Back to East Blue, Time to Find Some Fun

"Rumble—!"

A massive hole tore open in the clouds.

A gigantic ark built entirely from gold and precious timber, its design radiating sci-fi grandeur and oppressive force, slowly descended from ten thousand meters in the sky, blazing with azure lightning exhaust.

With a soft bang.

Under the precise control of the electromagnetic field, the super battleship named the Heavenly Court Thunder God landed steadily upon the tranquil sea of East Blue, without even splashing a single extra wave.

The sea breeze drifted past, carrying the familiar salty warmth.

"Phew... finally back to the Blue Sea. The air up there was so thin, I was practically forgetting how to breathe."

Lei En sprawled across a luxurious beach chair made of pure gold and upholstered in premium velvet, stretching lazily.

It had been exactly two years since he set sail.

Lei En was now a boy just over ten years old.

He had grown quite a bit taller, shedding the baby fat he had at five, his facial features now sharp and cold as though carved by a blade.

His tousled black hair fluttered slightly in the sea breeze. Coupled with those deep black eyes that occasionally flashed with lightning, he gave off the air of a sly, unruly ruler.

He wore an outrageously flashy black trench coat, left wide open to reveal the firm lines of his muscles, with the famous blade Yubashiri hanging casually at his waist.

If he dressed like this in East Blue, he would surely captivate countless young girls who had yet to see much of the world.

"My lord, isn't this ship just ridiculously cool?!"

Dadi gripped the pure-gold helm, his face flushed with excitement.

"When we landed just now, the people aboard those merchant ships were staring so hard their eyes nearly popped out! They probably thought a god had descended!"

He was now the chief navigator and helmsman of the Heavenly Court Thunder God. Sailing this warship, which combined Sky Island's finest technology and wealth, felt a hundred times better than commanding a Marine Headquarters warship back in the day!

"Keep it low-key. Do you understand what low-key means?"

Lei En noisily slurped the chilled watermelon juice little Carol had just squeezed, rolling his eyes in annoyance.

"I'm the richest pirate in the world now. What's this little bit of flair worth? One day, we'll sail this ship over the heads of the Celestial Dragons at Mary Geoise and take a dump on them."

Rather than being frightened by Lei En's treasonous words, Dadi merely chuckled.

After following his lord for two years, he had long grown used to Lei En's arrogant attitude of treating the World Government like dirt.

In fact, he found it pretty thrilling.

"Lord Lei En, where are we going next?"

Kuina walked over in a neat blue kendo uniform, carrying an ordinary standard-issue sword.

At Lei En's insistence, her Wado Ichimonji had been carefully placed in its dedicated sword case in the cabin, and she usually could not bear to take it out.

"Where are we going?"

Lei En rubbed his chin and fell into thought.

He now possessed max-level Roger's Swordsmanship, had eaten the strongest Logia-type Rumble-Rumble Fruit, and had a physique enhanced by the system to an absurdly monstrous degree.

Not to mention the mountain of gold piled up in the cabin...

Honestly, even if he charged straight into the New World, the latter half of the Grand Line, he could still swagger through it unhindered.

But Lei En was someone who hated trouble.

The New World is currently ruled by those old bones. Whitebeard, Golden Lion, Kaido, Big Mom... they're all in their prime. Fighting them would be exhausting.

Lei En shook his head, calculating silently.

I'm a man of refined tastes who enjoys a good spectacle, not some battle maniac.

Rather than fighting those muscleheads for territory in the New World, I'd be better off lying low and developing for a few years in East Blue, this newbie village known as the "Weakest Sea."

He glanced at Enel, the "apprentice night watchman" standing some distance away and miserably pedaling to supply power to the ship, a wicked smirk curling over his lips.

"And besides, East Blue has quite a few interesting 'early-game villains' and future 'protagonists of the era.'"

"If I don't teach them a good lesson while they're still weak, wouldn't this whole transmigration have been far too boring?"

Lei En made up his mind and decided to launch his "brutal recruitment" and "devilish training" plans!

First, he would beat every notable East Blue villain into submission and drag them back as laborers.

Then he would head to Foosha Village and train that straw-hatted rubber idiot and his two equally chuuni sworn brothers into muscle-bound tyrannosaurs who only knew how to charge headfirst!

Just imagining old man Karp's devastated expression when he saw his grandsons turned into burly men made Lei En want to laugh out loud.

"Dadi."

Lei En snapped his fingers, interrupting Dadi's excitement.

"Find any island with pirates around and dock there. I've been up in the sky for two years—my bones are practically rusting. I need some fun to loosen up."

"Got it! Please hold tight, my lord!"

Dadi expertly turned the helm. The Heavenly Court Thunder God carved a graceful arc across the sea and sailed toward unknown waters.

Lei En lay back down in his beach chair, closed his eyes, and blissfully enjoyed the sea breeze.

His absurdly powerful advanced Observation Haki, like an invisible net, silently spread outward in every direction.

Ten nautical miles.

Twenty nautical miles.

Fifty nautical miles...

In an East Blue without any Haki masters, Lei En's Observation Haki was practically a full-map vision cheat.

Suddenly.

Lei En's tightly closed eyes snapped open, an azure arc of electricity flashing through his pupils.

"Oh? Not bad luck. I'd barely gotten sleepy, and someone already brought me a pillow."

He sat up and looked toward the horizon to his front left.

Roughly ten nautical miles away, a pirate ship flying a pink skull-and-heart flag was tightly pursuing a luxurious civilian passenger ship like a vicious dog pouncing on prey.

That pink skull flag, that tasteless aesthetic...

There was only one woman in all of East Blue who could match it.

"Iron Mace" Alvida!

The future beauty who would eat the Sube-Sube Fruit—but who was currently a freckle-faced, pig-fat ugly freak!

Lei En rubbed his chin, a cruel and excited smile rising on his lips.

"Dadi, turn thirty degrees to port! Full speed ahead!"

He rose to his feet and walked to the bow, facing the howling sea wind as his gaze locked onto that pink pirate ship.

"Come on. Let's give the 'most beautiful woman in East Blue' a free ionic perm."