Pirates: From Vice Captain to Lord of the Dead

"It's just as Uncle Crocus said. Luckily Reiner bought clothes for all four seasons in Rogue Town in advance."

On the deck of the Merry, Nami had a scarf wrapped around her neck and wore a warm earmuff, but she was still shivering even though she was wearing a down jacket.

“Women are so hard to understand.”

Looking at Nami's white thighs, Reiner on the side said speechlessly: "Nami, since you are so cold, why don't you wear thicker pants?"

"None of your business, huh~" Nami stuck out her tongue playfully.

It had been a few days since they left Rogue Town and entered the Grand Line, and met Lab and Uncle Crocus as expected.

With Kurokas's introduction, they also learned some information about the Grand Line.

Due to the extremely chaotic magnetic field of the Grand Line, ordinary compasses are completely unusable here. Fortunately, Reiner had prepared ten of them yesterday.

The trouble is that the chaotic magnetic field has caused the weather, ocean currents, and wind direction here to become extremely strange.

Even Nami was a little flustered at the beginning and added a lot of work for Reiner.

When the weather changes, the steering of the ship, raising and lowering of the sails, etc. are all done by his ghost, who handles the accumulated water on rainy days and clears the snow on snowy days.

Nami even asked him to burn the bones of the skeletons to make a fire for warmth. This was simply insane and she didn't regard the lives of the skeletons as her own.

"Nami, how long will it take us to reach the next island?" Reiner asked.

Nami thought for a moment and said:

"We are about to enter the magnetic field coverage of the next island. By then, the wind direction and ocean currents will be relatively stable. If everything goes well, we will arrive before this evening."

"Cactus Island, the first stop on the Grand Line." Reiner began to look forward to it.

After two and a half years of traveling through time, I finally accumulated enough strength to enter the Grand Line.

Luffy and Zoro's contributions are indispensable. Without them, it would be extremely difficult for Reiner to find trouble with Cloe and Arlong with just a bunch of small fry.

As long as his abilities can accumulate to a certain level of strength in the early stages, they can start to snowball later on.

Now with the two undead spirits of the Saw Demon, the strengthened Wolverine spirit (fused with Sanji's template), and the bone chain sword made from Arlong's template, he has the strength to be pretty good in the first half of the Grand Line.

After Xiaohuayuan obtained two more templates of the Elbaf Titan leaders, there were very few people who could threaten him in the first half of the Grand Line.

After all, the giants' terrifying overall physical fitness is there, and the strength they can exert in his hands will be stronger than their original bodies.

"Hehehe, look at my snowman Lab!"

"Not bad, Luffy, but it's still too rough. Let me show you my Snowman Queen!"

"Wahahaha, Usopp is so strong!" Luffy praised excitedly.

Reiner couldn't help but admire Usopp's snowman. The exquisite crown, coupled with the gorgeous costumes, was lifelike, but why did it look so familiar?

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, is that Kaya?" Reiner thought of a certain figure and joked to Usopp, "Are you missing your peaceful life, Usopp?"

"What the hell, what are you talking about!"

Usopp blushed and took a few steps back. "I want to be a brave sea warrior. How can I be bound by love?"

"I think Kaya is pretty good, pretty and gentle. Why don't you let me bear this bondage?"

"How dare you, Shuzi!!!"

"Haha~~, okay, I won't joke with you anymore." Reiner turned around and asked Sanji with a smile: "Our chef, what are we having for lunch today?"

"Well, the elephant trunk tuna we caught last time is already dying, let's kill it."

Sanji thought for a while and exhaled a puff of cigarette, "What should I make? What do you think?"

Luffy: "Grilled fish!"

Usopp: "Fish head soup!"

Reiner: "Sashimi!"

Zoro: "Whatever."

"Then make soup with the fish head, sashimi with the fish belly, grill the rest, and the most delicious fish nose.

——Of course, the decision will be made by the cutest Miss Nami!" Sanji's eyes turned into hearts, and he instantly turned into a pervert.

"Tsk, you lecherous cook."

"What did you say, green algae head!"

Reiner couldn't help but smile when looking at the two enemies. Sanji had only been on the ship for a few days, but he and Zoro started to dislike each other.

Soon, Sanji went into the kitchen to busy himself, Luffy and Usopp began their daily fishing routine, and Reiner and Zoro went to the stern of the boat to cast iron.

"You're making rapid progress, Reiner." Zoro couldn't help but sigh, "It's been less than two weeks and you've already increased your load."

"Well~, it's mainly because of the bonus of the Devil Fruit. It makes training more efficient." Reiner explained.

When he first traveled through time, he was just an ordinary person without any strength, but now his physical fitness is far beyond that of ordinary people.

