Chapter 77: Chapter 77 Sniper From The Blackbeard Pirates.
The ship that descended from the sky was a pirate ship.
It was not the same ship as in the original story.
Luffy remembered very clearly that the ship in the original story was an exploration ship from a certain country in the South Blue, while the ship they encountered this time had a pirate flag hanging on it.
After the large ship landed, the waves it caused made the Merry Go sway continuously.
At the same time...
The Thousand Sunny...
Nami and the others finally noticed the situation outside and went up to the deck one after another.
"What's going on? A ship fell from the sky?"
"Examining their flag, the ship appears to be of to the 'Celestial Pirates,'" Robin remarked, crossing her arms and supporting her cheek with one hand. Her voice was soft and contemplative. "This crew was active roughly 18 years ago, led by Captain Surfing Board Serence, who had a substantial bounty of 480 million at that time."
"Robin, how do you know so much?" Vivi blinked her eyes, full of curiosity.
"Because... this pirate crew is from the West Blue, and I was their crewmate when I was a child."
Robin calmly talked about her past, "At some point, those people wanted to hand me over to the government, so I escaped. I think I was only 10 years old back then."
Vivi didn't know much about Robin's past, only that she was an orphan from Ohara.
Luffy mentioned it before in Whisky Peak, it seemed like she had been hunted by the World Government for 20 years...
[How pitiful~]
Vivi suddenly sympathized with Robin. It was hard to imagine her past. Compared to her, Vivi's felt her experiences in the past two years were like nothing.
"Ah!"
Suddenly, Nami exclaimed.
"What's wrong, Nami?" Nojiko walked over to her sister.
"The Log Pose is broken!"
Nami looked at the pointer on her wrist, which now pointed to the sky.
"I had filled it with magnetism in Alabasta, why did it become like this?"
"It must have been captured by a stronger magnetic force and the magnetism has changed. If it points to the sky, it means there is a Sky Island above this sea area."
Robin looked up at the sky, but of course, she couldn't see any islands with her naked eye.
Moreover, the sky at this moment was relatively dim, as if a storm was about to come.
"Sky Island?"
Everyone's faces were full of astonishment.
Nami said in doubt, "Does Sky Island really exist? What if the Log Pose is broken..."
"Nami, when sailing in the Grand Line, anything can happen. As a navigator, you can doubt everything, but don't doubt the Log Pose."
Robin smiled slightly and said, "Although I have never seen Sky Island, this time we might have the chance to see it."
Sky Island? Vivi was filled with anticipation, thinking of the words Luffy had said to her before: Emerald City, Sky Island, Fishman Island...
Upon hearing this, Nami immediately nodded and shouted, "Luffy!"
The Merry Go.
Luffy heard Nami's call and turned his gaze towards her.
"What's wrong?"
Just as the words fell, Nami jumped over with Moonwalk, followed by Vivi.
"Robin said there is Sky Island up there. Is it true? "
"Yes, That's true." Luffy replied.
"So, are we going to Sky Island next? How do we get there?"
How to get there.
If it were just Luffy alone, he would have gone up there in fifth gear on the spot.
"By the Knock Up Stream," he explained. "When cold seawater flows into the large cavity at the bottom of the sea and the tremendous steam pressure generated by geothermal energy causes an explosion, this kind of current appears."
"Where is this Knock Up Stream?" Vivi asked.
"I don't know..."
Luffy gave her a blank look. He wasn't a god, how could he know everything?
[Don't treat me like Doraemon, hey!]
"Sky Island~! Sky Island~! Sky Island~!"
Usopp and Chopper, who were still shocked earlier, instantly changed their attitude.
"Quickly think of a way, Almighty Captain Luffy, we want to go play on Sky Island!" Usopp pleaded while pulling Chopper to dance.
(づ￣ ³￣)づ ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Luffy: ("...")
[Where did this Almighty suddenly come from? If you go to Sky Island, you'll have a hard time, Enel the God will give you free electric massage package, Usopp-kun]
While Luffy was muttering in his heart, suddenly...
"Hmm?"
Luffy focused his gaze and looked towards the distant sea.
Accompanied by the sound of drums and gongs, a huge pirate ship was approaching.
"What's going on this time?" Sanji lit a cigarette, and everyone gathered at the bow of the ship.
Soon, the pirate ship approached the landing point.
"Squeak~ Hey, are you guys here to salvage wreckage too?" A man who looked like an ape shouted loudly at the crowd.
Around him were numerous pirates.
"Ah, a wild ape."
"A wild Ape, huh."
"That's definitely a wild orangutan."
"No, maybe it's a wild monkey."
"Chopper, that guy is just like you, he must have ate the Human-Human Fruit, right?"
Zoro and the others each spoke a sentence.
