One Piece: Who still has dreams?

Garin shattered the incoming mast "spears" one by one, while Nami leaped high from the bow of the ship, tearing through the air with her foot and unleashing a giant arc-shaped slash that severed a section of the ship's bow diagonally downwards.

Boom... The bow of the ship sank into the sea, waves crashed, and Nami fell into the sea and disappeared without a trace.

Garin's face turned ashen. He activated his Observation Haki to search for the orange-haired human woman, only vaguely detecting a fast-moving aura in the water beneath the ship. Immediately afterward, a loud crash came from the bottom of the ship.

She damaged the hull underwater? Garin frowned, unable to understand. Although she possessed unimaginable brute strength, she was not a fish-man after all. How much power could she exert underwater?

"Keep a close eye on the surface of the sea. Once she surfaces, open fire immediately."

Garin sheathed his sword and coldly addressed the CP agents in black suits who were gradually waking up on the deck, "Also, have the warship come closer, we'll switch ships..."

Before the words were even finished, from behind the accompanying warship, an orange-haired figure burst out of the water, leaping high into the air with a series of quick, powerful moonwalk strikes, unleashing three or four massive crescent-shaped slashes.

"That's a Tempest Kick?!"

Vice Admiral Dalmesia, whose upper face remained in the form of a spotted dog, was just questioning his subordinates about the commotion on Garin's ship when this situation suddenly occurred.

He turned around in shock and saw the woman kicking down with massive slashes in mid-air. It was too late to stop the scattered attacks, and the warship was shredded into several pieces.

Unfortunately, he hadn't learned Moonwalk and Storm Kick, so he could only watch helplessly as the orange-haired woman fell back into the sea. A small wave rolled over, and his Observation Haki quickly lost track of her.

The swirling waves created by the sinking of several warships engulfed Dalmesia. As a Devil Fruit user, he immediately lost the ability to resist and, along with other ordinary marines, sank with the current in the underwater whirlpools and turbulent currents...

In this desperate situation, the orange-haired girl swam by like a mermaid, carrying these marines to the surface.

……

With its mast gone and its bow and hull damaged, the World Government's large ship was forced to remain anchored at sea.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! One after another, marines were thrown onto the ship from all sides...

Whoosh! Dalmesia, who had eaten the Dog-Dog Fruit and was in his Dalmatian form, was among them. Covered in seawater and quite disheveled, he was a vice admiral of the headquarters. He regained his strength in mid-air, flipped over, and lightly stepped onto the ship's railing to catch a marine flying towards him.

Why did she save us? Dalmesia clenched her fists, then suddenly turned her head and met the gaze of Garin Saint, who was standing not far away on the deck where the bow of the ship had disappeared. Garin Saint's eyes were cold and disdainful.

"The navy is still so useless, huh..."

Garin told a CP agent in a black suit, "Contact the other lieutenant generals at headquarters. Call all those who haven't left the East China Sea yet to come and provide support. Just in case, also send a signal to the various branches in the East China Sea to bring their warships over."

"Yes!" The man in the black suit accepted the order and hurriedly left.

The other agents remained scattered throughout the ship, which was forced to stop at sea, intently observing the surface of the water with their guns raised, waiting for the orange-haired girl to surface.

Four hours have passed...

The sea surface remained unchanged.

Two hours, three hours, five hours passed...

Nami still did not surface for air.

With her current physical strength, if she were to take a deep breath, she could compress a huge amount of air into her lungs, making it possible for her to stay underwater for 10 hours without any problem.

Hundreds of meters underwater, her orange hair swayed with the waves. Nami stared at the small patch of shimmering water and the dark shadow of the ship's hull. She clutched her abdomen, a trickle of blood spilling from the corner of her mouth, dissolving into the seawater like her tears... She turned her head and looked at the sea surface more than ten kilometers away, where the currents were slowly parted by a black dot.

Other warships have arrived.

Nami took out a Poké Ball, released the sea monster MooMoo, grabbed its horns, pointed in a direction, and slowly swam after it...

Ten minutes later, Nami infiltrated the naval warship, whose branch in the East Blue was unknown, found a Den Den Mushi on board, and made a phone call to Shimotsuki Village. However, before she could finish speaking, the people on the warship discovered her.

The call was abruptly cut off. Nami, enduring the severe injuries that seemed to displace her internal organs, had no time to entangle with these marines. She jumped out and sank the warship with a powerful Tempest Kick, then leaped into the sea, grabbing Moo Moo's horns and disappearing into the ocean depths...

She lay atop Moo Moo's head, holding her breath as she drifted with the current, her eyes fixed on the hull of the large ship carrying the World Government, Gertz.

When she noticed another warship approaching overhead, she patted MooMoo's head and quietly swam over, intending to find another Den Den Mushi... But just as she got close to the surface, her ears twitched, and she faintly heard the familiar voices of Redio and the others coming from the warship above. She breathed a sigh of relief.

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Back to the present

"Incredible physical strength, and the ability to dive underwater for hours on end..." Garin paced on the deck. "Such a rare human race is perfect to be my slave... Hmm, being Shamrock's wife wouldn't be bad either. Is Shamrock still in the East Sea?"

The CP agent in the black suit standing next to him snapped to attention and replied, "Saint Shamlock has already returned to the Holy Land alone!"

“This child… is truly being wronged in this filthy underworld.” Garin smiled helplessly, knowing that his son had been teleported back through a magic circle.

This magic circle can only be used by those who carry the contract with Lord Im. Therefore, although he can create a teleportation circle now, he cannot take the giantess with him. So he can only try to wait for the warship to send them over so they can go together.

Suddenly, a man in a black suit, who was observing the sea through binoculars, shouted, "Saint Garin, another warship has been sunk..."

