Naruto: Copy System

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Garp and the others successfully transported Jack the Drought to the underwater prison, then returned to Marine Headquarters at Marineford.

"Fleet Admiral Sengoku, I have something to report regarding the Seven Warlords."

Aokiji entered Sengoku's office and addressed him.

"I know what you're going to say. You can take my orders and pay a visit to the Warlords."

Before Aokiji could even speak, Sengoku already knew what he was going to say. The matter of the Seven Warlords was certainly because they hadn't acted this time, which had caused Aokiji's dissatisfaction.

In fact, it wasn't only Aokiji who was dissatisfied; Sengoku himself was deeply displeased. He believed the Seven Warlords needed to be put in their place.

Sending Aokiji was a way to rein them in without dismantling the system entirely. If he had sent Akainu, a battle would have been inevitable.

"I understand." Aokiji nodded and prepared to leave.

"Aokiji, where's Garp?" Sengoku called out to him just as he was about to leave.

"Vice Admiral Garp went to the East Blue. Didn't he say he already told you?" Aokiji asked, giving Sengoku a questioning look.

Sengoku's face darkened. 'Told me? When did he ever do that??'

"Alright, I understand. You can go and deal with the Seven Warlords first." Sengoku sent Aokiji on his way.

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Shin and his group stayed at Fish-Man Island for a while, then came to the first half of the Grand Line.

They didn't stop at the Sabaody Archipelago because they had already prepared supplies at Fish-Man Island.

After leaving Fish-Man Island, Shin's Pluton headed straight for Amazon Lily.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!

The sound of cannonballs exploding rang out. Shin, who was sleeping on the deck, was slightly stunned. Someone was bombarding him with cannonballs.

"WHO IS THIS?"

Shin opened his eyes, irritation flashing in them. Who had the audacity to fire cannonballs at his ship? Not that they ever reached it—every shot was intercepted long before it got close.

"These people woke Shin up. That's a capital offense." Hancock's expression was ice-cold, her gaze fixed on a pirate fleet in the distance.

"In the New World, no pirate would ever attack us. Yet here in the first half of the Grand Line, someone actually does. How strange."

Amatsuki Toki couldn't help but say.

"This must be what they mean by 'ignorance is bliss,'" Robin said with a faint smile.

"Hey, where's Shirahoshi?" Marguerite looked around for her. She had been here just now, but now she was gone.

"Shirahoshi, don't be so scared. It's too embarrassing."

Shin pulled the shrunken Shirahoshi out of his sleeve. Besides the Mini-Mini Fruit, she could become very, very small.

"Don't you know this is even more dangerous?"

Shin made Shirahoshi return to her normal size and then lectured her.

It wasn't that he wanted to scold her. If she shrank down so small, what if someone accidentally stepped on her? Shirahoshi's face flushed with embarrassment, though fear lingered in her eyes.

The thunder of cannon fire was enough to terrify her, yet she didn't scream.

Her courage had already grown—before, she would have been reduced to tears.

"What pirate crew is this?" Shin asked Olvia.

Since Olvia knew more, he turned to her. After all, she paid closer attention to the state of the seas than he did.

"I'm not sure either. I've only kept track of the pirates in the New World. As for those in the first half of the Grand Line, I know only a handful."

Olvia told Shin that she didn't know much and didn't recognize this pirate crew.

"It must be some no-name pirate crew. I suppose ignorance really is bliss." Shin knew that in this world, many powerful crews existed beyond the original story.

Still, if even Olvia hadn't heard of them, they were nothing more than an unknown band of small-time pirates.

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"Captain, this pirate crew looks tough. Our cannonballs are useless."

"Yeah, captain, did we hit an iron plate?"

The pirate crew that had attacked Shin's ship was a bit panicked at this moment. The cannonballs they fired were useless.

"Hmph. I am the Poison Dragon, a Devil Fruit user. Why would I fear them? This ship isn't bad—we'll take it." The captain of the pirate fleet spoke calmly.

He commanded dozens of ships and was well-known across the Grand Line. To him, the lone vessel before him was nothing more than trash.

How could a single-ship crew be his opponent? As for the Kuja Pirates' flag, he didn't even glance at it. He dismissed Shin outright as a worthless pirate.

Then, in a flash of steel, a sword light cut clean through his ship, sending it plunging into the sea.

Poison Dragon never even had time to act—his body split neatly in two.

"Pathetic fools..." Hancock swung her sword again.

With every slash of her sword aura, a ship was sunk into the sea. In an instant, more than a dozen ships had sunk to the bottom of the sea.

In the blink of an eye, all the ships had sunk. Only then did Hancock sheathe her sword.

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"As expected, they're nothing but weaklings," Hancock said.

She had assumed that anyone bold enough to attack the Kuja Pirates would show some strength, but she had clearly overestimated them. They had none at all.

"It seems we're well-known in the New World, but that means nothing here on the Grand Line," Shin remarked.

"This was just an accident," Olvia said with a slight shake of her head.

Even in the first half of the Grand Line, the Kuja Pirates held a strong reputation. Some pirate crews simply didn't know their place.

"There are far more pirates in the first half of the Grand Line than in the New World."

The New World had fewer pirates, but those who survived there were all elites, unlike the more ordinary crews that filled the first half.

Compared to the pirates of the Four Seas, those of the Grand Line were far stronger—yet they still couldn't match the monsters of the New World.

Even so, the Four Seas remained crucial.

Most pirates who set sail into the Grand Line and eventually reached the New World originated there. Many powerful figures—both pirates and Marines—had their roots in the Four Seas.

The attack by those ignorant pirates was only a brief distraction.

The Pluton pressed on toward Amazon Lily, and with its unmatched speed, it soon entered the Calm Belt, drawing close to the island.

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