The Great Voyage: The Props Master on the Straw Hat Ship

The owner and the customers next to him looked at each other, then looked completely bewildered.

"Could it be that the diagnosis was wrong...?"

One of the guests swallowed hard and asked timidly.

But before he could finish speaking, he heard...?

"Huff huff huff?"

A faint snoring sound came from the young traveler lying there.

Customer & Boss: "...!!!!"

She was really just asleep?!

"what?!"

Seemingly sensing the unusual atmosphere, the young traveler who was lying down stirred and slowly lifted his head from the plate.

He looked dazed, as if he had just woken up, and his freckled face was still covered with grains of rice from the plate.

"What happen to you guys?"

Looking at the dumbfounded, bewildered fruit on the tree, and the bewildered expressions on your and my faces below the tree.

The young man continued eating the leftovers on his plate while making casual remarks.

We're all worried about you!

The guests and the boss all transformed into sharp-toothed fish, their mouths full of fangs, wanting to bite Ace to pieces.

"Are you performers putting on a show for the guests during mealtimes?!"

"I already told you I was worried about you!!!"

Upon learning that the traveler had simply fallen asleep and was otherwise unharmed, the onlookers at the entrance and inside the restaurant, looking bored and disappointed, immediately left.

Only a few bored guys remained, who were speechless and curious because they thought eating, chatting, and sleeping was a skill in itself. They asked the boss for a drink.

"I see. Did I scare you?"

After learning what had just happened from a customer drinking nearby, the traveler immediately put down his meal and politely apologized: "I'm sorry everyone, it's my fault for making you worry."

"...Never mind, no one expected you to be so strange, and that something like this would happen."

The kind-hearted boss, seeing the traveler's sincere and polite apology, didn't want to pursue the matter too much.

As long as the people around him are alright and it doesn't affect his shop's business, that's fine.

"But you should thank them. It was they who helped you with the diagnosis that allowed us to confirm your condition," the boss said, pointing to Chopper and Link beside him.

"Hmm, actually I noticed that just now..."

The travel guy picked up his utensils again, scooped up a spoonful of rice, and said, "You two seem to be... whew~!" He then tilted his head to the side and fell back onto the plate, snoring loudly.

boss:"……"

guest:"……"

Chopper: "..."

Forget it, I'm tired. Let's just destroy it all, hurry up and do whatever we want!

The others felt increasingly exhausted, and even Chopper felt that the outside world was far too wondrous.

There are all kinds of people here; this ocean is truly amazing!!

Of course, Chopper's first reaction was to wonder if he had some kind of narcolepsy, since he could fall asleep while eating.

When he stepped forward again to check, Link stopped him.

"He has no illnesses whatsoever; he is perfectly healthy."

Link patted his arm, indicating that he had done a good job.

"But sleeping like this all the time isn't a good thing, is it?"

Link pulled out a strangely shaped chair.

It was a chair that resembled a director's chair, and on the chair was a machine that looked like a slide projector, with an antenna attached.

Prop: [Dream Projector].

Description: This device can receive dreams from people both near and far, and then project those dreams onto the screen.

Prop: [Dream Supervisor Chair].

Description: Also known as the "Dream Director's Chair," this chair allows you to monitor other people's dreams and sometimes even change them according to your own wishes.

If it's just about changing other environments or characters in the dream, there's no problem. But if you want to change the protagonist himself, and the protagonist has a strong will, then it's very likely that you won't be able to control it.

These two items are for people who are asleep and dreaming, allowing them to view and modify their dreams.

Actually, there's another prop related to dreams: the [Dream Projection Screen], which is part of the three-piece dream prop set.

However, Link hasn't drawn the last matching item yet.

Moreover, the purpose of this prop is to project the dream onto a large screen so that more people can see it, and also to ensure that the person in the supervisory chair doesn't miss a single detail; in other words, to project the image...

Strictness applies to the most important matters.

However, it's clear that there's no need to make a big fuss about showing the traveler's dreams while he's sleeping and resting.

Watching it by myself using the projector is enough.

After placing the Dream Projector and Dream Director's Chair in place.

Under everyone's bewildered gazes, Link sat down, picked up the projector, and began to examine the traveler's dream.

"Huh, having a dream like that? It seems a bit ordinary, well, it was just a short nap during a meal, not actually falling asleep, so it's understandable!" "But it's a bit too monotonous..."

Link couldn't help but think of something funny, and a slight smile appeared on his lips. "How about this, this, and this..." Link sat in the director's chair and fiddled with something for a while. Then, you could see the travel guy's body trembling as he lay there.

His strange trembling caused the group of bewildered and numb bosses and customers to slowly shift their gaze.

Yes, they've become numb.

Some time passed like this.

"what!!"

The traveler suddenly woke up with a start, leaning back even further.

boom! !

His back made intimate contact with the ground.

But he felt no pain at all; instead, he was panting heavily. He touched his abdomen, looking completely bewildered.

"Was everything that just happened a dream...?"

The traveler checked himself again and found no changes.

His eyes were filled with fear, clearly indicating that he had only just come to his senses.

and?

