I lent you this precious straw hat of mine

That day, in addition to being a day that will stick out in Luffy and Uta's memories, was also a day of farewell because Shanks and his crew had to go sailing again, and no one knows when or if they will return to the small Foosha village again in the future.

In the small port of their village, the villagers who had felt close to the red hair pirates were standing there with sad faces. This was because they were now completely convinced that red hair pirates were very different from the pirates who always made trouble in their village or from the ruthless pirates who often appeared in the newspapers.

"Where are Uta and Luffy? When it's like they're late, or don't they intend to ignore me," grumbled Shanks in front of Makino and his crew.

"hahahaha, captain, who knows they both have a grudge against you after everything you've done to both of them over the past few months," Benn Beckman tried to tease his captain jokingly.

"Maybe, you really made Luffy and Uta train hard," said Makino in agreement while covering her smile.

Shanks remained silent for a while before breaking his silence with a sigh and saying: "I can't just keep quiet after Luffy accidentally ate that devil fruit."

This time, it was Makino who went silent, but Shanks did not notice that Makino was staring at him with an unusual icy look. After that, one of Shanks' crew members yelled while pointing to the end of the road:

"Oh look, there they are."

Luffy and Uta walked side by side with Lufff, who was holding Uta's hand attentively. Their expressions somehow looked unusual. Shanks was greeted by Luffy's cheery wave, which was accompanied by a wide smile. In the meantime, Uta's head was only slightly bowed, and her face was slightly flushed.

'what have they done? Somehow I have a bad feeling about this,' Makino thought to herself when she noticed Uta's slightly strange way of walking.

But in the meantime, Shanks, his crew and the villagers didn't seem to notice even when Luffy and Uta walked closer.

Shanks asked Luffy with some annoyance, "Hey Luffy, do you want to make Uta late?" but judging by the smile on his face, he didn't seem to mind too much, especially when he saw how much closer Luffy and Uta were now in comparison to before.

Luffy responded nonchalantly, "Sorry, we played until we lost track of time, but it looks like I'm still on time," Shanks then ordered his crew to board the ship. In the meantime, Shanks thanked the villagers of Foosha once more before intending to take Uta away.

"I'm not going to sail with you," Uta said suddenly, which surprised Shanks and Makino. They seemed to not believe what they heard. Therefore Shanks confirmed it once again.

"Uta, stop joking around. Are you serious?"

Uta just nodded her head, and while glancing at Luffy, she then said, "umm, Luffy asked me to be his pirate crew."

This time, Makino yelled out in even greater shock as she hurriedly asked Luffy, "hey Luffy...a pirate?...do you really want to be a pirate?...don't you know how dangerous it is?"

Luffy just smiled widely as he always did before pointing at Shanks and saying, "I want to see what it's like to sail in this vast sea, and after hearing from Shanks about the pirate king Gol D Roger, I want to go beyond him and find the One Piece he's been hiding."

Hearing what a 7-year-old boy like Luffy said, Shanks just laughed out loud before stroking Luffy's head as if feeling proud, but Makino and Uta, who knew that Luffy wasn't an ordinary kid, just raised their eyebrows before taking a deep breath.

"Is that so? You want to experience the adventures of a pirate while trying to surpass the pirate king, huh?"

Shanks then knelt down in one knee in front of Luffy before handing the boy his straw hat. At this point, Luffy's entire body began to shake slightly, and he looked up at Shanks, looking confused.

Luffy whispered to himself, 'did he and me are this close?... I didn't think I would still get this scene where Shanks is going to give me his hat,' said Luffy to himself, but he didn't really care either.

"I lent you this precious straw hat of mine. When you have gathered your pirate crew and set sail, you can come to see me and return this straw hat to me."

Before waiting for my response, Shanks looked at Uta, and his expression changed to become serious as he said, "actually, I was a little worried about leaving you alone, but it seems I forgot that you've grown a lot now, it seems that if you continue sailing with me, it will only hinder your dream." Uta, who had previously still lowered her head in embarrassment, quickly raised her head and looked directly at Shanks. Her purple eyes started to tear up, but she endured it and nodded her head, but in the end, Uta cried loudly and ran towards Shanks to hug him.

After that, Shanks reluctantly pulled away from their embrace and stood before walking away. In the meantime, Makino just kept staring at Uta, specifically at Uta's groin, which for some reason was dripping a clear liquid that looked like sweat, but Makino knew that it wasn't sweat.

Until finally, the red hair pirate ship sailed away, and everyone could still see Shanks and his crew standing on deck waving their hands. After that, Luffy walked alongside Uta, who was still feeling a little down, while she wiped her tears away.

Uta screamed under her breath, "ahh, mmmh... Luffy, you bastard..." when she could feel Luffy squeezing her butt. Even after the villagers of Foosha had left to continue their activities, Luffy, who intended to tease Uta even more, was awakened by coughing sounds coming from behind him.

"Ahem... Luffy, can we talk for a bit."