Chapter 421: Alabasta

Chapter 421: Alabasta

While Buggy is going to his next destination, the Straw Hat Pirates have finally arrived on Alabasta. They are still in Nanohana, the port city, where they intended to buy clothes to travel the desert. Even Leo needs the clothes even though he is basically a fire. The reason is he doesn't want to be left out.

The crew now has a new member, a small humanoid reindeer, Tony Tony Chopper. He joined the crew because of Luffy's persistence. Now Leo isn't the youngest anymore because Chopper is 1 year younger than him, but he is a human while Chopper is a reindeer.

In Nanohana, the crew moves separately to do their own tasks. But Leo runs away because he knew what task he would get, being his sister's slave. So he runs with the excuse of finding Luffy who has disappeared.

Leo is exploring Nanohana while still looking for Luffy even though it's not his priority. He knows that finding Luffy is easy because his Captain will always cause trouble. So he just does what he wants in the town.

There's only one thing that takes Leo's attention, the music. There are some street performers who play music that take his attention. So he stops by and gives them some money to play more. He watches them happily while also learning the music they play.

Leo is too engrossed in the music that he forgets the reason he's there. He finally remembers it when he hears many people scream because a big fight happens. It disrupts the music that he enjoys, after all, so he gets pissed.

But he raises an eyebrow when he sees that Luffy is amidst the chaos. Luffy is running while a familiar Marine is chasing them and a shirtless man runs behind them. Leo's expression changes from pissed to dumbfounded.

"Damn, that Smoker is here," says Leo before hiding in the crowd because he doesn't want to get involved for now.

Smoker sends his smoke to attack Luffy, but then a big magma fist falls and blocks the smoke. Leo is surprised, just like Luffy and Smoker. They look at the man who sent it, which is the shirtless man behind them.

Luffy looks happy seeing the man while Smoker doesn't seem happy at all. Smoker then reveals who the man is. He is a Division Captain of an infamous crew, Whitebeard Pirates. Luffy doesn't have any clue about that crew while Leo thinks he has heard it somewhere, but he doesn't care.

Leo only cares about the shirtless man's power which seems interesting. Luffy calls the shirtless man Ace, so now Leo knows his name. Then Ace tells Luffy to go first, he will take care of Smoker for a while.

Luffy leaves, but Leo stays and hides in an alley to watch what will happen. He then sees Ace fights against Smoker. It's an interesting fight to see even though Ace has the upper hand from the start because his ability is too strong for Smoker. The magma is obviously more powerful than smoke.

Ace wins just by shooting some small magma bullets that break through the smoke. But he doesn't injure or kill Smoker and just leaves. Leo also leaves while having a grin on his face because he gets some inspiration for his ability.

Leo's biggest problem with using his devil fruit ability is his experience. He hasn't seen many uses of devil fruit ability, especially logia type. There aren't many devil fruit users in East Blue and his mom who has fire-type ability doesn't use it often, so he only relied on his imagination.

After Leo explained his intention, Vivi finally agrees and Robin is very impressed by his way of thinking. He even considers the biggest problem which is Luffy's nature that won't listen to anyone by sending Luffy to Crocodile because he really wants to fight the Warlord.

So now they split into 2 teams and go in a different direction. On the way to Katorea, Leo explains the details of his plan to Robin. He needs Robin's ability to find spies in the Rebel Army because there must be a spy there. Crocodile won't just leave the rebels alone, so spies are necessary.

"I will distract them without mentioning Vivu while you search the spies. You need to hide though because maybe they know about your connection to Vivi. After you found them, we will start persuading them. We won't have any good cards if we just talk to them from the start," says Leo.

"What will you do if the plan fails?" asks Robin.

".... I'm thinking about that now," says Leo.

Well, he's not that genius actually.

________________________________________

You can read up to 35+35 chapters ahead of my fanfics and more pictures on my Pa_treon page if you are interested.

Voting for this book is highly appreciate. Cover image is the MC, artist's ig: @fatmaqn_

I've uploaded:

1. Chapter 443. The End (Fairy Tail: Sun Eater)

2. Chapter 456. Ordering Red Hairs (Transcended as Lord Buggy)

3. Pictures of both stories (ex: bounty poster & magazine cover) by fatmaqn_ /CaptMermain

(the web didn't use _underscore_, it's to avoid censorship)