One piece : A Lotus

Nami hates Arlong because the pirate crew he led oppressed the villagers. Moreover, the main reason is that he killed her mother, Bell-mere, which is why, in the original story, she didn't hold a particular grudge against the other Fish-Men. She couldn't forgive Arlong.

Why did Bell-mere have to die? Just because of her resistance and inability to pay? Because of her status as a retired Marine, which sparked Arlong's hatred?

Everyone knows Arlong as a vicious pirate, but only Ezekiel knows that compared to the Celestial Dragons, he is like a sweet child.

After Arlong came to East Blue, he set a price that, although made life extremely difficult for people, was still affordable. Once the money was paid, he wouldn't take unnecessary actions. Will looked at Arlong, who faced death, and thought:

"This guy has a terrible reputation, but he's far less frightening than those called Celestial Dragons."

Now that the evil here is corrected, sooner or later the sky will return to normal.

Absolutely, the one who possesses the Devil Fruit of a mobile phone and sees the world with such backward development cannot turn away and not want to pave a new path...

Ezekiel looked around and didn't commit any more killings. The Fish-Men had once been slaves to the Celestial Dragons. They were real slaves, unlike the residents of Cocoyasi, who had the opportunity to buy their freedom.

Pirate Tiger, no matter how hard he tried, could not truly love and accept humans. He even refused a transfusion of human blood, which led to his death.

He didn't condone the atrocities of humans, but before he died, he also realized that the cycle of hatred between Fish-Men and humans must be stopped.

One day in the future, when Nami learns what calamities the fishmen have suffered at the hands of humans, what will she do?

With these thoughts, Ezekiel opened the phone and dialed a number.

"Yes?" a somewhat puzzled female voice sounded on the other end. She seemed not to understand how someone could call her when she had only just figured out how to use the phone.

"Is this Tashigi-chan?" Ezekiel smiled as he saw on the phone's screen that Tashigi was still in the shower.

"Hmm? That voice... is it you?"

After a brief discussion, he explained the situation. Tashigi immediately promised to bring people to arrest Arlong. Of course, she would inform Smoker. Ezekiel could have contacted the Marines' headquarters directly, and they might have come to arrest this guy.

But he didn't want to approach the Marines directly, not because he feared the World Government and the Marines, but because he trusted the rank-and-file officers.

Ezekiel was the King of the country, and he wasn't a mindless thug; he needed to solve situations correctly.

Pirates are thieves, not discernible through reason; they always resort to violence.

Marines are officials and mostly reasonable people who handle their roles effectively. It was the World Government that used Crocodile and Weeble against Alabasta.

A few days later, the villagers handed over the tied-up fishmen pirates to Smoker. Everything ended happily. As Tashigi was tying the pirates to the deck one by one, Ezekiel was still there, watching from afar.

"What are you looking at, boss?" Nami appeared in the sunlight with a heartfelt smile that Ezekiel had never seen from her before. The tattoo on her shoulder had transformed into a different pattern, and somehow, a dark blue pendant with a gemstone had appeared around her neck. It was the Heart of the Sea Depths.

She was generally a good girl in everything, well... except when it came to money.

So, in the end, she didn't return the Heart of the Sea Depths to Ezekiel , simply claiming she'd pay him back from her salary.

According to their agreement, she became his employee. Although she didn't know what Ezekiel wanted from her, she had already identified him as someone she could trust, whoever he might be.

In this prolonged hell, he was the only person who reached out to her and helped drive away all the darkness.

"I think those sun tattoos are really dazzling," Will said something she didn't quite understand.

Nami looked at the sun tattoos on Arlong's Pirate crew members. She had been with them for so many years, but she never understood who they were or what their tattoos meant. She only knew that they came from the Grand Line. Ezekiel had told her a bit about the Sun Pirates, but it seemed that this mysterious new boss knew a lot about them.

So, Genzo and Nojiko had no objections to Nami becoming Ezekiel's subordinate, and they didn't have the same anxiety they had when she went on board Luffy's ship. It was the most ordinary situation. Is there any danger in a normal job?

At that time, the residents of Cocoyasi Village didn't understand who they were sending Nami off with.

They were on a sea vessel that the Arlong Pirates had stolen somewhere.

The villagers helped load supplies and transferred the mandarin tree. The vessel finally departed from Cocoyasi Village.

"I'll write!" Nami waved goodbye from afar to the elderly people and at the same time touched countless wallets...

Ezekiel couldn't help but smile.

The boat sailed further and further until the shore disappeared from sight. Nami looked at Ezekiel , who sat on the deck wearing dark sunglasses, drinking mandarin juice and enjoying the sun, and mumbled:

"Hey, rich guy!"

"Hmm?" Ezekiel turned his head to look at her, and Nami immediately changed her expression to a flattering smile.

"Boss, where are we sailing to?"

Ezekiel felt a little uneasy.

"I think you need a mobile phone first."

He took out a phone and handed it to Nami.

"What is this?" Nami took it and turned it over in her hands.

"It's a mechanical Den Den Mushi phone, created by the Royal Family of Alabasta, but it doesn't just function as a Den Den Mushi. Actually, I wasn't only looking for a fruit source, but more importantly, I was looking for a navigator with enough talent to... enhance the world map," he said, pointing his finger to open the Ocean Map on the phone.