Chapter 58 Growth
[Chapter Heading Series·Do You Believe in Gravity 6·"Jotaro Kujo"]
[On a strange street, the "boy" with a bulbous nose looked at a piece of news in the corner of the newspaper in his hand, staring blankly at the photo that was not taken at a good angle. He could barely see the familiar large windbreaker and the "man" with a star mask in the photo.] "
Where did this little guy come from, so impetuous..."
The Marines in the office chided.
Lin Qi turned around and said, "That big brother in the windbreaker just now was so handsome!"
"Don't mess with that kind of person, little guy." The navy reminded, "It's very dangerous! Okay, what's your name..."
"My name is Giorno."
As Lin Qi spoke, he raised the collection of wanted warrants in his hand, signaling them to stop talking nonsense and get down to business.
Several sailors looked at the page of bounty that the boy was holding - the photo showed a pirate holding a knife, with a scar on his face running from his left eyebrow to the corner of his mouth. His name was Sule, and the bounty was 130,000 berries.
"Young man, it's good that you want to catch pirates. You are quite ambitious!" The navy said to Lin Qi across the desk, "But it's too early! Let's talk about it in a few years."
Another marine with a gun on his shoulder said with a smile: "Join the navy, become a part of justice, and train yourself to fight pirates first. This is better."
Lin Qi said: "But I want to catch pirates now. And I don't want to join the navy."
"Why?" Several marines present were surprised, but no one was angry. In their opinion, the likes and dislikes of young people were just some willful words. But they still wanted to ask the reason. "Don't you like our navy? We are the army that protects justice!"
Lynch said loudly: "The navy uniform with the word 'justice' written on the back... it's really too shameful! Who can stand wearing that kind of thing?"
Several navy officers were stunned and laughed, "What an ignorant brat! Wearing a uniform with the word 'Justice' written on it is an honor! Only senior officers are qualified to wear that uniform..."
"Who cares about that!" Lin Qi said, "I want to know the information about the pirates..."
The navy groaned and said, "No, you are still too young. I cannot tell you the information about those dangerous pirates..."
This hot-blooded kid, after knowing the information about the pirates, might commit suicide on impulse.
"Oh, okay then." Lin Qi closed the book and turned to leave. When he left, he politely closed the office door.
"..." The several navy men in the room looked at each other and said speechlessly, "Strange guy..." Whether it was the taciturn man in windbreaker and mask, or the young man named Giorno.
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Lynch walked briskly, the book tucked under his arm, out of the naval base.
After walking around a few streets, he found the windbreaker and the star mask on the corner of the street, as well as a box, which he opened with a click and found to be filled with brand new banknotes.
"Oh, so much money..."
Lynch heard a scream from behind him. He raised his head and knew without looking back that a few thugs in the town were targeting him, a stranger, or they were targeting "BIB" who passed by here with a box.
Click, Lynch closed the cash box, put his windbreaker in his arm, put the star mask and the collection of wanted warrants together, and continued walking forward, ignoring the hooligans shouting behind him.
"Hey! Brat! Are you deaf? We told you to stop!"
The gangster pointed at Lynch and yelled, then ran after him.
But when they turned the corner, the boy disappeared! The gangsters were stunned, looking at the dead end in front of them, touching the thick walls in disbelief, and looking up.
"With such a high wall, how could he climb over it in an instant with the box...?!"
Just as they were thinking this, several of the gangsters felt a sharp pain in their heads almost at the same time.
"BIB" floated behind them like a ghost and punched one of them. Bang, bang, bang, bang, several thugs fainted with their eyes rolled back.
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“That’s quite a lot of money!”
Inside the hotel, Lynch opened the cash box, and the banknotes smelling of ink spilled all over the bed and the floor.
"BIB" came in through the wall and lightly bumped fists with the main body.
"The funds are in place, shall we continue to train?"
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Early morning, in the woods outside of town.
The black-haired boy ran wildly in the mountains and fields, parkouring through the bushes and jumping over the stream.
Not far away, ghostly black armor was silently performing basic training.
The green Den Den Mushi was clinging to the armor, dozing off with its eyes closed in enjoyment.
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Lynch, exhausted, almost crawled back to his hotel room.
He lay on the ground and turned his head to see the mechanical black feet of the armor substitute slowly approaching.
"Gu..." Lin Qi couldn't help swallowing his saliva, and finally turned over, lying in a big letter shape, closing his eyes and shouting, "Come on! Don't pity me!"
