One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

"That's definitely possible!"

"Ah! The Thousand Sunny!" Nami exclaimed in surprise upon hearing Luffy's confirmation.

"What's wrong with Nami? Doesn't her name sound nice?" Luffy, who was squatting at the bow of the ship, asked in surprise upon hearing Nami's exclamation.

"No! Look for yourselves! This is what Maggie gave me before she left, saying that if the name isn't decided yet, just choose him!" Nami replied, pulling out a slip of paper.

"Mei Biqi's?" Luffy stretched out his arm, pulled it over, and opened it to take a look.

"Set sail for thousands of miles! And finally reach the sunny shore!"

"Huh? Mabi actually thinks the same thing as Iceberg Uncle!" Upon hearing Luffy's answer, the people around him immediately raised their questions.

"Haha! Since it's the same, it's decided! Crew! Our new ship will be called the Thousand Sunny! Sanji and Zoro, bring the drinks, let's have a feast! Let's celebrate the crew members who haven't arrived yet and the new ones who have joined!" Luffy stood at the bow of the ship and laughed heartily.

"Haha! Haha! Welcome Franky!"

"welcome!"

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Meanwhile, the crimes of storming Enies Lobby and the Straw Hat crew's bounty began with the start of a new journey! Following the flight of the news bird, the bounty fell like snowflakes into the hands of countless people! Looking at the captain's bounty of 370 million Berries and the total bounty of 920,160 Berries for the entire crew, they all showed incredulous expressions. How could they be so crazy as to have earned such a bad reputation in the first half of the journey!

An island in the Grand Line!

"Commodore Smoker!" a girl in a tank top, drenched in sweat, shouted to the navy officer in front of her.

"Who are you talking to!" A strong voice rang out from afar.

"Lieutenant Tashigi!" The navy officer, looking at the dazed girl in front of him and drenched in sweat, helplessly reminded her that she was not the target she wanted.

"Huh?" Tashigi, sensing something was wrong, looked around with her long sword at her waist.

"Idiot! Put your glasses on right now!"

"Ah! I'm sorry!" After putting it on, he turned around and realized that the person he had called out to was not his superior. He turned around and ran over to look for him.

"Brigadier General Smoker! We have a new report instructing us to proceed to the East China Sea to assist two lieutenant admirals in capturing the newly emerged Sea King!"

"Roger that! Prepare supplies and get ready to head to the East China Sea!" Smoker replied, sitting in a shady spot and exhaling smoke rings, casually opening the newspaper in his hand.

"Brigadier General Smoker! Have you seen the Straw Hats?"

"I see! Compared to how the Navy is issuing bounties now! This pirate worth 50 million Berries isn't even worth as much as the most ordinary member of the Straw Hat crew! They're as reckless and crazy as ever! Now that the Enies Lobby incident happened, all the world's attention will be focused on the Straw Hat crew!" Smoker looked at the newspaper in his hand, exhaling smoke wildly. His expression suddenly turned cold, and even the air around him, distorted by the heat, couldn't stop the chill emanating from him.

"The Navy is the Navy, as long as it's an organization! As an officer, I can't act unilaterally. What we need now is status! Only then can we have more opportunities to operate! The New World! I must remove the straw hat there!"

"Now! Head to the East China Sea!"

The Grand Line! Garfield Island!

"Captain Maureen! Captain Maureen! News of the Straw Hat Pirates! They've launched a crazy attack on Enies Lobby! What a bunch of lawless lunatics!" A pirate with a weapon at his waist had just taken a newspaper from the Newsbird and saw the information on it, so he shouted wildly. The crew members around him, each doing their own job, were excited when they heard him shout that familiar name and surrounded him.

"Let me see! The Straw Hat Pirates haven't heard from him in ages!"

"Make way! Make way! Let me see!"

"Don't push! Don't push!"

"Hey! More news about the Straw Hat Pirates? I didn't expect they kidnapped a princess before even landing on the Sky Island! What big news have they stirred up now!"

"Do you have any news about Sanji? I miss his cooking so much!"

"Let me see!" The woman standing on the ship's railing, wearing a captain's cloak, directly controlled a stream of water to forcefully push the newspaper out and read the information on it.

