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In a tavern in the first half of the Grand Line;

"Have you heard? The ruling pirate group of this sea was defeated by a group of newcomers!"

"That's a sea pirate with a bounty of 70 million berries!"

"Tsk, the newcomers nowadays are really one scarier than the other!"

"That's the Esther Pirates, their captain is a supernova with a bounty of 120 million berries!"

Amid these words full of praise and admiration, a discordant voice suddenly sounded.

"Hey hey, boss, the sea pirate BIG-MOM who stands at the top of the New World was defeated!"

"Let's see, oh crap, isn't this our old friend Rear Admiral Longinus ... Hey, is he already a Vice Admiral?"

"Twenty-one year old Vice Admiral, that's scary, the next time I hear from him it might be an Admiral!"

"Damn it, I''ve been left behind by him again! If this continues, I really won't be able to snatch back my Griffin!"

"Wake up, boss, that griffin was never yours."

"I don't care, I don't care ..."

The pirates on the other side of the tavern first looked at each other and then laughed.

"Haha! What a laugh, what sea pirates BIG-MOM, what New World, never even heard of it."

"Maybe New World is the name of their old home, right? And I wonder if this so-called sea pirate bounty has more than 20 million berries?"

"Maybe it will be 200 million berries, after all, they even said the Vice Admiral Marine!"

For their ridicule, the man sitting in front of the bar wearing a straw hat just laughed, "In fact, her reward is two billion berries!"

The tavern people were first stunned, then one laughed so hard they couldn't even straighten their backs.

"Hahahahaha! The bounty of two billion berries, if there really is such a high reward for pirates, how else could they be killed by the Marine?"

"That what Longinus I have heard of is indeed the strength of the marine faction, but to say that he can kill what the reward of two billion sea pirates is too ridiculous!

"I think this red hair must be from the North Blue, maybe it's the offspring of the legendary Liar Noland, hahahahaha!"

"Chief, so you are the descendant of Liar Noland!" The big fat man holding a chicken leg in his hand slapped his greasy right hand on the straw hat man's shoulder.

"Wrong guess, yo!" The man named Shanks did not care at all, spit out his tongue and laughed, "I started traveling from the West Blue."

See that straw hat man is not even upset; the other pirates in the tavern became more reckless to make fun of him.

Just then, an icy voice came from outside the tavern.

"Return from the New World, this kind of sea pirate Akagami Shanks temperament? What a disappointment!"

Through the door of the tavern came in the swordsman wearing a half mask on the left side of the face, followed by several pirates behind him, each with a harsh and fierce breath; at first glance, it is clear that it is not a simple character so that the other pirates in the tavern are slightly restrained.

Soon, some pirates recognized him.

"It's him, the supernova with a bounty of over 100 million, Esther the Decapitator!"

"Wait, he said the Akagami Pirates should not be that redheaded guy, right?"

"It can't be, how that guy doesn't look like a formidable character."

However, there is no need for them to dwell on it.

Because, there is someone who has already responded.

"Esther the Decapitator? What do you want to see us about?" Benn Beckman, who had his left sideburns hanging down bangs and a lance strapped to his waist, asked with a cold expression as he sat on a barstool.

"Geez! Still really high and mighty!" Esther cocked his head and pressed his right hand on the longsword at his waist, "I'm a little curious about the second half of the Grand Line called the New World, and then again, I heard you're a good swordsman too."

"So, make a deal."

"What's the deal?" Shanks also came to be interested.

"If you are defeated by me, then tell me all the information of the New World." Esther said in a high and cold voice, "Honestly, looking at your weak appearance, it really screams of energy, and I am not interested in bullying a loser who escaped from the New World, take the initiative to hand over your logbooks, and save you from losing face again in front of these weak people."

"Me? The loser who escaped back from the New World?" Shanks asked with a confused look, pointing to his nose.

"Captain, congratulations on being underestimated again!" Yasopp, who was barely out of his punk outfit, laughed.

"Hahahahaha! Is it because I look too unintimidating?" Shanks laughed unconcernedly.

That's when the cramped tavern exploded into flames.

"New World surprisingly refers to the second half of the Grand Line of the sea, this looks very weak red hair once was a great sea pirate?"

"Doesn't that mean that they weren't just talking big?"

"Is it true that a sea pirate with a bounty of two billion has been killed by the Marine?"

Hearing the talk of those pirates next to him, Esther said disdainfully, "Two billion bounty of the sea pirates were killed by a Rear Admiral. This kind of nonsense you also believe, BIG-MOM was killed is possible, but the so-called 'Holy Lance' to end 'darkness' is certainly those marines deliberately create the prestige. The reason for this is that the Marine has created the impression that they are not."

"Putting the credit of one or two dozen vice admirals and admirals rounding up a rear admiral just to scare you cowards."

Esther said with slight complacency, "It's only a Rear Admiral, do you really think I haven't defeated a Rear Admiral?"

"Boss, that guy is already a Vice Admiral!"

"What's wrong with a Vice Admiral? I am the man who is going to become the world's number one swordsman, not to mention a Vice Admiral, even an Admiral won't make any difference to me!"

"Are all the newcomers nowadays so arrogant?" Shanks couldn't listen anymore, he had thought it would be a slightly more interesting opponent, but now it seems that he was overthinking it!

"Arrogance? No strength is called arrogance ...," said Esther before he finished his sentence, he was directly crushed to the ground by a powerful force.

Others are not much better, falling to the ground in the blink of an eye, nearly half of them even directly fainted.

The invisible pressure also cracked the glasses placed on the bar instantly shattered, and the bar's floor walls.

"You know quite well, people like you who have no strength are indeed called arrogant!" Lucky Roux squatted down and patted Esther's head, then fed him a chicken butt.

"Blah!" Esther spat out the chicken butt before asking with immense difficulty, "Damn it, what have you done to me?"

"Didn't you think my Aura was no good? Now why are you down?" Shanks squatted down and rubbed the other man's dog head and laughed.

"Aura? How is that possible?" Esther instinctively did not want to believe, "That is obviously just insubstantial power!"

"So, the world is too small in your eyes!" Shanks laughed and headed out of the bar, "A weakling like you can't reach those waters."

"By the way, while you have some unrealistic ideas, the man named Longinus, his strength is stronger than me!"

Published in Qidian, June 14, 2019