The clerk who was passing by in the corridor heard a strange sound coming from Lin Qi's room, which sounded like pain or some kind of groaning. He looked up at the house number and couldn't help showing a strange look...
"Children nowadays develop very fast..." The clerk listened furtively for a while, then walked away muttering.
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Lynch was sleeping soundly on the bed in the hotel.
"Oh my god..." He muttered in his sleep, turned over, and kicked the green Den Den Mushi off the bed.
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At night, the town's bars are brightly lit, and as soon as you open the door you're greeted by a noisy and bustling scene.
The dark armor, like a ghost, wandered between the tables of drinkers.
It paid attention to the words of the people who were drinking and bragging, but there was no topic about pirates.
On the other side, in its eyes glowing white, it was constantly "recalling" the collection of wanted warrants that its original body had read, and was constantly comparing them.
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On the street, Lynch, wearing flip-flops, bought a few bouquets of flowers.
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While running along the coast, "BIB" also checked to see if there were any suspicious ships docked.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
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Lynch, sweating all over, sat back in the hotel room, heated a large cup of milk, pinched a few petals and sprinkled them into it, then nodded with satisfaction.
He drank the fresh flower milk tea in one gulp, rolled over to the floor, supported himself with one hand, and did a few push-ups easily.
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At the naval base, the man in the windbreaker wearing a star mask appears again.
He dragged a frightened guy and threw him directly into the Navy's office.
As soon as he saw someone in a navy uniform, he rolled over and crawled over, crying and shouting about how scary the man in the windbreaker and mask was.
The sailors looked at each other.
"BIB" put his hands in his pockets and said nothing - even if he said it, people who don't know how to use Observation Haki wouldn't be able to hear it.
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Day by day, time passes.
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The name of the star-masked bounty hunter, Jotaro Kujo, began to spread on the island, and then spread through circles such as businessmen and bounty hunters, and slowly spread outside the island.
Rumor has it that the taciturn bounty hunter is a real monster.
According to the navy, the bounty of Captain Tran Pilot was 21 million, and that of the vice-captain was 19 million. The great pirate group famous in the West Sea was destroyed by Jotaro Kujo himself.
Many people are interested in this powerful hunter who suddenly emerged.
It is said that even the major gangs in the West Sea, "Shotgun", "Gunpowder", "Dagger", "Venom", and even the most powerful "Bullet", have inquired about Jotaro Kujo through their respective channels.
Unfortunately, this person's origins are mysterious, and his whereabouts are even more mysterious.
Even the sailors who exchanged the bounty for him had no idea about him.
"It's him!!!" On another island in the West Sea, a famous doctor who looked like a human goblet accidentally turned to a certain page in the newspaper while drinking red wine, and was so scared that he spit out all the red wine. "Jotaro Kujo... this windbreaker, this mask... Damn, it must be this guy! Asshole, he is a bandit himself, but he actually became a pirate hunter..."
Hogbak went out for a walk to get some fresh air in a depressed mood, when suddenly a tall figure blocked his way, "Hey, hey, are you interested in working for me?"
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The door to the bar was kicked open.
The noise in the room suddenly quieted down for a moment, and many people looked towards the door.
The boy, covered in heat and sweat, strode in, took off his wet vest and casually put it on his shoulders, revealing his already very strong body with muscular lines.
"Fuck..." He covered his mouth. It turned out that a tooth had broken accidentally during exercise today. "It hurts so much."
Lin Qi turned over and jumped onto the round stool next to the bar, slammed the table and said, "Give me a glass of milk!"
"HAHAHAHAHA! MILK?!"
The bartender held back her laughter as she served the handsome, sturdy young man a glass of milk.
Lynch didn't care at all and just gulped down his milk.
At this moment, a ghostly hand covered with blue flame patterns patted his shoulder from behind and pointed him in a certain direction inside the bar.
"Um?"
Lynch licked the "white beard" on his upper lip, followed the direction pointed by "BIB", and saw a familiar face among the laughing crowd.
"BIB" retrieved from his memory the bounty that Lynch had seen when he first went to the naval base half a month ago. It was for the pirate named Suler, worth 130,000 Baileys.
"130,000... It's not bad to treat it as a proper first battle training?"
Lynch flicked the new white teeth that had grown where his teeth were missing and grinned.
Transition chapters are a real headache for writers!
(End of this chapter)