Because a Pirate King appeared in the East China Sea, this sea area has been the focus of the navy's attacks since the beginning of the Great Pirate Era.
In addition, the "Navy Hero" often returns home to visit his grandson, so any pirates who happen to encounter his fleet will not escape.
Over time, no powerful pirates emerged from this sea area, so it was called the "weakest sea" by people in the Grand Line.
Even so, there are still a few new stars in this sea every year.
There are pirates and there are bounty hunters.
For example, this year, a new star known as the "Treasure Hunter" appeared in the East China Sea – Mad Torreja.
The treasure hunter fleet he formed aims to find and dig up treasures, while also doing the work of bounty hunters. Their style of being both good and evil has led to them having no rivals in the East China Sea except for the navy of Rogue Town and the "Dragon Pirates" from the Grand Line.
But during this period, the fleet was challenged by two thieves.
The "Little Thief Cat" and the "Phantom Thief" who became famous in the East China Sea teamed up to steal their treasure.
In order to retrieve their treasure, the fleet of "treasure hunter" Mad Torrega has been chasing them.
On this day, they forced the two to an uninhabited island and finally caught them in the rocky area.
"Kalina the Phantom Thief, Nami the Cat Thief…"
Mad Torreja was a burly man about three meters tall. His naked upper body was wrapped in an iron chain as thick as his arm. He looked at the two tied-up girls with fierce eyes and grinned, "You two little brats are so brave that you even dared to steal our treasures."
"Tell me quickly, where did you hide our treasure!?"
"Damn you little brats, you've embarrassed us."
"If you don't return the treasure, I will chop you into pieces!"
"…"
Several treasure hunters surrounded Nami and Kalina, some with ferocious looks, some with murderous looks on their faces.
Facing this group of treasure hunters who were walking on the edge of a knife, Nami, who was only 14 years old, was filled with fear in her eyes and was trembling all over. It was the first time she was caught and her thoughts were in a mess. The figures of the villagers of Kokosia Village and her sister flashed through her mind quickly.
Kalina next to her had a calm expression.
With her hands and feet tied, she looked at Mad Torrega as if she had surrendered. She said, "I will return the treasure to you, and also give you the treasure I have saved so far, but in exchange, you have to let us live."
"Wow…"
Mad Torreja, who was about to torture them, smiled with interest and said, "Okay, but how can I trust you, Phantom Thief…Karina."
"I will leave alone, and my companions will stay here, so you can rest assured!"
After finishing speaking, Karina looked at Nami who looked incredulous and assured her with a firm look in her eyes: "Nami, believe me, I will definitely come back."
"Kalina…"
Nami stared at Kalina in amazement.
"Okay, untie her."
Mad Torreja threatened: "Come back before sunset, or this guy will die."
"Hello..."
Just as Kalina was untied and was about to reassure Nami again, a voice suddenly rang in everyone's ears: "What are you doing in my territory?"
"who!?"
The sound came so suddenly that it scared Mad Torrega and others.
Looking in the direction where the sound came from, I saw a young man with short black hair, a handsome face but still a little childish squatting on a rock mountain more than ten meters high.
Seeing that it was a boy about the same age as "Little Cat Thief" and "Phantom Thief", Mad Torrega and others breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, the treasure hunter carrying a long spear pointed the gun at the boy and shouted, "Damn little devil, you dare to scare us, go to hell!"
Bang!
He pulled the trigger without any hesitation, and a bullet cut through the air, hitting the boy before Kalina and Nami could even open their mouths to beg for mercy.
However, the scene of blood blooming did not appear.
The bullet did make a hole in the boy's body, but what spurted out was not blood, but orange-red flames.
"This merciless style, a pirate? Never mind…"
Looking down at his healed body, Dewey looked at the astonished treasure hunters, slowly extended his index and middle fingers, put them together to make a pistol gesture, and shouted, "Musketeer!"
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—
The flames flickered like the light of a bullet coming out of a gun, gleaming at the fingertips of both hands.
The flaming bullets fell on Mad Torrega and others at a speed that was difficult to capture with the naked eye.
"Ahhh…"
The attacks, with extremely high impact force and temperature, were like stabbing knives into their bodies, causing these treasure hunters, who could only be arrogant in the East China Sea, to let out miserable screams.
Even in the future, Mad Torrega, who made a name for himself in the Grand Line and was known as "the most vicious treasure hunter in history", was now just a barely decent rising star in the East China Sea.
Such rising stars can be found everywhere in the rest of the world.
In the face of the elemental forces of nature, there is no room for struggle.
The bullets kept firing at Mad Torrega and others like a machine gun, until their screams stopped and they lost consciousness and fainted from the pain.
The whole process took less than three minutes, or less than one minute to be exact, and the remaining two minutes were spent attacking Mad Torrega.
He is a user of the "Paradox-type Clang Fruit", a chain man who can make chains come out from any part of his body and operate them freely.
Although Dewey caught him off guard, Mad Torrega did not give up struggling and tried to use chains to block the attack of the musket. Unfortunately, his speed could not keep up with the musket and he eventually fainted.
This scene made Kalina and Nami, who were not affected by the attack, turn pale.
Kalina, who had been calm just now, was also frightened and collapsed to the ground.
With their narrow vision, they have never seen such power.
"This kind of power is the sense of security I want."
Looking at the treasure hunters lying on the ground with burns all over their bodies, Dewey put down his hands and muttered to himself with the corners of his mouth slowly rising.
Dewey shifted his gaze from the 'corpses' to Kalina and Nami, and his red eyes narrowed slightly: "Purple hair and orange hair, this combination…"
Orange-red flames covered his entire body, and Dewey's figure disappeared on the rocky mountain.
A large flame appeared in the eyes of Kalina and Nami, and quickly condensed into a figure.
"Kalina the Phantom Thief, Nami the Cat Thief…"
Dewey said the two women's titles and names, and looked at them with slightly shining eyes, with a flash of surprise in the depths of his eyes.
Unexpectedly, before his training was over, the crew members he wanted would show up at his doorstep.
Dewey is afraid of death!
When we are weak, we are afraid of death; when we become strong, we are even more afraid of death.
Because Dewey has only traveled through time for about a year, the comfortable life in his previous life has made it difficult for him to integrate into this world.
For the so-called sense of security, Dewey took a long time to muster up the courage to go to the desert island "Sixis" to look for the Flame-Flame Fruit.
After eating the Flame-Flame Fruit, he even developed a phobia of the sea.
As a person with special abilities, Dewey would surely die if he fell into the sea. He never thought of entering the Grand Line alone.
So, Dewey needed a navigator.
A powerful navigator is a talisman. As a time traveler, Dewey knows that in this weakest sea, there is a future world's number one navigator.
Long before searching for the Flame-Flame Fruit, Dewey had decided to find Nami to be his navigator.
Not only is Nami beautiful, but she also has a natural talent for sailing. She can tell what the weather is like in the distance just by sniffing the sea breeze.
With her around, Dewey doesn't have to fear the climate of the Grand Line.
As for the crew that robbed the protagonist?
Dewey didn't care about that at all.