Chapter 159 - 8

Morgan swung with force: "You're done for!"Luffy jumped up easily, dodging his opponent's attack.Seeing Luffy easily dodge his attack, he looked somewhat shocked.At the same time, his attack sliced the fence nearby in two, which showed that Morgan did have some skill.At this moment, Luffy's body was in the air; he then forcefully kicked both legs toward Morgan's face, sending him flying away in an instant.The other soldiers exclaimed: "The... the Captain..."Morgan quickly steadied himself with his hand axe, staring viciously at Luffy.Then, he raised his hand axe again and ran toward Luffy: "Kid, prepare to die!"Luffy raised his fist and charged toward his opponent as well.It looked like he wanted to go head-to-head with him.Morgan swung his hand axe at Luffy, but Luffyretracted his attack stance, jumped up again, easily dodged the attack once more, and said with a grin: "As if I'd die!"Then, he delivered another kick in mid-air, slamming his sandal hard into his opponent's face.This blow knocked Morgan hard to the ground.The soldiers nearby exclaimed repeatedly: "Captain... Captain Morgan... he's been at a disadvantage this whole time..."After knocking his opponent to the ground, Luffygrabbed his clothes. At that moment, he thought of Coby angrily saying he didn't want to be a Marine, as well as the expressions of fear on the faces of Rika and the residents here."What kind of lousy Marines are you! You ruined Coby's dream! You've made everyone hate you so much!"Just then, a voice called out: "Wait a second!"Shien and Zoro, who had already dealt with the Marines who were looking for a death wish, looked up.Luffy didn't listen and directly swung his fist down, hitting Captain Morgan hard on the head."I told you to stop!"The owner of the voice was clearly very panicked.Only then did the three of them look up.It turned out to be Helmeppo, holding a pistol and stepping with his foot on a person who was already severely injured.The person looked up, and Luffy and Shienrecognized him as Coby."Lu... Luffy, I..."Before he could finish, Helmeppo pressed his gun against the other's head: "If you want him to be okay, don't move! If you dare move an inch, I'll shoot him dead!"The soldiers nearby were shocked to see their young master's behavior: "Young Master Helmeppo..."In other situations, they didn't care for him, but now they were facing vicious pirates, so although his actions were improper, no one said anything.Coby lowered his head, not wanting to look at Luffyand Shien.As for why he was like this, it happened after he separated from Luffy and threw away his Marineuniform.Injured Coby went alone to a place that sold medicine, wanting to apply some to recover.Just then, two shirtless men were stealing clothes from passersby.While stealing, they shouted that they were Helmeppo's subordinates.Indeed, these two were Jabis and Renas, whose clothes had been stripped after being knocked out by Shien.It took a long time for the two to wake up, and then they saw they were stark naked and their heads hurt, immediately realizing they had been robbed.Good grief, daring to rob Marines, did they have a death wish? But the two weren't thinking about revenge right now, but rather getting two sets of clothes to cover themselves.That was why the scene Coby saw happened.Seeing this, Coby ignored his injuries and went up to the two, scuffling with them.Unfortunately, although these two were bullies who picked on the weak, they were two-on-one, and coupled with the fact that Coby hadn't recovered, he could only fight them to a stalemate.It wasn't until Jabis grabbed a passerby to threaten Coby that Coby stopped, and in the end, he was captured and arrested on charges of assaulting a Marine.Afterwards, the two kept beating Coby in the interrogation room for revenge, which was how Coby got all these injuries.As for why Helmeppo came, it was because after Shien left, he wanted to vent his anger and went to the prison, where he saw his two subordinates beating Coby.At the same time, he realized this was Coby, who had hit him, so he joined in to vent his frustrations.Later, upon hearing that Straw Hat, the pretty boy with the scrolls, and Zoro were causing a scene at the execution ground, and remembering that this person was close to Luffy and Shien, he brought him along.That was what led to the scene where Helmepposhouted for Luffy to stop.Looking at the severely injured Coby, Luffy neither stopped nor attacked, but quietly watched Helmeppo, wanting to see what the other had in mind.At this moment, Coby, as if resigned to his fate, shouted: "Luffy, Shien! I... I don't want to be a burden to you! So do it, even if I lose my life!"Luffy had an 'as I thought' expression: "Hehe, I know."But Luffy didn't attack him, continuing to beat Morgan instead.While beating Morgan, Luffy said: "Give it up, stupid son, Coby is serious!"Helmeppo was clearly confused by the two's words.He was still over there threatening Luffy not to move: "Hey! I told you not to move! Otherwise, I'll shoot! I'm really going to shoot!"However, Luffy still didn't waver. At this moment, Helmeppo felt as if his hand had been grabbed by something, and only then did he notice there was still Shien.At this moment, Shien was coolly squatting