Chapter 621: The gloomy boy on the jungle road, the three strongest men in the windmill village compete
[Series at the beginning of the chapter·Heart Pirates 28·"Platinum Lead Liver"] [Under the gaze of Mr. Corazon and Baby5, Law used the power of the surgery fruit to directly take out the liver from his body... A corner of the fresh and tender liver was filled with heavy lead poisoning, and it was this thing that caused him to suffer from illness. Thinking of his dead sister, parents, friends, and the hometown that was destroyed into a purgatory on earth, tears appeared in Law's gloomy eyes... If I had this power earlier, I could have saved everyone...]——
〖East China Sea, south of Goa Kingdom, north of Windmill Village〗
Mount Korpo
The mountains are vast and the forests are dense, and the roads in the mountains are not easy to walk on.
However, Luffy is not a spoiled child. He was raised by his grandfather's loving education and training. He did not take the rugged mountain road seriously. He also knew that the most terrifying thing in the mountains was the lurking beasts...
"Makino said there were wild animals in the mountains, why didn't we see any?"
Luffy followed his mother and they went quite deep into Mount Korpo. However, along the way, they didn't see any ferocious beasts or even any harmless small animals.
He couldn't help but look at the colorful snake following his mother's feet, "Did you scare all the animals away?"
The colorful snake understood human nature and understood what the child was saying, so it was even more speechless. Do I have that ability? You really think highly of me!
"The scenery here is pretty good. After crossing the bridge, there is a small hill in front. Let's build a small house on the hill."
Tulip led Luffy across a suspension bridge with a faint smile on her face, "Mom prefers to live somewhere higher."
Are there really no wild beasts along the way? Of course there are! It's just that wherever Tulip and Luffy pass, all the wild beasts retreat.
A faint but oppressive deterrent force emanated from the human woman. All the beasts were frightened and fled in panic. After staying two or three hundred meters away from the woman, they had the courage to stand up again and not collapse to the ground.
Luffy had no idea of this and thought Makino and the others were cowards, so he raised his fist and responded, "Okay! Mom, can you build a house?"
"I didn't know that before," Tulip said with a smile, "but after following your father for a while, I learned a lot."
"My dad?" Luffy wondered, "Do I have a dad?"
What kind of words are these? Tulip felt funny.
But Luffy obviously just said it casually, and soon ran to the small hill in the woods ahead with cheers, stood on the top of the hill and raised his fists and laughed heartily, "I'm the first one! Hehe, I can see so far from here, hahahaha..."
Tulip looked at her son, the smile on her face never fading, and suggested: "Luffy, how about helping mom build a house?"
"Okay!" Luffy came to help excitedly.
The mother and son went to the woods. Tulip picked a big tree that was several meters in diameter. She raised her seemingly delicate palm and slapped it lightly. The heavy old tree was broken by one palm and fell down with a loud bang, startling countless birds in the woods.
Far away, a black-haired boy carrying a worn-out long-handled water pipe heard the noise vaguely, turned around and said to himself: "Is it a ferocious beast? I'll go over there next time..."
“So amazing…”
Luffy looked at the big tree that was broken by his mother's palm and his jaw dropped to the ground in shock.
He ran to another tree and tried punching it, but was bounced back by his own rubber fist.
"Hehehe..." Tulip was amused, but at the same time decided in her heart that she would have to intensify Luffy's training in the future.
…
Tulip held up a mountain of stacked wood with one hand, while Luffy followed beside her with a grimace, dragging half a log of wood with difficulty.
On the hillside, Tulip arranged the wood that would serve as the foundation, walked around it, and took pictures as he walked, hammering the wood into the ground one by one like thumbtacks.
Half an hour later, Luffy, who was covered in dust, looked at the wooden house that he had built like a toy, and said with a grin, "It's done!"
"Can people live here?" Tulip expressed doubt.
"Mom, don't look down on me! How rude." Luffy huffed, head held high... He walked around the wooden house he built, and finally held his chin with a serious face, "Oh no, where is the door?"