"Haha! Haha! As expected of the team that saved us, they are indeed powerful enough to stand up to the World Government! We can't fall behind! They are now under siege by the entire ocean forces. We must repay their life-saving grace! Brothers, prepare the supplies and let's head to the New World together!"

Upon hearing their captain's order, the crew below immediately shouted excitedly!

"Oh! Captain Maureen! Let's head to the New World together to find the Straw Hat Pirates!"

"Haha! As expected, they get excited as soon as they hear about the Straw Hat crew!" Maureen smiled at her excited crew members, then turned to look at a submarine hovering near the ship's side. Looking at the man standing on the deck holding a long sword with a cross on it, she laughed and said, "Trafalgar Law, join us! We need your ability to cut through space! You know, the ocean is my domain, and I can keep your submarine here forever!"

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The Grand Line! Blante Island!

Countless shadows of clubs, accompanied by the crisp crackling of metal clashing, suddenly resounded throughout the entire island. A series of dull thuds from the impacts reached the ears of countless people, causing the crowd of people holding weapons to tremble.

"Shakya! Look, the Straw Hat Kids have gotten into trouble again!" A young man with a shiny iron rod on his head shook off the bloodstains and laughed while holding up a newspaper.

"Is that so? Just like before, acting recklessly. This place isn't far from our senior master!" The young man in the blood-red monk's robe put down the staff with metal rings in his hand and looked up at the distant sky with a smile.

"Should we still go see him?" The other person asked in silence upon hearing the voice of his senior brother and captain.

Seeing his junior brother's silent expression, the other turned around and smiled, "We're not going! We're guilty now, so it's better not to meet that senior uncle who hasn't returned in decades!"

"Let's go! We're about to enter a new world! That's where our execution ground will be!"

"The Buddha said! If I am not like hell, then who will go to hell!"

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The Grand Line! An unnamed island!

"Oh! Oh! Oh! This is truly astonishing! We never expected that there would still be survivors on this island!" An elderly man wearing a round hat, with a hunched back, a white beard, and a blue robe, slowly stepped off a small boat with bubbles, smiling as he looked at the wary crowd before him.

"Who are you?" The burly man wielding a giant steel hammer stood guard in front of him, a faint yellow light emanating from his palm.

"Oh dear! Don't be so wary! We're just a group of old folks who love doing research! A while ago, the island's instrument detective noticed some unusual fluctuations here, so we came to check if there was any useful material."

"Kyle, step back!" an old man shouted, blocking the burly man's path with his cane.

"Chief! We don't know if they're hostile yet? The Straw Hats said that most of the people who frequently appear on this sea are ill-intentioned and will rob us at will, so we should be careful!" The burly man Kyle, wielding a giant hammer, remained unmoved, while the tribesmen behind him shone with light and were full of vigilance.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! So you guys are acquainted with the Straw Hat crew who's causing trouble in this world. I can tell them some news."

"In exchange for the right to visit the island? It's rare to find an island that wasn't destroyed by the spatial tear. Seeing such a well-preserved island is perfect for us to study new materials!"

"No problem! You seem to know us quite well, could you explain some things about us to us?"

"Oh, right! As for the fact that you are survivors? That's no problem! As long as you don't drive us away!"

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Drum Kingdom!

“Ah! Dr. Kureha! You’ve come down from the castle in the mountains! How are the herbs I’ve gathered?” a bulky-looking man called out as he watched the sled race along.

"Whoosh!" Only a clump of snowflakes remained, pattering against his herbs, while the figure who wanted to ask questions vanished in an instant.

"Hmph! Dalton! What did you call me down from the castle for? I'm very busy!" The old woman, wearing a purple coat and sunglasses, jumped off the sled and started yelling at the man in front of her.

"Hey! How dare you speak to the king like that?" Hearing her outburst, some people around immediately expressed their dissatisfaction!

"Dr. Kureha! I'm so sorry! I'd like you to take a look at this!" The man, who had been yelled at, didn't seem to mind at all and politely handed her the newspaper.

"What? The secret to maintaining youth? I mean, you really are something else. As a king, you should live in a castle. I'll just make you pay the rent!" Seeing his gentle expression, her anger subsided considerably, and she snatched the newspaper to complain.

