One Piece: Trainers on the Straw Hat Pirates

Red sighed inwardly and began to ponder. Since the game was no longer a game in the traditional sense, shouldn't he pay more attention to the settings of legendary beasts and Pokémon, and add more details?

Nintendo only needs to come up with a name and design a skin, but Nintendo has to consider many other things!

"As expected, the first step is to significantly increase the number of players entering the game world."

"In the New World, apart from the territories of Shanks and Whitebeard, it is almost entirely under the control of the Straw Hat Pirates. Shanks and Whitebeard are longtime friends, so developing it shouldn't be too difficult."

"With the Alabasta Kingdom acting as the agent for the first half of the Grand Line, it shouldn't be a problem. After all, the Gotei 13's fighting strength is still not much of a match for in the first half."

"However... the Grand Line is ultimately just a route attached to this planet; it's alright in terms of adventure and serendipitous encounters."

"But the places in this world where the population is truly concentrated are indeed not very climatically abnormal. Apart from pirates, the mafia, and a few sea monsters, there are almost no external enemies in the Four Seas!"

"Great! Now the next step of the plan is clear!"

Although he doesn't plan to cause trouble for the World Government before Luffy fully emerges from seclusion, it doesn't mean that Red doesn't want to accelerate the project.

After thinking for a moment, Chi Hong suddenly opened his personal terminal, found one of the numbers, and dialed it.

Strangely, the phone, which usually connects quickly, rang for a long time this time.

Fortunately, the crimson personal terminals are all specially designed, so there is no issue of them automatically disconnecting if the waiting time is too long.

And so it went, until five minutes later, when the call was suddenly answered.

Before Crimson could even speak, a lazy voice tinged with a hint of complaint came from his personal terminal.

"Really, Lord Crimson, how come the gaming pods you sell can automatically bind to my personal terminal?"

"Game pod?"

Crimson was taken aback for a moment, then burst into laughter and asked:

"Marshal Kuzan, don't tell me you haven't answered the phone for so long because you've been playing our Pokémon World game?"

"What else!?" Aokiji showed no shame at being caught slacking off at work by playing games; instead, he declared righteously:

"After all, it was something researched by the pirate leader, so as the Fleet Admiral of the Navy, I naturally have to investigate it personally."

"And also... what exactly do you want!?"

"Do you know how crowded Highway 01 is right now? It's so hard to even spot a wild Pokémon!?"

"I finally managed to snag a Pidgey, but before I could even capture it, your phone rang incessantly in my gaming pod. It was so noisy that I accidentally gave the wrong command and killed it."

"........."

Crimson remained silent for a moment, then spoke:

"I'm sorry, but to prevent game pods from being shared, each game pod is linked to personal information upon first use, as you know."

"It's possible that after your personal information was entered into the database, your personal terminal happened to be nearby, so it linked to your game pod."

In fact, this feature was mainly designed for the Straw Hat Pirates, since there aren't many people on the entire sea who can simultaneously own a personal terminal and a game pod.

I just didn't expect to accidentally injure Aokiji.

While one Pidgey isn't a big deal, considering Aokiji's love for the Pokémon game and his strength, he might be able to contribute even more wish power...

After thinking for a moment, Crimson still reminded him:

"Actually, you don't all need to squeeze onto Highway 01."

"In fact, the reason why those media workers could never beat the Viridian City Gym Leader during the open beta was because that was the strongest Gym Leader in the game."

“Normally, you don’t need to challenge the Viridian Gym at all; you can just skip to the later parts of the map.”

"The Pokémon world is very vast, and later on, the Gym Leaders of Pine City will be designed to take care of newcomers and will not release overly powerful Pokémon."

"What did you say?! Why didn't you say so earlier?!" On the other end of the phone, the usually calm and collected Aokiji suddenly let out a sharp scream like a bird with its feathers ruffled.

The next moment, a loud thud was heard from his personal terminal, as if he had thrown it onto the table.

Upon hearing this, Crimson immediately shouted:

"Wait! Wait!!!"

"You're not thinking of taking the cheat codes I gave you back to play games right now, are you!?"

"Otherwise what!?"

A distant voice came from the other end of the phone, along with the sound of the game pod door opening.

Realizing what was happening, Crimson immediately became speechless and issued a direct threat:

"Kuzan, you better get back here right now! Otherwise, I'll use my administrator privileges and make sure you can't access the Pokémon world for a week."

Swah——

All sounds of operation ceased abruptly in an instant.

A second later, Aokiji returned to his personal terminal, sat up straight, and said:

"So... is there anything else you want to say?"

