Luffy, how can you become the Pirate King if you don't work hard!

"Aren't you afraid of the sea?"

"No way, no way, there can't be any Devil Fruit users who are afraid of seawater, right?"

Gion was speechless with astonishment.

"Well, as you can see, I'm not afraid anyway."

As Luffy spoke, he began preparing the ingredients. He drew his black sword, Maki, from his waist, and the blade automatically transformed into a wide blade suitable for cutting. "If you want to learn, I can teach you. I have special techniques."

Gion fell silent.

Her confidence was shattered once again.

She now finally understood why Fleet Admiral Sengoku was so wary of Straw Hat Luffy.

Do the navy of the past and the future really have a way to deal with such a monster?

It seems that only time can deal with him.

Luffy moved very quickly.

The demonic intent in his hands transformed into afterimages, precisely scraping away bones and slicing flesh.

He used the power of the Tremor-Tremor Fruit to create a crater in the open ground, gathered dry shrub branches and leaves to start a fire. The branches and leaves of these unfamiliar plants were exceptionally flammable, igniting instantly and emitting a faint fragrance.

Luffy is quite as skilled in cooking as Sanji.

It's strange, I don't know if it's because of going back to the past.

The One Piece training plan has disappeared!

I'm actually a little unaccustomed to it.

Humans are just too despicable.

The fragrance gradually spread.

Gion, holding his famous sword Kinpira, sat quietly on a rock not far away, watching.

That's right, her sword was brought along because she was holding it in her hand.

Her strength is slowly recovering, but it will take at least a few more hours before she can use her abilities again.

Now there's nothing she can do but watch the pirate running around doing chores.

Luffy's cooking skills are surprisingly good.

The flesh of sea monsters is cut into evenly thick slices, skewered on sharpened wooden sticks, and grilled over a fire.

He found spices from somewhere, crushed them into powder, and sprinkled them on the fish. The surface of the fish turned golden, and the oil dripped into the fire, making an enticing sizzling sound.

"hateful......"

Gion gritted her teeth.

Never compromise!

Luffy walked up to her with a perfectly grilled fish fillet, its aroma filling the air.

"Want some?"

"No."

Luffy didn't leave; he just stood in front of her, holding the fish fillet, with a playful smile.

Gion's face started to tense up.

Time passed by, and the aroma of the grilled fish grew stronger and stronger.

Before long, he couldn't stop swallowing his saliva, and his stomach growled almost at the same time.

Gion's face immediately turned bright red.

"Haha, being full is the most important thing."

"Then I'll reluctantly accept..."

Before he could finish speaking, Luffy suddenly took the fish fillet back and took a big bite out of it.

He puffed out his cheeks. "What were you trying to say?"

Gion was filled with shame and indignation; this guy definitely had some kind of perverse sense of humor.

He's playing himself!

Gion stared at him, her chest heaving violently.

In the end, hunger triumphed over pride.

She gave up and walked over to the huge barbecue grill, grabbed a piece of meat, and started gnawing on it.

Then he froze.

good to eat.

It was surprisingly delicious.

The outer skin is crispy, while the inside is tender and juicy. The seasoning is just right, preserving the unique sweetness of the sea creature meat while using spices to remove any possible fishy smell.

This skill is absolutely on par with the head chef of the Navy Headquarters restaurant!

"How is it?" Luffy asked.

"It's alright," Gion said stubbornly, but she ate much faster.

The two ate in silence for a while.

Gion couldn't imagine that one day she would be eating with a pirate.

However, judging from the current situation, Luffy doesn't seem like a pirate at all to her.

The simplest point is that pirates don't feed their enemies.

Moreover, her looks and figure attracted many suitors within the Navy, and Kake, who was also a candidate for admiral, had been rejected countless times.

How could a pirate remain unmoved by such an irresistible beauty?

In Gion's eyes, pirates represent all negative adjectives.

Greedy, lustful, murderous, and capable of all kinds of evil.

But the feeling Luffy gave her right now...

"Why would someone like you become a pirate?" she couldn't help but ask.

Luffy swallowed the food in his mouth and asked, "Why did you want to join the Marines?"

“My dream is to become a naval officer and punish evil!” Gion answered without hesitation.

This has been her belief since she was a child.

"My dream is to become a pirate and enjoy freedom," Luffy said.

But when he mentioned the word "freedom," his expression changed, then took on a hint of gritted teeth, "I will definitely become the Pirate King!"

Since setting sail, I've hardly had a moment of freedom!

Adventure and the like have never been his thing.

This time, going back to the past, there's no mention of a Pirate King training plan; it's a completely unknown adventure!

Just thinking about it makes me a little excited.

As Gion looked at his smile, a slight stirring occurred to her heart.

This man was unlike any other pirate she knew.

Did he really become a pirate just for freedom and adventure?

Gion was silent.

Luffy is so different from the vicious pirate she had in mind.

Despite being Vice Admiral Garp's grandson and having the best background and resources, he became a pirate to pursue his dream...

For the dream.

Gion was silent.

She joined the navy for her dream, and there's not much difference between the two.

The only difference is that the Navy and pirates are opposites?

But no matter what, Luffy seems to have a strange charm, which eased the tense atmosphere between the two at the beginning.

"Huh, does this era also have something like newsbirds?"

A red light flashed in Luffy's eyes, and suddenly he stretched out his hand and grabbed something that looked like a newsbird in the sky.

"This is... a bounty poster?"

Luffy took a wanted poster from the news bird. The wanted poster was for a woman, and the bounty was a staggering 1 billion Berries.

He looks like a great pirate.

Compared to the bounty poster, Luffy was more curious about the thing in front of him that looked similar to the news bird.

It looks like a purely mechanical bird, seemingly programmed, and even when Luffy holds it in his hand, it keeps flapping its wings.

Gion also joined in.

"What amazing technology!" she couldn't help but exclaim.

She had seen this technology in the naval science class, but it had not been applied on a large scale.

She had met Vegapunk, the man who claimed to be the smartest, and he said that the technology was nothing compared to that of a certain high-tech kingdom that had existed before.

Did they travel back to the era of that high-tech kingdom?

This technology is far more advanced than the newsbirds of their time.

Just then, Luffy's expression suddenly changed.

His Observation Haki sensed something, and he suddenly looked up at the top of Gion's head.

About three meters above her head, the space began to distort, rippling like water, and a circular hole about two meters in diameter was slowly opening.

It's exactly the same time tunnel they fell out of before!