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This is a panda-man with an unusual appearance, but when he appears in a crowd, no one feels anything is amiss.

"Piracy is actually very simple." The panda man looked at the wine glass in his hand, his gaze wistful.

"Pirates... they adventure, they fight, they dance around gold and silver treasures, they sing amidst the roaring waves."

"Forever venturing into the perilous seas ahead, forever pursuing unknown adventures, a free will that neither power nor formidable enemies can extinguish..."

"This is what pirates are like."

"Then, what about the bandits?" the child nodded and asked again.

“There are many mountains in this world,” the panda continued.

"Some mountains stretch across the sea, extending for 40,000 kilometers and dividing the world in two."

"Some mountains exist in people's hearts, without form, yet they make it difficult for people to walk."

"Some mountains are above people's heads, weightless yet capable of breaking people's spines."

"And the thieves who broke through these mountains were mountain bandits."

The child nodded as if he understood, then looked away and his gaze fell on the boss.

"Boss, don't listen to his nonsense, tell us the story of the Mountain Bandit King again!" The other children held down the boy who had been repeating the story and pressed him for an answer.

"Yeah, yeah... What are pirates and bandits anyway? Who cares?"

The panda looked a little lonely and sat back down in the corner, drinking alone.

"Okay." The owner sat down behind the bar.

He casually picked up a wine bottle, shook it a few times, squinted, and his memory returned to a long time ago.

"This story begins with a wine bottle..."

Clang!

..............

(End of the book)

(I've written enough since the overthrow of the World Government. There will be one or two more side stories, and after that, I'll write the epilogue.)

Extra Chapter: From Akainu to Hot Dog (Complete)

(A little supplement about Akainu, which can't be inserted into the main text, so it's in the side story.)

The time was twelve years before the collapse of the world government.

Admiral Akainu, then a Marine Admiral, led the Buster Call fleet to Water 7, only to encounter a sudden tsunami.

Akainu and Barrett fought fiercely on the waves. In the end, due to the pattern that suddenly appeared on his body, he lost his focus and was knocked into the sea by Barrett, and disappeared from then on.

After the waves of the water gods receded.

A merchant ship encountered a stranded man who was unconscious in the waters near Water Seven.

"This... the mark of the Sky Dragon's Hoof! He's not a survivor at all!"

"No! Something's not right! This person also exudes righteousness!"

"Quickly, handcuff him! Use sea stone handcuffs!"

..................

The sound of wheels rolling filled my ears.

When Akainu woke up, he felt extremely hungry and thirsty, and his whole body was weak.

"Seastone?" He subconsciously shook the shackles on his hands, his face darkening.

Seastone is a powerful tool for countering Devil Fruit users. Any Devil Fruit user who encounters Seastone is as helpless as Superman encountering Kryptonite.

This is an ironclad rule that even the most powerful ability users cannot defy.

The only good news is that the purity of the sea stone on Akainu's body isn't very high, so he still retains some strength.

He had already changed into casual clothes.

However, the neckline of the clothes was very wide, and from Akainu's perspective looking down, one could see the outline of a dark red brand.

Sky Soaring Dragon's Hoof!

Akainu's face gradually darkened.

The mark of the Sky Dragon's Hoof appeared on him suddenly during his fierce battle with Barrett.

So shocked was he momentarily distracted that Barrett seized the opportunity to knock him into the sea.

"It must be Sieg's doing!"

"He has many strange and unpredictable methods; it must have been him!" Akainu made the judgment immediately.

"So, is my current situation also related to him...?"

Akainu looked around, and his heart sank to the bottom.

At this moment, he was wearing sea stone shackles and was in a prison van.

There was more than one cage on the vehicle; the other cages contained other prisoners of different appearances and races.

These prisoners included strong, muscular men, stunningly beautiful women, and even individuals of strange, subhuman appearances...

The prison van wasn't important; what mattered was the scenery on both sides—tall, pristine white buildings, unlike anything of this world...

This is clearly the Holy Land of Mary Geoise!

Although Akainu has just become a Marine Admiral, he would never mistake the Holy Land of Mary Geoise.

