One Piece: Rise of an Empire

The gears of fate began to turn, and Shanks still came to this small village in the East China Sea, Fengche Village, and met Monkey D. Luffy, the man who will affect his destiny in the future.

Des thinks again, what will happen if he and Shanks go back to Great Xia first, but Des will not do that. If he does that, the future will become uncontrollable. As long as the plot is still developing like the original work, then Des can probably know what will happen in the future. The ability to predict the future is terrible. Some things are known in advance, and they prepare in advance, so everything will become easier.

And in the future, Luffy is a good tool man, and he will attract a lot of attention from the navy. Because Des is inconvenient to move, he didn't go to Makino's bar with Shanks on the first day, but he probably knew that Shanks and Luffy should meet.

"Ariel, help me take off the bandage." Des felt that his injury should be almost healed. Des used the fruit ability to continuously repair himself, and it has been nearly half a month since he arrived here from the great voyage. Shanks sailed with no purpose at all, so it has been nearly half a month since he arrived here.That's long enough for his wounds to heal.

"But is your wound really healed?" Ariel asked.

"I know it myself, don't worry." Des said and stood up directly. Seeing this, Ariel knew that Des should be fine, and Des, who had been sitting on the wheel for so long, could no longer sit still.

Ariel knelt down to help Des remove the bandage, and Des asked, "Where are Xin'er and Tianyi?"

"They, hang out with Shanks"

Des nodded and didn't speak, he had already thought about it, the child has grown up, let her go.

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In Makino's bar, Shanks was telling Xiner Tianyi the story of their pirate group adventures, and beside him was a kid with black hair and a short body, the official future protagonist of One Piece, Monkey D Luffy.

"Uncle Shanks, how did you meet our father?" Tianyi asked, Tianyi was also very curious about Des's good friend.

Shanks took a sip of wine, and then said, "Hahahaha, Des and I, we were on a ship as intern crew members back then, and there were only three intern crew members on board at that time. We were about the same age, and we became good friends."

"Uncle Shanks, who is better, you or Dad?" This is Xin'er's question.

"Hahaha, needless to say, I have personally seen your dad pee his pants in fear." Shanks laughed as he patted the table.

"Boss, if Des hears it, he's going to trouble you again. He even said this in front of the two children, hahahaha"

"Hahahaha, it's okay, he won't be so stingy, come on, let me continue to tell you about the adventures of our red-haired pirates..."

Shanks continued to talk, and the little Luffy next to him listened with gusto, unknowingly, he was beside Xin'er and Tianyi. Of course, Shanks also noticed Luffy, but he didn't say anything, and continued to tell their stories.

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"They haven't come back yet, let's go find them." Des said to Ariel, at this time he had finished the recovery training he set for himself.

Ariel looked at the sun, it was already afternoon, it was indeed a bit late to go out.Although she was relieved of Shanks, she was still a little worried about the two children, Ariel nodded to Des.

The two got off Shanks' boat and walked towards Windmill Village.

Entering Makino's tavern, Des saw a classic scene. The legendary Bandit King just smashed the wine bottle on Shanks' head, and cursed, "56 people like you have died in my hands."

Des suddenly remembered the jingle from his previous life: If you ask who is the strongest in the East China Sea, Lao Tzu is the king of pirates, the beer bottle is the fourth king, and he is the future one.

"Hey, Shanks, why are you being bullied so badly?" Des slowly walked into the bar, Seeger saw Des, and cursed, "Who are you?"

Des didn't respond to Sig's question, and glared at Sig with a domineering look and said, "Get out!"

Seeger seemed to have encountered something terrible suddenly. He felt that the man in front of him was not something he could provoke, so he left in a panic with his companions.

After Sieg left, the angry Luffy had already eaten the devil fruit and rubber fruit in the treasure chest.But Shanks didn't notice, but said to Des, "You are recovering well."

"Thanks to you." Des turned his eyes and saw Luffy as a child. I have to say that Luffy was really cute when he was a child.At this moment, Xiner said to Des, "Dad, this is my new friend Luffy."

Des and others noticed that Xiner was very happy at this time. Xiner had very few friends, and the people around her respected her too much as a princess, so she didn't have any special friends. But Luffy was different, there was no barrier of identity between them, so the two quickly became good friends.

Des noticed that the treasure chest was empty, so he said to Shanks: "Shanks, this guy seems to have eaten your devil fruit."

Shanks stood up suddenly, walked to Luffy's side, looked at the treasure chest, looked at Luffy again and said, "Have you eaten the fruit inside?" At this time, the red-haired pirates also came, and Luffy scratched his head and said, "Ah, I ate it as dessert, but it's a bit unpalatable."

"What? This is a devil fruit. After eating it, you will become a landlubber and miss swimming!"

Hearing that he became a landlubber, Luffy also panicked, because he just wanted to be a pirate just now.

Des didn't care about Shanks and Luffy's affairs, but took a cup at the front desk, sat down on Beckman's table, poured a glass of wine and drank it down.

At this time, Luffy has become a rubber man. At this time, Luffy proposed to go to sea with Shanks, but Shanks refused, and then said, "Why can these two children who are about my age go to sea with you, why can't I?"

"The two of them are not our crew members, they are just guests on our ship," Shanks said.

At this time, Xiner couldn't bear to see that the friends she made had been rejected all the time, so she said to Lu Fei, "Why don't you go back to Daxia with me, how about we go to sea together when we grow up?"

Hearing this sentence, Des, who had just taken a sip of wine, spit it out directly, but turned around and thought, if Luffy joined Daxia, it would be good, but it is not necessary to think about going to sea with Xiner to be a pirate.After weighing the pros and cons, Des said, "Xin'er, it is impossible for me to agree to let you go to sea."