33 Chapter 33

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Luffy stepped in front of Coby, the unobservant idiots who by all rights should have been dead by now finally took notice of his presence. And he wasn't even trying to hide it or anything.

"Who the hell is this guy? I've never seen him before," one said suspiciously.

"New recruit maybe?" another piped up. The one who had been taunting immediately before Luffy stopped and glared at him.

"Oi, Identify yourself." Luffy looked him dead in the eye and grinned.

"Well, I'm the guy who likes milk… and am going to sink your ship with the big whale on board. That's all you really need to know." The pirates laughed at first, but then gaped at his audacity, but didn't hesitate to attack.

"You'll wake up in about 10 minutes. Try not to drown, I guess." This stopped them in their tracks as they stared in confusion upon hearing the cryptic statement. Then they dropped to the ground, foaming at the mouth. Luffy observed Coby carefully.

The blast, although weak was enough for most canon folders who didn't have the balls to go to the grandline.

Sparky seemed to be rolling his eye at Luffy's display of power. Almost as if saying, 'Did you have to do that…'

Luffy grinned, "Yes, I did…"

Observation Haki was amazing when you explore it… he was even able to understand Sparky with just his simple expressions.

Coby was kneeling on the floor, sweating profusely and panting for breath, but he was still conscious. Not bad.

Luffy smiled to himself, realizing that even this crybaby Coby, who had zero confidence and next to zero mental discipline, was still much stronger-willed than your average East Blue pirate. That wasn't saying much, but it was something.

"Hey, you! You're Coby, aren't you? If I heard right, anyway…mind giving me some food? I'm starved." Luffy said, "Meat should be preferable. Sparky loot em…"

The six-armed monkey rolled his eyes, before jumping down and checking the bodies of the unconscious pirates. Though they didn't have that much.

Coby was scared shitless at being addressed so casually by the person who had quite literally brought him to his knees with the use of an unknown, overwhelming power. And what was up with the six-armed monkey… that was some weird looking animal. But he didn't comment on that.

He nodded weakly and stood up on trembling knees. He walked forward, refusing to stumble, and led the mysterious boy and his monkey to a supply storage closet, if only to appease him.

Coby looked back at him as he walked, and gulped. The straw-hat boy didn't seem to be hostile to him despite the display earlier. If anything, he should thank him for saving him from a potential beating.

He was too intimidated at the moment to think of the ramifications of what the boy had just done. If those pirates were waking up in 10 minutes, they would surely run to Alvida, and the thought would have sickened him if he had been in a state of mind to worry about it. Instead, he opened the door and let the boy walk into the storage closet as if his life depended on it.

"Wow, thanks Coby!" He dove into a barrel full of apples and started inhaling them—that was the only description Coby could really use. If he was chewing at all, Coby couldn't see it. It was all a blur as he bounced from one side of the room to another and gradually emptied the supply closet of its precious food.

The six-armed monkey was no different. He even seemed to fight with the straw hat boy for the food.

And the young man and his monkey started expending enough to even give Alvida a run for her money in the fat department. The boy and the monkey were inflated balloons by the time he finished, before shrinking to normal size. There was some notable steam coming out of their body as they shrunk back to their normal size.

"That was a good breakfast…" the straw hat boy said.

The six-armed monkey shook his head, and pointed at one of his arms, there was an actually a small wristwatch there.

"Oh, then… that was a good lunch." Luffy corrected himself.

Coby almost couldn't believe what he was seeing. Actually looking at the behavior the six armed monkey seemed much more civilized than the straw hat boy. And somehow that worked.

The six-armed monkey also wore some good clothes, a similar-looking shirt like Luffy and short pants. Looking closely he could see six small guns strapped to his chest. Those couldn't be real… would they?

The monkey also seemed to say something to the straw hat boy. "Wou wh…"

"Yeah, you are right… the food wouldn't last us till dinner we should probably look for a civilization to eat something…"

Coby looked at him dubiously and found the courage to speak for the first time since the boy's introduction. "H-How much can you eat? What are you?" The boy and the monkey looked at him and Coby froze, wondering if the slip had been a mistake. To his relief, the boy just laughed and the monkey just rolled his eyes.

"What am I you ask… well, I'm the most basing and charming man alive." the boy said flexing his muscles. Coby only now noticed that the staw hat boy some amazing physique that he had ever seen. He didn't know that many muscles even existed in a body.

The boy was lean, not overly bulky, but the muscle and the vascular made the boy look quite sharp. Coby didn't know if the boy could be considered charming, but he did have an amazing body, he would give him that.

It also made him a bit jealous… he looked down at his noodle-like arm, and almost became depressed.

Luffy seemed to see the boy's distress. So he patted the boy on his shoulder, "Don't worry, if you eat and train in a routine way, it wouldn't take you a year to build an amazing physique yourself."

"Uh… thanks?" Then Coby mustered up the courage for another question. "Um, if you don't mind me asking, what was that thing you did back there? You knocked those guys out cold without lifting a finger."

The boy smirked. "Sorry. That's a secret. But you'll find out one day." Again with the vague responses. Coby nodded despite his lingering curiosity.

Meanwhile, Luffy was internally wondering if he should just tell him. He didn't really feel like explaining the concept of Conqueror's Haki to someone who had yet to truly see the world. Even a small glimpse of its vastness might discourage the boy from pursuing his dream at this point.

"Oops," he said suddenly. "I forgot to introduce myself. Sorry." He stood up, and Coby nodded to convey his desire to know. The inside of the ship was a bit dark, so only now he noticed that the boy had two spear-like weapon on his back. "I'm Monkey D. Luffy! The man who is going to become the Pirate King! And the man who will be the most strongest in the entire ocean." He said the last part as he balled up his hand with a wide wild grin on his face.