"Hey, what was your name again?" When Luffy saw Lu Xuan, he lowered his head and fell into thought. "Something Xuan... Lu Xuan... no, that doesn't seem right... Du Xuan? That doesn't seem right either."
"..." Lu Xuan fell silent for the first time in a long while. Even he felt a trace of helplessness toward a guy like Luffy.
"Lu Xuan." Lu Xuan answered calmly as he walked over to Luffy. "This is Ohara in the West Blue, once a holy land of knowledge."
Hearing Lu Xuan's introduction, Luffy looked around curiously. "Ohara... I feel like I've heard that name somewhere before."
Two seconds later, something suddenly flashed through his mind. "I remember now! Robin mentioned it before. This is her hometown! It's so beautiful!"
He looked at the butterflies drifting gracefully through the air, the strange flowers, trees, and spirits, and even the little house that seemed as if it belonged only in a fairy tale.
"Robin said this place was destroyed by the Marines, didn't she? I never thought anyone would still be living here—and that it would be this beautiful."
Luffy did not stay still as he spoke. He kept leaping around the flower field, inspecting the exotic flowers and butterflies he had never seen before.
"Oh, right, Lu Xuan, can I eat this?" Luffy crouched down and looked at a fiery red fruit he had never seen before, from which a cool fragrance wafted.
"Wait!" By the time Lu Xuan spoke, it was already too late, because Luffy had taken a bite out of the fruit while asking.
For a foodie, whenever he saw anything, he would instinctively determine whether it was edible.
Back when he ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, he had bitten into it out of spite.
The moment Luffy swallowed it, Lu Xuan