Pirate: I'm King Luffy!

Chapter 710 Facing Death
"If you win, I'll take the dojo's plaque. If you lose, I'll become your disciple!"

This almost rogue remark made the master of the dojo smile humorously, and then he called his daughter over.

Kuina Shimotsuki.

My male self-esteem was shattered.

In front of everyone, he was chopped away by the super strong woman.

His movements were quick and decisive. After defeating himself, he turned around and walked away expressionlessly and calmly.

The humiliation and unwillingness made him lie on the ground, looking up at the woman who was putting away the knife and was about to leave.

"I will practice very hard, and I will definitely defeat you!"

This is the legendary revolving lantern...

My life is playing at a rapid speed, and finally returns to nothingness...

“Hoo…Hoo…Hoo…”

Zoro was half-kneeling on the ground, soaked in sweat.

"I... am dead?"

"How could he die in such a cowardly way?"

Zoro opened his mouth wide, constantly snatching fresh air, his heart pounding, the power of life surrounding his body. He heard the blood rushing through his body, his adrenaline soaring rapidly, and he let out an extremely unwilling roar.

"I haven't done anything yet! I haven't done anything yet!!!"

Zoro slammed his fist on the ground.

Zizi... Zizi... The invisible spirit awakens from the body and then continues to expand outwards.

"The domineering aura of the king!" Nami exclaimed.

"Sure enough." Kuina looked at this tough boy.

"Keya? Keya!"

Usopp's extremely anxious shout diluted his shock at the domineering color domineering.

The young lady who was constantly comforting him somehow fell to the ground, and was seen by the coward who curled up in his body.

Worry made Usopp break through the shadow of death, supporting Kaya, crying desperately with snot and tears, "Doctor, come quickly, doctor, save her quickly!"

"I know, I'm a doctor... It's okay, Usopp, it's okay, she just fainted!"

Chopper clattered over to Kaya's side and listened to her breathing.

But Usopp seemed to be deaf to her cries for help, repeating them over and over again.

"Usopp! Calm down, Usopp—"

Chopper felt a little pain from Usopp's grip.

"What's wrong with you Usopp?"

"You've become so scary now!"

"You've fallen into your own world." Luffy said, "If you take facing death as a shortcut to growth, you'll pay a price."

"The price?" Ace supported the unconscious Iska and gently leaned her head against the dining table.

In less than ten seconds, some people fell into despair, while others activated their domineering aura, presenting two contrasting outcomes.

"この歌はどこへ辿り写くの,"

Where will this song go in the end?
"See the つけたいよ自分だけのanswer えを,"

I want to find an answer that belongs only to me.

A powerful voice came out from the singer's mouth.

Uta frowned and sang a song from his childhood, bringing Usopp to the world of song.

The loud, tense song of happiness surrounded Usopp's ears. The thin man from the East China Sea was just anxiously looking for the figure of the eldest lady, "Where is Kaya?"

"Where's Kaya?"

"Usopp!"

Meng Wuta sat on the magic carpet of musical notes and hovered in the air, with her slender white legs swaying back and forth.

"Your father should be Jesus, right?"

Uta raised his hand and used the musical notes to create a glass of juice which he drank slowly.

When Usopp heard about his father's news, he was stunned for a moment, then looked at Uta in disbelief, "How did you know?"

"Sure enough, it's really you."

Uta jumped to Usopp's side, then circled around him, looking the thin man up and down, then curiously noticed his nose, measuring the size with his hand in the air.

"What...what are you doing? Where is this place?"

Usopp looked at Uta warily, he took two steps back, then bumped into a wall, looked up, and fell back in fright.

That wasn't a wall, it was clearly a bear, tall and strong, holding a huge Bible.

"Seven... Shichibukai! Tyrant Bear!"

Usopp said his name in shock.

"Hit the bull's eye, welcome to the dream world."

A gentle voice that is totally inconsistent with his body size... Is this really the voice of a tyrant?
Usopp wondered.

