The blackening of the heavens begins with Hokage

at the same time.

Windmill Village.

In the bar of Maginot.

After Luffy left, although the crew members of the red-haired pirates continued to run, dance and drink, the atmosphere in the bar dropped significantly because of the absence of Luffy.

Many crew members would say something like this for no reason every time they were drinking: "I don't know what happened to that kid Luffy now..."

Even Shanks is no exception.

On this day, the crew members of the red-haired pirates came to the bar one after another after waking up from sleep.

Shanks sat in front of the bar, shaking the transparent wine glass, staring at the beer inside for a long time, not knowing what he was thinking. Seeing this, the deputy captain Ben Beckman walked over and gave Shanks a lift.

Looking over his shoulder, he ordered a beer from Maginot and sat down next to Shanks.

"What's wrong? Are you still thinking about Luffy?"

Shanks did not deny that he was indeed thinking about Luffy. In the past few days after Luffy left, he thought about Luffy a lot. After all, he regarded Luffy as a true friend.

"Tell me, that man is so powerful, why haven't you heard of his reputation in this sea? Also, what is the purpose of taking Luffy with him? Is it really because Luffy is a Monkey D card?

Pu’s grandson?”

Ben Beckman took the beer from Maginot and consoled him: "Shanks, don't think about it anymore. We know nothing about that person at all. It's impossible to guess what's hidden behind him."

What's the purpose? Didn't Maginot say that? Luffy had left this person once. Since that person didn't hurt Luffy then, he probably won't hurt Luffy this time either. Maginot, do you think so?

no?"

"Ah? Yes...it should be..."

When Ben Beckman said this, he was comforting Shanks, and he was also comforting Maginot.

In the past few days since Luffy's disappearance, Maginot has been absent-minded.

Shanks shook his head helplessly.

Obviously this wasn't the answer he wanted.

He drank the remaining beer in one gulp, and then drank cheerfully: "One more drink!"

at this time.

An air door appeared out of thin air in the bar.

The originally noisy scene suddenly fell into silence.

Seeing this air door, everyone was stunned.

There was no other reason. Li Yaoxiang had really impressed them a few days ago. Afterwards, everyone discussed issues about Li Yaoxiang's strength with their captain Shanks.

But it’s better not to discuss this.

The ignorant are fearless.

After the discussion, they realized how desperate their actions were. They did not expect that their captain would speak so highly of Li Yaoxiang and even said that they were no match for Li Yaoxiang.

Now I know that such an invincible person will appear in front of me and others again.

If you say you’re not nervous, you’d be lying!

Gulu...

The only sound left in the bar was the nervous sounds of the pirates swallowing their saliva.

The air door opens.

Luffy walked out of the air door.

The air door disappears.

When everyone saw that Li Yaoxiang had no intention of showing up, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Immediately, the atmosphere in the entire bar was rekindled, and everyone's mood was even higher than before.

"Luffy! You're finally back! Do you know how hard I waited for you?"

"Luffy, come on, come on! Come here! Tell me, where have you been for fun these past few days?"

"Luffy! Don't listen to him! Come to us, we will study a new dance for you!"

The pirates shouted Luffy's name one after another.

Everyone is happy for Luffy's return.

Even Shanks, who originally looked sad, couldn't help but smile.

But just when everyone thought that Luffy was about to sneak into their group and cause mischief as usual, Luffy suddenly shouted with a ferocious look on his face: "Shut up! You pirates, shut up!"

!I don’t want to see you again! I hate pirates the most!”

Say it.

Luffy had a stinky face and walked into the bar's lounge without looking back.

No matter what people think.

The sudden scene made everyone present feel stunned.

what happened?

We had only been away for a few days. How could Luffy, who was always lively and cheerful, become like this?

Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, and they didn’t know what was going on. Although Luffy had said before that he hated pirates, at least it wasn’t as extreme as it is now, right?

Everyone was completely disinterested by Luffy.

Didn't stay long.

Let's all go back to the boat and continue drinking.

When everyone was almost gone, Shanks chose to walk into the lounge alone at this time. When he opened the door, he saw Luffy alone, facing the wall without making a sound.

Shanks knocked slightly on the door twice.

knock!

knock!

"Can you come in?"

Luffy said nothing.

After a moment of silence, Shanks chose to walk behind Luffy: "Can you tell me what happened?"

Luffy still didn't speak.

"Although I don't know where he has taken you these past few days, and I don't know what you have been through these past few days, but I just want to tell you that I will always regard you as my friend. What do you have?

You can tell me any questions at any time..."

Don't wait for Shanks to finish speaking.

Luffy suddenly jumped onto a table in the lounge with emotion, grabbed Shanks by the collar, his eyes were bloodshot, and said viciously: "Friend?! Friend——?! My mother was killed by the pirates

To be killed! I don’t have a pirate friend like you! I don’t want to see you again! Get out of here! Get out of here!”

Luffy completely exploded.

Previously on Fish-Man Island, in order not to worry Shirahoshi, he had actually been suppressing his emotions.

Now that he was finally back in this familiar environment alone, he couldn't help but vent all his emotions at once!

Shanks was also a little surprised.

He didn't expect that in just a few days.

Luffy has experienced so many things.

Even without Luffy being so clear, he could have guessed that it was some inhumane pirates who killed Luffy's 'mother', and that was why Luffy became so extreme.

Facing Luffy at this moment, he couldn't say anything.

Finally, I chose to remain silent and turned around to leave.

In the next few days, even though Luffy never locked himself in the lounge again, and even occasionally sat in the bar, he still never told the crew of the Red-haired Pirates.

Just one sentence.

The pirates were also made less interested by Luffy and paid less and less attention to this bar.

Until one day, a bandit with a bounty of 8 million berries came here...