"Haven't you gotten used to it yet?" Garin said nonchalantly.

Dalmesia, standing not far away, remained expressionless and made no comment. In fact, he had heard even the most offensive insults from the Celestial Dragons; Karin, after all, was the captain of the Knights of God, and was already considered to have considerable manners and refinement.

“But…” the agent in the black suit, holding binoculars, hesitated, “After the warship was sunk, an even larger ship appeared out of nowhere over there… It looks… it looks like a pirate ship…”

"Appeared out of thin air?"

Garin frowned, and as he took the binoculars, he could indeed see with the naked eye a large ship that he hadn't seen before on the sea. The ship's hull looked rather dusty.

He raised his binoculars, moved the lens, and the large, gray ship came into view. He adjusted it, and the striking pattern on the massive sails appeared in the frame.

A white skull, with two narrow eye sockets above the black eye sockets, one on each side at the corner of the eyebrow, and two similar ones at the lower corner of the eye and cheekbone...

The original crossbones skull was redrawn as four hands, each making a different hand gesture...

"A pirate flag with 'six eyes and four arms'?"

Garin, holding up his binoculars, asked, "What kind of pirate crew is that?"

"This..." The agent in the black suit was speechless.

Garin glanced over, and the CP agent felt a chill run down his spine. Vice Admiral Dalmesia, standing to the side, said, "Saint Garin, I've never seen this pirate flag before. It must be a rookie pirate from the East Blue."

"Humph."

Garin gave a cold snort, moved the telescope lens, and soon saw several human figures on the deck of the rookie pirate crew—the orange-haired rare girl was among them.

"..." Garin adjusted the knob to zoom in on the scene. The orange-haired girl was injured, but she was listening to another black-haired boy speaking, along with the green-haired and black-haired boys on either side of her.

This must be the captain.

No one knows what the black-haired captain said, but the orange-haired girl, the green-haired boy, and the other two nodded in agreement. Soon, the orange-haired girl hurriedly went into the cabin, while the green-haired boy and the other boy went together to raise the sails of the four masts on the ship. The ship slowly sailed toward them.

In the water at the bow of the ship, one could vaguely see a sea creature pulling the ship, making it travel faster and faster.

“Interesting,” Garin smiled. He lowered his binoculars, beckoned, and took a megaphone from the black-suited agent. Soon, his indifferent warning echoed across the sea between them and the oncoming pirate ship:

"Orange-haired woman, I am the Celestial Dragon Figarand—Saint Garin. I am currently very interested in your body. I will give you three seconds to come to this ship immediately and willingly become my slave. That way, I may spare your giant companion. Otherwise, I will dismember her body piece by piece until even if you become her slave, you will not be able to save her. Do you understand? You can use Moonwalk, right? Now, start the countdown: 3, 2, 1..."

A suppressed cry of pain immediately came from the loudspeaker, followed by the sound of something elastic falling to the ground.

Garin said into the megaphone, "That was her left eye. I'll count to three, next time it'll be her right arm. Are you ready?"

As he spoke, he continued to observe through his binoculars. On the six-eyed, four-armed pirate ship approaching through the lens, an orange-haired girl was being held down by two crew members with green and black hair, while the black-haired captain... his hair suddenly turned white.

The white-haired captain looked towards Garin's telescope lens, his azure eyes suddenly magnified in the image—no, it was because he was too fast, he rushed to Garin's side in an instant.

He can fly! Garin's pupils shrank, and he took the binoculars away in shock, but the white-haired, blue-eyed captain was nowhere to be seen.

"..."

Redio, his white hair flowing, quietly walked behind Figarand—Garin, his greatsword, Demon Slayer, a deep crimson, blood dripping silently from its tip…

"Boom!!!" Garin's body suddenly shattered into pieces, exploding into a cloud of blood mist.

Chapter 93 Figaland Garin

[Chapter Opening Serial: Executive Vice President Miss Quan, Sunday, Chapter 42: "This is the President's Order"]

[Robin sat down in the gold-trimmed crocodile-skin office chair, his back to the chattering Den Den Mushi on the desk, and simply uttered a command.]

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A moment ago

Zoro and Ace unfurled the sails, Nami adjusted the course, and Moo Moo pulled the ship with all his might at the bow.

Redio had a feeling that someone was watching him. He clapped his hands, called Nami and the other two over, and said, "Based on Nami's information, I can confirm that the enemy is a member of a group called the 'Knights of God,' and they are indeed immortal."

"Really can't be killed?" Ace was surprised.

While healing herself, Nami nodded and said, "Even if my head is cut off, I can still talk and put it back on... I can't think of any other way to kill this monster..."

"There's a way to kill him," Redio said.

Zoro, gripping his sword, smiled and said, "As long as there's a way!"

"But none of us can do that yet," Redio said. "Only an extremely powerful attack imbued with Conqueror's Haki can slow down their regeneration rate and even kill them completely."

Zoro and Nami both looked at Ace, who was sweating profusely. "My Conqueror's Haki is only at the beginner level; I really can't do that!"

"So the plan is..."

As Redio was speaking, a huge loudspeaker blared from the other side of the sea:

"Orange-haired woman, I am the Celestial Dragon Figarand—Garin Saint. I am currently very interested in your body. I'll give you three seconds..."

Nami herself didn't react to the provocation, but Ace and Zoro were annoyed by Korin's voice. However, when they heard the second half of the sentence, which was a threat to Gertz, everyone couldn't sit still.

However, no one expected that Garin would actually count so quickly, and without hesitation, remove Gertz's left eye. Everyone could even hear the muffled thud of the enormous eyeball bouncing on the deck…

"The plans have changed."

Redio decisively activated his Gojo Satoru mode, saying calmly, "I'll go rescue Gertz first, you guys follow, and then... we'll see how things go."