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"Squeak-squeak--"

Kuzan was riding a bicycle, carrying the three brothers Ace, Sabo, and Luffy towards the Kingdom of Alabasta. The weight of four people was too heavy for this bicycle. When Kuzan was riding, the entire frame made a sound as if it could not bear the weight.

"Oh! That's amazing!"

"Brother Kuzan, your ability is really convenient."

"But, aren't we moving too slowly?!"

Ace looked at the ice road that formed automatically under his feet with curiosity, and suddenly felt that Kuzan's ability was much more useful and convenient than his own.

The shaping ability of the Ice-type Devil Fruit is far beyond the reach of other types of Devil Fruit.

"slow?"

“We are already moving very fast.”

Kuzan pedaled his bike slowly, with an angry and embarrassed expression on his face.

It's not that he wasn't strong enough to pedal faster, but the weight of several people was too great and the frame was on the verge of collapse. If he accelerated, the chain would probably break.

Bicycles are a new thing in this world, and because the technology has not even moved in this direction, the manufacturing process is very crude.

"Hey, I have a solution!"

Ace heard this and a big smile appeared on his face.

"Hey, don't mess around!"

Kuzan seemed to have sensed something, his eyes twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but remind him. But as soon as he finished speaking, Ace patted Luffy's shoulder gently and said with a smile:

"Luffy, you better hold on tight."

“Speed ​​up!”

Ace turned his body to one side and squatted at the end of the back seat. He clasped his hands together and made a "Kameha" posture.

"Hey!"

Kuzan noticed Ace's actions and quickly spoke out to stop him, but his words were still a step too late.

"Iku~~~"

Ace let out a low roar of excitement, and flames spurted out from his palms. The focused flames instantly hit the icy road behind him, and a huge propulsion force passed through Ace's body and was directly applied to the bicycle.

The bicycle, which was originally moving slowly, soared into the sky at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving a long tail flame in the air, and flew towards the distant coast of the Kingdom of Alabasta.

"Asshole! Ace, you idiot, my car is going to break down!!!"

“Ohhhhhhhh—”

The bicycle turned into a black dot in the sky, and Kuzan's angry curses and Luffy's excited cheers came from the air.

On the deck of the warship, Zefa looked at Kuzan and others who disappeared into the air and smiled with relief:

"Finally I don't have to take care of those troublesome little brats."

"Whoo~"

"Enjoy it."

Zefa lay comfortably on the recliner that originally belonged to Kuzan. He took the tea brought to him by the thoughtful adjutant, took a sip of the tea, and exhaled a breath of hot air.

"Oh oh oh--"

On the beach of the Kingdom of Alabasta, Luffy's cheers came to an abrupt end as his bicycle crashed to the ground.

A flash of fire and a flash of lightning quickly flashed down from the sky, and Kuzan also dropped his bicycle, jumped lightly, and landed steadily on the beach.

As for Luffy, he had a close contact with the beach. His little head poked directly into the sand and took a mouthful of salty sand. At this time, he was using both hands to support the ground, trying hard to pull his head out. The characteristics of the "Rubber Fruit" made Luffy's neck stretched very long.

"My Bicycle"

Kuzan walked to the side of his beloved bike, looked at the wreckage of the bike stuck in the sand, his brows forming the shape of the Chinese character "川".

As for Ace and Sabo, they hurried to Luffy, grabbed Luffy's feet and pulled him out of the sand.

"puff!"

"Hahahaha!"

“How interesting!”

Luffy, his face flushed red, slumped on the sand. There was no sign of injury on his body. He quickly looked around and suddenly burst into laughter.

"Ace!!!"

When Kuzan's angry voice came, Ace immediately restrained his smile, and actually bowed respectfully in Kuzan's direction, and apologized earnestly: "I'm so sorry, Brother Kuzan!"

Ace was stunned by the sudden change, and the anger caused by the "death" of his beloved car disappeared at this moment.

Looking at Ace who was full of apology, Kuzan felt a little sorry for a moment. He felt that he shouldn't bother with a child, and he couldn't bear to blame him:

"Well"

At the end of the conversation, Kuzan was left with a deep sigh.