"Anyway...anyway, we have to leave here quickly..."

Usopp looked around. This place looked like a huge parent-child playground. The bear was sitting on a pirate ship and wandering around.

"That guy Jesus Bu used to nag you all the time, and your ears are about to get calluses." Uta put his hands in circles by his ears, gesturing to Usopp how annoying Jesus Bu was.

"Have you... seen my father?" Usopp's attention was drawn away by Uta.

"I'm a musician on Shanks' ship. I used to be with them. Jesus is very strong. His shooting skills are always accurate..."

"Haha... So that's how it is. My father is really amazing, isn't he? He is naturally strong and can shoot an ant's antennae without any damage to its body. He has no doubt that he will do something big, and my mother also believes in my father..."

Usopp said happily, "Really? I didn't expect Uta to be a musician on Shanks' ship. I didn't expect you were on that ship too..."

Then why did you become a member of the Navy?

Could it be... an undercover agent? !
As expected of that great man, he could be so far-sighted?

Amazing!
Usopp was just daydreaming freely when Uta jumped in front of him again, "You really look like Jesus Bu, but are you too timid?"

"And it's very weak..." Uta stretched out his little finger to poke Usopp's chest. He covered the poked place with a groan, "It hurts so much, what kind of super power is this?"

"It's too hurtful for you to say it so directly in front of me, isn't it? There are outsiders watching here!"

Usopp stamped his feet in shame.

"I'm just not as good as my father! I don't have the courage to fight sea monsters! But one day, I will become a brave warrior on the sea, standing tall like the giants of Elbaf!"

"You're just shouting slogans, liar!" "I'm not!" Usopp didn't allow anyone to question his dreams, let alone a girl's questioning.

"Then why are you so hesitant to rescue your chef? He is your partner, right?"

"I didn't say I wouldn't save him. It was Sanji who coldly refused our help. He even said that he was the prince of the Germa Kingdom. Damn it. We crossed the Calm Belt and ran to the North Sea to find him, but he was so cold and indifferent. We didn't even get a meal!"

Usopp said angrily.

"It was obviously him who abandoned us! Maybe he doesn't think of us as friends from the bottom of his heart. Besides, I'm just an ordinary person. I don't have unreasonable powers like Ace and the others. And what about Kaya? She's a fragile young lady. Can't you think more about her?"

Uta listened to Usopp's endless complaints with a gentle smile on his face.

"Whether it's Ace, Zoro, Luffy, or Jesus, none of them are monsters born with supernatural powers. In your eyes, your father is very strong, but in order to become stronger, he was beaten badly on the ship, in order to become stronger."

"How is that possible? He is a sniper who never misses his target. Besides, snipers don't need to fight on the front line. We just need to wait for the right opportunity from the back..." Usopp didn't believe it. How could his father be beaten so badly?

"Although sniping is commendable, it is not enough. You need to become stronger. Otherwise, it will be useless even if you seize the opportunity..."

Uta conjured up a Jesus cloth pistol and then fired it, bang bang bang. The bullets knocked down two of the three bottles a hundred meters away.

"This is father's gun..." Usopp recognized his father's favorite gun immediately.

"Maybe he has changed it now, but when I was playing on the boat, he only had this gun..." Uta touched Jesus' gun, and his memory seemed to fall into the deep sea.

Before meeting Luffy, in the more distant memory, on that dragon-headed ship, Shanks and everyone...

"You like the nurse named Kaya very much, right?" Uta asked.

"No...how is that possible? She's the eldest lady, and my mother works as a farmhand in her house..." Usopp smiled awkwardly and waved his hand to refuse.

Uta just put her finger to her lips and said nothing more.

Under the gaze of those purple eyes, Usopp sat on the ground dejectedly.

"How is that possible? She's the eldest daughter, the daughter of a wealthy man. I'm just... I'm nothing. I'm not strong enough. I don't even have the courage..."

"Yes, didn't you cross death for her?"

