Pirates: Your Emperor is Back!

"Tom?"

Huoka frowned slightly, murmuring the name in his mouth, feeling vaguely familiar.

Suddenly, Huoka remembered something, and asked in surprise, "Is that the murloc shipwright from the capital of seven waters?"

"Yes." Tiger nodded, "You should know this person."

Of course Hoka knew.

After all, Tom is considered a legend among the murlocs.

In fact, Huoka may know more information than Tiger imagined.

After settling in the Murloc Village, under the influence of Rowan, everyone in the Murloc Village also began to care about world events in the newspapers.

——Although not many of them are literate.

Huoka also didn't know a lot of words, but it was rare to settle down. Huoka also wanted to read newspapers or books by himself, so he often went to the neighboring town of Yaruga to ask for advice.

After all, Alabasta is a superpower, and there are many talents in the country.

Some teachers heard about the origin of the Murloc Village, and took the initiative to set up temporary classes in the Murloc Village in their spare time, taking in some Murlocs or humans who were willing to study for study.

Going back and forth, Huoka knew a lot of characters, and he was able to read daily newspapers.

And just recently, news from one side attracted Huo Ka's attention.

In the capital of seven waters, a brand-new means of marine transportation has come out, which is called "Sea Train"!

It is a kind of train that can travel on the sea. Its tracks are fixed on the surface of sea water and connected between two destinations respectively, so as to achieve fast transportation.

The train will make a sound that is annoying to Neptunes, and the rails can float on the sea without being affected by storms or waves. It can be described as a genius design.

Among them, there are two things that really caught Huoka's attention.

One is the core design concept of the sea train.

According to the newspaper, the sea train can achieve rapid transportation between two destinations, and passengers don't need to worry about wind, waves or beasts at sea.

If the fixed route of the Four Seas Alliance is to connect the two places in terms of "politics and ideas", then the sea train is actually completing the extremely fast transportation between the two places on the "physical level".

Huoka felt that Mr. Rowan would definitely be interested.

At the same time, Huoka is also very concerned about the second thing, which is the creator of the sea train.

His name is "Tom" and he is a murloc with horns.

The name alone may not be widely known, but Tom has done one thing.

That incident was enough to make his own name resound throughout the world!

As a shipbuilder, Tom once built his Oro Jackson for [One Piece] Gore D. Roger.

The legendary ship that completed the feat of circumnavigating the world made Tom the title of the world's number one shipbuilder, and at the same time made him a "big sinner" of the world government.

...

Ten years ago, that is, 1498 in the lunar calendar of the sea.

Gol D. Roger turned himself in and was executed in his hometown of Roger.

Tom was also arrested by the world government at that time, boarded the judicial ship, and accepted the trial from the world government.

The outcome of the trial was unquestionable—the death penalty.

But Tom put forward the idea of ​​"sea train" in court.

The judge was also shocked by the future that this idea could bring, so he sentenced Tom to ten years of probation.

If the sea train can be built ten years later, then Tom will "balance his merits and demerits" and be exonerated from the death penalty.

Time passed and Tom succeeded.

He created a new future, saved the capital of seven waters, the former "world shipyard", and even brought new prosperity to several surrounding islands.

But just when everyone thought that Tom would be exempted from the death penalty and became famous as the "Father of the Sea Train", something unexpected happened.

According to the newspaper, Tom even remotely controlled the battle ship and attacked the justice ship representing the world government!

Few people believe this, but it really did happen.

...

In fact, only a few people know the truth.

Ryan Rowan might be one of them.

In Tom's hand, he holds the blueprint of Hades, one of the ancient weapons!

The chief of CP5 at the time, Spandam, tried to seize the Pluto design, but was rejected by Tom.

A vindictive Spandam used Tom's land, the "French Combat" built by Carter Frame, to attack the justice ship.

In order to protect his apprentice, Tom voluntarily pleaded guilty, offsetting Fram's crime of attacking the judicial ship with his credit for making the sea train.

