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Monkey D. Luffy’s POV
Shell City, East Blue.
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As Luffy took flight, he looked towards the Marine base.
“I should have had some time to deal with the girls before, but now I’ll rescue him. Wait for me, Zoro!” I said and used my momentum to increase my flight in that direction.
It didn’t take long to be above the base at a distance of one kilometer.
“Thanks to my Mythical Zoan, I can see every detail from this distance. It’s great to have enhanced eyes like all the other animal senses,” Luffy said to himself as he looked at the base below, examining all the structures. He glanced in one direction and finally spotted the man tied up in an empty courtyard.
“Damn it!” He heard the green-haired man muttering quietly with his sharp ears.
I started to fly and descend towards him. He didn’t notice me as I silently landed behind his cross. The sun was in front of him, so he couldn’t see the shadow of a “giant bird” behind him.
Turning off my wings silently, I began to approach him from behind.
“You seem to be in a tight spot, huh… There’s even food on the ground…” Luffy said casually and noticed the dropped bun on the ground, realizing he arrived a bit later than the original timeline.
“HM?!” The green-haired man quickly startled by this sudden voice from behind.
“Who are you? How did you sneak up behind me without me noticing?!” He became quite alarmed by Luffy approaching from behind, but the man with the straw hat couldn’t blame him for his reaction.
“How I got here doesn’t matter, but let me introduce myself to you. I am Monkey D. Luffy! The man whose dream and goal are to conquer all the seas and shake the very foundations of this world in the process!” I said with a big smile.
“Hmm? Conquer the seas? Shake the foundations of this world?” Zoro said, raising an eyebrow, but he didn’t laugh at this declaration; after all, he was another dreamer.
“That’s right, I’m a pirate,” I said, looking into his eyes.
“And I hunt pirates sometimes to get by, so you better leave,” he simply said, and Luffy smiled.
“Hold on there, my friend. Let me finish speaking. I can’t be arrogant and think I can do all of this alone. I need a crew to fight against the world and turn it upside down. I can see your ambition too. What’s your goal?” Luffy asked, knowing already what his next words would be.
“I made a promise to someone a long time ago that one of us would become the greatest swordsman in the world. I am Roronoa Zoro, the man who will become the greatest swordsman in the world!” He said firmly, while I smiled enthusiastically.
“Very well, my friend. A worthy dream for a swordsman in my pirate crew!” I said, and he looked at me strangely.
“I’m not interested.” Knowing what I was insinuating, he cut me off.
“Sorry, Zoro, I won’t force you to join my crew because I don’t think you deserve that, and I don’t find it very cool with most people. But now you’re a criminal, and you’ll never survive being hunted by the Marines when you’re alone at sea to become the world’s greatest swordsman.” I said, trying to persuade him.
“I made a deal with the Marines. If I stay here for a month without eating, they’ll set me free. I’ve been here for a few days, and I can stay much longer like this!” Zoro said.
“And you believe that?” I raised an eyebrow with that, knowing his fate.
“What do you mean?” He asked, narrowing his eyes.
“Look, Captain Morgan’s son, Helmeppo, is going to execute you soon to take your sword, the Wado Ichimonji. You’re either going to become an outlaw or a dead man. Which option do you choose?” Luffy said, crossing his arms in front of him.
He looked at him for a few seconds, realizing there was no mistake in his words, and finally spoke.
“He’s really going to do that?!” His tone showed immense anger.
“I have no doubt about that, Zoro. Unfortunately, you relied on an arrogant coward… now you’ll pay for it…” Luffy said.
Zoro looked at him for a while before speaking again.
“Are you serious when you say you want to conquer the seas?” He couldn’t help but ask that.
“Yes, I will be known as the king or emperor of the pirates, and I need the greatest swordsman in the world by my side. What do you say?” Luffy said confidently.
“Hmmm… all right! I’ll join you, just get my sword back and as long as you don’t stop me from pursuing my dream, I’ll be your swordsman!” He demanded.
“Well, I can do that, but why would I leave you here defenseless?” I asked while opening the system, went to the store, and bought a low-quality sword for him.
“Where did this sword come from?!” He was surprised by the sudden appearance of the sword, but I didn’t bother to answer as I cut his bindings.
This made him fall to the ground in the next moment. Now that he was without ropes, he didn’t say anything as he got up and walked over to a piece of land with a dropped bun and picked it up to eat.
“This is great! I haven’t eaten in days!” He said happily, eating the bun and the earth.
“Hahaha, that’s funny, take this sword, I don’t need it.” Luffy threw the sword into his hands.
“What do we do now, Captain?” He said, inspecting the sword, but it didn’t surprise him, as it was a low-quality sword, but useful at the moment.
[Crew: Zoro has joined your crew!]
I smiled at the system message and looked at the swordsman.
“Simple, we’ll get your sword back, take over this Marine base, and destroy it in the process!” I said enthusiastically as he raised an eyebrow, wondering if I was joking.
“Come on, let’s see what these Marines are capable of.” Luffy said without waiting for a response from Zoro and walked directly to the front of the Marine base, at its entrance.
