I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

"Don't worry, I know the way. You won't get lost if you follow us," Ace said.

"I……"

"Hahahahahaha..."

"...Shut up, all of you!"

Boom!

Zoro slammed the two brothers' heads in the middle, leaving them dizzy and with bumps on their heads.

"Ouch, it hurts, it hurts..."

Seeing the two guys quiet down, Zoro laughed in exasperation: "Fine, you don't need to take me back. I'll just stay with you and wait for the Navy to catch up with you."

"Then welcome to the team." Ace immediately reached out his hand.

Zoro turned his head speechlessly and met Luffy's expectant eyes: "Hey, Zoro, can you cook? Ace's cooking is terrible!"

"Luffy! How dare you say that to me?"

Cooking? Looking at the two lively brothers, Zoro sighed softly, and also thought of Kuina, who was two years older than him and had grown up with him since childhood, like an older sister to him... Of course, he would never call Kuina "older sister".

Kuina's cooking is amazing! I haven't had her food in half a year, and I really miss it.

……

"Alright, mission accomplished by driving Luffy and Ace to Roronoa Zoro's location. Next... we need to drive them all to Kuina, who's looking for Zoro on the Lantern Star."

Standing at the bow of the ship, Pedro, wearing jaguar fur, exclaimed, "It's truly amazing! How did Lord Figo manage to pinpoint their location so precisely from hundreds of thousands of miles away?"

“Grandpa Figo has always had this amazing ability,” Naika replied from the side.

Naika is no longer the weak and naive barbarian girl she once was. Now 27 years old, she has grown to over five meters tall, and her abundant hair gives her a wild beauty.

"The voyage ahead is going to be quite long again. Pedro, Sebe, Mel, let's go fishing for lanterns! Forming a lantern fishing group is our main task!" she said excitedly.

The others smiled.

It's been almost a month since we left Capri. Everyone else has caught something while fishing for lamps, except for Naika, who has been very unlucky and hasn't caught even a single lamp wick. However, she has managed to hook up some strange bottles and jars.

Naika ignited the barbarian bloodline lamp and the body lamp. Logically speaking, these two types of lamps and lamps should be quite common. It can only be said that she was unlucky.

She never believed in this superstition.

Come on, come on.

Several people sat on the side of the boat and cast their poles.

They weren't Figo; they didn't have enough people or the ability to control the wicks, and it was common for them to go for hours or even a whole day without any results.

While the others struggled to maintain focus during the long, tedious wait, Naika kept her eyes glued to the water's surface.

Suddenly noticing ripples on the water, her eyes lit up, but upon closer inspection, she pouted.

"Pedro, Pedro."

"I saw."

Pedro reeled in the cord, and a wick from a Mink Tribe bloodline lamp landed in his hand, bringing a slight smile to the leopard's face: "Not bad luck."

Naika ignored the boastful guy.

Continue to concentrate.

Suddenly she noticed the sea was rippling again. She looked closely, and her big eyes lit up.

This time it seems to be... mine?!

"Huh? Yours, Naika."

"Shh..." Naika gestured for silence, her eyes filled with anticipation, and slowly reeled in the line.

Bright, dazzling lights emanating from the seabed emerged from the ocean floor, causing everyone to widen their eyes in an instant!

"This is... a level three lamp?!"

"What kind of light is that? Is it from barbarian blood?"

"Keep your voice down, Naika, take your time."

Naika stared blankly at the lamp, a familiar and warm feeling emanating from its light, which gradually faded the ecstasy on her face.

She would never forget that feeling. With a quick swift movement, amidst the anxious and worried looks of the others, Naika caught the lamp steadily in her hand.

"What's this?"

"It looks like the bloodline light of the demon race?"

"A Zoan type? It looks fierce."

"How did Naika manage to fish him out?"

The chatter of the people who had gathered around went in one ear and out the other. She stared at the ugly and ferocious Behemoth, and her memory flashed back to the year she turned seven, the year that changed her fate.

"Those who run fast only hear the wind, while those who run slowly only hear gossip. You have to run, little girl, run as fast as you can."

Yeah, I've gotten here.

It's good to see you again, Uncle Ato.

She hugged the lamplight tightly to her chest, lowered her head, and two lines of tears streamed down her face.

In the distance, Yana was gazing in this direction from the sky.

Yato's light was something she had hung on Naika's fishing rod while she was underwater, but she did nothing afterward, and the light offered no resistance to Naika's attempt to catch it.

Her eyes were also slightly moist.

You finally have a home, Yato.

……

Why would such a strong man suddenly cry like this?

