Pirates: The ship's deputy is the biggest supporter of the Straw Hat Pirates

"I know him. I'm his creditor. I was just collecting his debt. I was trying to persuade him not to run away. This is a good opportunity to pay my share as well."

Yi Chen answered Dashiqi's three questions directly.

"Hey, when did I lend you money?" Sauron said loudly to Yi Chen.

Hearing this, Yi Chen made a gesture to stop Zoro from talking and looked at him with a smile.

Seeing this, Sauron remembered what Yi Chen had just said in his ear, "You caused this yourself. Are you the kind of person who would let others pay for you?"

After thinking about it, Zoro nodded, "Yes, that's right, I owe him money."

"In that case, then come with me."

After saying that, Dashigi turned and walked towards the naval base.

"What should we do now?" Zoro asked Yi Chen while looking at Tashigi's back.

"Just follow me if I tell you to. Don't worry, I will stay by your side. If it really doesn't work, I will pay to redeem you." Yi Chen said to Sauron with a chuckle.

"What do you mean by redeem me? It makes it sound like I was kidnapped by that woman." Hearing this, Sauron couldn't help but complain to Yi Chen.

Seeing that Zoro had not caught up, Tashigi turned back and urged Zoro:

"What are you doing standing there? Hurry up and catch up."

"Oh……"

Seeing Tashigi frowning with displeasure, Zoro quickly followed, and Yi Chen followed closely behind.

…………

In a small alley...

“It’s such a headache!”

"I was planning to go to the execution ground, but I ended up in a completely wrong place."

Luffy said to himself as he walked up the stairs in the alley.

"I remember I walked in the direction of the smoke that uncle mentioned. What on earth is going on?"

Luffy touched his head and thought about it, and it turned out that the CPU was burned out, so Luffy stopped thinking about it.

"Forget it. Anyway, we can get there as long as we keep walking."

After thinking about it, Luffy continued walking down. When he reached a corner, he saw a store sign with the words Gol D. Roger on it and walked straight in.

When the shop door opened, a staircase leading downstairs appeared. Luffy walked down without hesitation.

After a few seconds, Luffy reached the bottom and opened the door.

crunch--

Luffy looked around, but only saw an old man wearing sunglasses sitting on a stool.

"Uncle, are you from the store?"

"Is that the Gol D. Roger sign outside the store?"

Luffy asked the old man sitting on the stool in front of him.

The old man looked up at Luffy's young face and said calmly, "Get lost now. This store is not a place for a brat like you."

"Besides, this store will be closed from today." After saying that, the old man poured himself a glass of wine.

“Is it going to close down?”

Hearing this, the old man put the bottle of wine on the table forcefully and said, "It's not that we're closed down, I want to close the shop myself, get out now!"

Seeing that the old man was about to drive him away, Luffy didn't say anything, but sat on a stool, "I'm just curious about the name of this store. I got lost and originally wanted to go to the execution platform."

"Can you tell me how to get there?" Luffy asked helplessly.

"Huh? What's that thing on your table?" Luffy asked curiously, looking at a white skull on the table in front of the old man.

Luffy jumped off the stool, walked over to the old man and looked at the skull on the table, "Oh! It's a skull, it's so big!"

"The owner of this skull once killed 100 pirates. He was a badass, but Roger killed him with just one strike."

"This crack was left behind at that time." The old man said, pointing to the crack on the skull.

When Luffy heard about Roger, he began to tremble with excitement and said he wanted to listen more.

“This guy said this before he died.”

"Roger, I bow down to you. May the pirates be remembered forever."

"So awesome, so cool!" Luffy exclaimed after hearing it.

[Maybe it's because Luffy suffered from not having an education since he was a child that he thinks that sentence is cool. No, there seems to be no schools for ordinary people in the One Piece world, so it's okay. (Maybe there are, or maybe I don't know, but there are definitely no schools in Windmill Village.)]

Seeing Luffy's excitement, the old man continued to talk: "Eric Dane, who is known as the king, the world's fastest shooter - Hiruba Hiruba, and the great evil monk - the Kahn brothers."

"They are all powerful warriors as terrifying as ghosts and gods, but they are like babies in front of Roger..."

"so amazing!"

"To be honest, Roger used to come to my place to drink often..."

[After that, the old man told Luffy many stories about Roger's past. After telling Luffy the location of the execution platform, he drank a glass of milk with Luffy and then said goodbye to him.]

[After that, Smoker also came to the store to drink. After that, a marine came to the store to issue a bounty order.]

[When Smoker saw Luffy's face on the bounty notice, he also recalled that he had let Luffy leave so leisurely before. The more he thought about it, the angrier Smoker immediately rushed out the door and walked quickly towards the execution platform. ]

The execution platform...

At this time, Luffy was climbing on the iron frame of the execution platform, trying to get to the top.

According to Luffy, he wanted to see the scenery that the Pirate King saw before his death, and then he began to climb up.

However, Luffy seemed to have forgotten that the boots Yi Chen gave him could allow him to fly.

"Hey! Boy."

At this time, Smoker had also reached the execution platform and shouted while looking at Luffy on the iron frame.

Hearing this, Luffy turned to look at Smoker who called him:

"What are you doing? I'm busy right now."

Smoker did not answer Luffy, but asked Luffy in a calm tone:

"Are you the most wanted criminal in the East China Sea?"

"My name is Luffy, what do you want from me?"

At this moment, the two cigars in Smoker's mouth were brought together without anyone noticing.

"I am Captain Smoker of the Navy that governs this town of Rogue, and I want to arrest you."

"Huh? Arrest? I refuse!"

"I'm going to the Grand Line to become the Pirate King."

"How could I be arrested in a place like this?"

Luffy said to Smoker with a slight smile on his face.

"You don't have the right to refuse, kid!"

"As for you saying you want to become the Pirate King, then you have to defeat me first."

"You can't go to the Grand Line unless you defeat me."

"This is the rule of this town. However, it depends on whether you have the courage to fight me."

Smoker looked up at Luffy who had already climbed halfway up and said calmly.

After saying that, Smoker pinched his fingers hard, making a "crackling" sound.

"Can't we go to the Grand Line without defeating you?"

"Then I will defeat you!"

Luffy opened his mouth and smiled at Smoker, looking eager to try.

Obviously Luffy misunderstood Smoker's meaning. He thought this was a test that must be passed to reach the "Grand Line", so he planned to fight Smoker.

"Then let's try it."

"Pot touch pot touch no... hey hey hey... my feet are tangled."

Luffy was about to rush towards Smoker but his feet got entangled in the iron frame and he was bounced back halfway.

Smoker, who was originally trying to defend against Luffy's attack, saw Luffy bounce him back and couldn't help but complain loudly: "What the hell are you doing!"

…………

It is worth mentioning that the reason why this store is going bankrupt is that Smoker captured all the pirates who came to this town and made them operate sewing machines.

As a result, the old man's business was bad. After all, his signature product was Roger, and the only people who liked Roger were pirates, so the old man was forced to close his shop.

However, Smoker still visits this store every day, but the reason is unknown.