Chapter 619 The Windmill Begins to Turn

〖This is a small fishing village.〗

〖About a year ago...a pirate ship has been docked at the port.〗

[The east wind is blowing.]

The village is always peaceful.

…

"Hey, Luffy, what do you want?"

The members of the Red Hair Pirates looked at the boy standing on the dragon-shaped bow.

"snort!"

The village boy, seven-year-old Monkey D. Luffy, stood on the dragon head with great momentum, holding a short knife and announcing with a grin, "I am not kidding you! I am already furious! I will prove it to you!"

"Haha, okay, then prove it!"

Shanks on the deck raised his fist and cheered, "But I won't be responsible for the consequences!"

"Luffy is being funny again..." The hooded pirate member laughed lightheartedly, but soon he and his companions could no longer be relaxed or laugh, because Luffy was serious!

With a "swish", he cut his own left eye right below it, and blood splattered!

“It hurts so much!!”

"You...you idiot! What are you doing?!"

“It hurts so much!!”

"You're still using a knife to cut yourself when it hurts?!"

…

After a while of chaos, everyone treated Luffy's injuries.

Although this kid's behavior of using self-mutilation to prove his determination and courage seems to be a bit stupid...but after this incident, the people in the Red Hair Pirates no longer regard Luffy's request to become a pirate as the crazy talk of a child.

It went from being a level where people ignored it and turned it into a level where people made fun of it after hearing it.

At this moment, in Miss Makino's bar, the members of the Red Hair Pirates were teasing Luffy, the funny guy of the small fishing village.

"Cheers to Luffy's courage!"

"Ha, ha ...

Inside the bar, the pirates were laughing and playing. Miss Makino put a band-aid on the knife wound under Luffy's left eye. She smiled with tears in her eyes and said, "Ah, it doesn't hurt anymore."

Shanks yelled at the side, "Nonsense! Don't do that again!"

Luffy seemed not to have heard it, and opened his arms happily and said: "I'm not afraid of getting hurt at all! Take me with you to sea as a pirate next time!"

Unfortunately, Shanks still made fun of him, thinking that a kid like him who couldn't even learn to swim couldn't be a pirate.

Fatty Laki Lu, sniper Jesus Bu and others were arm in arm, toasting, eating meat, laughing, and bragging about their wonderful life of pirate adventures. Every day was happy, every island was unprecedented, every person was interesting, and every kind of wine and every kind of meat was unforgettable...

Luffy's eyes lit up when he heard this! But Shanks, holding a spoon in his mouth, poured a basin of cold water on him and sighed, "Stop talking nonsense."

A red-haired member smiled and said, "I think this guy is pretty good, Captain, let's take him out to sea and give it a try."

Another person agreed, "I felt the same way."

Old crew members such as Lachi Lu and Jesus Bu were also smiling and did not look like they were ready to refuse.

Luffy was about to get excited, but Shanks said, "In that case, someone will have to get off the ship."

"Oh, that's all right!" Upon hearing this, Laki Lu, Jesus Bu and others simply put their arms around each other's shoulders and turned around to drink.

Luffy was so angry, "Aren't you going to speak up for me?!"

"In short, you're not qualified yet." Shanks smiled as he sat cross-legged at the bar, "It'll take at least another ten years."

Luffy angrily said, "What does it matter? Wouldn't it be cooler if I grew up on a pirate ship?!"

"..." Upon hearing this, Shanks rarely teased Luffy, but just smiled without saying anything.

Jesus Bu, who had not walked far, stretched his head over and said, "Lynch was not much older than Luffy, but he had already ventured into the sea, right? Now he has become a great man..."

"Who is that?" Luffy asked curiously.

Shanks stuck out his tongue and made a face, "A childish brat like you can't compete with such a powerful guy!"

"If you dare to look down on me, I'll beat you up!"

Luffy didn't care about Lynch or Shuki anymore, he rushed over to tear Shanks apart with his teeth and claws. Of course, he was quickly suppressed by Shanks with one hand.

Makino served Luffy's favorite rice pudding - that is, the former justice meal with a new name - and a plate of Shanks's food and drink at the back of the bar, and smiled gently, "You two have a really good relationship. You must be hungry. Eat something."

Luffy started eating angrily, "I don't know if we have a good relationship or not, I think he just likes to play tricks on me."

Shanks laughed so hard that he fell backwards. Luffy glared at him and said, "Makino, look at this."

Makino smiled even more happily.

Luffy was so angry that he became even hungrier. He quickly finished all the rice and looked around for something else to eat...