In the end, Tom laughed and accepted the "death sentence" that was suspended for ten years.

...

No.

Things don't seem to have gotten there yet.

At this moment, Tom has pleaded guilty and is being held in the judicial ship, and will be sent to Judicial Island for execution by sea train soon.

In other words, Tom's "death at the legal level" is already doomed. If you want to save his life, you can only consider it from the perspective of "beyond the law".

Tiger wants to save Tom, so far he can only think of two ways:

Either rob a prison, or find help from those who are themselves beyond the law.

...

Huo Ka blinked, "I didn't expect you to know the number one shipbuilder in the world!"

After all, Tom has been away from Murloc Island for many years, and he and Tiger seem to have no meeting point of contact.

"Tom has a merman brother who is my friend."

Tiger explained: "He contacted me and wanted to ask me what I could do. It just so happened that you..."

Having said that, Tiger was a little embarrassed.

He originally wanted to say, "It happened that I heard the news that you became the Qiwuhai under the king, so I wanted to ask you what you can do."

But at this point, Tiger was a little difficult to speak.

Who is he?

Even in the face of Tianlongren, Tiger never lowered his head of resistance, so why is he now thinking of using his friend's identity as "King Shichibukai" to save another friend?

In fact, Tiger really wanted to go to jail, but it was not a conventional ship that escorted Tom, but a sea train developed by Tom himself.

When the sea train is moving at full speed, even the murlocs can't get close!

The idea of ​​a jailbreak simply doesn't work.

Huo Ka understood Tiger's meaning, thought for a while, and said slowly: "In short, go see Mr. Rowan first, he may have a solution."

It wasn't that Huo Ka looked forward and backward, and it wasn't that he didn't want to help.

but...

Huoka still doesn't know what the so-called "Qiwuhai under the king" can do...

...

The members of the Sun Pirates stayed in the Murloc Village to recuperate.

Huoka led Tiger to Albana, the capital, to discuss countermeasures with Rowan.

After a day of running around, the two arrived at Albana's palace and came to the living room.

At this moment, Luo Wen was sitting on his seat, with several fine grains of gravel stretching out from his fingers, outlining a lifelike "butterfly" in the air.

He watched the butterfly's wings with great interest.

When Tiger came forward, Rowan got up, shook hands with Tiger, and then listened to Huoka tell the information he already knew.

Then, Luo Wen sighed helplessly.

After all, they are murlocs, and they can't fully understand the meaning of Wangxia Shichibukai to the world government.

He explained to Tiger:

"The world government has provided the Shichibukai with a legal identity. While enjoying the legal status, the Shichibukai must always be ready to respond to the call of the world government—the relationship between the world government and the Shichibukai is nothing more than that. "

"His Majesty Shichibukai has no right to bail a death row prisoner of the world government, because they are 'criminals' themselves."

Rowan's words made Tiger very disappointed.

In this way, I can only try to forcibly intercept the sea train.

Although judging from the speed of the sea train, there is no way for him to catch up with that train.

not much hope……

But just as Tiger was about to thank him and leave, Rowan suddenly reached out and stopped him.

"The world's number one shipbuilder——Tom, that's a reputable man!"

Rowan smiled and said:

"If it was him, he must have wanted to get off the judicial ship with a loud voice, right? Otherwise, as a murloc, he would have escaped long ago, and he would have the ability to leave the capital of seven waters even with his family."

"But he didn't run."

"Because Tom wants to get it all straight."

"Sometimes, you don't have to use force for everything."

"Think about it, how about solving problems as loudly as Tom?"

"Bang bang"—that was Tom's catchphrase.

Tiger was taken aback when he heard the words, and asked, "What can you do?"

The man in front of him was, after all, an emperor from 800 years ago, and also the leader of the Universal Alliance.

He thought there must be some way that ordinary people can hardly think of!

Then, Tiger heard Rowan say:

"We can tell the facts and reason with the world government."

Tiger: "..."

What the hell?