It didn’t take long for them to find the entrance courtyard of the base, with Helmeppo being escorted by two Marines as they seemed to be heading out to do something in the city.
‘He should go to the restaurant where Luffy and Koby found him in the original story,’ Luffy thought.
“Yo!” I said, raising my hand to greet them, causing them to turn to my sudden voice and look at me stunned as they studied me bewilderedly. Luffy appeared to them like a criminal, with a rather sinister smile on his face as he approached them.
“Who are you?! Hm?! Zoro, did you escape?!” He shouted, and the men beside him quickly grabbed their weapons to attack the two approaching them.
I raised a hand to Zoro, asking him to let me handle it, and I began to walk toward the trio without any fear of their weapons.
As I advanced calmly, two rifles were already aimed at me, but I didn’t pay much attention as I continued to walk.
“Shoot him!!!” Helmeppo shouted hysterically.
BANG!
BANG!
The shots were heard by everyone in the vicinity, and the noise echoed through the area. Those who were shooting, along with Helmeppo and even Zoro, had expressions of disbelief as they saw the bullets strike my skin and crumple upon impact without penetrating.
The sound of crumpled bullets falling to the ground could be heard by those nearby, in the midst of the ensuing silence that settled over the area.
“Well, you guys are worse than Lami. At least I could feel a bit of her sword’s touch.” Luffy said, bored, as the bullets continued to collide with him.
Ignoring the fact that Luffy was talking about someone named Lami, they were shocked at this strange figure, which just stood there, stopping bullets from penetrating his own body. Even Zoro couldn’t believe his eyes; he never imagined that someone could stop a bullet with their own skin.
‘And he doesn’t even know about the monsters in the New World,’ Luffy told himself as he observed Zoro’s surprise.
Seeing that they had stopped shooting, Luffy started walking toward the trio again.
“Stay away, you monster!” Helmeppo was now more terrified than ever, taking steps backward, trying to get away from here.
Before Helmeppo and his guards could escape, I used my speed to approach.
[Moa Moa no Mi: Speed, apply 30 times!]
I may not have the Gear 2 of the Hito Hito no Mi, but my speed already surpasses it by far at this level!
In their view, Luffy disappeared from where he stood, reappearing right in front of them. Without saying anything, I delivered a punch to each guard on either side of Helmeppo.
BOOM
BOOM
Their bodies slammed directly into the Marine base wall like rockets. Luffy wasn’t a good person, and they had tried to kill him because he was going to spare them as the original Luffy did?
Luffy didn’t know if they would survive those punches, but he didn’t care anymore. He removed his eyes from the holes in the wall made by the Marines and looked at the frightened Helmeppo in front of him.
He glared at the son of Captain Morgan, one of the worst kinds of people imaginable. Who would they be? The hypocrites of the Marines, people who did evil under the guise of justice. These were the kind of people Luffy detested the most in life.
“So, I heard that you like to intimidate the citizens of this city…” Luffy said calmly, looking into his trembling eyes.
“Wha-what do you mean? My father won’t let you hurt me!” Helmeppo was very scared now, and having Luffy, a stranger, staring at him like a predator didn’t help alleviate his tension.
“Let me show you how to intimidate someone!” Luffy said with a sinister smile.
“What do you mean? My father won’t let you hurt me!” Helmeppo was very scared now.
“Hehe, if he shows up, I’ll make him join the fun…” Luffy talked like a thug, maintaining a wicked grin.
Before Helmeppo could respond to this, Luffy grabbed him by the arm.
Crack
I simply bent it effortlessly, and his arm made a sound as if bones were breaking.
“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
“Want to give up already?” Luffy said with a small interrogation, looking at the pathetic Helmeppo beneath his hand, now barely able to speak after receiving two blows to the face that destroyed him.
“It’s a shame that you can’t take it anymore. I could have taught you more, but let’s finish this.” He said, as he looked at the base and simply launched a badly injured Helmeppo directly into the window on the fifth floor, like a ragdoll.
Crack
They could hear the sound of the window breaking from that height.
Zoro and the Marine guards who had seen this man torturing the son of their captain pointed their guns at him from the walls of the base, but they hesitated to shoot, and no one had yet managed to inform their superior. Luffy’s actions had been so sudden that they didn’t know how to react.
“Let’s make this more attention-grabbing,” Luffy said with a smile, while Zoro looked at him trying to understand what he was planning. Luffy looked at the gate and pointed at it with the palm of his hand.
“Let’s use this ability for the first time!” Luffy said with a smile as a powerful purple flame appeared around his hand, appearing to charge with every moment and growing stronger.
“What’s this?!” Zoro was shocked by this, but not nearly as much as what would happen next.
Without responding to Zoro, the flame in Luffy’s hand flew and was shot with a small explosion, like a cannon, at high speed, directly towards the gate.
The base’s gates were still closed, so the flame hit right in the middle.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM
It wasn’t just the Marine base that heard it; the entire city trembled from the explosion. A group of women with a bear and a shark heard it on a certain beach, and a boy in a boat near the island was also startled as he saw an explosion in front of the base, from where he was several kilometers away at sea. He wondered what on earth was happening there.
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