I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Dadan lifted Luffy, who was still arguing, up with one hand and asked.

"Ah, you know Uncle Sig too? He must be a really formidable bandit, right?"

Luffy instantly forgot about being spat on and grinned widely.

Chapter 25 Karp gave up thinking

Upon hearing Luffy's words, Dadan instinctively released her grip on Luffy's collar, causing him to fall to the ground.

"Sig... he's that bandit who calls himself the King of the Eastern Sea Mountains!"

Dadan's eyes held a hint of apprehension.

Not only Dadan, but the bandits behind her also stared wide-eyed.

Some time ago, the bandit groups of all sizes in the mountains of the Uncharted Territory were wiped out by the Sig Mountain Bandit Group, and many of them submitted to the man who called himself the Bandit King.

The Dadan family escaped the calamity only because their location was too remote and separated from the Academician Forest, which was teeming with wild beasts.

"This is terrible, this child is definitely a problem. How can such a young child know Sig..."

"Our Dadan family has absolutely no desire to have anything to do with the Xige Mountain Bandits! It's too dangerous."

Dadan said with a mournful face.

Upon hearing this, Garp's expression darkened, and he immediately reached out and grabbed Luffy's cheek, lifting him up.

"Luffy, how did you meet that bandit named Higuma?"

Garp's expression was not good.

He was very familiar with the character of Dadan's family; they were an anomaly among the mountain bandits, sharp-tongued but kind-hearted.

That's why he felt comfortable entrusting Ace and Luffy to these bandits.

But this doesn't mean that Garp thinks bandits are any good.

"It hurts... We met at the tavern in Windmill Village..."

"I shouldn't have left you in that leisurely windmill village!"

Garp glared at him; he was genuinely angry.

"Red-Haired Shanks, and now this Higuma..."

"While I was away, what kind of scoundrels did you meet in Windmill Village?!"

He raised his fist, breathed on it, and punched Luffy in the head without any mercy.

"It hurts..."

Luffy clutched his head, a large bump rising visibly from it, steaming hot, but he was still arguing:

"Shanks is a very powerful pirate! And that Uncle Higuma is also a very powerful mountain bandit!"

"You're talking back!" Garp raised his fist again and punched Luffy on the head twice more.

Luffy was in so much pain that tears were about to well up in his eyes, but this time he raised his voice and shouted loudly at Garp:

"Shanks is the Emperor of Pirates! And Uncle Higuma... he's also very powerful!"

"He was a friend of the Pirate King Roger and once defeated dozens of great pirates!"

Garp's raised fist froze in mid-air, and he was completely stunned.

Under a large tree in the distance.

Ace, who had been sitting on the boar carcass with a sullen face, glanced at Luffy.

His expression remained unchanged, still stern, only the look in his eyes changed slightly.

"A friend of Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King..."

He repeated it in a voice only he could hear.

At the same time, she also memorized that man's name.

The man who calls himself the Bandit King of the East Sea, Sig.

Meanwhile, Dadan and the others were also shocked by what Luffy had said.

"Sigu? How could he possibly be connected to the Pirate King Roger?"

"I admit he is indeed dangerous, and may even be the most dangerous person on this island... but to say he's a friend of the Pirate King Roger is just too far-fetched."

Dadan and the others didn't believe it at all and expressed their doubts;

"Kid, where did you hear about these things?"

"It was Uncle Sieg who said it in the tavern."

"...Did he drink a lot of alcohol?" Dadan asked tentatively.

“Yes.” Luffy nodded.

"Pfft, hahaha... Turns out he's just a drunkard who talks big!"

Dadan and the other bandits couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Kid, let me tell you a secret. I'm actually the Pirate King of Shandong. Do you believe me?" one of the bandits joked.

Another bandit chimed in:

"Isn't this a coincidence? Actually, I am the Pirate King of Shanxi, Dongge."

Garp, who had remained silent the whole time, secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

After hearing about Sig, he thought he was a dangerous person like Shanks who had corrupted his precious grandson.

I can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

A boastful drunkard is always safer than a real member of Roger's crew.

When Luffy grows up a bit, he naturally won't believe this drunkard's nonsense.

"You actually doubt Uncle Sieg? He's incredibly strong!"

Little Luffy was also a little angry. He pressed down on his straw hat and recalled two scenes from his memory.

There are two similar scenes that he can't forget about this straw hat.

One takes place at the windmill village dock, the other in a tavern.

Two different men placed the straw hat on his hand, treating seven-year-old Luffy as a real man.

Luffy got angry at Dadan and the others' attitude and shouted:

"Uncle Sig is very strong!"

"He personally defeated a total of 56 sea emperors, including the Lone Red, the Giant Battleship, and the Evil King..."

Luffy counted several names on his fingers:

"Shanks also trusts Uncle Sigurd, so it can't be a lie!"

After saying that, Luffy stretched his cheeks out to the sides and made faces at Dadan and the others:

"You stupid mountain bandits are nowhere near as good as Uncle Sig!"

"You brat..."

Dadan clenched his fist tightly, his forehead covered in black lines.

But thinking of Garp beside her, she ultimately didn't move her fist.

Garp's previously relaxed expression suddenly turned into one of great confusion.

"Luffy, did you really hear the names of these great pirates from that Higuma? Shanks believes it too?"

Karp, unconvinced, pressed on with another question.

After receiving Luffy's affirmative answer, he picked his nose and stared blankly for a moment.

"Putting everything else aside, how come the several great pirates that I and Sengoku personally captured were defeated by this Sig?"

Karp was very confused.

It's not unusual for a drunkard in a tavern to boast that he personally defeated many great pirates.

But what's unusual is that the names of these great pirates that Luffy listed are a secret!

Several powerful pirates, before they even had a chance to become famous, were quickly apprehended by the Navy.

These people were so dangerous that even their names and deeds were erased by the World Government.

Even within the Navy, very few people know these people's names!

"Who exactly is this Sigurd? Why is he telling Luffy all this?"

"And Shanks actually believed it?"

Karp suddenly realized that his initial guess might be wrong.

Anyone who knows these names and has received Shanks' approval is definitely not an ordinary person.

These questions were a tangled mess in his mind, and he couldn't sort them out at all.

After thinking hard for 5 seconds, Karp gave up.

"That guy's name is Sig, right?"

Garp chuckled and clenched his massive fist.

Chapter 26 Mountain Bandit King and One-Punch Garp

In front of the house of the bandit Dadan's family.

Garp suddenly clenched his fist, and his entire aura changed instantly.

His idea was very simple.

If Higuma is indeed connected to Roger and is approaching Luffy with some ulterior motive...

As the grandfather, he couldn't pretend he knew nothing.