The Monkey Family Tradition

Traveling swiftly on the sea, Rodney stopped with Ace on a reef; Loguetown was already out of sight.

He plopped down on the rock, sweat constantly steaming off him. Opening the First Gate still put a considerable strain on the body. If it weren't for Garp's hellish training these past few days, he wouldn't have lasted this long.

"Let me go! My crew is waiting for me! I'm not going to see that old man!"

"Sorry, that's none of my business. I'm about to complete Vice Admiral Garp's mission." He had already caught Ace, but the mission hadn't shown as completed yet. Clearly, he had to hand Ace over to Garp. Seeing that he was about to get red-eye disease, how could he possibly stop?

As long as he didn't stop, he could reach that place. As long as he didn't stop, the road would keep extending...

Cough cough.

Ace tried to struggle, but unfortunately, his body had no strength due to the Seastone restraints, and he couldn't use his powers either.

"Damn it? Why would that old geezer send you to catch me?"

"Who knows? Maybe it was on a whim? To be honest, even if you hadn't eaten a Devil Fruit, it would have been difficult for me to take you down, but who told you to eat a Devil Fruit, be careless, and underestimate your enemy? And not understand Seastone."

A large part of the reason Rodney was able to catch Ace was luck. Ace's unfamiliarity with his Devil Fruit powers, coupled with his newly acquired Flame-Flame Fruit, made him overly reliant on his elemental body, which Rodney exploited. He was captured and subdued through the combined efforts of him and Smoker.

If he encountered Ace, who was familiar with his fruit powers... he would run first!

Meanwhile, Deuce and the others escaped from the Marines' encirclement. Deuce said, "The captain has been captured. We have to find a way to save him."

One person asked, "But where do we go to save the captain?"

"That person just said he was sent to capture the captain under the instructions of Vice Admiral Garp. Vice Admiral Garp is a Marine hero, and his hometown is in the Kingdom of Goa in East Blue. And the captain mentioned his hometown, so we can go to the captain's hometown and try our luck first." Deuce calmly analyzed, reaching this conclusion.

The other crew members looked at each other and nodded. Although the captain was sometimes unreliable, didn't pay for meals, and often fell asleep intermittently, he was their Spade Pirates' captain. How could they abandon him as comrades on the same ship?

"Spade Pirates! Operation Rescue Captain! Begin!"

"Ohhh!!!!"

Rodney walked on the water, carrying Ace on his back. Ace looked at the undulating sea and couldn't understand how someone could walk on the sea.

"Hey! Aren't you afraid of being eaten by a Sea King?" Ace asked.

"Oh, if one comes, that's perfect." He could use it as a mount.

The Sea Kings in East Blue weren't as large as the ones in the New World, which were thousands of meters long. The Sea Kings here were at most a few dozen meters, and they were particularly easy to bully, so... how did Red-Haired, as one of the Four Emperors, lose an arm?

"Danger!" Ace saw a shadow enlarge below and quickly approach.

"Free labor has arrived!" He suddenly leaped up, and a Sea King suddenly burst out of the sea from under his feet, its lion's head opening its mouth, biting at the two.

Rodney spun in the air, Chakra gathering in his leg.

"Konoha Great Whirlwind!"

Bang!

The lion Sea King was kicked down. Ace said, "Amazing." This person's physical strength seemed to be almost as good as his own before he ate the Flame-Flame Fruit. He was very strong.

Landing steadily on the sea, he came to the lion Sea King. This guy wanted to run away when he knew he couldn't win, but Rodney grabbed its wet mane and kicked it again, revealing a fierce expression and saying, "Listen to me, or I'll eat you in a moment."

The lion Sea King humanely showed a frightened expression. The animals in this world could understand human speech, but their brains were occasionally not very bright...

"Woof woof woof."

The lion Sea King could only accept its fate, grabbed by the mane by Rodney, sitting on its neck, Ace was thrown aside.

