Pirate: I'm about to do something big!

Auction scene on Swaro Island.

The auction, hosted by Donquixote Doflamingo, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, was turned into a sea of ​​fire by his own hands.

Alyosha, who had come to cause trouble, sheathed his sword and looked at Doflamingo, whom he had beaten half to death, but simply shook his head and did not finish him off.

This guy was once a Celestial Dragon. Before I'm strong enough to challenge the World Government, there's no need to kill Doflamingo now. That kind of death would be too easy for him, and it doesn't fit my original intention of causing trouble at the auction.

Beating Doflamingo half to death was just the first step; the real package he was preparing for Doflamingo was just beginning.

"Well, they did me a favor. Otherwise, I wouldn't know what excuse to use to kick these guys out of the venue. Let's see how well they do."

Alyosha muttered something, then abandoned Ming, who was lying on the ground, leaving him to be roasted by the flames.

Anyway, in the world of One Piece, all the famous and powerful figures are like cockroaches. Even the "heroic man" Kozuki Oden could be boiled in oil for an hour or two without any problems, but in the end, he was still shot and killed by Kaido.

Alyosha even doubted whether a mere fire could burn down Doflamingo's flamingo coat.

Taking advantage of the fire at the auction venue, Alyosha slipped away to the backstage area, where the goods were stored.

This is my goal.

Whether it was provoking Doflamingo to attack him, or using him to disrupt the venue and force away the various forces participating in the auction, it was all for the sake of these slaves, Beli, and that Gold-Gold Fruit placed backstage at the venue.

Clearly, none of the representatives of the forces who came to participate in this auction expected that the organizer, Doflamingo, would suddenly erupt and cause chaos.

While busy escaping for their lives, they also threw all the treasures they had brought into the venue.

In their view, even if they lost them, they could get reimbursed by Doflamingo.

Thanks to Alyosha's deliberate diversion of Doflamingo's attack range, although Doflamingo made a mess of the auction venue, turning it into a sea of ​​fire, the backstage area where the auction items were stored was not affected.

By taking on Doflamingo himself, he was sending a signal to Luffy and his crew to launch an attack.

But when Alyosha leisurely arrived backstage, he witnessed a farce.

As we can see, Arlong, relying on his naturally strong arms as a merman, easily bent and broke the prison cells where slaves were held. But no matter how Arlong tried to drive them away or explain, some slaves remained huddled in their cells, not daring to step out, even after Arlong tore off their shackles.

This complete lack of cooperation with his rescue operation infuriated Ah Long, but he dared not resort to violence and could only stomp his feet in frustration.

The two newcomers, Ain and Binz, directed the veterans, along with the previously captured Golden Emperor Tesoro and his men, to move the stolen goods stored backstage. Binz danced there, and lush vines sprouted from the ground, binding the stolen goods together.

Finally, there's the area where Luffy, Sabo, and Ace are, fighting with another group of kids their own age over a small box.

Alyosha recognized the other group when he saw the leader of another group of people his age wearing a fluffy spotted winter hat, with a large polar bear next to him baring its teeth and pretending to be fierce.

Trafalgar D. Watts Law, one of the eleven next-generation Supernovas of the new era, is also known as Trafalgar Law.

This kid actually sneaked into Doflamingo's auction venue before them? He's really a daring and skilled individual.

Luffy, along with his two older brothers, Law, and his two underlings, engaged in a primal struggle for the loot, while the Golden Emperor Tesoro absentmindedly carried the stolen goods, his eyes fixed on the small box that Luffy and Law were fighting over.

Click!

During the struggle between Luffy and Law's crew, the box's opening came loose, and the Devil Fruit, the Gold-Gold Fruit, which was stored inside, rolled out of the box and onto the ground.

Without a second thought, the Golden Emperor Tesoro, upon seeing the Devil Fruit he desired fall to the ground, immediately threw away the loot he was carrying and pounced on the Gold-Gold Fruit rolling on the ground.

Once he takes the first bite, he will become the man who controls the gold, and thus have the leverage to negotiate with Commodore Alyosha.

The idea was good, but reality is harsh.

The Golden Emperor Tesoro's pounce missed, and the Gold-Gold Fruit circled on the ground with a kind of intelligence before rising up and landing in Alyosha's hand.

The chaotic backstage crowd's attention also focused on Alyosha as the Devil Fruit rolled around.

Only then did the two veterans realize that Tesoro, who had failed to steal the Devil Fruit, had been pinned down and grabbed. Just as they were about to explain to Alyosha, Alyosha raised his hand to interrupt them, signaling them to continue their work.

Alyosha paced back and forth, carefully examining the golden fruit in his hand.

Since joining the Marines in the pirate world, this is the first time he has seen a real Devil Fruit.

Despite One Piece being a super long-running series that has been running for so many years, in fact, up until Alyosha's time travel, there were no more than a hundred Devil Fruit users in the manga, and a considerable number of them were just ordinary Paramecia and Zoan types, whose abilities were not particularly powerful.

