Pirates: It's not a mythical beast, it's a phantom god

Among them was the most beautiful memory of his life—decades ago, in the flower fields of his hometown. The morning dew had not yet dried, and the girl, holding a bunch of wild daisies, smiled at him, her skirt stained with such an incongruous cleanliness.

"In that case, I will call you Master from now on." La smiled when he heard Cook's answer.

"Miss, please don't bother me, my old bones. Just call me Old Cook like everyone else." Cook quickly declined when he heard what La said.

"No, not to mention that you will soon be my teacher, you are much older than me. Addressing me like that is really not polite."

La's attitude was very firm. Whether as a 'wandering spirit' in her previous life or as 'La' now, she was always used to maintaining the most basic courtesy towards the elderly.

[Sure enough, he is a good kid who is incompatible with all the beasts...] A trace of helplessness and regret flashed through Old Cook's heart.

"Well, how about calling me Grandpa Cook... No, no, as expected... Well, call me Daddy Cook. That's what the kids around your age call me when I buy groceries."

Old Cook seemed to have remembered something, and his eyes suddenly flashed with light, then quickly dimmed. In the end, he did not choose that name.

"Okay, Daddy Cook."

The moment Dara pronounced the name in his ethereal and gentle voice, Old Cook was silent for a long time and his heart trembled violently.

He seemed to see the small figure that existed only in his imagination, and just stood there in a daze.

"Hey, Brother Cook! We've bought all the ingredients, it's time to prepare lunch."

At this time, the deputy chef wearing a tall hat pushed the door into the kitchen with many waiters from the cafeteria, carrying a lot of fresh ingredients bought from the town.

"Hey! Miss La, why are you here? Sorry, lunch isn't ready yet."

"It's okay. I'm not here to eat, but to learn cooking from Daddy Cook. From today on, I'll be a kitchen helper."

Looking at the other party's surprised and flustered look, La explained with a smile.

"Help, help, helper?! Miss La, you are a cadre of our Beasts Pirates! How can we let you be a helper! If Boss Kaido finds out, we, we..."

"You don't have to worry about that. I'll talk to Captain Kaido."

"As for the helpers, that's just my personal idea. If you feel uncomfortable ordering me around, just think of me as a supervisor~" In order to relieve the pressure on the sous chef, he made a little joke.

"but……"

The sous chef wanted to say something else, but Old Cook spoke up at this moment and finalized the matter.

"Okay, that's it. Don't worry about Miss La's affairs. I'll take care of it."

"Let's start preparing lunch now. Those hungry ghosts won't wait for us."

I took out a fish that looked rather casual from the ingredients on the table. The fish tail was splashing with water droplets, and it looked very fresh and energetic.

"Miss, I will now teach you how to prepare these ingredients." Cook wiped the water stains that had just splashed on his face and prepared to start teaching.

"Just call me La, no need to use honorifics, Dad Cook." La seriously corrected Cook's address.

"Haha... okay, okay." Old Cook adjusted his apron with one hand and didn't bother about it anymore.

He hit the fish's head hard with the blade of the knife. His action was so sharp that it was impossible to tell that he was an old man in his seventies or eighties. With just one hit, the sea fish with casual features stopped moving immediately.

"This thing is called a clownfish, a marine fish unique to the New World. Don't be fooled by its ugly appearance, but when it grows up, it's a ferocious carnivore capable of preying on sharks! It's said to even have some Sea King bloodline."

As Old Cook spoke, he skillfully cut open the fish's belly and took out the internal organs...

"This is a juvenile fish. Its weak spot is the bump on its head. If you hit it hard, it will faint."

"We can remove the scales and organs while it's unconscious to ensure the fish tastes as fresh as possible."

Although La said not to distract her while teaching, Old Cook still explained every step carefully.

Frankly speaking, it's a waste of talent for a high-class chef like him who only serves the nobility to serve these rough guys like Baishou who are just chewing on peonies. They won't be able to tell the quality of any piece of meat even if they roast it.

But Old Cook still strives for excellence and perfection in every step. Perhaps this is the so-called pride and persistence of a chef.

La on the side listened very carefully and memorized his every move.

The rough-looking sous chef and the waiters looked at each other, not knowing what to do when they saw the old man and the young man.

"What are you still standing there for? Start a fire!"

Cook turned around and looked at the people who were still standing there motionless, and shouted. Only then did everyone react and start preparing lunch.

It seems that this white-haired old man still has a lot of prestige in the kitchen.

……

Chapter 35 The Wind Rises

"Hey, Obe. What do you think Sister La will teach us this afternoon?" Osi put his two little hands behind his head and kicked the stones on the ground boredly.

"How should I know? But since my elder sister said it's a bit difficult, it must be very difficult... By the way, hasn't that guy Jin come back yet?" Ober looked around, trying to find a certain figure.

"Why are you looking for that masked man?" Ossi asked in confusion.

"Of course I'll let him taste my Armament Haki Iron Fist! That guy hit me over 281 times yesterday, and this time I'm going to give him back every hit."

Oubey said with some gritted teeth.

"My motto is: tooth for tooth, blood for blood, a thousandfold!"

"No way, you're too stingy! Even though that guy was ruthless, he was trying to teach us."

"Shut up! I clearly told him to stop so I could think for a while, but he just kept banging on my head as if he didn't hear me. He really thought my head was a wooden fish!

Knocking it once will earn you some merit, right?!"

"I'm telling you, that guy is a sadist!"

"Okay, okay, even if you want to take revenge on that guy, he's not on the island now~" Osi was still nonchalant. Anyway, she wasn't hit that many times yesterday, so she wouldn't hold a grudge.

