The internship ship sets sail again.
Time flies by like a flash, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye.
During this month, the internship ship was like a huge pirate magnet on the North Sea route, attracting waves of blind sea scum.
From the codename Scimitar Kaman with a bounty of 30 million to the "Bone Broken" brothers with a bounty of 60 million, a total of seven notorious pirate groups in the North Sea have regarded this ordinary-looking trainee ship as a piece of cake.
As a result, without exception, they have become nourishment for the growth of the interns.
After a month of practical training, these teenagers have made rapid progress.
Zoro's sword is more powerful, Sanji's kicks are more deadly, and Ace's control over Conqueror's Haki is beginning to take shape.
The biggest change is Luffy.
After witnessing with his own eyes the pirates burning, killing and looting, turning civilian towns into a sea of fire, even the children who were crying for food, the dream about "Pirate King" in his heart gradually became blurry.
He never mentioned the words Pirate King again.
Instead, whenever the lookout found traces of a pirate ship, he was always the first to go out, shouting that he would fight off all the pirates!
One month later, the internship ship successfully completed its cruise mission and began its voyage back to Marineford.
The sea breeze is warm and the sun is just right.
"Let me tell you, when I was on East Blue, I once caught a Sea King that was bigger than this boat!"
On the bow of the ship, Usopp was bragging to Chopper and making famous exaggerated gestures with his hands.
"Really? Bigger than this ship?!"
Chopper stared with big round eyes, his face full of admiration, and covered his mouth with his little hooves, fearing that he would scream out in surprise.
"Of course! I am the great Captain Usopp!" Usopp proudly puffed up his chest, feeling that his eight thousand subordinates had another loyal audience.
At this moment, a Straw Hat head came over.
"Wow! Is there anything delicious?"
Luffy looked at Usopp's empty fish bucket, and then at his hands making gestures, subconsciously thinking that he was describing some huge delicacy.
"Idiot! We are talking about fishing!" Usopp gave him angrily.
"Fishing?" Luffy's eyes lit up, he ran to the railing, stretched his neck and looked into the sea, "Then I'll do it!"
Without saying a word, he threw his arm back violently.
"Rubber·Fishing Net!"
Stretch your arms in the air, spread your fingers, and really fish them out to the sea like a net.
"Hey! You'll scare away the fish like this!" Usopp just yelled, and immediately remembered that Luffy is Devil Fruit user, so he shouted anxiously, "Oh no, no, no, no, Luffy's head fell into the sea!"
"!!!!"
The four people Zoro, Sanji, Sabo and Ace who were practicing in the other corner of the deck opened their eyes wide. Then they flashed over at the same time, pulled Luffy's head back and threw it on the deck. They cursed in unison, "Idiot! You are Devil Fruit user!"
Luffy ignored the people and lay on the deck laughing heartlessly.
After regaining his strength, Luffy stood up and said to Usopp and Chopper: "Fishing, eating meat, fishing, eating meat!"
Seeing this, Zoro Sanji Sabo and Ace all felt that they were being nosy, so they decisively turned around and left.
At this moment, Nami, Nojiko and Koala walked over together.
Nami put his hands on his hips and frowned slightly as he looked at Luffy who was having a great time playing with Chopper Usopp.
"Luffy."
"Huh? Nami, what's wrong?" Luffy tilted his head and rubbed his head and asked.
"You've been a little unusual lately."
"I didn't! You're talking nonsense!" Luffy immediately retorted.
"You have." Nami walked up to him, his eyes extremely serious, "It's been a whole month since you said you wanted to become Pirate King."
As soon as these words came out, Usopp and Chopper, who were fighting, stopped and looked at Luffy.
Luffy was stunned for a moment and scratched his head.
"Ah, that..." He grinned, showing a big smile, and then raised his fist suddenly, "I changed my mind! From now on, I am the man who will become the Adventure King!"
Just at this moment, Akira walked out of the cabin, followed by Hancock who served him tea and water as always.
The noise on the deck suddenly became quiet with his appearance.
