Luffy had lost him again. He dropped helplessly to his knees, panting hard, but this time, he saw something unlike anything he had seen over the past three months...
"Ah... I made it through the forest..."
Heading north through Mount Colubo, where the Dadan Family lived, brought him to a place like this...
"Ugh! It stinks! What is this place?"
Before Luffy lay a place filled with garbage and a foul stench. The mountains of trash even gave off white smoke. Perhaps they had been piled here so long that they had begun to ferment...
Everything unwanted ended up here, whether objects or people. Naturally, this was a lawless zone. There were no doctors, and crime and disease ran rampant...
The white smoke slowly dispersed, revealing a man in tattered clothes stained with blood. The battered blade in his hand kept dripping dark blood.
"Out of the way, brat..."
A voice as grating as old metal scraping together emerged from a mouth full of yellow teeth, accompanied by a foul stench. His eyes were clouded with darkness, an expression found only in those who had lost all hope in life...
Luffy covered his nose and hurried away. A loud shout came from behind him!
"Hey! Where did he go?"
Just after Luffy left, four people in equally ragged clothes appeared, each holding a different "weapon": a broken beer bottle, a plank studded with nails, or a battered blade. Though they looked a little ridiculous, they could still easily kill the man from before.
But the man did not fight back. He merely gave a token swing of his battered blade before falling to the ground. The four men did not linger either. They silently picked up the bundle that had fallen to the ground and disappeared into the white smoke...