Considering the Sky Dragon's Hoof mark that suddenly appeared on his chest, his predicament becomes quite clear...

"I was treated as a slave of the Celestial Dragons? And a runaway slave at that?"

Akainu's face was extremely grim, his fists clenched tightly...

Even though his abilities were suppressed by the impure Seastone shackles, leaving him completely exhausted and parched with hunger...

But with his abilities, it's not impossible for him to escape from this prison van.

The question is... what happens after you escape the prison van?

With him in the Holy Land of Mary Geoise, does he still have the strength to break through the Holy Land's guards and even the blockade of CP0?

He revealed his identity, saying he was a newly appointed admiral of the Navy Headquarters.

He bears the mark of the Sky Dragon's Hoof!

Theoretically speaking, the Navy Admirals are the direct subordinates of the Celestial Dragons.

This is one of the reasons why Garp repeatedly refused to be promoted to admiral.

If his identity is exposed, the brand on his body will also indicate that Akainu was once a slave of the Celestial Dragons.

So how could he, a newly appointed general, win over the people? How could he uphold his vision of "complete justice"?

Akainu's face gradually turned ashen.

"This path is blocked! It's not feasible!"

"A naval admiral with such a stain on his record, even if he can retain his position as admiral, will never be promoted to naval admiral."

"Without becoming a Fleet Admiral, it is absolutely impossible to uphold 'complete justice' by relying solely on the strength of a Navy Admiral!"

He didn't have much time to think.

The prison van drove into the Holy Land of Mary Geoise and stopped there.

The CP guards in black suits have already begun inspecting the prison van.

"A new batch of slaves has arrived?" came excited shouts from afar.

Several large, obese Celestial Dragons were slowly approaching, riding on the backs of slaves.

Among the many Celestial Dragons, one person stood out from the crowd.

This person was strolling in the surrounding garden. She was a slender female Celestial Dragon with long orange hair coiled on her head. Her physique was quite different from the other Celestial Dragons, standing out like a crane among a herd of pigs among the group of fat and ugly Celestial Dragons.

Somewhat strangely, she wasn't wearing a bubble headband; she simply tilted her delicate face slightly upward, her gaze cold and haughty.

Aside from that, her expression and demeanor were the same as the other Celestial Dragons, with an arrogant air of superiority, as if she stood on a cloud looking down on the world, disdainful of everyone.

She was truly arrogant and disdainful of everyone.

Her contempt didn't seem to be directed at any slaves, including Akainu; it seemed to encompass everyone around her, even the other Celestial Dragons.

"Let me take a good look at what good stuff we have this time." The leader of the Celestial Dragons was no different in physique from the other Celestial Dragons, and his face was also full of fat, but the only difference was that the bubble hood on his head was unusually square.

"It's not just about acquiring a batch of high-quality slaves. Lord Charmaco, we also happened to capture an escaped Celestial Dragon slave!"

The merchant ship owner bowed to the Celestial Dragons, kneeling on the ground, while smiling and introducing them.

"Oh? There are slaves who dare to run away? Interesting."

Under the watchful eyes of the Celestial Dragons, the slave Akainu was escorted off the carriage.

However, when the merchant ship owner looked closely at Akainu, he noticed that the man's appearance seemed to have changed slightly from what he remembered.

He seems to have lost a bit of weight?

He didn't think much of it.

No one cares what a slave looks like. It doesn't matter who he is.

The newly appointed Admiral Akainu took office after the recent Impel Down war. Before that, he was only a Vice Admiral and had little fame among the general public outside the Navy.

Charmaco Saint, however, let out a sound of surprise and his gaze fell on Akainu, scrutinizing him for quite a while with a look that Akainu found unfamiliar.

"Not bad."

"You've got quite a muscular build."

He nodded approvingly, indicating his great satisfaction, and instructed his attendants to take the group of slaves into their care.

Akainu's expression didn't improve much. He lowered his head and, led by the Celestial Dragons' attendants, gradually walked away.

As the newly appointed admiral of the Navy Headquarters, he also possessed the ability to restore life, though he wasn't as proficient as the likes of Onigumo.