"How can we live here?!" Luffy stamped his feet in frustration. Boom, the wooden house collapsed, and wood was scattered all over the ground...
Tulip couldn't stop laughing.
…
That night, the beasts in the forest breathed a sigh of relief, as the human monster finally got a rest... Let's all come out and get some fresh air, don't stay hungry!
On the hillside, the evening breeze was blowing. In front of the newly rebuilt cabin, a few clumps of wild flowers were transplanted and swaying gently.
Inside the house, Tulip was lying on a wooden bed, and on another small wooden bed next to her lay Luffy, who looked very sleepy. A large colorful snake was swimming around Luffy, but Luffy, who was sleeping soundly, was unaware of it... The large snake was spitting out its tongue and rubbing the snake-shaped pendant that slipped out from Luffy's neck.
Early the next morning, Luffy's sleep bubble burst with a "pop" and he was dragged up by a bare hand grabbing his face.
"Little lazy bastard, it's time to get up."
"Ah?" Luffy rubbed his eyes in confusion, "Oh... okay..."
On the hillside, because they had not yet bought daily necessities, the mother and son only used mountain spring water to rinse their mouths and wash their faces. Luffy was forced to chew a kind of flower and grass to freshen his breath reluctantly... He chewed the flower and grass that his mother put in his mouth, and it became more and more fragrant the more he chewed.
"There are a lot of things missing in the house. Luffy, go to the village to buy some for mom."
Tulip smiled and gave Luffy some money, and issued a task, "If you don't remember the way, Xiaowu will follow you."
"Mom isn't going?" Luffy didn't care. They had a smooth journey into the mountains. What was there to be afraid of?
Tulip smiled and said, "Mom is going to prepare lunch for you."
"Okay!" Luffy raised his fist, and was immediately excited when he heard about lunch. He put the money his mother gave him into his pocket, "Then I'm leaving!"
Hiss, hiss, the giant colorful snake followed Luffy's feet and headed towards the windmill village.
Tulip watched her son leave and put away her domineering aura.
As for the Conqueror's Haki, a truly powerful master can instinctively release it even when he is half-conscious, in order to scare away villains or approaching wild beasts... Therefore, for a master of Tulip's level, as long as she controls the strength well, even if she displays the Conqueror's Haki 24 hours a day, it will not consume too much of her energy.
A few minutes later, Luffy's loud scream was faintly heard from the woods ahead.
…
"Why did a crocodile suddenly appear?!"
Luffy was being chased by a giant crocodile at the river bank, and he ran away in tears.
What was I doing? I was humming a song, teasing a snake, and thinking about lunch, when suddenly a huge crocodile that could swallow me in one bite jumped out of the river. I was so scared that I pissed myself.
"Look at my rubber rubber!"
Luffy thought quickly, stretched out his arms, grabbed a tree in front of him, and pulled himself over.
"Huh..." Luffy hid in a tree and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the crocodile chasing him circling on the ground for a while and then returning to the river.
Seeing this, Tulip, who was hiding in the dark, nodded with a little satisfaction.
Another freckled boy also saw the tearful boy being chased by the crocodile.
The freckled boy used a broken water pipe as a weapon and used his flexible body movements to beat the crocodile so hard that it could not fight back. In the end, the crocodile could only hide in the river in disappointment...
"Who is he? He actually chased the crocodile away..."
Luffy climbed down from the tree and looked in surprise at the boy with the water pipe who was chasing away the crocodile.
The plumber turned around, but he couldn't see his expression clearly. He just said "Puh" on the ground, as if he looked down on Luffy's hasty escape just now...
Luffy was very angry at being looked down upon, but the guy over there pouted and left with the water pipe, heading in the opposite direction, deeper into Mount Korpo.
Luffy really wanted to chase after that guy and have a fight with him, but he remembered that his mother asked him to go to Windmill Village to buy something... so he obediently withdrew his feet that wanted to chase the water pipe boy and continued to head towards Windmill Village.
"Forget it, I was just spat at. I'm not angry."
Luffy left angrily, and the colorful snake followed him with a hiss.
