Chapter 1276: Luffy: What Century Is This, Still a Pirate? (2/5, Requesting Subscription)

"Hey, uncle!"

"No, Uncle Shanks, what are you staring at?"

Luffy gazed at the sea not far away and shouted loudly.

"Could this really have been done by a child?" Shanks stared blankly, "How old is he? So terrifying already—what'll he be like when he grows up?!"

Only when Luffy's voice reached him did Shanks snap out of his daze.

"Wait, how does this kid know my name? We've never met before!"

He rowed the small boat to the shore.

"Luffy?"

"More accurately, Monkey D. Luffy!" Luffy placed his hands on his hips, beaming with energy, "I'm the man who's going to become the King of the World~!"

Red-Haired Shanks was stunned.

"King of the World?"

"That's right," Luffy nodded. "I'm going to become someone whose name echoes through history even after death!"

Only at this moment did Shanks truly look at the child before him.

To have one's name remembered after death—how impossibly difficult a thing that was.

"That's truly a great dream!" Shanks exclaimed in admiration.

Luffy extended his hand: "So, Uncle Shanks, join me. Let's overthrow the old world and build a new one!"

"I'm a great pirate," Shanks laughed.

Luffy grinned: "So what? You're not a bad guy. Let's build a wonderful era together and leave our names in history."

For some reason, Shanks suddenly found the boy's smile incredibly infectious—he reached out and clasped Luffy's hand.

"All right! Let's become the King of the World together!"

As he spoke, he thought of it.

He pulled out a Devil Fruit and handed it over.

"Here, take this. Though with your strength, you might no longer need this fruit."

Luffy blinked in surprise: "This is a Devil Fruit?"

More accurately, it was the Nika Fruit.

Having read One Piece, Luffy naturally knew the fruit's origin and understood the great opportunity it held.

Yet he did not eat it—he simply tossed it straight into Shangcheng.

【Ding! You sold the Nika Fruit and received ten thousand points.】

"Only ten thousand?"

But remembering the Nika Fruit's power and its fatal flaw, he found it perfectly reasonable.

After all, he would live forever, plucking stars and snatching moons as routine matters—he had no reason to regret it.

Seeing the Devil Fruit vanish from Luffy's hand, Shanks was stunned.

"Luffy, where did that Devil Fruit go?" Shanks asked. "Have you already become a Devil Fruit user?"

"No," Luffy shook his head, then pointed casually, transmitting the Five-Phase Emperor Scripture through the air to Red-Haired Shanks. "I sold the Devil Fruit—just enough to buy some elixirs for us."

He handed over a porcelain bottle.

Shanks, still reeling from the sudden influx of information in his mind, mechanically took the bottle.

After a long while, he came to his senses and looked at Luffy, who had already sat cross-legged, sinking into cultivation—flames flickered around his body, his form surging like a great tide, emitting the roar of crashing waves.

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"Is this cultivation?"

"So there still exists such a path of cultivation in this world—I was narrow-minded."

"I thought I'd seen enough, but I've seen far too little."

After digesting the cultivation technique in his mind, Shanks found an open patch of ground and began to cultivate.

With the elixir's aid, Shanks cultivated at an astonishing speed.

His strength was already at the peak of the pirate world; his body had been refined to perfection—he cultivated faster than Luffy.

"This is true power!"

After just half a day, Shanks's body reached perfection—he felt invincible strength coursing through his flesh, his spirit soaring.

He glanced aside and saw Luffy had already left, leaving only a crooked line of scribbled characters on the ground: "Uncle Shanks, see you tomorrow!"

A sense of loss welled up in Shanks's heart—he shook his head sharply.

"Why am I feeling dependent on a child? Could Luffy really have the innate aura of a leader?"

This was absurd—he didn't dwell on it and continued cultivating.

By the faint light of dawn the next day, Shanks had reached the peak of true qi, his appearance restored to that of a youth.

At that moment, a dark cloud drifted over.

Shanks drew his sword—a brilliant blade of light shot into the sky.

...... requesting flowers 0

Where the blade passed, the dark cloud was sliced into fragments; sunlight broke through once more.

"Uncle Shanks has succeeded in cultivation!"

Luffy's figure darted forward and landed nearby.

Behind him followed a burly old man, who, though revealing no strength at all, radiated an air of extraordinary dignity.

Shanks frowned: "Karp?"

"It is this old man."

Capone didn't shout or raise his voice; he looked astonished. "I never expected you'd agree to Luffy's request!"

Shanks smiled. "Don't you find this interesting? Overturning the current world and building a beautiful new one."

"Interesting?" Capone's lips twitched, speechless.