I Have Been Sleeping Among Pirates For A Hundred Years

The gunpowder exploded, and with a thunderous sound, the pungent red powder spread like smoke.

Soon, the fire dimmed and the smoke and dust gradually settled.

"Cough, cough!"

Chopper and Zoro dodged the explosion in embarrassment, but they were still covering their mouths and noses, coughing violently, and the tears and snot on their faces were almost mixed together.

And Joel had settled down ten meters away from the explosion site, brushing the dust off his sleeves leisurely, not feeling angry at all for being messed with.

"Good job, Usopp!"

Although he had injured himself a thousand times but not the enemy, Nami still excitedly patted the sniper on the shoulder.

Gra——

There seemed to be a crisp sound, and Usopp, who originally had a smile on his face, suddenly became stiff. He seemed to hear a sad cry from his injured arm bone.

"This time, I will definitely beat you away."

Seeing that his friends had escaped safely, Luffy no longer had any scruples, clenched his fists loudly, and looked at Joel seriously.

"It's really interesting how you don't give up!"

Joel finally raised his eyes, and out of the corner of his eye took in the other people present who were ready to fight,

"I haven't seen guys with this kind of character for a long, long time. Your determination is worthy of my full strength, but -"

A strong and rich blood-red aura suddenly spread out, pressing in all directions like a ring.

The road on the ground began to crack from somewhere, the trunks of the lush trees were crushed, almost at right angles to the ground, and the turbulent Earth Coiling on the lake created layer after layer of huge waves.

"The price will be paid with lives."

Joel looked indifferently at the young pirates who couldn't even stand upright under the Conqueror's Haki, which was entwined with the fruit's ability.

"Why...why do all this?"

Discordant sounds came in the wind. Although the blood vessels in his body felt like they were about to burst at any moment, Robin still chose to look directly at the man in front of him who exuded a terrifying aura.

"Dr. Clover said that Xue Tong is a man who follows his true heart. If you were him, why would you do something to wipe out 'hope'...even if this 'hope' is only slightly bright!"

Robin didn't take action from beginning to end because she knew from the beginning that this battle was meaningless.

In that era when there was no concept of "Emperor of the Sea", there was a man standing at the top of the world.

Even if the world government quietly erases things related to that man, for those who care, his name will not be forgotten.

Just like Shanks' red hair and Newgate's Whitebeard, the world gives them the most direct names based on their characteristics - and blood-red pupils symbolize the strongest legend of a certain era in the past.

"Destroying hope...?"

Joel suddenly smiled, his aura suddenly dissipated, "I'm not so unkind, I just want to let these little guys understand their weakness as soon as possible. Pirates are not just playing house..."

Everyone in the Straw Hats was silent. Not long ago, they were complacent about defeating the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Everyone was happily looking at the bounty on the bounty list.

Zoro, who had always been self-disciplined, couldn't help but relax a little. He was hungover for several days, not to mention the subtle changes in other people's mentality.

But at this moment, although the pressure on their bodies has been relieved, their hearts are inevitably a lot heavier.

Even Luffy, who had always refused to admit defeat, did not offer any rebuttal.

"certainly……"

Joel continued lazily, "I have only completed one week of the game, and what I have achieved is just an ordinary normal ending. If I want to enter a truly perfect ending, I naturally have to collect more elements in the second game. Trigger more fulfillment conditions."

Looking at the confused looks on everyone's faces, Joel did not give any explanation: "You don't need to understand. I hope that next time we meet, you can become stronger and bring me more pleasure!"

"Next time we meet, I will definitely not lose again!"

Luffy looked serious, his eyes full of determination.

Joel turned around and left without making any response, just said calmly, "Carib, let's go."

Somewhere on the ground, a swamp gradually changed from a two-dimensional plane to a three-dimensional one, turning into a human figure.

The figure glanced at the Straw Hats, whose jaws almost dropped to the ground because of his appearance, hesitated for a few seconds, and then followed Joel's pace with tears streaming down his face.

"Who is this guy? When did he lurk here?" Everyone looked confused.

After Joel's figure disappeared from sight, Usopp carefully lowered his eyelids, stuck out his tongue very slightly, and made a face:

"What are you doing, pretending to be great! Just a little bit~ Chopper, do it with me too!"

"Ah, should I do it too? Oh, is that so?" The reindeer imitated the pattern.

"Yes, that's it! Chopper, you are very talented!"

"What the hell, you bastard, there's no point in praising me!" Chopper smiled happily.

The two people's liveliness finally made the atmosphere less dull.

Closing his eyes and thinking about the details of the battle just now, Zoro finally said:

"Indeed, if he really wants to kill us, he doesn't need to use that kind of large-scale attack or the kind of thread that controls the human body. It only takes a moment to defeat us."

Sanji took out a cigarette with some frustration, but found that it was damp, so he reluctantly stuffed it back into his pocket, and turned to look at Robin in confusion:

"Miss Robin, why do you say 'destroy hope'? Who is this guy?"

Robin said slowly as if he was lost in memory: "He is the man known as the Blood Eye, and he was the most dazzling light of that era more than a hundred years ago.

But many of his deeds and legends have not been handed down, and the existing rubbings of an ancient book only record the tip of the iceberg of his role in that major event.

That volume records the legend that he climbed to Mariejois alone, freed many slaves in the Holy Land, and then escaped unscathed.

But since then, he quietly faded out of the stage of that era and disappeared without a trace.

So I think such a man would not do meaningless things. "

"Mariejois, is it the place where God lives?" Sanji looked at the sky calmly.

"Wow, God? Is there really a God?!"

Chopper looked at Sanji, then turned to Usopp, "Usopp, you must know something!"

"Yes, of course I know... God?"

Usopp touched his chin and racked his brains to imagine.

"So, he is a hero?" Nami looked at Robin and remembered something that touched him.

Robin said: "I think he is."

Zoro said: "Then he should be one or two hundred years old now. Why does he look so young?"

The incomprehensible things made everyone think.

"Hey, have you forgotten the giants we met in Little Garden before? They are all races with extremely long lifespans, so..."

Usopp's eyes suddenly widened, and he said solemnly, "That guy is also a member of the giant family!!"

"Giants!"

The inexperienced reindeer's eyes widened and his expression froze, as if he was a little down because he couldn't accept this information.

Is it related to the blood factor?

Amid the noise of his companions, Sanji quietly meditated, and the new words he heard accidentally when he was young seemed to become familiar.

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