Sailing: I Open Treasure Chests in the Pirate World

"Your middle name comes from an ancient tradition, the D clan."

"And your name comes from your father, Gol D. Roger."

"Decades ago, when your father roamed the seas, the weapon he used was one of the twelve Supreme Grade Swords, a pirate scimitar called 'Ace'."

Ace's expression froze.

He had never heard his grandfather mention such a thing before.

Or rather, his grandfather rarely mentioned anything about One Piece to him.

After all, my grandfather was a naval officer, and a famous "naval hero" at that, who once defeated and captured the Pirate King...

Ace had no idea that his name also contained such a unique meaning.

So, the "trump card" my father used back then was actually his name...

Just as Ace was caught in a strange emotional state.

Ian's voice rang out once again.

"Don't make that face."

Ian wore a strange smile, which seemed both mocking and sarcastic.

"The Pirate King's sword 'Ace' is good, but it's not Roger's most important possession."

"Roger's most important possession was the 'straw hat' he wore back then."

"It was an ordinary straw hat, with a yellow body, a wide brim, and a red ribbon tied on it."

"This 'straw hat' was left by Roger to his successor, who then entrusted it to another successor."

"It's such a pity, Ace."

"The person Shanks chose back then wasn't you, but your younger brother."

"The person who was entrusted with the straw hat, and even with destiny, by Shanks back then, was not you, but your younger brother."

"Monkey D. Luffy!"

Chapter 129 Straw Hat, Nika, and the Savior!

Straw Hat Luffy, Nikka the Sun God, Monkey D. Luffy...

Ian originally thought that the phrase "I am going to be the Pirate King" was the Son of Freedom's relentless pursuit of his dream.

But later.

Ian then realized it.

This is not a romantic adventure story about "a person's dream never ending".

The so-called "I am going to become the Pirate King".

This statement cannot even be called a "dream".

Rather, it was an incredibly accurate prediction of his own future by a chosen one!

Ian originally thought...

Monkey D. Luffy ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, and it was a monkey who picked up the stick from the ground.

That monkey will use its stick to explore, struggle, and fight for a brilliant and dazzling life.

But later, he learned—

Not all monkeys are the same.

The story of the Straw Hat Boy.

It was never some "idiot kid who ate the fruit of comedy".

This means that the Crown Prince has finally retrieved the imperial seal that was ordained by Heaven!

How ironic?

In Ian's view

From the moment the Gum-Gum Fruit became the Sun God Nika Fruit.

The story of Straw Hat Boy is no longer just about a passionate young man chasing his dreams.

The Great Pirate Era, a time of surging waves and towering tides.

The Straw Hat Pirates set sail from Windmill Village in the East Blue, defeating countless powerful enemies along the way, until they became the Pirate Emperor of the New World...

This story merely proclaims a bloody truth about the ocean to the world—

If you want to get involved in the world, you have to have power and background.

Monkey D. Luffy, son of the revolutionary Dragon, grandson of a naval hero, Shanks, successor to the Pirate King, owner of the [Sun God Nika Fruit], and reincarnation of the savior from eight hundred years ago...

How can other petty thugs and small-time pirates compare?

In Ian's view

Of all Luffy's "big brothers," the one who had the most profound influence on him was not his father Dragon or his grandfather Garp, but the one who was not his father but was even more like one—

Red-haired Shanks!

Shanks is a very interesting man, and he is shrouded in many, many mysteries.

As the "youngest" of the Four Emperors, he is also the "oldest" of the Four Emperors.

Shanks' life story is equally legendary.

He was an apprentice on Roger's crew, the captain of the Red-Haired Pirates, and the fourth Pirate Emperor of the New World.

And after the Marineford War ended.

One by one, the Four Emperors pirate crews of the old era are leaving the stage.

The Whitebeard Pirates, the Big Mom Pirates, the Beasts Pirates...

One by one, they became history.

Red-Haired Shanks, as the last "Pirate Emperor of the Old Era," led his Red-Haired Pirates into the final battle for "ONE PIECE (the Great Treasure)."

