Chapter 158

As Lucas was relaxing his skin under the sun of this rare day in the Grand Line, a pirate ship passed by them and one of his men said they had a unique paper that would allow them to pass without having a fight. Lucas, after looking at that pirate ship, he knew who own it from its flag and asked the seaman to find a way to sink it and take the responsibility instead of him.

"BUBAAS" 

A scream reached their ears. Lucas covered his face with his palm as he heard the familiar voice. "Pretend I'm not here."  In this life, there is one idiot who calls him Bubas. " Gim'me a break, if only this world had some clinics." 

"Yes, sir."

"BUBAS, COME HERE."

"No need. I have to get rid of him; personally, he is a heavy guest." Lucas found that he has to force himself to stand up.

Between his three warsh.i.p.s, a ship with a black flag that had a skull with a straw hat stopped. Leading it was an average height man wearing a straw hat with a red shirt and blue shorts. 

The warsh.i.p.s at first aimed their cannons at the pirates' ship.  But Calorina recognized Luffy since Garp brought him to her base in East Blue when he arrested him. That time Garp was looking for Lucas to her base to find out that he already went to Marine Camp.

"It is Garp's grandson."

"Garp's grandson? Hina didn't know that Vice Admiral had a grandson."

Hina and Calorina were on the same ship. Hina seemed to be confused when she heard Calorina murmurs. And so, Calorina explained to her the story when Lucas found Luffy about to become a pirate, and he asked her to call Garp.

But now, it seems they are still pirates. Hina and Calorina knew that they had to arrest the. But then, a woman in the pirates' crew smirked and showed them a paper.

"Where is Bubas." Luffy jumped to a marine ship facing the seamen and looking for a certain Blondie with a blank expression.

"Who ?"

"Bubas?" 

The soldiers looked weirdly at each other as they don't know anyone with that name. 

"I just saw him. BUBAS" Luffy yelled again, making everyone look at him like he is a retard.

Suddenly, a silhouette appeared from the sky and landed between the marines in this warship. The Marines formed a line and did the military salute to the men who came. 

"Rear Admiral..." 

A blond that only wore black shorts that reaches his knees, passed by them and walked to the man with a straw hat.

"Bubas? You grew since the last time" Luffy grinned as he saw Lucas approaching him.

"What are you doing here, Luffy" Lucas frowned and asked Luffy.

"Join my crew." 

"Why no one did arrest them yet." 

Lucas turned around, looking for an answer. Hina walked toward him and let her mouth closer to his ear before whispering: "Hina read that they are marines in disguise; the paper hold the stomp of the Fleet Admiral and signature of Garp."

"Oy, Luffy, why did Garp let you free." 

Lucas never cared about what happened to Luffy, so he didn't ask Garp about him at all. Lucas was the kind of person who doesn't care about many people other than himself and a few others. 

"Che-che, Gramps and I made a deal." Luffy started to laugh in a way that made Lucas feel petty for him.  Lucas didn't know that if Luffy has enough mental power to explain to him, so he turned his head to the pirate ship that was close to this warship. 

On that pirate ship, there were 2 men: one blonde man with short hair, black suit, and curly eyebrow. The other man had short green hair with three swords hanging on his waist. 

Other than the two men, there were other three women, and they were pretty and hot. 

"Katya?" Other than the brown-haired woman who had large b.r.e.a.s.t and tall building and likes to wear short exposing clothes, there were another two girls: one short girl that had short blonde hair and blue eyes and was pretty as well, the other girl was a brunette with black eyes and average height, but with large b.r.e.a.s.ts and slim body.

There was no Usopp, though.

Seeing Lucas glaring at their direction, the rest of the crew decided to go next to their leader. The green-haired man, Zoro, had an exclusive deal with Lucas, as his gazes were different from everyone.

"It's like this; Gramps took me to see someone with afro hair..."

Luffy explained to Lucas. Garp took him to Sengoku, who knew that he should talk to Luffy like a child. 

Sengoku told Luffy that if he wants to be Pirate King, then he would need only to find One Piece. It won't matter if he is pirate, marine, or adventurer, as long as he finds One Piece, he will become the Pirate King. Luffy was resisting at first, but Sengoku kept telling him that he won't find that Piece if he still here, and it took days to convince him

It was tough for Garp to hold Luffy as a captive for long, and he needed just a way to protect his Grandson from his idiot self. 

Garp gave Luffy a contract and made him sign it before letting him free. The agreement proves that Luffy is a marine in disguises. A paper was kept in the HQ, and Luffy had a copy. After Luffy signed the papers, Garp kicked Luffy and his crew back to East Blue. 

Luffy, of course, believed that he tricked his Grandpa and the marines.

The woman called Katya gave Lucas a harrumph before handing him the paper. They had dinner together that day, yet the next morning, Lucas wasn't there and instead, they found themselves being chased by one of the strongest marine unites. 

"Long time no see, Katya." Lucas looked at Katya and winked. Somehow, Luffy still has his luck with recruiting hot women. Katya clicked her tongue before turning and standing next to Luffy.

"Well, Garp nailed it." Lucas read the paper and frowned. 'He has a stroke of epic luck.'