After all the chaos along the way, Luffy, although in a very embarrassing state, finally walked out of Mount Korpo. Suddenly, the view in front of him became clear, and he immediately laughed excitedly: "Hehe, I did it."
So he ran happily all the way to the windmill village. This small fishing boat and the Korpo Mountain where wild beasts roamed were simply two different worlds, peaceful and simple.
"Mom, why are you here?!"
As soon as Luffy arrived at the store, he saw Tulip already sitting in the store drinking tea, and was so shocked that his eyes almost popped out.
Tulip blinked, "Didn't I tell you I'd prepare lunch for you?"
"Oh..." Luffy nodded solemnly. He always felt that although it made sense, something seemed wrong.
But, forget it! Soon Luffy followed his mother to buy things in the village, buying bedding in the east of the village, bed sheets in the west of the village, towels in the north of the village, and toothpaste in the north of the village... By the way, Luffy asked about the Red Hair Pirates and heard the old village chief say indignantly that the group of people were playing on the nearby coastline and didn't know what they were doing. Luffy knew that they hadn't left yet, so he was relieved and followed his mother back to Mount Korpo with a smile.
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There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
In this way, Luffy began his life in the mountains. For Luffy, he didn't feel anything and continued to live carefree.
It's much better than when I was with grandpa...
After all, my mother wouldn't suddenly pick me up and throw me into a wilderness valley in the middle of the night...
…
That morning, Luffy was once again grabbed by his mother and told to go out to wash.
"Snort, snore, snore..."
He spat out the toothpaste foam, and Tulip took a towel that had been soaked in cold water and wiped her son's face.
"Hey, it's that person..."
Luffy's face turned red from the sweat, but he blinked and looked down the hill, into the woods opposite - the black-haired boy who he saw beating the crocodile with a water pipe that day was standing on a tree, his face blurry as he looked at him and his mother in front of the cabin on the hillside.
Tulip said, "He was hanging around here a few days ago. Is he your friend?"
"Not yet," Luffy said with a grin, "but we can be friends! I'll go find him."
As he said that, Luffy ran down the hillside, opened his arms to the freckled boy on the tree, and said cheerfully: "I'm not angry about you spitting at me the other day. Let's be friends!"
"..." The freckled boy on the tree held the water pipe, as if holding on to the only thing he had, still staring at the beautiful woman on the top of the hill. After listening to Luffy's words for a long time, he lowered his head and glanced at the kid who was saying meaningless nonsense like "Let's be friends", and fell into a longer silence. Finally, the freckled boy spat at the kid on the ground, turned around and jumped away, deep into the jungle. He was agile and soon disappeared.
"Ugh!" Luffy was almost spat on, feeling a little unhappy, but thinking back to Shanks' previous behavior, he decided not to get angry. "Forget it, let's continue to make friends with him next time. We still have to go to the village."
"Luffy, you should get ready to go~"
On the hillside, Tulip was urging us. "Can we reach the Windmill Village within an hour today?"
"Of course I can!"
Luffy punched his fist energetically.
An hour and a half later, Luffy walked out of Mount Korpo with a bruised face and tattered clothes... His mother's colorful snake followed him. He said in fear, "A brown bear appeared. I almost thought I was dead!"
Hiss, hiss, hiss! On the way to Windmill Village, the colorful snake at Luffy's feet suddenly raised its head and spit out its tongue anxiously.
"What's wrong with you?" Luffy, with a bruised face and nose, asked curiously.
Whoosh! The colorful snake swam forward quickly, and Luffy quickly followed, "Wait for me!"
After chasing for a long distance, they all the way to another deserted suburb outside the Windmill Village. Luffy looked up and saw some familiar figures, divided into two groups and confronting each other.
One of the waves was made up of people from the Red Hair Pirates, with whom he had a very good relationship, and their leader was none other than Captain Shanks, who wore a straw hat.
And the other wave... there was only one person, but this one person alone made the atmosphere among all the members of the Red Hair Pirates tense. Luffy had never seen Beckman, Lachilo, and Jesus Bu look so serious.
