Simultaneous Travel: Becoming a Legend in the Heavens.

Chapter 26: Not joining the navy? Do you look down on me?

Others may not believe it, but Lu Ke has always been a person who respects the elderly and loves the young.

An old man like Cap, who is in his seventies, fully meets his support criteria. He feels very sorry for such an old man whose son and grandson are both rebellious and disobedient.

"You are... Luke, what did you call me?"

Cap stood up. His strong and upright body did not look like an old man at all. He looked at Luke for a few times and almost did not recognize him for a moment.

"I'm Luffy's good friend, and you're his grandfather, so of course I have to call you that too." Luke showed a familiar and innocent smile, thinking in his mind how to get closer to him.

Cap and Luke had met each other several times. After all, if a stranger suddenly came to the village and fed and played with their precious grandson, they would definitely have to be careful to see if he had bad intentions.

After confirming that the other party had no ill intentions, he didn't care much about it. He only remembered that Luffy once cried to him about Luke going to sea without taking him.

I didn't expect there would be such a big change after not seeing you for a year.

Just look at his physique and aura, and you can tell at a glance that he is a physical genius.

Wait... a physical skills genius?
Cap's tense old face suddenly relaxed a lot, and a smile appeared on his face. He took the initiative to approach Luke and ask about his well-being.

"Hey, you're right to call me that. There's no need for us to be so distant with each other." Garp forced a kind smile. "Luke, I heard that you went to the Frost Sun Dojo to practice swordsmanship. How have you been doing in your basic training this year?"

It's Frost Moon.

You're trying to play the Zuiyue Jushi trick on me, right? This old man never really cared about me before...

Lu Ke smiled and replied, "Not really. I haven't reached the level of a swordsman for a year, but..."

As he spoke, he drew the falcon from his waist, focused his mind and body, and slashed out with the sword following the breath he sensed.

Flying slashes shot out from the sword as he moved, and the huge black sword energy tore the earth apart like cutting tofu, revealing a bottomless ravine.

Karp: ...

"You can barely use this."

Great, great, double happiness.

I didn’t expect that this kid is not only a physical genius, but also a swordsmanship genius.

Garp came back to his senses with a satisfied smile, and asked him in a friendly manner: "Luke, do you want to join the navy? Grandpa guarantees that you will be a major in three years, a major general in five years, and a vice admiral in ten years."

"Grandpa Garp, I don't have any intention of joining the navy for the time being." Luke rejected Garp's request a little embarrassedly, and didn't agree with it in his heart.

It's funny. The Navy wants to expand its combat power in the future. They've promoted these two old guys to generals, okay? Why are they still giving me the seniority? Ten years to become a lieutenant general? Not even a dog!

"What do you mean, you look down on the navy?" Garp's face immediately turned serious, and he glared at Luke fiercely, as if to say, if you don't give me an explanation, I'm going to get angry.

“How could that be?” Lu Ke waved his hands anxiously. Not only did he look down on it, he was extremely disgusted with this kind of job where one had to serve the Celestial Dragons as a dog even after becoming an admiral.

"The Navy captures pirates and protects civilians. How could I look down on such a noble profession? I can't express my admiration for the Navy in three days and three nights."

"Then you just look down on me!"

Karp rolled up his sleeves, as if he was ready to fight if they disagreed.

"Of course not. You are Luffy's grandfather, the naval hero who captured the great pirate Rocks and ended an era. I have great admiration for you."

No matter how many holes there are, flattery never fails. Lu Ke's tone was sincere, so sincere that he almost wanted to dig out his heart to express his opinion.

Garp's expression eased a little, "So you just want to be a pirate? You also want freedom and the so-called One Piece?"

If the answer was yes, he would use an iron fist to correct Lu Ke's thinking.

It can’t be that everyone who calls him grandpa will become a pirate!

