【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Sengoku was stunned by what Garp said. He still couldn't believe that Garp was showing off his grandson to him like a little kid. Sengoku shook his head and thought of his other purpose. "You should have seen the person with a side profile next to him, right?"

Garp did not respond to Sengoku's words. In fact, he noticed it when he saw Luffy's bounty order, but he couldn't confirm it.

"Don't you think his face looks familiar?" asked Zhan Guo.

"Wakakaka, how could that be? I've never seen that guy, and I can only see his profile." Garp said with a smile. Although he was also confused, he needed to divert Zhan Guo's attention. "Why not let me go to the East China Sea again!"

"No! Go back to headquarters immediately! You just want to see your grandson!" Zhan Guo hurriedly hung up the call with Garp. He didn't want to listen to the old guy bragging about his grandson at all.

Garp stared at the hung-up Den Den Mushi and fell into deep thought. He picked up Luffy's bounty order again. Next to Luffy's bright smile was the side profile of a young boy, looking at the camera with cold eyes.

Garp stroked the boy's profile in the photo with some trembling. Looking at the boy's familiar face, Garp couldn't help but think that if Lucci was still alive, he would probably look like this.

Garp looked at Luffy's brilliant smile on the poster and couldn't help but grin, with a hint of barely perceptible pride in his voice, "Luffy, that brat, actually dared to go pirate without telling his dear grandpa. It seems he missed Grandpa's beloved Iron Fist!"

……

Under the blue sky, a pirate ship was sailing slowly forward. On the deck was a table filled with a variety of delicacies.

"It's ready, come and eat!" Sanji shouted loudly, holding a cigarette in his mouth.

"Oh! That's great!" Luffy rushed out of the orange grove in an instant. He had just tried to steal Nami's oranges. Although he was stopped by Sanji, Nami still allowed him to pick one, so he wanted to find the sweetest one, but the smell of Sanji's rice attracted him more.

"Here I come!" Usopp quickly put down the weapon he was working on. Although he wanted to finish it now, he knew that if he was a step late, all the food would soon be eaten by Luffy.

"Usopp, let's play hide-and-seek this afternoon!" Luffy invited excitedly, grabbing the empty plate.

"I still have some weapons that haven't been prepared yet..." Usopp refused, but seeing Luffy's eager eyes, he immediately changed the subject, "But I'll be done soon, and we can play together this afternoon!"

"Qi, you should play too!" Luffy turned his head and said to Qi who was coming down from the observation deck.

"Then you definitely won't be able to find me." Qi said with a smile.

"Impossible." Luffy retorted, then looked at the other three crew members "Nami, Zoro and Sanji, come play too!"

"No, I have to draw a nautical chart this afternoon." Nami refused, but avoided Luffy's eyes.

"I still have to prepare ingredients for dinner this afternoon." Sanji quickly found an excuse and pushed Zoro out. "Zoro, who has been dozing off on the boat, can play with you!"

"Hey!" Zoro refused to play such a childish game. "I don't want to play!"

"You're afraid of being caught by them," Sanji said provocatively.

"How is this possible!" Zoro looked at Sanji angrily.

"In that case, then Zoro will play with you!" Sanji said with a grin.

"Great! Zoro!" Luffy shouted excitedly. It had been a long time since he played hide-and-seek with so many people.

"Okay." Zoro muttered, then took a big bite of the rice ball in his hand.

"Gu~~" A white bird landed on the railing.

"A bird?" Zoro looked at the bird in front of Luffy in confusion.

"It's the news bird," Qi explained as he watched Luffy pet the news bird.

Nami took out a coin and put it in the bag on the news bird's chest, but found that the news bird did not give her the newspaper. She carefully looked at the words on its bag and shouted angrily to the news bird, "Why did the price increase again?"

"Goo~"

Nami put another coin in it and took a newspaper from the news bird bag. "You sell it too expensively here. I won't buy it next time if the price goes up."

"Goo~"

"Sanji, it's hungry!" Luffy pointed at the chirping news bird with a smile.

"Give him this." Qi threw a piece of bread to Luffy, and then watched Luffy feed some bread crumbs to the news bird.

Zoro, Usopp and Nami all looked at this scene in surprise. Only Sanji was not surprised because he had seen Luffy communicating with animals before.

"What is that?" Usopp asked in surprise.

"Luffy can understand what animals say," Qi explained.

After knowing the reason, the Straw Hat Pirates were not so surprised about this incident. Nami sat on the chair, unfolded the newspaper in her hand, began to read the contents of the newspaper, then turned the page, and a bounty warrant fell out of the newspaper.

There was a sudden cry of "Ah!" on the deck.

"Hehehe! We are wanted criminals!" Luffy laughed happily. He raised the bounty in his hand. "The bounty is 3 million Baileys!"

"How on earth did you get such a high bounty!" Nami screamed.

"Qi, why are you up there too?" Sanji shouted unhappily.

"Is there?" Qi asked doubtfully.

"This is a profile picture, but I'm also on it!!" Usopp pointed at his back above the bounty notice and shouted excitedly, "I'm going to be famous soon!"

"No way?" Sanji retorted, and then he saw that Usopp was indeed on the bounty poster, and it was his back standing on the high platform. Sanji immediately said sullenly, "What's so great about it? It's just a small back."

"Don't be discouraged, keep working harder. Even if you're not the captain, the crew members can get the bounty order!" Usopp said with a smile. Hearing Usopp's words, Sanji immediately cheered up and happily hugged Usopp.

"Let's make a concerted effort and head towards the Grand Line!!" Luffy shouted excitedly.

"Yes!" Sanji and Usopp shouted in coordination, their arms around each other's shoulders.

"Really? Do you guys understand how serious this is?" Nami said helplessly, "Now is not the time to take it easy! With such a high bounty, there will definitely be many navy officers coming to arrest us."

"Don't worry, Nami!" Qi patted Nami's shoulder comfortingly.

"No, we can't linger in the East China Sea anymore, we have to enter the Grand Line as soon as possible!" Nami cheered up and announced loudly.

"Nami, I think we should visit an island before we leave." Qi said with a smile.

"Which one?" Nami asked confused.