Chapter 590 Luffy: My grandpa said that pirates are all bad guys

[Chapter 1 Extra: Nine Snakes' Eastern Road Days: Bug Fixing: "Follow Me"] [Even though she didn't use up much energy, Hancock soon broke out in a sweat, her heart pounding, her body controlled by the snake's hair toxin, she could only follow Jolyne's words... After a while, she calmed down her breathing, heard Jolyne's voice in the dark, and followed her. Although her vision was temporarily blocked by the snake's hair toxin, she had the ability to see and hear so that she could keep up with Jolyne's steps...]——

〖Goa Kingdom, Windmill Village——〗

The boy wearing a navy T-shirt with a seagull pattern was carrying a basket of vegetables and walking happily in the countryside. The passing farmers, fishermen, villagers... regardless of gender, age or status, all laughed when they saw him.

"Luffy, are you out buying vegetables again?" An uncle carrying a hoe wiped the sweat off his face with the towel around his neck.

The six-year-old boy grinned and said, “Yes!”

An old lady carrying a bag of vegetables took out a carrot from the bag and jokingly asked, "Luffy, how much is a carrot?"

The last time Luffy went out to buy groceries, after buying carrots, he directly gave all the hundreds of Baileys in his hand to the store owner, leaving not a single one. When he went back, he made the person who asked him to buy groceries very angry.

Luffy couldn't understand it. Something so unpalatable must be very expensive! Who would buy it if it tasted bad? It should be cheaper! Fortunately, Luffy was young, otherwise people would have to hang this brat up and show some love.

"Luffy, don't buy the wrong thing this time!" A passerby patted Luffy's head with a smile, "If you buy the wrong thing again, I won't let you sleep in my house next time."

Several villagers came to pinch the boy's smooth cheeks, smiling. They all liked this little grandson that Vice Admiral Garp had abandoned in this town.

Garp did not arrange any special accommodation for Luffy, but in his hometown, Garp's name is the best pass, and the villagers naturally take good care of Luffy.

In the past few years in Windmill Village, Luffy basically stayed at Aunt Mary's house today, Grandpa George's house tomorrow, and the village chief's house later. Sometimes he was too playful and greedy, and he just slept in Miss Makino's bar... Miss Makino was very nice. Not only did she always give Luffy white rice, but she also bought him new clothes from time to time, as if she treated Luffy like her own brother...

What's even more rare is that Luffy is a simple, carefree young man, and no matter what troubles he has, they will not survive until the next day.

He actually didn't think there was anything wrong with this kind of life. On the contrary, sometimes he felt that it was really great without his grandfather coming to give him the iron fist of love every other day.

In addition, Luffy is handsome and cute, so he is loved by everyone in Windmill Village, a corner of the Goa Kingdom.

Luffy said dissatisfiedly: "I have figured it out and I won't buy the wrong one again."

The old man at the entrance of the village was smoking a cigarette and smiling at him.

Arriving at the market, Luffy held up a basket and said, "Buy some vegetables!"

The vegetable vendor didn't need to ask him what he wanted to buy. He skillfully picked up some fresh ingredients and put them in his basket. Luffy happily handed him a stack of Baileys, "Here."

The vegetable vendor took it while trying not to laugh. A loud shout came from the side: "Why would it cost so much!"

The auntie was worried and followed him all the way. She took two steps forward and snatched a few bills from the vegetable vendor's hand, glaring at him, "Change!"

"I was just teasing him..." The vegetable vendor shrank his neck and gave the change obediently.

…

Luffy said happily: "I told you I wouldn't buy the wrong one again."

He sat at the bar with a basket of vegetables next to him. Makino behind the bar said helplessly, "Your solution is to wait for others to help you?"

"What's wrong with that?" Luffy didn't feel awkward at all to be helped. He put the change left over from buying groceries on the table and said, "Makino, I want to have a 'Justice Meal'."

Makino put the money away with a smile, and went to make a "justice meal" for Luffy, which was actually just a piece of bread, a steak, a plate of fruit, and a bowl of soup.

While Luffy was concentrating on eating, Makino quietly put the money in Luffy's vegetable basket, and watched the little boy eat with a smile on her face with her hands behind her back. Every time she saw him eating so attentively and happily, it made her feel that life had become more interesting.

As they were eating, the few drinkers and diners in the bar seemed to hear some noise and ran out one after another.

"What's going on?" Luffy stabbed the steak with a fork and ate it. He looked back curiously and saw that the street outside seemed to be quite noisy. "Is there a circus passing by?"

Makino wiped her apron and told Luffy to continue eating, "I'll go out and take a look."

