Chapter 373 - Sabaody Again 02.
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Third Person POV
Sabaody.
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"What happened..." The so-called Straw Hat awoke at this moment, while he calmly stood up with everyone in the bar not moving an inch since that stranger left the bar—and it has been 20 minutes.
The questions about what happened were on Straw Hat's mind as he touched his head with some pain, and all his crew members also stood up at this moment.
"Does anyone know what happened, tell me immediately!!" He exclaimed, looking at the people in the bar, but everyone was too afraid to answer.
"Nobody knows... Lord Straw Hat... that stranger simply did something and left the bar, no one knows where he went..." The bartender replied, trembling.
"Tsk!! Where did that bastard go!! Let's look for him!!!" The supposed Straw Hat exclaimed as his entire crew nodded, leaving with frustration, leaving the bartender aside, going after this man who humiliated him, something he would not let pass.
Meanwhile, powerful people were getting ever closer to Sabaody. The man with the cloak, moving calmly, continued walking through the streets and entering the forest of giant trees, looking for a place to sit after going to an open side of the area.
He finally found a place near some old structures of abandoned buildings. There were a few groups in that place, but he kept his distance. He removed his cape, revealing his own Monkey D. Luffy—or at least the real one. Smiling after settling down, Luffy took another bottle out of the system to drink immediately after.
He had gone to that bar just out of curiosity, wanting to meet the iconic crew that was impersonating the Straw Hats in the original work. Although surprised that they had appeared a year earlier than expected, he understood the situation. After all, the Straw Hat had accumulated so much fame and power in his name that they did not want to wait two years of inactivity to emerge with their flag.
He wondered who would appear in that square soon, so he decided to wait and see. After all, this would be a good opportunity to start recruiting some groups that interested him for his fleet, if they pleased him.
He remained there, feeling someone approaching. A woman descended from the sky with her white dress and approached Luffy. She looked where he was, observing how a crowd was beginning to form in that space.
"What are you doing here?" Uta asked, squatting down next to him.
"I'm just enjoying Sabaody," Luffy simply said while drinking.
"I see. But then, you don't mind if I stay by your side, right?" she asked.
Luffy just smiled while wrapping his arm around her waist, placing her by his side. Uta eventually moved her head to her husband's shoulder, both watching the square calmly.
The search for the supposed Straw Hat by the mysterious man ended up being a frustration for the fake pirates. Quickly, having no results, they called through the Den Den Mushi and asked everyone to meet at the location mentioned in the poster ahead of time. After all, the recruitment would begin soon.
The crowd began to grow while Luffy continued at a distance, along with Uta, watching more and more groups gathering. "Wait, this is what we saw in the recruitment paper those people are pretending to be you and many of our crew," Uta murmured in surprise now seeing what this crowd of pirates gathering here was about..
"Yes, it will start soon," Luffy spoke before opening a smile, before he glanced at the crowd a bit surprised by who was there. "So he is here," he murmured with the appearance of some members he did not believe he would see there this year.
"If that mud guy is here... I won't treat them like the Straw Hat did in the original," he decided and waited.
Then, after a while, the crowd went into a frenzy with the arrival of the main group, as the supposed Straw Hat approached the place.
"They are," Uta murmured.
"Yes, let's see what they are going to do," Luffy said. At any moment, he could simply unleash his King's Haki and knock down the whole group, but he found it amusing. He also began to sense the approach of the Navy, which was starting to encircle the area, even some sailors trying to come to where he was. Unseen, he released an invisible wave of Haki, and the whole group of sailors who might encounter him as they advanced to the crowd, while he still observed the meeting.
"Listen up everyone!" the supposed Straw Hat exclaimed, already on stage, with his crew behind him, addressing the entire crowd.
"Today, you will have the honor of joining my fleet, where we will immediately head to the New World for the first time and dominate the entire sea, with no one able to stop us! You will be part of the crew that conquered the sea. Remember this and the opportunity I am giving you!" He began his speech, all arrogant, while the captains in the crowd felt most excited by it, while others had darker intentions with this supposed Straw Hat. It wasn't a surprise, after all, taking down the Straw Hat would bring great fame.
