【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 351 Garp

Carrera Headquarters

After the end of Akualaguna, the residents of Qishui, led by the Carrera Company, enthusiastically started the reconstruction and repair work. The two giants, Cassi and Ouye, also stayed to help everyone with the reconstruction work.

On the morning of the second day after the Judicial Island incident, Franky told them about the Adam Tree. The 200 million Beli that were robbed from them were used by Franky to buy the Adam Tree on the black market.

He told them about his deepest dream. He wanted to use the Adam tree to build a dream ship that could cross any ocean, and he hoped that they could take this ship. To be honest, this was a great help that came in time of need.

It is worth mentioning that this matter was decided while Luffy was asleep, but if he was awake, it would not just be the ship, Franky himself might be completely entangled with a rubber man in the next few days, well, it should be said that this is certain.

So, while Luffy was asleep, their new ship officially began to be built with the help of Franky.

At the same time, a terrifying guy arrived on the island. Qi, who had discovered it first, had already hidden himself, while Luffy, who was still sleeping, had no idea what kind of blow he was about to face. Qi said that this was not because he was cruel, but that even if Ace and the others were there at the same time, they would not be able to deal with this guy. There would only be a few more heads with hot bumps on them, so it was better to let the main body bear this love...

"Get up, Luffy!!"

"It hurts... it hurts so much!!" Luffy, who was eating meat in his dream, was suddenly brought back to reality by this familiar punch. He looked at the extremely familiar figure in horror and said, "Grandpa... Grandpa!!"

"Grandpa!?" The crew members who were trying to stop him exclaimed.

Luffy gasped, and suddenly realized that his and Lucci's guess was right. He glared at the figure in white with his back to him in dissatisfaction, "You have been using Haki on us!!"

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

The old man's sudden loud laughter successfully startled the Straw Hats who were scattered around the room and watching the Marines with vigilance.

"Huh? You've been in the Grand Line for less than a year, and you've already discovered Haki? Brat." Garp crossed his arms and smiled brightly. "But, Luffy, it seems like you've done a lot of things that you need to apologize to me for, right?"

"Garp? Isn't this the name of that navy hero?" Nami exclaimed in surprise.

"Luffy! Is he really your grandfather!?" Sanji asked in shock.

"That's right! Don't touch him!" Luffy's voice was filled with fear. "You will be killed..."

Everyone was confused as to why Luffy was so afraid of his grandfather.

"Lucci and I almost died at his hands several times before!"

"Hey, hey, don't say such harsh words!" Garp said dissatisfiedly, "I pushed you off the cliff and threw you into the forest in the middle of the night just to train you to be strong!

"Now I finally understand why Luffy's vitality is so strong..." Sanji exclaimed in disbelief.

"In the end, I made you my friends and trained you to be excellent soldiers, but you ended up becoming pirates!" Garp grinned. "And after only a few years, you've become like this!"

Luffy snorted and rubbed his head again. His grandfather had stopped forcing them to become marines a long time ago, so he didn't mind his occasional complaints.

While he did love his grandfather, he didn't miss his beloved Iron Fist at all! He wondered if Ace had also discovered that his grandfather had been using Haki on them since they were little.

"Hey! Luffy!"

Just then Zoro's shouting was heard outside. He thought they were surrounded by the navy and were fighting.

"The bounty-bought pirate hunter, Roronoa Zoro, that guy must be your companion, Luffy!" Garp turned his head and looked outside with an amused smile, and said to Coby and the others, "Go stop him..."

Zoro immediately swung his sword to block the oncoming marines, and looked at the sword in his hand with an interested smile, "Guguli sword? This is quite rare!"

"Hey, Zoro! Wait a minute, don't mess around!" Luffy stopped the fight outside. He didn't pay attention to the other pink-haired marine who kicked at him. He grabbed him and threw him to the ground. Although this guy also had the same moves as the CP9 guys, he was... much weaker!

Zoro also ended the battle in an instant. He pointed his sword at the marines on the ground and looked at the other marines who were standing still in confusion.

"Luffy! Zoro! Long time no see!" Coby stood up from the ground with a smile on his face.

"Who are you?" Luffy looked at the pink-haired navy in confusion.

"It's me! Coby! Do you remember me!?" Coby said happily.

"Coby?" Luffy tilted his head in confusion. He only knew one person named Coby. "I do have a friend named Coby, but he's a short guy!"

"I am that Kobe!" Kobe said with a smile.

"Really!?" Luffy looked at Coby in disbelief. He didn't expect that Coby had changed so much in just a few months.

Zoro was also shocked when he saw Coby's self-introduction.

"Okay, go and fix the wall!"

Luffy, who was talking to Coby, looked back at Garp who was yelling at his men.

He rarely saw his grandfather wearing a white coat with the word "Justice" printed on it, so when he saw his grandfather wearing a clean white navy-like uniform, it looked a little strange to him.

Garp ignored Luffy's gaze and continued to bang on the wooden board on the hole, shouting to his men to tell the marines who were cleaning up the debris on the ground to finish cleaning up and go out and stand by.

Luffy could see that Bellemer and Coby almost tripped over their own feet in their eagerness to obey orders, and honestly it was quite interesting to see such a transformation in the previously arrogant Bellemer and timid Coby, they both became very confident and grew up very quickly.

Thinking of this, Luffy paused thoughtfully. He hadn't told his grandfather that Lucci was still alive. Although it might be more interesting to let his grandfather discover it himself, Lucci might not recognize him even if the two of them met one day.

Luffy frowned, so Grandpa had to explain everything to Lucci first, just like them. He still remembered how Grandpa hugged them tightly when he returned to the forest after that incident. That was the first time he saw Grandpa cry.

He didn't know what his grandfather would do when he found out that Lucci had lost his memory. He even suspected that his grandfather might try to use his iron fist of love to beat Lucci's memories back into his head. Luffy swallowed in fear.

Although he liked the old Lucci very much and also liked the new Lucci very much, he knew that Ace was the same, and he would always like Ace even if he never recovered his memory, and he would always be his brother and their brother, but Grandpa's patience was notoriously poor, and Lucci had completely forgotten anything Grandpa had taught them, and this would really test Grandpa's patience.