Just then, the door of the bar was kicked open - bang!

The pirates in the bar were puzzled and looked towards the door, only to see a group of figures blocking the door and pouring into the bar from outside... The leader was a middle-aged man wearing a red robe, a black bun, and a rapier hanging from his waist.

"We are bandits." The middle-aged man said with a sinister smile, "We are not here to cause trouble today, we are here to buy wine. Give me ten barrels of wine."

Luffy, who was chewing on a strange purple fruit, looked at the group.

Makino was a little nervous, but the wine in the store had already been drunk by the Red Hair Pirates who were good at drinking...

Upon hearing this, the bandit leader Sig became very unhappy and turned his head to stare at Shanks who was calmly drinking and eating meat at the bar.

Shanks didn't take it seriously and said with a smile, "I'm really sorry, it seems we drank all the wine. Sorry. - If you don't mind, this bottle is for you. I haven't even opened the bottle cap yet." He handed a bottle of wine next to the plate to Sig. Sig was speechless. Where did this idiot come from? He threw a punch and smashed the bottle, splashing the wine all over Shanks.

Makino covered her mouth in shock; the bandits laughed maliciously; the Red Hair Pirates watched in silence, waiting for the captain's order, any order; Luffy was even more shocked, and quickly ate the remaining purple fruit in two or three bites - what the hell is this, it's really disgusting! !

"Who do you think I am, kid? Eat your leftover wine?"

Sig raised his fist, which was dripping with wine, and threatened fiercely, "I am a wanted criminal with a bounty of 8 million Baileys. I have killed 56 people, all of whom were idiots like you, and many of them were pirates... Did you hear me clearly? Pirates who are fleeing on the sea dare to provoke us bandits... It really makes me laugh to death."

Shanks, who was soaked by the wine, pretended not to hear it. He squatted down and picked up the broken bottle. "I'm so sorry, Makino, do you have a rag?"

Makino said quickly: "It's okay, I'll wipe it myself later--"

Clang! The bandit Sig suddenly drew his sword and chopped up all the empty bottles and plates left on the bar, which fell to the floor in a mess.

"It seems that you like sweeping the floor very much. Now you can sweep to your heart's content!" Sig sneered and taunted. After waiting for two seconds, only the red-haired pirate and the pirates in the room did not move. Not even one angry or gritting teeth could be seen. He suddenly felt lonely as a master. He drew his sword and looked around in confusion. He shook his head and turned around and sighed, "Humph, a bunch of cowards... goodbye."

The bandits left. In the small bar, Makino looked worriedly at Shanks, who was sitting on the floor, soaked with wine, and stained with broken porcelain and leftover food. "Captain, are you okay? Are you injured?"

Shanks waved his hands, "Ahh, I'm fine-- huh!"

Under the brim of his straw hat, he sighed, which was like some kind of signal. The red-haired pirates in the bar could no longer hold back and all burst into laughter.

"Wahahahahahaha!!! Captain, you are such a lame duck!!!"

“I’m being bullied so badly!!!”

"Did you see that? The captain didn't fight back. That guy was really disappointed! Hahahaha..."

Shanks also laughed out loud while grabbing his straw hat. What happened just now was indeed very funny.

However, while they were all laughing, one young man couldn't help himself and said angrily, "Why are you still laughing? Don't you think you are such cowards? Why don't you fight back? Even if they are outnumbered and look fierce, but you can still laugh when you are being stepped on. What kind of men are you? I misjudged you!"

"..." Shanks looked at the angry Luffy, put on his straw hat, and smiled, "I understand your feelings, but it's just a drink being splashed on you, why are you so angry?"

He turned around and asked his other companions, "Hey, is this true? If it were the same situation with that kid Lin Qi..."

"Captain," Deputy Captain Ben Beckman lit a cigarette and exhaled a puff of smoke, reminding him, "Lin Qi has a woman, which is different from you."

"Hahaha! That's true!" Shanks laughed again, but Luffy couldn't stand it anymore and turned away, "I don't want to be with you cowards!"

"Hey, don't go, Luffy..." Shanks reached out and grabbed Luffy's arm.

But what happened the next second almost made everyone in the bar faint. Luffy's arm, which was pulled by Shanks, stretched directly, like a stretched rubber band...

"What's going on?!"

Luffy almost got scared to death on the spot.

…

"Hehe, boss, give me a fish."

It was another sunny day, and Luffy went to the village to buy vegetables with a smile on his face.

