Chapter 181 - Chapter 183

----- A few days later in East Blue-----

Amell had left the comfort of his floating island to take part in the Straw Hats departure into the Grand Line. Not much about One Piece was known to Amell, so he arrived here to make sure that nothing happened to Luffy, as he had promised Ace. The current island they were docked at was Lougetown. Famous for stopping hundreds of pirates from reaching their goal. The fame came not from the island itself, but the logia wielding Marine captain presiding over it.

He stood currently on a roof overlooking the plaza. A battle that would scare or excite any East blue Marine was taking place in this plaza. To Amell, this fight was what made him want to run away from here and return home to his children. The battle was boring, but he promised Ace, plus, he thought that maybe something fun could happen to this crew here, but nothing but disappointment filled his eyes. That was not to say Luffy's crew was disappointing, he found them somewhat interesting. He had infiltrated the surface level thoughts of everyone except Luffy and found out about some of their histories. What surprised him the most was the loyalty his crew already felt towards him. Not long had they been together, but already Luffy had loyalty from all of them.

'I suppose that might be what Shanks was referring to. The kid does have a rather impressive ability to find and gather talent. Both Zoro and Sanji have incredible latent talent. If I took them into the Gotei, I could have them fighting Lubbock to a standstill in a couple of years.' He watched Luffy climb up on the plateau where Roger was executed twenty-two years ago. The boy looked genuinely excited as he sat down cross-legged on the plateau. Amell stopped paying attention to Luffy's crew when footsteps sounded out behind him. "Imagine my curiosity when I noticed the Enigmatic emperor in East blue."

"Shouldn't be more surprising than the head of the revolutionary army." He glanced back at Monkey D Dragon, Luffy's father. albeit not a very good one and nodded to him so Dragon knew it was safe to approach.

"Do you wanna divulge why you're here?"

"No, I do not. I also don't like being questioned by urchins." He was already in a poor mood so Dragon's attempt to vet him annoyed him further. Amell and Dragon stood beside each other when Luffy got caught by a man in clown makeup. The Straw Hats were caught up fighting either Marine or pirate so none of them could help their captain. Amell glanced at Dragon, "Not gonna help your son?"

"Oh, you knew? You become more interesting every time I come across you." Neither one seemed concerned about Luffy, but above them, dark clouds started to gather. Amell paid almost no attention to Dragon's comments and instead glanced upwards to the clouds. "I don't want your interest. Your rebellion is making my job harder." He turned around and placed a hand on Dragon's shoulder. "New World is my territory, and I'm only gonna say this one time. Stay out!" As he turned around, the commotion down in the plaza was reaching its peak.

"I'm afraid that's not possible anymore, too far I've come to back down now." Despite the increasing pressure from Amell's grip, Dragon's will and determination didn't waver in the slightest.

Amell sighed out tiredly and released his grip. "Stubborn brat!" He turned around again towards the plaza. Buggy raised his sword in the air and brought it down with great ferocity. When the blade was inches away from the monkey's neck, a bolt of great and powerful lightning struck down and obliterated the executions platform. "Certainly, I am stubborn, I get that from my father. It's my families stubbornness that source our great undying willpower. Without stubbornness, I would have died in my youth." Dragon watched his son step out from the wreckage of what was previously Lougetowns famous executions platform.

"That stubbornness could get you killed if you start to test my capabilities. Removing you and ending your rebellion would be easy. The reason I don't is because of my respect for the Monkey family tree. So, do not ever take my hesitation to action for something silly as an inability for action." His gaze turned east and a few thousand meters in that direction he saw Smoker, the logia wielding Marine captain approach his target pirate. "I leave the safety of Monkey D Luffy to his capable father." After sending a chill down Dragon's spine with his apathetic eyes, Amell faded away with the passing gust of wind.

"That man might eventually force me to move up my plans. I hope Sabo finished that task I gave him." Dragon also turned away from the plaza and his body faded away in the heavy downpour of rain.

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