The Warrior of Love

After a fierce battle, they rushed into the duel venue - the audience passage there was their hope of freedom!

This wind of rebellion left only a mess in its wake. Only then did the last three prisoners finally arrive and emerge from the dungeon passage.

"Everyone is really excited. My old bones can't keep up."

The strange old man did not choose to go to the dueling arena like the other slaves, but instead walked in a certain direction, looking as calm as if he was taking a walk in his own back garden.

Jiang Liu looked around, held the little girl in his arms like a princess, and followed naturally.

"You look familiar with this place?"

"The basic structure of facilities like dueling arenas is similar. I've seen them many times."

"Do you often come to this kind of place?"

"After all, this is not the first time I sell myself, hahaha!" I don't know where this sense of pride comes from.

"You old man... have you been planning to do this from the beginning, right?"

Jiang Liu's tone was subtle: "Not only did you sell yourself, but you also want to rob the buyer?"

It really is...well-deserved of its reputation!

Looking at the old man walking slowly in front of him, Jiang Liu's eyes became deep.

"It's him, now we can finally confirm it. The right arm of the Pirate King, the Pluto - Silvers Rayleigh!"

Chapter 66: Bartender

Rayleigh is one of the top fighters in the world of "One Piece". As the former deputy of the Pirate King, he is undoubtedly a strong man who can compete with the admirals. Even though he may be slightly weaker than the current admirals in a life-and-death fight because of the lack of training after his retirement, his own realm is there, and even the navy will not provoke him easily.

It should be noted that although the Navy uses "justice" as its banner, it is not the absolute ruler of this ocean. In order to maintain superficial peace and prosperity, it is necessary to always maintain a strong military force. If they want to attack Rayleigh, it may cause irreparable losses to the Navy and weaken their control over this ocean.

This is also why Rayleigh, theoretically the "big sinner", can spend his old age in the Sabaody Archipelago, so close to the World Government.

When you meet such a big partner, of course you have to hold on to it tightly - this thought flashed through Jiang Liu's mind, but he quickly rejected it.

In the original work, Rayleigh's role is neither too many nor too few, but it can be seen that he is by no means an unconditional good guy. Although he will help save people under the hands of the admiral, it is because Luffy himself has a connection with him and Red-Haired Shanks.

If it were any other pirate, he probably wouldn't even give it a second glance.

All in all, this is an old man who has retired. The passion and ambition of his youth have gradually faded (or it can be said that his ambitions have been realized), and even if he has the ability, he does not intend to continue to make trouble.

He doesn't mind helping Luffy, a young man who has inherited the dreams of their generation and has a bright future, but he will not trust just anyone he meets by chance.

Take Rayleigh as your teacher, learn swordsmanship and three-color domineering, and become a great swordsman in a few years - this plan is certainly very ideal, but the reality is extremely bleak.

It would be good enough if he could take Jiang Liu and the others out of the duel arena while robbing. Don't expect Rayleigh to continue helping him like a righteous partner.

But even so, after Rayleigh looted the duel arena that day, Jiang Liu still followed him with the little girl.

There was no way. It wasn't that Jiang Liu was so thick-skinned that he had to beg for mercy, but in this unfamiliar world, he really didn't know where to go with a sick child.

If it was just Jiang Liu, it would be fine. Even though there were many powerful people in this world, civilians still made up the majority. At least there would be no problem surviving. Becoming stronger could be discussed later, but carrying a burden with him would be...

As the saying goes, age makes wisdom come with age. How could Rayleigh, who has extremely rich life experience, not see Jiang Liu's predicament? He did not drive Jiang Liu away but agreed to let him follow him. Then the three of them came to a bar located in a lawless area.

Then Jiang Liu was extorted a large sum of money and successfully found a job.

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"Two big glasses of beer!"

"Okay! I'll be right there!"

"Jiang Liu, clean up table number six and the blood splattered on it."

"Wait a minute, it'll be ready soon."

It has been half a month since Jiang Liu came to the world of "One Piece", and he has basically adapted to life here.

The old man Reilly brought people here and ordered two glasses of rum, then disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving Jiang Liu here penniless (at least no Baileys), so the proprietress naturally charged him the bill.

Two glasses of rum, totaling 40 million Baileys (the currency unit of this world).

Well, it's undoubtedly extortion, and this bar is a complete shady place.

Of course Jiang Liu couldn't come up with the money, so he was detained and forced to work for free to pay off his debts.

——This was the case on the surface, but in reality it was the proprietress Xia Qi who took in Jiang Liu and Lulu who had nowhere to go.

Lulu LanqioDo Scarano, this is the name of the little girl who was rescued by Jiang Liu, and her nickname is "Lulu".

Her father was originally a treasure hunter. Lulu has no memory of her mother. She only knows that she has been traveling between islands with her father since she can remember.

