

In the movie Strong World, Nami sends a message to the crew via Tone Dial
which is as follows:

> Please forgive me for being unable to say farewell to you all directly. I
> have decided to join Shiki's crew as their navigator. Shiki is a legendary
> pirate who you could never match up to even if you stood up to him. Even if
> you came after me you would only end up losing your lives. I will say this
> much, promise you will come rescue me.

Luffy missed to hear the last part: " _promise you will come rescue me_ ", but
everyone else did hear it and understood it. When trying to explain Luffy,
however, Sanji made a statement which caused some confusion. It goes as
follows:

> ... Although to me the whole thing sounded like message of love.

This led to confusion as it seemed to be wrongly interpreted that the last
part of message implied Nami loved Luffy. I also read somewhere that Nami
started to blush when Luffy started playing the Dial, but I didn't see Nami
blushing at all (in anime, if someone blushes, their face is shown to be
turning red, right?). She did seem to be embarrassed which seemed to be
normal. If I were her and someone was going to play a recording in front of
everyone which I made when I was in a sad situation, I would definitely not
want him to play that because it would be embarrassing.

Nami knew that Luffy won't understand indirect message (she does say she
directed the last part specifically to Luffy since he is so dense). I think
Nami wanted to indirectly ask the crew to come and save her, but for thick-
headed Luffy, she explicitly added the last line. She just wanted Luffy and
rest of crew to come and save her, there were no romantic feelings.

I tried to search online if I was right about the message's intent, but
couldn't find proper sources.

For example, I found on
[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece_Film:_Strong_World#Plot):

> ...Luffy later learns that Nami's message was actually a coded SOS directed
> at him that the crew took as a love confession...

Although the above line mentions the crew mistook as a love confession, I
don't think so, I think they properly understood the intent of the message.
Although, I am not sure what Sanji meant by saying the above line, but it
seemed he did understood the real intent.

Are there any sources which exactly tells the true intent of the message and
also if the crew (except Luffy) properly understood it?


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Nami's message in Strong World movie


Oda drew a 'Strong World after 3 seconds' where you could clearly see Nami
blushing and Luffy has a huge smile with his hand behind an ear (same as Sanji
but we all know that those last few words were for). It's a really cute
snippet. I'll send a link so you can see it.

<https://dshanks-op.tumblr.com/post/158367417268/oda-drew-what-happened-after-
strong-world-ended-d>


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