With this contract, if Luffy had a bounty, or got arrested in Impel Down, Garp can remove his bounty and free him at any time he wants to. Garp wanted to protect his Grandson more than making him marine; even if Luffy still a pirate, Garp knew that his Grandson is considering it a game and won't do any of real pirates' acts, so he gave him this contract as a shield to protect him in case anything happened. Besides, Garp made Luffy a marine officially, without Luffy understanding that, and each pirate he defeats would be registered in his deeds as a marine.

"Che-che-che, Gramps gave me now a way to deal with the Navy." Luffy laughed again and looked at Lucas.

Once a while, Luffy in east blue was surrounded by Smoker and his forces. That dude had Logia Devil Fruit, and Luffy had no chance against him; well, the contract that Garp gave him saved his ass.

"Well, you are free to go." Lucas saw the contract and waved his hand. If that was Garp's desire, let it be.

"Oy, Bubas-"

"Lucas." Lucas interrupted Luffy.

"Lucas, join my crew," Luffy said with an apologetic look. Believe it or not, he still wants Lucas as his cook despite having a cook in his ship and considers him a friend. 

There are no rules that say he can't have two cooks. Besides, he saw that Lucas is powerful to beat Zoro with one punch at the time they met.

'He would stick to me like my shadow; I need to think of a way to get rid of him.'  Lucas didn't know whether to laugh or cry.  

Lucas pretended to look at the contract as he was thinking of a way to get rid of this idiot without making conflicts with Garp. Taking him to Impel Down and let Garp deal with him, no that would take a lot of time. As Lucas was thinking, Luffy's crew was standing behind him.

Zoro was looking at Lucas with a sharp gaze, while the short blonde woman was checking his n.a.k.e.d body and blushed when her eyes stopped on his right thigh to see a trace of some snake.

Next to them, there was a blonde man with a curly black eyebrow. His eyes swept around and stopped at Hina. At that moment, he was stunned by her beauty, and his eyes turned into a heart shape, as she was too pretty for him. He held his hands together and started to approach her with a look that would scare most of the women.

"Sanji, hold yourself." Zoro looked at his crewmate, who was about to act like he usually does.

"My Liidy Shwa..." 

Hina, seeing Sanji going to jump on her, harrumphed and was about to cage him. But before she could do that, Lucas vanished from his spot and appeared next to Sanji and held him from his neck. 

Luffy's crew saw this and had one idea 'very fast'. 

Before Sanji could make out of what happened, Lucas threw him from his throat to his ship. Sanji found his body flying and only stopped when he hit the deck crushing it.

"humph, no matter how much you kick him, he won't change." The brunette next to Luffy commented seeing that Sanji got what he usually asks for.

Apparently, no one blamed Lucas since Sanji would act like this around women, to end up getting his ass kicked.

"Pervert cook, that what you get." Zoro turned to Sanji and smirked.

"What." Hina saw it clearly: Sanji was going to make a move on her, but Lucas appeared in an instant, and threw Sanji brutally.

'Can he be jealous..." Hina thought about something now. Lucas's move clearly showed that he cares about her and got angry that Sanji going to make a move on her.

And she is aware that Lucas knows that she can protect herself. But Lucas never made a move on her despite being womanizer with a great tool for his age. 

That originally made Hina think that she was ugly, but now she thought differently. After spending months in Marineforde and learning Haki, she could see that Lucas would glance at her, and with her Haki, she could tell that he is doing it secretly when she pretends to look away.  She thought about it a lot. Most of Lucas's girls are around his age, which made her conclude that Lucas may actually be trying hard not to confess, because she is older than him, and pretend to be professional while secretly peeping at her. 

Maybe, he is afraid because she is older than him, or perhaps he is preserved and shy. 

But there still another possibility that she is thinking wishfully, which would be embarrassing.

"Lucas, Hina could deal with him." Hina put a cigarette and tried to act cold. She isn't ugly, that's for sure. She regained her self-trust

"No need." Lucas clapped his hand. There is no way he allows anyone to get close to Hina; she is his, and he already spent a lot of patient and effort to get close to her.

Hina smiled as she felt anger in his tone. "you are spending too much effort for Hina." She said as she exhaled smoke.

"What do you say, Bu... Lucas." Luffy is still waiting for an answer. He didn't care since Sanji is going to be fine.

But then, Zoro stepped forward between Lucas and Luffy. He lifted his head to Lucas, noticing that Lucas is different from the time when he used to be shorter.

"What do you want now?" Lucas sharpened his gaze.

"To be the best swordsman, I have fought the best one." Zoro reached his white shirt and opened it, showing a long scary scare across his chest. "And I lost. Whatever you join Luffy crew or not, I have to cross swords with you." Zoro said. "I want to hear the breath of your steel.

"The breath of my steel." That's was the first step for someone to become a swords master. 

Lucas cringed on the figurative meaning. "whatever you fought with the best swordsman or not, I'll tell you this: don't hurt yourself, you still have a lot to learn." 

He isn't the same one he used to be; after going back to East Blue, Zoro spent his time training no stop and challenging stronger enemy, which raised his swordsmanship. After that, he met with the strongest swordsman in this world, and he fought with him in one-sided battle, where he became able to cut the steel.

"what do you say."