One Piece: How Can I Become King Of The Pirate If You Don’t Work Hard?

"Get out of here!"

"Bad Marines!"

The little girl tried her best to show a ferocious expression, but with her rosy face, she looked unusually well-behaved and cute.

But at this moment, Smoker couldn't laugh at all. He ignored the little girl and looked behind him.

More and more civilians gathered here, surrounding the Marines.

These people had angry looks on their faces, and in their hands were holding farm tools, brooms, benches, sticks, or other objects that could barely be considered weapons made from local materials.

Even when facing these people from the Marines, there was no fear on their faces, only resentment that had been pent up for a long time.

"Get out of here, Marines!"

"You would only run away when facing pirates, but now that the incident is over, you guys are here?"

"This kind of justice... This kind of justice..."

In front of the crowd, a young man with a broken arm clenched his fist until the blood dyed the bandage red. The pain made his expression more ferocious, and his voice was like that of a wounded beast: "We don't need it!"

"The branch base you promised, the harbor you promised... None of it has been realized. Everything was just for money!"

"Now that the pirates' attack has just passed, are you so impatient?"

Hearing the shouts of the civilians around him, Smoker's face was as gloomy as water.

He could naturally see that the real purpose of these people was to protect the pirates hidden in the lord's mansion.

But no matter what he did, he couldn't understand why these civilians would stand on the side of the pirates?

Ignoring the angry civilians, Smoker turned to look at Gaza and Gawain, his brows furrowed tightly: "You guys played this trick beautifully."

After saying that, Smoker raised his hand and asked the surrounding marines to put down their weapons.

He could not bring himself to do this to the civilians who had just suffered, especially when part of that suffering came from the Marines.

Gaza looks around.

She felt a warmth in the eyes of these civilians.

At this moment, the aura from Smoker that made her legs weak just now was not so unbearable.

She took a deep breath and said calmly:

"We didn't do anything; they came here of their own accord."

"Sir, if you don't have a search warrant, please go back."

"Hmmpp!"

Smoker snorted, his eyes fixed on the guard next to Gaza.

The only person in East Blue who could make him feel the dangerous aura was Gawain, the one he fought tonight.

If he was just surprised just now, now he was sure that the servant standing in front of him was Gawain in disguise.

Does he really want to let a pirate escape in front of him?

Still…

Smoker clenched his weapon, his expression uncertain.

"Captain Smoker!"

Suddenly, Tashigi hurriedly squeezed in from the outside of the crowd, walked quickly to Smoker's side, and said:

"We have basically figured out what happened in Raven Harbor yesterday."

"There were three warships that arrived here. After Captain Nezumi saw through White Knight Gawain's identity, he fled on his ship."

"The other one pretended that pretend to be Marines were Admiral Krieg's men. This was their specialty, but they were all destroyed."

"As for the last group of people..."

Having said that, Tashigi looked at Gaza in the distance with a strange expression and continued: "That is, the Marines that rescued the civilians in the harbor should be the White Knight Gawain's men pretending to be Marines."

"Pirates?"

Smoker was slightly stunned.

"That's right."

Tashigi nodded:

"If there is no fourth party involved, this would be the case."

"We are the fourth party."

Smoker sighed.

He already understood why these civilians were risking their lives to stand before him.

It's because the civilians of this era are much simpler than you can imagine. If you are good to them, they will be good to you. If you stand up for them, they will be willing to stand in front of the Marines for you.

At this moment, in the eyes of the civilians in Raven Harbor.

Those pirates who ran through the gunfire and snatched themselves back from the hands of death with their own hands are far more worthy of respect than the Marines.

For a while, Smoker had mixed feelings in his heart. Although he was a little unwilling, he finally waved his hand: "Let's go get a search warrant!"

"Understood!"

Tashigi saluted, her eyes falling on Smoker, slightly distracted.

She doesn't know if it's an illusion.

She always felt like Smoker was being pressed down by something at this moment, making his back not as tall as before.

The surrounding civilians made way for Smoker and the Marines to leave.

It was not until the Marines completely disappeared and the warships remaining in the harbor sounded their whistles that everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Many people's clothes were soaked with sweat.

"I was scared to death. I thought we were going to fight the Marines here."

"With the weapons we have, we can scare people, but if we really fight the Marines, we will be shot in line."

"But wasn't that marines officer also scared away by us?"

"Hehe."

The crowd gradually became noisy.

But no one regretted coming here today to protect their savior.

The young man with the broken arm came to his senses at this moment, looked at his bloody arm, and grimaced in pain.

Then he smiled faintly at Gaza:

"My lord, thanks to you this time, we... We were able to survive."

"I... "

Gaza has a bleak outlook: "So many people died in the end. If I had discovered it earlier if we had been stronger..."

"You've done a great job."

The young man with the broken arm consoled her, then he remembered something and said jokingly:

"Also, please let us give a message to our benefactors."

"What?"

The young man with the broken arm grinned:

"Their acting is really bad. How could the Marines disregard their own safety and risk their lives to save us?"

"Next time, you can wear your own clothes and even carry your own flag."

As they spoke, everyone's eyes were focused on Gaza. It was obvious that this was a decision they had already discussed.

Gawain looked at the smiles on everyone's faces, and he felt

something inexplicably on him.

Far away.

Smoker stood on the deck, looked up at the lord's mansion in the distance, and murmured: "White Knight Gawain, what kind of man are you?"

No one answered Smoker's words.

Tashigi stood quietly beside Smoker, holding in her hand the Nanashaku Jitte that she had just fished out of the sea.

After a while, Smoker came back to his senses and looked towards the sea in the distance. 

The confusion in his eyes gradually dissipated:

"There may be one or two outliers among the pirates, but the pirates themselves are the source of the chaos in this world."

"Tashigi."

"Yes!"

"You know what? I have submitted reports about Nezumi to the headquarters several times before, but each time, they fell on deaf ears. The most recent time, I even received a warning from a certain Rear Admiral."

Tashigi's breath caught in her throat, and she quietly tightened her grip on the sword in her hand.

Smoker continued:

"If I can be stronger and have a higher status, I can change the status quo of the East Blue Marines and even the Grand Line."

"We are too weak, not only in strength but also in influence..."

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