The Going Merry, carrying the Straw Hat Pirates, was slowly flying through the sky!
The Straw Hats were laughing and playing together.
The next second, the fire in the "hot air balloon" suddenly went out.
"Are we out of fuel? Hold on tight!" Zoro woke from his nap, looked at the extinguished fire, and calmly reminded them.
In an instant, the octopus rapidly shrunk, and the ship accelerated, plummeting towards the sea.
"Oh no, if we fall like this, the Merry Go will be severely damaged!" Usopp looked at Luffy, his face full of anxiety and worry.
"It's fine, just watch me!" Standing at the bow, Luffy gently swung his arm, then clenched his fist, and the air exploded. Luffy's slender arm swung towards the sea, but the power was astonishing!
The sea was blasted with a crater large enough to bury nearly a thousand people. The fierce punch wind stopped the Merry Go's descent, the sea surged, quickly filling the crater, and the Merry Go slowly touched the water, completely unharmed!
"Luffy, you're amazing!" Usopp hugged Luffy tightly, only to be punched away the next second!
"Seriously!" Luffy lightly patted the non-existent dust from his clothes, "Why does everyone like to hug so much?"
Chopper wiped the burnt tentacles of the octopus with alcohol, then released it back into the sea.
The octopus surfaced and gently waved at them.
"Take care, find friends who share your interests!" — Chopper
"Teach all the octopuses in the Grand Line a good lesson!" — Zoro
"Bye-bye, seafood ingredients!" — Sanji
What a heartwarming farewell scene!
...Suddenly, behind the Merry Go, rolling waves rushed towards them!
Three sea monkeys emerged from the waves,
"Sea monkeys!" Luffy chuckled, then an invisible force streaked across the sky, and the sea monkeys instantly foamed at the mouth and floated on the surface of the sea.
"Hoist the sails, port rudder!" Nami commanded from the ship.
The Merry Go gradually moved away from the waves!
...In the ruins of Mock Town,
A man 305 centimeters tall, with a tall stature, bronze skin, golden hair, red sunglasses, a pink feathered coat, an open shirt underneath, zebra-striped capri pants, and pointed shoes, a man with a flamboyant style arrived!
"Bellamy, you really did me proud!" The man looked at the ruined Mock Town, holding two wanted posters!
They were: "Straw Hat" Luffy: 400,000,000 Berries
"Pirate Hunter" Roronoa Zoro: 80,000,000 Berries
"A new era is coming soon, Fufufufu!" The man spread his arms; this person was none other than — the Warlord of the Sea, Donquixote Doflamingo!
...Time fast-forwarded from night to day!
The Merry Go sailed on a calm sea, while Luffy was fishing on the sheep's head, humming a tune from time to time!
"Emergency report, emergency report! A ship has been spotted at 12 o'clock. It has no sails, no flag, and I don't know what kind of ship it is? And there are very few crew members on board, all of them listless." Usopp reported to everyone, holding a telescope!
"What is that?" Sanji naturally sensed the approaching ship and couldn't identify it either!
"Pirate ship!" Luffy calmly put the fish that had taken the bait into the bucket and cast his hook back into the sea.
"Then... leave it to me!" Without a word, Zoro instantly drew his sword,
"Three-Sword Style - 108 Pound Phoenix!"
The flying blue slash instantly shattered the ship, and the people on board didn't even have time to scream before they all fell into the water!
Soon, everyone saw a vast green island!
Luffy narrowed his eyes. He had an impression of this place; it seemed to be Foxy, the Slow-Slow Fruit user!
Finally, he slowly shook his head. He was now a Yonko Commander-level fighter. If someone tried to mess with him, he'd just punch them away or kill them. Only an idiot would play that game!
...Luffy and his crew stepped onto the green field.
They immediately saw a polar bear, but it was walking upright and its body was somewhat slender.
The trees were also full of long, apple-shaped fruits.
Luffy stretched out his arm, grabbed an apple, and took a bite. "Not bad!"
Then they saw various animals: deer, cranes, weasels, and their bodies had all become very slender!
"The trees here are very tall, and the animals are very long!" Nami analyzed, "It must be due to the geographical climate!"
