I, King Luffy, Start The Straw Hat Marine Regiment

That's right, recruiting Smoker is also one of the purposes of Luffy's coming to Rogge Town.

As a time traveler, Luffy likes the daily routine of the Straw Hats and others.

But as a Nika fruit capable user, he is destined to fight against the World government or Celestial Dragons in the future.

Naturally, Luffy who takes the Marine route will not recruit the so-called Pirate Alliance as in the original book,

Then if you want to accumulate your own power, you can only recruit from Marine.

Smoker is the Marine with great potential in the future and the earliest appearance.

As for Kebi and Beru Meber?

One of those two guys is a playboy who disregards human life, and the other is a waste who has no sense of the overall situation and relies on emotion.

Summit War, yelling to stop fighting, directly reduced Marine's victory by a third or more in an instant.

You must know that the opposite side is the pirates in the second half of the Grand Line. Marine concentrated all his forces to bring the entire Whitebeard pirate group into the game, in order to weaken the New World pirate power and let Marine settle in New World.

However, Kirby's delay allowed Redhead to arrive in time to prevent the expansion of Marine's victory, causing a large number of Whitebeard pirates and their allies to escape except for Whitebeard himself.

As a result, the entire New World pirates did not suffer much damage at all, which greatly increased the difficulty for Marine to settle in New World.

Just like this, 2b is still shouting that fighting is meaningless, it will only cause more casualties,

He didn't understand at all that Marine's top management was essentially using Ace to destroy the power of Whitebeard, one of the Four Emperors, and by the way, enhance Marine's power so that it would be convenient to settle in the New World and receive the territory controlled by Whitebeard. Unfortunately, these plans were suppressed by the appearance of Blackbeard and Redhead broken.

So when Luffy encountered the Alvida pirates, he didn't hesitate to send Kebi and Alvida to Joey Stan to deal with the pirates.

This is why it is said that Smoker is the first Marine with great potential that Luffy encountered,

Facing this one of the few guys who dared to contradict the Five Elders and had a promising future, Luffy naturally had the idea of ​​recruiting.

It's a pity that at this time, Smoker is still an arrogant thorn.

He glanced at Luffy with disdain and said: "If I want to, I am also a Commodore in the headquarters now, and want to recruit me? I will be promoted to the Admiral alternate first!"

Luffy smiled and looked at Smoker: "As a Logia Demon fruit power, but you are so content with being in such a small place like East Blue to deal with some bounties of 3 million Baileys?"

"You have to know that with your strength, I'm afraid you won't be able to pass the first half of the Grand Line, right?"

Smoker was furious when he heard this: "You are talking nonsense! In the first half of the Grand Line, I, Logia Devil Fruit, are invincible!"

You must know that the pirates in the first half of the Grand Line basically haven't even mastered Haki. With Smoker Logia's ability, unless it encounters the ability to restrain attributes, no one really can threaten it.

"Oh? Really? How about we make a bet?"

Luffy said to Smoker with a smile.

"What bet?"

Smoker was taken aback when he heard that.

"You know there's an Alabasta in the first half of the Grand Line, right?"

Luffy asked with a smile.

"Of course," Smoker nodded, that was a country once established by descendants of twenty Celestial Dragons royal families.

"I got the news that Portgas·D·Ace, the second captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, will appear in Alabasta. Let's bet to see who can catch Ace first,"

"If I catch Ace first, you apply to be transferred to my Marine branch."

"If you catch Ace first, I'll apply to transfer you to my Marine branch."

"How about it?"

A shocked expression appeared on Smoker's face when he heard this: "Whitebeard's second team captain?!"

You must know that the Whitebeard Pirates are one of the New World Four Emperors!

He is the well-deserved sea emperor of the New World!

Luffy dared to attack the captain of his second team?

This is simply desperate!

"What? Are you scared?"

Luffy scoffed at the surprised Smoker.

Smoker immediately denied it like a furry cat: "Just kidding! How can my majestic Marine be afraid of pirates! I'll take this bet!"

Luffy smiled as if the plot had succeeded: "Then we will meet in Alabasta. I will go to the Marine Base to get the chart in the afternoon, and we will withdraw first."

After speaking, Luffy walked up to Tashigi and smiled triumphantly, "You will be with me soon."

Seeing Luffy's face so close, Tashigi blushed and took two steps back.

Smoker said dissatisfiedly: "What are you driving, the winner and loser have not yet been decided!"

Luffy looked at Smoker sympathetically, and said in his heart, "With your brain, you still need to win or lose?"

Then he led Zoro directly out of the weapon shop.

At this moment, the blushing on Tashigi's face slowly receded, and she whispered to Smoker, "Colonel, just now Luffy Commodore made a bet with you, it seems that you will be transferred to his army whether you win or lose..."

Smoker: "???"