"Little Hai, thank you. If not for you, we old fellows would have starved to death in this Banana Village all these years.”
In the central square of the village, there was a huge grill in the middle, roasting this huge strange fish. Drops of fish oil fell down, and the fragrance was very tempting. An old man ate the grilled fish and thanked Little Hai sincerely.
"It's okay, Grandpa Jack. This is what I should do.”
Little Hai said in a muffled voice as he ate the grilled fish.
"That's right, old village chief. Don't praise this kid. If you praise him again, he'll be proud to the heavens.”
Although Mary was very satisfied with her son, she still politely reprimanded Xiao Hai out of modesty. However, there was a faint smile on the corner of her mouth as she patted Xiao Hai's head.
"Sigh, Mary, you have a good son! If that unfilial son of mine hadn't gone out to sea to be a pirate, my grandson would probably be as old as Xiao Hai!”
The old village chief, Jack, couldn't help but cry as he spoke. When he spoke of his son, there was a hint of disappointment.
"Yeah, if my son Stark didn't die, my grandson would be almost three years old!”
"My son went out to sea to be a pirate when he was only 18 years old. I don't know how he is now.”
"My son is even worse off. Not only did he become a pirate, but he also overestimated himself and fought against the navy. In the end, he was beheaded by a bounty hunter and exchanged for a bounty.”
"It's all that damned Pirate King Roger's fault. If it weren't for him, my son wouldn't have gone out to sea to be a pirate and died in the sea.”
Seeing the old village chief's appearance, some of their children became pirates. The old man who died in the vast sea could not help but cry. He hated the pirate king Roger who killed their son to the bone.
In fact, ever since One Piece King Roger started the era of the great pirates, countless young people who dreamed of finding great treasures abandoned their wives and children to sail out to sea. In some villages, there was not even a young man left. There were only the old, weak, sick, and disabled who had difficulty surviving, and some widows whose husbands had died in the sea.
Roger started an era of pirates, allowing countless people with dreams to bravely go out to sea to realize their dreams. However, it did bring the cries of countless innocent people, their wives and children, and their families. Take Banana Village for example. Other than Little Hai, there was no other child. If this continued, it was only a matter of time before Banana Village disappeared into the sea.
Roger's merits and demerits were hard to judge.
"Mom, why are Grandpa Jack and the others crying?”
Although Little Hai was smart, he was still a child. It was difficult for him to understand the feelings of Jack and the others.
"It's okay. Grandpa Jack and the others are crying because the strange fish you caught was too delicious. They have never tasted it in their lives.”
Mary was an excellent mother. She did not want her son to come into contact with the darkness of this world too early, so she told a small white lie to Little Hai.
"Old Village Chief, bad news. The pirates are here.”
Suddenly, a terrified scream broke the silence of Banana Village. A dispirited uncle ran over in panic.
This decadent uncle was called Lamba, and he was a full-fledged alcoholic. In fact, he was not like this in the past. It was just that he was busy with his own career and neglected his son, causing his son to walk the path of pirates in order to make him look at him in a different light. However, pirates were not so easy to deal with. A few months after Lamba's son went out to sea, Lamba happened to read the news in the newspaper that his son had died in a battle with a pirate group. It was only then that he realized how important his son was to him. From then on, Lampard gave up the career he was proud of and drowned his sorrows in alcohol all day long. He was extremely dispirited.
"What?"
The old village chief, Jack, and the others, who were still sobbing a moment ago, paused in disbelief.
"What should we do? The pirates are here."
The villagers 'understanding of pirates was that they were cruel, murderous, and greedy. They could not defeat the pirates at all. The square was in chaos.
"Don't be afraid. Aren't they just pirates? Your children have all been pirates before. They are all pirates. They are also humans. Don't be afraid.”
Although the old village chief himself was afraid, he still mustered up the courage to calm the rioting crowd.
"Oh, I didn't expect that there would be a few brave people in this godforsaken village. Not bad, not bad.”
A frivolous and disdainful voice was heard. A group of extremely burly pirates with murderous auras on their bodies, who had obviously seen blood, walked over quickly with swords in their hands.
The leader of the pirates was wearing a blue cape and a pirate captain hat with a skull painted on it. There was a scar on his face that was so deep that one could see his bones. There was a flintlock gun and a large knife at his waist. One look and one could tell that he was not a good person.
"Captain, I represent all the villagers in Banana Village to express our highest respect to you. Although our village is poor, we still have some stored food. We are willing to offer all of it to the captain.”
In the end, the older the ginger, the spicier. Without giving the pirate captain a chance to make trouble, the old village chief expressed that he was willing to give all the food to them, not giving them any chance to make trouble.
"Good, good, good. Old man, you're very tactful. However, I want the food and those beauties.”
Although the pirate captain was a little surprised by the old village chief's tactfulness, it should be known that in the past, when they went to rob other places, they would be strongly resisted by the local villagers. There were even bloody conflicts. He did not expect that no one would resist here. However, it was better that no one resisted. The corners of his mouth curled up as he pointed at Mary and the other widows whose husbands had died. He looked at the old village chief playfully.
"Boss, after you're done enjoying yourself, are you going to let your brothers enjoy themselves too?”
"Yeah, Boss, it's not your style to eat alone!”
"Hahaha, don't worry. With our boss's loyalty, after he's done enjoying himself, all of us will get our turn. Don't cry like ghosts and howl like wolves.”
Before the old village chief could reply, the pirates behind the pirate captain could not wait to jump out and jeer. Their tone was arrogant and impudent, and they did not put the villagers in their eyes at all. In their eyes, the entire Banana Village was like meat on their chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered.
"Alright, alright, alright. After I'm done, every one of you bastards will have a share, starting with you, vice-captain.”
The scarred captain was very pleased with the compliments of his pirates. He waved his hand and said generously.
"Thank you, Captain."
"Captain is mighty."
"Captain is domineering. He punches the Hundred Beasts and kicks the White Beard, unifying the four seas.”
For a time, flattery flooded the entire Banana Village.
The villagers looked at the unscrupulous pirates with anger in their eyes, but out of fear of the pirates, no one dared to stand up and say anything.
"F * ck, I'll fight it out with you bunch of inhumane beasts.”
Among the villagers, the bearded blacksmith Cass couldn't help but stand up and shout. He waved his hammer and charged at the pirate closest to him.
"I've lived enough in this life. If I can drag a pirate down with me today, my life will be worth it.”
After the blacksmith, the decadent uncle, Lamba, could not help but wield a long knife that he had found out of nowhere and slashed at the pirate captain with a scar.
"My fellow villagers, rather than being humiliated by them, it's better to fight them to the death. At least you can die with some dignity.”
"That's right. Let's fight to the death with these beasts.”
"Let's fight it out with them."
At this moment, everyone's bloodlust that was buried deep in their hearts was aroused. They took their farming tools, wooden sticks, and hatchets and rushed at the pirates without any regard for their own safety.
"A bunch of ants dare to attack us. You're courting death.”
"Hmph, they will soon discover how terrifying the captain is.”
" They'll regret resisting us. They don't even know who we are. We're the Blood Sickle Pirates that roam the West Ocean. We're one of the overlords of the West Ocean, and we're not something they can resist.”
In fact, other than the captain, the other pirates were not much stronger than ordinary people. However, in the face of the angry villagers, they did not panic at all. They were full of confidence in their captain's scarred face.
It wasn't that they looked down on the villagers, but that the scarred captain was too terrifying. In the past, there were some villagers who resisted them because of their rude requests, but in the end, they were cruelly killed by the scarred captain and died without a complete corpse.
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