Zephyr's Thoughts on One Piece

Zephyr was furious, so furious that rage flooded his entire body and made his breathing quicken again.

His asthma had flared up again.

"Huff! Huff!"

Breathing heavily, Zephyr skillfully took out his asthma medicine. Only after taking it did the violent heaving of his chest gradually subside.

"Why? Why had Marine Headquarters let outsiders break in again?!"

Zephyr growled. This was a nightmare that had haunted him his entire life.

More than twenty years ago, a group of pirates had broken into Marine Headquarters and slaughtered his entire family.

"Now, I will never allow it..."

Zephyr gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, veins bulging across his arms. He would never let the tragedy repeat itself!

[Flender: @Fading Navy Veteran, sir, please calm down. We are not your enemies. If we had to put it that way, perhaps we are uninvited friends?]

[Fading Navy Veteran: I do not consider someone who barges into another person's territory and affects their consciousness to be a friend!]

[Flender: Um... I am deeply sorry about that. But please believe me, we mean no harm. We merely came to make friends.]

[Fading Navy Veteran: We? There is more than one of you?!]

Zephyr caught the key point, while Flender helplessly slapped his forehead. They really were talking past each other.

[Flender: All right, sir, let us be frank. May I presumptuously ask whether you are Mr. Zephyr?]

[Zephyr: I am Zephyr! A Marine Admiral! Show me whatever tricks you have!]

[Flender: Then there is no problem.]

Because this Marine Admiral had such a tragic past, Flender understood his anger well.

[ Ding! The One Piece series has been released. It matches member Zephyr's worldview. The Chat Group has automatically completed it and converted it into a true trajectory of fate. Only member Zephyr may view it. ]

[Flender: All right, Mr. Zephyr. This is your story. You can go in and take a look first. Once you are done, I believe we can have a proper conversation.]

[Zephyr: What kind of trick are you playing?!]

He struck the translucent panel before him several times with Haki-wreathed fists, but neither flowing attacks nor emission had any effect. The panel before Zephyr did not even tremble.

Yet that very situation suddenly calmed Zephyr down, allowing him to display the basic composure expected of an Admiral and teacher.

Taking a deep breath, Zephyr suppressed his anger. Whether he believed the current situation or not no longer mattered. He had no means of dealing with the other party.

He stared deeply at the panel before him, its information making Zephyr wary.

One Piece...

That bastard Roger had been dead for so many years. Was he still refusing to rest in peace even now?

He clenched his fists, loosened them, then clenched them again before loosening them once more.

Zephyr hesitated for a long time before finally sprinting in one direction.

"Garp, do me a favor. If anything strange happens to me later, deal with me!"

On the Dog-head Warship, Zephyr spoke gravely to Garp, who had happened to return to Marine Headquarters that day.

"Huh? What nonsense are you talking about?! Zephyr, did you eat something bad or what?!"

Garp looked blankly at his old friend, but by the end of his words, his expression had become incomparably serious.

"I do not know what is going on either, but I have a feeling that something major is about to happen."

Zephyr gave a muffled reply. He had actually wanted to tell Garp about the strange phenomenon, but the Chat Panel restricted him. Since he had not truly joined it yet, he had no right to reveal its existence.

After warning Garp a few more times, Zephyr opened the story of One Piece without hesitation beneath his old friend's worried gaze.

Buzz~

His brain trembled, and the scenery before Zephyr rapidly changed.

The sea appeared. A small merchant ship cut through the waves, while a little wooden barrel drifted across the water...

A sailor aboard the merchant ship happened to spot the barrel and grew interested, thinking it was supplies floating on the sea. He hurriedly fished it up, only to find someone inside.

"I'm Monkey D. Luffy, the man who will become the Pirate King!"

Straw Hat Boy burst out of the barrel, spread his arms, puffed out his chest, and announced his ambition to the world.

But that shout made Zephyr frown.

"Monkey, and D... Could this be that bastard Garp's grandson? Judging by Dragon's age, it seemed about right..."

