NOVEL NEXT Chapter 54: CH 54
"Like I said. I scared them." Luffy said with a satisfied grin as he told them all what happened a year ago.
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Luffy, 16, was running away from some guards in Town Center with his cheeks stretched out and stuffed with food. "GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE THIEF!" one of the guards yelled before they started shooting at him. Luffy merely smiled before running through an alley. He stretched up to the roof just before the guards came. "Hey, where'd he go?"
"Find him! That little bastard's gonna eat everything in this city until there's nothing left!" another guard yelled before they all went off to look for Luffy. Luffy, who was watching from the roof, merely chewed his food before swallowing and grinning. Whenever he wasn't training with Garp, he'd sneak into the kingdom and steal food from a few restaurants before hiding again. Even though Garp would kick his ass for doing so, it was worth it to see all those nobles and snobs frustrated at him. While on the roof, he saw another restaurant off in the distance.
"One more, then back to the forest." Luffy said before he rocketed off towards the place. He landed on the roof of the building next to it and was about to jump through a window, but stopped when he noticed that it was closed. "That's weird." he said before he looked down and saw a horse drawn cart taking food toward High Town. "To think that the king asked my restaurant to supply them with food." came a voice. Luffy looked down to see what looked like the owner of the restaurant smiling in glee. "Guess that straw hat wearing thief got to the other restaurants first. Still, thanks to him I was chosen to help cater the feast tonight." he said before walking back in and closing up shop.
"A feast huh?" Luffy said to himself before looking at the castle. "I know where I'm going tonight."
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Luffy snuck past all the security, and used his haki on those who saw him before they could alert anyone else, before making it to the grand hall. He was hanging off one of the chandeliers as he was looking at all the nobles, the royals, but more importantly, the food.
"Jackpot!" he whispered to himself as some drool ran down his lip. He was about to jump down and devour everything within reach, but was stopped when the king tapped his wine glass with his spoon.
"Your attention everyone." he said, stopping everyone as they looked to him. He smiled as he raised his glass. "As you all know, this feast is to celebrate the anniversary of our good fortune." he said, which caused everyone else to raise their glasses as well. "It was six years ago when a Celestial Dragon blessed us with his presence, despite the slight offense on his arrival due to that strange little nobody that sailed out to sea when they arrived." he finished in a bored tone.
'Sabo.' Luffy thought as he watched them all have the same bored expression, as if his life meant nothing. Luffy glared at them all before he noticed a certain noble amongst the people in at the massive table. He squinted his eyes to confirm his suspicions. 'That's Sabo's old man.'
"Still, all went well." the King continued. "Especially since they found no other flaw in our kingdom." he said. A young man next to him chuckled a bit, gaining everyones attention. "Is something amusing son?" "Just thinking about those stupid pirates who 'started' the fire years ago." he said in a cocky tone. "Thanks to them, all that trash was burned away." Everyone slowly began to laugh at that as they all raised their glasses again.
"To our Kingdom!" the king said.
"To the Kingdom!" everyone said as they all tipped their glasses up to drink. Sabo's father had his eyes closed as he drink, but opened them just in time to see someone fall down in front of him.
Luffy had jumped from the chandelier and landed with a crash in front of Sabo's father, startling everyone there as they all jumped back in shock. Luffy stayed in a horse stance before slowly rising to his feet.
"What is the meaning of this?!" shouted the King. "Who are you?! Guards! Guards!" Luffy ignored this as he slowly looked up at Sabo's father. When he saw Luffy, he turned a little blue.
"I...impossible." he stuttered. "You can't be alive! You should be dead!" Luffy said nothing as he glared at him.
"Stop right there!" shouted a guard as they all surrounded Luffy. "This is the Grand Royal Hall of-" he said before all the guards fell down, foaming at the mouth. Everyone was stunned as Luffy still glared at the man, who was too paraylzed with fear to move.
"W-Who are you?!" the King asked, trying to hide his fear. Luffy kept his hat down as he looked at the King.
"A survivor of the Terminal Fire." Luffy said in a calm voice. "I heard every word you bastards said." Now a lot of them were turning blue with fear.
"E-e-e-even if that's t-t-true," one of them stuttered, clearly terrified. "N-no one will believe a-a-a nobody like y-you."
"As I am now, no." Luffy said before he showed the a smirk from under his hat. "But one day, the world will know what you all did." he said before he jumped off the table, stretched his hands out, grabbed as much food as he could, and calmly walked out of the castle like he owned the place. "Bye." he said as he ate the food and beat down every guard in his path, leaving all of the royals and nobles to wallow in fear, and bodily fluids in some cases.
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"How'd you go so long without getting a bounty before now?!" Usopp shrieked.
"They never saw my face." Luffy answered. Half the crew was staring at him in disbelief, the other with grins.
"If you ask me, they got off too easy." Zoro said.
"I agree." Gin said.
"By the way," Nami said. "Who's Sabo?" Luffy explained who Sabo was.
"YOUR BROTHER?!" they all shouted. "Yeah. He ran away from his parents because they didn't care about him if he couldn't marry someone in the royal family." Luffy said.
"After all that you've told us, it's now hard to believe that a noble can have a heart." Sanji said.
"And those Celestial Dragon's killed him?!" Usopp yelled.
"They said they did, but they also said that a body was never recovered." Luffy said, keeping the fact that Sabo was alive to himself. "So I'm not declaring him dead yet. Anyway Nami, where are we heading to?" he asked. Nami quickly looked over some maps before finding their next destination.
"A place called Louge Town." she said. "They also call it 'the town of the beginning and end' since the last Pirate King Gold Roger was both born and executed there."
"The beginning and the end huh?" Luffy said as he grinned. "Let's go see it. The town that bore Gold Roger."
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