【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"What a nice bunch of guys..."

"If we meet again next time, will they still want me to be their partner?"

"Will we meet again?" Nami stood on the Merry, looking at the sea, muttering to herself, and at the end she couldn't stop her tears from falling, "I want to be free soon! Aunt Bellemel..."

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"Uncle, if I drive those guys away, can you please stop letting me work as a handyman?" Luffy said with a smile while looking at Zeff.

"That's what I want. If we let you work in our store for a year, our store will be in trouble," Zeff responded.

"Chefs, hand over this store!!" The Creek pirates rushed towards the restaurant door.

"I'm going!" Luffy grabbed the railing, stretched out his arms and pulled his body back, launching himself at the pirates with a "scythe!", stretching out his arms to push the pirates into the sea.

"Where are Paddy and Gargan?" Sanji noticed that the two chefs who often gave him trouble were missing.

"They are busy fighting!" a chef behind Sanji said excitedly, "It's so reliable to have them around!"

"Only at times like this..." Sanji repeated, and then looked at the chef who was speaking, "Go to the operation room and open the fins."

"What?" the cook shouted with wide eyes, "This will allow the enemy to gain a foothold on the sea!"

"If we call in the store, that annoying old man will keep yelling again." Sanji said while sticking his tongue out at Zeff.

"What did you just say, kid?" Zeff asked, looking at the face Sanji made.

"Just saying you're being long-winded." Sanji retorted, then turned his attention to the sea when he heard the chefs' exclamations.

Paddy and his crew had already driven the Mackerel Head ship onto the sea, but it was thrown out by Creek soon after and flew towards the restaurant. Sanji kicked the ground with the toes of his right leg, "These guys have the will but not the strength!" Then he jumped high and kicked the Mackerel Head in the air away.

The pirates around looked at this scene in shock.

"Sanji, watch their fight carefully before they decide the winner." Zeff said, staring at the two people on the other side of the battlefield.

After hearing what Zeff said, Sanji shifted his attention to the battle between Luffy and Creek. The fin had already been extended, and the handyman and Creek were standing on the broken deck not far from the fin, confronting each other.

Sanji looked at the great strength displayed by Luffy's casually stretched arms and was a little shocked. "Are all the guys like this in the Grand Line?"

"I'll take care of a guy like you who repays kindness with enmity!" Luffy said angrily to Creek, and at the same time, he punched down a pirate who was trying to swing his sword at him.

"Hahaha, little guy, you want to fight me on this deck that could fall into the sea at any time?" Creek had a smug smile on his face. He saw the boy's attack power on his men, but he also saw the boy almost fall several times on this unstable deck. "Everyone knows that people with devil fruit abilities are most afraid of the sea, right, kid."

"But I can stretch it at will!" Luffy retorted.

Creek stopped laughing when he saw the boy's serious expression. He thought of what the boy said in the restaurant, so he asked a question with a gloomy face, "Hey, kid, who do you think will become the Pirate King, you or me?"

"I'm not a kid, I'm a pirate, and I will be the Pirate King!" Luffy showed a wild smile on his face.

"Then let me tell you what real strength is!" Creek said gloomily, took off the shield-like thing he had been wearing on his shoulder, and then fired it in the direction of Luffy, reminding him gloomily while firing, "It's a poison gas bomb. It's so poisonous that your whole body will become stiff if you take a breath of it."

"Poison...poison gas bomb?!" Sanji, who had been paying attention to their fight, naturally heard what Creek said.

Akin, who was about to take the chef hostage, also heard the leader's words and shouted to stop the leader's plan. Sanji and the Straw Hat Boy were his benefactors, and he didn't want the chef of this restaurant to die. He wanted Mr. Sanji to give up the restaurant and leave.

The Creek pirates had already noticed the situation here, and realizing that their leader was about to launch a poison gas bomb, they hurriedly shouted, "Leader, no!"

"Let me kick this broken thing into the sea!" Luffy grinned and swung his fist in the direction of the cannonball. Before Luffy could touch it, the cannonball suddenly exploded and countless darts flew out of it. Although Luffy avoided it in time, some of the darts still cut him.

"... Ugh! It hurts!" Luffy covered his cut arms and calves, then looked at the wound on his arm and realized, "It turns out it wasn't poison gas!"

"You're too slow to react!!" Sanji shouted angrily with his teeth bared, angry at himself for worrying about the behavior of the idiot who just did the odd jobs.

"Sanji!" the chef exclaimed. A turtle-like man with two huge shells was raising a weapon and attacking Sanji from behind.

Sanji didn't look back. He supported himself on the floor with his hands and spun around to attack the man behind him, kicking him away.

"Awesome!" Luffy exclaimed, then noticed that Jin was walking towards the uncle and asked loudly, "Hey! Jin, what do you want to do?"

After hearing Luffy's words, Sanji reacted instantly and quickly attacked Jin who was close to the stinky old man. Sanji looked at Jin who was kicked down angrily and said, "I won't let anyone hurt the stinky old man."

"Why, Mr. Sanji? Why don't you leave?" Jin sat on the ground with his head down. "I didn't want to kill you, Mr. Sanji. I wanted you to get off the ship safely."

"Get off the ship?" Sanji took out a cigarette, lit it, put the cigarette in his mouth, took a puff, slowly exhaled the smoke ring and said, "I don't want to!"

"In that case, let me kill you with my own hands..." Ah Jin raised his head and stood up from the ground. He took out his weapon and kept spinning it in his hand. "This is my principle."

"Ah? Thank you, bastard." Sanji said nonchalantly, holding a cigarette in his mouth.

Luffy was watching the fight between Sanji and Kin with curiosity, he was curious about his chef.

"Hey, kid, don't look around." Creek didn't pay attention to the fight between his men on the other side. Instead, he took advantage of the boy's attention diversion and raised the spear in his hand to stab him. "I will let you know what it means to be the overlord of the East China Sea!!"

"I will beat you to pieces!" Luffy dodged the spikes that were stabbing at him. Even the explosion of the spikes did not affect Luffy's determination to rush towards Creek.

Creek couldn't help feeling uneasy as he watched the boy approaching. His intuition told him that he should avoid the boy's attack, but he was a stubborn and arrogant man, and his self-esteem denied this decision. He was the overlord of the East China Sea, and he would never be afraid of this boy. He wanted to beat the boy into a pulp.

But soon the boy shattered his thoughts. The armor he was so proud of was shattered by his fist. Creek couldn't understand what happened. He only felt a huge pain spreading from his chest. His head immediately became dizzy. Now there was only one feeling in his mind: "It hurts! It hurts!"

Creek fell to his knees with blood gushing out of his mouth. His armor should have been able to block the boy's blows. How could a thin boy defeat him? Creek fell to the ground and lost consciousness. Before he completely lost consciousness, he wanted to stand up again, but the darkness in front of him stopped him. After a while, his consciousness fell into complete darkness.

Luffy retracted his arm and tilted his head to look at the man lying on the ground. He remembered what Qi had said before, that after defeating the enemy, he should make sure that the enemy would not get up again before leaving. So he stared at Creek on the ground for a while, and after making sure that the enemy would not get up again, he turned around and left, jumping towards the deck of the restaurant.