In the year 1506 of the Sea Circle Calendar, one day in March, in the East Blue, at Mido Village.
Behind the village, there was a small hill. On the mountain, two boys, one tall and one short, practiced swordsmanship with long wooden swords.
“My foolish brother Winster, you need to learn how to move properly. An AD who can’t move… no, swordsmanship without footwork has no soul,” said a 12-year-old boy with a face that had a pair of wise eyes, unbefitting a child.
“Argh, damn it, Mosen! I will defeat you.”
The younger brother, who was two years younger, was no match but still refused to admit defeat.
“Again!”
Mosen looked at his shorter brother with a hint of a smile in his eyes.
“Kid, pay attention to your footwork, your footwork! Ah, see, you fell again, how frustrating.”
Winster got up from the ground, unwilling to give up, picked up the wooden sword and charged at Mosen again. From his skilled movements, it was clear that this wasn’t the first or second time.
Suddenly, Mosen felt uneasy during training. He saw several plumes of thick smoke rising from the distant village, which was not from cooking fires.
Mosen’s face changed drastically, and he pulled his brother towards the small village.
“Winster, come with me quickly, something’s happened!”
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At this moment, the once peaceful and dispute-free small village had fallen into a sea of flames. A group of pirates was crazily burning, killing, and looting. Although this village didn’t have much treasure, the pirates, who were numerous in the Great Pirate Era, didn’t care.
They were wreaking havoc on this sea, committing all sorts of evil deeds.
The ones bringing disaster to Mido Village were a recently rising group of pirates in the East Blue—the Porcupine Pirates. The captain was a strong man, three meters tall, with a face like a wild boar—Garrosh Porcupine.
It was said that Captain Porcupine was abandoned in the forest as a child due to his ugly appearance and was found and raised by a nursing wild boar. Therefore, he named himself Porcupine when he grew up. He was as savage and cruel as a porcupine, and he slaughtered every village he looted.
For this, he was now wanted for 12 million berries and was known as a terrifying pirate in this sea.
“You damned pirates, scoundrels, the navy won’t let you get away with this.”
“Mom, I’m scared.”
“Child, please don’t hurt my child…”
“Please, spare us, I’ll give you all the money.”
“I’ll fight you to the death, ah…”
Garrosh Porcupine looked cruelly at the village engulfed in flames, excitedly listening to the villagers’ wails. He wanted these humans to pay a cruel price.
Because
His dearest foster mother, a wild boar weighing over a thousand kilograms—Garrosh, was captured by a group of humans who, ignoring her pleas, slaughtered her alive!
For this, he knelt humbly, begging those humans for mercy, allowing him, a wild boar’s offspring, to survive.
Unfortunately, when he became a pirate seeking revenge, their desperate pleas couldn’t make him spare them, only making him more delighted to execute them.
“Ha ha ha ha ha, men, speed up! We’ve already been noticed by those damned navy. This time, we need to make those navy eat dust behind us.”
“Aye, Captain, those damned navy won’t even smell a fart!” replied a subordinate nearby.
“The Porcupine Pirates will be famous in the East Blue again. The great Captain Porcupine is a pirate with a bounty of 12 million berries.” Another subordinate eagerly flattered.
“Ha ha ha ha ha!” Garrosh Porcupine’s eyes flashed with cruelty as he laughed wildly.
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In a white house at the end of the village, the room was in chaos, with clothes, decorations, and furniture scattered everywhere.
A middle-aged man lay on the ground, holding the leg of a one-eyed pirate with a terrifying scar on his face. The ordinary-looking man was named Alpha King. Despite his domineering name, he lived a plain life, and no one expected him to shine with unparalleled brilliance at the end of his life. The one-eyed pirate’s knife inflicted a horrific wound on his chest, a precise strike that was fatal. The ground was covered with blood gushing from his chest.
The one-eyed pirate never expected that the previously cowardly man would have such strength, even in death, holding onto his leg with a grip that was hard to break.
Next to the one-eyed pirate’s other leg lay a disheveled, beautiful woman—Alpha King’s wife, named Merry, Winster’s mother and Mosen’s foster mother.
Merry also had a horrific wound on her back, so deep that bones and internal organs were visible, over thirty centimeters long, with flesh turned inside out, grotesque and terrifying.
Blood kept pouring from the wound, soaking her clothes and the floor.
Merry looked like she was about to die, with fresh blood gushing from her mouth. There was a piece of flesh on the ground beside her mouth, bitten off from the one-eyed pirate’s leg, which caused her death.
In this hellish scene, Merry’s beautiful face glowed with a sacred light, her eyes filled with endless tenderness and the regret of not being able to watch her children grow up.
The one-eyed pirate held a long knife with bright red blood dripping from the tip, forming a river of death with the blood on the ground.
“You lowly civilians, how dare you injure the great Vice-Captain Sindeno. The merciful Sindeno grants you the right to go to hell.” Scarface Sindeno waved his long knife, shouting fiercely.
Valky Sindeno was the vice-captain of the Porcupine Pirates, with a bounty of 8.2 million berries.
He lost his eye during a robbery and was shot by a small pistol. Fortunately, he instinctively blocked it with his hand, so the bullet only blinded his eye without taking his life.
Since then, he was known as “One-Eye” Sindeno.
Just as the furious Sindeno was about to chop the two people in the blood pool into pieces and search the entire room,
A pirate minion suddenly appeared at the door, shouting, “Reporting, Vice-Captain Sindeno, Captain Porcupine orders us to retreat from the village immediately, the navy is chasing us!”
Sindeno turned around, his bloodshot eyes glaring at the subordinate. Dissatisfied, he sheathed his long knife and slapped the minion: “You idiot, do you need to teach me how to do things?”
He kicked away the hands clinging to his leg, picked up the bag of treasures and berries on the table, and strode towards the pirate ship.
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Mosen, who had rushed back with Winster, saw the scene in the room and felt like his head was hit by a heavy hammer, leaving his mind blank. The last bit of rationality made him quickly grab Merry’s hand and cover her wound with scattered clothes.
“Aunt Merry, you’ll be fine. Winster, go find some medicine.” Mosen shouted at his brother while working; seeing Winster frozen in fear, he yelled, “Hurry up! Go!”
Merry’s mouth moved, her eyes full of comfort, her complex and gentle words barely audible, “Mo… Mosen, you… must… grow up… with your brother… to be… a man… I…”
“Aunt Merry!!”
“Mom!”
The young brothers cried out in sorrow, their heartbreaking cries echoing through the hellish small village!
The cuckoo cried blood, and the young apes mourned.
“Aunt Merry, Uncle King, don’t worry, I will raise Winster to adulthood, I will definitely avenge you, I will kill every last member of that pirate crew!”
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