"No need, I'm used to living in the village!"

"Oh! It's a bounty for the little girl and Chopper? They ran away from home and found their own friends so quickly! But there's something wrong with Chopper's bounty! But they seem to be having a good time!" Kureha smiled as she looked at the photo on the bounty poster, feeling relieved for the two little ones who had run away from home. But then she opened the newspaper, saw the incident and the familiar hat, and suddenly flew into a rage!

"Bastard! Bastard! Is this captain the successor to that bastard Roger and Shanks? How could he take them to such a dangerous place! I swear I won't see you again! I'll kill you both!"

"Heh!" Dalton chuckled awkwardly from the side. He should have known better than to take the newspaper!

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"Ford! Look at Luffy and his crew, they're just as crazy as you! They've done something that will shock the whole world again!" Catwoman, dressed in black and white and covered in fur, shouted while holding a newspaper.

The boy next to him, dressed in denim and with a row of throwing knives slung across his body, was staring blankly at the stone block covered with characters. Hearing his companion's voice, he turned around and replied.

"Is that Brother Mabi's fleet? What have they been up to this time? I haven't reported to Sister Kaya about the robbery of the Imperial Princess yet!"

"Look at them! They're a bunch of lunatics who actually stormed the face of the world and managed to escape! Even my little brother, such a well-behaved child, has been led astray by them!" As his sister, she felt utterly helpless looking at her brother's news. A perfectly good child had been turned into an unruly criminal by those bastards.

"Haha! That's just like Maggie's style! If you're not satisfied, then do it!" Ford didn't care at all when he saw the message above, after all, he would have done the same thing himself!

"And Ford! What do you need such a huge rock for? We can't understand the characters on it!"

"Haha! This? This is a legendary treasure! Back when Mabi took me to beat people up with bricks, he told me that there was something in this world that no matter could destroy! That was the best material to make bricks! In my heart, it held a position comparable to the Supreme Grade Swords! And after I ate this Devil Fruit, I became even more obsessed with it!"

"what exactly is it?"

"A material that cannot be damaged by any attack in the world! The legendary Poneglyph 'Brick'!"

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Baitu Island!

"What is Sabo looking at?" asked a voluptuous woman with short orange hair, leaning over his shoulder to look at the newspaper in his hand.

"It's Luffy and his crew! They've gotten into trouble again, even worse than we have!" The young man, sitting cross-legged on the ground and wearing a top hat, laughed.

"Is this your younger brother? They really are crazy. With that bastard around, they probably can't be stopped." The other person smiled as well after seeing the information above.

"How is that diseased fruit? Has he learned to control it?"

"It's a pretty good fruit. It can be used to inject toxins into one's own body and create a treatment based on the reaction. He has already conquered a difficult disease to cure. Once the medicine is distributed, that country will be able to slowly recover."

"That's good! That fruit shouldn't be called the Disease Fruit! Perhaps the Medicine Fruit would be more suitable for it."

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New world!

"Haha! Haha! Mihawk! Look what trouble this kid has caused again! He actually led a bunch of his friends to storm Enies Lobby." A middle-aged man with red hair flipped through the newspaper in his hand and frantically slapped the shoulder of the man next to him, laughing loudly.

The man next to him stared coldly at the two wanted posters in his hand, lost in thought. Feeling the vibration on his shoulder, he handed one of them over and placed it in front of him.

Look at this!

"What?!" The other person stared at the bounty poster in front of him, his face flushed with drunkenness, and a hint of joy flashed in his hazy eyes.

"You mean this knife? So that salted fish has already set sail! And even infiltrated Luffy's crew."

"You know him?" The boy next to me, whose face was usually cold and aloof, immediately replied with a serious expression.

"Cough! Cough! He's from the village of Yasopp. When I first met him, he was only five or six years old and had already inherited this sword. Come to think of it, he stayed on my ship for a few months. He's a pretty good kid. I thought he would stay in the East China Sea forever."

"Hey! Hey! Hey! Mihawk, where are you going?" he called out hurriedly as he saw the person next to him walk away.

"Fight!" The person had disappeared, leaving only the voice echoing in the distance.

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East China Sea! The floating restaurant, Balati!