CHAPTER 55 THE MARK OF PRIDE

the sea was calm but the world was in an eerie silence following the escape of kaido , the thought of the behemoth raiding their island and destroying them made a lot of nights sleepless for a lot of men .

the marines were in a period where they stopped recruitment and started polishing their soldiers and only recruiting when some were recommended by strong marines .

they were accumulating their strength because a certain someone was learning too much .

the beast pirates had established themselves in the island of behen garezurra , it had a huge cave that was shaped like a bulls skull and it was infested with drunk pirates and harlots.

kaido had not only took xebecs devil fruit he was adopting his style too .

the dream of world domination was also in his book . beside him was a beautiful woman crying silently for kaido and trying to stop him from drinking his sake .kaido grunted , annoyed and swiped her with his club making her fly and hit the walls of the cave and bleeding from her head .

the white beard pirates were docked in the island of marf , the island of art .and all of them were standing Infront of a small shop where it read " SUSSIE'S TATTOOS" the crew had grown and there were almost 20 members other than Lincoln and Newgate .

the crew strode into the shop and met an old lady who looked like a typical loving grandmother.

but Lincoln and Newgate looked around warily as they saw the smiling woman , waiting for an attack but seeing nothing come , they looked at her in surprise.

" oh ! how hurtful ! not a single word of greetings! I am horribly hurt whitey !....and you too Lincoln do you want cookies ?"

the woman said while the duo was sweating bullets

" I- IAM sorry Gracie onee Chan " Newgate said while looking apologetic but the woman easily saw through him .

" Gracie ? who came ?" an old man wearing glasses and a well maintained suit ,he was slightly taller than Lincoln , he came from the back and smiled as he spotted the crew

' Newgate my boy ! Lincoln my boy ! what a surprise ! I'm proud of everything you've been doing recently " the old man said taking a book from the shelf and smiling at them more widely while the woman behind him smiled but it did not meet her eyes .

" anymore of that fuckery and I will poke holes in you and watch you bleed to death " the woman said maintaining the same smile .

the crew shuddered under her gaze and the man smiled wryly .

" forgive my wife , we had been raidied atleast a dozen times 3 months after the whole marines and pirates war and it frankly made her newly knitted sweater full of blood .she has been grumbling about soanking newgate and teaching him manners and so DALDALDALDALDAL!!" The tall man roared in laughter .

the man who conquered countless islands and massacred millions of marines and pirates and had fought with the strongest people in the world looked embarrassed but later overcame it and roared in laughter

"TRY IT IF YOU CAN OLD HAG GURARARARARA!!!!"

newgate laughed haughtily.

Gracie just smiled cracking her eyes open as a silver hue surrounded her and it shut up Newgate real quick .

"tch...Gracie onee Chan is too serious "

" well let's leave that all behind ...why have you came here Newgate ?" the man asked

and newgates expression turned serious

" I want a tattoo " he told the couple who smiled while looking all around his body , he shuddered under their gaze.

" me too " Lincoln said stepping forward

the couple's smile widened more and when they hear the next sentence the smilw split their faces

' all of us "

the couple stood up and their while demeanour changed and they looked boundless in power Infront of the crew .

this couple was humans who ascended to the realm of self improvement and they were godly beings on earth who could mold and create anything with their will, the man is the god of art while the grandma was the goddess of needles.

the crew went into the house along with the couple

after 3 hours the crew came back and everyone had proud looks waiting for the others to show them their tattoo .

"Marco ! show me yours !" an excited jozu shouted and marco looked at everyone and said

" let's show our tattoos together , pops and big bro Lincoln will says whose is better "

the crew smiled and showed Thier tattoos together .

Newgate and Lincoln looked to the side and smiled at the happy couple and laughed their lungs out .

startled by the sudden laughter .

the crew looked at the duo for answers , seeing this the duo smiled and turned Thier back to show the crew and as they removed their overcoat and shirt .

they saw a tattoo of a pirate crew , as they saw this they all smiled and went out for drinks without wearing their shirts or in whiteys case showing her upper arm.

they all had the same tattoo .

OF THE WHITEBEARD PIRATES .

end of this volume 😊