To put it bluntly, the so-called treasure hunter is a job that relies on luck. Lulu's father is a man with unlucky luck, so the father and daughter often live a life of hunger and fullness. However, the two depend on each other and have a good relationship, and their life is quite enjoyable.

Until one day, Lulu's father got lucky and found a devil fruit!

Although the price of this kind of thing varies depending on the type and ability, even the lowest-level devil fruit is enough for the father and daughter to live a good life. In addition, Lulu's father is a man with no ambition and does not want to take a chance on eating the fruit, so he originally planned to sell it.

Since they were selling things, they could naturally get a good price in a prosperous place, so the two of them boarded a merchant ship bound for the Sabaody Archipelago.

Unfortunately, their ship was attacked by pirates. In the chaos, the injured father asked Lulu to eat the devil fruit and threw her into the small sampan. The last scene Lulu saw was her father with a bullet in his chest...

Perhaps the shock was too great, Lulu lost consciousness, and when she woke up again she was in prison.

Her father had asked her to eat the fruit because he probably thought that even if she was caught by pirates, they would spare her life because of the rarity of people with special abilities...

It's a pity that things didn't go as planned. I think the pirates made a mistake and sold Lulu, a person with special abilities, as an ordinary slave. She would have died if she hadn't met Jiang Liu.

Now, under the care of Jiang Liu and Xia Qi, she has gradually accepted the fact that her father has died and is trying hard to learn how to survive in this world.

From this perspective, she and Jiang Liu are in the same boat, but Jiang Liu is just trying hard to find ways to become stronger.

"Hmm... after taking inventory, I found that there isn't enough tequila."

Xia Qi is a former pirate with more experience than Rayleigh. She retired a long time ago and opened a bar in the Sabaody Archipelago. However, time has left no trace on her. She is obviously at least in her sixties, but looks like she is around thirty.

With her neat short hair, sexy thick lips, and plump and charming figure, no one would think that she is an "old person" old enough to be a grandmother unless someone tells her.

Although she ran a black shop, she was quite nice to Lulu and Jiang Liu. Not only did she provide them with a place to stay, but she also paid them a daily salary.

"Jiang Liu, you and Lulu should go to buy some goods together. It's the store I took you to last time. We will settle the bill at the end of the month, so you just need to go there and get the goods back."

"OK, got it."

Hearing Xia Qi's words, Jiang Liu immediately put down the muscular man he was holding and threw down a note.

"A total of 15 million Baileys. Thank you for your patronage."

This bar is located in a "no man's land" and generally only two types of customers come here.

One type is real customers who consume and pay normally, and nothing excessive is done to them.

The other type is those who want to get something for free, collect protection money, or are new bosses who have just taken over the area and want to establish their authority.

Even though Xia Qi has been doing business here for so many years, there are always some blind things happening one after another.

For them, the prices of all the food, drinks and drinks here will temporarily increase by one thousand to ten thousand times.

Jiang Liu's job was to be a waiter and communicator - responsible for taking money out of these gangsters' pockets in a friendly and caring manner.

"You, you guy..."

Ignoring the big man lying on the ground who seemed to have something to say, Jiang Liu turned around and took Lulu's hand who came out from the kitchen, and walked out of the bar together.

Chapter 67: Jiang Liu who thinks too much

After coming to this world, Jiang Liu was surprised to find that he was not such a loser after all.

Originally, he thought that this place was full of experts and that he had to keep a low profile and take things slowly. But after working in Xia Qi's bar for a while, Jiang Liu found that the situation was not as serious as he had imagined.

First of all, the world of One Piece is still made up of a vast majority of powerless civilians, just like in Naruto there are more civilians than ninjas.

Secondly, regarding high-end combat power... there are only a few Devil Fruits, and the number of naturally born Devil Fruits remains unchanged forever, which means that there won't be too many people with these abilities, which is why any Devil Fruit can be sold at a high price.

The three-color domineering system belongs to a relatively high-end training system. Although theoretically everyone has the potential to awaken domineering, in fact, the requirements for talent and basic physical fitness are quite harsh. Even if they are generals in the navy or pirates with a bounty of over 100 million, not everyone can use domineering.

If ordinary people want to become stronger, the most reliable and affordable weapons and equipment are still spears and cannons. Those who pursue their own strength will choose kendo or physical skills.

There are many different styles of kendo, but the most powerful physical technique is generally recognized as the Navy Six Styles!

Don't be fooled by the fact that this thing seems very popular. In fact, it has great potential. As long as you have enough talent and hard work, it will constantly respond to you and make your body strong enough to rival those of people with special abilities.

However, the difficulty of practicing the six styles is also very high. Learning one or two of them alone is not too difficult, but wanting to master all of them is basically impossible.

A large number of masters in this world have been absorbed into the navy, and many masters who do not want to be bound have become pirates or pirate hunters. Jiang Liu mostly encounters gangsters in his daily life, so naturally there is not much chance of him encountering a strong man.