On another island, Kuina looked at the burly, bearded man sobbing uncontrollably before her with a strange expression.

When Zoro first got lost, she didn't think it was a big deal. It was only much later, when she couldn't find where Zoro had gone, that she realized he might have gotten lost at the Place of the Light.

'I'm afraid that guy will break the agreement and use external objects (light) to cultivate and surpass me.'

She told Hawkeye this, and then decisively plunged into the Starry Sky—she had also entered by getting lost in the depths of the starry sky from the Starry Sky. She felt that she and Zoro should be very close, so for more than a month after entering, she did not contact the Navy and searched for them in the surrounding waters on her own.

The burly man in front of her was a fisherman she had just met a few days ago. He was a nice guy, but after receiving a phone call, he suddenly burst into tears. She didn't know what sad thing had happened to him.

"Are you... alright, Zam?"

"Is something wrong at your home? Do you need my help?"

Zam looked up with red eyes: "It's Lord Wangang, Lord Wangang... he's going to have... he's going to have his ascension funeral, sob sob sob..."

"Lord Wan Gang? An ascension funeral?"

These two words were somewhat unfamiliar to Guina, who had only been in Denghuoxing for two months. It was only through the burly man's intermittent explanation that she came to understand.

Wan Gang is the 'Lamp King' of the Fire Star, the 'King Without a Title' of the human kingdom of Capri, one of the four kings among the four kings of the One Saint, One Emperor, Two Pillars, and one of the most important figures at the top level of lighting the five lamps!

The Ascension Funeral is a special ritual, a unique inheritance of the Light Star—before one dies, one transfers one's own light to the sky, becoming part of the sealing of the Light Star!

Generation after generation, the human race has kept the demon race trapped within the sparks of light. And this kind of funeral has almost disappeared in the last six hundred years.

"Lord Wan Gang... how old are you this year? You and he..."

"Lord Wangan participated in the founding war of Capri and was a contemporary of the Skeleton Emperor. He should be... over three thousand years old."

“Me? I was just a child he sponsored, a... well, an insignificant child.”

"Lord Wan Gang is the greatest man in this sea. As the King of Fishing Lanterns, he leads the largest fishing lantern group on Lantern Star. He should have been the richest man, but he... he has always used all his wealth to support orphans like me..."

As Zam recounted his story, Guina gradually revealed an expression of admiration.

Such selfless human ancestors?

"You're going, right? I'll go with you."

Chapter 338 True Poverty

"Make money, make money, make money."

Upon arriving at an inhabited island, Luffy was hungry again, muttering listlessly to himself.

"Uncle, where can I make money?" he asked a middle-aged man casually on the street.

The middle-aged man replied with a polite look, though his expression remained impeccable: "Making money? I want to make money too. Go work at the docks and move cargo."

"No way, that doesn't pay much. Moving too much will prevent others from making money," Luffy muttered, and then moved on to the next person.

"Sister, where can I make money?"

"Hey, has he always been like this...always this embarrassing?" Zoro asked Ace from behind, covering his face, he simply couldn't bear to watch.

Ace shrugged. "You'll get used to it. What can I do with a brother like this?"

He continued walking forward, and after a few steps he suddenly had a familiar feeling. He turned around and saw that Zoro was indeed nowhere to be seen. He helplessly put his hand to his forehead and said, "Seriously, we can get lost and turn corners even when we're walking together... I have a feeling that my days are going to be even more difficult in the future."

"Luffy! Luffy!"

"Come quick, Zoro's lost again!"

Luffy yelled, looked around, ran to Ace's side, and suggested, "Let's sell Zoro's sword, Ace!"

"You don't have to secretly suggest this to me every time Zoro gets lost!"

Ace was speechless. He quickly caught up with Zoro, who suddenly turned a corner and muttered, "How come he just disappeared like that?"

"Zoro! Ace said he'd sell your sword if you get lost again!" Luffy shouted.

"What did you say? Ace?!"

"When did I say that?!" Ace punched Luffy on the head with a thud.

"Ouch! Ace, you're starting to look more and more like Grandpa Garp." Luffy collapsed to the ground from the force of the impact. "I'm so hungry~"

Ace felt sorry for Luffy when he saw him like this. He hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should take out the emergency light coins he had hidden and have a meal first. Suddenly, he saw Luffy, who was lying on the ground, raise his head and twitch his nose.

"Wow, it smells so good!"

Like a caterpillar, Luffy crawled rapidly across the ground, arching and scrambling. Following the scent he smelled, he crossed a street and arrived at a small courtyard at the end of an alley.