CHAPTER 31: Krieg

[Crew Member Recruitment, Common Aptitude]

[Reward 5 Adventure Coins]

Sitting cross-legged on the Sunny's figurehead, Luffy looked at the evaluation given by the system and was not surprised.

He also took a look at his dashboard.

Nothing else changed, the only difference was "Lifespan" and "Haki".

Life expectancy: 17/72 (originally 70)

Haki:

Observation lv1;

Armament lv1;

Conqueror lv2

The level here means that eating one Haki fruit gives you level 1, and two fruits give you level 2.

Of course, he can also train and improve his level.

"Probably when I reach level 5, I will reach the advanced stage of Haki." Luffy thought.

Observation level 5: Predict the future.

Level 5 Armament: Emission.

Conqueror level 5: Domination.

"If I eat 11 more, I'll need about 2,200 adventure coins." Luffy said.

Your current adventure coins... were 135.

He needed to find a way to earn more adventure coins. These days, recruiting high-quality crew members should be the fastest way forward.

Come to think of it, how many crew members did he have now?

The Sunny, 4 people.

The Merry, 4 people.

Very few.

In East Blue, were there any suitable targets?

Luffy fell into deep thought.

As he thought, the Merry slowly caught up to him from the left side.

Usopp, Johnny and Yosaku were holding fishing rods.

"Hey, Usopp. What are you guys fishing for?" Luffy jumped off the figurehead and walked to the edge of the ship to greet them. "Where's Zoro?"

Joseph replied, "Luffy-dono, Zoro is training upstairs."

"Hey Luffy, did you smell something delicious?" Usopp sniffed his nose.

"It must be Namo cooking." Luffy turned his head to look.

"Hey! How can you enjoy this alone? I want to eat too!"

"You can cook it yourself. Are you out of ingredients? There's still plenty in Sunny, I'll give you some."

Johnny said indifferently, "Usopp only knows how to cook a few dishes, and we're tired of them."

"Hey! I'm not a professional chef."

Usopp pretended to be on the verge of death, "Luffy, I have a disease that will kill me if I don't eat food prepared by Nami. Please ask her to cook more!"

Luffy made an OK gesture with his thumb.

Yosaku suddenly remembered something and became excited, "Speaking of chefs, I know a very talented chef! Luffy, why don't we recruit one?"

"Are you talking about Baratie?" Luffy immediately thought of someone.

Zoro's good friend, the perverted Sanji.

"Yes, yes, the Baratie floating restaurant!" Yosaku nodded repeatedly. "Luffy, have you heard about it? It's a famous restaurant in the East Blue, and it's even on the sea."

"Then let's take a look. I'll ask Nami how to get there."

Luffy nodded.

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Baratie.

This is East Blue's most famous restaurant, known for its culinary skills.

Its appearance is that of a giant ship with fish-shaped figureheads at both ends. When threatened, the entire ship can transform into battle mode.

The restaurant's chefs are also quite strong, they say they were once pirates. The restaurant's owner and chef is even a former pirate captain.

Of course, this is just a rumor and has not been confirmed.

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Two days later.

Sunny and Merry have finally reached their destination.

"That's the floating restaurant!"

Yosaku pointed to a large ship in the distance.

On the deck of the Sunny, Nami raised her hand and looked into the distance. "That's...a pirate ship."

Upon hearing this, Usopp took out his binoculars to observe.

A ship larger than the restaurant was docked near the Baratie.

"Did they encounter a maritime disaster? That ship looks pretty beat up."

"It's... it's the flag of the ruling Blue East!"

Johnny swallowed nervously.

"The ruler of the East Blue? The Krieg Pirates! They are the most powerful pirate group in the East Blue! Krieg has a bounty of 17 million berries! That giant three-story sailing ship is his flagship, the Dreadnought Saber!"

Johnny realized what he had just said.

17 million? Only 17 million, what is there to be afraid of? Arlong, who had 20 million, ended up becoming a dead fish, didn't he?

He is now a member of the Straw Hat Pirates, with Zoro as captain of the first division and Luffy as captain!

Thinking about this, he suddenly became more confident:

"But speaking of which, why was Krieg's ship so destroyed?"

Because they were being chased by Mihawk.

Luffy wanted to laugh. This unlucky group finally made it to the Grand Line, only to encounter one of the Shichibukai, Mihawk.

However, they were a few days late.

According to the original story, Luffy's route was to go to the restaurant first before going to Nami's hometown.

But he did the opposite, first dealing with Arlong's group before returning to Baratie, and ended up meeting them.

"Come on, let's go to the restaurant first."

The group quickly headed towards Baratie.

After disembarking the ship, they saw that the door of the restaurant was open and there were almost no customers on the first floor of the restaurant except for one person standing at the entrance.

"What a horrible restaurant! They actually made me eat a horrible dessert! I've decided, I'm going to take over this ship, and I'll challenge the Grand Line again! You... you filthy chefs, if you don't want to die, submit to me!"

Wearing golden armor, a man roared loudly: it was Admiral Krieg.

With a loud roar, two cannons appeared from beneath the golden armor's shoulder, aiming at the restaurant's chefs.

"Now, prepare 100 portions of food for me, my men are still hungry... do you understand!?"

The chefs were momentarily speechless, seemingly intimidated by his aura.

At this moment, they heard the sound of footsteps behind them.

Krieg frowned, but before he could turn around, a hand was already pressed against the back of his head.

"Get out of the way."

Boom!!

Krieg suddenly lost his balance and his head was pressed hard against the ground.

His face was buried in the ground.

The chefs watched the scene in shock.

A group of five men and three women entered from outside.

Their leader wore a straw hat and it was this person who subdued Krieg with a single move!

"Who are you?"

Sanji, lying on the ground, exclaimed in amazement.

Luffy removed his hand and walked towards the dining table.

"Take care!" Sanji suddenly changed his expression and quickly reminded him.

Behind Luffy, Krieg, with a serious face, got up from the ground.

"Who are you brats? How dare you...!?"

Before he could vent his anger, a blade was already pressed against his neck.

Zoro looked at him with a sideways glance and said indifferently, "If you don't want to die, you'd better leave now."

After speaking, he didn't bother to pay attention to the other party and sat at the dinner table with Luffy.

Nami supported Kaya and whispered, "Be careful, your health is not good."

"Thank you, Nami."

The group of people passed through Krieg one after another, completely ignoring its existence.

For a moment, only the footsteps of Luffy and his group could be heard.

Upon seeing this scene, the chefs swallowed nervously, sensing that something bad was happening.

Krieg shook all over, not with fear, but with anger.

His face turned red, veins bulging on his forehead, clearly on the verge of a rage.

"Die! You damn brat!"

Krieg spread his arms to his sides, aiming the cannons on his shoulders at Luffy's desk, and shouted as he pulled the trigger.

"Haa..."

Nami sighed and her figure moved.

Almost instantly, she appeared in front of Krieg, her slender leg stretched out.

"Luffy said you're in the way, don't you understand? I hate pirates more than anything!"

Storm Leg!

An extremely fast kick technique turned the air into a blade.

The golden armor protecting Krieg's body shattered under this attack, his chest was torn apart by the blow. Blood spattered, and his entire body was thrown out of the restaurant.

Boom!!

His body crossed tens or hundreds of meters and collided with his own pirate ship.

Silence!

Now, it was completely silent.

(End of chapter)

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