His gaze shifted, the familiar decor and the tableware in his hand reminding him that he was still inside a restaurant.

"So everything that just happened was a dream?!"

The young man was staring blankly at the road, muttering to himself.

"But why did that dream feel so real?!"

Previously, on Whitebeard's ship, he learned that one of his subordinates had violated an ironclad rule that could never be broken on the ship, killing his comrade, Thatch, the captain of the Fourth Division.

Then, in a fit of rage, he resolutely declared that he would definitely bring that bastard back.

And so they traveled by small boat from the New World to the first half of the Grand Line.

First, we received news that that bastard and his cronies had gone to Drum Island.

After failing to find them there, he followed the clues and arrived in Alabasta.

Then we stopped at this restaurant for a meal on a whim.

What I saw afterward, everything that happened after leaving that restaurant, must have been a dream.

In the dream, after leaving the hotel, I couldn't find any trace of that bastard in Alabasta.

Later, while dining and dashing in a small town on an island, I unexpectedly learned about "Blackbeard".

When he finally found the guy in a fit of rage, he discovered that the person the clues pointed to did indeed have a similar beard to the bastard who killed his companion, and even their height and build were similar.

He was blinded by anger and didn't see clearly before he went up and kicked the guy away.

After kicking the opponent away and realizing how weak he was, he suddenly realized that he had mistaken the person for someone else.

The guy she kicked away wasn't the jerk she was looking for; he was actually a well-known and kind-hearted doctor in town.

His unprovoked act of violence aroused the indignation of the town's residents, who arrested him out of guilt and remorse, and subjected him to the "floating water torture."

That is, they threw him into the river.

You should know that he possesses the power of a Devil Fruit, and is already cursed by the sea.

As a result, the residents threw him into the river, and you can imagine what happened to him.

He almost drowned. The sense of powerlessness, despair, and suffocation he felt in the dream made the traveler shrink back even after he regained consciousness.

It didn't feel like a dream; it felt like it was real.

Later, thanks to a little girl named Moda from a nearby ranch downstream, he was pulled out of the river, saving him from the humiliating fate of drowning.

Having been saved, he vowed to do something for Morda to repay her for saving his life.

Thus, he received a commission from Morda to deliver a letter to the Navy's G2 branch base.

When he arrived at the base, he was carrying a bounty of 550 million Berries, so to prevent the Navy from arresting him, he knocked out the guards at the entrance and stole their uniforms to wear.

This allows them to disguise themselves as naval personnel and easily enter the fortress.

This is, after all, the Navy's G2 branch, and the officer in charge here is Vice Admiral Gomer, but within the Navy, it is affiliated with Admiral Kizaru Borsalino of the Navy Headquarters.

Back then, when they were pursuing the so-called hero of freedom, the fishman Fisher Tiger, it was Kizaru who led the G2 branch as the main force.

This place can be considered Kizaru's hometown and the stronghold of his faction.

If it were any other naval branch, I would have already charged straight through, burned them through with flames, and then left the letter behind and made a graceful exit.

But being inside the Admiral's headquarters, and with the mission of finding that bastard on my shoulders... it's best not to cause any unnecessary trouble.

The traveling young man was just about to quietly leave the letter when he overheard someone speaking ill of Whitebeard—

So, he lost control for a moment and angrily rushed forward and knocked the man unconscious.

After regaining his senses, he realized he had caused trouble, so he quickly fled the scene, knocked out a lieutenant colonel from the branch, and put on his clothes.

In order to better conceal his identity and appearance, he also put on two fake mustaches.

During this time, he also heard that the Navy's ships carrying various classified information about the new pirates were about to enter the port.

0. Requesting flowers.......

Then he ate his king-sized rice at the navy's mess hall while waiting for the classified intelligence ship to return.

After finally waiting for the ship to return, pirates suddenly invaded and planned to set fire to all the documents.

Upon seeing this, the traveler, who was completely unafraid of fire, jumped directly into the inferno and rescued a navy officer and a confidential box from the ship.

However, the burning of his naval uniform caused his clothes to burn, revealing the Whitebeard Pirates' insignia, which was then discovered by the Navy.

So he casually handed the letter written by Morda to the bewildered Vice Admiral Gumir, and then quickly fled the Navy G2 branch base with the classified information.

Lieutenant General Gumir subconsciously opened the letter he had been given and saw that Moda had written in the letter, "Have a good glass of milk."

It also included a cute picture of a ranch with Moda holding milk and cows standing next to her.

Upon seeing this, Lieutenant General Gumir fell into deep thought.

His first thought wasn't to catch the pirate who dared to infiltrate the naval branch, steal classified information, and then swagger away.

Instead, the thought that popped into my head was that I had finally found a good ingredient for the bitter coffee I drank during meetings.

Therefore, with the strong support of Vice Admiral Gumir, the Navy dispatched a purchasing ship from the Navy's mess hall to the location marked on the map in the letter to buy milk.

The naval cook who disembarked from the procurement ship and became the naval procurement officer was none other than Moda's parents.