267. No love for me

267. No love for me

The new bounties sent ripples through the whole world. That high of a bounty for such a young crew was ridiculous, but they could also understand why they did that. What they did in Marineford was beyond what anybody could imagine.

Kicking away Admirals and even kidnapping Sengoku while able to save Ace. Whitebeard's death was the only huge stain in the huge war for the pirates and that too came with a silver lining. The pirates had started to creep up now, and the sea had never been so chaotic before.

Garp, after looking at the bounties, just laughed out and said he was proud. Doctorine from Drum Island had a huge smile on her face and encouraged Chopper to move forward in his dreams. Makino and the people from Luffy and Ken's village had a huge celebration, and even Dadan came down the mountain to have a good time among the people around.

Zeff, at the moment, was a shop owner on a random island in East Blue and he hardly showed his face to anyone. This included some of his past cooks of the restaurant. They had been hiding well since Ken had asked them for help.

The time for hiding would be up soon, so they were just waiting for the signal from Ken.

"Sanji has grown so much, Owner," one of the past cooks of Baratie said.

"Now he can fly and use fire. We can hardly recognize the Sanji we know," Zeff said, his chest swelling with pride. He was proud of his adopted son.

Zoro's dojo was now full of students using two or three swords and taking inspiration from their predecessor. The dojo master had a headache looking at the students who were trying to copy Zoro but also happy that Zoro had found his calling.

Nami's home was also having a blast. They had seen how beautiful she was when she faced the Marines and controlled water and earth. They didn't know how Nami got those abilities, and they didn't need to know as long as Nami was happy. Dragon, after seeing the bounties of the Straw Hats, had a huge smile on his face.

The Straw Hats had helped him in ways that even he couldn't begin to imagine. Speaking about the ruler of their world, the spy of Vegapunk, and other information Ken had passed on to Sabo. In addition to giving new abilities to Sabo. He didn't know how Ken was doing this, but he didn't care as long as the Army was powerful. He trusted Sabo a lot. So having someone who was just 'magical' helped them a lot.

"There is this poster recruiting for the Straw Hats pirates in Sabaody," Shakki came forward with a big poster and offered it to them.

"What?"

"Are we recruiting new people?" Luffy asked, a bit confused.

"Baka. It's a fake. Someone is impersonating us," Usopp shouted.

"Nani? Then we need to beat them," Luffy declared angrily.

"What's the point of this? We can just leave. Ace and Jimbei are already waiting for us in Fishman Island," Nami said.

"No, they can't use our name," Luffy said, looking particularly angry. Everyone just sighed and then looked at Ken for making his brother think twice.

"There is one interesting guy among the so-called recruits who I want to meet," Ken said, which made everyone raise their eyebrows except for Luffy who was eating.

"Who? A marine?" Robin asked, intrigued by who could interest Ken.

"No, he is just a small-time pirate, but he does have a Devil fruit that is quite interesting."

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