Vongola Primo in One Piece - Chapter 384
Alabasta, Nanohana.
This is Alabasta’s port city, and almost anyone passing through or visiting Alabasta would stop by at Nanohana. This city was also frequently visited by pirates. Compared to most countries, Alabasta’s defense is pretty good. However, due to the vast size of their territory and the fact that it was a desert kingdom, their coastal defense was somewhat lacking.
Because of that, pirates mostly targeted port city like Nanohana. They plundered and then ran away. By the time Alabasta sent their troops, those pirates would have already disappeared without a trace.
However, the situation had changed now. The pirates attacking Nanohana have been dealt with by one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea living in Alabasta, Crocodile. As a result, Crocodile has been hailed as the Kingdom’s Hero, but it was quite ironic to see a pirate like him becoming a hero of a nation.
Giotto was well aware of Crocodile’s motives. He intended to seek a power that lied deep in this ancient kingdom that would allow him to become the ruler of the world and defeat Whitebeard. That power was none other than the Ancient Weapon Pluton!
Despite being a former pirate who once roamed New World and even fought that infamous Bullet, Crocodile had weakened significantly since then. In a few more years, he might even be defeated by Monkey D. Luffy, who had just set sail and couldn’t even use his Gear Two, let alone Haki.
Luffy’s title “Warlord Killer” started from him. In fact, the other Seven Warlords of the Sea, Gecko Moria, was more or less in the same state. The only difference between them was Moria aimed to create an invincible army of zombies. Over the years, he had grown fat and out of shape, and he wasn’t even close to his prime.
In contrast to those two Warlords of the Sea Garp and Rayleigh remained strong despite their age. In fact, they might be even stronger!
Nowadays, those two Warlords couldn’t accomplish much beyond bullying rookie pirates.
“Although it’s known as a desert kingdom, the scenery here is quite lovely, and it seems like the people here are living in peace and prosperity. The king of this country must be a wise ruler,” Aria said as she observed the surroundings from the tavern.
Giotto nodded, “Yes, if this were a time of peace and stability, King Cobra would indeed make an excellent king. Unfortunately, even though things seem relatively calm now, it won’t be long before new waves came and stirred things up. In the vast sea, this country is quite… weak.”
Giotto knew what Alabasta would go through in the future. Based on the timeline, this year the country would start facing droughts, and except for the capital Alubarna, not a drop of rain would fall on other parts of the country. This was part of Crocodile’s sinister plan. Unless Alabasta found concrete evidence, they couldn’t report Crocodile to the Marines. Although Crocodile had lost his old ambition, he was Sand-Sand Fruit user, and he should be invincible in this desert kingdom
To be honest, now matter how much weaker he had become, he should not have lost to Monkey D. Luffy. It was simply because Luffy was the protagonist!
Otherwise, how could Luffy defeat the enemies he encountered on his voyage. We were talking about people like Crocodile and Enel here!”
“Garptain, did you fall asleep while eating again!”
Right at that moment, they suddenly heard someone shout.
Following the source of the commotion, Giotto saw a shirtless young man with an orange hat, and his head was now buried in a plate of egg-fried rice, and the sound of snoring could be heard him.
There were people who could fall asleep while eating?
Wait a minute, sleeping while eating…?
Only that family is capable of such a thing in the entire world, right?
While discussing these matters, Giotto pointed to a young man with a small hat whose head was buried his head in a plate of egg-fried rice at a nearby table, and snoring could be heard coming from him.
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In this day and age, there are people who can fall asleep even while eating?
Wait a minute, eating… then falling asleep…
Is there another family that possesses this unique trait, other than that particular family in the world?
“Aria, do you remember the old man we encountered earlier?” Giotto said and smiled faintly.
“You mean Vice Admiral Garp?” Aria immediately recalled Garp. After all, he never stopped laughing when he ran into them earlier.
“Yes, that bastard. Now I finally understand why he runs into us.”
Giotto pointed to the young man whose head was buried in a plate of egg-fried rice, “If there’s someone who can do such a thing, he must be Garp’s grandson… Portgas D. Ace!”
“Portgas? But wasn’t Garp’s name Monkey D. Garp, and his only son is Dragon.” Aria frowned slightly, as she wasn’t familiar with Ace’s circumstances and didn’t quite understand what was special about him.
At this point, Giotto whispered to Aria so that no one would hear him, “Portgas D. Ace inherited his mother’s surname, and he’s not Garp’s actual grandson. His real father is the most notorious figure in the world… Pirate King, Gol D. Roger!”
The whole relationship between them was indeed confusing…
Ace was Roger’s son, and then Garp considered him as his grandson? Garp was indeed something else.
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