"Oh-ho! I'm finally setting sail!"
In Foosha Village in the East Blue, a straw-hatted boy shouted excitedly as he climbed into a small boat.
Well, very good. At least it was not the raft from the original story. It seemed that Straw Hat Kid had improved just a little over the years.
Of course, it was not his own improvement, but his brother's help—Sabo had been the king of Goa Kingdom for so many years, so leaving Luffy a fairly decent little boat was no problem.
Anything bigger would not work. It was not that Sabo did not have one, but that Luffy could not sail a ship by himself!
Besides... Sabo and Ace were somewhat better. Both of them knew a bit about navigation, especially Sabo, who counted as one of the rare educated people among pirates.
As for Luffy? When Sabo's hired teacher had been asked to teach him navigation, he had once said, "I'd rather teach a gorilla than see this idiot again!"
Still, Ace and Sabo had faith in their little brother. They believed the tiny East Blue could not hold him back. After all, in the Pirate World, these people always had this kind of inexplicable confidence.
If Luffy had dared to set sail like this in the real world, then even if its sea conditions were more than ten times better than those of the Pirate World, the result would still have been certain death.
The last person who had dared to head out to sea on a raft and succeeded had been the legendary Great Sage Equaling Heaven!
But just as Doflamingo had said, the Pirate World also had such things as fate and luck. So even though Luffy had only set sail on a raft in the original story, he had still