The early morning sunlight shines into Kaido's office.

Kaido sat quietly in his office, reading this morning's World Economic News.

One year has passed since the world's greatest swordsman, Hawkeye Joracol Mihawk, joined the Shichibukai in a high-profile manner...

Within a year, Zaun still maintained the peace of the past. With the establishment of the Shichibukai, the navy's control over the first half of the great route and the four seas increased day by day.

The Navy has also gradually focused its attention on the New World. With Garp as its commander, several naval branches in the New World have been completed. Six of them have been completed, and the date of complete completion is getting closer and closer.

However, as the navy explored the depths of the new world, it already had a conflict with the Sea Emperor. In just half a year, the navy led by Garp fought against Whitebeard's pirate group seven times and had a head-on confrontation with Whitebeard once.

After five battles with the BIGMOM pirates, Charlotte Lingling did not choose to confront Garp directly. Instead, she personally destroyed half of the navy branch as a warning to the navy.

"Times are changing!"

Kaido read the newspaper quietly, sighing with emotion from time to time, and then drank coffee and had a snack. It was located in a relatively remote area even in the New World, and had a dragon gate and natural geographical advantages, making it easy to defend and difficult to defend.

Attacking the Zuan Kingdom, Kaido has been living an extremely leisurely life these days. Occasionally, he sends his men to clean up some unscrupulous pirates and the 'Pluto' Unit 1 that has been created through experiments.

Just one shot can destroy an island the size of Dragon Island. It is an absolute killer in naval battles. It has no weaknesses except the need to charge up! It is the most powerful battleship that can be called invincible!

If there is any weakness in this battleship, it is that it consumes too much power! That's right! 'Pluto' is a battleship that uses electricity as the source of destruction. Although other energy sources can be used instead, its power is relatively limited.

It will be discounted. If it cannot destroy an island with one shot, then it cannot be called the 'Pluto' that brings eternal sleep to people.

"This battleship is too unfriendly to people who cannot control thunder and lightning. If the entire Zaun is used except for me, it will basically become a trump card weapon that is weak in one shot, and it will not be able to exert its super strategic significance.

Ah! It's a pity that I don't understand science at all, especially the science in the pirate world that can make Newton angry... I have to get the Thunder Fruit."

Kaido gently stirred the coffee in the cup. If there were not so many damn restrictions, he actually wanted to build a few more ships, but the current situation made him give up the plan to continue manufacturing and instead asked Barre

Te and Quin investigate alternative energy sources.

In fact, Kaido suggested to Barrett before that he could replace the energy source with Coke... and then he was scolded. Barrett told him that even a child with a little education would not ask such a mentally retarded question.

, how can a drink like Coke be used as energy? If Coke is used as energy, it would be more convenient than using ordinary water...

Since then, Kaido has never disturbed Barrett and Quinn's research, but Kaido clearly remembers that there is a character in One Piece who uses coke as energy... But maybe he remembered it wrong, after all

Too much time has passed.

"It's such a nice weather today!"

Kaido took a sip of coffee, looked at the sunshine outside the window, and said lazily.

…

Donghai is located in a small village in the Kingdom of Goa. It is called Windmill Village. Although this village is not marked in terms of name, geographical location, or even many nautical charts. It is an ordinary small village, but this village

It is indeed the village of the naval hero Garp.

It is also the place promised by the future sea emperor, red-haired Shanks, who will rule the new world, and the man he values.

"Luffy! Goodbye!"

Shanks, who only had his right arm left, stood in front of the dock and said goodbye to Luffy, who had become a 'good friend' with him in just one year.

"Shanks! I will become the Pirate King!"

Luffy knew that he couldn't stop Shanks from going to sea, nor could he go to sea with Shanks. He could only promise Shanks.

"Hahaha! Luffy! I have a gift for you."

Shanks suddenly laughed after listening to Luffy's words, then took off the straw hat that was always attached to him, and then pressed hard on Luffy's head.

"Shanks, this is your most precious straw hat!"

Luffy raised his hand and touched the straw hat on his head, and said to Shanks.

"Well! So I left my most precious straw hat with you!"

"Luffy! Become a real pirate! When one day you have a precious partner and become a real pirate, return the straw hat to me! I will wait for you on the Grand Line!"