He continued exclaiming his words when, suddenly, he went to the edge of the stage and started on the matter that weighed on his heart: "Listen up everyone! There's someone on this island who dared to challenge me. I want you to help me look for him. He wears a cloak covering his body. I want you to look for all the people wearing that kind of thing in Sabaody. Whoever manages to do this will join the main crew, are we understood?" He exclaimed, as everyone quickly raised their arms, smiling greedily.
But before he could continue his speech, screams began coming from all sides, while sailors emerged from the hills and the trees, positioning their rifles and swords against the entire group.
"The Navy is here!" they shouted.
Immediately, the fake Straw Hat clenched his teeth and yelled, "Don't let them get close! Let them know the power of Straw Hat and how we deal with those who dare to challenge us! Stop all of them!"
"Yes...! Take that, Navy!"
"Do you dare to challenge us?!"
While the supposed Straw Hat stayed on the stage, a battle began on all sides, except where the original Luffy was, between pirates and sailors. The sound of swords and gunfire filled the air, but the pirates were quite powerful and quickly began to win, with their captains with bounties above 50 million going to fight.
"We are the Straw Hat crew now, sailors! You are all already dead!" a captain shouted before destroying a sailor with a punch.
The battle continued for a while, as Luffy calmly drank. "These sailors are going to lose easily," Uta murmured.
"Don't think so," Luffy replied, raising an eyebrow as he looked up. After all, he hadn't expected this to happen, but soon hundreds of men dressed as government agents began to advance into the middle of the area. Before they could realize, they started being struck down by CP agents commanded by Tenryuubitos.
"What is this? Who are they?" murmured one of the pirates as he was struck and killed.
"AHHH!!!" Another exclaimed having his heart pierced with an agent's finger.
"They are too strong!!" Another exclaimed before dying.
"Government agents are here!" Some finally discovered and exclaimed, the fake Straw Hat was stunned, seeing his future crew and fleet starting to be defeated quickly. The agents had no mercy, killing even a captain with a bounty of 130 million with just one move.
"Straw Hat!! We need you?!"
"They are too strong, help us!!"
The pirates began to ask for help immediately with the fight tilting towards the group of sailors and government.
"We should get out of here," Zoro from the fake crew, spoke to the supposed Straw Hat.
"Yes...!" The supposed Straw Hat exclaimed as he saw that he could not fight there and would use the crowd to give him time.
He turned to the crowd in fight. "Keep fighting! I will help you soon!" He spoke and returned to his group. "Let's get out of here, we can't stay here," he murmured.
However, at this moment, there was an explosion, as everyone looked surprised with two Pacifistas appearing in the middle of the battlefield, with Sentomaru with his huge ax resting on his shoulder.
"Oh, this seems more nostalgic," the original Luffy laughed at that as he hadn't seen Sentomaru since the war.
"So you are the Straw Hat?" Sentomaru looked at the supposed Straw Hat.
"Of course it's me! You better clear the way for me, otherwise I'll act as I did with the war and eliminate all of you!" The supposed Luffy said with an arrogant tone, but at the same time with fear.
"No..." Sentomaru said, looking at a fool. "You are just trash! To think you are the real Straw Hat? You are just a fraud," he spoke in front of everyone, as everyone looked on in surprise.
"What do you mean by a fraud? Are you saying he's not the real one?" the pirates asked, confused.
"Yes, I'm saying he's a fraud! The real Straw Hat would never need a fleet like this... and certainly wouldn't recruit so ostentatiously. You have to be very foolish to use that man's name, when the World Government is using all its forces to look for him. You will be eliminated quickly," Sentomaru declared, as his pacifistas began to attack amidst the crowd, firing beams from their mouths and the agents continued to kill other pirates using the Six Styles.
"This is going to be a massacre," Uta murmured next to Luffy, still standing as a couple of love-struck teenagers.
Luffy just watched until Sentomaru delivered an ax blow to the head of the fake Straw Hat, knocking him out. "You really are an idiotic trash," Sentomaru murmured, as everyone around was shocked and frustrated to realize they had been deceived.
"He was just a fraud... we were deceived."
"Now we're screwed..."
