Luck

This was hardly outside Ye Mu's expectations.

He would never believe it if the old man claimed he had stayed here all this time.

How could anyone have resisted the temptations of the outside world when they were young?

Still, he asked curiously,

"Are you the only one here? What about your children?"

At Ye Mu's question, a trace of awkwardness flashed across Doren's aged face before he sighed and slowly said,

"When I was young, I gave up many things to go out to sea. By the time I returned, I had missed everything."

As he spoke, the old man looked at Ye Mu with a scrutinizing gaze and asked,

"Kid, why did you become a pirate?"

"Me? There's no special reason. It's just because pirates are the freest people in the world!"

"Freedom!?"

That answer clearly caught Doren off guard.

"I thought it was for treasure or something."

"I'm not lacking treasure!"

Not to mention the gold and jewels already filling the treasure room aboard his ship, there was also Sky Island—and the gold of an entire city!

Doren's eyes turned strange as he said,

"Young man, you sure talk big. Judging by that, you must be some remarkable pirate on the Grand Line."

Ye Mu did not boast. Instead, he asked,

"Don't you have any Marine wanted posters here?"

Doren said indifferently,

"What would I want those things for? Whether you're some great pirate or not, what does that have to do with an old man like me? Besides, I don't have that kind of spare money."

"Then what do you usually live on?"

"Nothing much. I fish and grow vegetables. Alchemi Island is small now, but there's no problem finding some land to grow vegetables and fruit."

"That's a pretty comfortable life, though it seems a