【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Sabo, you must cultivate the wisdom and manners that match your noble status, and become a man who can marry a royal daughter in the future." Sabo's father said to little Sabo with a smile.

"Then we can rest assured, and you will definitely be happy," Sabo's mother covered her mouth and laughed softly.

"Will I be happy if I marry a daughter of a royal family?" Little Sabo looked at his parents in confusion.

"Yes, Sabo." Sabo's mother replied with a smile, her eyes flashing with an inexplicable light.

"Well! I will try my best!" Sabo said happily to his parents.

……

"What did you say? The cargo ship sank! There's no need to care about the lives of the crew! What about the cargo I paid for?" Sabo's father shouted to the person on the other side of the Den Den Mushi.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Dad! Look, this is the painting I drew!" Sabo opened the door and happily showed his father his first portrait.

Sabo's father took the drawing paper, tore it up without even looking at it, and said to Sabo seriously, "If you have time to draw this kind of picture, go back to your room and study."

Sabo walked out the door in tears and disappointment.

"Hey! You guy, I am a child of the royal family, a relative of the king, and you are carrying me back!" said a boy in a purple dress arrogantly.

Sabo ignored him and walked around him. The child caught up and grabbed Sabo, but Sabo pushed him away.

"You're just a noble's child. Let me show you how powerful I am!" The child angrily took out a knife and rushed towards Sabo.

"Stop... stop!" Sabo looked at the child rushing towards him with a knife and pushed him to the ground.

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"Sa...Sabo! Did you fight with the royal child?" Sabo's mother apologized to the royal child in horror.

"But...but I'm injured." Sabo explained to his mother from behind.

Sabo looked at his mother with grievance as she ignored him and asked him to apologize to the royal children.

……

"Those guys like someone who can keep their status and property, not me. If I can't marry the daughter of a royal family, I'll be trash to them." Sabo lowered his head. "For this reason, I study in class in my room every day. If I don't do well, my parents will quarrel every day, and I'll be a burden in that family. I'm sorry to say this to you, but even if I had parents, I'd still be alone." Sabo recalled what his father said when he went to the Waste Terminal because of him.

"Although the nobles despise the people of Waste Terminal, life in Waste Terminal is much better than living a life prepared for you by others in that suffocating Gao Town." Sabo said calmly.

"I see." Lucci looked at Sabo and said.

"Ace, Lucci, Luffy, we must go out to sea, leave this country and enjoy freedom! Travel around the world, I will write down my experiences in a book!" Sabo shouted happily as he looked at them.

"Hehe! Of course! We can do it without you telling us!" Ace said happily to Sabo.

"I want to be a pirate, and keep winning, winning, being invincible, and finally gaining the highest fame! Only this can be the proof of my life!! Even if the whole world does not acknowledge my existence, even if they all hate me, I will become a great pirate and make them look at me with new eyes! I will not run away! I will not lose to anyone! Even if my name becomes synonymous with terror! I will let my name shock the world!!" Ace laughed and shouted to the sea.

"I want to explore the world, see what's happening, become stronger and stronger, and be able to protect the people I love no matter what kind of crisis I encounter!" Lucci shouted to the sea.

"Hehehe! Is that so? Okay! Me...!!" Luffy shouted towards the sea.

The world seemed to have fallen silent, leaving only the sound of waves hitting the shore.

"Huh?" Ace, Sabo and Lucci looked at what Luffy said in shock.

"Hahahaha! Luffy, come on, only you can say that!" Lucci covered his face with amusement.

"...I thought you were going to say something..." Ace looked at Luffy speechlessly.

"Ahahahaha! You're so funny, Luffy! I'm looking forward to your future!!" Sabo laughed, holding his stomach.

"Then all four of us want to be the captain. That's going to be troublesome, right?" Sabo said.

"I didn't think of that. Sabo, I thought you would definitely be my navigator!" Ace said to Sabo.

Luffy shouted from the side, "You all get on my ship!!"

"Impossible!!" Ace hit Luffy's head with the pipe.

"Sorry, Luffy, I want to be the captain myself!" Sabo said to Luffy with a smile.

"Hey!...Isn't this great? Just get on my ship! Just get on my ship!" Luffy argued loudly.

"This matter is not negotiable!" Ace said loudly angrily.

"No!" Sabo refused.

"What did you say!" Luffy shouted.

"Lucci, what about you?" Ace said to Lucci, "Would you like to get on my ship?"

"Lucci, Lucci, come on my boat!" Luffy said coquettishly while pulling Lucci's hand.

"Uh..." Lucci looked at Ace, then at Luffy, not knowing how to answer.

"Lucci!" Luffy looked at Lucci with wide eyes.

Lucci looked at Luffy's cute big eyes like a puppy and thought that I might be defeated, "Um... well, I don't want to be a captain, so Ace and I might get on Luffy's ship. After all, there's no one watching this guy, and he might be eaten by fish on the first day at sea." Lucci smiled and rubbed Luffy's hair hard.

"I won't!!" Luffy protested loudly as he broke free from Lucci's hand.

"That's right, this guy is just a weak crybaby!" Ace stuck out his tongue and made a face at Luffy.

"I'm not!" Luffy yelled at Ace angrily.

Lucci and Sabo looked at them in amusement.

"Let's talk about the future later. Maybe the four of us will go out to sea on our own!" Ace said as he opened the wine he got from Dadan. "You know what? After drinking this glass of wine, we can become brothers." Ace said with a smile as he picked up the wine in his hand and poured it into the four cups on the tree stump.

"Brother! Really? Now I have three brothers!" Luffy excitedly picked up the wine glasses on the tree stump with Ace and the others.

Lucci and Sabo happily picked up the cups.

"Maybe we weren't partners on the same ship when we became pirates, but the four of us are brothers! No matter where we are or what we do, this relationship will never be severed..." Ace picked up the cup with a smile.

"Then from today on, we are brothers!!" The four boys raised their cups high and clinked them together.

The four boys excitedly drank the wine in their hands.

"Ah... this wine tastes so bad! This is obviously not the taste that Shanks gave me!" Luffy said with his tongue sticking out and his brows frowned.

"That drink Shanks gave you was a drink!" Ace mocked Luffy.