One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

However, even after they searched the entire village and the surrounding forest from top to bottom, they still couldn't find Luffy.

Moreover, a small wooden boat belonging to the village chief, which was moored by the sea, also disappeared.

"Oh no, this is bad. Luffy must have stolen the village chief's ship and secretly went to sea to become a pirate."

Dadan covered her head and screamed in panic.

"When Garp returns to the village, how am I supposed to explain this to him? That brat Luffy didn't even say hello."

The village chief stood on the beach, repeatedly tapping the sand beneath his feet with his cane, his face contorted with rage.

At the same time, at the port of Shells.

"Coby, you're so useless. Didn't we already knock that Alrima away? You're still so scared. You'll never become the Pirate King if you're this cowardly."

Luffy jumped off the small wooden boat that had docked at the shore, turned around and looked at a short, chubby boy with pink hair wearing glasses with bottle-shaped bottoms, and said bluntly.

The boy named Coby carefully climbed ashore, holding onto the ship's railing. Upon hearing Luffy's words, he gave a wry smile and scratched his head.

"Luffy, I'm not as strong as you. Besides, my dream is to become a brave Marine warrior, like that Marine hero. Also, the woman you knocked away is named Alvida."

"I'm so hungry..."

Luffy seemed not to hear, listlessly hanging his head and scanning the town in front of him.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he ran towards a tavern that was open for business.

"Food! Meat! I want to eat meat!"

Behind him, Coby hurriedly caught up, shouting, "Luffy! Wait! Do you have any money on you?"

A dozen minutes later, the tavern owner and her daughter Rika surrounded Luffy and Coby, looking furious.

Luffy's belly was bulging, and the table in front of him was piled high with empty plates.

Kobi was sweating profusely as he explained.

"I'm...I'm so sorry! Luffy is just too hungry. I'm sorry, I'm willing to work at the tavern to pay off the debt. I'm so sorry! Please forgive us!"

"Hmph! I think you're just here to freeload. You're pirates, aren't you? Just like that despicable Helmeppo, eating and drinking all day long and causing trouble in town!"

The little girl Rika pointed a kitchen knife at Coby, who turned pale with fright and shook his head, saying, "I...we're not pirates, don't misunderstand, we're just too hungry."

Coby was about to explain when Luffy let out a burp, grinned, and said, "How did you know I'm a pirate? That's right, I'm Monkey D. Luffy, the man who's going to become the Pirate King!"

"Still denying you're a pirate? Your crewmates have already admitted it!" Rika gritted her teeth, her hands trembling, yet she gripped the kitchen knife tightly, pointing it at Luffy and Coby, and shouted, "Get out of my tavern! Get out of Shells Town! You're not welcome here!"

"Huh?" Luffy was a little confused. He scratched his head and asked in confusion, "Don't you want us to stay and work? We didn't pay for our meal earlier."

"We're not going to let a gluttonous pirate work in our restaurant! Get out of here!" Rika shouted, her voice trembling slightly.

You could tell she was scared, but she was holding on and didn't back down.

Luffy glanced at the empty plates on the table and was about to say something when Coby grabbed his arm and pulled him outside.

"Luffy, let's go! If you openly declare yourself a pirate, and the townspeople notify the Marines, you're finished."

"Notify the Navy? Hmph, notify that spoiled brat Bellemere? He wouldn't care about the lives of the people of Shells. Just like his colonel father, all he knows is bullying us!"

Rika sneered behind her, ignoring the restaurant owner's attempts to dissuade her, and choked out with red eyes, "That chivalrous swordsman only killed his tamed wolfhound, and he was caught and taken to the naval training ground, where they said they'd lock him up for a month without food. As long as Colonel Morgan and his son Bellmare are in Shells Town, we'll never have a peaceful life!"

"The chivalrous swordsman?"

Luffy stopped in his tracks as he walked out of the tavern.

A dozen minutes later, outside the wall of the Shells Town Naval Base, three figures stealthily climbed over the wall and peered into the training ground inside.

"Where is the swordsman you mentioned, Rika?" Luffy looked around.

"Idiot, didn't you see the cross standing in the middle of the training ground? Isn't that the swordsman with his hands and feet tied up right there?"

Rika, holding several rice balls in her hands, pointed to the middle of the training ground and said.

Luffy and Coby immediately looked closely, and both of them were stunned.

Luffy looked at the man with his hands and feet bound, somewhat surprised.

"Huh? Rika, didn't you say the one who was captured was a swordsman? But he looks like a blind old man, right? His eyes are covered in scars, he looks really scary."

“Yes, although the swordsman can’t see, he is a very skilled swordsman.” Rika nodded in affirmation.

"A blind swordsman?" Luffy's eyes lit up with excitement. He pulled on the wall and flipped over, jumping into the training ground.

"This is so much fun! I'm going to rescue him right now. I want him to be my first partner!"

Chapter 576 Luo Xia's Bewilderment

Advance into the city.

As Luo Xia got up early to wash up, the prisoners in Infinite Hell woke up as if they had timed alarm clocks installed in their brains. They huddled anxiously in their cells, watching Luo Xia with extreme tension.

Luo Xia washed his face with the clean water that the jailers had brought him early in the morning, stretched, and loosened his muscles, making a crackling sound.