"But the Pirate King?! How the hell did that bastard Garp educate his children?!"

Zephyr flew into a rage. The father, Garp, was a Marine hero and Vice Admiral. The son, Dragon, had betrayed the Marines and formed the Revolutionary Army to oppose the World Government. And now the grandson wanted to become a pirate—the Pirate King?!

But before Zephyr could think any further, Straw Hat Boy's story had already begun.

He sent an unknown small-time pirate flying with a punch. (Zephyr nodded. The Gum-Gum Fruit? His punches were quite powerful, and his hand-to-hand combat barely passed.)

He confronted a corrupt Marine captain. (Zephyr frowned. The Marines of East Blue... no, they should only be a few bad apples. Right, that green-haired boy's swordsmanship was quite good. He had the bearing of a master. Who was his teacher?)

He faced Roger's remnant... Buggy the Clown? (Zephyr was baffled. Sure enough, every ship had its own disgrace?)

The straw hat? Shanks?! (Zephyr flew into a rage. So it was you, you little bastard! You led Garp's grandson astray!)

Kuro of a Hundred Plans... (Zephyr felt stifled. What a sinister and treacherous man! He had actually slaughtered an entire ship of Marine soldiers just so he could escape peacefully? That fallen Marine from before had also been influenced by you, you bastard!)

Red-Haired's sniper? (Zephyr shook his head. Nothing could stop a man from going to sea? Since when had family become an obstacle?!)

Barefoot Zeff. (Zephyr half-nodded. He did not steal food for treasure, so he had not entirely lost his conscience. His way of raising children was just a little rough. Why was the boy so lecherous?)

His duel with Mihawk. (Zephyr nodded approvingly. He had not been wrong about that green-haired boy. He truly was good material. It was just that Garp's grandson, who had been led astray by Red-Haired, had led him astray too. Looking at it now, bounty hunter was not a bad profession either.)

Arlong. (Zephyr's expression darkened. Sure enough, every ship had its own disgrace. Fisher Tiger was a fish-man Zephyr himself respected, yet he had not expected one of his subordinates to be such a cruel and lawless monster!)

The blonde girl. (Zephyr sighed. A child had carried an entire village's hopes, only to be jointly strangled by Marines and pirates in the end. What a cruel thing...)

Nezumi? (Colluding with pirates, framing his comrades, forcing a group of promising young people down the wrong path... This old man will remember you.)

The Millennium Dragon. (Zephyr narrowed his eyes. Even the Admiral of East Blue was such an unsightly specimen? East Blue had been fouled...)

As he watched on, the vigilance and grief in Zephyr's heart quietly faded away. His attention was instead firmly captured by the story of Garp's grandson.

The crocodile's plot to seize a kingdom in the desert, the lightning of the "god" in Skypiea, the brutal fistfights between government agents and pirates on Enies Lobby, and the Paramount War...

Zephyr also came to grasp many of this world's secrets without realizing it.

The tragedy of Ohara, Flevance's White Lead panic, the Great Kingdom, Imu, king of the Celestial Dragons, Poseidon and Pluton, the beacon of Laugh Tale...

When he finally saw himself die at the hands of his "least harmonious" student, Borsalino—the Marine Admiral Kizaru—Zephyr fell silent for a long while before baring his teeth in a grin.

"Looks like this old man misjudged you, Borsalino. Your hand-to-hand combat is quite good, kid. Though you still rely on your Devil Fruit, for a Devil Fruit user not to rely on his Devil Fruit would indeed be putting the cart before the horse."

Buzz~

After another buzz in his mind, Zephyr's consciousness returned to his body.

Looking at Garp, who was picking his nose yet staring fixedly at him with hidden anxiety in his eyes, Zephyr smiled soundlessly and clenched his fist.

"Black Arm: Shatter!"

Boom!

"Waaah! Zephyr, you bastard! What are you doing?!"

"Shut up, you bastard Garp! What the hell did you teach your children and disciples?!!!"