After retiring from the Navy, I became a doting husband.

"No way! I'm going to be the Pirate King!" Luffy retorted defiantly.

As soon as Luffy said those words, Nami, Chopper, and Usopp burst into tears, thinking, "Captain, how can you say you want to become the Pirate King in front of the Marines, even if that Marine is your grandfather?"

While Garp was teaching Luffy a lesson, Martin also saw who it was: a woman in a long robe was being protected by a group of people as she appeared in front of him.

Are you Martin?

Chapter 242 Hand-to-hand combat with Im

Just after seeing Karp off, Martin suddenly heard this touching greeting. The voice was so beautiful that he couldn't help but frown and turn around awkwardly.

As Martin turned around, the woman opposite him widened her eyes in disbelief.

"So alike, so incredibly alike! I never imagined that after all these years, I would still see someone who looks so much like my master."

Seeing Martin turn around, Im's eyes flickered violently a few times, and she seemed to be saying something. Although she had seen Martin's bounty poster before, the photo only showed his profile, and her attention was focused on the mark.

While Im was still in a daze, Martin also saw who it was. Among a large group of tall men, a graceful and beautiful woman stood out.

Thinking of the beautiful voice he had just heard, Martin began to scrutinize the woman, trying hard to recall if there was such a character in One Piece, but he couldn't remember who she was even after thinking for a long time.

"Who are you? What do you want with me?" Martin asked, unable to recall who the person was.

"How dare you speak to Lord Im like that! Kneel down and beg for his forgiveness!"

While Im was still in a daze, a man next to him couldn't wait to stop him.

"Im!!!"

Upon hearing this, Martin muttered to himself, "Imu has always been shrouded in mystery in the world of One Piece; even whether she is male or female is unknown."

Knowing that the visitor was the most powerful person in the world, Martin looked up a few more times before turning back to leave. Whether it was Im or not had nothing to do with him, even though he had just killed Im's most trusted subordinate, the Five Elders.

Seeing Martin turn and leave, the man who had just spoken immediately felt ignored. He was a member of the God's Guard, and even the Five Elders would treat him with utmost respect, not daring to put on airs like the Five Elders.

"Damn it, how dare you..." the man shouted, then jumped up and punched Martin hard in the back.

Although Martin turned to leave, he remained wary of Im and his group, keeping a close watch on them with his Observation Haki. Sensing the approaching attack, he was about to turn back to retaliate when a burst of angry curses rang out.

"How dare you!!!"

"Bang!!!"

The man flying through the air was about to hit Martin when he was violently knocked away, crashing into a large number of trees before falling heavily to the ground, creating a huge crater.

Upon discovering this, Martin frowned, slowly lowering his hand that was about to retaliate. He couldn't understand why Im would attack his subordinate and shout "How dare you!" What was going on?

After Im knocked her subordinate away, she realized that she might have gone a bit too far. It was understandable, though, since Martin looked so much like her former master that for a moment she thought her subordinate was attacking him.

When Im saw Martin, it was as if she had been transported back to a long time ago, reminding her of when she was first created, when her master was with her, teaching her to do all sorts of things. Those days made her very dependent on her master.

Im is actually a robot, an intelligent robot. She was created to take care of her master's trivial matters, but as her intelligence increases, she finds that her master spends less and less time with her, spending all day with a group of outsiders, and even delegating her control to twenty people, allowing them to give her orders briefly.

She didn't want it to be like this; she wanted her master to stay with her all the time. Finally, she united with the twenty people who had worked with her master to change the world, and together they launched a war to liberate her master in Mo Yi. She thought that as long as her master had nothing to do, he could stay with her all day and never leave her again.

To Im's surprise, her master put on a spacesuit and left this world in his final moments, leaving her without her master forever. This scene was also witnessed by the ancestors of the current Celestial Dragons, the Twenty Kings, who believed that this was the true attire of a god.

The man who had been knocked away by Im quickly got up, ran to Im, and knelt down in front of him, his body still trembling.

"Lord Im!!! Please punish me, Lord Im!!!" The man begged for mercy, even though he didn't know what mistake he had made.

Martin was curious and wanted to know what was going on, but he didn't want to stay in this place for even a second longer. This was the dirtiest place in the world, and he wouldn't have come here at this time if it weren't to save Chopper.

