Chapter 125 Luffy angrily kicks a Celestial DragonEveryone frowned upon hearing this.
While they didn't sympathize with the pirates, they were utterly disgusted by this kind of human trafficking that treated people like animals.
Just then, the collar around the pirate's neck began to beep rapidly.
The surrounding townspeople, as if hearing a countdown to death, retreated in terror.
What happened? What's going on?
Nami, still bewildered, looked around at the panicked crowd with confusion.
Kalifa adjusted her glasses and calmly explained,
"That's an escape prevention device. To prevent slaves from escaping, their collars are filled with high explosives.
It will automatically detonate once they leave a certain distance from their master."
"Explosives?!"
Nami covered her mouth in horror.
With a piercing, rapid ringing of a bell, a deafening explosion followed!
Flames and smoke instantly engulfed the pirate slave.
With a thud, the slave's upper body, charred black, fell straight to the ground.
His charred lips were still moving, proving he wasn't quite dead yet.
I... will never be... a pirate again...
Tsk tsk, this power looks like it'll just make a noise.
Luffy stroked his chin, actually having the mind to comment on the explosive's yield.
This is already terrifying enough!
Nami, terrified, hid behind Luffy, frantically clutching his clothes.
Chopper, tears welling in his eyes, exclaimed in terror: "What's going on in this town?! It's terrifying!"
Papago, his face ashen, yelled at the still-dazed Camie.
"Camie! Hide! That symbol… the Celestial Dragons are nearby!"
"You all get off the bubble trucks and kneel down right now! The Celestial Dragons are really here!"
Papago frantically shouted at Luffy and the others.
Just then, a pug wearing a transparent oxygen mask swaggered down from the end of the road.
The civilians lining the street, as if they'd seen a ghost, knelt on the ground in terror, not daring to lift their heads.
Papago was so frightened that he lay flat on the ground, pretending to be dead, truly seeing himself as a starfish specimen.
Zoro frowned, looking at the kneeling crowd: "What are these people doing? Performing a worship ceremony?"
Sanji lit a cigarette and shrugged: "Who knows? Probably just a custom."
Nami nervously tugged at Luffy's sleeve from behind: "Luffy, should we...?"
Kalifa also stepped forward to ask Luffy's opinion.
After all, even CP0, the upper echelon of CP9, is just an obedient dog in front of the Celestial Dragons.
Papago, lying on the ground, shouted anxiously in a low voice: "Hurry up! That's a descendant of the Creator! A Celestial Dragon!"
Luffy chuckled, then solemnly addressed Nami and the others:
"Remember this, there is no one in this world who can make Monkey D. Luffy kneel.
Not even these pigs, not even Im himself!"
As Luffy finished speaking, an invisible yet terrifying aura suddenly erupted.
The Conqueror's Haki, like a tangible shockwave, instantly swept across the entire Sabaody Archipelago!
Throughout the Sabaody Archipelago, countless powerful figures instantly locked onto Luffy's location.
Even deep in the ocean, many hidden powerhouses looked up at the surface.
Backstage at a slave auction, an old drunkard with a wine jug squinted and muttered, "Interesting."
The islanders of Island 31, who had been kneeling to greet him, didn't even utter a sound before collapsing to the ground, their eyes rolling back.
Also collapsing were the two Celestial Dragons and their entourage who had just appeared at the end of the street.
The entire island seemed to have been frozen in time.
Besides Luffy and his crew, only the slave captain, Chambaru, being led by the Celestial Dragon Roswald, remained standing.
He stared in shock at the straw-hatted boy standing in the middle of the road, cold sweat pouring down his body, as if he were being watched by a prehistoric beast, unable to move.
"Oh ho, no wonder Law has his eye on him, his willpower is pretty strong."
Luffy smiled at Chambaru, then waved to his crew behind him.
"Let's go, running into trash is really unlucky, it ruins my mood."
Having said that, he took the lead, strolling towards the next island as if it were his own backyard.
Passing by the corpse of a Celestial Dragon, he even kicked its round belly twice.
This scene nearly made Jambal faint on the spot.
Zoro and the others followed behind Luffy speechlessly, while Camie and Papago's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
Luffy turned to Camie, who was still in shock, and comforted her.
"Don't worry, no one saw it anyway. Why don't you go kick it a couple of times to vent your anger?"
"I heard your merfolk have been ravaged by these guys."
Camie shook her head vigorously; she wouldn't dare even if she had ten lives.
Meanwhile, in the Holy Land Mary Geoise, in the Fleet Admiral's office:
"Garp!! Look at the mess your grandson has made!"
Sengoku was so angry his beard trembled, and he slammed a report onto the table.
"They beat up a Celestial Dragon! Luckily, it was our Navy personnel who discovered it first!"
"Fine, let's fight! And he even left a pirate as a witness! Does he think we don't have enough trouble already?!"
Sengoku slammed his fist on his desk, roaring, making the teacups on it bounce around.
"Hahahaha!"
Garp, clutching his stomach, laughed until tears streamed down his face: "As expected of my grandson, well done!"
"Garp! Shut up!"
Sengoku glared at his heartless old comrade, exasperated.
"If we hadn't found a pirate to take the fall, those idiots would have been yelling about sending an admiral already!
That would be a huge problem, you know that?!"
Especially since a major battle recently took place in Sabaody Archipelago, even Island 13 was destroyed.
And Whitebeard's crew is nowhere to be found now, probably hiding on Fish-Man Island or somewhere underwater plotting something!
And your grandson has to cause us trouble at this critical moment! It's infuriating!
Sengoku slumped back into his chair, feeling his blood pressure skyrocket.
"Hey Sengoku, don't be angry. I brought some good tea. Quickly, get out your secret stash of senbei!"
Garp, holding a bag of tea leaves, casually changed the subject.
Sengoku slammed the table again: "Get out of here!"
Garp impatiently picked his nose, flicking out a glob of unidentified matter.
"What's there to be afraid of? Those trash wouldn't dare do anything real. They're just useless pawns pushed out to provoke hatred."
"If all the Celestial Dragons were as stupid as Roswald's family, we wouldn't even need your son Dragon to start a revolution; the Navy would have wiped out these good-for-nothings long ago."
As everyone knows, of the twenty kings who created the world, besides Vivi's family, there were nineteen Celestial Dragon families.
The truly intelligent Celestial Dragons were quietly amassing wealth and power.
They conveniently pushed these power-hungry fools into the limelight as targets, drawing the world's hatred.
This way, the true power holders, hiding behind the scenes, were actually safer.
After all, in the battle at God Valley, Rocks almost wiped out the entire Celestial Dragon family.