I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Ace and Sabo were making sarcastic remarks, but their expressions also showed some excitement.

"The newspapers say he's still alive, and that the battle he fought when he returned to the sea even involved the leader of the Revolutionary Army... Ace, Luffy, you should understand now, right?"

Sabo clenched his fist, a little excited.

"Understand...understand what?" Luffy asked, bewildered.

“Mr. Sieg is not dead, so in these three months, he must have been working secretly, like the other revolutionaries, fighting for freedom throughout the world!”

"Is...is that so?" Ace wiped the sweat from his brow.

It's unclear when exactly, but the Revolutionary Army began to appear in the Goa Kingdom, and their ideas spread rapidly, deeply influencing Sabo.

"No!" Luffy objected at this moment:

"Bandits are just bandits, they are not revolutionaries."

Ace nodded, unusually agreeing with Luffy's statement, and retorted to Sabo:

"Sabo, something's not right with your thinking. If Sig is really a member of the Revolutionary Army, then why would he go through all this trouble to get the One Piece? If he has the treasure, why doesn't he just hand it over to the Revolutionary Army?"

Sabo, however, smiled slightly, shook his head, and his eyes shone brightly:

"That's because the ultimate treasure hasn't been revealed yet. Whether it's the Angel Fruit or the gold mine, they're just external things."

"The ultimate treasure is probably... freedom of thought!"

"Once those treasure hunters who have been drawn here discover the final treasure, they will surely join the great cause of liberating all mankind, just like Mr. Sig..."

.............

Frostmoon Village, the Pure Land Dojo.

"Sig...Sig isn't dead, he's still alive!"

Zoro, holding a newspaper in his hand, rushed in from outside the dojo, panting, his face flushed with excitement.

As soon as he ran into the dojo gate, he saw dozens of students staring at him with strange expressions.

"Why are you looking at me? Where's Kuina? I need to tell Kuina that Sig is still alive right away." Zoro was a little taken aback.

After he finished speaking, he saw the students in the dojo gradually becoming teary-eyed, deeply moved.

"Mr. Sieg, is he really still alive?"

"That's great! This is really great!"

"Mr. Sig, you must live a long and healthy life this time..."

The students at the dojo were all moved to tears, a scene that left Zoro stunned.

"Wait, are you guys that familiar with Mr. Sig?" Zoro was surprised.

"Zoro, don't you know?" A student from the dojo wiped away tears.

"Ever since the devastating news of Sig's death came more than three months ago, Kuina said she would let the chainsaw echo throughout heaven..."

"...So what? What's the problem?" Zoro paused, feeling that the words sounded strangely familiar.

"So Master Koushirou made her a very noisy chainsaw, saying it was to help Kuina make the noise of the chainsaw resound throughout heaven... Now that Sig is still alive, we finally don't have to suffer like that anymore..."

"Let's go... let's go and beg Master Koshiro to make another low-noise chainsaw..."

Dozens of students from the dojo stood up together, wiped away their tears, and followed Zoro.

Chapter 479 The Great Inventor Koushirou

Zoro and the students of the dojo walked together until they reached the small attic deep inside the dojo.

Pushing open the door to the attic, Zoro and the others saw that the small attic had changed drastically compared to before.

The walls are covered with blueprints of mechanical parts, and the shelves are filled with various chainsaw components.

Meanwhile, their dojo master, Koushirou, was sitting at a table with several chainsaws on it, which he was adjusting.

Seeing this, Zoro and the others couldn't help but slow their pace.

In the three months since Sig’s death, the father and daughter who run the Isshin Dojo have changed drastically.

Kuina drastically increased her training intensity, spending her days waving around a loud, alarming chainsaw.

Koushirou, the man who used to always smile with his eyes narrowed, has also become reclusive, often tinkering with his chainsaw gadgets in the attic.

"Oh, I see... Sig is still alive..."

After listening to Zoro and the others, Koushirou looked visibly relieved.

He rubbed his face, regaining his squinting, smiling expression.

"Coincidentally, I've also finished a new version of the low-noise chainsaw, which I can send to Kuina..."

