Chapter 139 Sengoku is furious after beating up a Celestial Dragon"Tsk tsk, how can you talk like that? I'm a lieutenant general now, and you, a major, don't even salute your superior?" Luffy teased with a grin.
Tina glared at him angrily, reluctantly raising her hand in a salute.
Luffy casually wrapped his arm around Tina's slender waist: "We're practically family, no need for that in private."
Tina's face instantly turned as black as the bottom of a pot, her arms transforming into black iron bars that snapped shut, binding Luffy tightly like a dumpling: "Serves you right for being so thrifty!"
Luffy laughed, his arms giving a slight shake.
"Crack—"
The thick steel bars snapped open like noodles with a flick of his wrist: "I'm not messing around with you anymore, let's go for a drink later."
Tina stared at the twisted, deformed iron bars on the ground, her beautiful eyes wide with disbelief.
"Oh dear~ these young people nowadays~"
Kizaru scoffed, shaking his head, hands in his pockets, and swaggered past Tina from behind.
Tina, seeing this, hurriedly stood at attention and saluted: "Greetings, Admiral Kizaru!"
Then, Luffy followed Kizaru straight to Fleet Admiral Sengoku's office.
Before even entering, Sengoku's furious roar could be heard through the heavy doors:
"Garp! Look at your good grandson! That bastard... ugh! The Celestial Dragon just woke up, and your grandson knocked him out again! And had him sent back to Mary Geoise like trash! This is utterly lawless!"
Followed by Garp's carefree, hearty laughter: "Hahaha! As expected of my grandson! Well done!"
"Yo, good day, old man! Grandma Sengoku's here too!"
Luffy pushed open the door, greeting him with a bright, sunny smile.
Sengoku's forehead veins bulged: "???"
"Hahaha! Luffy, you brat, well done! I've wanted to beat those bastards up for ages, hahahaha!"
"Garp! Shut up!!"
Sengoku trembled with rage, feeling like he was about to have a stroke.
He turned and pointed at Luffy's nose, cursing: "I could tolerate you going to Sabaody Archipelago to wipe out human traffickers, and you even pacified the lawless areas, since we can handle the allied nations behind those scum."
"But that's one thing, but why the hell did you have to fight a Celestial Dragon! Twice! No, three times!!"
Luffy said righteously: "He kidnapped a woman, I was upholding justice."
Sengoku: "..."
"Then why did you finish him off?! Right in front of CP0?!"
"Huh? Didn't I just casually kill that CP0 member? How come there's still a survivor who betrayed me?"
Sengoku: "..."
Sengoku rubbed his temples in pain, feeling like his life was burning up: "What about the third time?! What happened then?!"
"I just came back from carrying out my duty of justice when I heard that pig calling us Marines dog lackeys."
Luffy slammed his fist on the table indignantly, "How could I tolerate this? We're the Marines of justice! If it weren't for Uncle Kizaru desperately stopping me, I would have killed him on the spot!"
After saying that, Luffy frantically winked at Kizaru.
Kizaru, who was pouring himself tea, froze, staring blankly at Luffy.
What's going on? Are you trying to drag me into this again?
Seeing the murderous glare from Sengoku, Kizaru could only nod. "Ah, yes, yes, I was the one who stopped him. That was close!"
Sengoku slammed his fist on the table, making a deafening noise. "Since you were there, why didn't you just stop him from attacking?!"
"Ahem." Kizaru coughed awkwardly. He couldn't very well say that he also wanted to join in and kick him.
Sengoku finally let out a long, helpless sigh, looking as if he had aged ten years.
Luckily, it was Kizaru who went this time. If it had been Akainu, he'd probably be fighting Luffy to the death right now.
"I told you to go back to headquarters to lay low, and you've managed to create such a huge mess. I should have just let you wander around the Grand Line. Killing a few Shichibukai would have been better than fighting Celestial Dragons."
Sengoku looked at Luffy with utter despair.
But then he realized that Luffy wasn't listening at all, busy playing with the goat next to him, who was eating documents, while eating senbei.
"Get serious, you bastard! Don't be like your jerk grandpa!!"
"Sengoku, where are your senbei? I've already brewed the tea." Garp added a precise finishing touch.
Sengoku: (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻!!
"In short, I don't want to see you two for even a second right now! Get the hell out of here!!"
Sengoku unleashed his final roar at the two of them.
The grandfather and grandson exchanged a glance, then, with perfect understanding, each grabbed a bag of senbei from Sengoku's desk and slipped out of the office.
Behind them came Sengoku's furious curses.
Outside the building, the grandfather and grandson exchanged a smile and dashed to the plaza.
"How's it going, old man? Can you handle this?" Luffy asked, munching on a senbei.
Garp nonchalantly picked his nose: "As long as we're in the right, even if you cripple that trash, it's not a big deal."
Luffy chuckled, then his smile faded, and he looked at Garp seriously: "I want the Navy to separate from the World Government."
Garp glanced at Luffy with surprise, his tone still relaxed: "It's not that easy. We're a law enforcement agency; we don't have political power or money. We can't exist independently."
"And don't underestimate those five old men and the power behind them. They've ruled the world for 800 years; it's not just the Navy that's capable."
Luffy gave the nonchalant Garp a deep look. Sure enough, none of those bearing the name of the D. clan are simple.
"Haha, I was just saying. By the way, old man, you saw my crew members, they're too weak compared to me now. Help me find them a reliable instructor to train them properly."
Luffy stopped dwelling on the topic of independence and got down to business.
"No problem. That sharpshooter Dadi you sent last time is really talented, he's quite well-known in the Navy now."
Garp grinned.
"How about it? Is he at the level of a Yonko's officer yet?" Luffy's eyes lit up.
Garp immediately rolled his eyes: "Dream on! It's not that fast! He's been out of practice for too long, but he's barely at the level of a Commodore now, and he can use Haki to wrap bullets without much trouble."
"Tch." Luffy looked disgusted, "What's the difference between a Commodore and cannon fodder? He's not even as good as one of my basic attacks."
Luffy then explained the grueling training plan for Usopp and Sanji to Garp.
Garp glanced at Luffy sideways: "You've got your eye on that old man Zephyr, haven't you?"
"What do you mean, 'keep an eye on'? I'm just showing some concern for an elderly person living alone, and incidentally, I'm having him keep an eye on the whereabouts of that big oaf Edward Weevil."
Luffy said with a grin, looking just like a little fox.