One Piece: The user of the Nen-Nen Fruit, who overturned the sea.

When Shanks carried her onto the ship, the crew members were silent for a moment.

Raki Lu stopped turning the sea monster over, Yasopp put his sniper rifle aside, and Lyme Jones and Benk Punch simultaneously released their arm-wrestling.

Beckman looked at the girl being held in Shanks' arms, his brows furrowing slightly.

He looked into the girl's eyes, then at Shanks' expression, and suddenly remembered Shanks's past.

According to Shanks, he was adopted by Roger when he was a child.

"Now it seems that cause and effect really are a cycle."

Beckman said something in a low voice and stubbed out his cigarette.

From that day on, Uta remained on the Red Fosse.

She is recovering very slowly.

In the first few days after boarding the ship, she hardly spoke. She would just huddle in a corner of the cabin, hugging her knees, staring blankly at the sea outside the window.

The musician on the ship was the first person to strike up a conversation with her.

It wasn't with language, it was with music.

He played an unknown tune on the deck; the melody was very light and gentle, like the sound of waves lapping against the beach.

Uta poked half her head out of the cabin, gazing at the guitar, its wood gleaming in the moonlight, and listened for a long time. Then she spoke, her voice very soft.

"What...is this?"

The musician stopped playing, turned to look at her, and said with a smile:

"Guitar. Would you like to learn?"

Uta didn't answer, but her eyes lit up.

Uta's subtle change in expression was brief, but Shanks happened to be passing by the cabin door and caught it in the moment.

He leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed, a smile playing on his lips, without saying a word.

From then on, Uta began to learn to sing from the musicians on the ship.

Her voice is incredibly good, with a wide range and naturally impeccable pitch.

Learning a new song only requires listening to it once to be able to repeat it completely, without missing even the subtle transitions in the melody.

Shanks would sometimes stand on the deck and listen to her sing, then clap and praise her for singing even better than the mermaids.

Uta would always lower her head when praised, her ears turning slightly red, but the smile on her lips was impossible to hide.

One month later, Shanks officially adopted her as his goddaughter one evening.

There was no ceremony; they simply set out an extra set of chopsticks and a bowl at dinner and casually said, "From today onwards, Uta will be the musician of our Red-Haired Pirates."

Uta cried for a long time that night, but she kept smiling while she cried.

Life went on peacefully like that.

The Red Voss sailed through the waters of the New World without any specific destination, simply wandering around and occasionally stopping to resupply.

Until one day a month later.

That afternoon, the lookout suddenly reported that a warship had been spotted ahead.

The warship was not large, a standard medium-sized frigate, but the flag flying on its mast was different from that of ordinary warships—

It was a dark blue flag with the World Government cross emblem printed on it, and below it was a smaller pennant with the words "CP0" embroidered on it.

"CP0's ship?"

Yasopp put down his wine glass, picked up his sniper rifle, and observed the warship through the scope.

His eyesight was among the best on the entire ship; he could see clearly through several windows in the cabin three kilometers away.

His expression quickly turned serious.

"Hey! Captain!"

"There are six high-ranking CP agents on the deck, all fully armed. In the center of the cabin, there are several boxes, each marked with the World Government's top-secret insignia and the Celestial Gold insignia."

"Gold from the heavens?"

Beckman frowned.

"CP0 personally escorting celestial gold? That's quite rare."

Beckman's doubts could not stop Shanks's curious nature.

Shanks slowly drew the Griffin, the blade gleaming coldly in the setting sun.

"Gold from the heavens?" Shanks' face gradually lit up with excitement.

"If Goldenrod can steal it from the heavens, our Red-Haired Pirates can't fall behind!"

"Take him!"

"Should we steal it?"

"If Shanks takes it, it's like he's completely breaking ties with the World Government."

Beckman is still patiently analyzing.

"Our current strength is not enough to wage a full-scale war against the World Government."

"I know."

Shanks chuckled.

"We broke ties with the World Government the moment we rejected the Seven Warlords!"

Beckman was taken aback when he heard this, and then shook his head helplessly. Knowing Shanks' personality well, he knew that persuading Shanks would not have much effect.

However, as the first mate, he had a duty to remind them.

However, since the captain has already decided to seize the Celestial Gold, Beckman naturally chooses to follow suit—after all, Shanks is the captain he chose!

The moment Shanks' Griffin was fully drawn, dark red arcs of Conqueror's Haki crackled wildly across the blade.

The crew members on deck stood up at the same time, weapons in hand, each with the same fighting spirit burning in their eyes.

"Everyone—" Shanks' voice echoed across the Red Voss.

"attack."

boom--!!!

The Red Fox collided sideways with the CP0 warship, and the dragon head statue on its bow seemed to come alive, ferociously tearing at the warship's hull.

The Red-Haired Pirates' officers leaped over the ship's railing and pounced on the CP agents on the deck who hadn't yet reacted.

The outcome of the battle was never in doubt from the start.

CP0 agents are the elite of the elite, each possessing combat capabilities equivalent to a Navy Rear Admiral.

However, the elite main force of the Red-Haired Pirates are all rare and excellent fighters on the sea.

Beckman shattered the long knife in the lead agent's hand with a single shot, and the bullet, still propelled by the blade, pierced the agent's shoulder.

Raki Lu's fist slammed into another agent's chest, the immense force of his Armament Haki sending the man flying backward, crashing through two layers of ship walls before coming to a stop.

With Yasopp providing cover from the rear, three bullets were fired simultaneously, accurately hitting the three agents who were trying to flank him from the side.

No one can stop them.

Shanks, carrying Griffin, walked step by step into the depths of the ship's cabin.

CP agents surged up like a tide along the way, only to be repelled by him just as quickly.

Dark red arcs of electricity danced around him, and with each swing of Griffin's fist, a figure would inevitably fly backward.

He kicked open the last hatch.

Behind the hatch was a cargo hold filled with boxes bearing top-secret markings.

The box at the deepest part lay quietly in a beam of the setting sun's afterglow filtering through a crack in the ceiling.

Shanks walked over curiously and used his Griffin to pry open the box lid.

The moment the box lid was opened, he saw the fruit—

Purple peel with spiral patterns.

Rubber fruit.

Shanks reached out and took the fruit out of the box.

The moment his fingers touched the fruit peel, a strange sensation spread from his fingertips throughout his body.