Chapter 96 - Supernova

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At the same time, at a restaurant in Groove 24....

"Look how she eats..."

"Where did all that go...?"

Several diners were astonished to notice that a young woman with long pink hair seemed to be eating voraciously.

"Shameless woman.... You made me lost my appetite.... You vulgar."

A short middle-aged man, was uncomfortable with the way the pink-haired woman ate.

"Where's my food!? I'm almost out of it! Get some more! Pizza again!"

However, the woman with long pink hair doesn't seem to care about other people's stares and glances at her.

In another corner of the restaurant, someone is angry because the waiter bumped into him and spilled spaghetti on his clothes.

But then, a young man with long blonde hair interrupted the grumpy person and spoke.

"That's the fate of your clothes.... Sorry we scared you, waiter. Today is a bad luck day."

In another corner of the restaurant, suddenly the walls of the restaurant exploded and a man with glasses, long braided hair, and very long arms jumped out!

"If you want to fight, how about waiting in the New World? How about it? Don't you know how strong I am?"

A moment later, a red-haired punk came out of the restaurant in anger.

"You challenged me first! I'll kill you right now!"

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At the same time, Groove 21....

A large middle-aged man was fiercely fighting against a masked man with long blond hair. But then, an orange-haired man in a black hat with an 'X' shaped scar on his chin interrupted and stopped their fight!

"If you want to fight, do it in the New World!"

The two men who were fighting then stopped.

"You're a former Marine officer, Drake, huh...."

The big middle-aged man spoke looking at the man who stopped his fight. He then also looked and spoke to his opponent just now.

"Hehehe.... Looks like you'll be alive for today, masked man!"

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After stopping the fight, the person who had interrupted walked away.

But, then a young man in a fur hat sitting not far there spoke to him who was walking by.

"Not bad.... But, Drake.... How many have you killed?"

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Back to Shakky's Bar, in Groove 13....

Luffy and others were very surprised and dumbfounded to hear Shakky mention the rookie pirates with bounty of over 100 million in the current Shabondy Archipelago. However, Shakky was also quite surprised that despite not knowing their other rival pirates, Luffy and the others already knew about the Ouroboros Pirates.

Shakky continued to speak.

"There are many pirates crew who entered the Grand Line, but always only a few remain and survive till this point.... The Grand Line is like a race venue... And the surviving pirates of each route are the elites who have proved that the strongest survives...."

Shakky stopped again to take a breath and smoked her cigarette.

"All the current super rookies might become an inspiration for the next generation of pirates. And you all cannot possibly go unnoticed after entering the New World."

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"Oh.... And regarding bounties, Captain Kidd has a bounty of 315 million Berries because they caused a lot of damage and destruction to the general public. Not cute, right? While Captain Lepus as you know has the highest bounty of 595 million Berries, and some of his crew is also worth 100 million or more because his pirates recently managed to take down a legendary pirates of old generation. Even though they are also rookies, the level of Ouroboros Pirates in my opinion is way higher than other rookies... So, I chose to support you guys, Luffy-chan!"

Shakky said smilingly.

And hearing Shakky support them, Luffy only responded casually.

"Well, I just want to enjoy my adventure!"

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