Chapter 390 New Era [Three in One] Happy New Year(1/2)
"Everyone, please give me some face and don't continue!"
Shanks discovered that except Skyler, the other officers and his cadres had no intention of stopping, and they shouted helplessly, but... they were just captains/pirates.
"Okay, stop."
Skyler said helplessly. In an instant, all the cadres and officers stopped fighting. Shanks, who was originally weak and weak, suddenly turned red when he saw this scene.
Shanks, who was sad, angry and helpless, wanted to lie down and take a breath, but there was a knife in his back, and the dove of peace was not that big enough to make him lie down, and it was extremely uncomfortable to sit.
Skyler kicked gently under her feet, and Griffin, who was dropped by Shanks, was kicked up directly and shot towards Shanks accurately. However, Skyler did not use much strength, so even though he was injured, Shanks still caught the sword.
"Sure enough, you and Mihawk are swordsmen that I can't defeat anyway."
Shanks put Griffin in sheath, then turned around awkwardly and said, "Skyler, I can't pull it out myself and return it to you."
Skyler nodded. Shanks' attitude of admitting defeat made her very satisfied. If it were a swordsman's battle, Shanks would lose completely in this battle, and he would lose even a sword.
However, in the battle aimed at regaining the straw hat, he won, so... let's get it.
Compared to Shanks' embarrassment just now, Skyler jumped onto the head of the warship with elegant manner, and reached out to remove the short blade and white teeth that penetrated Shanks' chest.
At the same time, ghost-binding silk shot out from the ghost-binding beads, and suture traces that were no less than surgeons appeared on Shanks' body. Shanks touched the wound on his chest and said:
"It's great, don't worry about dying after bleeding too much."
His tone was very relaxed. Even if his injury just now was not cured, he might die of excessive blood loss, but... isn't this already stitched?
"Shanks."
Luffy suddenly appeared behind the bow image and looked at Shanks with curiosity. Shanks turned his head, stretched out his fairly intact right hand, rubbed Luffy's head, and said, "Luffy."
"Is that straw hat very precious?"
Luffy opened his curious eyes and looked at the straw hat on Shanks' head. He had worn the straw hat many times in the past two years, but he did not find anything strange.
“Is it precious?”
Shanks took off the straw hat he had just worn, looked at it, and said, "Maybe it's worthless.
But for me, this is a promise, this is a reason for me to tide the sea. Luffy, there will always be one day when you will find a promise worthy of your lifelong struggle, and you will also find a reason for you to tide the sea."
Because Skyler is there, Shanks did not mention becoming a pirate or something, but just said it in a very general way. After hearing this, Luffy nodded in a vague way.
"Shanks, why don't you be a pirate, so we can play together."
Luffy's sudden request made Shanks a little confused. After a while, he shook his head and said, "Is it a pirate? That's just the name of the world for someone like me."
"What are you actually?"
"Me? I'm just a person who wants to live freely, and at the same time, see others living freely. Doing evil is not my pleasure, but sometimes I do such things.
Overall, I'm not a good person."
Shanks' self-deprecation made Beckman and others sigh. In the red-haired group, Jesus Bu, had been following Shanks for more than ten years, but he could only be called a crime.
Following Shanks' attack on the World Government's Institute, counting once, attacking the CP9 fleet once, and then... this time he really fought with the Zhanye Detachment, not to mention that he still didn't shoot a single shot today.
Others call them pirates, and sometimes they call themselves pirates, but...if there is a profession in the world that is more in line with their behavior, maybe they will change their name.
"Living for freedom? I want to be that kind of person, too."
Luffy suddenly smiled and said loudly. Shanks was stunned because the child in front of him was really like his former captain, and also like the man who fought for the whole world.
He looked at Skyler and said, "Luffy, he really looks like his father."
Skyler nodded with a smile. Although she had been cheated by Dorag many times, she hated the middle-aged man who pursued dreams, but for his career... Skyler still agrees with him.
"Shanks, do you know my father?"
Luffy asked, he had seen Dorag's photo once in Skyler's residence in Marinfando, and was still full of curiosity about the father whom everyone was reluctant to mention.
Ace, who had been alert to Shanks, had his ears moved inadvertently at this time. He had already learned about his father, but for Luffy's father...
That seems to be a person who is more taboo than One Piece.
"Don't know."
But Shanks' answer made Luffy feel a little dejected, and Shanks rubbed his head again.
Shanks did not know Dorag. He only knew Dorag's existence and the existence of the Revolutionary Army, but the two did not meet.
As long as Shanks thinks, Dorag will not be able to find Shanks. Similarly, if Dorag is not interested in Shanks, even if Shanks goes to find Dorags, he will not be able to find him.
"Um?"
Just as Luffy lowered his head because he was in a low mood, he suddenly felt something was on his head. When he looked up, Shanks had no straw hat on his head.
"Shanks..."
Luffy was a little confused, and Skyler also frowned. Other cadres who had to grow up with all their strength in the past few years because their captain wanted to regain the straw hat, looked at Shanks strangely.