His long, silver hair, which was loose on his head, moved without wind, and strangely contracted and shortened, turning from more than a meter long into an inch long in the blink of an eye.

Hair goes from long to short, sometimes without even needing to be trimmed; this is the effect of life returning to its source.

With his short hair, Luo Xia looked less delicate and more tough.

His three-meter-tall, upright figure had perfectly proportioned muscles, neither appearing bulky and bloated nor thin and weak.

The layers of muscles form the most solid barrier, resembling a perfect human sculpture meticulously crafted by a sculptor.

It has been more than half a year since my last significant growth spurt.

In the past six months, his height has basically stabilized at three meters and has stopped growing.

But the power hidden within this body continues to steadily increase.

The intensity of the lightning accumulated within its body has exceeded 950 million volts and is about to reach the limit of one billion volts.

As always, Rorschach opened the cell door, walked outside the cell, and looked up at the surrounding cells.

"Whose turn is it today?"

As soon as he said this, he immediately saw the muscles of the obedient prisoners in the surrounding cells suddenly tense up, and they all reflexively reached out and pointed to the other cells.

"Lieutenant General Rorschach, it's Old Mike's turn today!"

"Bullshit! I already had my turn three days ago, it's clearly Dick's turn today!"

"Nonsense! I got beaten up three times in five days ago, and you're saying it's my turn now? Old Mike, why don't you just die?!"

Listening to the prisoners passing the buck, Luo Xia shook his head, walked to the nearest cell, took out the key, opened the cell door, and looked at the bald giant with a bitter expression inside.

"Stop arguing, take it one at a time. Don't worry, I'll be gentle."

"Oh!"

"Snapped!"

"boom!"

"when!"

After more than an hour of intense collisions, Luo Xia emerged satisfied from a cell deep in the passage, casually closing the cell door behind him. He felt refreshed, his body completely relaxed.

In the cell behind him, a four-meter-tall New World pirate captain, his body limp, slid down the wall little by little, and fell face down to the ground with a thud, unable to get up for a long time.

In the other dozens of cells, hundreds of once notorious world-class pirates and criminals lay sprawled out, each with a look of utter despair on their faces.

Watching Rorschach hum a song as he left the Infinite Hell through the elevator shaft, Mike Taureans, the pirate who had been wanted by the Navy for 700 million Berries more than a decade ago, could no longer hold back and began to sob.

"Waaaaah, Mommy, I want to go home..."

Inside the elevator shaft, Luo Xia sorted through the gains he had made over the past six months and couldn't help but feel a sense of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, a complex feeling of mixed emotions, often including nostalgia or reflection).

The prisoners held in this endless hell are indeed multi-talented and formidable.

During this period, he had basically fought with all the prisoners except for a few, such as Barrett.

In his battles with these once infamous pirates and criminals, he acquired their martial arts, swordsmanship, gun skills, and many other combat techniques.

Not only that, but he also learned many outlandish Devil Fruit development techniques.

Everyone here, if released, would be a major criminal with a bounty of hundreds of millions of Berries.

The vast amount of knowledge revealed by hundreds of notorious criminals has made Rorschach's knowledge of combat incredibly rich.

His combat experience has been honed to perfection through hundreds of real combat sparring sessions, truly achieving the ability to generate power from the heart, making him capable of easily handling any type of battle.

However, to Rorschach's dismay, there were indeed not many particularly powerful prisoners in the Infinite Hell.

Or rather, these prisoners, who have been detained for too long, have suffered a severe decline in their own strength.

The long-term imprisonment had led to a decline in their spirit and energy, and their physical strength had been severely weakened due to insufficient food. Rorschach felt that it would be good if they could achieve two or three tenths of their peak strength.

This is especially true for some pirates who rely on their Devil Fruit abilities to dominate the outside world; they basically can't even withstand a single move from him.

Having left the Infinite Hell, Rorschach, still wearing his prison uniform, strolled through the passages of the Extreme Cold Hell and the Scorching Hot Hell as if he were taking a walk in his own home.

The prisoners in the surrounding cells watched Luo Xia walk by with blank expressions, showing no excitement whatsoever, appearing extremely calm.

There's nothing they can do; they've seen it far too many times already.

In the first couple of times, they were incredibly excited, thinking that Rorschach had successfully escaped from prison, and they all begged Rorschach to let them out so they could escape Impel Down together.

However, after witnessing Hannibal Lecter, Sadie Jr., and even Warden Magellan standing in the corridor outside the cells, chatting and laughing with Rorschach, who was dressed in prison garb, everyone was stunned.

They were starting to question the meaning of life.

We're all here to be pushed into the city and imprisoned, so why are you showing off like this?

Then, after learning from the guards what Rorschach had been doing outside, the prisoners fell silent.

Oh, so it's Lieutenant General Lan Lin.

That's fine.

Do as you please.

Rorschach continued upwards until he arrived at the scorching hell where the director's office was located.

In front of the office, on the steaming rooftop, Little Sadie, dressed in tight-fitting, openwork leather armor, had glistening beads of sweat, exuding her natural fragrance, rolling down her voluptuous body.

She held a black leather whip in her hand, occasionally lashing it down hard on the prison guard beasts that were diligently carrying heavy loads during their training. She would also occasionally lash out at some of the prison guards who were exhausted and lying on the ground, causing them to scramble to their feet in pain and continue their sweating training.