From Pirates to the Strongest Death God in Soul Society

Chapter 28 Bane: I will lead you to another world!

After crossing the Upside Down Mountain, Bane did not see the big whale Lab, and went to the lighthouse at Twin Capes, but found no one inside.

It was estimated that Dr. Crocus, the doctor of Pirate King Roger, must have gone into Lab's body to play. Considering that he had no serious business to look for him and he didn't know when he would come back, Bane did not stay here and soon arrived at Whiskey Mountain recorded by the record pointer.

Whiskey Peak is the starting point after entering the Grand Line. After the Great Pirate Era began, the number of pirates increased dramatically. New pirates from all over the world wanted to rush into the Grand Line one by one, and often their first stop was here.

Therefore, naturally, a large group of bounty hunters gathered here, using Whiskey Peak as their base camp, where they hunted pirates from all over the world using various methods.

Their methods may be despicable, or they may not be good people, but from a factual point of view, they have indeed made outstanding contributions to the safety of the people on the islands in the Grand Line.

At this time, in a tavern in Bounty Town in Whiskey Peak, Bane and Sauron were frantically attacking the food on the table. There was a large pile of empty plates in front of them.

Nami drank fruit wine and looked at the two men helplessly.

Because Zoro is very competitive, he wants to compete with Bane in everything, but so far, except for kendo, it is difficult for him to beat Bane in other aspects.

Just like now, Bane eats these foods without any pressure, but Zoro is already blushing.

It was obvious that he was running out of food.

Worried that Zoro would eat himself to death, Nami reached out and pushed the plates of sea beast barbecue in front of Zoro to Bane and said, "Enough, enough, stop eating. Is that fun?"

Zoro watched Bane show off another plate of barbecue in a few seconds, and finally sighed helplessly and said, "You are a monster, how on earth do you digest food?"

Then, he stopped arguing with Ben, picked up the drink on the table, took a few sips, and calmed himself down.

Bane ate a piece of meat that was bigger than Nami's head in two bites, and asked the boss for ten more servings of barbecue. Then he said, "I have extraordinary talents. You can't compare to me."

Without continuing the topic, Nami took out a nautical chart of the Grand Line, which she had just bought in the town. Perhaps because this was the first stop of the Grand Line, there were quite a lot of people selling these nautical charts.

"Originally when we were at Cape Twin, there were seven routes to choose from, but the record pointer in our hands was on Whiskey Peak, so we came here. Next, we can only follow the islands on this route, one by one, and finally arrive at the Sabaody Archipelago," Nami said, pointing to the nautical chart.

"Can't we change the route midway?" Zoro asked casually.

"No, just like now, we have to stay at Whiskey Mountain for three days, allowing the recording pointer to store the magnetic field of the next island, which is the small garden, and then..." Nami explained roughly to Zoro.

After she finished speaking, Ben said, "It's not impossible to change the route. I know two ways. One is to buy a permanent record pointer of a certain island that we sailed to, and then we can go there according to the direction of the pointer. The second is that sea trains have been opened on many islands. When the time comes, we can abandon the ship and take the sea train to the other islands to start over."

"But there's no need for that." Nami continued, "Didn't you say before that you wanted to go to Alabasta? The small garden is also one of your destinations. You said there are many creatures that have existed since ancient times, such as dinosaurs. You want to try whether the ingredients there can make you grow faster."

"That's right, I'm going to the small garden to eat dinosaurs!" Bane nodded affirmatively.

He even considered that if dinosaurs and other ancient creatures were very helpful to his physical growth, he would stay there for a while and try to eat the dinosaurs to extinction.
When my strength is further improved, I will go to Alabasta to defeat Crocodile. His Sand-Sand Fruit is quite good. Now that I have the Dark-Dark Fruit in my hand, I can also consider snatching the Sand-Sand Fruit at that time.

But who should I give this fruit ability to? There are still too few members in my team!
They had talked a few times before. Zoro actually didn't reject the power of the devil fruit, but he was more obsessed with kendo and didn't want to be distracted. Ban estimated that he wouldn't consider becoming a power user before he became the world's number one swordsman or encountered some force majeure. As for Nami, she didn't consider becoming a devil fruit user at all, at least for now. She loved swimming very much and her skills were quite good. She was also determined to survey and map the sea. She felt that if she became a landlubber, her dream would be shattered, so she didn't plan to become a power user.

"What are you thinking about?" Nami asked curiously when she saw Bane suddenly stopped talking.

Zoro drank his wine and looked at Bane.

"I'm thinking about recruiting some sailors to help us drive the ship and handle some chores. This is easy and can be done here, but later on, we also need some real talents to expand our team," said Bane.

"The second point is difficult. Not everyone is like me and Nami, going with the flow." Zoro said after taking a sip of wine.

When he said "go with the flow", he didn't mean he had no pursuits. Zoro was pursuing the throne of the world's greatest swordsman, and Nami also had her own dreams.

What Zoro meant by 'going with the flow' is 'ambition'.

It is no exaggeration to say that their current team of three is a team without ambition. Although each of them has their own goals, they do not have a unified ambition.

It’s like most pirate groups want to become the Pirate King, the navy wants to pacify the world and maintain justice, and the revolutionary army wants to overthrow the world government and create a new order.

The three of them together have no big direction!

And precisely because there is no such general direction, when we want to recruit some talents, we don’t know how to start. This is the horror of not having a program.

You can't just say to others, hey, come with me to the sea!
"As long as it doesn't allow pirates to join us, I don't care." After thinking about it, Nami also gave her minimum requirement.

Again, this girl now hates all pirates fairly and impartially.

So when Bane said before that he wanted to go to Alabasta to kill Crocodile, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Zoro said it didn't matter, he would do whatever you said, but Nami fully supported him, even though she was a little scared!
After taking another sip of wine, Zoro said, "So if you want to expand our core members, you must first determine a general direction, so that when you invite others, you can persuade them more effectively. And all this time, I have never formally asked you, Bane, as our captain, what are your plans for the future?"

"Yes, if even you, a captain, have no direction, then even if you have the best navigator like me, you will still be lost at sea!" Nami patted her chest and said to Bane.

Bane was silent for a moment, then looked at Zoro and Nami and said, "To be honest, I want to become the king of the world and lead you to the other world!"

Zoro, Nami???
What the hell are you talking about?
Seeing that he was telling the truth, these two guys treated him as a fool. Bane was speechless. He shook his head and said, "My current goal is to become the world's top power. My next goal is to gain power and influence, so I need to form a team that I can trust. You two are the core members of this team."

"Do you want to gain power and influence by forming your own organization, or, as you joked before, join the navy?" Zoro asked after thinking for a moment.

"It's not bad to join the navy, right? Just thinking about people calling me Colonel Nami or something like that makes me look forward to it, hahahaha." Nami's eyes lit up when she heard that.

She didn't like the navy very much before, mainly because of bastards like Colonel Rat. But after meeting Smoker, Tashigi and others, she felt that the navy was not hopeless. There were bastards in every group, and she didn't need to be so harsh and deny an entire group based on one person.

(End of this chapter)