As soon as Luffy arrived at the village market, the vegetable buyers and sellers all looked at him and laughed. Some people shouted, "Luffy, you're here to buy vegetables again?" Luffy smiled and nodded. Someone jokingly shouted, "I heard you can't swim in this life?" Luffy said nonchalantly, "It doesn't matter. Although I'm destined to be a landlubber, I want to be a pirate who won't fall into the sea!" Although Shanks said that day that if he really didn't want to be a power user, he could find someone to help him take away the power of the devil fruit. But these days Luffy has liked his ability of the rubber fruit - because it's so fun! He can play with chopsticks against his nostrils!

"I ate the rubber fruit, so now I'm a rubber man." Luffy performed for the villagers, stretching his elastic body. "Interesting, right? Hehehe..."

Everyone laughed. Although Luffy was depressed for a while after eating the fruit that day, he was still the happy guy.

However, when Luffy arrived at Makino's bar, his face drooped.

Makino wiped the dishes, "Captain and the others have been out to sea for a long time. Are you starting to feel lonely, Luffy?"

Luffy said listlessly: "No, I haven't forgiven them for what happened to the bandits before. I really misjudged them. I thought they were very powerful pirates..."

Makino disagreed and said with a smile: "I think it's more amazing to be able to laugh when encountering something like that."

Luffy disagreed even more, but at this moment someone pushed the door open and said, "Excuse me."

It's a familiar voice!

——The bandit leader Sig! Luffy and Makino looked at the door and saw the bandits with the same bad attitude...

…

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

"Village Chief, something bad has happened! Luffy has been captured by bandits!"

Makino hurried to find the old village chief. It turned out that just now in the bar, Sig and his gang of bandits had spoken rudely to Shanks and his gang again. Luffy couldn't bear it anymore, so he rushed up and asked Sig and his gang to apologize.

The result is of course predictable...

"You little brat, you're such a strange creature."

On the yellow clay street of the small fishing boat, the bandit boss Sig grabbed Luffy's rubber face and tossed him around, grinning and saying, "If we sell this new breed to the circus, it should be worth a lot of money, right?"

Sieg stepped on Luffy, who struggled angrily and slapped the ground, shouting, "Take your feet away! You bastard bandit! Apologize to me now!"

Sig stepped on the rubber devil and said jokingly, "Do you want me to take my foot away or apologize? You're putting me in a difficult position."

"Hahaha!" the bandits burst into laughter.

"Let that kid go!"

Over there, the old village chief who was called by Makino stood in the middle of the road, kneeling down and begging, "Please... I don't know what Luffy did, and I don't want to argue with you, but please let him go, I will give you money."

Xige smiled and said, "Old people are sensible. But this time it has nothing to do with money. This kid has already pissed me off..."

The old village chief and Makino were getting anxious when suddenly a voice came from behind them: "We didn't see anyone when we got back to the port. We thought something had happened... It turned out to be those bandits from before."

Makino exclaimed, "Captain!"

The person who came was naturally Shanks. He smiled at Luffy who was being crushed under the bandit's feet and said, "Luffy, isn't your fist as powerful as a gun?"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Luffy, who was being stepped on, was so angry that his face was twisted, although his face was indeed twisted by Siger.

Shanks smiled, wearing a straw hat, a black coat that fluttered in the wind, holding a sword in one hand, and walked towards the bandits and Luffy very handsomely.

"So it's you pirates..." Sig looked at the man approaching unhappily, "If you dare to come closer, I won't just throw wine at you, understand? I will shoot. Get out of here, you coward."

Shanks acted as if he didn't hear anything and continued to walk handsomely. One of the bandits pointed a gun at him and asked, "Hey, are you deaf?"

Shanks turned his head and pointed the gun at himself, "You're pointing a gun at me?"

"Isn't it obvious?" the bandit asked angrily, "You are not only deaf, but also blind?"

Shanks smiled faintly, "Then why haven't you fired yet? This is not a toy to threaten people..."

Bang! A gunshot echoed in the sky above the Windmill Village, startling some wild birds outside the village.

Hiss, hiss, hiss. A rare colorful snake raised its head.

"Xiao Wu," a pair of high heels walked beside the colorful snake, "It seems like there will be something exciting to watch."

…

The fat man Laki Lu, who was gnawing on a chicken leg, shot dead the bandit who was pointing a gun at his captain.

Everyone was shocked!

The villagers were shocked that these pirates, who had always been very loyal and decent, would actually kill people if they wanted to...

The bandits never expected that these pirates who were so timid before would actually dare to shoot and kill people! "Are you sure? The one standing in front of you..."

