One Piece: Kaido the Beast Playing House.

Chapter 829 The End of the Windmill Town Turbulence
“Hiss! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts!”

Shanks jumped down from the stool and said with a ferocious look on his face.

"Do you feel the pain now? Why didn't you tell me when you were playing it cool? Didn't we agree to stop that kid from having these ideas? What happened? You've made a deeper impression on him now, Hongo! Use force! Someone hold this guy down! We need to teach him a lesson!"

Buggy didn't expect that he was away from home for two days, and such a big thing happened in those two days. The Red Hair Pirates who had passed the test of the Four Emperors were injured by a bandit worth 800W. It would be too embarrassing if this got out!

"Hiss! Gently! Gently! I just had no choice. Who knew Luffy would think this way? I wanted to hide my weakness at first, so that Luffy would think that pirates are not so handsome and give up the idea. But you saw the result. I got hurt accidentally."

Shanks wanted to explain himself, but his words could fool outsiders, but he was really blinding himself to fool his own people. With his skills, let alone an ordinary weapon, even if he had a combination of a supreme sword and a black sword, it would be impossible to break Shanks' defense.

"Forget it, I've figured it out. You said you didn't want Luffy to become a pirate, but you actually wanted him to become a pirate, right? Is it because of that sentence?"

Buggy sat down on the hospital bed and said to Shanks.

"Don't you feel anything? That sentence."

Shanks was silent for a moment, then looked at Buggy and said, time went back a few days, that day in the tavern, Shanks and Buggy were sitting at the bar, Luffy who came back from playing wiped his sweat and once again expressed his idea of ​​becoming a pirate, everyone laughed it off, only Xiangke asked a question out of boredom.

"Luffy, why do you want to be a pirate?"

"I want to be the Pirate King! I've heard of the legend of the Pirate King!"

"Oh? Do you also want to find the great secret treasure?"

"Isn't it? Isn't the Pirate King the freest man on the sea? I want to be the freest man on the sea! To sail freely on the sea! Hehehehe!"

Luffy's seemingly casual words made Buggy and Shanks suddenly speechless. They stared at Luffy blankly, as if they were looking at some rare species. As for the others, although they felt that what Luffy said was indeed correct, they were not that shocked. Only Shanks and Buggy, who had been in Roger's pirate group, could experience the incomparable shock felt from the heart.

They seemed to hear that laughter again, and the question they asked when they were teenagers.

"Captain! Captain! Why do you want to be a pirate?"

"Because pirates are the freest people in the world. Sailing freely on the sea, isn't this the greatest thing in the world? Hahahahahahahahaha!"

Roger's unbridled smile overlapped with Luffy's current grin like a little fool. Shanks and Buggy were shocked but did not show it on the surface. They were still laughing there, as if the incident had already passed. But who could know what they were thinking.

"So what? What are you going to do? If Garp finds out about this, we won't be able to come to the East China Sea again, unless Luffy really goes out to sea."

Bucky shook his head helplessly.

"Let it be. Everything will work out when the time comes, right? But what do you think about me giving this to Luffy?"

Shanks took off his straw hat and tried his best to ignore Hongo who was stitching up his wound behind him.

"The captain's straw hat? Are you really going to prepare it... Never mind. The captain has given it to you anyway. It's up to you how to arrange it."

Buggy wanted to stop him at first, but then he didn't want to say anything anymore. He turned and left the house, leaving only Shanks and Hongo here. Shanks looked at the straw hat in his hand and finally made a decision.

The next day, everyone prepared to leave. It had been more than a week, and it was not suitable for them to stay here any longer. They decided to use the 800W head as wine money for the next few days. The village chief was happy to do so, at least, and said that he would exchange the head for money after they left. The reason why he had to wait until they left was very simple. The heads of these bounty-bearing criminals needed to be confirmed twice. It would be a bit troublesome if they saw pirates here. After all, the pirates had been killing each other and then going to the naval base to make money in recent years, which really made the World Government very troubled. That's why there was a second verification.

At this time, Shanks and others were moving things onto the ship. Buggy did bring back a lot of good things this time, successfully making the Red Hair Pirates' wealth even more abundant.

"Isn't that kid here?" Beckman asked, smoking a cigarette as he carried a box onto the ship. They had been getting along very well with the entire village this week, and many people came to see them off, but Luffy was the only one not there.

"It should be coming. Hiss, the sea breeze in the East China Sea is still a bit cold."

Shanks' back injury prevents him from wearing a coat. Although he looks handsome with a bandage and a cape on, only he knows how cold it is.

"Okay, let's go, it looks like he won't be coming."

When the last box of stuff was loaded onto the ship, Buggy looked at Shanks and said.

"It seems so. Maybe it did scare him."

Shanks shook his head and said with some regret.

"You're the one wasting time, aren't you? Why didn't you just save him? Why did you have to act like a sob?"

Yamato came over and said, she also knew about Luffy's problem, she felt it was very indifferent, these people were just too entangled, if they wanted to send something, just go! Why wait here?

"Hey, let's go! Let's go."

Shanks said as he looked at the straw hat in his hand, but just as he turned around he heard Luffy's shout.

"Shanks!"

Luffy was running towards this side quickly with his short legs, carrying a basket on his back, which seemed to contain something.

"Luffy!" Shanks shouted in surprise.

"Hurry, huh, huh, huh, I caught up, huh, huh, Shanks! This is for you! The grandmother in the village said this is the best herb for healing wounds. I went to pick it for you!"

Luffy handed the backpack behind him to Shanks and said with shining eyes that he saw the injuries on Shanks' body yesterday and couldn't sleep at night. He quietly went to find the old lady who ran a herbal medicine shop in the village. After asking her, he went up the mountain with the backpack on his back. He had been busy since last night and picked all the herbs that looked good and put them in the backpack.

"Thank you, Luffy."

Shanks looked at the full basket of herbs and said with some emotion, "This child is really kind."

"Shanks! I've decided! I'm going to be a pirate from now on! I'm going to find better partners than you! I'm going to show you how powerful I am! Then I'll sail to every corner of the world! And become the Pirate King!"

Luffy looked at Shanks who took the herbs and shouted loudly. This time he didn't cry, but laughed loudly.

"Oh, that's a great dream. In that case, I'll give you this straw hat. It's my most important treasure. Keep it. Next time you meet me, if you don't meet my standards, I'll take it away."

Shanks smiled and put the straw hat on Luffy's head. He pressed it hard a few times, causing Luffy to sit on the ground, and everyone watching laughed.

"Don't laugh! I will prove it to you!" Luffy shouted.

"Then what about me? Luffy?" Yamato asked with a smile. She quite liked Luffy's personality, probably because she saw herself as a child. Although many people don't like the way they looked when they were children, Yamato is obviously not an ordinary person.

"I'm better than you!" Luffy said while looking at Yamato. Actually, he didn't understand that Yamato and Shanks were not in the same group. He just said it to himself. At least, this time, there was only laughter in the farewell. When the two ships left, even the village chief who had always disliked pirates stood on the dock and waved. Windmill Village Incident! End!
(End of this chapter)