One Piece - I Am A Different Luffy! BOOK2!

Chapter 343 - The New Era is Coming! 05 (First Meeting with Shanks).

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Third Person POV

Grand Line.

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The sound of Luffy was heard by everyone as people looked stunned at the ship, noticing the Red Force at this moment.

"Akame no Shanks is here...!" The pirates quickly exclaimed.

The reinforcement continued approaching the ships at the front of that fleet, while Moby Dick was among them.

"Shanks..." Newgate looked at Shanks on his ship, while Shanks looked back at him with a more serious tone as soon as he saw him.

"Honestly... I came here thinking I'd find you dead and wanted to save whoever I could from your crew." Shanks said without hesitation.

"You think pops would die just like that, Shanks?!" Ace immediately exclaimed, dissatisfied.

"Ow, I see you're fine, Ace, I'm glad about that." Shanks admitted, smiling at Ace who was gritting his teeth. "Anyway... it seems that everything went well." He looked back at Newgate.

"You can say that..." Whitebeard didn't seem offended by Shanks' words, after all, he himself thought about sacrificing himself, but he managed to survive that place, even though he faced Teach with that strange power and Kaido, the navy had to direct their forces to deal with another crew. "I had some help." He admitted in the end.

Shanks nodded. "Seems like it's true..." he murmured, looking at one of the last ships there, being the one representing the flag with his old hat, given by his former captain.

"SHAAAAANKKSSSS!!!" Lucy exclaimed excitedly from the ship.

"Lucy! You're here, which means you left the navy!!" Shanks seemed to sparkle with that.

"Yes..." Lucy responded a bit sad about it, but seemed not to regret it.

"And you Luffy..." Shanks looked at the boy lying in the palms of the giant mermaid on his ship. "You seem to have grown a bit, but you're still just a kid, not strong enough to face me, brat! HAHAHAHAHA!" Shanks began to mock.

"Boss..." Lucky Roux approached while Shanks was laughing.

"Hm?" Shanks looked curious.

"Everyone's looking at you like you're an idiot..." He told his captain who turned back to Whitebeard's pirate crew and saw that everyone was looking at them that way.

"Why are they all looking like that..." Shanks murmured, stopping his laughter at that moment.

"So he's a Yonkou too... doesn't look very strong..." Nami murmured.

"Don't be fooled... All my instincts tell me I'd die if I faced him..." Zoro commented.

"Then this is Shanks' crew..." Usopp commented, scanning the crew until his eyes met someone staring at him. "Dad..." He murmured, the man opening a smile for him.

"SHAAAAAAAANKKKKKSSSS!!!!" Buggy's voice echoed through the area as he appeared furious!

"OH?! BUGGGYYYY!!!!????" Shanks opened an excited smile seeing his old mate.

"Amazing... Boss Buggy is fighting with a Yonkou..." The prisoners began to murmur seeing this.

"Shanks you bastard!! I hate you since you made me eat that akuma no mi and made me lose my treasure map while we were on the Oro Jackson!" Buggy began to cry, remembering the immense anger he had for Shanks.

"Buggy... don't be like that. I really want to catch up with you like the old times!" Shanks commented.

"Catch up like the old times nothing!!" Buggy grimaced.