Tired, my heart is tired.

"Let's go. Once we enter the town, don't talk nonsense and stay by my side."

"Let's hide our identities first and get some information."

The Kingdom of Alabasta is the environment of Summer Island. The entire island is in a high temperature and high heat environment all year round, with plenty of sunshine and little rain.

Although most of the soil in the Alabasta Kingdom is desert, the limited oasis land is fertile enough, and the specialty fruits are in-demand commodities that can be sold far and wide.

However, after being controlled by pirates in recent years, maritime trade has been declining year by year. Correspondingly, the Kingdom of Alabasta has also built a number of military factories and, taking advantage of the chaotic situation, began to sell various weapons to various forces.

The shift in the main commodities of foreign trade has led to huge changes in the identities of merchants from various countries traveling to the Kingdom of Alabasta.

The people who came here to do business were relatively honest fruit merchants, but now those who traveled in this sea area were politicians from various countries, military officials, or captains of pirate groups.

The mixed crowd of foreigners also made the security in the Kingdom of Alabasta extremely poor.

Kuzan was wearing a pair of blue shorts and a white short-sleeved shirt. Ace, Sabo and others who were traveling with him were dressed similarly. Although they had changed into casual clothes and tried their best to hide their identities, there was still a huge difference between their attire and that of the local residents.

In a small coastal town, Kuzan and his three little ones were wandering aimlessly on the streets.

The strangers appearing on the street did not attract much attention. The residents of the Kingdom of Alabasta had long been accustomed to seeing strangers like Kuzan and others on the streets.

Not only did the residents not feel afraid or fearful of strangers, but some merchants were enthusiastic about recruiting people.

Young Luffy was attracted by all kinds of novel things along the way, but Sabo and Ace, the two little adults, also had childishness in their hearts, and like Luffy, they walked and stopped.

Kuzan was not in a hurry to go anywhere to find out any news. He just took the children for a stroll on the street, carefully feeling the customs and culture of the Alabasta Kingdom under the control of pirates.

Kuzan was very nice to Ace and the others, and he never refused any of their "consumption requests". As long as the children wanted it, Kuzan would act as a kind parent and pay generously.

Not long after entering the town, several people were carrying a lot of things of varying sizes.

Drinks, snacks, fruits, small toys and so on.

Kuzan, who spent money lavishly, was soon targeted by someone with ulterior motives.

"Fat sheep!" In an alley at the corner of the street, a middle-aged man with a turban on his head was sticking to the corner of the wall, secretly spying on Kuzan and others who were shopping on the street.

The consumption in the Kingdom of Bastan is not high, but this is only relative to the income of General Kuzan. The consumption capacity of the local citizens who make a living from agriculture is not that strong.

The profits from the military trade were impossible to flow into the hands of ordinary people. Even the workers working in the pirate factory could only get a salary that was enough to support themselves and their families, and the wages were kept very low.

This kind of work has to be done, the pirates will let ordinary people know what the consequences of refusing to work are.

Fortunately, there are not many military factories in the Kingdom of Alabasta, and the business is still in its infancy and not widespread. The number of workers required is extremely limited, and only a small number of ordinary people are affected.

The large number of foreign businessmen brought in by the military-industrial trade also indirectly boosted the growth of the local economy.

It is because of this that the streets can present such a prosperous scene.

But if ordinary people are deceived by this superficial prosperity and let down their guard, reality will probably give these people an unexpected blow.

"Um!?"

In front of a pancake stall, the greedy Luffy was eagerly watching the merchant kneading dough and making pancakes. Kuzan, who was waiting not far behind him, seemed to have noticed something and inadvertently glanced at the corner of the street not far away, but did not pay too much attention.

He noticed someone was spying on him.

Not only Kuzan noticed it, he suddenly noticed that Sabo was also tilting his head to look towards the corner not far away, and the smile on his face faded.

"This kid?"

Kuzan noticed this and took a deep look at Sabo beside him, feeling somewhat surprised.

He didn't expect that Sabo was such a sharp intuition.

"Brother Kuzan, it seems like someone is watching us."