The orangutan's ears twitched, as if he had heard a wonderful compliment, and he shyly smiled.ಇ( ꈍᴗꈍ)ಇ
"What, are you guys saying that I look like a monkey?"( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)
The Ape sounded quite proud.
"Even if you say nice things, I can't let you have the wreckage! I am the captain of the Masira Pirates, "Salvage King" Masira"
Usopp had a speechless expression on his face.
"No no no, we're not praising you! We're saying you look like an orangutan!"
"You really know how to talk, you little kid!" The orangutan touched his head, feeling a bit embarrassed.(ʃƪ˶˘ ﻬ ˘˶)
Everyone: "....."
"Hahaha, Masira, are you guys from Gaya Island?" Luffy laughed and said, "Can you take us there?"
"Huh? Are you guys going to Gaya Island? That's where pirates gather." The orangutan finally noticed the flags hanging on the Merry and Sunny.
"What the heck, you guys are pirates too."
After a pause, he nodded in agreement.
"After I salvage these... ..."
As soon as he finished speaking, his expression gradually became fearful.
"What's wrong with this guy?"
Zoro squinted his eyes and followed the other's gaze.
In the far distance of their field of vision, a small island was moving towards them.
No, that wasn't an island... it was an incredibly huge creature!
"Luffy! What I saw just now... it's definitely not an island" Zoro said in shock, "What is that?!"
Turtle.
An incredibly huge turtle.
Luffy's Observation Haki captured the target's presence.
At this moment, a shadow suddenly appeared on the nearby water surface.
Boooooooou~!
The shadow broke through the sea surface and let out a roar.
"~~~!!"
The bone-shaking sound made the members of the Straw Hat Pirates cover their ears.
When the crew turned their heads, they saw a gigantic whale, their faces turning pale with fear.
"What is this again!?" he murmured in shock.
"Laboon!" Sanji exclaimed, "Luffy, what is Laboon saying?"
Chopper, seeing Laboon for the first time, immediately entered the state of the Animal Pre-Translator.
"It says, go away! Don't come closer!"
"Is it warning that huge turtle?" Zoro looked surprised.
Luffy shook his head and reassured, "It's okay, don't worry, Laboon."
Laboon stopped roaring and turned its huge eyes towards Luffy, letting out a gentle call.
Chopper translated, "Captain Luffy, that thing is dangerous, it's hungry and wants to eat us."
After translating that, he was startled himself, "what! Does that big turtle want to eat us?"
While the crew was talking, the gigantic turtle had already approached within a hundred meters.
Its enormous body was even bigger than Laboon.
At this moment, the scene on the sea surface was incredibly eerie.
The smallest was the Merry Go.
Next was the Sunny Go, several times larger than the Merry Go.
After that was the Masira pirate ship, which was tens of times larger than the Thousand Sunny.
And even larger than this pirate ship was Laboon!
But that turtle was several times larger than Laboon.
The huge difference in size made everyone feel a chill.
"It seems like today is not suitable for salvage! Run!"
The Masira Pirates decisively abandoned the wreckage while shouting towards Luffy and the others, "Hey, if you want to go to Water 7, you'll have to catch up on your own. I won't wait for you."
He had just finished speaking when darkness fell.
The previously dim sky became even darker at this moment.
Shadows enveloped everyone's heads.
Nami was startled and mechanically turned around.
At a glance, her pupils suddenly contracted.
"Lu... Luffy!!"
One by one, everyone turned around, their faces becoming stiff.
Behind everyone were the silhouettes of three towering giants.
Those giants had a pair of small wings on their backs, and their height pierced through the sea and the sky.
Compared to them, the approaching turtle in the distance was as small and cute as an ant.
"Aaahh ah aaahh!"
Nami and Vivi hugged Luffy together and screaming in fear.
"It's just a shadow, a shadow of the people from Sky Island."
Luffy said helplessly, "Don't panic, hurry and catch up with that ship. As for that turtle..."
As he spoke, his gaze focused.
Boom!!
Terrifying Conqueror's Haki erupted from Luffy's body, and black and red lightning bolts were born in the air. They were like the tentacles of a demon, quickly spreading towards the turtle.
"Get lost!"
The strong will of the conqueror instantly made the turtle break out in a cold sweat. It immediately dove into the sea and escaped.
Not long after.
"Phew... So it was just a projection of the people from Sky Island. It really scared me."
After escaping from the dark area, Nami breathed a sigh of relief after listening to Luffy's explanation.
Vivi still held onto Luffy's arm, her face pale.
"If those giants really exist... It would be too terrifying."
Unimaginably huge.
If they truly exist, their height would probably be several thousand or tens of thousands of meters.
"Luffy, I can see the shadow of an island. It should be the Jaya Island you mentioned."
On the lookout tower, Zoro shouted, "The ship of that ape-man is about to enter the harbor."
