One Piece: Starting as the First Mate of the Lothar Pirates

“Give up, Garp, accept this decision.” Lieutenant General Francis shook his head.

As an observer, he was very clear about why the government made this decision; Karp had already been selected.

"Is this what those old men at the top of your government want? Please pass on a message to them for me..." Garp was annoyed.

"Hey, Garp, shut up." Lieutenant General Francis seemed to sense something and tried to stop him, but it was too late.

"What message do you want me to convey?"

"Go eat shit, all of you!"

Gag!

The phone was disconnected.

……

At this very moment.

The Great Sea Route, somewhere in the sky.

"Hahaha, my men, let's have a feast to celebrate today's great victory and the addition of our new partner!" Lockes laughed loudly.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the cabin door was violently pushed open.

Young Newgate, with his white beard, had an unusual look of panic on his face.

"How...how did she get here?!"

……

Chapter 64 A World in an Uproar!!!

Under the bright moon, a spaceship swayed and drifted by.

On the spaceship deck, the young man with the white beard looked flustered, as if he had been frightened, and his face was also slightly flushed.

"Hahaha, what's wrong, Newgate? This isn't like your usual fearless self!" Rocks laughed.

"Idiot, who...who are you saying is scared? I'm not scared at all..."

Newgate retorted sharply, then took a deep breath and said seriously, "Why...why is that woman here?"

woman?

Both Lox and Luo Chuan were taken aback, their expressions somewhat bewildered.

What kind of woman is she!

Are there women on the ship?

"Hehehehe"

Just then, Shi Ji stepped out, looking arrogant.

"It's me, it's me, it's me, Newgate! You don't need to thank me too much, we're brothers, it's nothing."

"So it was you, you sly fox, who did this! Thank you, my foot!"

Newgate gritted his teeth, wishing he could punch that smug face of Shiki hard.

"So, when exactly will there be a woman on my ship...?"

Lockes was completely bewildered. Before he could finish speaking, he heard footsteps coming from inside the cabin.

A blonde girl, wearing a leopard-print yukata, emerged from the ship's cabin after taking a bath.

“Nice to meet you, Captain Rocks. I am very honored to have been chosen by you,” said Barking Gombmstusi with a smile.

"Who are you?" Rocks asked, completely bewildered.

"That's the one, Newgate's lover," Luo Chuan reminded him from the side.

Young Newgate heard this and his eyes widened immediately.

Screw your lover!!!

"Oh oh oh!"

Lox finally realized what was happening.

"So you're Miss Barkin!"

In this Dave back fight against the Red Devils, the Rocks team won both matches and could theoretically choose two members from the opposing team.

The selection of these two members was decided from the very beginning.

First is Shiki, whom I knew before and had traveled with, and the other is Miss Bakkin.

Lox chose her because he heard that Newgate was interested in her.

However, as the war intensified, everyone forgot about it.

It was Shiki who, during the family division, encountered Miss Baggins, who was also there to collect her belongings, and that's when she remembered.

Originally, seeing that the Red Devils were about to fall, Miss Bakkin was planning to take some treasure and go solo.

When she learned from Shiki that she had been chosen by Rocks to be his partner, Miss Baggins agreed without even a second's hesitation.

That's how things got to this point: the young white-bearded man accidentally wandered into the bathroom and happened to witness a beautiful woman emerging from her bath.

“Not bad, not bad, Miss Barkin, you are indeed quite beautiful. No wonder you could captivate Newgate.” Locke nodded approvingly.

“Don’t talk nonsense, Rocks, who…who would like her? She’s a liar,” Newgate retorted emotionally.

"Don't say that, Newgate. Your sister is giving you an important life lesson."

Miss Barkinby moved gracefully toward the young, white-bearded man.

“Damn this class!” Newgate said with a dark expression.

“And didn’t I release you later…” Miss Bakkin continued.

“If it weren’t for that last thing, I would have thrown you off the ship by now,” Newgate said.

"Then I really have to thank Newgate for sparing my life~" Miss Baggins said, adopting a submissive and affectionate demeanor.

Seeing this scene, Luo Chuan unconsciously imagined an old woman with a leopard-print plum face, Bakin, with a white beard, acting coquettishly fifty years later. He couldn't help but vomit a couple of times.

Miss Bakkin: "???"

She always thought she was very beautiful.

Newgate's dislike was understandable, since she was the one who lied to him first.

Ke Luochuan... his expression just now clearly showed his disdain.

Miss Bakin recalled their first meeting, during which Luo Chuan's reaction was equally strange.

