Fujitora Issho Makes a Move

A ship flew through the sky.

Kalifa said in disbelief, "Oh my God! Luo Chen, your Devil Fruit ability is actually the Float-Float Fruit of the great pirate Golden Lion."

"That means the great pirate Golden Lion is dead. If word gets out, it'll be huge news!!"

Kalifa had come to terms with things now. Of the former CP9 members, she was the only one left alive.

Even if she returned to the World Government, she would not be valued. She might even be assassinated.

Since that was the case, she might as well join Luo Chen's two-person pirate crew with peace of mind.

The main reason Kalifa could see things so clearly now was that Luo Chen had done that to her.

Like Tashigi, it had been Kalifa's first time.

Tashigi asked strangely, "I clearly never agreed to become a pirate! Why do you already think I've joined the Pirates, Kalifa??"

Kalifa said with a teasing smile, "What a silly girl! No one else will see it that way, so just be a pirate with us!!"

"I don't want to be a pirate. Luo Chen forced me onto this ship," Tashigi loudly denied.

Kalifa did not answer Tashigi. As time passed, even if Tashigi kept saying she was not a pirate, no one would care.

After all, Kalifa knew the World Government's true face very well. She had seen too much of it.

Still, Kalifa said thoughtfully, "But our pirate crew is pretty weak!"

"That's for the best." As Tashigi spoke, she thought, Colonel Smoker, hurry and have the Marines come rescue me. I'm really scared of Luo Chen's clutches.

Luo Chen sat at the bow, flying more than five thousand meters above the ground as he thought.

Before intervening in the Summit War, he still had one chance to inherit one of a person's abilities. This chance did not include Devil Fruit abilities.

If used well, it would greatly improve Luo Chen's overall combat ability.

One person had already entered Luo Chen's consideration: the Pirate King's first mate, Dark King Rayleigh.

Although Dark King Rayleigh was old, that old man's Three-Color Haki was incredibly refined.

Luo Chen's weakest point right now was Two-Color Haki.

As for subordinates, Luo Chen was not worried in the slightest. As long as he was strong enough, would he have to fear lacking subordinates? He could build a massive crew in minutes.

One day later.

In a small island town somewhere in the first half of the Grand Line, inside a casino.

A blind middle-aged man was placing bets.

Suddenly, the blind man raised his head toward the sky.

At that moment, the dealer roared, "Hey, what's a blind man staring at the ceiling for??"

"You're obviously blind, so stop acting like you have eyes. Hurry up and place your bet. Don't you want to win back the money you lost??"

"Could it be Golden Lion? There were rumors recently that Golden Lion had appeared." The blind man muttered to himself in confusion.

"What Golden Lion? Blind man, are you betting or not?" The dealer had long grown impatient as he watched the blind man continue muttering without placing a bet.

What the dealer did not know was that the blind man before him was actually Fujitora Issho, the Admiral from two years after the Summit War in the original story.

"I should not be meddling in this matter, but!!" Issho did not respond to the dealer and merely continued speaking to himself.

This matter should have been handled by the Marines, but the justice in Issho's heart made it impossible for him to hold back from acting.

After all, Golden Lion was going to destroy East Blue. It would have been one thing if Issho had not encountered it, but now that he had, he truly could not stand by and do nothing.

Just as the dealer was about to speak again!!

Issho drew the sword cane in his hand. A surge of energy erupted, and rings of blue energy shot into the sky, smashing through the roof as they went.

The dealer and nearby gamblers were all frightened senseless.

They had thought this blind man was merely a disabled person, someone to be bullied at will.

Who would have thought he was actually this powerful??

The dealer in particular was terrified. He had cheated this blind, disabled man out of quite a bit of money.

In the sky, Luo Chen was enjoying Kalifa's personal service.

Kalifa fed Luo Chen grapes one after another.

Tashigi trained in swordsmanship nearby.

A fiery red point of light drew closer and closer, making Tashigi, who had been practicing her swordsmanship, panic.

Tashigi hurriedly cried, "This is bad, Luo Chen! A meteor has appeared above us!!"

Kalifa froze. "A meteor? That can't be possible, can it?"

Yet the instant Kalifa looked up, her eyes widened.

Just as Tashigi had said, a meteor was rapidly approaching their ship.

"How could it happen to be aimed right at us?!" Kalifa was practically collapsing. She had only just escaped disaster at Luo Chen's hands.

She had been working hard to please this new Captain Luo Chen, and now she was about to be wiped out by a meteor?

Kalifa was beginning to doubt life itself, and the meteor was getting closer and closer.

Both Kalifa and Tashigi looked toward Luo Chen at the same time.

The only one who could save them now was Luo Chen.

If even Luo Chen had no solution, then they could only wait for death to descend.

That moment would probably come in only a few short seconds.

"A meteor?" Luo Chen stared at the approaching meteor and fell into brief contemplation.

Speaking of meteors, Luo Chen did not believe it had been caused naturally. That left only one possibility: it was man-made. In this situation, Luo Chen immediately thought of someone.

It was Admiral Fujitora of the new Marine Headquarters from the original story.

A smile appeared at the corner of Luo Chen's mouth. "Interesting. I was still thinking about who to choose. I had planned to find Dark King Rayleigh, but now someone has delivered himself right to my door."