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The small crew of four stands, various expressions of shock and disappointment etched across each of their faces.
Thunder crashes loudly throughout the port town as lightning dances between the clouds, a storm brewing just as Nami predicted.
Despite only having been together a short time after leaving Arlong Park, the crew has already come to realize their Captain has the overwhelming tendency to find trouble wherever he goes.
They watch in abject horror as Luffy kneels on the same platform where the former King of the Pirates was executed over two decades ago, that idiotic grin still plastered on his face.
“I’m the man who’ll be King of the Pirates!”
The Devil Fruit user with the straw hat shouts his proclamation, thunder punctuating his ambitious words.
“Stop the execution now!” Zoro and Sanji shout, rushing the platform with fire burning in both their eyes.
“Zoro! Sanji! Usopp! NamI! Sorry, but I’m dead!” Luffy’s voice cries over the howl of the wind.
To think, their journey would be over before it even truly begins due to a flashy, annoying clown with a grudge and an overinflated ego.
The first mate and cook vow to stop the attempted execution in time.