The Last Pirate King

Chapter 4: Devil Fruit and Brotherhood

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"Word"-Speaking

'Word'-Thoughts

"Word"-Devil Fruit

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Chapter 4: Devil Fruit and Brotherhood

Foosha Village

"Are you still disappointed over what happened, Luffy?" asked Makino.

"I thought Shanks was a cool pirate the way Oyaji talked about him, but he just let bandits do that to him. I would never let anybody talk bad about Oyaji or my family. I would beat them all up" he said while playing with the cup.

"Yes, but not every fight is worth fighting, and sometimes people just talk bad to get out a reaction out of you, and lure you into a trap" Makino simply said. Luffy was there thinking and was about to say something then suddenly the doors bust open.

"You better have the sake woman. Me, and my men are thirsty" said Higuma. Makino just nodded and started serving them.

"Those stupid weak pirates arent here, thats unfortunate I wanted to kill them all" spoke a bandit. As they got drunker, they also started getting more rowdy talking bad about Shanks and his crew, but Luffy was trying his hardest to stay still and not do anything as he remembered what Shanks had said about being a man, and Makino about knowing what fights to take and which to not.

That was until he saw a bandit grab Makino, and pull her into his lap while Makino tried to struggle and get up, but the bandit just tightened his grip. Luffy suddenly got up and took out his collapsible bo staff, and thrust the end of the staff into the face of the bandit, and pulled Makino behind him. "Don't touch my older sister bastard, and don't talk bad about my friends".

After he said that the bandits all got up so Luffy pushed Makino behind the counter, and got ready to fight. The first bandit rushed forward swinging his sword at him but Luffy just sidestepped, and hit him across the face then he felt a presence from his right, and quickly parried the sword which was heading down towards his head. Then suddenly the rest of the bandits along with Higuma started attacking, but Luffy was just easily dodging the attacks while hitting them with his staff keeping a distance and making sure not to get stuck in a corner. As the bandits were all getting irritated about not being able to hit the kid Higuma yelled. "Stop fighting brat or I'll shoot the woman" he said in a booming voice stopping every movement while holding a gun to Makino's head.

"Just get out of here Luffy" she said worriedly, but Luffy just dropped his staff and told him to let her let her go as the other bandits surrounded Luffy, and held him down.

"Take him outside I'm going to teach him a lesson not to mess with bandits", he said and the other bandits complied by emptying out off the bar. As they left Makino made her way towards the mayor's office.

{III}

"Let the kid go. I'll give you how much ever money you want" said the legend himself Woop Slap.

"Please let him go, you can take me instead," Makino said worriedly.

"The old man knows how the real-world works, but it's too late I'm going to teach the brat that you don't mess with people stronger than what you can handle," he simply said.