Uta put his hands behind his back and looked at the sea in front of him. The sound of the waves crashed against the coast. A dragon-headed ship was sailing in the fog. Even with Usopp's excellent eyesight, he could not see through the heavy fog. He could only vaguely see a waving shadow.

It seems to be the father.

Usopp thought uncertainly.

My father will definitely achieve great success!
He and his mother both firmly believed this.

My father will definitely change the villagers' comments about him being idle and do something great. He is so brave and stronger than everyone else...

Some old muskets were wrapped in bubbles and slowly fell in front of him from the air.

This is... my father's gun.

"Your father loves you, and after drinking he always brags to his friends about having a child..."

"Um...thank you~"

Usopp caught the gun.

Returning to the real world as if waking up from a dream, he came back to life like a drowning man, gasping for air.

"He's dead, he's going to die, he must have died just now, he's just become a skeleton..."

Usopp was sweating like a dog, kneeling on all fours and looking down at the ground.

"Hey! I'm not ready yet, but you let me prepare myself mentally!" Usopp looked at the brat in disbelief as he ate pizza and pulled long cheese strings.

I used to think she was quite cute, but now I feel annoyed when I see this little brat!

"Look carefully, you are wearing funny lipstick. Do you think you look like an adult? Stop kidding me, you little brat!"

"what?!"

Bonnie gritted her teeth and was about to reach out to touch Usopp again, but Usopp didn't dare let her touch him. But he didn't want to experience the feeling of death again, so he just rolled and crawled away.

"Usopp, are you feeling better?" Chopper looked at the familiar Usopp with tears in his eyes. God knows how worried he was about him just now.

"Ah, hehe~ I'm fine. I have so many negative emotions in my heart. How can a mere death defeat me? I want to be a brave sea warrior!"

Usopp dodged Bonnie's attack and saw Chopper jumping into his arms. He recalled what he had done to Chopper before and said it embarrassedly.

"But Chopper, you're not scared when you see us become skeletons. That's amazing!"

"No... the time was too short and I didn't react..." Chopper blinked.

"Yes, you have actually turned into skeletons, and your skeletons are quite intact, as if you have died peacefully for hundreds of years!"

Chopper covered his face in sudden realization.

"This is the first time I've seen such a complete skeleton!"

“This is simply the most important thing in the history of medicine!”

"Hey! Chopper! What's with that expression you have when you look at the experimental body—"

It seems like it has changed, but it also seems like it hasn't changed... Luffy thought to himself as he looked at Usopp.

"It's amazing, have you all experienced this kind of power?" Sabo asked curiously.

"No, I'm the only one on our ship who experienced that feeling." Luffy said.

"It's better to keep some mystery about death. Facing death directly brings different feelings to everyone. To be honest, there's actually nothing to be afraid of..." Luffy spread his hands.

Not everyone is afraid of death. In the world of pirates, most people who dare to go to sea and who become famous after going to sea are basically immune to the mental impact of this move.

Even in a world without magic, there are still plenty of ordinary people who can face death every day under the temptation of money and regard this as their profession.

In other words....

"So what feelings did you get?" Sabo asked curiously.

"Uh...my soul left my body." Luffy said.

Some mist spread out from the position of his heart, and then condensed into a visible mist, forming the shape of a skull. Two will-o'-the-wisp fires floated beside it, circling in front of everyone and then flying back into his body.

"0 damage bonus, I don't know what this thing can do for a while..." Luffy said.

I couldn't feel any coldness from the underworld at all.

"If this is used to scare people, it will definitely be successful." Usopp said.

"Does anyone else want to experience it? If not, I'm going back to play with my dad!"

Bonnie clapped her greasy hands and looked at the group of people with a satisfied look on her face.

"Let me try it."

Ace walked up to Bonnie, half squatted down, stretched out his hand to the little girl in front of him and said.

"sorry to bother you."

"Hmm..." Bonnie looked at the sturdy boy in front of her with freckles on his face and a smile as gentle as fire, and clapped her hand.

(End of this chapter)