"Nonsense! Otherwise, why would I chat with you when I'm bored?" Although Aokiji couldn't see it, Akame rolled her eyes and then voiced her thoughts:

"The navy seems to be a bit too idle lately."

"The Straw Hat Pirates' coffers are a bit too full."

"To avoid inflation, I'm thinking of finding something for your navy to do?"

"What is it?" Aokiji asked curiously.

Crimson, on the other hand, answered directly and calmly:

"I have decided to sponsor you with 3000 billion Berries as military expenses. What you need to do is to completely wipe out the pirates and bandits who plunder the people in the four seas in the next six months, including those officials and naval officers who use force to coerce the people, and even sea monsters and natural disasters."

"At the same time, we should build more naval bases in the four seas, with the navy and the revolutionary army in the navy forming two departments to manage them respectively, so as to ensure the stability and peaceful life of the people in the four seas as much as possible."

"Did you understand what I just said?"

"........."

Aokiji on the other end of the phone fell silent, seemingly lost in thought.

After a long pause, he suddenly spoke, his voice calm yet not indifferent:

"Red, why don't we just confront the World Government and tell them that the Navy has completely submitted to the Straw Hat Pirates' rule?"

"otherwise……"

"I really don't feel comfortable taking on this 3000 billion Pyre military budget."

Chapter 476 What era are we living in? Still using traditional Dynamax? (Seeking monthly votes~)

In the end, Aokiji accepted the military funds from the pirates on behalf of the Navy without any qualms.

After all, Red had told him that given the World Government's current situation, it was very likely that they wouldn't even be able to pay military salaries in the near future.

Rather than waiting until then and letting the Navy's soldiers and warriors become disloyal to the Navy and lose faith in justice due to economic problems, it's better for him to go against his conscience and gain the Straw Hat Pirates' support now.

At least this way he can still lead the navy to maintain stability in the four seas.

not to mention……

After chatting with Crimson for so long, I wonder how much he's fallen behind in his studies.

Moreover, the strategy that Crimson mentioned isn't particularly difficult to discover, and sooner or later someone will notice the map situation behind Viridian City.

He needs to level up his Mini Ice before then.

This kind of exhilarating feeling of nurturing from scratch was something he was experiencing for the first time, and it was simply irresistible.

"Even a naval admiral like Aokiji has become addicted to the internet? That's really outrageous."

Watching Aokiji hang up the phone in a hurry, Akame silently complained to himself.

Upon learning that it would be difficult to create anything useful using his willpower in a short period of time, he decided not to wait any longer in the server room.

After greeting Vegapunk, Crimson walked straight out of the room.

However, since most of his friends and acquaintances in Pokémon Ocean are now in the virtual game world, Red was momentarily at a loss for what to do.

"Forget it, since everyone's already dead..."

Swah——

A spatial ripple appeared, and the crimson figure suddenly teleported away, returning directly to his bedroom.

Fortunately, not all of my friends are playing virtual games.

"Merry, Laboon, get ready, I'm about to take you on an adventure in the real Pokémon world!"

Two mental waves were simultaneously emitted, sharing the crimson thought with the sleeping Meli and Rab.

Due to differences in biological form, these two little guys have different daily routines from most of the Straw Hat crew.

Therefore, in most cases, Meryl will enter ship mode to avoid boredom by reducing her thinking.

Laboon is the same, except that as a deep-sea behemoth, it has a habit of sleeping for long periods of time.

At Crimson's shout, the ship spirit and ship pet, which had been sleeping, instantly opened their eyes.

The next moment, their consciousness, along with Crimson, descended directly into the world of Pokémon Sword and Shield.

"Crimson, are you going to start leveling me and Laboon up?"

Little Meli, who was suddenly summoned, was overjoyed and immediately transformed into a ghost, floating around Crimson.

Although they were suddenly brought into the Pokémon world, neither Merry nor Laboon felt unhappy; on the contrary, they both looked incredibly excited.

During this time, Chi Hong has been busy with all sorts of miscellaneous things, and there is hardly any rest for her 24 hours a day.

Even when there's a rare opportunity to take friends to the Pokémon world to level up, Chopper, Nami, and others whose strength is second only to the Marine Admirals and who don't have a clear direction for improvement are always given priority.

As for Mary and Rab, they were naturally left far behind.

However, level is level, and combat power is combat power.

With their Pluton technology and multiple Devil Fruit powers, Merry and Laboon are no less valuable in combat than ordinary Marine Admirals.

Therefore, Crimson was never in a hurry to help the two of them level up.

only……