ONE PIECE: START BY ACCEPTING LUFFY AS A STUDENT
CHAPTER 54

At this moment, an iron covering suddenly lifted from the whale's back, and an old man decorated with flowers came out.

"flower?"

Everyone stared blankly at the old man.

Because the old man's clothes really looked like there was a flower on his head, which looked very attractive.

Zoro asked curiously: "Uncle, who are you? How did you get out of the whale's belly?"

But the old man stared, and said after a long time, "Before asking others, it's polite to declare yourself first, isn't it?"

"Uh, right, my name is Roronoa..."

"My name is Crocus, keeper of the Twin Gorges Lighthouse, 71 years old, Gemini, type AB."

Zoro was interrupted to introduce himself, and Jonin could not hold the vein on his face, he raised his hand and was about to pull out a knife, "Can I cut it!"

Unexpectedly, the old man Crocus stared again, and said after a long time, "Don't do that, you'll die!"

Sanji asked curiously, "Oh? Who do you think will die?"

"That's an old man!"

"So it's you!"

Everyone was powerless to complain, and suddenly a strange old man appeared, so everyone did not know how to deal with him.

Luffy laughed loudly: "Hahaha, Uncle Hua is really interesting!"

Crocus looked at Luffy deeply, then jumped off the back of the whale, found a seat in front of the small house next to the lighthouse, and said unintentionally, "Just now I felt the breath of a strong man, is that you a man?"

Luffy pressed down on the straw hat and introduced himself, "My name is Monkey.D. Luffy, Uncle Hua, please give me your advice."

Crocus used to read newspapers, so he naturally recognized Luffy, "I know you, Straw Hat Boy. This newcomer was truly incredible, and he was already famous all over the world before entering the Grand Line!"

Luffy giggled and said nothing.

At this moment, a huge whale suddenly crashed into the Inverted Mountain, causing the sea and the ground to tremble. Again and again, it looks absolutely crazy.

Crocus hurriedly shouted: "Laboon! Don't hurt yourself again!"

As he spoke, he used his body to block the whale, but was thrown by the whale. Perhaps out of fear of hurting Crocus, the whale finally stopped, but he roared into the sky, and his voice was full of sadness.

Crocus finally heaved a sigh of relief as he watched the whale stop.

Luffy could not help but ask: "Uncle, what's wrong with this whale? Why are there wounds all over his head? And, why does it sound so pathetic?"

The Straw Hats were also very curious about this, and even Tashigi sharpened her ears.

Carl finds a bottle of wine from the kitchen, finds a seat, and drinks it himself. He knew the story about the whale, but that did not stop him and his friends from listening to it again, but wine was needed to listen to the story.

Too bad there are no nuts or melon seeds, too bad!

Crocus begins to tell the story of the whale: the whale named Laboon, who came to the Twin Gorges with a group of pirates fifty years ago, and Crocus also met Laboon at that time. Due to the danger of the Grand Line, the Pirates left Laboon here, and agreed to return to see Laboon after traveling the world for a week, but they never returned.

Later Crocus even went out to sea to look for them, but there was no news. After fifty years, the pirates died, so he told Laboon the same thing.

But Laboon did not believe him, and began attacking the Red Line, wanting to go to the mainland to find the pirates...

Tashigi's eyes glazed over, perhaps this was the first time she knew about pirates and stories so touching.

At this time, Luffy suddenly hits Laboon in the face with a rubber gun, dropping Laboon to the ground. This sudden behavior shocked everyone, wondering why Luffy went crazy.

"Son, what are you doing ?!" Crocus could only say worriedly.

Luffy did not speak, and waited for Laboon to react while pressing his straw hat. Laboon looked annoyed, and his huge head hit him, but Luffy did not dodge, and let himself be thrown into the air by Laboon.

Afterwards, Luffy and Laboon hurt each other directly, which was confusing.

Yet everyone in the Straw Hats saw that Luffy did not use his full strength.

Just as Laboon was about to attack again, Luffy suddenly said, "This time is a series!"

Laboon's huge body choked.

"This time is a series! I am strong, you want to fight me again! I know your partner may not come back, but I will always be your opponent. After I've been around for a week, I'll definitely come and fight." With you again!"

Luffy's words made everyone unable to hold back a smile.

Crocus even rubbed the corner of his eye: "Son..."

Laboon even cried, screamed into the sky, and cried like a child.

Afterwards, Luffy, the soul painter, drew a pattern of twisted straw hat skulls on Laboon's head, only to prevent Laboon from hitting the Red Line with his head again.

Crocus was relieved when one of his worries subsided.

Carl, instead, stared at Laboon for a long time, frowning and thinking about it, he realized that he seemed to have forgotten something.

Tashigi asked curiously: "Mr Carl, what are you thinking?"

Carl said hesitantly, "I feel like we've forgotten something, it's obviously very important, but now I can't remember it for some reason."

"Because I can't remember it, maybe it doesn't really matter."

Sanji interrupted, then said: "Okay, I'll cook soon, let's have a good meal before leaving. But our captain is too hungry, and the food originally prepared from the city of Logue is running out now." , let Momoo quickly hunt..huh?"

Sanji was stunned, and the others seemed to be thinking of something, and they were all frozen there.

Carl suddenly realizes: "Moo Moo! We forgot Moo Moo!"

Now embarrassing.

She obviously valued her friends very much, but she forgot Momoo, the manatee, the hunting tool, and did not remember it until she ate. It must be because I was too excited when I climbed the mountain just now, and Momoo was at sea, otherwise how could I have forgotten?

At this moment, a manatee was swimming tirelessly down the waterway.

It seems Momo can't catch up to the boat because the boat is too fast, but she can still swim by herself. Fortunately Momoo wasn't as big as Laboon, otherwise it was expected that he wouldn't be able to get through it.

"Moo! Moomi!" Moomoo looked sad.

"Moomoo, sorry! We're wrong!" Everyone hurriedly bowed and apologized to Moomoo.

Crocus couldn't help but laugh when he saw this scene, he might have been unhappy for a long time. Tashigi also laughed and wiped her tears, sensing from the bottom of her heart that the Straw Hat Crew was really a good bunch of people.