One Piece - I Am A Different Luffy! BOOK2!

Chapter 288 - Calm Before the Storm 03.

[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV

Sabaody Archipelago, First Half of Grandline.

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Luffy returned to the Sabaody Archipelago with Enel, then gathered the group to train a bit before starting operations while the ship was finally getting ready. Many ships began arriving on the island, wanting to watch and cover the war from the best possible place to broadcast to all the communication and news companies in the world.

"Let's go!" said a man with a Den Den Mushi.

"But boss... They are a pirate group worth billions!!!" said another man with a recording Den Den Mushi.

"Don't you understand...? This is a unique opportunity to interview the billion-berry pirate!!" he said with a greedy tone.

"What if they try to kill us?! I don't want to die!" the man complained.

"Stop crying! Think about the fame and money we can get. We will sell this interview to Morgans! We will be famous for this!" the man said, as they walked through the forest, still destroyed and devastated by fights a few days ago.

"I still think it's a terrible idea..." the cameraman murmured, but they continued through the destroyed area as they approached an isolated bar, with a large ship completely coated in bubbles for protection to enter the sea depths next to it.

"It's the Black Pearl!" the man said, taking the Den Den Mushi and snapping a photo of the ship.

"Boss, it's him!!" the cameraman suddenly called the boss, pointing to the front of the bar where a shirtless man was sitting in a chair, sunbathing alone in the morning.

"Yes, it's him!" the man swallowed hard as he saw Monkey D. Luffy, who had returned to the island the day before and was there calmly with his hat over his face as if he was sleeping.

"Let's go!" he said nervously and hesitantly.

"..." His cameraman was nervous but nodded, following his boss as they approached the seemingly calm pirate.

"Hm... Excuse me, Lord Monkey D. Luffy!" the man wrung his hands greedily as he called Luffy from a few meters away.

"Hm?" Suddenly, Luffy murmured under his hat, while the men were startled by this. Luffy then moved his arm and removed his hat from his face, looking at the two men.

"Who are you?" Luffy asked with a sleepy expression.

"We are reporters, Lord Monkey D. Luffy..." the man said nervously.

"What do you want?" Luffy asked with a dangerous look while they trembled with fear.

"We want to interview you..." the man said.

"I'm not interested, as I'm heading to the New World." Luffy said grumpily while the men were surprised by this, and the boss himself took his notebook and began writing about it.

"You're leaving when there's a war about to happen?" the man was quite surprised by this.

"Don't you see my fully coated ship? I'm leaving soon, the war doesn't matter to me." Luffy continued speaking in a grumpy tone while the man kept marking everything in his notebook.

"He doesn't care about the war?" the cameraman was quite surprised.

"Come on! Take a picture of him!" the boss requested, and the cameraman did exactly that, clicking a photo of Luffy looking at him grumpily.

The flash appeared, and Luffy looked at them with a dazzling glare while the men trembled with fear. "I told you to turn off the flash, now we're going to die!" the boss shouted.