I'm in One Piece, and I'm Luffy's childhood friend.

"Usopp shouted."

"What amazing bamboo! Perfect for making clogs."

This is Bai Yun's idea.

Luffy, on the other hand, can spring up with a single leap and fight even a bamboo pole, and his fighting spirit will soar.

"How could I possibly lose to a bamboo?"

"Rubber Rubber Whip!!"

Luffy kicked down, and the bamboo snapped instantly.

"Whoa!! I kicked the bamboo and broke it!!!"

Luffy shouted excitedly.

Usopp readily agreed, "Alright, Luffy wins!!"

Bai Yun raised his hand and clapped enthusiastically, "Clap clap clap, great, great, as expected of Luffy."

"Just be careful of what's above your head."

"What?"

Luffy asked, puzzled, when suddenly a figure landed squarely on his head.

Bai Yun was experienced in dealing with people being hit by falling objects.

........

"boom!!!"

Meanwhile, Chopper was still chatting with Sherry about whether it knew where its owner was.

There was a loud bang over there.

Sure enough, the master arrived, but Chopper didn't know it.

"What's wrong!!!"

"They might be the enemy. You should hide first."

"What happened?!"

As Chopper ran, he reminded Sherry to hide. When they reached the back of the house and saw Luffy and the others, he asked them a question.

Luffy turned his head, looking puzzled. "I'm confused too."

"After I kicked the bamboo in half, a fairy fell from the sky."

Although Luffy was hit on the head by this figure, it was nothing under Garp's iron fist training.

And you know what, looking at Shirley's master, this nomadic old man whose name he had forgotten, Bai Yun did indeed have a bit of the look of those elves from beyond the mountains and the sea.

"An elf?"

Chopper walked over; clearly, Luffy had told him he was a spirit, so he believed him.

"Because he came out after I kicked the bamboo in half."

Luffy explained.

Bai Yun thought to himself, "Good heavens, it's Princess Kaguya, isn't it?"

"Sir, are you alright?"

How many toes are there?

Bai Yun called out to the old man twice and held up two fingers in front of him.

The old man was still staring blankly at the sky.

"......"

"Okay, you're so stupid from the fall, you can't even recognize your own toes."

Bai Yun withdrew his finger and made his conclusion.

"What you're sticking out isn't a finger, is it?!"

Usopp complained.

Bai Yun shrugged. "You can't exactly stick your feet out in front of someone the moment you meet them, can you?"

"........"

Usopp was speechless.

At this moment, the old man finally reacted, sat up, and looked at Luffy, Bai Yun, and Chopper squatting in front of him.

"Of course I remember you."

"haven't seen you for a long time."

"Are you all okay?"

Usopp was puzzled.

"what?"

"Do you know him?"

Luffy and Chopper shook their heads.

"I do not know him."

"Me too."

"Me too."

"In my memory, there aren't many old men who can leave an impression on me. I've never seen this old man before."

The last two sentences were, needless to say, Bai Yun's answer.

Before Usopp could say anything after hearing their three answers, the old man spoke first.

"Ah... no wonder you all look unfamiliar to me."

Usopp was astonished; were there any normal people left in this world?

"Oh!! You were just saying that offhand?!"

"So, who are you, old man?"

The old man wiped the blood from his nose. "My name is Dongjit. Thank you for saving me."

"Weren't you the ones who knocked me off the stilts?"

"stilts!!?"

"That bamboo pole so tall you can't see the top—is that your stilts, old man?!"

Luffy raised both hands, making a gesture as high as possible, and said.

"Yes, I'm standing at the very top of the bamboo."

Old Man Dongjit said calmly, looking every bit like a hermit sage.

But the reality is.

"I've always loved walking on stilts, so I wanted to use the long bamboo on this island to challenge the world's tallest stilts."

"But I didn't expect that once I stepped on it, I wouldn't be able to get off."

"Pfft..."

Bai Yun almost couldn't help but laugh; Merit -1

"Huh? Are you an idiot, old man!"

Luffy's attitude changed from thinking Dongjit was a "stilt walker" to "Are you an idiot?".

But the old man from Donggit wasn't finished speaking, "He stayed there for...ten years."

This shocked Luffy so much that his mouth dropped open. "Idiot" was an understatement; "big" was an even bigger word.

"You big idiot!!!"

Usopp was also shocked, wondering if he had misheard.

"You spent ten years on stilts?!"

"Yes, and the bamboo is getting taller and taller, which scares me so much that I'm even more afraid to come down."

"Scared me."

Dongjit replied, and when he said "terrified," a look of fear appeared on his face.

This also explains why he was able to live on the island for ten years because there were other trees of the same height on the island, and he was able to eat the fruit from them.

But Bai Yun still felt admiration. That was ten years, not ten days. One person, all alone, living on a pair of stilts, exposed to the wind and sun, for ten years. You must be a legendary figure, old man.

Bai Yun was also thinking that now they had encountered an old man living in a box, and now this old man living on stilts. He wondered if they would collect any other strange "old men" in the future.

When Luffy asked him a question, Donghito explained why the animals on the island were all so long: because the island was very vast.

Bai Yun: What's the principle behind this?!

"Alright, come to my house. You are my saviors, and I will treat you well."

Dongjit extended an invitation.

In Luffy's mind, being entertained meant being invited to dinner, so of course he agreed.

"Great!!"

And so, the four of them went inside the house.

Meanwhile, Zoro and his crew also had an uninvited guest – the Foxy Pirates.

Chapter 389 This is just the beginning

"If you want to fight, then come on."

"Block our path, watch out for your ship."

The Fox Pirates' ship, the Sexy Fox, appeared behind the Going Merry and used huge fox-claw-shaped chains to secure the ship to the shore, with the Going Merry locked between the two chains.