Windmill Village.

In Makino's bar.

The atmosphere here is still so noisy. A month ago, everyone learned that Luffy had disappeared again, and they were no longer as nervous as before. After all, this mysterious man didn't hurt Luffy the first time, and he didn't hurt Luffy the second time, so he wouldn't suddenly hurt Luffy the third time, right?

On this day, all the pirates of the Red Hair Pirates spent time here as always.

Just as everyone was having a good time, the air door appeared again.

Everyone held their breath.

Luffy came out from inside.

They saw Luffy, but no mysterious man. After everyone was relieved, the lively atmosphere was restored. What made everyone even more happy and interested was that Luffy's expression when he came back this time, not only was not as heavy as before, but he looked a little more cheerful.

Some of the gossip crew couldn't help but ask first: "Hahahaha! Luffy, you're finally back! Your mood looks good?"

"Um!"

After the Bandit King Higuma incident, a large part of Luffy's anger towards the Red Hair Pirates was transferred, otherwise he would not have stood up involuntarily last time.

"What happy thing happened? Come and listen?"

Luffy has no scruples: "I found my first partner! In the future, I can go out to sea with my partners like you! Let's go on an adventure together!"

"Hahahaha! Luffy, it's good for you to find a new partner, but didn't you say you hate pirates the most? Why are you running to be a pirate by yourself now?"

Luffy was dumbfounded.

But he quickly regained his smile and said casually: "No, I'm not a pirate! I want to be a navy, and a navy will take my partners on an adventure! By the way, I'll catch all of you pirates back!"

The audience was quiet.

Immediately, laughter erupted.

"Hahahaha! Good, good! Then we will wait for you to catch us."

"Yes, as long as you come, I will serve it with both hands, and I will never fight back!"

"Come on, Luffy, you want to be a navy, it's still early, come and compete with me to eat meat. I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

Luffy replied stupidly, "Hmm!', and then walked towards the table where a large plate of meat had already been set. It caused the pirates present to burst into laughter again.

That's it.

Luffy said that he wanted to be a navy, but he didn't reject being crazy with the Red Hair Pirates.

Three rounds of wine.

A few hours later.

The two pirates who had already been drinking alcohol suddenly began to fight for Luffy.

"Luffy, come to me!" "No, Luffy, come to me!"

The two of them pulled left and right.

Luffy's arms were pulled for a long distance by them. The eyes of everyone were so frightened that they almost popped out. Many people even spit out half of their beer.

Luffy himself was also frightened.

Then a group of people just screamed.

"Ah ——————! How can this happen?! How can this happen! What the hell happened to my hand?!"

"Luffy, what happened to you?!"

"It's over, it's over! The rubber fruit we captured from the enemy ship is gone!"

"Luffy, tell me, did you eat this thing?" A pirate quickly drew the appearance of a rubber fruit, and then showed it to Luffy.

"Yeah, but it's not delicious. This should be dessert..."

Shanks: "The rubber fruit, also known as the devil fruit! It is the treasure of the ocean! Whoever eats it will become a rubber man! And any Devil Fruit user will never be able to swim for the rest of their life!"

Luffy: "What?! No way!"

Shanks: "Idiot—!"

The tavern was quiet for a while.

After a while.

Luffy resumed his smile: "It doesn't matter, then I can be a navy who will never fall into the sea in my life!"

"…"

So, Rubber Man Luffy was born on this day.

…

Time flies, time flies.

In a blink of an eye, a long time passed.

On this day, Luffy woke up as usual and went to Makino's tavern. However, the tavern was empty at this time.

Makino: "Captain, they have been out to sea for several days. Are you feeling lonely, Luffy?"

Luffy: "No, I'm going to be in the Navy! I won't miss them!"

"Crack!" The door of the tavern was opened, "Excuse me..."

The person here is the Bandit King Higuma.

"The pirates aren't here today...it feels so quiet. We passed by this place again. What a daze! We are guests! Why don't you bring wine?!"

Afterwards, of course, just like the original, Luffy couldn't stand the behavior of Higuma and other bandits, so he rebuked them. As a result, it angered Higuma and made Luffy to teach him a lesson outside the tavern.

"Yo, is there such a strange person in the world, Rubber Man? It's worth a lot of money to sell to the circus..." "Damn! Apologize to me! 32 Brick Fist!"

Snapped!

Higuma took Luffy's fist with one palm.

That shook his arm and Higuma said with a slightly gloomy face: "You have some ability, stinky boy...very good! You have successfully excited me! I have decided not to sell you now! It's better to kill you now!"

"No wonder you didn't come to the port to pick us up... So that's how it is..." Shanks appeared at this moment, "It's the bandit from last time... Luffy, didn't you say you wanted to be a navy and catch all the pirates? Are you going to catch even these bandits? How can you find the time for us?"

"Shut up! You bastard!"

"Heh, pirate? You're still here? You better run for your life as soon as possible... We'll shoot if you walk in."

A gun pointed Shanks' temple.

"Since the pistol is drawn, it's time for a duel."

"Huh?! What are you talking about?"

"I mean, this thing isn't meant to be scary..."

Ouch!

The first pirate died on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, a classic scene appeared.

First, Benn Beckman dealt with all the bandits in two strokes, and then the bandit king Higuma used his smoke bomb! Successfully escaped from Shanks and other pirates!

At this time, the Conqueror's Haki is useless.

This is for the sake of the plot of course.

Quickly.

Higuma took Luffy, took a small boat, and came to the sea.

"Hahaha! I managed to escape, but I didn't expect a bandit like me to escape to the sea. I took you as a hostage. I killed 56 people who angered me, and now you too go die!"

Higuma kicked Luffy into the sea.

Then there is the Lord of the Coast, the Sea King appeared, and took the Higuma and the ship in one bite.

Shanks arrived and rescued Luffy, but his arm was bitten off by this sea king. At this time, all kinds of Haki will all be useless!

Don't ask!

The plot needs it to happen!

Luffy was deeply moved when he saw that Shanks lost an arm in order to save himself. At the same time as I burst into tears, my mind was even more confused: "Why...why... Aren't you a pirate? Why did you want to save me?"

The dialogue is different.

Before that, Luffy forced himself to admit that pirates are bad.

But after this incident, he could no longer lie to his true feelings.

"Who told you that pirates must be bad people?"

Luffy froze for a moment.

Throwing into Shanks' arms and crying again...