One Piece: The Cryo Doctor on the Straw Hat Ship

The sea breeze ruffled her short orange hair, and her eyes reflected the azure sea route:

"I want to create the most accurate and complete nautical chart in the world! I want to circumnavigate the globe and witness all the oceans with my own eyes!"

Luffy adjusted his straw hat, his smile almost reaching his ears, and finally stomped heavily on the wine barrel.

His voice wasn't loud, but it carried the power to pierce through raging storms:

"I'm going to be the Pirate King!"

Finally, everyone's eyes fell on V.

The sea breeze ruffled V's hair as he pushed up his decorative glasses.

"My dream..."

V's lips slowly curled up, but it wasn't Luffy's sunny laugh, nor Zoro's manic sneer.

Rather, it is a mixture of a scientist's desire for exploration, an adventurer's curiosity, and... a calm and profound ambition that transcends the current world perspective.

His voice was steady, yet possessed a peculiar penetrating power, clearly reaching everyone's ears:

"I want to witness firsthand and participate in how far the 'possibilities' of this world can be expanded."

"All the mysteries of this world will be rendered meaningless before me!"

"Of course... there are also my partners who helped me turn your dreams into reality one by one."

"Although I don't understand...but..."

Luffy stood on a barrel of sake, his straw hat fluttering in the sea breeze, and he grinned, revealing his signature bright smile:

"My little ones—"

"Let's go!!!"

"oh--!!!"

The barrel cracked open, and the spilled wine refracted an amber light in the sunlight.

Inside the cabin, Bucky, who was mopping the floor, stopped what he was doing and, feeling the youthful energy on the deck, couldn't help but drift into memories.

"The Grand Line, huh? It's been a long time!"

Chapter 52 Reaching the World's Highest Peak (Please continue reading!)

"Wuhu~ Once we cross this mountain, we'll enter the Grand Line!"

"Everyone, hold on tight—!"

As the Going Merry entered the narrow waterway of Reverse Mountain, Nami's loud warning was mostly swallowed up by the roar of the water and Luffy's cheers.

The Merry was like a leaf lifted up by an invisible giant hand, suddenly sucked into the upstream seawater.

The water current carried the boats, climbing upwards at an incredible speed along the almost vertical cliffs of the red earth continent.

"It doesn't make any sense at all!"

V stood unusually at the stern, watching the rising ocean current that seemed to be rubbing Newton in the ground before slamming him down with two three-point dunks...

It's hard to believe that this actually exists.

"As expected of a fantasy world."

"However... the water flow here is so rapid, if a hydroelectric power plant were built, the energy conversion efficiency might be quite remarkable."

The farming genes of the Chinese nation are subtly at work in V's body.

However, at that moment, the entire Merry suddenly began to shake violently.

Swaying~

The dramatic rise lasted as if a century had passed, yet it also felt like a mere instant.

As the Merry burst through the top of the channel and plunged into a wide-open sea, the dazzling sunlight and the distinctly different sea breeze instantly hit us.

Luffy laughed loudly, showing no fear of the immense power of heaven and earth;

Zoro's eyes were sharp as he stared intently at the waterway ahead.

Sanji stayed by Nami's side;

Usopp closed his eyes tightly and muttered prayers to the various gods.

Even V's face showed a hint of anticipation.

As the dawn's light shone on the bow of the Merry, the ram's head, with its upturned mouth, seemed to come alive, excitedly gazing at the sea that lay far below it.

Ok?

Far below, on the sea surface?

The excitement of entering the Grand Line lasted only a second, and then...

"Aaaaaaahh ...

The Merry, pushed out of its course by the rising ocean current, suddenly began to plummet vertically. The feeling of weightlessness made everything on the deck seem to be defying gravity.

"No! Nobody told me there was this part!" Usopp flew into the air and did a breaststroke, as if that would allow him to get closer to the Going Merry in mid-air.

"Hold on tight!"

Upon seeing this, Luffy quickly swung his arms, wrapping one arm around the mast and using the other to tie Usopp, Zoro, and Sanji together.

On the other side, V also turned his body into smoke and used the soft white smoke to catch the panicked Nami.

"Damn it, V!"

Seeing V holding Nami in his arms while he could only cuddle with two men, Sanji was filled with envy and jealousy, tears welling up in his eyes.

However, at that moment, Usopp suddenly let out a scream that almost broke his voice:

"Ahhh—Luffy, look down!"

Following the sound, everyone looked and saw a towering, black wall, as majestic as a mountain range, standing in front of the entrance to the Grand Line.

"What!?"

Nami suddenly exclaimed in surprise:

"How come there's a wall at the entrance to the Grand Line!?"

This is different from what's depicted on the nautical chart!

"Aaaaaah—I'm going to die!!" Tears streamed down Usopp's face as he closed his eyes in despair, praying that he would be reborn into a better family in his next life.

Just as the bow of the ship was less than a hundred meters from the rock face—

"Don't panic!"

V's stern shout pierced the panic like an electric current.

Data streams flashed wildly in his eyes, and with a flick of his right hand, a semi-transparent interface instantly unfolded.

At the same time, he directly activated the puppet program and took control of Bucky on the watchtower.

Om-!

Bucky's expression suddenly froze, and his body stiffened.

But the next instant, the puppet program implanted in V was activated, and a mechanical blue light shone in his eyes.

"Transform and recombine, Buggymon!"

V loosely clench your five fingers and press down.

The command travels directly to the core of the Split Fruit within Bucky's body via neural links.

Click, click—

Bucky's body was like a building block being dismantled by an invisible hand, instantly splitting into hundreds of neat red cubes!

The cubes scattered and flew in all directions like a swarm of bees, but they were not disorderly.

Under V's precise calculations, they were rapidly attached to key locations on the Merry's hull: the bow, the hull, the keel joints, the mast base...

"Watch out for a collision!"

V low drink reminder.

The next second, all the Pakistani modules activated their flight capabilities simultaneously.

Just as the bow of the Merry was only tens of meters from the towering rock face, and the ship was groaning painfully as it plummeted—

All the Pakistani modules attached to the hull simultaneously unleashed powerful thrust!

Under V's precise coordination, hundreds of faint flight force fields, like countless invisible hands, simultaneously lifted upwards and pushed to the side.

Crunch-!

The wooden hull, bearing immense torque, miraculously traced a sharp and perilous arc in the air.

"He...he's alive?"

Usopp collapsed onto the deck of the Going Merry with a thud and sprawled on the bed, panting heavily.

Under V's control, the Merry landed smoothly on the sea.

And then everyone realized...

It turned out that what almost killed them all was not a wall, but an unimaginably huge island whale standing at the entrance to the Grand Line.

It floated quietly on the sea, with crisscrossing old scars on its head. The most conspicuous scar was a huge fork-shaped scar on its forehead, as if it had been through a fierce battle.

"This...this...this is the Grand Line!?"

Usopp, who was given a rude awakening as soon as he entered, instantly lost his previous bravery and drive.

"Shh, keep your voices down!" Nami, who was equally timid, quickly signaled to everyone to be quiet.

If they angered such a huge creature, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Nami suggested, "Let's get out of here quickly!"

However, before she could finish speaking, an angry voice came from beside her:

"Rubber rubber... Giant pistol!!!"