Seeing Martin about to leave, Im quickly took two steps to stand behind Martin and said, "Young Master, wait a minute, can you please not go?"

"Young Master???"

Upon hearing Im's words, Martin was filled with a dense array of question marks. How could he possibly be Im's young master? Others might not know, but he knew very well that he could never be Im's young master.

But thinking of Im's pitiful cries, Martin couldn't help but turn around and reply, "Are you mistaken? I'm not your young master."

Hearing Martin turn around and answer him, Im's eyes lit up, and he said, "Young Master is not wrong. I just obtained Young Master's blood not long ago. Young Master's blood is basically the same as Master's blood. In this world, only Master and Young Master have the same blood composition. Most other people's blood is not like this."

"Such a thing is possible?!"

Martin exclaimed in surprise. He had never known that his blood was different from others, because he thought that other people's blood was also red, the same blood as his.

“Yes, young master. Although your blood looks the same as other people’s blood, the composition of the blood is very different,” Im replied confidently, his eyes growing increasingly fervent.

Martin was startled by Im's confident answer. A bold idea formed in his mind: Could it be that Im's master, like himself, had also transmigrated to this world? Could he have a fellow countryman in this world? Thinking of oracle bone script and simplified Chinese characters, Martin's heart began to burn with excitement. Wasn't this like meeting an old friend in a foreign land?

But his initial enthusiasm quickly cooled. He remembered that Im was the biggest villain in the One Piece world, and the World Government had ruled this world for over 800 years. He wondered if his fellow countryman harbored any ill intentions towards him, how strong he was, and whether he could defeat him. Thinking of this, Martin felt an urge to fight his fellow countryman again.

"Wait... more than eight hundred years, Im's master must be over eight hundred years old!!!" Martin was startled by his own thought. How could a normal person live to be eight hundred years old?

"And what about your master?" Martin couldn't help but ask, even though he knew that no one could live to be eight hundred years old.

“Master…Master has left this place, left this world.” Im paused for a moment after hearing Martin mention her master before speaking.

"They're gone!!" Martin sighed. He had hoped to find a fellow countryman, but now his hopes had been dashed.

Meanwhile, Martin looked at Im with suspicion, wondering what it meant by leaving—was he dead or gone to another planet?

However, seeing Im's sad appearance, Martin naturally assumed that her master was dead.

Please accept my condolences; the dead cannot be brought back to life!

Martin said calmly, then prepared to leave again. Now that Master Im was dead, he had no reason to stay here.

As Martin strode away, Im's eyes began to flash violently, sometimes reluctantly, sometimes with a fierce glint in them as if he wanted to devour him.

"Young Master, can you stay? The whole world has submitted to me. If you are willing to stay, then this world will belong to you. I just need to stay by your side."

After a dramatic change in his gaze, Im spoke hesitantly, as if pleading with Martin, his sweet, delicate voice particularly pleasing to the ear.

Martin was about to push off with his feet and quickly leave this filthy place when he suddenly heard Im's sweet, coquettish cry, which gave him goosebumps all over his body and made his legs go weak, almost causing him to fall.

When Im saw Martin stop, he was overjoyed. Sure enough, no man could resist the allure of beauty and power. Im was very confident in his appearance and voice, which were carefully selected by his master and were the best in the world.

"call…"

Martin took a deep breath to calm himself down, and then said, "I have no interest in this world."

Martin jumped up impatiently. He increasingly felt that this woman was dangerous and resembled some kind of madwoman.

"Why? Why is Master like this, and you're like this too? Can't you just stay quietly by my side?"

Just as Martin jumped up, Im suddenly screamed wildly. This scream was no longer his sweet and pleasant voice, but a piercing scream.

Martin, suspended in mid-air, couldn't help but look back again. This time, Im's face was rugged, his hair stood on end and danced wildly in the wind, and his eyes were staring at him greedily.

"Go and invite the young master to the flower garden as a guest!"

"It's Lord Im!"

As soon as Im finished speaking, the group of people next to him immediately responded.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

A series of whooshing sounds rang out as people leaped into the air and flew rapidly toward Martin, intending to rescue him and take him to the Flower Garden.

