In the next few days, the trainee ship sailed extremely smoothly and calmly, and no unsightly pirate ship ran into it again.
Perhaps it was the raids in the previous month that completely earned the name of this "devil training ship". The pirates in the North Sea were already frightened by the news and all hid.
Because the trainee navy on this train ship is different from the train ships that appeared in the past. In the past, the trainee navy almost always focused on arresting and imprisoning, but this train ship pursues a policy of only killing but not burying. As long as pirates are found, they will be destroyed in the simplest and crudest way.
In two days, the training ship will leave the North Sea, pass Calm Belt, and return to Grand Line.
A new day has arrived and the sun is shining brightly.
On deck, it was as vibrant as ever.
"Let me tell you, back then, I led eight thousand subordinates and defeated an entire Sea King army in East Blue!"
Usopp stepped on the barrel, spitting and bragging to Chopper, and made a ridiculously exaggerated gesture with his hands.
"Wow! Eight thousand subordinates? And they defeated the Sea King army?!"
Chopper stared with big round eyes, full of admiration.
"That's right! I am the great Captain Usopp!" Usopp put his hands on his hips proudly, feeling that his life had reached its peak.
Next to him, Zoro turned a deaf ear to such boring boasts. He was bare-chested and doing weight-bearing squats with a huge barbell between his teeth. Big beads of sweat slipped from his bronzed skin. Self-discipline made him stronger.
At the same time.
In a strange sea area at the junction of the North Sea and Grand Line, a dark pirate ship with a bow that resembled a giant skull was riding the wind and waves.
The captain of "Hawkins Pirates", the magician Basil Hawkins, is sitting cross-legged at a small wooden table in the center of the deck.
With an indifferent expression, he picked up a tarot card with his long fingers and slowly opened it.
[The Tower]
On the card, the Tower was hit by Inazuma, flames spurted out from the window, and the crown on the top of the tower was crumbling.
Hawkins looked expressionless, took back the cards, reshuffled them, and drew another card.
[Death]
A skeleton wearing armor, riding a white horse, holding a flag, with countless fallen corpses at his feet.
At this moment, a crew member rolled up to him, his face as pale as paper, and his voice was trembling.
"Ship... Captain! Oops! There's a Navy trainee ship behind... the back!"
Hawkins didn't even raise his eyelids, and his voice was so calm that there was no wave.
"Why panic? Speed up and avoid it."
The crew member was about to cry, "That trainee ship is the ship led by Navy Marshal Akira!"
Hawkins twisted the hand holding the cards and paused slightly.
He still maintained his calm expression, shuffled the tarot cards in his hand again, and then spread them out on the table skillfully.
He closed his eyes, slowly slid his fingers over the cards, and finally clicked on one of them.
He opened his eyes and turned over the card.
"Today, the probability of death... is zero."
"Captain! Stop pretending to be calm!" The crew member stamped his feet anxiously, "That's Navy Marshal! How many big pirate groups in the North Sea have fallen into his hands this month? If we are caught up, we will all be doomed!"
Hawkins lowered his eyes, seemingly calm, but in fact, the other hand hidden under the table was already tightly clenched, and his palm was soaked with cold sweat.
How could he not panic?
In the past month, the navy training ship, which was like a god of plague, had passed by without a blade of grass. Any pirate group that was discovered, no matter how high the reward or how famous the reputation, would have only one end - all members would be annihilated, leaving no survivors.
It was precisely because he had received the information in advance that he, like a frightened Axe-Hand Morgan, fled the North Sea with his crew in a panic, preparing to escape into Grand Line to avoid the limelight.
But despite all his calculations, he failed to calculate that the internship ship would just end its cruise and begin its return journey.
What's more, I didn't expect that the routes of the two ships would actually overlap!
But--
Hawkins took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
He has almost paranoid confidence in the accuracy of his divination.
The card shows that he will not die today, so he will definitely not die.
The ending is doomed.
At the same time.
Internship on board.
"Sanji! Did you find anything?" Luffy stood on the deck and shouted to the top of the mast.
Sanji stood on the observation deck at the top of the mast, holding a telescope with one hand and looking around at the surrounding sea.
Suddenly, his movements paused, then he put away his telescope and jumped down from the top of the mast, landing steadily on the deck.
"Luffy, a pirate ship was found in the sea ahead."
"What?!"
Hearing the word "pirate ship", Luffy's eyes lit up instantly. At the same time, he rushed to the bow of the ship, raised his fist high, and said excitedly, "Where are they?! I'm going to blow them all away!"
"Catch up! Catch up!" Chopper also joined in the fun, jumping up and down on the deck, more excited than anyone else.
"Finally it's time to work." Zoro put down the barbell and grabbed the saber leaning on the mast, his eyes ignited with the desire for battle.
"Just don't hold back." Ace flexed his wrist, still fighting high.
The other interns also heard the news and came to the deck one after another, gearing up one by one, their eyes shining with the desire for military success.
Akira Marshal I have said that their performance during this internship will be recorded in the book, and they will be rewarded for their merits when they return to the headquarters!
Just when the group of interns on the internship ship were about to make a move and all entered combat mode, the pirate ship in the sea ahead that was escaping at full speed suddenly slowed down strangely.
Finally, he furled the sails and stopped in place.
As the distance between the two ships continued to shorten, Trafalgar Law, who had been leaning against the side of the ship with his eyes closed while holding Kikoku, suddenly opened his eyes.
He looked at the pirate flag flying over the pirate ship and said calmly, "It's Hawkins Pirates, and the captain is Basil the Magician Hawkins."
"No matter what kind of pirate group they are!" Luffy cracked his knuckles and made a crackling sound, "Just blow them all away!"
At this time, Akira also took Hancock and slowly walked out of the cabin.
When he saw the pirate ship so close in front of him, as if waiting for them to pass by, he couldn't help but be stunned.
He brought the interns out this time. In addition to training these brats, his other purpose was to catch all the Supernovass who stirred up troubles in the original novels including Trafalgar Law and Hawkins in advance.
But after cruising in the North Sea for a month, I didn't even see the shadow of Hawkins. I thought that this guy smelled the smell and ran away early, but I didn't expect that on the way back to the ship, he arrived at my door.
Soon, the internship ship sailed into the sea area where the Hawkins pirate ship was located, and quickly moved closer.
The moment the sides of the two ships were about to touch--
"They're mine!"
"Rubber·Rocket!"
Luffy was the first one to be unable to hold back, and his whole body ejected like a cannonball, heading straight towards the opposite deck.
"Wait a minute, Rubber Idiot!"
Zoro followed closely behind, holding Wado Ichimonji in his mouth, slamming his feet on the railing, and leaping into the air.
"Poison Pink!"
"Mouton Shot!"
Ace, Reiju, Sanji...
The interns who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, at this moment, were like tigers emerging from the cage, or like a group of wolves that had been hungry for three days and three nights and finally saw the delicious fat meat.
Hawkins On the deck of the pirate ship.
Seeing the group of trainee marines swarming over like a natural disaster, Hawkins, who was always known for his calmness and composure, finally couldn't help but suddenly widen his eyes that had never changed for thousands of years.
The next second, just before Luffy's fist was about to hit his face, he suddenly raised his hands high.
"I surrender."
Luffy, who had already rushed in front of him, stopped his fist abruptly, with question marks all over his face.
"Eh?"
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