on a scroll, holding one of Helmeppo's hands with one hand, and pressing his other hand against his head: "Hey, stupid son, don't move."At this moment, Helmeppo, who had just wanted to pull the trigger, felt his finger unable to move a millimeter; this powerful force was gripping his hand tightly.Similarly, on the other side, seeing the major being attacked, a group of Marine soldiers returning from duty fired at Luffy.Afterwards, they were shocked by Luffy's body, and then they drew their swords; since firearms were useless, they would use blades.And those soldiers who wanted to attack Luffy were held off by Zoro with his swords.With Luffy's final punch, Captain Morgan's jaw was shattered along with the ground.Seeing that the enemies were all eliminated, Luffybegan to praise his companions: "Well done, Zoro, and Shien!"Zoro sheathed his sword coolly and responded to Luffy with a cool face: "Piece of cake, Captain!"Shien also returned to Luffy's side: "It's nothing, just basic operations."With this, the entire Marine Base was defeated.The remaining Marines, seeing Captain Morgan and Helmeppo fall to the ground, were first shocked: "Ca... Captain, he actually lost! Captain Morgan has fallen!"Everyone present was checking if this was a dream.Zoro thought they wanted to avenge their superior: "If you still want to catch us, come out and try!"The soldiers looked at each other, none of them speaking again.The next moment, the soldiers cheered. "That's great—We're liberated! Morgan's dictatorship is over! Long live the Marines—"Everyone was cheering with all their might for Captain Morgan's defeat.Luffy was a bit confused: "What's going on? The Captain was defeated, why are they so happy?"Coby, lying on the ground, saw everyone so happy and realized that these people had all been living under Morgan's tyranny.Suddenly, Zoro fell forward, but Shien, who was nearby, was quick-witted and caught him.Luffy hurriedly stepped forward to check the situation: "Zoro! Shien... what's wrong with Zoro?""Hmm, Zoro is fine, just fainted from hunger. After all, just one rice ball and a sip of water aren't enough to replenish the physical energy consumed over these nine days, let alone having gone through a major battle...""Oh! So that's it! Well then, let's go eat!"Seeing that the problem wasn't serious, Luffy went to the severely injured Coby, and then each of them supported one person as they headed toward the restaurant.Ten minutes later. "Haha, I'm so full. Nine days without eating is indeed the limit!" Zoro rubbed his stomach and exclaimed.Just then, Luffy heard the other's words and couldn't help but retort: "So you couldn't even last a month at all!"But he hadn't finished exclaiming for long before he saw Shien and Luffy still eating. "Why are you two eating even more than me...""I don't know about Luffy's situation, but using Ninjutsu consumes Chakra, and refining Chakrarequires physical and mental energy, so I eat a lot..."Shien didn't hide it but explained.Coby, who was bandaged on the side, thanked Rikaand her mother repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I've benefited from this too..."Rika's mother, who was cleaning up the plates, replied: "It's okay, you are the great heroes who saved our town!"Indeed, the news of Captain Morgan's defeat had already spread, and the residents of this town knew that the three of them had defeated Morgan.Rika came to Luffy: "Big brother, you really are amazing!"Luffy responded while eating: "Yeah, yeah, I am very amazing! I'll be even more amazing in the future!"At this moment, Shien ate his last bite of vegetables and helped Rika's mother clean up the kitchenware. Rika's mother wanted to refuse, but Shien forced his way to the sink under the pretext of needing exercise. After all, it was better to use Shadow Clone."Tsk, no matter how I look at it, it feels incredible!" Zoro exclaimed while watching the Shadow Clonewashing the dishes.And Luffy was watching enviously while eating.Seeing that everyone had rested enough, Zoroasked Luffy: "By the way! Where are we going next?""To the 'Grand Line'!"Hearing Luffy's words, everyone present, except for Rika and her mother, showed an expression that took it for granted."So you really are going there, but that's right, after all, you guys are pirates who are going to obtain 'ONE PIECE'!" Coby exclaimed after hearing Luffy's words."The Grand Line, it gathers the most powerful existences in the whole world, and Gol D. Rogeralso said he left 'ONE PIECE' there." Shien shared the intelligence he had gathered.Seeing that Luffy had also finished eating, Shienquickly cleaned the bowls and chopsticks and dispelled the Shadow Clone. Of course, he forgot there was still one inside the Marine Base.That Shadow Clone had been reading the internal documents of the Marine Base. As the technique was dispelled, all that information returned to Shien's mind.Looking at the large amount of information that appeared in his mind, even he had to simply categorize it. During the sorting process, Shien saw a piece of information, and through this information, combined with Morgan's situation, he understood something."Luffy, I have some things to attend to and have to leave for a bit.""Ah, go ahead, we'll wait for you here."