Chapter 271 - Sabaody Archipelago 07.

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Third Person POV

Sabaody Archipelago, First Half of Grandline.

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Saint Charlos was a World Noble who treated everyone who was not a Celestial Dragon with disdain, inferior beings whom he could kill and enslave at will, and no one could do anything about it. Today, he was out in Sabaody with his family, while his father and sister were somewhere else, he decided to look for some new concubines for his harem.

He also liked to collect many different races, and today he was particularly excited because he had heard about the auction of a recently captured mermaid, which was happening in that very district.

Immediately, he canceled his trip to the amusement park and called his father, who would meet them soon at the auction, so Saint Charlos continued to head to the big auction with his guards.

He looked at his mount, a large man he had made into a slave some time ago, whom he used to ride while the man crawled wherever he wanted; the man hardly seemed to have any life left in his eyes, he just obeyed.

Charlos was getting a bit frustrated with the delay this slave was having in continuing the path and quickly started kicking behind his head, stepping on the man's ear. "Come on, you're too slow! That mermaid is going to be auctioned and I want to buy her. If you delay me and she's sold before I get there, I swear I'll make you regret it and make you beg for death," he said, growling as he continued to assault the man, who looked just like an empty puppet.

Beside him was a pirate who had also just been bought at another auction. The man also looked at his miserable life, unable to react, after all, he had been caught by a Celestial Dragon and now had an explosive collar, nothing could be done against that, the only thing he could think about was his future miserable life, which could not be better than the man this World Noble was sitting on top of.

Meanwhile, the men around him, in suits, who were government agents, calmly looked at the situation as if it were normal, already accustomed to Saint Charlos's personality, doing nothing about it, just to keep him as one of the descendants of the creators of this world and protect him with their lives.

"If I hear right... So, there's a mermaid being auctioned right now?" a voice emerged at that moment while Charlos was still venting his frustration on his slave, he impulsively ended up responding to the unexpectedly asked question.

"Yes, a mermaid is being auctioned, and I will have her in my tank! I'll make her try to run from my piranhas, it will be so much fun," the man said, imagining the scene, until suddenly, he blinked and looked forward, hearing that there was a man with a woman on his back standing in front of them. His gaze was stunned as he looked at that man with his mouth open, but it wasn't just him.

All the people at the location looked stunned and at a loss for words. Luffy was there standing, not caring if he was in front of a Celestial Dragon. Luffy just calmly looked at the World Noble while his arms were crossed.

"Hey, is this really happening?" one of the citizens immediately shouted, while others also spoke.

"What's going to happen?" another murmured.

"Is this Monkey D. Luffy, does he not know that he can't mess with a Celestial Dragon?!" others exclaimed.

"He's dead!" another said.

"Yes, he's messing with a god of this world!"

Charlos still looked at this whole moment at Luffy with a shocked look, as if he was simply going to pull out his gold gun and point it at Luffy and just kill him.

"You... You..." Saint Charlos murmured. While his group of agents was at the height of nervousness, wondering what Luffy was planning to do.

"What's wrong with him, Luffy-sama?" Shirahoshi asked curiously.

"I don't know, he must be sick, look at the snot coming out of his nose, that's why he wears that helmet, to not pass the virus to other people..." Luffy murmured.

Saint Charlos seemed to have heard the most absurd thing in the world, because he didn't say anything else but to pick up his gold pistol and was about to aim at Luffy and shoot, but something at that moment caught his attention, which was the mermaid on Luffy's back, when he saw her tail swaying beside him, which left him even more surprised.

"This is a mermaid," he said, seeing her pink tail and her curious gaze. "She's the most beautiful mermaid I've ever seen," he exclaimed, as more snot dripped from him. "I want her, I want her now!" He exclaimed joyfully while his men seemed to frown.

Shirahoshi looked scared by his reaction. "Luffy-sama..." she murmured, hiding behind Luffy.

"Hm? You want her?" Luffy simply asked calmly, while everyone didn't know what to expect from the answer. Everyone knew the mermaid was part of his crew, so they felt that something terrible was about to happen at that moment.

From a distance, a woman eating pizza stared open-mouthed at the scene. "Hey, hey, what is he going to do?" Bonney asked somewhat worried.

Luffy's question took the Celestial Dragon out of his joy and he looked at Luffy with a fierce gaze. "What are you doing standing, you inferior being?" he said to Luffy, who seemed not to care.

"Why would I kneel to a celestial pig?" Luffy commented, making everyone gape at that moment with a grimace. Even Saint Charlos himself was alarmed by it; he grabbed his pistol this time and pointed it at Luffy.

