One Piece: Kaido the Beast Playing House.

Chapter 966 Mihawk and Hiyori (Happy 2025!)

"Long time no see, Mr. Mihawk."

If the wine here is too light for other people, it is good for Mihawk. After all, he likes wine very much. Just as he was slowly tasting the wine, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

"Hmm? What's up, Miss Hiyori?"

Mihawk turned his head and said that he and Hiyori were old acquaintances. After all, Mihawk had been challenging Lily, and as the successor of Lily's swordsmanship, Hiyori had also practiced with Mihawk many times. It's just that Hiyori was still young, and he couldn't say that he lost more than he won against Mihawk, but at least he had never won once. However, Hiyori enjoyed it and wanted to challenge Mihawk whenever he saw him, and Mihawk had never refused. After all, Hiyori's swordsmanship was not weak, and the fight was still very interesting.

"Don't worry, I'm not here to fight this time, but I have another thing I want to ask you."

Hiyori said as she walked over to sit next to Mihawk.

"Hmm? What's going on?"

Mihawk was ready to draw his sword, but Hiyori said that she was not here to compete, which made Mihawk more or less disappointed. However, this was understandable. After all, this was the aunt's tea party. If a fight broke out and they couldn't stop, it would not look good, right?
"I heard that you went to the East China Sea once this year? And you dealt with a swordsman named Zoro?"

Hiyori didn't waste any time and asked directly.

"Zoro? Ha, he is indeed an interesting guy. No, I should say swordsman. After all, he said it himself that being attacked from behind is a shame for a swordsman."

Mihawk grinned and said, he remembered that noon, he was just bored and went out for a stroll, and wanted to try how long it would take him to reach the Four Seas if he went in a straight line without anyone stopping him. As a result, when he arrived at the Grand Line and was about to reach the Upside Down Mountain, he was trapped by the ocean current. It was because of this ocean current that Mihawk had no choice but to use the strategy he had used many years ago. Yes, you may have guessed that the Night, which has been upgraded to a black sword, once again used its broad blade to assume responsibilities that did not belong to it. Yes, Mihawk used the Night as a paddle again.

Moreover, because the night had now turned into a black knife, there was no need to worry about the negative impact of the sea water. Mihawk did not hold back at all and slashed with great vigor.

Originally, with Mihawk's Observation Haki, he could notice the approaching ship from a long distance, and then quickly change from rowing to sitting on the boat. However, due to the special circumstances at the time, Mihawk forgot for a moment, and as a result, he was seen by the people of the Creek fleet.

Originally, this was nothing. Although Mihawk was a man who cared more about his reputation, he would not take someone's life just because someone saw him rowing. However, there are some people in this world who are the kind of people who will go out of their way to cause trouble for others even when others don't want to. And it is obvious that Creek, who had just crossed the Upside-Down Mountain and arrived at the Grand Line, is such a person.

After arriving at the Grand Line, Creek felt like he was elevated. He looked at the fleet behind him, a fleet of one hundred ships of all sizes. After so many years of sailing in the East China Sea, even the navy would have to retreat! It was easy to capture the Pirate King!
With this idea in mind, Creek felt that his future must be infinitely bright. Just when he didn't know how to vent his emotions and wanted to compose a poem but found that he had no talent at all, Mihawk's boat appeared in front of him.

Seeing Mihawk rowing the boat with difficulty, Creek came up with a cruel plan. He laughed at Mihawk loudly and called him a loser. Then he raised the Gatling gun on his wrist and fired at Mihawk. It was obvious that he regarded Mihawk as the first person to be sacrificed after entering the New World. Although Mihawk was forcibly given the title of the world's number one male swordsman by the World Government, his reputation was not as loud as that of the Seven Warlords of the Sea in the original timeline (after all, the World Government also helped with the publicity of the Seven Warlords of the Sea). As a result, Creek didn't recognize who Mihawk was this time. Needless to say, Mihawk, who was already a little depressed, suddenly found his toy, and the other party came to him on his own.

Needless to say, the result is that in the original timeline, Creek was slowly sneaked over by Mihawk, but this time he was chased and chopped from behind. Although Creek in the original timeline was miserable, at least he still had the leisure to find Red-footed Zeff's notebook for traveling on the Grand Line. This time there is no such redundancy, so he must escape for his life!

As a result, they were chased and hacked by Mihawk all the way to the East China Sea, and then they met Luffy and others by chance. As for Zoro and Kuina, Mihawk did not care much at first. After all, there are many people who want to become the Pirate King these days! There are many people who want to become the world's number one swordsman, but they are often frogs in the well and can't achieve anything big. Just like Creek just now, didn't he still shout that he wanted to become the Pirate King and rule the world?
Then something happened that slapped Mihawk in the face. He thought it was just a stupid boy from a remote village, but Zoro and Kuina could use Observation Haki and Armament Haki. Mihawk was confused by their attacks and almost lost his knife. Fortunately, Mihawk was also a veteran in the field of pretending to be cool. He quickly calmed down and found a reason to chop the two men to the ground with his knife, and then pretended to appreciate it. It would have ended here normally, but what Mihawk didn't expect was that the kid named Zoro actually got up and held the only intact weapon to say that being stabbed in the back was a shame for a swordsman. This made Mihawk, who was just playing with the two, suddenly interested. This kid was indeed different.

Then everything that happened was very simple, not much different from the original timeline, except that this time, Mihawk didn't say anything about standing at the top of the world waiting for him. After all, Mihawk is not standing at the top now, he is also challenging the top.

"So, you know that kid?"

Mihawk said after spelling the wine.

"I know her. That Kuina is my student. Of course, I didn't teach her anything, I just helped her lay the foundation. I heard that you met a while ago, so I came to ask."

Hiyori said as she picked up a piece of snack and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Oh? Your student? That Kuina is the little girl next to Zoro, right? She doesn't look much younger than you, right?"

Hiyori's words piqued Mihawk's interest.

"At that time, I was just thinking of a legitimate teaching method. After all, the child was quite pitiful. Her father was a relatively traditional person who believed that women could not become strong. Anyway, that was more or less what he meant. I couldn't stand it at the time, so I helped her. Speaking of which, her father was once from Wano Country, so he was a professional match. By the way, their captain Luffy also said that he wanted to surpass my sister and Shanks."

Hiyori said.

"Hahahahahaha, you're quite ambitious. I just don't know if you can hold on until the day you succeed."

Mihawk burst into laughter when he heard such bold words. It was because he had been in the New World for many years that he understood the difficulty. It was not easy for anyone to become one of the Four Emperors. Even the Pirate King was not as good as them. After all, the Pirate King only embarrassed the World Government, while the Four Emperors were almost on par with the World Government and were ready to replace them at any time. In this case, Mihawk knew that if he wanted to become the Pirate King, he might succeed if he was lucky enough to find the entrance to the final island, but it was too difficult to surpass the Four Emperors, even for the next generation.

"I don't know about that, but come to think of it, this year always feels a little different from the previous years. Get ready, Mr. Mihawk. I feel like we're going to be busy."

Hiyori said as she stood up.

"Huh, that's really something to look forward to."

Mihawk said softly, caressing the handle of Kuroneji Yaiba, while Hiyori walked away.

(End of this chapter)