【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 385: Pattern of the Sun

"It's impossible to get out alive. You will die!"

Before Luffy could refute, the woman who had given him the clothes stood up and spoke for him. Then two more women stood up, and they seemed to be the ones who saved him. Luffy immediately smiled at them and said, "Ni hehe, it turns out you are all good people!"

The next second, the woman sitting on the chair walked towards them. She made a gesture, and then the three women who were just helping him suddenly turned into stone. Luffy was shocked. "Hey, bitch, what did you do to them? They are my saviors!"

"Really? They were punished because they saved you... Bring Bakora to the arena!" Hancock said as she returned to her seat.

Luffy ignored the beast that rushed onto the stage and knocked it down with a punch. He stared at the woman on the high seat and demanded, "Hey, you can untie them, right? Change them back to their original form!"

"Why!?"

"So powerful, he fell down with just one punch!"

"Are you all stupid?!" Luffy looked at the women sitting around him with dissatisfaction. That woman had just turned their companions into stone, and they didn't react at all. After their companions turned into stone, they even kept cheering at the woman, "She turned your companions into stone, and you can still laugh!!"

Luffy didn't like these people, especially the arrogant woman who hurt her companions. He didn't take the death penalty they mentioned seriously. To him, it was just a one-on-two duel. It was indeed interesting to fight two huge snakes. Although they were huge and had long tails, they moved very slowly, so he came up with a good idea.

Luffy grinned at the two snakes whose tails he had tied into a bow, and proudly raised his hands and made two scissors hands. "I win!"

"It's scalding! It's scalding! Help!"

"Sister Gongdeng is in danger! Quickly grab the audience seats!"

Luffy turned his attention back and realized that the clothes of the snake woman who was holding up the audience seats were being burned. Thinking of what the woman said about preferring to die rather than let anyone see the pattern on her back, Luffy did not hesitate and immediately flew over to block her back with his body to prevent the pattern on her back from being seen.

"Don't move. Wouldn't you rather die than be seen?"

"The fight is over! Everyone, leave the venue quickly before the Eye of Gorgon is exposed!" Hancock reacted immediately and evacuated the citizens from the audience.

"Leave the arena now, or you'll be petrified!"

"hurry up!!"

After everyone left, knowing there would be no next battle, Luffy quickly carried the three girls who had been turned into stone statues and hidden by him before the battle onto the arena. He looked up at Hancock, who was sitting high up, hoping she could restore them. "You must have a way to restore them! They were just pleading for me, they did nothing wrong!"

"I can cancel it. Don't you want a boat? I give you two choices. Either cancel their stone statues, or help you leave this island!"

"Really? Thank you! So you agreed to save them!" Luffy heard what Hancock said and immediately asked, "Thank you so much, please help them recover!"

Hancock looked in shock at the man who bowed to her without any hesitation. He clearly possessed such powerful domineering aura, even though the domineering aura he emitted was still immature, but he would actually bow to her so easily to save people. She had never seen such a broad-minded man.

……

Amazon Lily Nine Snake City, the lobby of the Emperor's Palace.

"What do you want from me? If you want to treat me to a meal, I would be happy to do it!" Luffy said expectantly as he looked at the door covered by the curtain. After the battle, they let him wait here and never said what they were going to do.

Just when Luffy was about to get impatient, the woman asked him to go behind the curtain. Luffy immediately walked in excitedly, "Can we finally eat?"

"Aren't you eating?" Luffy looked at the topless woman in disappointment. He thought she was eating. "Why are you taking off all your clothes?"

"Your reaction is still so rude!" Hancock frowned, but didn't say anything else. Now there was something more important. She turned around, lifted her hair, and fully displayed the pattern on her back to Luffy. "You said you had seen this pattern before. Now take a closer look!"

"Since you've seen it before, do you know what this pattern means?"

Luffy stroked his chin and observed the pattern carefully. "This pattern is a little different from the ones I saw before... I have a fishman friend named Xiaoba, and he has a similar pattern on his forehead, so I made a mistake."

"I've never seen this pattern of yours." Luffy said with a smile.

"If he doesn't know, tell him!"

Luffy turned to look at the small, wrinkled old woman, listening to their argument in confusion, not understanding what they were trying to do, but the old woman actually knew his name "How do you know my name?"

"You caused such a big mess and yet you act like nothing happened." Granny New pointed at the newspaper and said, "You were the one who shot the Celestial Dragons away in the Sabaody Archipelago!"

"That's right, do you know what those bastards did to my friends!?" Luffy got angry when he thought about it, and then looked at the women who suddenly started crying with some confusion, "Why are you crying!?"

Then they told him about their past experiences. It turned out that they were enslaved by the Celestial Dragons when they were young, and were later rescued by a fish-man adventurer who climbed across the Red Earth Continent with his bare hands. The logo of Xiaoba and his fish-man pirate group was made into a sun pattern to cover up this logo. He was indeed a great hero, but more importantly, someone was finally willing to lend him a boat, so he could reunite with his companions!

Luffy looked at Hancock with joy on his face "Thank you!!"

"Hehe, you are so likable!" Hancock wiped her tears and looked at Luffy with love on her face. She liked this man.

……

"Mrs. New! Here's the newspaper you asked for!"

Luffy tore a piece of meat from the huge bone-in meat, chewed it while looking at Granny Nyu who was reading a newspaper. They were just having a happy party and he could finally eat, but those women kept pulling his cheeks, preventing him from eating properly, so he escaped with the girl who saved him. It was a pity that he only brought out this piece of bone-in meat, as there were still many delicious foods at the banquet that he had not eaten yet.

At this time, the sound of Granny New reading the newspaper attracted his attention, because he seemed to hear her mention the Whitebeard Pirates, which was the pirate group his two brothers belonged to. No, only Ace is it now, Lucci is mine now, Luffy laughed in his heart.

Luffy continued chewing the meat in his mouth and looked at Granny New with wide eyes. "What happened to the Whitebeard Pirates?"