For Alyosha, a half-retired One Piece fan, given his superhuman physique and top-tier Observation Haki, his desire to eat Devil Fruits wasn't that strong.

After all, eating a Devil Fruit prevents one from going to sea, and among the people I know, there are plenty of individuals who dominate the ocean without eating Devil Fruits, relying solely on Haki and their physical abilities.

For example, the dead Pirate King Roger, the living Marine hero Garp, his mentor "Black Arm" Zephyr, Shanks who lost an arm to him, and the world's greatest swordsman among the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Hawkeye Mihawk.

None of these people ate Devil Fruits, but their power was something that even the sea tyrants who had eaten Devil Fruits dared not underestimate.

Alyosha was the same. He could have continued to grow stronger by fighting, so why did he have to give himself the Weak Water debuff?

Of course, if he could obtain a powerful Devil Fruit, he would consider eating it, such as Whitebeard's Tremor-Tremor Fruit, Kaido's Fish-Fish Fruit (Azure Dragon Form), or even Enel's Rumble-Rumble Fruit from Skypiea in the East Blue.

Unfortunately, he couldn't defeat the two mentioned earlier with his current strength, and the latter was in the East Blue, a crucial part of Luffy's seafaring training. As a commodore of the Marine Headquarters, he couldn't leave easily or take action.

As a result, Alyosha had very few Devil Fruits to choose from, none of which were what he wanted, and the Gold-Gold Fruit in front of him was no exception.

After putting the Gold-Gold Fruit back in the box, Alyosha looked at Trafalgar Law and his small group who were too afraid to speak, before turning to look at Luffy and his two brothers in front of him.

"Tell me, what happened?"

The three brothers didn't speak, but simply pointed to Luo standing to the side, their meaning clear.

"Room!"

Faced with the three brothers' accusations, Law didn't waste any words and immediately used his Op-Op Fruit ability to teleport himself and his three companions away from the venue.

"Huh?! It's disappeared!"

Luo's teleportation surprised the three little ones.

Alyosha, however, remained calm. Calculating the time, it had been two years since Law ate the Op-Op Fruit. As a member of a family of doctors, two years was enough time for Law to develop a portion of the Op-Op Fruit's power.

According to Alyosha's Observation Haki, Law did not immediately leave the venue, but instead moved himself and his three companions to hide inside the packaged stolen goods not far away.

I played a trick on him, letting him hide the truth from the light.

Alyosha didn't expose him. Since Law had brought three friends here, he had a way to get Law and his three friends to willingly board the ship with him and go to the Navy Headquarters for training.

"Alright, you three, come and help out. These are all for taking back to the ship."

After tapping each of the three little ones on the head, Alyosha walked toward the cages where the slaves were imprisoned.

The shackles binding these slaves had long been removed by the fishman Arlong, but no matter how firm Arlong's attitude was, these slaves refused to step out of the cages that imprisoned them.

"Hey, Navy, what's going on here?"

"Mr. Ah Long, just let them stay inside. They won't come out."

Why?

"Because they are citizens of non-member states who cannot survive, they have no other way to live except to sell themselves as slaves to slave traders. Even if they are set free, they will just sell themselves as slaves again."

Alyosha didn't explain much, but simply told Aaron a cold and cruel truth.

The Sun Pirates have a mixed reputation despite their efforts to combat the slave trade, partly due to the World Government's smear campaigns, but also because of the slaves themselves.

These citizens from non-member states, oppressed and exploited to the point of being unable to survive normally by the World Government and its member states, have no other way to live except to sell themselves as slaves to slave traders, at least not at present.

In this situation, they wouldn't be grateful to the Sun Pirates for giving them their freedom; they would only hate them for taking away their only way out, just like they are now.

No matter how fierce and menacing Ah Long appeared, the slaves remained unmoved.

Because they had no choice.

Arlong the fishman was speechless after Alyosha's words. Looking at the slaves in the cage, whose eyes were lifeless, he no longer had the fierce and menacing look he had before.

The auction venue was still surrounded by fire, and the fire began to spread backstage.

Seeing that the stolen goods had been packed up, Alyosha also had the fishman Arlong and several other fishman compatriots who had also been rescued work as laborers to pack up the stolen goods along with Doflamingo, who had been beaten half to death and was unconscious, and take them out of the venue.

The auction venue was engulfed in flames.

Outside the venue, Doflamingo's two core executives, Diamante and Trebol, also witnessed a scene they would never forget.

Their young master, Donquixote Doflamingo, known as the Heavenly Demon and one of the newly appointed Seven Warlords of the Sea, was dragged and thrown in front of them like a dead dog on the street.

Alyosha, the instigator, stood in front of them, smiling broadly.

Although there were only a few people, everyone present felt a strange sense of being surrounded.

"Alright everyone, I've finished discussing my personal matters with Mr. Doflamingo. Now, it's time to talk about business."

Alyosha said so.