"I'll leave the straw hat to you for the time being. When you become the kind of person you want to be the most, I'll give it back to me.
Whether you become a navy, a pirate, or just an ordinary person, as long as you think clearly about your future path and become the person you want to become, you will give me the straw hat back."
Shanks said with a smile, Luffy reached out and touched the brim of his hat, saying, "But Shanks, isn't this your promise to others?"
"Haha~ Yes, but I have fulfilled my promise. The rest is one you want to give me."
Shanks scratched his head, then combed his hair with his knuckles, and said, "I still don't like to live with a hat, whether it's worn by myself or someone else for me."
"But it's quite comfortable."
Luffy touched the straw hat on his head, not understanding why Shanks didn't like wearing a hat. Shanks laughed happily when he heard this: "Hahaha~ As long as you like it, then wear it."
Shanks stood up, and the feeling of weakness in his body had almost adapted. He said to Skyler: "Skyler, I am going to the New World. Welcome to visit us in the future."
Skyler did not answer immediately, but smiled and looked into the direction of the new world in the distance, and said, "The Whitebeard Pirates are waiting for you, please be blessed."
Shanks didn't seem to care about the white beard, but just waved his hand and said, "Skyler, please take your team members back, otherwise I'll take them away haha~"
Skyler raised his eyebrows and raised his left hand gently. In an instant, hundreds of ghost-bound silk flew out and wrapped around the members of the Ye Zhan Ye Detachment. Then, with a raised hand, the team members were pulled back to the warship.
"Speaking of this, I have known you for so many years, but I still don't know your name."
Skyler asked, Shanks fell silent and said, "Shanks, isn't it enough?"
Seeing Skyler shook his head, Shanks hesitated for a moment and said, "Red Shanks, is it enough?"
"Red? It reminds me of a joke, One Piece Gol D. Roger, and One Piece Goldo Roger."
Seeing that Skyler obviously didn't believe the name he said, Shanks smiled and said, "Isn't red good? Do you hate color? Mrs. Grey?"
"Reggel D. Shanks."
"I guessed wrong."
Shanks smiled and shook his head, without the intention of continuing the topic, and jumped off the somewhat broken Redfoss. Looking at the cadres, seeing that Lyme Jones and others had already come down from the warship, he nodded and said:
"Start! New World!"
"Reagre? Ray D. Ig?"
"Hahaha~ There are not only eagles in the sky, but eagles are not just one name."
Shanks waved his hand with a smile. At this time, the sails of the Redfoss had been raised. The Red-haired Pirates, who were short of food and clothing, were finally going to the new world and becoming the new emperor.
It's just...it's no matter how you look at it.
Skyler, who couldn't guess Shanks' name, was a little unhappy, rubbed his brain, and saw Luffy holding a straw hat and admiring it all the time.
The straw hat that was just a little interested in the past, but now it was like a treasure. Skyler frowned and looked at Ace, saying, "Ace, Luo has entered the elite camp. You and Luffy are going to work hard."
Ace understood the intention of Skyler, an aunt, and nodded with a smile, saying to Luffy, who was still admiring the straw hat: "Luffy, you haven't exercised for several days, right?"
Luffy nodded straightforwardly, then Ace smiled and shouted:
"Fire Fist!"
Brooke walked to Skyler at this time and said, "How could three people who have no intersection coincide with each other by chance use Do, Re, and Mi as the beginning of their names?"
"But wouldn't it be great if there was such a coincidence? It was as if my epic had been conceived?"
Skyler asked back, and Brooke scratched the crack on the left side of his forehead and said, "I don't know, if that's the case, the creator must love and hate it."
"Maybe, but... no character should be favored."
Skyler waved his hand and said, "Nurkic!"
Nurkic, who was still savoring the simple and precise battle with Beckman, patted his forehead as if he had woken up from a dream, ran towards him, and said, "Sir! Please give me instructions."
"Return to G-5 branch and notify our department that the other four New World branches can rest. Next, the Zhanye Detachment will take over!"
"Yes! Sir!"
Nurkic saluted and then quickly dispatched the detachment. The warship engine began to roar. The huge warship completed a flexible and swift turn and headed towards the G-5 branch.
When the warship arrived at the G-5 branch and began to connect with materials, the Redfoss, which set out earlier, finally broke through the 219 nautical miles of New World waters controlled by the navy.
Before Shanks could catch his breath, he saw the Mobidick, guarded by four sub-ships, sailing towards this side. In the distance, there were other large white-bearded pirate ships on the edge of the sea level.
The Red Hair Group, which had just experienced a high-intensity battle, was a little tired at this time. Although the others were not as fierce as Skyler attacked Shanks, the Zhanye Detachment also knew that the battle was to let the Red Hair Pirates go to the new world.
Therefore, the injuries on other cadres... Beckman, the worst, was just bruised and swollen, and the lightest, Dego and Leme Jones, had... changed their hairstyle.
To be continued...