As time passed, everyone arrived in front of a house.
"No one!" Usopp shook his head!
"No, there's someone!" Sanji lit a cigarette and slowly walked to two bamboo stalks that towered into the clouds!
Sanji raised his leg and kicked both bamboo stalks, breaking them!
A few seconds later, a figure fell from the sky.
"Oh, oh, a fairy fell from the broken bamboo!" Luffy chuckled.
Meanwhile, Robin and Chopper were gathered around a white horse!
"She says her name is Sherry, and she's a girl!" Chopper acted as translator.
"She has a saddle on her, which means she should have an owner!" Robin analyzed, finally turning her gaze to Luffy and the others.
Over here, seeing an old man fall heavily from the sky to the ground, and not die, could only be attributed to his good physique!
At the same time, a fox ship appeared on the shore and used chains to surround the Going Merry!
Simultaneously, Luffy, Sanji, and Zoro all had red lights in their eyes, looking at the shore!
"Hey, Luffy...!" Zoro gently placed his hand on his sword.
"Don't mind them!" Luffy said casually!
..."My name is Tonjit. Anyway, thank you all!" Tonjit got up from the ground and slowly told his story!
It turned out that this old man had liked walking on stilts for a long time. He made a pair of stilts from the island's bamboo. He wanted to challenge the world's record for the longest stilts! Then he went up, but couldn't get down!
He stayed up there for 10 years!
"Idiot!" This was the Straw Hat crew's evaluation of the old man!
Even the explanation for the long animals on the island was: they lived too freely, so they grew long!
At the same time, this island was called Long Ring Long Land! Ten small islands formed a circle, connected by a road!
But during high tide, this road would be submerged, and Tonjit's village was nomadic, moving from one island to the next every three years. The old man was left behind and had to wait another twenty years! However, luckily, his horse, Sherry, didn't abandon him.
"Long time no see, Sherry!" The old man was affectionately stroking the horse.
Then, the old man rode Sherry, galloping across the island! With the gentle breeze on his face, the old man seemed to have become years younger!
And just then, a red light flashed in Luffy's eyes, and a pebble flew towards a spot, covered with black Busoshoku Haki!
A gunshot rang out, and the bullet originally aimed at Sherry was deflected by the pebble and shot deep into the bushes without losing momentum!
Blood splattered, staining the bushes!
"Damn it, do you know who I am?!" A fox-like person suddenly burst out of the bushes, his chest pierced by the stone, followed by a man and a woman!
"So what? What do you want to do?" Luffy lightly picked his nose!
"My name is Foxy. If I want something, there's nothing I can't get.
We, the Foxy Pirates, officially challenge you, the Straw Hat Pirates. We hereby issue a three-coin Davy Back Fight challenge!" Foxy held three coins, utterly arrogant.
"So, why should we accept such a boring challenge?" Luffy's eyes narrowed slightly, "Your crew members, I don't care for; your pirate flag is ugly as hell!"
"Nani!" Foxy was dumbfounded, completely unprepared for such a turn of events.
"We are pirates!" Luffy's lips curled into a slight smile, but it was like the smile of a devil, "Zoro, take them out!"
"Okay," Zoro instantly drew his sword and charged!
"Damn it, Noro Noro Beam!" Foxy released pink light waves from both hands.
"Hmm?" Zoro's speed instantly became extremely slow.
"Didn't expect that, did you! I'm a Paramecia Slow-Slow Fruit user, you...!" Foxy was full of arrogance when he was suddenly kicked away by a foot. Sanji calmly retracted his leg, "So much talk!"
"Damn it!" Foxy had just gotten up when he saw Zoro, covered in purple aura, rushing towards him like a demon!
"Three-Sword Style - Purgatory Onigiri!"
Foxy was instantly torn to shreds!
"Bo... Boss!" The remaining two looked at the scene before them, sweating profusely!
"No real skill, yet you want to steal other people's crew!" Zoro commented disdainfully... Afterwards, the Foxy Pirates disbanded.
The Straw Hats didn't go for the kill, only dealing with Foxy himself from beginning to end!
And the Straw Hat crew's voyage continued!
The Going Merry bid farewell to Tonjit and sailed into the mysterious ocean!