She pushed open the two doors of the bar and saw villagers hurrying on the street, gathering towards the port.

Makino was puzzled. Seeing an acquaintance passing by, he quickly stopped him and asked, "Larry, what happened?"

Larry left a sentence: "Pirates are coming!" and trotted to the port with the crowd.

"Pirates..."

Makino was a little worried, but she was just a young girl and wouldn't be able to help much if she went with them, so it would be better for her to go back and take care of Luffy.

Luffy saw her coming back and asked while biting a piece of bread, "What's wrong with everyone?"

Makino shook his head and said, "It seems like there are pirates passing by... Don't worry, nothing will happen."

The naval hero, Vice Admiral Garp, would come to his hometown in the East China Sea whenever he had time. Basically, few people had the courage to harass the Goa Kingdom, Garp's hometown.

And those pirates who really have that kind of courage and don't care about Garp's reputation would not choose to stay in this "weakest sea" as a small pirate, but would have rushed into the Grand Line to fight for fame.

Luffy chewed the bread and said, "Grandpa said that pirates are all bad guys, and he always wants me to be a marine..."

"So do you want to be it?" Makino asked with a smile.

"I don't know..." Luffy seemed to be considering this question for the first time. In the past, he was only concerned about getting beaten in front of his grandfather. He shuddered when he thought of this. "As a marine, I have to face my grandfather every day, right? That's scary..."

Makino chuckled.

…

At the port, the village chief, surrounded and followed by villagers, was confronting the pirates who had disembarked from a pirate ship on the shore.

"Pirates! You are not welcome here." The village chief said in a deep voice.

The villagers behind him responded in unison, all looking fierce.

Among the pirates, the red-haired man wearing a straw hat scratched his head in distress, "Oh, I am hated..."

Lucky Lu, who was chewing a chicken drumstick, laughed and said, "We are pirates. It's normal to be hated, right, Captain?"

"That's true!" Shanks looked funny as if he had suddenly realized something, "Hahahaha..." Jesus Bu and other crew members burst into laughter.

The villagers were speechless. Are these people really pirates? What are they laughing about? ! "They are so happy."

The village chief suddenly heard a childish voice at his feet. He looked down and was so frightened that his hair stood on end. "Luffy, why are you here? It's very dangerous here!"

Luffy held a spoon in his mouth, watching the pirates return to the ship. They did not intend to force their way into the village, but they did not leave either. Instead, they simply held a banquet on the deck...

"They are so happy." He muttered again, and wanted to run over to join the party on the boat with a smile on his face, but the village chief grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and lifted him up, "Makino, take him back!"

The village chief turned around and yelled, and Makino chased after him, apologizing repeatedly.

Hmm? On the pirate ship, Shanks took off his straw hat, revealing his bright red hair. He noticed the villagers on the shore who were still wary of them, as well as Makino and Luffy who were walking towards the village, and couldn't help but smile.

"What a beautiful lady, Captain." Jesus came over with a smile, "Would you like to stay here for a while?"

The other friends shouted, "Jesus, you want to go home!"

"Who said that?" Jesus denied, "How can a man under the pirates miss home so easily when he hasn't even made a name for himself on the sea?"

He raised his finger and rubbed his nose, "...my son will look down on me."

The deputy captain was stunned, "You have a son?"

"Didn't I tell you?" Jesus was also stunned.

"When did you say that?!" Everyone fell down, and soon they burst into laughter again.

In such a joyful atmosphere, Shanks took a sip of wine, wiped the corners of his mouth, and said to himself: "The wine in the East China Sea is not bad, it would be good to stay a little longer..."

…

The old village chief was extremely depressed. That group of pirates did not forcibly invade their Windmill Village. Although it was an unexpectedly good thing, these people actually stayed in the port and refused to leave.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Windmill Village is located on the edge of the island. Even if you go to the main city of the Kingdom of Goa, there may not be any lords in the king's army willing to send troops to deal with these pirates.

As for the navy... not all kingdoms and islands have navies stationed there. Some member states are willing, some are not. How could the nobles be willing to sponsor an additional naval branch?

The royal family of the Kingdom of Goa was unwilling to do so, so there was no naval branch on the island.

If this group of pirates robbed Windmill Village, they might be able to attract the attention of the naval branches on other nearby islands, but this group of pirates was very quiet, not robbing or making trouble. They usually stayed on the pirate ship and played by themselves. Occasionally, some pirates came down to the shore to move around, but they did not go near Windmill Village. In front of the vigilant villagers, they would smile and fish on the shore, go hunting in the mountains, or go swimming in the sea...