Without the blessing of the Animal-type Fruit, it would be difficult for him to reach this level through training alone.

"If you keep going like this, I'm afraid I'll be surpassed by you in less than a year." Looking at Reiner doing push-ups with a weight of 1,200 kilograms, Zoro couldn't help but tighten his barbell.

"No way, I'm not the only one who can make progress. It's still a long way for me to catch up with you." Reiner looked at the 2,100-kilogram barbell in Zoro's hand, and unconsciously used a little more strength with his hands.

The two of them continued to compete in silence until Sanji called them to eat.

After finishing his meal, Reiner returned to the observation deck to keep watch, taking the barbell with him.

It was not until the evening, when the setting sun was almost approaching the sea level, that Reiner finally saw a small island.

From afar, you can vaguely see rows of houses, and behind the town are several huge cactus-shaped peaks.

"Everyone! See the island? There's a town on it." Reiner shouted to the people below, lit a cigarette, and watched the ship slowly approaching.

Luffy and the others immediately became excited. After all, they had been sailing on the ship for several days and finally arrived at an island with a lively atmosphere.

The island is called Cactus Island. A river divides the island into two parts. The Merry sailed along the river and arrived at the inland port.

"It's a pirate!"

"Hurry up and inform everyone that the pirates are coming!"

Someone at the port saw the pirate ship and hurried into the town. After a while, the port was filled with villagers.

The strange thing is that the villagers not only did not show any panic on their faces, but instead looked very happy.

"Brave sea warriors!"

“Welcome to Whiskey Hill!”

Listening to the bustling calls at the port, everyone had strange looks on their faces, except Luffy and Usopp who looked excited.

"Hello everyone!"

"Woo woo woo~~, they say I'm a brave sea warrior."

Compared to the reactions of the two, Nami and the others seemed much more normal.

"Did I hear wrongly? They are actually welcoming pirates?"

"Haha, what a strange town." Zoro looked at the 'villagers' below the ship with great interest.

Soon everyone got off the boat. Reiner dropped the anchor, secured the Merry, and then jumped down.

A tall man with big fluffy curly hair came out and strained his throat like a singer opening his throat.

“Ah~, ahhhh~”

Then the curly-haired man smiled and looked at the others and said:

"My name is Ikalem, and I'm the mayor of this town. Welcome everyone to the welcoming town - Whiskey Hill!"

Upon hearing this, Luffy immediately rushed forward to greet the other party, and soon the group was happily mingling with the villagers.

Chapter 22: Cactus in the Graveyard

The group walked into the town arm in arm, laughing and joking.

"Let's have a party for some sea warriors, everyone!"

Ikarum laughed and shouted, patting Luffy on the shoulder, "No matter what, we must give you a good welcome today."

"Wahahahaha, you guys are so nice, uncle." Luffy was extremely excited.

Reiner only had a vague impression of the original plot, especially some of the early plots as he was still a child when he read them.

I only vaguely remember that this was the assassination organization under Crocodile's command. It was a group of bounty collectors disguised as villagers, who specialized in deceiving the naive pirates who had just entered the Grand Line and carrying out assassinations.

"Just some small fry." Reiner's expression remained normal as he thought to himself,

"This mayor should be Weiwei's emmm what is it, uncle? Bodyguard? Never mind, there is nothing worth noting here except him and Weiwei."

In fact, Reiner's obsession with Kroc is not deep. His undead spirit cannot inherit the ability of the devil fruit. In terms of physical fitness, Crocodile is far inferior to the two giants of Little Garden.

Green ghost Tori, red ghost Broki.

The leader of the Giant Pirates of Elbaf in the New World. The giant sea king that the two once hunted was larger than several volcanoes and occupied half of the entire Little Garden Island.

Reiner recalled the scene where the Elbaf Spear: Hegemony instantly pierced through the "Island Food Goldfish" as if it were vividly remembered.

After that attack, he couldn't think of anyone in the first half of the Grand Line who could withstand it.

You said the natural system can resist?

That's fine.

"Sisters, look, there are two handsome blond guys here!" A shout interrupted Reiner's thoughts.

A group of beautiful women with curvy figures rushed out from the crowd. They were dressed very coolly and had slim figures. They came to Sanji and Reiner with smiles on their faces.

Sanji couldn't stand this kind of scene at all, and he immediately rushed over with a dazed look on his face.

"What's your name, little brother?"

Several girls came to Reiner, and their slender hands came directly to him, either wrapped around his waist or stroked his chest.

Reiner could feel a few warm, soft pieces of flesh pressing against him even through his clothing.

Using this kind of thing to test cadres?!

Who can stand this test?!