Section 41

Then he pulled the sleepy Luffy and hurriedly chased after him.

Before they had run for long, the two were out of breath.

And Ron and Kuina had disappeared from sight for a long time.

"This won't work. We have to get Luffy up, otherwise we can't even finish one trip, let alone three trips."

Ace said.

Sabo also nodded with heavy breathing, and shouted to Luffy who was leaning on him: "Luffy, Luffy, get up!"

"You are useless. You can't wake up Luffy. Let me do it."

Ace said, approaching Luffy's ear and shouted loudly: "Luffy, Grandpa is here!"

"Grandpa?!"

Luffy woke up suddenly. "Where is Grandpa? Huh? Where am I?"

"Still sleeping, don't you remember what we talked about with Ron yesterday?"

Ace punched him on the head.

"By the way, I have to exercise with Ron today."

Luffy touched his head and woke up.

"That's good to know. Hurry up and run by yourself. It's too tiring to bring you along."

When the three brothers ran to the top of the mountain, it was already past 30 in the morning.

"I'm so hungry."

Luffy lay on the ground, collapsed, panting with his tongue sticking out.

"I want to eat meat."

Ace and Sabo were also panting and thirsty.

"You are too slow. I almost fell asleep waiting."

Ron jumped down from a tree, walked to the three of them, kicked Luffy and said, "Don't lie down. Next should be the exercise you like. If you win, you will have meat."

"Meat?"

Luffy's eyes lit up and he got up in an instant.

"Where is the meat?"

Ron smiled at the three of them, "You three come together. If you can hit me once, you will have meat."

"Keep your word."

Ace slapped his fist and grinned.

Luffy's eyes were shining.

Sabo adjusted his hat.

"Go!"

It was not until noon.

The three still failed to hit Ron.

Looking at the three brothers lying on the ground, panting with their tongues out, Ron said, "That's enough for today," and left.

On the way back to the tavern.

Kuina looked at Ron with a smile and asked curiously:

"You seem to be enjoying it? What's special about the three of them?"

"Although the three of them are weak now, they will definitely be strong in the future."

"How do you know?"

"Feeling."

Ron smiled.

………………

The next few days.

It was a similar scene. The three followed Ron to do a lot of physical training, and then there was a one-on-three actual combat, and the result was the same.

They couldn't even touch Ron's clothes.

However, the three of them were able to persist, and this perseverance to become stronger still made Kuina slightly look sideways.

One day in the tavern behind the house.

Kuina was learning to mix cocktails with Makino behind the counter.

Four boys of similar age sat around a table not far away.

"Hey, Luffy, this is my meat."

Ace angrily grabbed Luffy's face and pulled it apart.

"Spit it out!"

"No! What's in my mouth is mine!"

Luffy let him stretch his rubber face longer, but he never let go. He kept chewing with his mouth bulging, like a hamster.

"You guy!"

"Ron, is this a real knife on you?"

Sabo looked at the Raikiri that Ron put aside and asked curiously.

"Of course."

"Awesome! Can you let me see it?"

Sabo's eyes were shining, and his face was full of admiration.

"Of course, you can, but be careful, this knife is very sharp." Ron, who was holding a beer glass and drinking fruit beer, smiled at him, and then handed him the Raikiri.

Sabo took it with both hands full of respect and piety.

"It's so heavy. Is this a real sword? Ron, do you usually carry something so heavy?"

"Is it heavy? I don't think it's heavy."

"... As expected of you. Can I pull it out and have a look?"

"Sure, just be careful not to cut yourself."

Ron nodded.

The next second, he punched out and punched Luffy, who stretched out his rubber arm and tried to secretly take the grilled chicken in front of him.

"Awesome."

Sabo looked at the pulled out Raikiri with shining eyes.

Ace also came over and said excitedly: "What a beautiful sword, does this sword have a name?"

"Raikiri."

"So handsome!!"

Ace, Luffy and Sabo's eyes were full of light.

Behind the counter.

"Is that so?"

Kuina successfully prepared a glass of bubbling fruit beer according to Makino's method.

"Yes, that's it."

Makino said after taking a look.

Then she raised her eyes to the noisy table with a gentle smile.

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33. Luffy: I don't want to be the Pirate King anymore, I want to be a traveler! (2/5)

As time goes by.

The relationship between the few people becomes closer and more familiar.

Sometimes Ron and Kuina would stop practicing swordsmanship and go to the mountains with Ace and the other two to have some fun.

Diving.

Catching rhinoceros beetles.

Competing with monkeys who can box.

Luffy couldn't even beat one, but Ron defeated the entire monkey group by himself, earning a lot of respect from Ace and the other two.