Martin noticed someone was chasing him, paused in mid-air, and then landed on the ground.

"Martin, come with us!"

The group then landed from the air and quickly surrounded Martin, blocking all his escape routes.

"Don't go!"

Martin looked at the group of people calmly, then turned and angrily said, "Im, is this how you treat your so-called young master? It seems you killed your master too!"

Martin looked at the group of people surrounding him, one hand grabbing his hair as if he wanted to pull out all his black hair, the other hand on his stomach, constantly rubbing his belly, and his face showing an impatient expression.

Martin was eager to leave Mary Geoise, partly to get away from the madwoman Im, and partly because he was starving after fighting the Five Elders and wanted to return to Sabaody Archipelago to replenish his energy.

"Gurgle! Gurgle!"

A thunderous sound erupted from the crowd, putting Im's men on high alert, who feared someone was preparing to ambush them.

Seeing their cautious manner made Martin's face turn red. He lost all interest in breaking out and plopped down on the ground.

"I'm hungry, is there anything to eat?"

Hearing Martin's sudden shout made Im's men grit their teeth. They were the mighty God's Guard, yet they acted like servants in front of a man. What they didn't expect was that their majestic and powerful Lord Im disappeared before their eyes like a gust of wind.

"Bang bang bang!"

After disappearing for a while, Im quickly returned, pulling a huge food cart. The dignified and elegant queen from before was no longer there. She was dressed in a maid's outfit, holding a napkin and cutlery, and respectfully approached Martin.

"Young Master invites you to a meal!"

Im pulled Martin to the food cart and quickly put a napkin on him. Then, like a butterfly, she fluttered around, opening the plates on the cart to reveal plates of exquisite food.

Im's face was filled with happiness. In this moment, she felt as if she had returned to a long time ago, when her master was a workaholic who often forgot to eat while working. And just like now, she would prepare a table full of delicious food for her master and serve him a meal.

Martin, rubbing his rumbling stomach, started eating without any hesitation, and the food on the food cart disappeared at a visible rate.

"Gollum! Gollum! Gollum!"

In stark contrast to Im's excitement, her subordinates, the members of the God's Guard, were all swallowing hard, their mouths watering as they smelled the fragrance.

The food on the dining car smelled so delicious that it made their stomach acid and saliva secrete rapidly. They longed to rush over and eat meat with Martin, but their bodies remained obediently in place. The terror of Im made them dare not make any rash moves.

On Sabaody Archipelago, as Luffy and his crew sailed away, a terrifying aura suddenly emanated from Mary Geoise. Enel and the others, who were laughing heartily, suddenly changed their expressions. The terrifying aura made them unable to laugh anymore, and they showed deep worry. Although they were very confident in their captain's strength, they had never encountered such a terrifying aura before.

"puff!"

Enel exhaled the cigar from his mouth, glanced at the others, and said, "Let's go up to Mary Geoise and see who has the audacity to plot against our Temple of Good and Evil."

Enel turned around to go to Mary Geoise, and the others followed suit, their faces contorted with malice.

"Sabo, you don't need to come with us. Just stay here and keep watch. If anything happens in Sabaody Archipelago, wait for me to come back..."

Just as Sabo was about to catch up, Enel suddenly turned around and said that the imposing aura he had just witnessed put him under great pressure, and he didn't want anything to happen to this young man with unlimited potential.

"Humph!"

Sabo snorted coldly. He originally wanted to sneak over, even though his strength was far inferior to that of the group from the Temple of Good and Evil. But after sensing the aura just now, he wanted to see who had such strength.

His sense of belonging to the Revolutionary Army is waning, and he still wants to provide them with some valuable intelligence without betraying the Temple of Good and Evil, so that his former comrades suffer fewer losses.

Sakazuki's expression was also somber. Before he left the World Government, he had always considered himself one of the World Government's top fighters, possessing strength among the best in the entire organization. He even held the rank of Admiral, a high-ranking official of the World Government, one of the elite, a select few who held the world's secrets. However, after leaving, he realized he was nothing more than a frog in a well, merely a henchman of the World Government, lacking both power and understanding.

"I will show you that I am the strongest!"

Thinking of this, Sakazuki muttered to himself viciously, his strength having greatly improved over the past few years on Gaya Island.