One Piece - I Am A Different Luffy! BOOK3!

[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV

Territory of the Pirates of the Dawn.

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"Hello, Zephyr."
Luffy stared at the leader of the current Neo Marines. Luffy had placed him and all the other members in custody in this prison as well, and the others were further down the corridor.

Upon hearing his name, Zephyr looked up at Luffy, while both of his arms were raised, chained to the wall.

"Straw Hat... Are you here to mock my failed plan?" he murmured, and his spark was gone.

Part of his glasses was broken, revealing the eye of the former Marine admiral, disheartened. Which shouldn't surprise Luffy, considering the loss Zephyr had suffered and all his plans destroyed — even the possibility of having killed Luffy, Kaido, and Big Mom during the war by summoning explosive stones to create a catastrophe at the three key points of the New World.

Of course, Luffy had gone to him with Lucy, but let his sister defeat him.

"You were going to create a worldwide crisis, man! Do you have any idea how much worse you'd be than any pirate you claim to fight? You would've killed more people than anyone else in this world. Were you aware of that when you decided to destroy the New World?" Luffy asked in a serious tone.

"Some sacrifices would have to be made to make it a better place," Zephyr commented.

Luffy wanted to mock him.
"You'd be the worst of them all, worse than what you claim to fight. You'd be condemned like a curse on the lips of every single person in this world who survived the chaos you were going to cause. You were going to destroy the New World, fine... And with it, take down all of the world's greatest pirates. But what guarantees that pirates like them wouldn't rise again at sea? After all, every pirate started from nothing — and not all of them came from the New World!" Luffy questioned.

Zephyr remained silent for a while, and in the end, Luffy continued.

"Besides, your catastrophe wouldn't only affect the New World, but the whole planet. The skies would grow dark and acidic, and the seas would shift in balance... Do you have any idea? Millions of people would die. Have you ever seen any pirate go that far?" he asked again.

Luffy had also once threatened to kill millions, but that was just a bluff — something done to match the threats of the World Government. Of course, if the Government had really hurt his children, he didn't know what he might have done. So, it was good that they'd reached an agreement.

Either way, Zephyr seemed thoughtful.

Luffy looked at him. The idiot hadn't even thought of that. His hatred had nearly destroyed the world.

Either way, Luffy broke the silence once again.

"I have all the members of the Neo Marines. Along with all the research, resources, and the base itself. Those explosive stones are quite interesting."

"Did anyone die?" Zephyr asked.

Luffy shook his head. "No. None of them were killed, if that's what you want to know."

"And what do you want with me?" Zephyr didn't understand where Luffy was going.

"Well, to be honest... after what you tried to do, I wanted to kill you," Luffy said, ready to draw his pistol and shoot that man in the head, acting out of anger.

It didn't matter if he was in chains — Luffy would treat him the same way he would treat the Tenryuubito after what he had tried to do to the world.

Even though he had handled the situation relatively calmly, by taking his sister to defeat him, it didn't change the fact that this guy had nearly screwed the entire planet. But he might still be useful.