A green blur flashed past, chopping down the surrounding trees at a speed too fast for the naked eye to follow.
In the blink of an eye, every tree within the area flew into the sky. Then... that green figure shot up after them.
Moments later, the logs that had been flying through the air were all stacked neatly on the ground.
Garp stared in astonishment. "That was... Shave?!"
Then he came back to his senses, realizing this was not the time to worry about that.
Looking at the green figure that had landed on the ground and kicked up clouds of dust, Garp's eyes filled with complicated emotions.
That familiar straw hat!
That cheerful smile!
And...
That outfit of green!
And that thumbs-up gesture!
Usopp and Zephyr truly had not lied to him. Luffy had changed!
Changed so much that, for a moment, even his grandfather had barely recognized him.
Especially now...
The grandson he found both familiar and unfamiliar wore a happier smile than ever before. He brushed his right hand across his nose, gave a thumbs-up, and shouted loudly at the person in front of him.
"Youth means never giving up! As long as you have a dream, no matter how many obstacles lie ahead, you have to keep moving forward! I did it! I successfully stacked a hundred logs in one second! Teacher Guy~"
Standing opposite him... was a man dressed in the same green bodysuit, with thick brows, big eyes, and a bowl-cut hairstyle.
He also gave Luffy a thumbs-up, his white teeth seeming to gleam beneath the sunlight.
His eyes brimmed with emotion as he shouted excitedly, "You really did it! Luffy, I can already see your youth!"
"Teacher Guy!"
"Luffy!"
On this busy construction site, the two stared into each other's eyes as