6 Chapter 06

Chapter 06

As Luffy saw Garp leave he quickly scanned the small notebook in his hands.

After making sure Garp left, he ran towards his hiding spot. Grinning and laughing along the way. It worked, his acting skills worked. It gave him something that he could finally use to better himself.

Sure acting like Luffy was no big deal, but when you want to be Luffy and be smart at the same time, it was another thing entirely. Show too much intelligence and you are suspected and show less, and you are a moron, that doesn't need attention.

When he came to this world, one of the things he learned was that he could speak and understand Japanese fluently. It came along with Luffy's memories, but he couldn't read or write.

It seemed Garp didn't teach Luffy that. Well, the old man was always was planning on making him join the Marines and they would take care of it. But what the old man didn't know was that before leaving, Ace had learned how to read and write from Makino.

Of course like the good big brother Ace was, he wanted Luffy to learn it as well. But the boy was too rowdy to learn anything that needed him to sit for more than ten minutes. But that was the old Luffy, not him.

So Luffy only had to pursue Makino to teach him. And she did patiently, he wasn't an expert of the language or anything but in the six months, he could now read and write basics.

And now Luffy just needed some pen and paper to copy the full notebook before Garp left.

Luffy would obviously beg Garp whenever he found him to teach him about Haki. But he was half sure that the man wouldn't budge, that man was stubborn as he was. And that was saying something.

But that didn't mean he could smart his way into things. There was an internet theory popular back in his world, where it's stated that Luffy and the viewers couldn't see the blackness of Haki, was because Luffy didn't learn about it.

So in the summit war, everyone did use Haki, but we the viewers and Luffy weren't able to see it because of that. Of course that was excluding Mihawk's black blade, which had permanent haki on it. 

So his first step would be to observe Garp's hand every time the giant man attacked him. His rubber body could take all shots, but when it came to Haki, he felt pain like a normal human. So even though it was a painful process he would see to it that he learned about Haki.

Also, even though he officially would start his journey when seventeen. It didn't mean that he couldn't get help from outside. He wouldn't leave the island, Ace made him promise that. And as a man, he was going to keep it.

But getting outside help into the island should be easy. If he played his cards right, and gathered enough wealth, he was sure that he could buy some guidebook to Haki from the black market.

Also as he scanned the book he realized that it was only about conditioning his body. There was no mention of the techniques. Maybe he could find the techniques from the black market as well.

'I mean I'm sure Dofi-Joker had some guidebook on Haki circulating around the black market. Any pirate that survived a day in the new world would give him all to buy and learn that shit.' he thought, 'Also, that guy has one of his crewmates in the marines so he should also have the rokushiki with him.'

Luffy looked at the notebook in his hand. It was quite big. And copying would be a hassle. But then again, he was a person who didn't back down from any challenge. More so when that challenge aligned with his goals.

'It's not some Rokushiki manual, but it was the next best thing.' he thought to himself. 'If the original Luffy could figure out how to Gepo and Soru. Or his own version of it, then so could I. And this will make it hell of a lot easier.'

So he was going to start with those, and in the meantime try to get into the local island's black market and see if he could get anything there.

'But then again, learning all the other rokushiki techniques might be not good for him. But he could teach them to his crewmates in the future.' And this book had all the exercises needed for a person to gain the basic body requirements for Rokushiki techniques.

Unlike people like Oden, Kido or Big Mom, who were born strong, Luffy wasn't. He just trained and fought countless battles to make himself strong.

Sure had all the chosen one shenanigan going for him. Like his normal devil fruit powers turning into a broken one… but he had to struggle to get to that point.

And it would be tough, but he was going to make himself strong enough that he could squat any flies in the first part of the grand line.

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In the Navy Headquarters,

A man was seen fuming in anger. He slammed the desk, "Why that Garp!" he shouted. It was none other then Fleet Admiral Sengoku. "Why didn't you stop him from taking that, if you were there."

"I felt Lazy?"

Sengoku's veins were about to pop out of his skull. "That was one of the grade swords from Rocks era. As an Admiral, you should have stopped him."

"Yeah, me stopping the Marine Hero." Kuzan said, rolling his eyes, "He still treats me like a kid. And would punch my lights out. No, thank you. That's too much of a drag." He then started walking away, he didn't need to do anything but report it. Who cares what happened to that old relic? Most marines used swords and guns anyways, so that was mostly left untouched.

"You sit right here, Aokiji!" The Budha shouted, "Go and find out where Garp is, and call him. And make sure no one finds out about the incident."

Kuzan grumbled, but nodded nonetheless. Why did I have to put up with this again. Oh, because Garp was former sensei that's why... stupid old man.

Sengoku was already having a massive headache. The so-called marine hero just stole one of the relics in the Marine museum. And how was he supposed to explain that to his superiors?

It was a good thing that no one visited that place. It was basically a junkyard for all unusable weapons that Marines collected from pirates. The gorosei built that place for their personal amusement.

And he was sure that those oldies wouldn't care that much. Or at least he hoped...

But it also made him wonder how Garp remembered about the weapon. But then Sengoku remembered that Garp was the one that caught the previous wielder of that blade. Maybe that's why.

Sengku massaged his temples. But the main question was why would Garp need that.

Sengoku didn't know why, but he had a bad feeling about it.