"Take the mermaid off your back and I'll kill you," he said, not wanting to damage such precious merchandise.

"Hey, celestial pig, did you know I usually kill people who think they can take my crew?" Luffy said, leaving people speechless once again.

'Killing a Celestial Dragon' was something no one had ever thought to hear in their lives, so what Luffy was mentioning would defy the logic of this world.

Saint Charlos wasted no more time, immediately shooting at Luffy. Luffy saw the gold bullet coming out of his gun, it had seastone in it, to kill Devil Fruit users as well, but Luffy just watched that marble moving in slow motion in the air and scoffed at it.

Saint Charlos didn't even realize when Luffy was already in front of him, cocking his arm back and delivering a punch, the man was imagining Luffy lying dead on the ground with him taking the mermaid to show off to his colleagues in Mary Geoise, while the glass of his helmet was breaking with Luffy's fist coming at him before anyone could react, the man only realized something was wrong when he felt pain with Luffy's fist burying into him, making even time stop with it.

Everyone saw the scene freeze on that street, in a millisecond, while Luffy sank his fist into the face of Saint Charlos, a being who was supposed to be untouchable, after all, touching a Celestial Dragon was like declaring war with the greatest power in this world, the World Government.

The scene had entered people's subconscious while it was recorded for the rest of their lives, until finally time returned to normal and before anyone could react... The Celestial Dragon simply flew backwards, crashing into one of the buildings on the street and exploding the building right after. The explosion made everyone look alarmed at that.

"Did he really do that?" someone spoke in the midst of the silence with the only sound being the debris flying caused by the body of the celestial dragon, everyone was shocked once again.

"I can't believe this," another said, looking through it, stunned as well.

"He... he... he..." Bonney seemed to have a convulsion from a distance with that.

"..." Kid had a shocked face too in front of the bar as he watched the scene.

The Celestial Dragon's guards were silent for a second, wondering what really happened, until the explosion began to settle down and they finally came out of their state of shock.

"Do you know what you did? You touched a god of this world," one of those men said and Luffy just shrugged.

"Come on, call an admiral. I don't care," he commented, and no one could argue against that, after all, this man had already fought two of them.

Luffy was at a level where hitting a Celestial Dragon was something simple for him, he could not imagine those people knowing that he had already killed two of them, but that was a secret information because the World Government covered up that there was someone with that kind of courage in the world, but what he did today was public and soon it would be in newspapers all over the world.

Luffy looked at the men of the Celestial Dragons and simply unleashed his Conqueror's Haki, causing everyone to immediately fall to the ground. The place fell silent as the slaves, both the large man and the pirate captain, didn't know what to say about this man.

"I remember them now, once, one of them pointed a gun at my mother," Shirahoshi recalled the event that happened when she was just a child, it was then that she awakened her powers. She also commented calmly without caring about the gravity of the situation with Luffy hitting a Celestial Dragon.

"Don't worry, Shira, I will never let a man touch you, even if I have to burn down all of Mary Geoise." Luffy spoke.

His gaze returned to a frightened woman at a distance. "Bonney... let's have a talk with her, but for now," Luffy said, beginning to walk towards the slaves.

The only one who reacted was the pirate captain with a look of fear towards Luffy, while the man who was used as a mount still had a lifeless look.

Luffy simply grabbed their collars and activated them. "Hey, what are you doing?!" the pirate captain shouted in fear.

As the collar was about to explode, he removed them from their necks with Haki and managed to make them explode meters away, as he threw them. The two slaves looked surprised at that, touching their necks.

"You're free." Luffy said and began walking towards the destroyed building.

The people, who had been quiet and fearful of everything that was happening, seemed to come out of their stupor with the explosions Luffy caused with the collars and they began to scream and run away. The entire place started to move away from that street as fast as possible, only the bravest still looking at Luffy, still shocked, because it meant one thing: that an admiral would soon land on Sabaody, but they wondered what they would send when this pirate was someone who could handle one of them...

Luffy went to the debris, lifted a stone, and found the Celestial Dragon quite injured, but still alive under that chaos. He picked him up by the hair and began to drag him out of the debris, heading towards Bonney who looked paralyzed at Luffy.

"Hello, Bonney," Luffy greeted her, approaching while Bonney finally came out of her paralyzed state and looked at Luffy carrying the beaten Celestial Dragon like an animal.

"What are you doing!! Get that thing away from me and don't get close, otherwise they'll think I'm with you!!" She exclaimed furiously, while Luffy kept a smile.

"This is going to be interesting..." he murmured, approaching despite her protests.

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