One Piece: The Straw Hat Pirates' Mechanic

Carl was lying on the ground with his face up, gasping for breath and spitting blood.

Suddenly, he saw a shadow in front of him. It was Luffy.

"how? Are you going to kill me?"

Karl originally thought that the other party was going to kill him to silence him, but he didn't expect that the other party actually pulled him up.

"I see what you mean, Carl."

"No, you don't understand!"

"No, I get it!"

"Then do you still want to be the Pirate King?"

"of course! Not only do I want to become the Pirate King, but I also want to pull you on board."

"You still don't understand, pirates have to kill people! And I can't do that!" Carl shook his head,"You don't need a loser who can't even kill a pig properly, do you?"

"What does that matter? I haven't killed anyone either! Just knock them all out! Get rid of those bad guys who kill people!"

"Hahahaha, why are you a pirate if you don't dare to kill someone?! Karl laughed and said,"The Holy Mother cannot be a pirate!""

"Are you going to die? Like you said at the beginning, throw away your life?"

"Don't you know? Life is the least valuable thing in this era!"

"With the cheapest chips, what makes you think you can sit on the supreme throne?"

"Then bet everything on me!"

""It would be nice if I were stronger than them all!" Luffy rolled up his sleeves, flexing his muscles like a bodybuilder,"It would be nice if I were strong enough to knock them all out with one punch.""

"You can't beat everyone.��"

"Who can say for sure about such things?"

"Even if you defeat everyone and become the Pirate King, so what? The Pirate King is still a thief after all! Everyone will fear you, spit on you, and regard you as a demon."

"so what? Now that I'm on this path, I don't care what others think."

Luffy stood up holding his waist and stretched out his hand towards Carl:

"So, Carl, be my partner."

Looking at the figure in front of him, Karl's heart was shaken for the first time.

"No way!"

Coming back to his senses, Carl slapped Luffy's hand away, climbed up and continued to concentrate on dealing with the prey.

"I told you, I will not become a pirate."

"Just like the promise you made to become the Pirate King, I also promised someone to be a good person!"A blazing fire was reflected in Carl's pupils, and between the fire, a face seemed to vaguely emerge, a memory that did not belong to this world.

Hearing this, Luffy finally understood what the other party meant.

Promises are a very powerful force!

If someone else said this, Luffy might have given up, but Carl was too much to his taste, and his words were very interesting.

Those viewpoints were all things Luffy had never heard of in his life.

Luffy sat down next to Carl and began to scratch his head and think hard. After a long time, he suddenly said this:

"As long as he's not a pirate, that's fine!"

"Um?"

"You can be a non-staff member on my ship! Then just say that you are a hostage that I forced onto the ship."

Karl:.....

"Don't be so outrageous, okay? I'm talking about will, do you understand will? Who can you deceive with your formalism?"

"Ah~~ Then there is nothing we can do!" Luffy was very distressed and sat down on the ground.

"So, after you leave, will you join the Navy?"

"navy? Most likely not"

"Don't you hate pirates?"

"They are very annoying, but I can't beat them!"Karl curled his lips,"There is a saying in my hometown that is very good."

"Being poor cares themselves, being wealthy cares the world"

"What's the meaning? I don’t understand!"

"That is to say, if I were a weakling, I would just live my own little life, just like me now."Karl explained patiently,"And if I am capable and as powerful as you, I will help more people, like you now, who hunted so many prey and gave it to me."

"Oh, I understand, when I become the Pirate King, I will be the most powerful person in the world." Luffy thought.

"That's right"

"Then I will help more people��

"That's right"

"Hunt more wild boars and share them with everyone in the world!"

Karl fell to the ground instantly

"What on earth did the wild boar do to you?"

Carl complained immediately after he got up.

"how about you?"Luffy ignored Carl's complaints and asked blankly.

"What?"

"What is your dream?"

"My dream? Just eat and wait for death. What I hope most is to open a restaurant in the Navy Headquarters after I get out, make a little money, eat and wait for death, and not have to worry about pirates coming to burn, kill and rob. You don't know, there are pirates everywhere outside now, maybe only the Navy Headquarters is a little safe."

Speaking, Carl seemed to think of something happy and joked:

"If you are caught by then, I can also bring you food. How about roasting wild boar?"

"Great! Then I want to eat ten, no, one hundred roasted wild boars!"

"Okay, okay, if I can live to see that day, even if I lose everything, I will still give you a full meal! There is a custom in my hometown that says that the last meal before execution must be eaten well."

"It sounds very good! But that's not what I'm asking about"

"what is that?"

"Your dream!"

"That’s my dream!"

"But this is your poor dream. What if it comes true? That's the one..."

""If you are successful, you should help the world!" Carl shook his head helplessly, but when he saw Luffy's serious eyes, he couldn't help but be dazed for a moment.

Yes, what about success?

All along, he seemed to have been looking at himself with the criterion of"poverty", living with the mentality of one person's fullness and the whole family's fullness.

It seems that he has never thought about what if he is"successful"?

Help the world!

What is his dream?

He has never thought about it!

Why has he never thought about it?

Is it because of fear? Or...Accepted the reality?

Accepted...My own ordinaryness and mediocrity?

Is it when you find out after college that your salary is pitiful? Or is it when you are forced to hide your former ideals in your heart for the sake of life?

Karl can’t remember it anymore!

"I...I don't know!"

Karl was still smiling, but it was just a bitter smile, and even he himself didn't notice that tears were flashing in his eyes.

However, Luffy noticed it.

"Then think about it!"

"Why think about that? It has nothing to do with me! I definitely can't reach that level."

"Then leave it to me!"Luffy stood up and said loudly with a serious look on his face,"Then please tell me!"