novelraw Chapter 504: SFDI - 504
Chapter 504: SFDI - 504
The Straw Hat Pirates, led by their captain Luffy, had battled all of the somewhat famous pirates in the East Blue, and had finally arrived at the Grand Line.
Drake hadn’t expected that he would run into this group at Twin Cape. But they were quite in line with the image that Drake had of them.
Seeing that they were about to crash into Laboon, who had been blocking before the waterway, they had actually chosen to use a cannon to slow down the ship.
In the end, although they had broken off the sheep’s head figurehead, they had stopped safely at least.
But although they could have just gone around Laboon like that, Drake had watched Luffy recklessly stretch out his arm, blasting a punch right on Laboon’s fragile eye.
Although Laboon had a gentle temper, there was no way that he could have stayed calm after being hit in a painful spot. So the Straw Hat Pirates’ Going Merry had been swallowed by Laboon directly.
Stella had said with an incomprehensible look, "Does that person have a problem in his head? Why would he do that?"
Drake had laughed loudly, saying, "It’s too early to be surprised right now, that person is Luffy, who I told you about, and you’ll know that he has a lot more surprising things about him after getting to know him."
After Laboon had calmed down, he had submerged underwater, beginning to crash into the Red Line.
Although Laboon was an island whale, and was the largest whale in this world, wanting to shake the Red Line, which divided this world into four equal parts together with the Grand Line, was simply like an ant trying to shake a tree.
Drake could only feel emotional that Oda understood the romance of men at this time. It was very hard to see this kind of thing in other worlds.
But Laboon hadn’t been making a fuss for long either, and wasn’t Crocus in his body for this! Laboon, who had surfaced again, had indeed calmed down, but his sad cry hadn’t stopped.
The hatch on Laboon’s body had opened, and the Going Merry had sailed out. And then Luffy had let Stella see what recklessness was.
Just after coming out, Luffy had charged up, fighting Laboon, and had even pulled out the mast on his ship, sticking it on Laboon’s head.
But after he had drawn a crooked straw hat flag on Laboon’s head, everyone had also known why he had done this.
Luffy and Laboon had reached a new promise, and everyone knew that that was just to prevent Laboon from harming himself again.
After everything had calmed down, the Straw Hat Pirates and Crocus had come to the foot of the lighthouse together.
The Going Merry had been scarred all over this time, and the rudder had been broken before entering the waterway, and the figurehead had also been broken after crashing into Laboon.
Luffy had recklessly pulled out the mast again, and it was impossible to continue sailing in this state. So they had had to repair it here.
Drake and Stella had also officially gotten to know the Straw Hat Pirates.
Captain Luffy, swordsman Zoro, navigator Nami, cook Sanji, sniper Usopp, everyone had clear personalities.
Drake had always wanted to meet Luffy before this, but more of his attention had been attracted by the Going Merry right now.
The theme of this world was the sea, so the ship was naturally the most important means of transportation.
Especially the pirate ships that the pirates had been riding, and they could be said to have been all strange and bizarre, and some had even been equipped with black technologies that exceeded imagination.
Compared to those ships, the Going Merry could be said to have been ordinary, and even its size had been the smallest kind.
The material that the Merry had used had been the most ordinary wood, and even the maker hadn’t been a professional shipwright.
But a ship like this was much more precious than those luxurious large ships in Drake’s eyes, because this ship had its own soul.
Even if this soul had just been born, and was still in a muddled state, a soul was a soul in the end, and it was something that only living things could possess.
Ship spirits were a legendary existence even in this world, and only the Going Merry’s ship spirit had clearly appeared in the entire plot.
In the legends, the ship spirit would only appear with a thick fog, and would give the crew help, when all of the members had been caring for each other, and had been genuinely caring for their ship.
Making a dead object possess a soul was something that could be called a miracle no matter which world it was in.
Of course, the method of simply transferring a soul like Big Mom wasn’t counted. And having passed through this many worlds, Drake had only seen it once.
And that had been the two hundred million beli Little Black, the blade of Hestia, that Hephaestus, the patron god of the familia that Drake had joined in Orario, had forged.
That blade could no longer be considered a weapon, and it had its own ability values, and could level up through experience values.
The reason was that Hephaestus had given the blade of Hestia a soul through her divine skill, and it had even received the goddess Hestia’s divine grace, and it was no different from an adventurer.
But that blade’s soul also couldn’t display a specific form and be able to communicate with people like a ship spirit, so this sea was really magical.
Drake had felt the consciousness within the Merry, which was like a chick that had just hatched from its shell, and he couldn’t help but feel emotional.
Even with Drake’s level of magic knowledge, which could be called master-level right now, he couldn’t explore how this soul had been produced, and it had immediately made Drake’s curiosity surge up.
Luffy had been climbing on the ship’s railing, and as the greatest culprit of damaging the ship, he had been lectured properly, and had been reflecting.
Seeing Drake, who had been "spacing out" before the Merry, Luffy had opened his mouth, saying, "What are you doing?"
Drake had snapped back to his senses, saying, "It’s nothing, you guys really have a good ship!"
Luffy had revealed a carefree smile, saying, "That’s obvious, the Merry is the best!"
Luffy’s tone had been incomparably certain, and that had also been his most serious thought.
Drake had suddenly thought of the legend of the ship spirit, and perhaps it had been wrong to analyze the birth of the ship spirit with knowledge to begin with, and Luffy and this group were the most fundamental reason why a ship spirit would appear.
Revealing a trace of a smile, Drake had opened his mouth, saying, "Then you have to cherish it well! It will also cry if you always make it get injured."
Luffy had been stunned, and had then revealed a smile, saying, "You’re a really interesting guy, do you want to get on my ship!"
Drake had said with a smile, "I’ll have to pass on that, I have a disease where I’ll die if I get on a ship!"
Usopp, who had been repairing, had raised his head, wondering how someone had suddenly stolen his line.
Usopp hadn’t felt anything when he himself had said it, but he had only known how fake it had sounded after hearing someone else say this kind of thing!
Luffy had instead said with a look of regret, "Is that so! That’s really a shame, I clearly felt that going on adventures together would be very interesting!"
Looking at Luffy’s reaction, he hadn’t had any doubts at all, and had really believed it.
Zoro, who had been on the side, couldn’t listen anymore, slapping Luffy’s head, saying, "Idiot, there’s no way that that kind of reason is true, he’s fooling you!"
Luffy had revealed a shocked expression, saying, "Eh, is it a lie?"
Nami, who had been on the side, couldn’t help but cover her head, sighing, and her captain was really speechless. She didn’t even dare to look at what Stella’s expression was.
Stella had indeed been somewhat unable to react, and having experienced this much, she really hadn’t seen someone like Luffy before.
Drake had known what Luffy was like long ago, opening his mouth, saying, "I’m not lying, what I can’t stand the most is riding means of transportation. So spare me from things like traveling by ship!"
Luffy had been simple-minded, and he had put this matter behind him after hearing Drake say this.
But Zoro had noticed that there really wasn’t a ship of Drake and them’s around. Looking at how he and Stella also didn’t look like they had drifted here after being shipwrecked.
So how they had gotten here, and where they had come from, was worth thinking about deeply.
What was most important was that Zoro could feel that whether it was Drake or Stella, they had made him have a feeling of his nerves tensing up.
And the last time that he had had this kind of feeling had been when Dracule Mihawk had drawn his black blade.
Zoro had deeply sensed how vast the sea was at this time, and he hadn’t expected that he would run into someone like this just after arriving at the Grand Line.
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