Mount Colubo.
The mountains were lush, the waters clear, and birdsong drifted through the flowers. Trees shaded this peaceful place like a paradise beyond the world. Luffy and his two brothers had grown up here, leaving traces of their childhood on nearly every patch of ground and every flower and blade of grass.
Dogura found Dadan lying in a wicker chair reading a newspaper and stared in amazement. "Boss, this is really like the sun rising in the west! You never read the paper!"
"Shut up, you bastard! Go clean the rooms!"
Dadan sprang up in a huff, grabbed a broom, and hurled it at Dogura. Dogura hurriedly scurried away.
Before long, Luffy, who was nearly fifteen, came strolling back with a wild boar weighing over five hundred pounds on his shoulder. When he spotted Dogura, he tossed the boar to him.
"Let's roast it later!"
Thud! As Luffy went inside, a tremendous crash sounded behind him. The short, scrawny Dogura was flattened beneath the boar, nearly crushed into a pulp.
"Dadan, what are you reading? Huh? Are you crying?"
When Luffy entered and saw her, he looked as though he had discovered a new continent.
"You little brat! I'm not crying. Don't be ridiculous!"
Dadan hurriedly wiped away her tears and shouted at Luffy in feigned anger. She took a drag on her cigarette to hide her embarrassment.
Why had she been crying? Because she had seen a report about Fire Fist Ace in the paper!
Ace had been at sea for less than six months, yet he had already made a name for himself in Loguetown. Then, in a battle at Sabaody, he had single-handedly defeated three Vice Admirals from Headquarters, earning a bounty of 156 million Beli!
Dadan hated pirates. Just thinking of Bluejam, whom she had