Shanks shook his black coat, and behind him were Ben Beckman, Lucky Lu, Jesus Bu and other companions, "But they are pirates!"

"Throwing wine at me is one thing, but betting my life is another! Betting my own life is one thing, but betting my friend's life..." The red-haired man under the straw hat looked serious, "That's another thing! I will never let go of the guy who hurt my friend."

Luffy was stunned for a moment as he was crushed by Sig.

Sig laughed wildly. How dare a mere pirate speak so arrogantly?

Ten seconds later, Ben Beckman, the vice-captain of the Red Hair Pirates, beat the bandits like cutting melons and vegetables... Sig's expression changed little by little throughout the whole process, and finally became extremely terrified. Is this a mistake? Just one of the pirates beat all of his dozen men? ! It's just... just... assholes! ! Bang! Sig took out a smoke bomb and smashed it on the ground. Suddenly, the whole street was filled with smoke and nothing could be seen. When the smoke dissipated, Makino was shocked: "Luffy!"

Not only did the bandit Sig disappear, but Luffy was also missing.

"Oh no!" Shanks held his head and gasped, "I was just trying to look cool in front of Luffy... I was too careless!"

The fat man Laki Lu ate half of the chicken leg in his hand and said angrily, "Who told you to drink so much on the boat! Your observation and hearing skills are gone, right?! Why are you so nervous! Let's look for them together, and we will find them soon!"

The deputy captain said helplessly: "You are such a jerk..."

Jesus pointed to the distance and said, "He took Luffy over there."

Shanks roared, "Why don't you stop them then!"

Jesus Bu also shouted: "Have you ever seen a sniper rushing to the front? Stupid Captain!"

"Stupid Captain, go find Luffy first!"

Shanks angrily strode in the direction Jesus Bu pointed.

The whole street was filled with bandits, and there were a few village chiefs, Makino, and the Red Hair Pirates standing there. For a moment, it seemed extremely quiet...

The villagers were stunned and have not yet come to their senses.

The Red Hair Pirates are...

Ben Beckman lit a cigarette and said calmly, "If we run into Lynch and the others about what happened today, no one is allowed to tell anyone."

Laki Lu, Jesus Bu and the others all nodded seriously. Who would dare to tell others about such an embarrassing thing? No...

Their captain...

Maybe, perhaps, probably, it's quite nice...

The pirates held their foreheads and covered their faces! ...

On a small boat on the sea not far from Windmill Village, Luffy was punching Siger angrily.

Sig sneered, "You are just a hostage, and now you are useless. Goodbye, kid..."

As he said that, he kicked Luffy off the boat.

Luffy was shocked. He couldn't swim! Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle, gurgle...

Luffy, who had the ability, quickly lost his strength in the sea water, but at this moment, he also saw a huge sea monster emerging from the sea behind Sig, the boat that kicked him into the sea. Its eyes were bloodshot, and its mouth was full of two rows of fangs like sharp knives. In Sig's desperate roar, it bit both the boat and the man into pieces, without even a drop of blood splattering out of its mouth... The huge sea monster with its mouth full of small boat fragments suddenly looked at Luffy not far away with its scarlet eyes. Luffy was so scared! The huge sea monster opened its bloody mouth and bit towards Luffy.

“Wa ...

Luffy was scared to death, but he had no strength left and was even sinking deeper and deeper into the water. He closed his eyes in despair just like Sieg had just done.

Boom…

There seemed to be a huge explosion in my ears. Why would a sea beast explode when it bites someone?

Hey, I seem to be held by someone...

Luffy opened his eyes and found himself in Shanks' arms! Shanks had swam here at some point, and the sea was already filled with blood...

"Shanks, you came to save me!"

Luffy was still in shock and grabbed Shanks' shirt, but Shanks said, "I didn't save you..."

"Eh?" Luffy raised his head and looked at the corpse of the huge sea monster whose blood had spread all over a large area of ​​the sea.

The king of the coastal sea was dead beyond death. A bloody hole had exploded in its huge belly. Among the fragments of muscle and bone, a slender branch that looked like it had been picked up from the roadside was stuck at an angle...

“…”

Shanks held Luffy in his arms and looked towards the coast of Windmill Village.

Splash, blood waves, sea water, waves hit the coast, a pair of high heels stood on the land, a tall and beautiful woman, she slowly put down the big bow in her hand made of a colorful big snake stretched tight...

"Really, what am I going to do to my dear son?"

Damn, it feels so good to copy comics.

(End of this chapter)