【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

"Who are you...?" Luffy asked in a low voice as the man passed by him, his voice shaking unconsciously.

Lucci paused and turned his head slightly to look at Luffy out of the corner of his eye. He noticed that the boy had a strange expression on his face, one that was both expectant and fearful. Looking at the expression on the boy's face, for some reason, he felt a little at a loss, which was rare.

He was not sure whether he should answer him. Just as he was about to answer, he suddenly felt the breath of Blackbeard, so he quickly said "Lucci." and then quickly chased in the direction where Blackbeard appeared.

"Lucci." Luffy muttered to himself, the smile on his face growing bigger and bigger. He really is his brother.

"Luffy, what's wrong with you?" Nami asked puzzledly. It was the first time she saw Luffy so curious about someone.

"Do you know him?" Sanji asked after taking a puff of his cigarette.

"Yeah!" Luffy nodded heavily, grinning at Lucci's leaving back, "We'll see you again!"

Zoro glanced at the pirates lying on the ground around him and said, "We should go."

"Well, let's go!" Luffy put his hat back on, then pushed open the door with Zoro and the others and prepared to leave.

"Wait." Nami walked quickly to the bar, snatched the bag of gold coins from the tavern owner, took out a few gold coins and handed them to the owner, saying, "This is the meal money, and the rest is what the man gave to our captain."

Zoro looked at Nami's operation and couldn't help but twitch his mouth. "That's not necessary."

"What do you mean it's unnecessary? These are gold coins!" Nami shouted angrily, "And you still owe me 300,000 Baileys!"

"What? Isn't that already written off?!" Zoro shouted angrily.

"You green algae-head, how dare you speak to Miss Nami like that!" Sanji shouted at Zoro.

Zoro glared at Sanji and immediately shot back "Want a fight? You stinky cook!"

"Shut up!" Nami punched both of them on the head. "Luffy's gone!" Then she chased in the direction Luffy left.

Sanji and Zoro glared at each other, then quickly followed Luffy and Nami.

……

After buying the necessary supplies, the four of them headed directly towards the Merry. During this time, they met Robin who was out buying clothes.

After what happened with Bellamy, they completely lost interest in this town, and they also realized that they could not get the information they wanted in Magic Valley Town.

They planned to set sail immediately to the place where Mont Blanc Couliquett lived, the guy who had been studying Sky Island for a long time as the ape said. He lived on the other side of Gaya Island.

Because it was just on the other side of the island, they quickly arrived at the location the ape described.

The house where Mont Blanc Couliquet lived looked like a castle from the front.

"Wow! That's great!" Luffy and Chopper exclaimed.

"This guy named Mont Blanc Kulikate must be very rich!" Usopp shouted in shock as he looked at the beautiful castle.

"Idiot, open your eyes and look carefully!" Zoro said speechlessly, closing his eyes.

When the boat approached the shore, Luffy jumped off first. As soon as he landed, he discovered the truth about the house and shouted in disappointment, "What! It turned out to be just a piece of board!"

"What!?" Usopp shouted in disbelief.

Zoro sighed, glanced at the disappointed Usopp and explained, "There's only half of the real house, the rest is made up of boards."

Nami was also disappointed, but thinking of the purpose of their coming here, she changed the subject and asked, "What dream did he insist on that led to him being driven out to live here?"

"That's because the old man insists on believing in the existence of Sky Island and the legendary Golden City!" The ape smiled happily.

"Wow! He's such a great dreamer!" Nami's eyes instantly turned into the shape of money, and she shouted in surprise, "So... so you mean there's gold here?"

Nami didn't wait for the ape to answer, she immediately jumped off the boat, pointed to an empty space not far away and directed Chopper, "Quick! Chopper, there is gold here, dig it up!"

"Huh!? Really?" Chopper said in confusion, but still followed Nami's instructions and started digging in the open space with his antlers.

Chi and Sanji also got off the boat, while Robin and Zoro stayed on the boat. Luffy, who got off first, had already explored the surroundings and walked towards the house, pushing the door while saying "Hello... excuse me!"

When Usopp saw Luffy's actions, he was shocked and said, "You are so rude!" Then he followed Luffy towards the house.

"Is anyone home?" Luffy ignored Usopp and pushed open the door and entered the house. "Huh? No one's home?"

Luffy found that there was no one in the room and came out. He and Usopp returned to the shore where Qi and the others were. "Ape, there's no one in the house!"

"Hmm..." The ape put his hand on his chin, thought for a moment and said, "The old man should be diving at this time. He dives into the sea every day to look for the Golden Country..."

The ape was interrupted by the noise outside before he could finish his words.

"Hey, who are you!?"

Qi looked at the guy who looked like an orangutan and suddenly felt that he looked familiar.

It was obvious that Sanji also felt that this guy was familiar, and he blew out a smoke ring nonchalantly, "Could this guy be the brother of that ape?"

"Chimpanzees!!"

"Ape!?" The guy with green hair and who looked like an orangutan saw his brother who was still alive and shouted in surprise, "Are you still alive?"

"What? What does this mean!?" the ape asked in confusion.

The gorilla paused, then waved his hand and said, "Forget it."

The gorilla looked at the pirates gathered around the old man's house and asked, "Brother, do you know these guys?"

"I brought these guys here. They want to go to Sky Island." The ape explained.

While the apes were talking, Nami found a picture book on the stump. "What is this? "The Great Liar Nolando"? "

Nami looked at the book in her hand and immediately thought of a guy in their team. She said jokingly, "This book title is well chosen. It is very similar to a certain guy."

Usopp looked at the inexplicable smile on Nami's face and felt that she was not talking about the book, but about him. He immediately shouted in dissatisfaction, "Hey! Nami!"

"'The Great Liar Nolando'?" Sanji looked at the picture book in Nami's hand and thought for a moment. "What a familiar name! I think I read it when I was a kid!"

"You read it when you were a kid?" Nami asked in confusion, then took a look at the place where the book was published. "But it says here that it was published in Beihai."

"I was born in the North Sea! Didn't I tell you?" Sanji said with a smile.

"I've never heard you say that." Usopp and Nami shook their heads.

"It doesn't matter where I'm from. The main thing is that this is a well-known story. Although it's a fairy tale, I heard that the great liar Nolando really existed." Sanji pointed at the picture book in Nami's hand while holding a cigarette and said with a smile, "This is a story that happened about 400 years ago."