In order to apologize to Nami, Luffy made a special trip to Shin-chan's World and bought a doll that was taller than himself as an apology gift.
The next day, Po took Luffy and the giant doll to invite Bell-mère and the others to visit Bamboo Staff Bistro.
Bang bang bang!
"Who is it?"
When Nami heard the knocking on the door and opened it, she saw a huge doll standing at the door.
"I'm here to find the cutest girl in the world!"
Nami heard a low voice coming from behind the doll. The voice seemed familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere before.
"The cutest girl in the world, are you talking about me?"
Although the voice was familiar, Nami was more interested in the topic of who was the cutest girl in the world. Women, regardless of age, were naturally narcissistic.
"Yes, the cutest girl in the world is of course Nami."
After saying this, Luffy's smiling face appeared from behind the enormous doll.
"Humph!"
Nami became angry when she saw that it was Luffy who had stolen the oranges.
"Nami, I'm truly sorry. I'm here to apologize to you."
As he said this, Luffy handed the doll to Nami with genuine remorse.
"Don't think you can buy me off with just a doll. I haven't decided to forgive you yet."
Although she said this, Nami still accepted the gift handed to her by Luffy. After Bell-mère's counseling the previous night, Nami's anger had subsided considerably, not to mention that Luffy was apologizing to her very sincerely today.
How could Luffy come up with such an elaborate apology? Of course it was because of our love sage Shin-chan.
At the beginning, when Luffy went to Kasukabe, the gift he wanted to buy was a game console or an Ultraman model, after all, Luffy liked these two things very much.
But Ace, who was accompanying Luffy, gave Luffy a firm slap on the head and scolded him:
"Luffy, are you buying a gift for yourself or for Nami?"
"But I don't know what to buy to make amends to a girl."
Luffy rubbed his head in confusion. He had never bought a gift for a girl before, so how could he know what kind of gift would please her.
"Why don't we go back and ask Shin-chan?"
Ace was also very troubled. After all, like Luffy, he had never given a gift to a girl.
"I guess that's our only option."
So, the two of them prepared to find Kazama to send them back to Bamboo Staff Bistro. When they had arrived, they came through the Gate of All Worlds on Kazama's side, but Kazama had to attend cram school, so he did not accompany the two of them to buy gifts.
Ace and Luffy were on their way to where Kazama was taking extra lessons when they encountered a guy who was trying to pick up girls.
"Big sister, do you like kiwis or peaches, or my cute little peach?"
Shin-chan was standing across the street with his butt sticking out provocatively, talking to a pretty female college student on the side of the road, while beside him was Shiro, who looked utterly helpless. Yes, Shin-chan had originally taken Shiro out for a walk, but this guy was so persistent that he couldn't walk past when he saw a pretty girl.
"Luffy, it seems we don't have to go back to find Shin-chan."
The moment he saw Shin-chan, Ace knew that no one understood how to please girls better than Shin-chan.
"Shin-chan!"
Luffy shouted Shin-chan's name loudly, but this guy was so busy picking up girls that he didn't even hear someone calling him.
"Shin-chan!"
Ace and Luffy called out Shin-chan's name together.
"Woof woof woof!"
Shiro spotted Ace and Luffy across the street and barked happily.
"Little brother, those two little brothers over there seem to be calling your name."
The beautiful female college student noticed Luffy and Ace on the opposite side, and saw Shiro responding to the two, so she touched Shin-chan's head and said.
After hearing the words of the beautiful female college student, Shin-chan turned around and saw Luffy and Ace greeting him frantically.
"Oh, that's Luffy and Ace!"
Shin-chan replied with recognition.
"Well, little brother, I won't bother you anymore. Your two friends seem to have something important to ask you."
The beautiful female college student patted Shin-chan, then turned and left.
Seeing his target departing, Shin-chan had no choice but to take Shiro to find Luffy and Ace.
After hearing what the two of them explained, Shin-chan understood that Luffy had offended a girl and now wanted to buy a gift to apologize.
"But I'm not interested in underage girls like this!"
Shin-chan shook his head, indicating that he only interacted with mature and intellectual women, and he was not interested in such underage and childish little girls.
"Please, Shin-chan!"
Luffy blinked and looked at Shin-chan with the most pitiful expression he could muster.
"Okay, okay, let me think about this."
Shin-chan couldn't resist Luffy's pleading, so he had to use his brain.
Suddenly, Shin-chan thought of a scene in a soap opera that Misae had been watching recently, in which the hero bought a big doll to apologize in order to win forgiveness from the heroine after making a mistake.
So, following Shin-chan's brilliant idea, Luffy bought a huge doll, and then went to Shin-chan's house to watch the episode in the soap opera where the male protagonist sought forgiveness. He then followed the male protagonist's method to give Nami a complete set of romantic tricks, and sure enough, this approach worked perfectly.
After Nami put the doll away carefully, Bell-mère took Nami and Nojiko to visit Bamboo Staff with Po and Luffy.
When they were almost at the dock, Bell-mère and the others saw a huge Bamboo Staff in the distance.
"Bell-mère, that's our ship."
Po pointed at Bamboo Staff and introduced it proudly.
"So the restaurant on the sea that the villagers are talking about is yours!"
Nami had always wanted to sell oranges to the owners, but she didn't expect it was connected to the orange-stealing Luffy.
"Yes, that's Bamboo Staff Restaurant!"
"And I, Luffy, will be the man who will become the greatest hero in the future, and I will be the captain of the Bamboo Staff!"
Seeing Nami's surprise, Luffy said shamelessly.
"Really?"
Nami didn't expect that Luffy was the captain of Bamboo Staff. She looked at Luffy with stars shining in her eyes.
"Luffy, if Tom knows about this claim, you will be in serious trouble."
Po suddenly said something in an ominous voice.
"Hahaha, I was just kidding. Actually, I'm not the captain of Bamboo Staff!"
Luffy scratched his head and said that it was all a joke.
"Tch!"
Nami rolled her eyes in disappointment. She really thought Luffy was the captain of Bamboo Staff. That way, she could have sold the oranges at a much higher price.
During the time when Gustave was unconscious, Luffy didn't know how many times he had secretly played games, but there are always people more cunning than you, and every single move of Luffy was recorded by Tom.
Tom, who had caught Luffy red-handed, used the video evidence to threaten Luffy, demanding that Luffy give him a one-hour massage every day. Otherwise, when Gustave woke up, the video of Luffy secretly playing games might mysteriously appear somewhere.
Poor Luffy could only give Tom a massage every day. If Nami was the nemesis of Luffy, the future leader of the Straw Hat Pirates, then Tom was Luffy's current nemesis.
At this critical moment, Luffy dared not offend Tom in any way.