Double-transformation: I, Sakura Haruno! Will crush the pirates!

A bandana-wearing henchman on the pirate ship raised his hand and pointed at the petite figure walking in the sky.

"Huh? Someone's walking in the sky? No, that's CP's Moonwalk!"

The man called the leader looked at Sakura as she slowly descended from the sky as if walking down a staircase, his eyes bulging out of their sockets.

The panicked look on the man lasted only a moment before a brilliant idea came to mind.

"If we take out the government's secret agents, will we instantly become famous?"

As soon as the captain spoke, the pirates gathered around him revealed one after another crazy smiles.

Yes, this is the Great Pirate Era that Roger started.

Wealth, fame, power... everything in the world is waiting for them to seize. The mere world government—take them down!

Driven by a frenzied atmosphere, the pirates laughed and adjusted their cannons, aiming at the distant figure.

"Tch la la la, die, you government brats!"

The man, his face contorted with rage, pulled out a knife and pointed it at Sakura Haruno in the sky, shouting an order.

"Fire! Fire! Fire!!!"

boom! boom! boom!

A barrage of artillery fire erupted, accompanied by a deafening roar!

On an old merchant ship in front of the pirate ship, a white-haired woman wearing a trench coat looked shocked.

"Oh no, the scum behind us has turned their attention to innocent people!"

"But we don't have long-range weapons, Dr. Nicole!"

The wind blew up the crew member's hat and carried his voice to the stern.

Upon hearing this, Nicole Olvia, standing at the stern, pounded the railing in frustration, her brow furrowed: "Damn it!"

Just as the somber atmosphere spread among the scholars on board, a clear voice rang out across the entire sea.

"God avoids!!!"

The light of the entire sea was instantly stolen, and the blazing blue blade light sang a triumphant song.

Clang——!

Black lightning raged across the sky, and the flashes of light shattered the phosphorescence reflected from the sea surface.

Amidst the arrogant laughter of the pirate ship, it was sliced ​​in two by this ferocious attack.

Blood rained down like a storm, and the cries and wails were swallowed up by the cleaved sea and the roaring waves.

"Eh!!!"

"Severed???"

On the dilapidated merchant ship, the eyes of thirty-three scholars bulged out of their sockets.

A petite pink-haired girl was seen walking in the air, then gracefully landing on their boat.

"Clang!"

Sakura spreads her arms wide at the dumbfounded scholars in front of her, looking like she's successfully performed a magic trick and is asking for flowers and applause.

"Little...child?"

The scholar, realizing what had happened, instinctively took a step back; after all, the flying slash that had just swept across the sea was truly terrifying.

Even if Sakura Haruno appears harmless, the most important thing when sailing on this vast ocean is to be vigilant!

"Was that slash you made just now?"

Pushing through the crowd, Nicole Olvia, who was in charge, stepped forward.

"Yeah, how about that? I'm pretty good, right? Can I join you guys?"

"I smell the scent of achievement... no, I mean, adventure in you."

The girl sat cross-legged on the deck, her hands resting on her ankles, swaying her body and revealing an innocent smile.

"I'm sorry, although I appreciate your help, we can't let you join."

Nicole Olvia knelt down in front of Sakura and gently wiped the seawater off her face with a handkerchief.

"Everyone on our ship is a scholar. You can't join our work if you don't have enough knowledge."

Nicole Olvia spoke to Sakura in a coaxing tone, as if she were talking to a child.

Even if the girl in front of her possessed superb swordsmanship capable of cutting through ships, how could a mother possibly treat a girl who was about the same age as her daughter as an adult?

"Hmm? I do have knowledge; I know the ancient giants' script!"

As soon as Sakura finished speaking, her Observation Haki spotted a bespectacled scholar rushing into the cabin.

After a series of rummaging sounds, he rushed to Sakura Haruno with a large number of documents.

"Child, could you help translate this?"

The scholar gazed at one of the pictures and the words on it with hopeful eyes.

"Well, let me see."

Sakura took the document and laid it flat on the ground.

It was a picture of a giant red serpent, with many words written on its body, but most of them had become blurred due to the wear and tear of time.

Sakura Haruno could only piece together a few characters to make the translation.

"The Serpent of Karmic Fire... the Sea... a World, a Vast Kingdom?"

Upon hearing Sakura's translation, the bespectacled scholar quickly wrote down the content and compared it with some documents they had already preserved.

"Olvia, this child really knows the ancient giants' script. Why don't we let her join us?"

The bespectacled scholar turned his head mechanically and made a serious suggestion to the woman behind him.

"This won't do, you old fool!"

Nicole Olvia, baring her angry shark teeth, punched the scholar on the head.

