One Piece - I Am A Different Luffy! BOOK2!

Chapter 378 - Fish-Man Island Again 01.

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Third Person POV

Fish-Man Island.

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Fish-Man Island quickly appeared ahead of the Black Pearl as they approached it again. As always, the island's glow stood out from the ocean floor as the ship finally emerged from the vortex created by Shirahoshi, highlighting the beauty of the kingdom beneath the sea.

"How beautiful!" Rebecca couldn't help but admire as she saw the island for the first time, and others shared this view.

"Mermaid!! I want to see mermaids!!" Brook started to exclaim.

"We've finally arrived," Luffy murmured as the ship slowly approached. His gaze fell to a dark side of the sea.

His sister, next to him, noticed. "What are you looking at, Luffy?" she asked curiously.

"Don't you feel it yet?" Luffy said, as his voice calmly directed toward that side. "Are you there? Come here," he said calmly.

"Him?!" Lucy managed to see with her observation haki as a huge shadow began to emerge from that side at this moment.

"That..." Zoro murmured, recognizing the shadow that was approaching with several tentacles.

Luffy broke into a smile. "Yes, it's my last companion I made on this island, whom I left here a year ago, as I couldn't bring him to Skypiea due to his size."

Serume heard Luffy's call through the voice of all things and immediately approached as soon as he felt it. He smiled as he came closer to the ship.

"Serume, how are you?" Luffy greeted him, while other small octopuses were beside him. "I see that your siblings are doing great!" He looked with interest at the small creatures.

Luffy knew that Hody Jones had taken the young Kraken and blackmailed him by threatening his little siblings to make him obey their plans, so he asked some of his agents to go after the siblings in a very distant place in one of the blues, to be taken to the brother and that they could be raised by his side around the kingdom of fish-men.

Serume also helped in the protection of the island, along with others, after the death of Whitebeard, Luffy sent Jimbei several times to take care of the island's security and try to reinforce it.

Many fish-men had been sent to Skypiea with the help of Bepo and had undergone intense training with six styles, but they had to return months before they departed, after all, the situation was a bit tense.

Moreover, after Hody Jones and his main members were publicly executed, some others had to go for forced labor at the bottom of the sea searching for miners, one of these people was Wadatsumi himself, who made an agreement with Neptune to use his punishment to take care of the borders of this country.

Still, even though the island's defenses were better than in the time of Whitebeard, there was still work to be resolved. Luffy knew he needed to deal with this mess now that he was back, his first step was on the surface, with the destruction of the auction houses and his declaration of war against all those who had traded in Sabaody, they would hunt them across the world.

Now here he was, who opted to navigate through the passage under the sea to the new world, instead of going directly over the Red Mountain. He also needed to see how things were with his father-in-law.

After greeting his crew, Serume along with his siblings, who were small folks by his side, Black Pearl advanced towards the island's port.

At the port, Wadatsumi was in the water as they approached and a large group of soldiers and a crowd were already waiting, recognizing the ship's flag.