Grand Line’s Lord Of Shadows

Inside the castle, Reiju, who had frozen in place, came back to her senses.

Looking at the already empty corridor, she sighed quietly.

She seemed to be at the mercy of others.

There has never been a chance to choose one's own destiny.

"Baratie… ocean-going restaurant..." After an unknown amount of time, Reiju took a deep breath, suppressed those messy thoughts in her heart, and came outside the castle.

She didn't know whether the news Luke said was genuine or fake.

But obviously, she didn't dare to gamble.

Compared with the three brothers, Ichiji, Niji, and Yuji, who have no emotions and have been transformed into war machines.

In Reiju's mind, her once-weak brother Sanji was not a failure.

It was her mother, Sora, who risked her life and took banned drugs to give birth to the only child with feelings in order to fight against her Vinsmoke Judge's dehumanizing lineage factor transformation.

She never hoped that he, who had finally left an evil family like Vinsmoke and could live as an ordinary person, would be involved in such a thing again.

She walked out of the castle and passed by the No. 2 training ground.

This is Luke's own exclusive training ground.

It was a training ground that Luke specially prepared for himself in order not to affect other people but also in order to be able to concentrate on training and develop his devil fruit abilities.

From a distance, she noticed that Luke was wearing a Sea Prism Stone and squatting up and down with dumbbells.

"Those should be Sea Prism Stone handcuffs, right?"

Reiju was full of surprises.

She directly asked a zombie next to him: "Has he always trained like this?"

Was Obask Luke, who is known as the strongest CP9 genius in the past 800 years, actually trained so hard?

As a person with devil fruit ability, he is actually wearing a Sea Prism Stone.

He's really not simple.

"This? Luke-sama has just started to warm up!"

The zombie was full of pride and raised his chin directly: "A few days ago, at the Prehistoric island in the Grand Line, Luke-sama used the mountain as a sandbag for training!"

"Using the mountain as a sandbag? Are you kidding me?"

Reiju's face was filled with astonishment and some disbelief.

"You don't believe it?" The zombie's eyes widened.

Looking at Reiju, who was full of disbelief, he pointed directly to the other side of the training ground.

On the side was an extremely thick iron wall about five or six meters high. 

It was covered with huge marks: "See that pitted iron wall? I heard that it is made of the hardest memory alloy."

"Even if real artillery shells hit it, it cannot shake it."

"But usually, Luke-sama uses it as a sandbag for training, hitting it day and night without wearing any gloves or Armament Haki for defense!"

When Reiju heard this, her eyes shrank sharply.

Looking at the uneven and shocking iron wall.

She can vaguely judge that some traces should be left by fists and feet.

She stared blankly at Luke's tall figure.

Are these all left by that man?

It's incredible.

Not long after, Reiju saw it.

Luke, who was wearing Sea Prism Stone handcuffs, put down the warm-up equipment.

Then he came to the huge and thick iron wall; he kept punching, swinging his legs, elbows, and knees…

With a face full of determination, he beat it wildly without uttering any sound.

The thick iron wall made a creaking sound that made people's scalp tingle just hearing it.

"What a monster..."

When Reiju witnessed this scene, her eyelids twitched, and she was deeply shocked.

She and several of her brothers had even undergone Lineage Factor transformation.

With an extremely tough exoskeleton, they could be said to be invulnerable to swords and guns.

But they still did not dare to practice so crazily.

"With this level of training, is he not afraid of hurting his body and leaving hidden dangers?" 

Reiju could not help but ask the zombie on standby.

"Don't worry about that. Dr. Hogback, the ship's doctor, is the user of the Repair-Repair Fruit and can treat Luke-sama as soon as possible..."

The zombie did not hide anything because Reiju has a special status: "And he also specially prepared a potion for Luke-sama to bathe and soak every day to ensure that there will be no injuries."

"In addition, Luke-sama's physical fitness is not what ordinary people can imagine... No matter how tired he is, he can become lively after waking up the next day!"

In fact, in addition to Luke's amazing physical fitness.

The most important thing is the effect of the Life Return.

But this zombie was just an ordinary minion, so he naturally didn't know this.

"Hmm?"

There was a moment of silence.

Reiju, who was about to go back, saw two sweaty figures running along the coastline.

They were Perona and Hogback, wearing weight-bearing clothes, holding heavy dumbbells in both hands and training there while gritting their teeth.

In the sky, there was also a huge pterosaur, on which sat a figure dressed as a samurai, shouting from time to time.

Then she shifted her gaze and looked at the figure on the training ground who was persistently hitting the iron wall.

Reiju hesitated for a moment but finally made up her mind.

She caught up with Perona and Hogback and joined the training.

"A ship as big as an island?"

"It's a bit familiar; it seems to be the ship of the Gecko Pirates!" Two days later.

At noon, when the sun was shining brightly.

East Blue, Loguetown.

The huge Thriller Bark came slowly.

It caused a sensation instantly. 

Countless merchants, pirates, nobles... stared with their eyes wide open, looking at the huge ship like an island in disbelief.

Some people were full of anxiety and fled for the first time.

"Luke-sama, Loguetown is ahead..."

On the No. 2 training ground, a zombie navigator hurried over and reported there.

"Oh? Really?" Luke, who was sweating profusely while constantly hitting the iron wall, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

After a while, he stopped training and took off the Sea Prism Stone handcuffs.

Then he took the towel from a zombie attendant and wiped his sweat.

"Are we finally here?"

"The legendary town of beginning and end..."

"The hometown of Pirate King, Gol D. Roger, and the place where the Pirate King was publicly executed!"

At this time, on the No. 1 training ground.

Robin, Perona, Hogback, and others who were originally training were also full of surprise.

They all stopped training and came to the coast, looking at the island ahead, which was getting clearer.

Even Reiju, who had been to East Blue more than once, had never been to Loguetown.

They were looking forward to this legendary town.