Koushirou stood up, carrying the chainsaw he had just finished testing, and led Zoro and the others toward the training ground.

Before anyone even got close, they could hear the extremely loud buzzing of chainsaws.

From afar, one could see that Kuina was holding a single-edged chainsaw in both hands and swinging it into the air.

"Kuina..."

Zoro waved to Kuina to turn off the chainsaw, then handed her the newspaper he was holding.

"Really? Mr. Sig is still alive... But I'll still stick to the way of the chainsaw."

Kuina's eyes lit up, but her expression remained resolute.

At that moment, Koushirou walked over with a brand new chainsaw.

"Guina, let's switch to this new generation chainsaw. The old chainsaw was too noisy."

Koushirou adjusted his glasses and handed over the chainsaw:

"This chainsaw has undergone further improvements; it's lighter and quieter. And there's even a revolutionary breakthrough..."

"I've added a new music playback feature to this chainsaw!"

Koushirou smiled slightly, a hint of smugness in his expression. He took out a pair of headphones from his pocket, plugged the headphone cord into the headphone jack on the handle of the chainsaw, and faint music began to play.

Zoro and the others standing nearby stared wide-eyed.

"Why is it a music playback function...?"

"Master Koushirou has been tinkering in the attic for so long, how did he manage to come up with something like this?"

Amidst everyone's complaints, Kuina was slightly taken aback, but under Koushirou's watchful gaze, she tentatively turned on the switch and put on the headphones.

As the music started playing in her headphones, Kuina swung her chainsaw to the rhythm of the music.

She quickly got into the zone, her expression focused, and her eyes became even sharper.

"Father, this battle music really works! I feel a strange power... I feel full of fighting spirit now."

After waving for a moment, Kuina stopped, her tone slightly excited.

"That's good."

Seeing that Kuina liked it, Koushirou smiled and nodded.

"Implementing this new music playback feature on the chainsaw wasn't easy. I've put in a lot of effort over the past few months to achieve this revolutionary breakthrough..."

"Was the breakthrough in the wrong direction? And it actually worked?" Zoro's face was full of black lines:

"And why is it a music playback function? It's totally inconvenient during battle!"

Zoro suddenly felt... that at some point, Koushirou seemed to have become a little strange.

Koushirou was taken aback, and he looked at Zoro seriously.

"Zoro, what you said...makes sense!"

"Headphone cables are indeed very inconvenient during combat, and this design was definitely an oversight on my part."

Koushirou resumed his previous squinty-eyed smile, seemingly enlightened, and became serious again.

Just as Zoro breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Koushirou continue:

"It seems like the next generation of the chainsaw sword could consider adding support for wireless headphones..."

Zoro: .....

So why make things difficult for listening to music?

Just when Zoro and the other students at the dojo were on the verge of collapse.

Guina, however, picked up the chainsaw and turned it on.

Amidst the buzzing sound, Kuina approached Zoro and raised her chainsaw:

"Zoro, aren't you happy with my new chainsaw sword?"

Zoro's eye twitched, sweat beaded on his forehead, and he frantically waved his hands in rejection.

Just as he was about to run away, Kuina took an earphone and put it into his ear.

At this moment, the buzzing noise of the chainsaw could no longer be heard.

A somewhat familiar voice sang a song, which echoed in Kuina and Zoro's ears through the two earphones, one on the left and one on the right.

How lonely it is to be invincible.

How incredibly empty it is to be invincible...

Zoro turned his head as he listened to Sig's singing.

He saw Koushirou with his arms crossed, squinting and smiling, watching him and Kuina.

"I see..." Zoro finally understood after seeing Koushirou's expression.

A new music listening feature shouldn't take several months to develop.

Koushirou probably spent most of his time singing this song himself... Because of Sig's death, the song "Invincible" became a banned song.

Koushirou, through some means, went to great lengths and secretly obtained Seig's posthumous work...

Zoro closed his eyes and savored the song, and he roughly understood Kuina's feelings.

For Kuina, Sig was like a guiding light that led her down the irreversible path of chainsaw swordsmanship.