The pirates exclaimed frustrated watching the man who they thought would challenge the world government, knocked out.
"Eliminate all the pirates," Sentomaru ordered, and the pacifista began searching for everyone, until it found someone sitting at a distance.
"Demalo Black, 26,000,000 Berries," the pacifista started with that fake Straw Hat.
"Just 26 million?!" People thought frustrated.
"Caribou, 210,000,000 Berries." The pacifistas began scanning the entire area to name the captains.
He continued naming various captains, until scanning the distance, looking at a couple, and started with the man. "Straw Hat detected. Bounty of 3,500,000,000 berries," the pacifista spoke, while everyone looked at that moment, including Sentomaru, who looked shocked at what he heard.
"What did you say? Repeat, PX-12!" Sentomaru exclaimed with some fear in his voice as everyone there paid attention to him.
"Straw Hat detected. Bounty of 3,500,000,000 berries." PX-12 repeated.
"Where is he?" Sentomaru murmured, while the pacifista simply opened his hand and fired a beam, which advanced through the crowd. Everyone watched the beam cut through the air until, at a distance, it approached two people. Before hitting them, one of them simply slapped the beam, causing it to fly up and explode near the giant trees.
"You should be careful with those pacifistas, Sentomaru. Aren't you seeing that I'm in the middle of a date with my wife?" Luffy's voice was heard as the whole place fell silent.
"It can't be..." Sentomaru murmured with a trembling voice.
"Well, it looks like I'm going to have to act..." Luffy said as he stretched, looking at his wife. "I'll be right back." He said and disappeared.
"Well, it looks like this guy was pretending to be me," Luffy spoke calmly, appearing behind Sentomaru and the pacifistas without anyone being able to perceive or follow his speed. Luffy looked at the fake Straw Hat with interest, as everyone around kept their eyes fixed on him, holding their breath.
"A real emperor..." They murmured trembling in the presence of Luffy, who had a very different atmosphere from the one who was pretending to be him.
"I can't even breathe or move... so this is what it's like to see someone who is at the top of this world in strength...?"
The pirates continued to comment among themselves, while the sailors sweated, believing they would die there; even the agents, previously confident, took a step back, knowing that if they were dealing with the real Straw Hat, death was certain for everyone there.
"It's good to see you back, Sentomaru, but I'm going to take a few members here and then I'll take my leave," Luffy spoke calmly and even politely in a playful tone.
Sentomaru was very scared now, and before he could react, a burst of Haki erupted from Luffy. Immediately, the entire place was enveloped, expanding across the island, while Uta's twin capes at a distance immediately flew backwards with the force of the Haki sweeping through every corner. At Shakky's bar, everyone immediately felt the Haki and raised their heads in the direction it came from, wondering what Luffy was doing.
The entire island began to be enveloped by his Haki and in the next moment, everyone at that place began to fall, whether pirates with bounties of hundreds of thousands, government agents, or even Sentomaru and the Navy. No one resisted his Haki and fell to the ground in the next moment.
Luffy saw the sound of bodies falling everywhere, but two beings were still standing in front of Luffy. Being machines, the pacifistas were not affected by the Haki, which only affects living beings in their souls.
Luffy looked at the pacifistas as they opened their mouths to attack him. But, in the next moment, their bodies were crushed with someone appearing on top of them and punching them with both arms wrapped in haki.
Uta landed as they exploded approaching Luffy, she had defeated two pacifistas with one blow. "I thought you didn't want to draw attention, but I was wrong," she murmured.
"Well, I had no choice. After all, someone interesting is coming this way," Luffy murmured, having already sensed the presence of this being even before releasing his Haki. He simply used his strength to draw her here, and that's exactly what happened.
Something fell from the sky like a meteor, near them, making Uta look up, slightly scared, feeling that she could not defeat this person while her instincts told her to flee. Meanwhile, Luffy calmly looked at the debris and smoke being dispersed, revealing a beautiful blonde tenryuubito woman with four wings on her back.
"You..." the woman spoke looking at him angrily.
"I don't know who you are, but I didn't know the tenryuubitos could produce someone so beautiful," Luffy commented, looking at the beautiful woman who stared at him as if he were already dead.
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