Barmaid Makino

Navy Headquarters, Marineford.

Inside the Navy Marshal Office.

Buddha Sengoku sipped his tea as he flipped through the Newspaper.

"That bastard Big News still refuses to withdraw the title God Slayer from Lin Yu."

"Doesn't he know that will utterly offend those Celestial Dragons of the World Government?"

Looking at the description of Lin Yu in the Newspaper, Sengoku muttered to himself.

He knew very well just how devastating the title "God Slayer" was to the Celestial Dragons.

The Celestial Dragons styled themselves as "descendants of the Creator," seeing themselves as gods who ruled the world.

Now that a God Slayer had appeared, they were naturally furious.

Recently, the World Government's CP0 intelligence organization had been searching for Lin Yu's whereabouts like mad, precisely because of this.

Then, he looked at another page of the Newspaper and saw news about Alabasta.

His brow furrowed. Looking at Garp, who was dozing off while eating Senbei beside him, he said:

"Garp, if you don't bring that grandson of yours back soon..."

"I'll have to send someone to capture him."

Smack!

Garp's snot bubble burst. He looked at Sengoku in confusion.

"Huh? You want to be my grandson?"

After saying that, Garp took two bites of Senbei and promptly went back to snoring.

Sengoku's veins bulged at his words. He rushed over and gave Garp a beating.

"You old bastard, you actually dared to take advantage of me."

"Let's see how I deal with you."

Sengoku pounded away, yet Garp, his head covered in bumps, merely opened his eyes to glance at Sengoku before continuing to snore. Sengoku was so enraged that he was about to assume his Golden Buddha form.

Bang!

The door to the Marshal Office was violently pushed open.

Brannew, the "Meeting King," hurriedly reported to Sengoku, who was drinking tea.

"Marshal Sengoku, we found criminal Lin Yu's location."

Hmm?

Buddha Sengoku put down the Garp in his hand and looked at Brannew solemnly.

"Where is he?!"

"East Blue!" Brannew swiftly answered.

"East Blue?"

Sengoku and Garp were both stunned.

Although Sengoku had long suspected that Lin Yu might no longer be in the North Sea and had gone to another sea instead, he had never expected him to appear in the East Blue.

By all rights, shouldn't he have gone to the Grand Line?

Why wasn't this brat playing by the rules?

Brannew continued his report.

"According to news from the East Blue's 16th Branch."

"Criminal Lin Yu just attacked the East Blue 16th Branch base. Aside from a few survivors, all other Marines were killed."

Bang!

"What did you say? He actually attacked a Marine branch base?"

Sengoku slammed his fist onto the desk, utterly shocked.

Even Garp beside him frowned. The East Blue was his hometown, and the East Blue 16th Branch base was not far from Foosha Village.

"What was the reason?" Sengoku asked Brannew in a low voice.

"Uh..." Brannew glanced at the intelligence report in his hand and said hesitantly.

"According to reports from survivors of the 16th Branch, Mouse Lieutenant, the person in charge of the 16th Branch, had been colluding with Arlong for years, exploiting the local people and causing many civilian deaths."

"And there was a woman beside Lin Yu who was one of the victims of this incident..."

"So this was most likely revenge."

Upon hearing Brannew's words, Sengoku and Garp both fell silent.

Neither of them needed to think hard to know that for Mouse Lieutenant to conceal this for so long, he must have had the support or indulgence of the Marine soldiers at the 16th Branch base.

Otherwise, Navy Headquarters could not have remained completely unaware.

In other words, those Marine soldiers had deserved to die.

That made Sengoku's expression somewhat grim.

"I'm going to the East Blue."

After a period of silence, Garp stepped forward.

Lin Yu had appeared in the East Blue. He truly could not rest easy.

Sengoku narrowed his eyes and nodded directly.

"Go."

"And capture that bastard Lin Yu while you're at it."

East Blue.

Foosha Village.

While Garp was preparing to return to Foosha Village, Lin Yu had already arrived alone outside Makino's bar.

Pushing the door open, Lin Yu saw Makino, with her green hair, standing behind the counter.

Seeing Lin Yu's unfamiliar face, Makino paused before quickly showing a warm smile.

"Welcome."

"One house beer and a plate of egg fried rice."

Lin Yu sat at the bar, glanced at Makino, then at the menu behind her, and said with a smile.

He had heard that Makino was quite skilled at brewing, so he planned to try it and see how good her cooking was as well.

After all, she was going to be Lin Yu's future cook.

"Please wait a moment."

Makino put down the glass she had been wiping, took a beer mug, filled it with beer, and placed it in front of Lin Yu.

After saying that, Makino entered the back room and began working at the stove.

After taking a sip of beer, Lin Yu surveyed the other people in the bar.

He found that the Dadan Family was not here, only some ordinary villagers, which disappointed him somewhat.

He had been planning to use the Dadan Family's heads to threaten Makino into coming aboard.

Although the Dadan Family was close with Wang Luffy, in Lin Yu's view, since they were mountain bandits, they could not possibly be entirely decent people.

Lin Yu would never show mercy when killing people like that.

Then, Lin Yu spotted two Bounty posters on the wall behind the bar.

One was Straw Hat Luffy's 100 million Berries Bounty poster.

The other was also Straw Hat Luffy's Bounty poster, but it was the 30 million Berries one.

"Please enjoy."

Makino carried a fragrant bowl of egg fried rice over to Lin Yu and smiled.

Perhaps because Lin Yu was too handsome, Makino had a favorable impression of him.

Mm, not bad.

Lin Yu picked up a spoon, tasted the egg fried rice, and nodded in satisfaction.

Although Makino's cooking could not compare to that of a professional chef, it was still very good.

At the very least, it was much better than Anna, Charloss, Reiju, and the others.

"Why hasn't the Dadan Family come today?"

While eating his egg fried rice, Lin Yu asked curiously.

"Are you looking for Dadan? Is there something you need?" Makino asked, wiping a glass as she glanced at Lin Yu.

Gulp.

Lin Yu put down his spoon, took a sip of beer, and smiled at Makino.

"It's nothing. I just want to borrow their heads."

Clang!

The glass in Makino's hand fell to the floor. She stared at Lin Yu in shock. "You're a bounty hunter?"

As mountain bandits in the area, the Dadan Family also had Bounties on their heads.

The other people in the bar also looked toward Lin Yu, evidently sharing Makino's assumption.

Lin Yu continued eating his fried rice at an unhurried pace and said calmly:

"I'm planning to invite you aboard, but I'm afraid you'll refuse."

"So I was going to give you the Dadan Family's heads as a gift."

Makino and the others in the bar froze upon hearing Lin Yu's words. They looked at him as though he were insane.

It was their first time hearing of someone giving human heads as a gift.

Suddenly, one villager noticed something. He stared at Lin Yu in shock and said in a trembling voice:

"H-He's God Slayer Lin Yu..."

"God Slayer Lin Yu, who killed a World Noble Celestial Dragon in the North Sea."

"A great villain with a Bounty as high as 1.5 Billion!"