"What does it matter? Anyway, you've hit a bottleneck in your research on the blank century, so having me join might help you move things forward better."

As Sakura finished speaking, the atmosphere on the entire merchant ship froze.

The scholars, who were just moments before overjoyed that precious documents could be translated, now felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.

The scholars, whose knowledge far surpassed that of ordinary people, gaped, speechless for a long time.

In this world, touching upon that period of history is an absolute taboo, explicitly prohibited by world governments.

Now, their secret has been exposed to this girl.

Nicole Olvia gritted her teeth, unsure of what to do with the girl.

They couldn't defeat her in a fight; ignoring her would bring uncontrollable risks to all the scholars.

Just as the merchant ship was deathly silent, the pink-haired girl in front of them suddenly spoke.

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself."

Sakura stood up, stuck out her tongue, and lightly tapped her head with her fist.

"My name is Sakura Haruno. I'm a pirate, a member of the crew of Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King."

"Hey, scholars who are pursuing history, may I join you?"

These words caused the scholars, whose nerves were stretched to the limit, to have their CPUs burn out, and their entire bodies to lose their color and turn snow-white.

"Clam???"

Chapter 31 Traces of a Giant Object

Amidst the raging winds and torrential rain, a merchant ship sails steadily across the sea.

Despite the towering, turbulent waves surrounding the ship, they were always subdued by an unseen force as they approached.

"Is this...your ability?"

Nicole Olvia sat down next to Sakura and lifted her coat to shield her from the rain.

"No, this is a ninja's ninjutsu!"

The girl with delicate and lovely features smiled playfully, her hands forming the Tiger Seal, continuously channeling chakra.

Several months have passed since Sakura boarded the ship, and since she revealed her identity as a former member of the Pirate King's crew, the scholars on board have become much less wary of her.

For some time now, she has been using the bad weather she encountered during her voyage to the West Sea to train in the transformation of her chakra nature.

The chakra she possesses is largely the same as that in the original work, consisting of the four chakra types: water, earth, yin, and yang.

Among them, the cultivation of water-attribute properties corresponds to the flowing nature of water, making it perfectly suited for training in this pirate world full of seawater.

"Your identity is really strange, kid. One minute you're a pirate, the next a ninja. What other identities do you have?"

Nicole Olvia stared at the girl's face and couldn't help but ask a question.

"It should be gone, right?"

Sakura hesitated for a moment, then answered somewhat uncertainly.

While the two were chatting, the scholar from the cabin came out carrying the cooked food.

"Hey, lunch's ready! Come and eat!"

Upon hearing the other party's call, Sakura Haruno's eyes lit up, but her stable chakra output was affected.

This caused the protective barriers around the ship to dissipate, and a huge current crashed in, making the entire ship shake violently.

"what!"

Watching the cooked food being overturned by the waves, Sakura's emerald eyes lost their light.

"Excuse me."

"Haha, it's nothing, it's nothing..."

The scholar uncle smiled and patted Sakura's head, and the other scholars also came up to comfort Sakura.

"Exactly, Sakura is way better than Seton!"

"Hey, you gotta fight?"

"Ah, a bunch of barbarians, are you really scholars?"

"Shut up, you sissy, Rafe! You're a disgrace to scholars! Today, I'll personally rid O'Hara of this menace!"

A large group of scholars started making a ruckus on the ship. Although they were trapped in the perilous situation of raging waves, everyone's laughter came from the bottom of their hearts.

Those who have touched the taboo have long since disregarded life and death. Those gathered on this ship are people full of ideals who want to rediscover the ancient memories that have been distorted, diluted, and rewritten.

—For the future of children and for those whispers that have not yet been completely eradicated.

"What a nice ship!"

Watching the noisy scholars, Sakura was unknowingly touched by them.

As men of the sea and knowledgeable scholars, their "exchange" continued late into the night.

Everyone was exhausted and collapsed haphazardly on the ship's deck.

After eating and drinking her fill, Sakura leaned against the cabin wall, wrapped in the blanket given to her by Nicole Olvia, and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day.

"Dr. Nicole, look at that!"

The sounds outside the cabin startled Sakura awake. The girl opened her sleepy eyes and heard the creaking of waves crashing against the ship's deck and the cries of seabirds.

I stretched and pushed open the cabin door, and an island that seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see appeared before me.

On the island, colossal creatures were abandoned to the wilderness by wild beasts, and towering forests concealed indomitable souls. Pure, colossal structures formed a breathtaking temple, bearing witness to the traces of the colossal beings that once existed here.

"This is... a creation of the giants!"

Such an exaggerated scale is so large that even in the world of One Piece, where strange races abound, only one race called giants can use and build them.

"Yes, that's what we're looking for on this voyage."