The Thousand Sunny rocked gently against the waves, sunlight glinting off the endless stretch of blue sea while laughter echoed across the deck. Somewhere above, Usopp and Chopper were arguing over whether a giant goldfish could actually swallow an island whole, Franky was yelling about cola reserves, and Brook was in the middle of an absolutely terrible song nobody asked for.
“Yohohoho—!”
“BROOK, SHUT UP!” Nami snapped from her chair.
You sat above the chaos on the railing of the second deck, one leg dangling lazily over the side. A thick book floated inches from your face without you touching it, crimson energy curling around the edges of the pages as they turned on their own every few moments.
Completely calm.
Completely unbothered.
The air around you always felt… strange. Like reality itself bent a little too easily whenever you were near.
Robin glanced up from her own book, dark eyes narrowing slightly in amusement. “The sea’s getting noisy.”
Right on cue, a News Coo swooped overhead.
“NEWSPAPER! NEW BOUNTIES!” Usopp shouted instantly.
The messenger pelican circled the Sunny before dropping a stack of fresh posters onto the deck.
Chaos erupted immediately.
“MY BOUNTY WENT UP?!” Chopper screamed.
“SUPER!!!” Franky roared.
Sanji lit another cigarette while reaching for Nami’s and Robin’s posters first. “Ladies first, of course—”
Luffy snatched the pile from him. “GIMME!”
The crew crowded around him while you remained exactly where you were, eyes lazily scanning the floating pages of your book.
Zoro leaned against the mast, arms crossed. “What’s mine?”
“Oi, mine better be higher than yours,” Sanji growled.
“Like hell it is.”
“Guys!” Chopper gasped. “Robin’s is over a billion now!”
Robin smiled softly. “Ara.”
Usopp suddenly froze.
His face went pale.
“…Wait.”
Nami frowned. “What?”
Usopp slowly turned another poster around with trembling hands.
Silence hit the deck.
Even Luffy stopped grinning.
Sanji’s cigarette nearly slipped from his mouth.
Franky blinked. “No way…”
Zoro uncrossed his arms.
Robin actually looked surprised for once.
Printed across the paper beneath your picture were the words:
“CHAOS EMPRESS”
User — The Crimson Witch
BOUNTY: 6,840,000,000 BERRIES
The number sat there like a bomb dropped onto the page.
Higher than Robin’s.
Higher than Luffy’s.
Higher than both of them combined.
Chopper’s jaw dropped so hard it looked painful. “S-S-SIX BILLION?!”
“THAT’S INSANE!” Usopp shrieked.
Nami grabbed the poster from his hands, staring at it in disbelief. “How do you even GET a bounty this high?!”
Brook’s skull somehow looked paler. “Yohohoho—! That is terrifying! Though I have no skin to lose!”
Franky looked genuinely impressed. “That’s beyond emperor territory!”
Luffy’s grin slowly spread wider and wider across his face. “Shishishi! That’s awesome!”
Zoro gave a low whistle. “Guess the government’s finally panicking.”
Robin’s eyes drifted toward you knowingly. “Mind reading, probability manipulation, reality distortion… I imagine the World Government considers you exceptionally dangerous.”
“Exceptionally dangerous?!” Usopp cried. “They basically printed PLEASE DON’T ANGER THIS WOMAN on the poster!”
Sanji stared at your bounty with visible horror.
Then he looked up at you sitting calmly on the railing while your book continued floating in front of your face like this was all mildly inconvenient at best.
You tilted your head slightly.
“That’s it?”
The entire crew exploded.
“THAT’S IT?!” Nami and Usopp screamed together.
Sanji’s cigarette finally fell from his mouth.
“You are beautifully terrifying.”
A slow crimson glow flickered briefly in your eyes.
The wind shifted.
For half a second, the sea around the Sunny distorted strangely, waves moving in directions they shouldn’t before snapping back into place
Usopp immediately hid behind Zoro. “SEE?! THAT! THAT’S WHY IT’S SIX BILLION!”
Luffy laughed so hard he nearly fell backward over the railing
And above all the chaos, your book turned another page on its own while the News Coo disappeared into the horizon