One Piece: Burning the Prison Clothes in the Setting Sun, Mihawk is dumbfounded.

The 16th Branch of the East China Sea Navy.

"Sir, sir!"

The anxious shouts startled the squinting Major Mouse awake.

"Damn it, what's the rush?"

The naval branch lieutenant, Rat, who had been dozing off, glared angrily at the marine who stormed into his office and roared.

"Sir, a pirate ship is heading towards the base."

Upon entering, the marine saw the angry-looking rat, quickly stood at attention, and reported.

"Huh? Wait, a pirate ship?"

This news made Major Rat, who was still half asleep, widen his eyes and look at the marines standing at attention with a puzzled expression.

"Yes, sir!"

The marine who made the report nodded repeatedly, indicating that he had not made a mistake.

"Has the base commander not returned yet?"

Major Mouse stood up, frowned, and asked.

"Uh, the base commander went back to headquarters to report for duty and just left not long ago."

The marine answered carefully upon hearing the question.

"Sound the alarm! Prepare to engage the enemy!"

The somewhat sleazy-looking Major Rat gave the order, and the marines who heard it saluted and ran away.

Major Rat, who had grabbed the long knife beside him, still looked puzzled.

"There aren't any powerful pirates in the East Blue, let alone those who directly attack Marine bases. What's going on?"

Grabbing his sword, he walked out of the office. At the naval base, alarms sounded, and squads of marines quickly formed ranks. Major Rat led hundreds of marines directly toward the port.

The residents of the small town outside the base were all puzzled when they discovered this situation.

A large group of marines, led by Major Rat, arrived at the seaside pier and saw a small pirate ship rushing straight toward the port.

"Prepare for battle!"

To become a naval lieutenant commander, Rat is clearly not a clueless guy; after all, he worked his way up from a marine to the position of lieutenant commander.

Marines lined up, weapons in hand, waiting for the pirate ship to approach.

On the pirate ship, Dunn stood at the bow and had already seen the marines lined up.

On the deck of the ship behind him, a group of pirates crouched down with their heads in their hands, and apart from a few pirates who were controlling the ship's course, the other pirates were all behaving themselves.

"Slow down, bring us to shore!"

Dunn turned and gave an order, and the pirate ship, which was sailing at high speed, slowed down.

A moment later, the not-so-large pirate ship slowly docked at the pier. Dunn stepped off the ship and his eyes fell on the ranks of the navy.

It had rat-like whiskers and a somewhat sleazy-looking face.

"I am Lieutenant Commander Rat, Deputy Commander of the 16th Marine Division, number 00733. Pirate, you actually attacked a Marine base!"

As he spoke, the rat pointed the knife at Dunn.

"I'm not a pirate, um, I'm a pirate hunter. I'm here to deliver pirates and collect my bounty!"

Dunn didn't care that the rat mistook him for a pirate, and directly told it the truth, even pointing to the pirate ship behind him.

Major Rat's face stiffened. He looked up at the pirate ship and saw a series of heads sticking out from the ship's side.

"A pirate hunter?"

Major Mouse was somewhat bewildered, while the navy personnel who were on high alert exchanged bewildered glances.

"Oh, and the treasure on the ship, please exchange it for Pele and send it over together."

Dunn glanced at Major Mouse and walked past him, the naval ranks instinctively parting to make way for him.

Major Rat and a group of sailors were completely bewildered as they watched Dunn stride past the naval forces and head towards the town.

However, when they boarded the pirate ship and faced the two pirates who were not bound but did not put up any resistance, they all began to speculate about Dunn's strength.

After recognizing the pirate Doru, who had a bounty of 2.5 million Berries, they immediately took Doru and his crew back to the base and conducted a brief interrogation.

Doru and his crew of pirates have resigned themselves to their fate.

The pirates, or rather the people, of great pirates are all bullies who prey on the weak and fear the strong.

Take Dunn, for example. After he merely demonstrated his strength, this group of pirates, who had only been at sea for a year, had no intention of resisting and obediently sailed their pirate ship to the naval base.

"Controlling flames? And he wasn't hurt even after being slashed by a knife?"

The returning Major Rat muttered about the information he had just obtained from the interrogation of the pirate hunter.

"A power user? A fire-related power user?"

Major Rat, who had originally been thinking of embezzling the treasure and the credit of these pirates, has now behaved himself.

These pirates weren't very knowledgeable, but Lieutenant Commander Rat had been in the Navy for many years and naturally knew about Devil Fruits.

Upon hearing Doru mention fire, he immediately thought of Devil Fruit users.

"Sir?"

Marine's reminder brought Major Rat, who had just been released from prison, back to his senses.

"That pirate hunter?"

"Convert the bounty and the treasure into Berries and send it to that pirate hunter. Also, ask him about his situation; at least find out his name."

Major Rat thought for a moment and decided that he didn't want to provoke the other party without figuring out what kind of ability they were.

As for the natural sciences, he didn't even dare to think about it.

After all, the three vice admirals of the Natural type in the Navy are currently enjoying great popularity and seem to be on the verge of being promoted to admiral.

That's a candidate for general.

……

In the town's tavern, Dunn sat at the bar, listening to the people inside discussing what had just happened.

It's quite rare to see the Navy escorting a large group of pirates back to base.

"I heard they were captured by a pirate hunter, a whole ship full of pirates."

Some people are obviously well-informed.

"That's really impressive. They managed to capture so many pirates. They must be experts on the high seas."

"Of course, they say there are dozens of pirates. To capture so many, they must be really amazing."

Hearing the discussion about himself in the tavern, Dunn, who was just beginning to explore this world, found it quite interesting and listened quietly until the arrival of naval soldiers suddenly silenced the tavern.

"Pirate Hunter, this is the bounty and treasure converted into Berries, totaling 9,530,000 Berries."

The arriving naval soldiers saw Dunn sitting at the bar, walked over, saluted, and handed him a bag.

In an instant, all the tavern patrons who had been discussing the matter turned their attention to Dunn.

Thank you!

Dunn glanced at the bag and took it directly.

"Um, you need to register to claim the bounty."

When the naval soldier saw Dunn take the bag away, he waved, and a marine behind him with paper and pen stepped forward, staring intently at Dunn.

"We need to register who took the bounty and report it upstairs."

"My name is Dunn, and I've just set sail."

Dunn glanced at the two naval soldiers before answering.

"and then?"

"there is none left!"

Seeing Dunn shake his head, the two naval soldiers exchanged a glance, and one of them asked again.

"So, where are you going next?"

"What's next? Let's keep searching for pirates. After all, I'm a pirate hunter."

Dunn raised an eyebrow and said.