Although Jiang Liu is not a fruit ability user and does not have the three colors of domineering, his physical ability has basically reached the limit of ordinary people. He has also made some achievements in kendo, so he has no problem dealing with some local bugs and small fish.

However, when dealing with those rascals causing trouble in the bar, Jiang Liu also discovered that they were generally very strong and their bodies were much stronger than ordinary people.

To be precise, even these lower-level gangsters have the physical fitness of ordinary Demon Slayer Corps swordsmen in "Demon Slayer", but their combat skills are far inferior.

If you think about it carefully, it’s not surprising. This should be the rule of the "One Piece" world itself: the effect and upper limit of physical exercise are much higher!

In "Demon Slayer", even the pillars can only have the strongest strength they can muster.

But in the world of pirates, the possibilities of human life are far more than that!

You know, as a pure swordsman without fruit ability, before learning Haki, when he could only rely on physical strength, Zoro was already able to use a barbell weighing hundreds of kilograms as a wooden sword for training...

After discovering this, Jiang Liu began to increase his exercise volume day by day. To his surprise, his physical growth, which had slowed down in the Demon Slayer world, was now speeding up again.

The breathing method, divinity, double the amount of exercise, fighting with the underworld, several things are combined to hone the body. In just half a month, Jiang Liu feels that his physical strength is almost one third stronger than when he came!

It’s hard to imagine what would happen if he stayed here for a few years...but it’s unlikely that he would be able to continue to grow indefinitely.

Every world has different rules, and in One Piece there is definitely a limit to physical strength.

If we don't take into account freaks like the Four Emperors Big Mom and Kaido, the upper limit of human physical skills should be Iron Fist Garp... But Jiang Liu probably won't be able to reach that level - if he doesn't have a guide.

It seems that I still need to find a teacher to learn how to be domineering - Jiang Liu thought to himself.

Although devil fruits are also a way, their uncertainty is too great. Without seeing the devil fruit encyclopedia, eating blindly is almost equivalent to gambling on luck, and the differences between different fruits are huge.

Don't say things like "the strength of the ability depends on the user's own strength" or "there is no strongest devil fruit, only the strongest devil fruit user" -

Let me ask you, if there is a nature-type Thunder Fruit and an animal-type Human-Human Fruit in normal form in front of you, which one would you eat?

You must know that even in the market, devil fruits have different prices.

Moreover, after eating the devil fruit, the sea will hate you. Not to mention swimming, even taking a bath can easily lead to accidents. This has always made Jiang Liu hesitant.

"I don't know if there is the same weakness in other worlds... If there is, it would be too uneconomical."

In various other worlds, water-related abilities seem to be very common. Doesn't that mean that I can find people who can restrain me everywhere?

On the other hand, if the weakness of the devil fruit is just a unique rule of the One Piece world, and one will no longer be bound by it if he leaves it, then this will undoubtedly be a great temptation for Jiang Liu.

The two possibilities before him made him quite hesitant - but this was like a primary school student worrying about whether to go to Tsinghua University or Peking University in the future, which was totally unrealistic.

Because he doesn't have any devil fruit in his hand now!

“Hey, hey…hey!”

Someone was pulling his hand hard. Jiang Liu came to his senses and lowered his head, only to see a cute little face with a pout.

"I'm talking to you. If you get distracted, I'll ignore you. Humph╭(╯^╰)╮!"

"Um, sorry sorry, I was just thinking about something."

Jiang Liu quickly apologized with a smile: "Please forgive me, Lulu."

"Buy me some marshmallows later."

As expected of Xia Qi, he knows how to blackmail adults at such a young age.

Jiang Liu looked at Lulu lovingly, gently stroking her little head with his big hands.

Her sky-blue short hair was combed into a bob, and the dirty clothes were long gone. She was now wearing a beige children's dress with a white belt around it, making the little girl look graceful and elegant.

Seeing Lulu’s adorable appearance, Jiang Liu felt inexplicably relieved... Loli is indeed the treasure of the world.

The Sabaody Archipelago where they were located was close to the Red Earth Continent, almost adjacent to the Navy Headquarters and the Holy Land of Marijoa, and was an important transit point on the Grand Line, so commercial activities on the island were extremely prosperous.

But prosperity also breeds darkness, and all kinds of illegal transactions that are not allowed to be seen in the light, such as the slave trade, also gather here.

Due to various reasons, even the navy could not completely eradicate the cancer here and could only turn a blind eye to the crimes on its doorstep. The criminals in the underground world also consciously avoided the navy's activity area and gathered in specific places, thus creating the so-called "no man's land".

Putting these aside and only looking at the natural environment, the Chabaoti Archipelago is undoubtedly a paradise on earth.

Strictly speaking, this is not an island, but a marine forest composed of the world's largest mangroves and their branches.