This is a man who inherited history and propelled the future forward.

all the time.

Ian didn't quite understand what Shanks was doing.

What puzzled him most was Shanks' attitude towards the Gum-Gum Fruit.

It was about six years ago.

That is, the year 1512 of the Haiyuan calendar.

Red-Haired Shanks led his subordinates in a forced attack on the World Government's treasure ship and stole the unique "Gum-Gum Fruit" from the ship.

Judging from the situation at the time, Shanks was definitely aware of the unique properties of the Gum-Gum Fruit, which is why he deliberately launched this precise sniping operation and forcibly took this Devil Fruit from the World Government.

Because of that attack.

Who's Who, the former CP9 agent responsible for escorting the Gum-Gum Fruit, was punished by the World Government and imprisoned. He later became one of the Flying Six of the Beasts Pirates...

What was Shanks like six years ago?

At 27 years old, one is almost at the peak of human physiological function, and still has both hands intact!

This only exists in a fantasy world—

"Red hair on both hands!"

Even if Shanks ate the Gum-Gum Fruit on the spot and evolved into "Nika the Sun God"...

Ian wouldn't find it strange at all.

Can be biased.

After accurately targeting and forcibly stealing the Gum-Gum Fruit, the Red-Haired Pirates did nothing else.

The Red-Haired Pirates simply arrived in the East Blue, at Dawn Island, and at Windmill Village...

Then we stayed here for a whole year!

Everyone knows what happened next...

The Gum-Gum Fruit was eaten by a brat, and Shanks "gambled" his arm on the new era, while also entrusting his straw hat, inherited from Gol D. Roger, to the brat who ate the Gum-Gum Fruit.

Throughout the whole affair.

What puzzled Ian the most was...

Why would someone other than Shanks come to the East Blue?

Why didn't Shanks, the Red-Haired Man, eat the Gum-Gum Fruit himself?

Why would Shanks, who isn't Red-Haired Shanks, lose to the Lord of the Coast and have his arm bitten off by the Lord of the Coast?

But...

Why Monkey D. Luffy?

Before this.

Shanks' life trajectory is also very clear.

Aside from when he was on Roger's crew.

Red-Haired Shanks and Marine hero Garp have absolutely no connection whatsoever—at least not any story of them intersecting.

This also means.

Red-Haired Shanks and Monkey D. Garp are not acquainted!

One of them is a pirate, and the other is a marine; their faction relationship is "hostile".

This leads to the conclusion.

When the Red-Haired Pirates arrived in the East Blue and set up camp in Windmill Village.

There's absolutely no way Shanks stayed here because of Monkey D. Luffy!

That Gum-Gum Fruit couldn't possibly have been brought to Windmill Village by Shanks specifically because he wanted to give it to Luffy.

Unless Shanks has lost his mind.

if not.

He went through countless hardships to steal the Gum-Gum Fruit from the World Government.

Just to give this significant "fruit of destiny" to a naval hero and the enemy's grandson?

Ian was initially very puzzled about Shanks' specific methods of processing the Gum-Gum Fruit.

But from the moment he saw Portgas D. Ace.

Ian suddenly realized something.

Shanks probably didn't stay in Windmill Village for Luffy's sake.

Shanks must have come for Ace!

Ace was Roger's son.

It's highly likely that Shanks came to Windmill Village in the East Blue with the intention of entrusting the Gum-Gum Fruit and the Straw Hat to Ace.

As an apprentice of the Roger Pirates, he is the "third generation of Straw Hat Boy" after Joy Boy and Gol D. Roger.

Red-Haired Shanks handed over the straw hat entrusted to him by the captain, along with the Gum-Gum Fruit symbolizing a new era, to the captain's son, Ace...

This makes sense.

Unfortunately.

The will of mortals cannot shake the spirits.

As far as Ian knows.

Over the past eight hundred years.

The World Government has been relentlessly searching for the whereabouts of the "Gum-Gum Fruit," constantly seeking to retrieve and seal away this "divine fruit" that once posed a great threat to them.