"Lord Marshal!"
As soon as Chopper saw Akira, he immediately opened his short legs and ran over, waving his little hooves in the air, with an extremely anxious expression. "Lord Marshal! Luffy Something is wrong! He seems to be sick! He shouldn't be Pirate King!"
"Chopper, this doesn't mean something is wrong, but it means Luffy is starting to be normal!"
Akira smiled and touched Chopper's head, then looked up at Luffy.
"Luffy, come here."
Luffy came to Akira in a swish and stood up straight.
Akira looked at him with a gentle smile on his face, "Tell me, what is the reason why you don't want to be Pirate King?"
The smile on Luffy's face faded a little. He raised his hand and touched the Straw Hat on his head, and said hesitantly, "I used to... want to be Pirate King because of Shanks." His voice lowered, "I thought that all pirates were like Shanks."
"Oh?" Akira blinked, "What kind of person is Shanks?"
Luffy was completely silent.
He thought about it, but found that he couldn't describe it accurately at all.
Is it bold? Is it powerful? Or is it that unrestrained feeling?
It seems to be both, and it seems to be neither.
For him, the initial idea is very simple, that is, he wants to find a group of partners who are not inferior to Shanks, and then go out to sea to find ONE PIECE, and then become Pirate King!
As for what it meant to be a pirate, he didn't know it at the time. Simply because Shanks was a pirate, so he also wanted to become a pirate, not only to become a pirate, but also to become the king of pirates.
To understand it simply, it is children's dreams and competitiveness that are at work.
As for what the identity of "pirate" actually means, he has never delved into it.
But during this one-month internship, he discovered that the pirates in this sea were different from the pirates he imagined. Almost all pirates were bad guys who committed crimes by burning, killing, looting, and looting. Such pirates were not what he wanted.
The most important thing is that during their one-month internship, they could see naval warships cruising on the sea almost everywhere they went, escorting passing merchant ships. When they entered a town a few days ago, they saw the scene of naval soldiers fighting to the death with pirates who invaded the town in order to protect innocent people, which gave him a new understanding of pirates.
Let him realize that most of the pirates on this sea are criminals who commit crimes by burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of crimes.
It also made him realize that what he longed for was not the identity of a pirate at all.
Seeing Luffy lowering his head and saying nothing for a long time, Akira put away his smile and said seriously, "Luffy, what you really want is not Pirate King, nor an adventure king. It is the yearning for freedom."
Luffy raised his head and blinked blankly. "The yearning for freedom?"
At some point, all the interns on the deck gathered together.
Zoro leaned on the mast and wiped his knife, Ace and Sabo stood side by side, Trafalgar Law hugged his Kikoku, and Vinsmoke Family's siblings also stopped their daily bickering.
After this month of getting along, they all have a new understanding of the legendary iron-blooded Marshal.
Different from their imagination, Akira is not only not as scary as the rumors, but also makes them feel more friendly. Especially Akira seems to have a strange magic power that makes people want to get closer. Every time they communicate with Akira, they will feel like they are like a spring breeze.
Akira looked around at the group of young people who represented the future of the new era and spoke slowly.
"In this world, many people have a very one-sided, even extreme, understanding of "freedom."
"Freedom does not allow you to become pirates, rob other people's property and trample on other people's lives as you please."
"Freedom does not mean that you should become human traffickers, treating living people as commodities and selling them all over the world."
"Freedom does not allow you to destroy wantonly and turn the world upside down."
"True freedom is constrained, rational freedom."
"You can pursue whatever you want within the rules. But once your freedom is based on depriving others of their freedom, or even their lives, it is not freedom, but atrocities."
"Once freedom loses restraint and rationality, order will collapse and the world will fall into chaos."
Akira's eyes finally fell back on Luffy.
"Luffy, what you should aspire to is to have unrestrained adventures on this vast sea with your friends, bring joy to the people you meet wherever you go, and tell them your adventure stories. Instead of becoming a "king" who scares countless people and brings disaster and destruction."
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