The pirates hunted a sea beast weighing several tons. The villagers were quite envious, as such a beast could provide them with food for a long time.

"You want it?" Shanks sat on the huge corpse of the sea monster, lowered the brim of his straw hat, and smiled coolly, "Then exchange it for the 'treasure'!"

The villagers were speechless. If they wanted to buy it, they just had to spend money on it. Why did they say such nice things?! ?

The business with the pirates ultimately failed.

Because the villagers who had quickly run off to do business actually joined the pirates' banquet, and took the initiative to help cook the sea beasts, eating and drinking together, singing and dancing, which made the old village chief so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage.

What made him even more confused was that he accidentally let Luffy run over and sneak into the pirates' party! "Luffy! Come back here!"

The village elder roared at the crowd surrounding the sea beast skeleton meat. Luffy was eating with Lachi. Lu, his mouth full of oil. He turned around and stuck out his tongue and made a face at the exasperated village elder, "No!"

"This meat is so delicious, Makino, come and try some too!" Luffy waved to Makino who was walking behind the village chief.

Makino smiled helplessly.

Such a huge sea beast was eaten up in just one banquet. After the banquet, the villagers woke up as if from a dream. Seeing the unhappy look on the village chief, they all left in shame.

"I'm so happy..." Luffy held his bulging belly and tilted his head back to look at the black flag with a skull flying on the top of the mast of the ship on the shore. "Shanks, what is this 'treasure' you are talking about?"

Shanks drank a glass of wine comfortably and said with a smile: "'Treasure'? Of course it is——"

“This is what all pirates want!!” the crew shouted in unison, bursting into laughter.

"Really..." Luffy's eyes began to light up. At this time, Jesus came over with a drunken smell. He had good eyesight and found the pendant under Luffy's collar. "Luffy, what is this?"

"This?" Luffy took out the snake-shaped pendant, "Grandpa said it was given by my father..."

He scratched his head. "But an aunt once said that this was a gift from a beautiful sister. But after my grandfather sent me here, I never saw that aunt again..."

"Wow~~" Jesus Bu and the others laughed, "It's a treasure given to you by someone else! You must cherish it!"

Luffy grinned and said, "Yeah."

Vice Captain Beckman exhaled a puff of cigarette and said with a smile: "The Captain also has a similar treasure..."

"Eh? Does Shanks have a pendant too?" Luffy leaned under Shanks' neck to take a look, but Shanks pushed him away in disgust, "I don't have anything like that!"

He took off his straw hat and stuck out his tongue, saying, "This is it!"

Luffy pouted, "It's just a straw hat, right? I've seen many similar ones."

Shanks smiled and said, "I've seen many pendants similar to yours."

"That's right!" Luffy thought about it, suddenly realized it, and asked curiously, "Who gave Shanks the straw hat?"

"Well..." Shanks looked at the straw hat in his hand, "This is someone I respect very much..."

"Captain! Captain!" A crew member rushed over holding a newspaper. "There's big news!"

Shanks took the newspaper. The deputy captain, Lucky Lu, and Jesus Bu all leaned over and soon showed surprised smiles. "It's that guy... Haha, how come he is on the headlines again!"

Luffy's little head popped up as well. He looked at the photo instead of the words and asked in confusion, "Who are you talking about?"

"He's a very powerful guy!"

Shanks pointed at Luffy's nose cheerfully, "Much better than you!"

"Nonsense!" Luffy waved his arms in anger, "I'm very good! Grandpa often trains me..."

"Your grandfather?" Laki Lu chewed on a bone.

Luffy nodded and said, "His name is...what's his grandpa's name? Anyway, he's a marine, and people seem to call him 'hero'..."

"hero?"

The same person's figure appeared above the heads of the Red Hair Pirates, laughing wildly... and they all frowned.

The vice-captain was speechless: "Luffy, what's your full name?"

Luffy grinned and said, "My name is Monkey D. Luffy!"

“Monkey…”

The pirates looked at each other in bewilderment, especially their captain, Red-Haired Shanks, who still remembered vividly how the ghost of the navy hero had haunted the Roger Pirates and chased them around the world. He said with a bitter face, "You are the grandson of that old man!" Then he laughed, "You are often trained by him, it seems you are very pitiful!"

Luffy didn't even refute. He frowned and nodded with lingering fear.

I think the question of how a pirate group like Red Hair lives is like where the silver ingots that the heroes in martial arts novels casually take out come from. Once you delve into it, it will fall from fantasy to reality, but it will become boring.

(End of this chapter)