"Since that guy is not here, you can practice with me first. When I become proficient in it, I will beat him so hard that he will be looking for his mask on the ground." Ou Bei said with a clenched fist.

"Pfft~"

Osi imagined in his mind the scene of Jhin crawling on the ground rummaging around looking for his mask, and couldn't help laughing.

"Well, I just happened to want to see what kind of face he has under that mask. Let's go back to the training ground."

Osi's character is always so impetuous and his execution ability is full. He just pulled Obei with his backhand and ran in the direction they came from.

……

In the shattered training ground, two figures, one red and one blue, stood facing each other. A burst of meaningless drums...

Well, it was quiet, there weren't any drums, but the lines still had to be read.

Lan: "How many times have we fought?"

Hong: "It's hard to say. All I remember is us fighting."

Hong: "It's time to put an end to this, Ouba! Once and for all!" The red armed color domineering climbed up his hands, and golden lightning roared between his arms.

Ou Bei smiled slightly, and his left arm wrapped in blue domineering power emerged from his sleeve, and the black gale instantly tore through the air.

Two small figures collided rapidly, the red and dark blue fists faced each other in the air, and the space made a sharp explosion.

boom!

The poor ground was plowed again. The land within dozens of meters around the two people had sunk several meters and was full of cracks. There was no doubt that the playfulness of the two young gods was disastrous to the earth beneath their feet.

……

La, who was learning knife skills with Cook at this time, suddenly looked up in the direction of the training ground, and then continued to cut the steak as if nothing had happened.

"what happened?"

"Nothing, there might be an earthquake soon. Daddy Cook, please be careful not to spill the soup."

"Another earthquake? Wasn't there an earthquake this morning? The new world is truly unstable..."

……

"Damn it, such brute force!"

Osi found that he was actually suppressed by Ouba, who was slightly smaller than him. This was not a suppression of domineering strength but a simple suppression of power. Ouba was obviously stronger than Osi!

Ossi's body was being pushed back little by little, and two deep grooves appeared on the ground under his feet.

"Damn it! I won't lose to a little brat like you! You're just an Oubey, watch me push you back!"

Osi roared, then took a deep breath, and more and more golden thunder began to wrap around his arms.

But just as Osi was about to gather strength to push back, Obe suddenly stopped and dodged her punch by moving sideways when Osi's balance was unstable.

"Varied--"

The white and tender right fist, wrapped in a destructive gust of wind, hit Osi's face directly.

"God's Fist Crushing Blow!"

"Quack~~~~"

Osi was knocked flying and flew close to the ground for hundreds of meters before crashing into a large stone wall and finally coming to a stop.

"Tsk~ Did you manage to prevent it? It really is that terrifying intuition..."

Without the joy of a successful strike, Ober felt that Osi raised his hand to block his attack at the last moment.

"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..." Osi covered his cheeks and pulled himself down from the rock bed.

Even though she had defended herself, Obery's blow still made her face swell up. The arm that blocked Obery's fist was trembling slightly and she couldn't exert any strength.

"What a shame! My hands are so black!" Osi rubbed his left cheek and said incoherently.

"You're just stupid. You actually fell for this tactic that can only fool children."

"Kuwu, the chicken is burning with brine, and the nest can be mended!"

Osi kicked the ground hard, transformed himself into a red rainbow, quickly crossed hundreds of meters and came to the top of Ober, then clasped his hands and smashed down on Ober's head.

With his amazing dynamic vision, Obei caught Ossi's movements and immediately jumped out of the way.

The violent attack landed, and the surrounding area suddenly rolled with air waves and filled with dust.

"Something's wrong! Ossi's attack can't be this powerful."

Ou Bei, who hadn't even landed yet, immediately noticed something unusual about Osi's attack. It seemed she wasn't trying to hit him at all, but was trying to... raise dust?!

"hey-hey!"

In the smoke and dust, Osi instantly locked onto Ouba's position with his terrifying intuition and observation Haki.

"Taste my return gift! Superconducting Wave - Thunder Cannon!"

The golden breath of thunder came into Ouba's sight, its diameter much larger than her body.

He immediately curled up his body, crossed his arms to protect the front, and guessed Osi's intention in advance. Obe took the blow with the most perfect posture.

A slight burning sensation and numbness swept over Oubey's body. This attack did not seem to be strong.

Just as Ou Bei was wondering, a red figure had already rushed behind Ou Bei.

"Seven hundred and fifty thousand horsepower of strength, Osi Thunder Fist!" The small fist, carrying golden thunder, struck Obe's back, knocking the Earth Hero into the ground with one punch.

Boom!

As if Mother Earth was responding, smoke and dust dozens of meters high rose from the ground and were clearly visible even on the sea in the distance.

"What's going on? Is there another earthquake? Wasn't there just one?"

"Isn't the volcano under the sea about to erupt?"

"Two earthquakes in one day isn't uncommon in the New World..."

"Closing the stall quickly, it will be troublesome if a tsunami really hits soon."

"But I just opened my stall... Hey! Don't take advantage of this opportunity to eat for free, little brat!"

……

"oi~Are you okay?" Osi squatted beside the deep pit and called out loudly.

More than ten minutes had passed since Oubey was beaten into the ground, but there was still no sign of him climbing out.

"fine."

Oubey's calm voice came from below.

"Oh my god! If you're alright, come up here! You've been lying there for so long pretending to be a cuckold? You scared me!"

Hearing that Ou Bei was fine, Osi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.