"Ahhh." Usopp's mouth widened, distracted entirely from his own story by Bridget's explanation. "We've sailed in the sky before, but we had to put wings on Going Merry--that's our ship--and take a special route. I've only ever been on one ship that was designed to fly." And that had been terrifying, walking through the bowels of Maxim, knowing just enough about technology to realize so many complicated machines just meant so many things could go wrong and send the ship plummeting to doom. "Why's the sea dangerous? Do you have Sea Kings in your world?"
He added with a bit of pride, "The sea is pretty dangerous where I'm from, too. Before my crew was taken here, we had been on the Grand Line--people call it the 'pirate's graveyard' because of how dangerous it is!" How he'd let himself be dragged into a place called "the pirate's graveyard" would always be a mystery. Stupid enthusiasm. "Anyhow, we defeated the Eel Queen by discovering her weakness. See, she was obsessed with her looks, because for a fishperson she was considered very beautiful. So ten of the tallest, ruggedest and manliest men in the crew went to distract her by pretending to bring her gifts, while I snuck into the castle and found where she kept all of the special water-proof make-up she used to keep herself looking the same. When she discovered it was missing she was outraged, because make-up for fishpeople is really expensive, more expensive than even painting yourself with solid gold! She came after our ship in a rage, but we were ready for her. We captured her in a net that was especially built to be sticky so eels couldn't slip through, and then we made her promise never to terrorize a human village again before we let her go on another island that didn't have any people."
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He added with a bit of pride, "The sea is pretty dangerous where I'm from, too. Before my crew was taken here, we had been on the Grand Line--people call it the 'pirate's graveyard' because of how dangerous it is!" How he'd let himself be dragged into a place called "the pirate's graveyard" would always be a mystery. Stupid enthusiasm. "Anyhow, we defeated the Eel Queen by discovering her weakness. See, she was obsessed with her looks, because for a fishperson she was considered very beautiful. So ten of the tallest, ruggedest and manliest men in the crew went to distract her by pretending to bring her gifts, while I snuck into the castle and found where she kept all of the special water-proof make-up she used to keep herself looking the same. When she discovered it was missing she was outraged, because make-up for fishpeople is really expensive, more expensive than even painting yourself with solid gold! She came after our ship in a rage, but we were ready for her. We captured her in a net that was especially built to be sticky so eels couldn't slip through, and then we made her promise never to terrorize a human village again before we let her go on another island that didn't have any people."