【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 363 Sunshine

But he couldn't. He didn't want to. He didn't want to lose Luffy, he didn't want to lose everyone. He didn't know what to do, not even Merry. He just wanted to make it right. He just didn't want to lose Merry, but he was wrong. He'd lost so much in his short life: his home, his mother, his father, his courage, and Merry, over and over again. And now...was he going to lose Luffy, everyone, too? He didn't want this!

"I'm sorry!! Everyone! I'm sorry, I shouldn't have acted so petty, I'm sorry, I was wrong!! Please! Can you please cancel those words!!" Usopp begged desperately with tears streaming down his face, "Please! I can't lose you! I want to be with you!! Please! Let me... go back!!"

Usopp looked at the outstretched hand with tears in his eyes, forgetting to breathe, and not daring to imagine at all, even thinking that he was dreaming, until Luffy's tearful voice rang out.

"Fool!! Why don't you catch me!!"

"Wow!!" Usopp burst into tears instantly and held Luffy's hand tightly. It was a familiar feeling.

"Great! Everyone is finally here!!"

"Let's run away! Let's go on an adventure together! Brothers!!"

"oh!!"

Everyone relaxed, now all they had to do was escape!

"Hurry up! Fold the sails!!" Franky shouted excitedly.

"Hey, is everything okay? Franky!"

"Fool! Believe in this ship!!" Franky shouted excitedly, raising his hands.

"Yeah! Believe him! Stupid!!"

"Fool! Fool!"

Luffy, Usopp and Chopper cheered with their arms around each other, not caring at all what they were cheering for, just laughing happily.

"You fools!!" Zoro, who was busy flying, shouted in disbelief at the three people laughing and playing on the deck.

"Come and help..." Nami helplessly looked at the three people who were celebrating and cheering with their arms around each other. Finally, she gave up and turned to look at Qi who was standing next to her with a silly smile and ordered, "Qi, come and help!!"

"Hi!" Qi smiled mischievously.

"Let's give this ship a name!" Franky reminded. "A ship without a name won't look impressive when it sets off!"

"I... I have a super nice name, it's Bear! White Bear! Lion!!" Luffy raised his hand excitedly.

"How can a ship have such a strange name!?" Usopp interrupted dissatisfiedly.

"Then call Tiger! Wolf! Lion!!" Luffy shouted again.

"Don't list the names of animals! What kind of spell is this!!" Usopp argued.

"I have a potential name here." Franky grinned and told everyone about Aspago's reaction when they saw the lion bow. After he finished expressing his wish, they all thought the bow he made was the sun. Although it was actually a lion, the name Aspago came up with was indeed not bad. "Thousand Mile Sunshine!!"

"Oh!!" Luffy said excitedly, "Better than I thought Dango, Gorilla, and Lion!!"

"A ship crossing a thousand miles of ocean sounds pretty good...and so does the sunshine." Robin smiled happily, which was indeed a very vivid description.

"Wait! This is just the beginning!" Franky tried to argue. Although he thought Aspago's name was okay, he thought his own was better. "The name I came up with is the best. Listen up! It's called the New Battle! Franky, Lion Violent Champion!!"

"Just choose Uncle As's! I like it!" Luffy said happily.

"Me too!" Qi said with a smile, "It's a very suitable name for the future Pirate King's ship!"

"That's right!!" Luffy shouted excitedly.

"Thousand Sunny, that's a good name!" Sanji said with a smile.

"Okay, the name has been decided. Now we can set off without hesitation!" Luffy shouted excitedly. "Please give us your guidance in the future, Sunny!"

"Let's take one last look at the beautiful Water City now! Soon even its shadow won't be visible!" Franky said proudly.

"Really? Well then..." Luffy shouted towards the warship, "Grandpa, Coby! Nice to see you! Now we have to escape for real. See you later!!"

"Uncle As! You named the boat great! Thank you!! And thank you everyone! Let's go!!"

"I think we need to hurry up!!" Qi said nervously as he looked at the huge black iron ball in Karp's hand.

"Hurry! Franky!!" Luffy shouted hurriedly as he looked at the big iron ball thrown at him.

"The wind is coming to blast!!"

"It's flying!!" Everyone looked at the Straw Hat Boy's ship disappearing into the horizon in surprise.

"Hahaha, there's nothing we can do now, they've escaped..." Garp laughed as he watched the ship flying into the sky. "Hahaha, you're worthy of being my grandson!!"

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Ace absentmindedly opened and clenched his fingers, trying to relax his tense muscles. The porthole above his head was still dark, with only a faint light. He knew that another day had passed, but apart from the few responses from yesterday, Lucci had not responded since then. Until now, he didn't know what to do.

His arms were chained separately to the wall, but Lucci was not like him. His chained hands were placed weakly on his abdomen as he lay on his side. Although it seemed as if Lucci's arms were freer, it was of no use, especially when Lucci was unconscious.

After all this, Marco and Lucci would definitely scold him together. Perhaps he would receive the harshest scolding in his life, but he would accept it, because he knew that when that happened, it would mean the end of this disaster.

However, he planned to lecture Lucci personally after he recovered, because if Ace was reckless, then Lucci was an idiot, especially when he recalled the details of the battle, he realized that when Lucci delivered the final blow to Blackbeard, he did not try to do anything to protect himself from the bullets fired at him.

Why didn't he dodge when he knew the bullet was coming? He knew Lucci had this ability, and he also knew that with his Haki he could easily block it, but he did nothing, just continued to wrap Haki around his sword and attack Blackbeard.

He is such an idiot! So after it’s over, he must severely reprimand him for this behavior and scold him, this idiot.

The ship suddenly shook violently in the huge waves. Ace's wrist was pulled by the chain because of the huge waves. The tense muscles in his arm were suddenly pulled, causing tearing pain. He hissed in pain. Do these navy men know how to drive a ship?

At this time, Ace noticed that Lucci's body was leaning towards him because of the huge wave just now. Ace was a little surprised, but also a little worried, worried that he was injured in the violent shaking just now.

"Lucci." Ace called softly while observing Lucci's body. This was good. Lucci's body was close enough to him now. Although not close enough for him to touch, he could assess the injuries on Lucci's body. His face was still pale, but his cheeks were flushed. He was not sure if it was more serious than yesterday, but he definitely had a fever. Normally, his cheeks would not be so red.

But Lucci's throat looked terrible, there were obvious finger marks on his neck, and his skin seemed to have turned purple, which he was sure was not there when they fought Blackbeard, so it must have been done by that marine!

Ace was furious, but before he could start cursing the damn marine, a slight groan caught his attention.