"I'm not interested in such illusory things. Besides, if this so-called great secret treasure is really a good thing, why didn't he leave it to his family and friends, or to the crew members who had been through life and death with him, but let others find it?" Lu Ke made a well-reasoned analysis.

"Yes, that's it!" Garp slapped his thigh and spoke with some annoyance, "Roger, that bastard, is dead and still doing this to me."

Not raising a child and leaving a bad reputation made Ace choose to become a pirate to build a career and get rid of the label of the Pirate King's son. The Age of Discovery that he started also made Luffy clamor to become a pirate all day long.

What an enemy, Karp sighed.

Luffy is still okay, at least he hasn't set out to sea yet. Ace has already formed his own pirate group and made a name for himself. If his life story is revealed...

A few days ago, Garp finally persuaded Sengoku and other high-ranking naval officers to include Ace, who had little foundation, into the Seven Warlords of the Sea plan, but he didn't expect that the little bastard actually refused directly.

It was for this reason that he went back to Windmill Village to see his little grandson, hoping to correct his thoughts. However, no matter how he was persuaded, no matter how many times he used the Iron Fist of Love, Luffy still refused to change his mind.

He is the man who will become the Pirate King!

"You don't want to be a navy officer, nor do you want to be a pirate, so what exactly do you want to do?" Garp gathered his scattered thoughts and asked the person in front of him in a deep voice.

Luke touched his head and smiled bitterly with shame on his face, "It's embarrassing to say this, but I want to be a pirate hunter."

"That's fine." Garp frowned at first, then relaxed. With Luffy and Ace as his backup, he was already resistant to the younger generation not choosing the navy. Although the Pirate Hunter is not a navy, he also has work connections with the navy, so it can be considered a decent choice.

"But why don't you choose to join the navy directly? Pirate hunters are not organized, and no one will teach you how to become stronger."

"Mainly because pirate hunters can collect bounties."

He was extremely poor now, with only 70,000 berries on his body. With his appetite, this amount was enough to buy him a meal.

"..."

After a dead silence, Garp burst into a loud and heroic laugh, "Hahahahahaha, so that's it! You are really honest, not bad, not bad, that's good."

Luke smiled sheepishly, rolled his eyes, and continued, "As for guidance, Grandpa Cap, can't you guide your grandchildren?"

People call you grandpa, so it would be unreasonable for you not to reveal something, right?

Garp snorted coldly, "Okay, wait for me here. Luke, what can you do if I don't guide you?"

"Doesn't Grandpa Garp want Luffy to give up being a pirate?" Luke smiled mysteriously.

"Why, do you have a way to persuade him?" Garp suddenly became alert, took a deep breath, and stared at Luke closely, "If you can make Luffy give up being a pirate, this old man can train you into the best physical training master and let you be the second Iron Fist."

Lu Ke felt that the falcon on his waist was a little out of control and wanted to chop him down. He was helpless. He said he was a swordsman, so why did everyone ask him to practice physical skills?

"Although we can't make him give up being a pirate, we can let him go out to sea later." Lu Ke pulled out the falcon and assumed an attacking posture. "For example, Grandpa, you can help him see the strength of the world's top strongmen and let him know how insignificant he is now."

"This way, he should know his own worth and be willing to stay in the village for a few more years to train himself."

Cap's mouth widened, and he looked at Luke with a sharp gaze, raising his world-famous fists. "It sounds feasible, Luke, but there is a problem with your plan."

"what is the problem."

The tall figure appeared beside Lu Ke without him noticing at all, and the indestructible iron fist enlarged in his suddenly shrinking pupils.

boom!
It was like being hit head-on by a speeding train. The punch contained unimaginable power, and before it even hit Lu Ke, he felt as if all the bones in his body would be crushed, and his body was blasted away like a cannonball.

Garp shook his hands, as if he had just stretched his muscles, and continued with what he had not finished saying.

"The problem is..."

"It's hard to say whether a little brat like you can let me help you!"

(End of this chapter)