"Hahaha, don't just stand there, let's get the party started and the dancing continues, let's all get hyped up."

Shiki laughed and waved, and a large amount of food and wine floated in from the neighboring ship, piling up on the deck.

A night of revelry, destined to be sleepless!!!

……

Three days later, news of the destruction of the amusement park tycoon, Red Devil Shopping F, spread throughout the world, shocking countless people.

"Wow, wow, wow... this is so sudden! Is this for real?!"

"The Crimson Demon King... that's a monster that dominated the first half of the Grand Line's Paradise for decades!"

"Redbeard Eric, he is one of the beings standing at the very top of this ocean!"

"Who on earth is this guy, who actually managed to defeat the kingpin of the amusement park?!"

The news shocked everyone who saw it, whether they traveled to the east, south, west, or north, or along the entire great sea route, both before and after.

Soon after, when the follow-up reports appeared, featuring the Navy's Iron Fist Colonel who occupied an entire page, the world was even more shocked.

"Wang Defa! Navy Iron Fist Colonel? Just a Navy colonel, yet..."

"That's the king of the amusement park, the man at the top of the ocean, and he's been defeated by a mere colonel... Impossible!"

"These days, is a naval colonel really this terrifying?"

"Not long ago, there was a report that even a Navy Admiral from the Navy Headquarters couldn't catch the three-man gang..."

"Now, a naval colonel can defeat the dominant force in the amusement park? These recent news reports are becoming more and more exaggerated and unbelievable."

Despite the government's vigorous promotion behind the scenes, the vast majority of people on this sea remain skeptical, believing it to be fake news.

After all, the contrast before and after is simply too exaggerated.

At that time, Garp was just a colonel, not yet the well-known naval hero he would become in later generations.

On the other hand, Red Devils and Redbeard Eric were one of the most terrifying teams of that era.

No one would believe that a naval colonel could defeat it; that's just too far-fetched.

The World Government's propaganda department consulted with its superiors overnight, and the following day, more inside information about the Octopus Island incident was revealed.

People around the world then learned that, in addition to the naval captain, there was also a group of naval officers involved in the incident.

"Roger Trader F? Who's that? Never heard of him!"

"No, no, no, I have heard that this Haimai F is extraordinary!"

"Captain Gol D. Roger is a man with a bounty of five hundred million... no, now it should be one billion!"

"A billion-level sea monster, a five-hundred-million-level deputy, and a team bounty approaching three billion..."

"A Navy captain with Iron Fist, plus a team of supernovas like this, it's barely believable!"

Many people around the world agree that this must be the truth.

But many people still remain skeptical of the so-called truth.

……

New World, Angel Island.

This is the stronghold of the dominant power that controlled the latter half of the Grand Line.

Like the octopus island, this place is less a hub for seafaring and more like a complete country.

At the very center of the island stands a huge, sacred, and solemn statue of a six-winged angel.

Angel believers around the world are devout and obedient, kneeling every three steps and bowing every nine steps.

The Angelic Palace, the overlord of the new world, where all the big and small officials of Angelic Mercenary F gather.

"Ha, those guys in the government must have lost their minds. They were so stupid as to put forward a naval colonel to take all the credit for defeating the Red Devils!"

"That redbeard bastard was once our equal. If he's defeated by a mere colonel, won't we also be looked down upon?"

"Roger the Merchant F...Straw Hat Boy Gol D. Roger, I still feel something's not right. The government must be hiding something!"

"I think it's not impossible. Paradise and New World are on different levels. Redbeard is not what he used to be!"

The angels chattered amongst themselves, each expressing their own opinions.

At one moment, a tall figure appeared in the hall, silently.

"You've returned, Raphael. Did you gain anything from this trip?" the man on the angelic throne asked.

In an instant, the vast hall fell silent, and everyone fell silent.

"Captain Michael, they should be able to answer all the questions about the destruction of the Red Devil Pirates F!"

The man named Raphael spread his palms out, revealing a pink, fleshy mound in his hand, and gently patted the two people at his feet.

In an instant, two survivors of the Scarlet Devil Band arrived at a corner of the Angelic Temple and appeared in front of the man dressed as a wizard.

"Looks like it's my turn to step in!"

The wizard-man, draped in a black robe, placed his hands on the tops of the two sea oxen and gently tugged.

The next second, there was a whooshing sound, and two members of the Red Devils were pulled out.

Paramecia-type memory fruit!!!

Those with special abilities can freely observe and even manipulate the memories of others by touching their heads.

With just a light touch, one can, like a magician, unravel the memory capsule from another's brain.