But Luffy felt that he could understand them... After all, that was grandpa!!!
"Shanks!"
The 65-year-old marine, Monkey D. Garp, who was wearing a black suit, had a sturdy physique and a head of short white hair, shouted, "How dare you, little devil on Roger's ship, come to my hometown!"
Shanks said dissatisfiedly: "It is our freedom to choose where to stay, right?"
He had a deep impression of Garp, who used to chase their captain all over the sea with his iron fists. Shanks, who had witnessed many fierce battles between him and Captain Roger, knew very well how powerful this naval hero was.
He is definitely one of the few strong men standing at the top of this world...
Although I am old, I can't be careless.
"Then if I put all you pirates in jail, I will be free, right?" A thick iron-black color appeared on Garp's fists.
"Yeah!" Shanks also smiled, holding the famous sword at his waist with his left hand, the Western sword Griffin, "Navy, pirates, isn't that what it is?"
"..." The thick white beard around Garp stood up like white needles. He grinned and laughed, "Luckily, because of that woman, I rushed back a while earlier to take a look... Hehehe, you are unlucky..."
"Hey, hey, you guys aren't really going to fight, are you?" Many people from the Red Hair Pirates were a little nervous.
"Is this just a joke?" Laki Lu gnawed on a chicken leg, trying his best to replenish his strength. Although he would not interfere in the captain's duel, it would definitely be a good idea to make more preparations.
Boom! The momentum of the confronting Garp and Shanks collided, and the sky was filled with muffled sounds.
Jesus Bu's forehead was covered with sweat, and he was shocked. "Is the Conqueror Haki colliding... This old navy guy also has Conqueror Haki?"
“Although he is old, he is still a naval hero. What we should doubt is whether the Conqueror Haki is suitable for him…” Deputy Captain Ben Beckman, holding a cigarette in his mouth, looked solemnly at Monkey D. Garp, whose momentum was rising as well as Captain Shanks. Suddenly, Beckman looked away and saw Luffy running towards him from afar after a colorful giant snake. Although Beckman was surprised, his target was not him - but a figure that passed by Luffy like a gust of wind, bringing with it a whiff of floral fragrance!
"Garp... that old man..."
Garp and Shanks, who were confronting each other with fiercely clashing domineering colors, both heard the rapidly approaching female voice.
Luffy's mother? Shanks was surprised.
She was there too! Cap suddenly had a headache and yelled, "Tulip, stop messing around!"
The ash from Beckman's mouth fell off, and Jesus was sweating profusely, saying in surprise: "Another domineering color?!"
Rumble, the muffled sound in the sky above everyone's heads became more intense, and a third unstoppable and world-sweeping domineering aura intervened in the battlefield - the tall and gorgeous woman raised her long legs, and the back of her high heels was overflowing with rich black like ribbons, and she kicked hard!
"Are you serious?" Garp roared, black flowing on his fist, and he swung it out with force.
Tulip shouted, "Who is telling you a lie?!"
"That's really exaggerated..." Shanks smiled, his eyes dancing with joy. He chuckled and drew out his famous sword Griffin, the blade wrapped in black domineering aura, "But this is fun!"
When Luffy arrived chasing the giant snake, a strong gust of wind blew towards him and blew him upside down.
Boom boom...
A terrifying sound like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting apart erupted in front of him, and countless black lightnings shot across the sky. Luffy lay on his back on the grass, staring blankly at the sky where Shanks, his mother, and his grandfather were, which was slowly breaking into pieces...
Regarding the issue of Garp not having Conqueror's Haki, it is true in this book; the comics don't say whether he has it or not, so the book is not wrong.
As for the Life Card...what is written on the Life Card may not be correct (at the time when Red Hair became one of the Four Emperors, the Life Card was slapped in the face by the original text of the comics); what is not written on the Life Card may not necessarily not exist.
I personally think that when reading comics, you only need to read the original comics. Other random peripheral materials sold at a price are dispensable. At most, you can read the author's interview and the SBS of the single volume
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