【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

The battle between Sanji and Kin was coming to an end. Kin, who was defeated by Sanji, noticed Luffy standing in front of him. He asked in disbelief, "Chief Creek was defeated?"

"Yeah, that's right!" Luffy responded simply.

“How is this possible…” Ah Jin covered his eyes and gasped, “The leader is the strongest overlord in the East China Sea! The only person I…admire!”

"He's just a man who relies on external forces. There's no way he can beat that boy." said Zev, who had been watching the battle.

"Chief!" the Creek pirates shouted to Creek standing on the deck.

"No one is allowed to disobey me! I have won all the battles, no one can defeat me!!" Creek yelled madly, spitting blood from his mouth.

"Don't do that, Chief!" The Creek pirate tried to stop Creek's behavior. "It will make the injury worse!"

"I will continue... continue to win!! I am the strongest!!" Creek pushed away the men who were holding him down and continued shouting, then he snatched the men's guns and fired bullets wildly around.

"Hey! Don't go over there!" Sanji saw the injured Luffy trying to rush towards Creek's gun and shouted in panic, "You will die!"

"He won't die. This kid will win." Zev said confidently, "If Creek's fleet is force, then that kid's spear is also force."

"Spear..." Sanji repeated.

"Even if you have hundreds of weapons on your body, you may not be able to defeat a spear in your stomach." Zev raised a smile, he was very optimistic about the boy.

"Faith..." Sanji understood what the old man meant.

"I do know an idiot who broke a spear for a silly reason..." Zeff said, glancing at Sanji.

Sanji lowered his head and remained silent. He remembered his original dream "ALL BLUE" and how the stinky old man on the deserted island ate his own legs in order to keep him alive, but left all the food for himself.

Creek's bullets were fired wildly at Luffy who was constantly approaching him. Luffy held down his hat with his hands and used that feeling to dodge the bullets. As the distance shortened, Luffy punched Creek's abdomen and said, "You are not the strongest!!"

"Stop!" Akin shouted loudly, trying to stop Luffy. He knew that if he continued, Chief Creek would definitely die, so he attacked Luffy. Due to excessive blood loss, Luffy did not dodge but took Akin's attack, then looked up at Akin and said, "Do you want to continue fighting?"

Ajin looked at the boy's eyes from his hat, his body stiffened, and then he pleaded, "I'm sorry, we lost, please let me take the Creek leader away!"

"Captain!" the Creek pirates shouted.

"Be brave and admit defeat, and start over!" Ajin said, and then carried Creek on his shoulders.

Luffy watched Kin and the pirates leave, and Sanji asked the chef to give the purchasing ship to Kin and the others.

"Mr. Sanji, thank you for everything you have done!" Akin looked at Sanji and said gratefully.

"Don't come here again." Sanji said, taking a puff of his cigarette.

"Yeah." Jin nodded and looked at Luffy standing on the broken deck, "See you on the Grand Line!"

"Of course!" Luffy smiled brightly and waved to Ajin vigorously, "Goodbye!"

After Akin left, Luffy started walking towards Sanji and the others, but he suddenly felt as if his legs were weak. "How weird?" Luffy muttered. When the deck began to shake, the weakness of his legs due to excessive blood loss did not help him maintain his balance.

"Hey, odd job!" Sanji frowned and looked at Luffy who suddenly fell into the sea in confusion.

"What are you doing? Go and save him. He can't float up!" Zeff said to Sanji beside him.

"Damn... bastard! Why didn't you say it earlier, you old man!" Sanji shouted angrily, then quickly took off his coat and shoes and jumped into the sea.

Sanji was a little panicked, he couldn't find the boy anywhere in the sea. He kept diving, and then he found Luffy trapped in seaweed on the bottom of the sea. His mouth was wide open, which showed that the boy had drunk a lot of sea water. He could feel that his oxygen was running out. Thinking of the boy's persistence, he knew that he would be fine. Sanji took Luffy and swam upstream quickly, and surfaced with the boy, panting.

"Hey! Don't die, you idiot! Can you hear me?" Sanji kept pressing Luffy's body, trying to make him spit out the seawater in his stomach. "Don't you still want to be the Pirate King?!"

"Don't die, sir!" Sanji kept shaking Luffy, trying to wake him up. After a while, Sanji heard some noises and realized that it was Luffy's snoring. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, "What an idiot."

……

"Oi, will Luffy be okay?" Usopp asked with some concern, "We left him there alone."

"Don't worry, even though he usually behaves a bit like an idiot, he is our captain after all." Qi said with a smile while looking at the information in his hand, "That kind of small character can't threaten Luffy."

"Yes, he is Luffy after all." Usopp nodded, then he looked at the information in Qi's hand with some confusion "What are you doing?"

"I'm a little curious about what the legendary fishman looks like." Qi picked up Arlong's wanted poster next to him and handed it to Usopp. "The reason why Nami left should be related to this fishman."

Usopp looked at the ferocious fishman on the wanted poster, swallowed his saliva, and said nervously, "Aren't we in danger?"

"It's just that he has 10 times the strength than normal people." Qi deliberately teased.

"10...10 times?!" Usopp shouted in horror, then kept turning in circles and said in panic, "How about...how about we wait until Luffy arrives before going..."

"We promised Luffy that we would bring Nami back." Qi said with a smile, "Is our great Usopp afraid?"

"How... How is this possible!" Usopp stood up straight and shouted loudly, then thought of the 10 times strength of the fish-man, and his voice gradually weakened. "I'm just worried about Zoro's health. He's dying now..."

"I'm fine." Zoro interrupted Usopp.

"We're here!" Johnny's voice came from the cab.

"Shall we charge in?" asked Zoro, looking at the island not far away.

"Why is this happening!" Usopp shouted angrily, "We still don't have any clues at all!"

"Let's go ashore first. A'long Paradise is not here." Qi said, and then looked at the map in his hand and introduced, "There should be a village at this location, 'Cocosia Village'. Let's go and find out the situation first."

"Go ashore, I will bring that woman back!" Usopp said confidently with his hands on his hips.

Usopp instantly became excited when he heard that Arlong was not here. Then they drove the boat towards the dock. Usopp soon discovered several fishmen standing on the dock and hurriedly hid behind Qi and Zoro.

"They are indeed tougher than ordinary pirates..." Qi said as he looked at the three fishmen lying on the ground, then turned to look at Usopp and Zoro standing aside, "Okay, let's go in."

"I can fight too." Zoro frowned and said, obviously dissatisfied with Qi for stopping him from taking action.

"Don't be so stubborn. You will die if you exercise too strenuously!" Usopp patted Zoro with a smile.

"You should heal your wound first, Zoro!" Qi responded with a smile, "There is an octopus who can use a sword in Arlong Paradise. That one depends on you."

"An octopus swordsman with 10 times the power? Leave it to me!" Zoro laughed excitedly, "It's a good opportunity for me to practice."