Shanks looked at Luffy wearing a straw hat, and seemed to see Captain Roger who put the straw hat on his head. This moment was like a fire inheritance. He passed on the will called "freedom" to the next generation.

, he bet all his straw hat and left arm on the new era.

After Shanks finished speaking, he gave Luffy and the villagers of Windmill Village a cool back look, and boarded the boat with his friends without looking back.

"Goodbye! Shanks!"

"Goodbye! Shanks!"

The villagers of Windmill Village shed tears watching Shanks go away. In this year, Shanks had become best friends with them. Shanks conquered them with his personality charm.

"Hahaha... Captain! Why don't we stay here a little longer? I think Luffy likes us very much!"

"Why don't you take little Luffy with you on the adventure? Anyway, one more of him is not enough!"

"Yes! Yes! And we see that the little girl named Maginot seems to be very interested in you, Captain!"

As soon as Shanks got on the ship, countless crew members cheered around him.

"Hahaha! Please forgive me!"

Shanks said to his companions without any airs.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Captain, where are we going next? Is it that island in the East China Sea?"

A companion asked Shanks.

"Our next destination?!"

Shanks' eyes flashed coldly, and he looked meaningfully at the crew member who was speaking.

"We don't need to continue wandering around the world anymore! The new world is about to usher in the fourth emperor."

Shanks paused for a moment, then spoke seriously to the crew members around him.

"..."

As Shanks finished speaking, the entire ship became extremely silent. They couldn't believe that these were Shanks' words.

"Hey, hey, hey! Shanks, are you kidding me? Are we finally going to enter the new world?"

One crew member covered his heart and asked Shanks nervously.

"Why are you scared?"

Shanks took in the crew's expressions completely, and then asked the crew.

"What a joke! We are so excited!"

"The day has finally arrived! We have long been prepared to punch Whitebeard and step on Kaido!"

The crew members shook their heads at Shanks, and some even shed tears of joy. They had been waiting for this day for too long. Although they were happy to live freely at sea, they would not attack the throne of the Pirate King.

, they always feel twisted in their hearts.

"Ha ha ha ha……"

"Young ones! Go at full speed towards the great sea route...toward the new world! Let the whole sea boil with our arrival!"

Shanks laughed loudly, then pulled out the famous sword 'Griffin' and pointed it in the direction of the sun.

"Oh! Let's go!"

Accompanied by the cheers of all the pirates, the red-haired pirates officially began their parade on the Grand Route!

Officially joining the battle for the historical text, launching an attack on the throne of the Pirate King, the pinnacle of all pirates in this sea.

And just one month after Shanks left, Garp, who had completed the mission assigned by the Warring States Period and hurried back from the New World, finally arrived home.

"What did you say? You want to be the Pirate King?"

Garp looked at his lovely grandson in disbelief. He obviously planned to become a navy, so why did he become unlovable just a year after leaving?

"That's right! I made an agreement with Shanks! I will be the Pirate King!"

Even when facing the legendary hero Monkey D. Garp in the Navy, Luffy still dared to shout out his dream of becoming the Pirate King. You must know that on this sea, facing this man named Garp

, there will definitely be no more than five people who dare to say that they want to be the Pirate King, and these five people are either the emperor of the sea who reigns in the new world, or the legend of the sea who once competed with Roger Whitebeard.

However, Luffy, who is less than ten years old, still possesses the courage of an emperor of the sea!

"bump!"

However, the next second, Garp used the Iron Fist of Justice on Luffy.

"Hehehe! Grandpa! I'm not afraid of your fists at all now. I'm a rubber man now."

Luffy subconsciously picked up his head and found that it didn't hurt at all. Then he remembered that he was already a rubber man and he no longer had to be afraid of his grandfather.

"Luffy...what did you just say? Who have you become?"

However, Garp didn't care about his grandson's pain at this time. He looked at Luffy who was flattened by him like a piece of rubber and then returned to his original shape. He stood tall and asked Luffy. He couldn't believe what he just heard.

That's the truth. Yes, he must have heard it wrong. How could his grandson be a rubber man?

"Hehehehe! I stole a strange fruit called Devil Fruit from Shanks, and then I turned into a rubber man! Grandpa! I am so powerful now! I am no longer afraid of your fists!

"
To be continued...