"Got it, let's catch up...!!"
Suddenly, Luffy abruptly extended his hand and blocked Vivi in front of him.
His expression turned cold.
"What... what's wrong, Mr. Luffy?" Vivi was taken aback.
It was the first time she had seen such a murderous expression on Luffy's face.
"Damn it." Luffy released his clenched fist, and a bullet fell from his palm.
...Asking for trouble...
"What? A bullet?" Sanji's face was filled with shock. "Where did the sniper come from?"
"A sniper? That's impossible... Could it be from the island?" Usopp said dumbfoundedly. "Hey, hey, don't joke around. It's at least ten kilometers away, right? Luffy?"
He looked at Luffy, but saw Luffy staring in the direction of the island with a terrifying gaze.
Usopp swallowed his saliva.
"Is it true?!"
"What kind of sniper can shoot someone from ten kilometers away??"
"You guys move over slowly, I'll go settle the score with him first."
Luffy pulled his arm out of Vivi's embrace and immediately entered second gear.
Swoosh!
With a movement, he shot up like a missile and swiftly flew towards the direction of Jaya Island.
"Terrifying, terrifying, is this what a Shichibukai is like?"
Jaya Island, the top of a low building.
A man held a long spear, wearing a strange hat and a black cloak.
"Even without any preparation and without using Observation Haki, he can still react... He's simply a monster! Could it be advanced Observation Haki?"
The man whispered softly, then saw a figure swiftly flying towards him.
Immediately, his expression changed.
"He's angry?"
Without thinking too much, the man quickly put away his gun and leaped off the building.
Run!
What else is there to do if not run?
Wait for death?
Acting on impulse!
Shouldn't have tested this Shichibukai!
Believing that the other party is just a mere 71 million, thinking that their strength might be average, and going to snipe them with the idea that they might be able to take them down, is one thing.
The key is... it missed.
The bullet hit the woman next to him.
"My observation haki is really poor, to think that I would miss from this distance.
"No, maybe it was the influence of the wind. The wind is a bit noisy today.
"Nevertheless, let's get moving!" he exclaimed, making a swift exit.
Boom!!
The man sprinted away, his mind replaying his previous blunder.
Yet, after covering just a few hundred meters, a figure plummeted from the sky.
Upon landing in the street ahead, a dense cloud of smoke enveloped the scene.
Nearby pedestrians, or rather, nearby pirates, were all taken aback and turned their attention toward the smoke.
"What's going on? An explosion?"
"No, something fell!"
"A human?!"
Everyone stared in astonishment at the smoke.
The man with a straw hat hanging on his neck stood up straight expressionlessly, his gaze locked onto the opponent.
"Now that you've fired, you are prepared to die, right?"
Luffy calmly spoke, raising his fist and stepping towards the other party.
**!!
[That's a distance of ten kilometers!!
How did he.... A few seconds?]
Forty seconds? No, even shorter!
The man holding a long Gun showed an expression of disbelief.
"Wait... wait! I just fired a greeting shot, I didn't mean to be your enemy!"
Luffy ignored and continued to approach.
The man instinctively took a half step back and said again,
"Just one shot, with your strength, there's no way you could be hurt!"
Luffy's fist was wrapped in Conqueror's Haki.
A burst of black and red lightning erupted, and the terrifying power seemed to stir up a hurricane on the ground.
The man's face changed drastically, hastily retreating and shouting,
"My captain is very interested in you and wants to talk to you. I deliberately waited here for you, Seven Warlords of the Sea Monkey D. Luffy!"
Seven Warlords of the Sea?
The surrounding pirates stared wide-eyed, their faces full of astonishment, fixated on the straw hat.
Indeed, he looks familiar. I saw him recently in the news!
Is this kid the new Shichibukai?
"Enough with your nonsense"
Luffy flashed forward, instantly approaching the man, his fist wrapped in Conqueror's Haki, fiercely striking down.
Boom!!!
In the instant before his fist made contact with the man's face, the terrifying power had already knocked him flat on the ground.
The man spat out blood with a "wow," his entire head flattened.
The next moment.
Boom!!
The huge explosion almost overturned half of the town.
The earth rolled up, and the frenzied black and red lightning roamed in the atmosphere, leaving no grass behind wherever it went.
Innocent onlookers were swept up and blown away by the leaked Conqueror's Haki.
For a moment, screams filled the air.
The terrifying power lasted for nearly half a minute.
When everything returned to calm and the smoke cleared.
Half of the small town had been leveled, with a huge crater formed within hundreds of meters from where Luffy stood.
And the person who had previously sniped at him now lay in the center of the huge pit like a dead dog.
No, it was a dead dog.
He was already dead.
"The sniper from the Blackbeard Pirates?"
Luffy lifted the body and casually said, "What was his name again? Ogre... Or something?"
I forgot.
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