The Straw Hat Kid Without a Straw Hat

In the battle just now, Ryan had only won by a narrow margin. After all, the two had merely been sparring, not fighting to the death. Though neither had held back, it was still worlds apart from a real battle.

Especially someone as ruthless as Shanks. Ryan believed Shanks was fully capable of breaking through in battle and growing stronger the longer he fought. Of that, Ryan had no doubt.

After defeating Shanks, Ryan went on to challenge the other members of the Red Hair Pirates. In the end, Ryan won every match.

Ryan gained a total of 520,000 Attribute Points from them, plus the 250,000 Shanks had contributed earlier. His Attribute Points had now risen from zero to 770,000.

Seven really was a magical number!

Half a year later, Ryan also saw Shanks off. After seven long months of observation, Shanks was quite satisfied with Luffy. What concerned Shanks even more, however, was Ryan.

Of the two people chosen by the Nika Fruit, Shanks thought more highly of Ryan, who had not eaten the fruit. Luffy was still too young for any differences to show.

If he had to name one thing, it was probably a personality just like Captain Roger's!

Shanks had truly seen everything Ryan had done in the Goa Kingdom. If it had been up to him, he genuinely would not have been able to do the same.

A large crowd had gathered by the small dock near Foosha Village. They had all come to see off the Red Hair Pirates.

Over the past half year, the crews of the Blood Sword Pirates and the Red Hair Pirates had formed deep friendships.

Fujitora and Yasopp got along particularly well.

Benn Beckman greatly admired Robin's knowledge.

As for Lucky Roux and the others, they had hit it