"Take me in that direction, to the nearest island." Pointing in the opposite direction from Loguetown, it was difficult to pinpoint the direction of the Kingdom of Goa on the sea, but he could let the Sea King take him to the nearest island, so he would know where he was and then make plans.

Ace remained silent because he couldn't exert any strength now and couldn't do anything.

After a while, he said, "I'm hungry."

"Eat this." He took out a Soldier Pill from his waist pouch. Ace asked, "Is this chocolate? And this little bit isn't enough to fill the gap between my teeth."

"Are you going to eat it or not?"

"Eat." It was better than nothing. He opened his mouth wide, and a Soldier Pill went into his mouth.

He took a bite.

Ace: "..."

"It's so bad, so bad!" Ace wasn't a picky eater, but even he couldn't stand it, which showed that the taste of the Soldier Pill was indescribable.

"It's okay, you're unlucky. The one I ate was honey-flavored." The taste of the Soldier Pills produced by the system was random, and most of them were indescribable. Being able to eat a honey-flavored one was obviously good luck.

Soldier Pills weren't chocolate, but you also didn't know what the next one would taste like.

"No, is there anything else?"

"Huh? One of these can keep a person from being hungry for a day and provide the strength needed by the human body. You're not full?"

"Of course not. How could that kind of thing fill you up?!" Ace didn't believe that something so small and so bad could fill his stomach?

Rodney thought for a while. Ace's physical strength was different from ordinary people. He had been training since he was a child, and the people in this world were particularly good at eating, so the Soldier Pill couldn't satisfy his stomach, so he took out a handful of Soldier Pills.

Seeing this, Ace shouted, "No! I would rather die than eat this! Let me go! You..." A snot bubble suddenly appeared, and he actually fell asleep.

Rodney: "..." As expected of Garp's grandson?

Anytime, anywhere, enter-dream technique!

Luffy can do it, so could Dragon?

The Monkey family is terrifying!

Putting him aside, he can't run anyway. The problem now is how to find Garp.

Do I have to go to Foosha Village?

The Sea King's movement speed is acceptable, although this guy looks just like the one I caught before, trying every means to drown me, but as long as I concentrate the whole time, it should be fine.

After that, the Lion Sea King continued swimming with three large bumps on its head.

"There's a ship ahead. Take us to the ship, and your mission will be over." It wasn't until the sun set over the sea that Rodney saw a ship. A skull flag was flying on the ship, clearly a pirate ship.

When the Lion Sea King heard that its mission was about to end, its eyes, which had been dull, suddenly lit up. It sped up, then leaped out of the water. Rodney grabbed Ace and landed steadily on the pirate ship, saying directly, "Sorry, I'm requisitioning your pirate ship."

"Who the hell are you, kid? So arrogant?! Men, kill him!" The captain was a strong man with a large axe, three to four meters tall, with a face full of stubble, looking fierce.

His crew members looked at Rodney and Ace with the eyes of idiots, clearly thinking they had them cornered.

"Tch!"

He poured Chakra into his legs, jumped in front of the pirate captain, and shouted, "Konoha Great Whirlwind!"

"Courting death!"

The pirate captain was about to chop with his axe, but he was a step too slow. He was kicked in the axe handle, and the iron axe handle was bent by the kick. The force also acted on the man, and as expected, he flew out and fell into the sea.

"Hey, big guy, this is your reward." The Lion Sea King seemed to sense something, leaped out, opened its mouth and swallowed the guy, sinking into the sea.

"Okay, who's next?"

Looking around, the pirates saw their captain being taken care of, and their hands trembled, the weapons in their hands falling. On a typical pirate ship, the strongest is the pirate captain. Once he is dealt with, the willpower of these miscellaneous pirates will collapse, and they will not be able to muster the will to fight again.

"Very good, I declare that this ship is now mine. Turn around and head to the Kingdom of Goa, prepare a sumptuous dinner, and then take care of this guy. Don't mistreat him, or your fate will be the same as your captain's."

There are few kind people among pirates. People like Luffy and Ace are ultimately in the minority, so there is no need to care about their experiences and thoughts.