The Merry was destroyed in that sea. Everyone returned to the Seven Water City in despair and entered the room in silence.

After a long silence, "Dazai, is there still hope for Merry?" Uso looked at Dazai with red eyes. Merry's body had been destroyed and there was no change of ship in time. What would happen to its soul?

Usopp couldn't imagine that after all the drama, he still got such an ending. Usopp didn't blame Dazai Osamu. No one expected that Merry would come alone to pick them up.

That is a man's romance. Usopp is proud of Merry, but he still looks at Dazai Osamu with a glimmer of hope.

"What are you talking about?" Nami interrupted Usopp's abrupt question with a sharp voice. Her heart was pounding, as if she thought of the possibility in Usopp's words: "Dazai, don't take Usopp's words to heart. Merry's matter is not just your business!"

Although there might be hope, Nami didn't want to put all the pressure on Dazai Osamu alone, so she verbally defended him.

Usopp also realized his mistake and slapped himself hard, his face turning red: "Sorry, Dazai! I didn't mean it!"

"What are you talking about?" Chopper looked at the three noisy people in confusion.

Usopp looked at Dazai hesitantly. Dazai looked around at his curious companions, took out the blank page as expected, and flipped through it again.

The book slowly revealed the words: Sorry to bother me again! It's really troublesome, but after all, I am your close friend! I will naturally help you~(*^_^*)

However, only Dazai Osamu could read the words that appeared. The others watched Dazai Osamu take out a piece of white paper. Although they were puzzled, they did not interrupt him. They just waited attentively for his explanation, a miracle that they did not dare to believe but longed to happen.

The invisible barrier briefly obscured this small piece of world, and when the One Piece world's will scanned over, it could only see the illusion that the Straw Hat Pirates were immersed in the dejection of losing their companions.

"Bang——" It was the sound of bones hitting the ground. Usopp knelt on the ground and took off the golden mask: "I'm sorry, Luffy! Everyone!"

"Are you Usopp?!!" Two shocked and hesitant voices pointed at Usopp and shouted in tacit understanding.

Luffy and Chopper were shocked to see the familiar face under the mask. That mask was Usopp?!

The others already knew Usopp's identity, and when they saw the two's surprise, they all covered their heads and said in unison: You two are the only ones who didn't recognize him as Usopp?! It's so obvious!

"The story begins when we had a fight after Arebagu left—" Usopp laid out Dazai Osamu's plan as promised, and the expressions of the others kept changing.

"You started planning this since then?" Nami exclaimed. She was thinking too far ahead. A double agent?

Thinking about how Dazai Osamu was arranging work for them while he was busy with Usopp, it felt like this guy was the busiest person throughout the whole process, doing so much silently.

Although she already knew that Usopp's plan was designed by Dazai Osamu, and Usopp's defection was not that simple, Nami was still a little surprised: "I didn't expect that you, who likes to be lazy, would bother to do these~"

Nami couldn't help but laugh when she thought about what Dazai Osamu did behind the scenes. This guy who was hiding in his turtle shell finally showed signs of sticking his head out.

Dazai Osamu saw the teasing meaning of Nami and threw a wink at her with a smile: "It's so pitiful to see you being played around by the enemy. It's not my personality to not do something. I don't like others to show off their power over me~"

"Then you could have stopped Robin from escaping in advance?" Sanji said with a frown.

"Why should we stop someone who wants to leave? Isn't the ending a happy one for everyone?" Dazai Osamu spread out his hands and said helplessly.

Sanji's mouth twitched a few times, and he took a puff of cigarette in silence. It was useless to argue with this cunning guy. He said lightly: "Crab meat is prohibited for one month."

This is Sanji's power as the head chef. Asking these ignorant people to cook is more troublesome than fighting.

"Ah~~~" Dazai Osamu was suddenly suppressed in the vitals, the corners of his mouth dragged for a long time, and his arrogance was suppressed by the blow.

"It turned out to be fake, it really scared us!" Luffy heard the whole story, holding his chest with relief, with a smile on his face. It turned out that Usopp's departure was fake, a show. Luffy's sad mood was much better. He looked at Usopp who was kneeling with a guilty look on his face, and hurriedly pulled him up: "Liar, you are just following Dazai's plan, why are you kneeling?"

"No!" Usopp did not get up, his eyes became more and more sore: "Although it's acting, those words are also what I really think!"

Usopp cried and yelled at Luffy, "I know I'm despicable. Seeing my companions getting better and better, I really feel like I'm the only one stuck in the same place. Everyone is very powerful, even Robin and Chopper are very powerful. I'm still the kid who just left the island. I can't do anything. Compared with you, my progress is like a joke!"

"Even though there was something wrong with Meli this time, I know that if there hadn't been this outburst, I would still have asked to leave next time!"

"I know that it was Dazai Osamu's arrangement that I revealed this matter, and then everyone happily accepted my return, knowing that I was just acting, but the damage will not be reduced! I am very grateful to Dazai for allowing me to confide in this way, but I am disgusted with myself. Everyone trusted me so much, but I attacked my companions because of some things and attacked them coldly!"

Usopp sneered a few times, his face looking somewhat gloomy. These ugly thoughts were like a knife stabbing into his heart, making it hard for him to breathe.

We cannot keep silent about something just because it has passed. A real man should take responsibility for his actions.

"I went to Judicial Island to save Robin and burned the World Government flag. I realized how ugly my previous thoughts were. Because of my inferiority complex, I pointed the blade at my companions!"

His vision became a little blurred, and the scene returned to silence. Usopp's tears were streaming, and he clenched his fingers into fists. I am such a despicable person!

Usopp wanted to lean forward and kowtow to apologize to Luffy and the others, but Luffy's hand held him firmly. He raised his face, which was covered with tears and snot, and looked over.

"Fool! You're just thinking nonsense all day long! I don't care about that at all!" Luffy said while shaking him with a headache, then he curled his lips, hooked his shoulders, and smiled brightly: "Welcome back, Liar~"

"I didn't expect you thought about me so much before. Although I'm a little angry, but, ahem——" Nami snorted, raised her head a little proudly: "This won't happen again. Welcome back, Liar~"

"Welcome back, Liar!"

"Without any one of them, the Straw Hat Pirates will not be a complete Straw Hat Pirates!"

"Everyone!" Usopp cried even harder. It was terrible. My heart felt so sour.

Usopp returns!