In the Eastern Sea, near the remote coastline of the Gea Kingdom.
"Sabot is the first, Ace is the second. Although I'm the third, I won't lose!”
A young man wearing a straw hat with a scar at the corner of his eye looked at the endless sea in the distance with a sunny smile on his face.
"Wait for me, Ace. I'll catch up to you soon!”
He clenched his fists and extended them to the sky, his face full of vitality.
"Hey, Luffy, this is a rare opportunity. Let's use my old fishing boat!”
"Your boat is going to sink very soon.”
At the pier, many villagers of Windmill Village came to see the young man in the straw hat off.
He had a joking expression and tone on his face and mouth, but his voice contained some worry.
"It's fine. That's enough!"
On the old boat that he found from somewhere, Luffy patted the large wooden bucket filled with food and water beside him and chuckled.
"I want to start from this!"
With that, he turned around and took a deep breath toward the sea.
"My voyage is about to begin! Sabot, look, I'm going out to sea too!”
He laughed and shouted from the bottom of his heart. The residents of the dock behind him also made friendly jokes.
"What is it, Luffy? You're shouting and talking to yourself.”
"Who's Sabot?"
"I don't know."
"This isn't an incantation, it's a letter of challenge!”Hearing the discussions at the dock, Luffy only replied with this sentence before waving his hand at Makino and the village chief, who had been taking care of him for the longest time.
"Then I'll leave first! Today was really a good day to set sail!”
"Are you leaving already? The village will be lonely without you in the future.”Makino smiled gently.
The village chief who was standing beside Luffy also glared at him." He actually became a pirate. What a disgrace to the village!”
As he said that, he inadvertently looked at the mountain bandits in the corner behind him, who were reluctant to part with him and threw away their handkerchief. He said with a headache,
" First Ace, then Luffy. Seriously, all of them are so troublesome. If Karp knew that his grandson, whom he had high expectations for, had chosen to go out to sea to be a pirate, I wonder how upset he would be…"
At this point, the village chief paused. He thought of Karp's carefree personality and could not help but stop talking.
At this moment, the villagers around him suddenly let out waves of exclamations.
" That's…the King of Inshore Waters!"
Right in front of Luffy's flight path, a dark gray, catfish-like sea king with a pair of blood-red eyes jumped out of the sea.
"Has the King of the Inshore Sea appeared?"
Luffy pressed down on the brim of his straw hat, and the corners of his mouth curled up.
"You've found the wrong opponent! I'll let you see the moves I've been practicing for ten years!”
While he was chatting and laughing, his right arm suddenly tightened and reached out to his back." Takagi Takagi…"
The rubber fruit's ability was about to be activated in the next second.
"Fist Bone-Meteor Shower!"
Before Luffy could say the word " pistol," a voice full of energy and anger came from behind the King of Inshore.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The sound of a cannon strike rang out, and brilliant fireworks burst out from the King of Inshore's back. Accompanied by waves of wails, its blood-red eyes began to turn white, and its entire body fell to the side weakly.
" This…This sound and technique are…"
Luffy, who had been helped by someone else to kill the King of Inshore, did not feel happy at all. Instead, beads of sweat the size of beans fell from his head.
After the King of Inshore's body fell, the figure of a warship quietly appeared behind it.
The head of the dog with a bone in its mouth was very obvious. Above the head of the dog stood an old man wearing the same dog-headed hat, posing as if he had just thrown something.
"Ah! It was Grandpa! Why? I clearly asked Makino to ask about Grandpa's schedule before we set sail. Shouldn't he be carrying out a mission in the navy branch now?!”
Luffy held his head with both hands, clutching his straw hat. The panic and fear on his face could not be concealed.
"That is…Lieutenant General Karp's warship."
The villagers at the dock immediately recognized the ship that often went home to visit relatives and had the iconic dog head. They could not help but gulp.
"Lieutenant General Karp…Luffy…"
Makino could not help but cover her mouth in worry. She had already guessed what would happen to Luffy next.
"Karp…"
"Karp?"
The former was the sound of the village chief's face twitching, while the latter was the panicked exclamations of the Dadan family in the corner.
"Didn't that old man just leak the news two days ago that he was handling some matters at the G8 branch of the navy and would only be back in two weeks?!”
The orange-haired man was Luffy and Ace's adoptive mother, the tall and fat bandit Darden. He had a cigarette in his mouth, and his face was filled with horror and a look of being deceived.
The two lackeys beside her also looked worried and afraid. They were worried about Luffy's departure and were afraid that they would be punished by Karp.
"Luffy…"
Capp slowly withdrew his stance and took off his dog-headed hat, revealing a kind smile and a pair of eyes that were hidden under the black light.
"As expected of my grandson. If I didn't know the news in advance, I would have let you follow in Ace's footsteps!!”
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