray rolled his eyes and turned to walk into the market.
Before they had even walked far, Eric's voice came from behind them: "Wait, Gray! Are you going to bring some souvenirs for Juvia? I also want to buy some for Jinana, so let's go together, and we'll have some references!"
Gray's body froze instantly after his secret plan was exposed. Then he quickly blushed and turned to Eric and shouted, "Stop talking nonsense! Can you respect other people's privacy and stop eavesdropping on others' thoughts?!"
Eric turned his head away and used his little finger to pick at his ear hole: "I didn't eavesdrop. I was just guessing. You admitted it yourself, right?"
"What did you say?!" Gray was stunned.
Eric then joked, "It's just buying perfume for your girlfriend. What's there to be shy about? Are you really an adult?"
"It's so noisy! I'm hot!!!"
The two men who were in an ambiguous relationship with their girlfriends left the group cursing.
Erza looked at Gray's back and nodded secretly, her eyes full of satisfied smile: "Gray is really thoughtful~ Juvia will definitely be very happy if she knew."
"Yes... yes..." Kira glanced at Natsu who was still motionless beside him and sighed, "If it's strength, Natsu is on par with him, but in terms of emotional intelligence, Natsu is far inferior!!"
"You have no right to criticize others..."
"Huh?? Please, I can easily beat them both with one hand, okay?"
"…You're just talking to a deaf person!" Erza couldn't bear to watch it anymore. She turned around and grabbed Wendy beside her, "Wendy, Xia Lulu, let's go! I'll take you to eat something delicious!"
After the two left, Natsu and Happy also ran out, followed by Makao and the other two to go out to purchase. Killer was left behind, looking at each other with Smoker and Tashigi. After a moment's silence, they walked towards the restaurant in the town together.
"Aren't you going to act with your companions?" asked Smoker, hanging two large cigars.
"It doesn't matter. If we act together, we will have to wait even longer. They are all very strong anyway, so I don't need to worry about their safety."
Kira said as he took out the magic signal receiver from his personal space, turned it on and began to read it attentively, "Besides, I have more important things to do!"
Dashiqi asked curiously, "What is that?"
Kira answered concisely: "It is a tool for finding companions. If there are companions nearby, they will be displayed on it."
"What? Really? Even the Navy's scientific research department has never seen this kind of technology!"
"So I said this isn't just technology, it's a magic tool!"
"Can this thing be used universally?" Smoker asked in a deep voice.
As a navy man, the first thing he thought of was the purpose of this item, which was to track pirates and find those who had lost contact at sea.
Kira shook his head and chuckled, "Don't even think about it. It only responds to magic! This technology tree is not compatible with Ascalante's. Instead of expecting to buy it from me, you should expect Vegapunk to make similar technology."
Smoker nodded and said no more. He knew that since he could use magic as a search condition, he could naturally use other things as search conditions as well. It just took a little more time to study.
But the next moment, Smoker suddenly burst into laughter, because he suddenly remembered that there was actually something similar to a magic tracker in this world, and that was life paper!
Life paper is a technology that only exists in the New World. It can make things like human hair or nails into paper through special technology.
It can not only show one's vitality, but as long as you have someone's life paper, then no matter how far away that person is, the life paper can lead you to find that person.
This is much more practical than the magic signal device!
"You actually know Vegapunk?"
Tashigi was very surprised that Kira knew about Vegapunk, because after their previous interactions, she knew that Kira and others came from a different world called Ascalante.
Although she herself didn't really believe in the "other world", no matter how she and her soldiers tried to inquire, Kira and his group always gave the same answer. Even the not-so-smart guys like Natsu and Happy said nothing wrong. Moreover, Kira and his group called themselves wizards and used the unprecedented ability of "magic". In addition, except for Kira, the others seemed to know nothing about many things in this world that were well known to the public...
All these clues were connected together, so no matter how much she didn't believe it, she could only accept this setting temporarily, and then curse in her heart, "The world is so big that all kinds of strange things are possible."
"The smartest scientist in the world, I think there should be few people who don't know his name, right?"
"Don't you claim to be from Ascalante?"
Kira asked back, "Does this have anything to do with my knowledge of Vegapunk? When you arrive in a new place, it's common sense to collect basic local intelligence, right?"
This question left Tashigi speechless. Her thinking and experience were not mature enough to reach the level of "common sense" that Kira mentioned.
Smoker on the side agreed with Kira's words, but he was more concerned about the magic that Kira had used the most in recent times, which was his personal space.
The space magic that can even accommodate the Hope has great strategic significance in the field of naval military. Coupled with Kira's previous bold statement at Rogue Times Square that "the wizard will open a new era", Smoker attaches great importance to him.
"If we leave such a person alone, he may become more dangerous than the pirates or the Revolutionary Army!"
With this idea in mind, Smoker had long since obtained a lot of "information" about Ascalante, wizards, and Kira from Wakaba, such as:
People like Kira are among the most talented wizards their number can be counted on one hand;
Natsu is considered a top-notch wizard in Ascalante, with few rivals. His strength is ranked in the top 30 in the entire world, and is also among the top few in his guild;
There were only about a hundred people from their guild who came to the pirate world, and most of the wizards among them were about the same as him (referring to Wakaba) or even weaker...
Kira has many shortcomings, such as greed for money and love of playing tricks on people, but he also has many advantages, such as strong strength, excellent ability to collect and analyze intelligence, and he is very reliable both as a partner and a family member...
Through the miscellaneous information obtained from drunken probing, Smoker judged that Kira and his companions were the strongest fighting force in his world, and the rest were just a bunch of misfits and were not to be feared.
After thinking about this, Smoker felt a little relieved.
Because after spending these days together, he has more or less gotten to know Kira to a certain extent, knowing that he is not a bad person, and his partner is not a bad person either. Although his personality is a little bit noisy, it is not a big problem!
As long as they don't fly the pirate flag and don't do evil, even if they do something big it has nothing to do with their navy!
It's said that they want to "open a new era", but how can it be so easy? Especially on this sea, if you want to open a new era, you have to fight against the pirates first! The four emperors who dominate the sea, the powerful seven warlords, and the endless supernovas every year, can these people be achieved by just a hundred or so wizards?
Isn't that just wishful thinking?!
If he can really do it, he, Smoker, will write his name backwards from now on!!
Just as the three of them were walking side by side towards a restaurant, a few exclamations suddenly came from the front -
“Someone’s dead!”
“Someone died in the restaurant!!”
