[One Piece] Courage to Dream

Chapter [-]: Whoever You Meet

Rogue Town, Central Square.

After unremitting efforts, Luffy finally reached the top of the execution platform.The last one to turn over, he successfully jumped onto the top of the execution platform.

"Is this the last scenery that One Piece saw?"

Luffy built an arbor with his hands and looked around.

Sitting on the execution platform, one could have a panoramic view of the entire central square, and the people below the stage looked at him unanimously, the surprise in their eyes couldn't be more obvious.

What kind of courage is needed to boldly climb onto the taboo execution platform...

At this moment, a more surprising scene appeared.

I saw the young man on the execution platform, under the watchful eyes of countless people, suddenly shouted to the sky: "I—— am the man who is going to be the One Piece King!!"

A voice of conviction.

It echoed over and over again throughout the central square, and the people in the audience were almost stunned.

"Varied……"

"He said One Piece..."

What kind of arrogance is this, the pirates who came to the great route can almost be said to regard the One Piece King as their goal, but who would dare to say such bold words on the execution platform where the One Piece King was executed back then?

"Hey, kid."

Lu Fei suddenly heard someone calling him, and he replied unhappily, "What are you doing, I'm very busy now."

"Are you Monkey D. Luffy?" Smoker asked, looking at Luffy on the execution platform.

"I'm Luffy, do you have anything to do with me?" Luffy still couldn't bear to look away.

"I am Captain Smoker, who is in charge of Rogue Town, and I want to arrest you." Smoker revealed his identity.

"Ah? Arrest?" Hearing that he was going to be arrested, Luffy finally looked at Smoker, and then simply threw out the classic line of JUMP senior Kurama, "I refuse."

"I am the man who is going to be the One Piece, how can I be arrested here?"

Luffy said it very clearly.

"Then you have to defeat me." Smoker rubbed his knuckles and made a clicking sound, "If you can't defeat me, you won't be able to complete the great route and become the One Piece King."

"If you don't defeat you, you can't become One Piece..." After hearing this logic, Luffy had the motivation to fight, "Then I'll defeat you!"

"Let's try it out." Smoker put on a serious look. After all, he is the pirate with the highest reward in the East China Sea, so he must not be an ordinary person.

Smoker thought that Luffy would come to PK with himself after getting off the execution platform, but Luffy actually punched while staying on the death penalty platform.This man was still sitting on the execution platform, and his hand swished in front of him.

"Devil Fruit Ability?!"

Smoker was startled.

Although it happened suddenly, Smoker still escaped without any risk, and was about to take a closer look at his opponent, only to find that Luffy was falling headfirst from the execution platform.

Because he forgot that he was still sitting cross-legged on the platform, his lower body was very unstable, and the inertia of Luffy's long-range attack directly brought him off the death penalty platform.

boom--

Luffy fell to the ground in a "big" shape, and his posture was very bad.

"You bastard! What the hell are you doing!!" Smoker couldn't help cursing.

"I don't want to do this either, but I forgot that I'm still sitting..." Luffy got up innocently.

"..."

It is estimated that Smoker will also be driven crazy.

Chopper and Xiuya in front of the bulletin board suddenly noticed that the surroundings suddenly became quite quiet, and everyone shut their mouths, paying close attention to every move under the execution platform.

Could it be that the captain did something to make people collapse again?The two couldn't help but follow people's line of sight to look under the execution platform.

There, a boy in a straw hat confronts a man in a navy uniform.The man seemed to be two meters tall, and Luffy had just reached his shoulders just now. Coupled with his muscular body, Luffy, who was more than a circle smaller, made the onlookers feel very worried.

...!

The two couldn't help being surprised, the situation didn't seem to be good.

※Note: Kurama, from "Yu Yu Hakusho", which was listed as one of the top three Jump comics in the mid-1990s along with "Dragon Ball" and "Slam Dunk" during its serialization.