No one knew how Sabo confirmed the fact that he was being spied on, but he gently pulled Kuzan's trouser leg and reminded him in a low voice.

"Well, never mind."

Kuzan nodded nonchalantly and answered casually, not taking the person who was spying on him seriously.

"Could it be someone from Sand Crocodile?"

"We were discovered so soon?"

Ace, who heard the conversation between the two, also came close to Kuzan and asked in a deep voice.

“Probably not”

"If they can find us so quickly, then the pirates' control over this country may be beyond our imagination."

"Well--"

"It shouldn't be this bad yet. Let's wait and see how it develops."

While Kuzan was speaking, he happily took his things from the pancake stall owner.

"Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh~"

He couldn't wait to take a bite, but was immediately so burned that he lost the ability to speak and started dancing around, shouting "Ma" from his mouth.

Kuzan and the others were also attracted by Luffy's funny scene. Sabo patted Luffy's back gently and reminded him in a gentle voice: "Eat slowly, Luffy."

As Kuzan led Ace and the others away, the big man who had been spying on them also walked out from the shadows and followed them.

The man followed closely in the footsteps of Kuzan, Ace and the others, but he did not notice that the movements of Kuzan and the others were becoming faster and faster.

A few people who were eating and stopping on the street now moved away from the noisy crowd and after turning several corners, they walked into an empty alley.

The man was concentrating on chasing Kuzan's men. When he noticed that the people in front of him suddenly stopped, he was shocked to realize that he had walked into an empty alley.

The leader, Kuzan, slowly turned his head and waved to the man behind him who looked stunned.
"Hey, uncle, why are you following us?"

"What are you doing?"

The eyes of the three children, one big and one small, fell on him. After a brief moment of surprise, the middle-aged man showed a ferocious smile on his face. He reached out his hand to touch his back, and when he reached out again, a long knife was already tightly grasped in his hand.

“You look very rich.”

"Hey! If you don't want to get hurt, hand over all the valuables on you to me."

"hey-hey!"

As he spoke, the middle-aged man took out a whistle from his arms and started to blew it.

A sharp and strange whistle drifted away in the distance, and soon, Kuzan and others heard dense footsteps coming from all over the alley.

In just a few minutes, seven or eight strong men had blocked the front and back of the alley.

"Eh??"

"A robbery?!"

Luffy looked in front and behind with curiosity, and there was no fear on his face. Instead, he showed an excited expression.

When Kuzan saw the other party blowing the whistle, he thought the other party might be someone important.

It turned out to be just a bunch of petty thieves who were robbing people on the road.

"Hey, hey, hey, it's just a robbery, do you need so many people?"

"I'm afraid the money I have on me is not enough for you to share?"

Although they were just petty thieves, the noise they made when they robbed him was not small. It was a bit of an exaggeration for seven or eight people to deal with an adult and three children. Kuzan thought that he did not have any valuable jewelry on him, and he did not do anything to show off his wealth along the way.

In fact, he did not expect at first that he would attract the attention of these thieves.

"Hey Hey!"

The strong men who blocked the road did not answer Kuzan's question. The issue of dividing the spoils that Kuzan mentioned seemed to not exist at all for them.

In fact, Kuzan still ignored the value of these people. One adult and three children could be sold for a good price on the black market.

Who says that only gold, silver and jewelry can be counted as money?

In this world, anything can be exchanged for money!
"I see."

The robbers slowly approached Kuzan, Luffy and others. Looking at their greedy expressions, Kuzan lowered his head slightly, with a look of understanding on his face.

There is no way to stop human trafficking. As long as the nobles in this world still have a demand for slaves, the slave trade will never be stopped.

Even a killer like Yoriichi Tsugakuni would probably not be able to completely eliminate such things from this world.

"Brother Kuzan, leave it to us!"

Looking at the approaching robbers, Ace's eyes lit up and his blood began to boil.

"It's useful, don't kill me."

Feeling Ace's excitement, Kuzan put his hands in his pockets and had no intention of taking action.

"gomu gomu noooo——"

Before the robbers could take action, Luffy's low cry reached their ears.

(End of this chapter)