Preparing to Go to Frost Moon Village

At this moment, Ye Feng had no time to waste words on these two small fry. He stepped forward and swiftly slit both their throats with the sword in his hand.

Before the two men could even react, Ye Feng had—

—slit their throats. They hurriedly clutched at the wounds, as if trying to stop the gaping cuts from pouring blood, but no matter how desperately they pressed their hands over them, blood continued to gush out through their fingers as though it cost nothing. In the end, both men fell to the ground, their eyes wide with unwillingness.

Ye Feng sheathed his sword without even sparing them a glance, walked straight to the door, and kicked the wooden cabin's entrance open.

The wooden door crashed down, revealing the scene inside the cabin to Ye Feng.

Little Luffy was hanging from a rope tied to the ceiling, his face covered in bruises and his body riddled with wounds. Blood trickled down from them drop by drop.

Hearing the commotion at the door, Luffy laboriously raised his head. Tears streaked his face, and he bit his lip so hard it was nearly bleeding as he weakly said, "Ye Feng... Big Brother, you finally came!"

Bluerjam, who was inside the cabin, stared at Ye Feng as he rushed in and said, "Kid, are you his brother?"

Ye Feng said nothing. He charged straight at the man, suddenly drew his sword, and began hacking relentlessly at him.

His savage posture made it seem as though he wanted to cut the man into a thousand pieces. Bluerjam, who screamed "Ah!" as Ye Feng's sword struck him, was sliced into pieces.

Suddenly, two children rushed in through the doorway, each holding an iron pipe. Moving faster than the eye could follow, they swung at Ye Feng and shouted, "Luffy, we're here to save you!"

Ye Feng, who had been enjoying himself as he hacked away, had not put up any defense at all, so the iron pipes sent him flying into the wall.

At that moment, one of the children said, "Sabo, I hit one! Luffy, hang on! We'll save you right away!"

Ye Feng climbed up from the ground after being slammed into the wall and glared angrily at Ace. "Ace, well done!"

Ye Feng walked over, punched Ace on the head, then dusted himself off and pointed around them. "Take a good look! Are there even any enemies left here?"

Following the direction Ye Feng pointed, Ace and Sabo immediately spotted several Bluerjam Pirates crewmen who had been chopped into pieces.

Ace finally realized what had happened and stiffly, little by little, turned toward Ye Feng. "Wait, then the one I just sent flying was..."

Ye Feng stared at Ace and said flatly, "Of course, the one you hit was me!"

Ace gave an embarrassed smile upon hearing that. "Haha, really? Then sorry about that."

In an instant, Ye Feng appeared beside Ace. After giving him a thorough lesson in love, he clapped his hands and said carelessly, "Ah, I feel much better now."

Behind Ye Feng, Ace raised his head, covered in lumps, and stammered, "S-S-Sorry..."

Ye Feng looked at Luffy, who had been lowered down, and said, "All right, let's go. We need to find a clinic and get Luffy treated first."

At last, they found a small clinic in Windmill Village and gave Luffy some simple bandaging.

Then Ace and Sabo carried him up to the small treehouse on the back mountain on a stretcher made of branches.

Their younger sister Avril returned happily from Makino's bar, only to see little Luffy lying on the bed, covered in injuries.

With a worried look, she ran over to her brother Ye Feng and asked, "Big Brother, Big Brother, what happened to Luffy?"

Ye Feng merely said flatly, "It's nothing. He just took a fall."

That night, everyone went to sleep. Only Ye Feng lay alone atop the treehouse, gazing at the star-filled night sky as he made a terrifying decision.

The next morning, everyone had gotten up, but Ye Feng was still inside the treehouse.

So his younger sister Avril went to knock on the door and call her brother.

After knocking for a long while without getting any response, she opened the door and discovered that her brother, along with all his luggage, was gone.

The treehouse was completely empty, with only a letter left on the table.

Avril hurried over, picked it up, and opened it. It read:

"My dear sister, by the time you see this letter, I should already be gone. This time, I'm going to the place I told you about before. I'll train there for three years, and when I return, I hope to see that you have become a Marine. Your loving brother, Ye Feng."

After reading the letter Ye Feng had left behind, Avril sat down on the ground and stared blankly into space.

Outside, Luffy, Sabo, and Ace saw that Avril had not yet called her brother to come eat.

So they ran upstairs together, and when they reached Ye Feng's room and saw that it was completely empty—

—and Avril sitting on the floor,