(Before you start, please leave your mind behind and start.
Here are a lot of things that don’t make sense, so don’t mind them and just enjoy.)
Year 1498 of the Marine Calendar.
Maple Leaf Village, an ordinary little village located on a remote island in the western North Blue.
The land here was fertile, and the villagers lived a self-sufficient life, rarely disturbed by outsiders.
“Come here, come here…”
At the village entrance, a young man sat on a large rock, holding a bone stripped of its meat, calling out to a big yellow dog.
The dog was delighted, wagging its tail, wiggling its butt, and trotting over happily.
“Good dog.”
The young man smiled and patted the dog’s head as he spoke.
Suddenly, the young man slapped the dog’s butt hard.
With a yelp of “Awoo…”, the dog tucked its tail and bolted fifty meters away.
Seeing that the young man wasn’t chasing it, the dog began to bark wildly at him: “Woof, woof, woof…”
It looked like it was cursing quite filthily.
“Hahaha…
you silly dog, it’s yours.” The young man tossed the bone to the dog.
At this moment, a cold, emotionless mechanical voice appeared in his mind.
“Ding…
host Sikes Dahl: Armament Haki +1.”
This was already the tenth year since Dar arrived in the world of pirates.
Ten years ago, Dar accidentally transmigrated and ended up in the body of a five-year-old orphan in the pirate world.
When he first arrived, everyone looked like paper cutouts to him.
It wasn’t until he was beaten by society that he realized this was a real world of flesh and blood.
Like most transmigrators, Dar also obtained a system, but this system…
was not very serious.
It was called the “Beating System”.
As long as the host hits someone…
or more accurately, as long as the host hits a living being, they can increase their Armament Haki.
The stronger the person being hit, the higher the increase in Armament Haki, but it is only effective the first time.
There was also a system space, the size of a soccer field, where time was frozen, but it could not store life.
“Hey, Dar.
Is it true that you ate a whole bear by yourself yesterday?” a chubby eight or nine-year-old kid ran over and asked.
Dar pulled out two fruits he had picked in the hills behind the village, tossed one to the chubby kid, and said lazily, “Yeah, I still wasn’t full.”
The chubby kid skillfully caught the fruit, grinned, took a bite, and said indistinctly, “Dar, you’re only fifteen, yet you’re the strongest person in all the surrounding villages.
Tell me the secret to getting strong, won’t you?”
Dar was nearly two meters tall, a presence that stood out from the crowd in this small village of ordinary people.
Looking at the chubby kid’s round little head, Dar couldn’t help but subconsciously flick him on the forehead and said, “secret technique, not for public dissemination.”
The chubby kid let out an “Ouch!” in pain.
Holding his head, he still wouldn’t give up and said, “How about this?
I’ll introduce you to my sister, you become my brother-in-law, and that way we’ll be family, and you can teach me the secret technique, how about it?”
In his mind, Dar couldn’t help but picture a young girl whose figure was so large she couldn’t see her own toes, and he shuddered.
He kicked the chubby kid and said, “Get lost!
Do you know how fat your sister is?
You have the nerve to ask me to be your brother-in-law.”
The chubby kid held his butt and walked away, looking aggrieved.
“Grumble…”
His stomach protested.
Rubbing his belly, Dar felt annoyed—he was hungry again.
As a noble cheater, Dar had been living quite comfortably, eating well and sleeping well, without having to go to school or work, living a leisurely and cozy life.
Dar had even thought that living like this for his whole life would be pretty good.
With his abilities, he could find a place and achieve a “small goal.”
When he grew up a bit more, he could marry eight or ten wives and live a shameless and happy life.
Until two years ago, when Dar’s beautiful fantasy was shattered.
That day, deep in the forest, Dar punched a Wild Boar King.
“Ding…
host Armament Haki +100.”
“Ding…
host Armament Haki can be evolved.
Do you wish to evolve it?”
Dar didn’t think much and chose to evolve it.
Subsequently, the Armament Haki inside his body leaked out uncontrollably and crazily, coating his entire body, the ground, the big trees, and finally even the air, turning everything gray.
With Dar as the center, the Armament Haki expanded in a spherical shape until it covered the entire forest.
Due to the hardening property of Armament Haki, the entire forest fell into an eerie stillness.
Dar was stunned at the time.
The entire forest appeared in his mind like a high-definition 3D stereogram, incomparably clear.
The shock of everything around him being completely still felt as if he had been forgotten by time.
However, this power did not come without a price.
Perhaps the evolved Armament Haki required a stronger physique to control.
From that moment on, Dar turned into a gluttonous beast.
Every day, he was either eating or worrying about what to eat.
The leisurely days of the past were gone forever.
In two years, almost all the edible animals on the entire island and in the nearby waters had been eaten by Dar.
Rubbing his rumbling stomach, Dar was considering whether to catch that big yellow dog to satisfy his hunger.
A commotion came from the distance.
The villagers who had been out working were being herded toward the village entrance like sheep by a dozen big men wielding swords and guns.
The leader of the men was over three meters tall, had a thick beard, and carried a large broadsword on his back, making it clear at a glance that he was not someone to be trifled with.
“Captain, I didn’t expect to find such an island in such a remote sea area.”
“Yeah, Captain.
This time, you have to let us have a good time.” A thief-eyed, rat-faced pirate leered.
When the others swept their gazes over some of the women, a lewd look appeared in their eyes as well.
“Hahaha…
boys…”
Before the Captain could finish his sentence, he was interrupted by an even louder voice.
“This is a robbery!”
The one speaking was Dar.
He had the urge to cry; it had been ten years, and people had finally arrived at this remote little island.
He could finally go to the outside world to eat and drink to his heart’s content.
“I said this is a robbery!
Didn’t you hear me?” Seeing that the pirates had no reaction, Dar said again.
The villagers on the side were dumbfounded, but they started cheering for Dar.
“Dar, well done!”
“Yeah, show some spirit, don’t lose face!”
The group of pirates couldn’t quite react.
What were they supposed to do when their lines were stolen?
Finally, one pirate stepped forward and said, “Kid, I think you’re tired of living.
Do you know who our Captain is?”
“That is Captain Rody, the man with a bounty of 32 million Berries, known as ‘Bull Charge’.”
Dar picked his ear and said, “I don’t care who you are.
You have now been surrounded by me.
Drop your weapons and surrender, behave yourselves, and maybe I’ll spare your lives.”
What the hell?
You’re surrounding the dozen of us by yourself?
This was the first time Captain Rody had seen someone so arrogant.
“Boys, take him out.”
The group of underlings rushed toward Dar, howling.
Dar wasn’t afraid in the slightest.
Just kidding.
He was the man who had eaten the nearby waters empty; what kind of giant beast hadn’t he seen?
These few underlings were a piece of cake.
A pirate swung his sword straight at Dar’s face.
Dar couldn’t be bothered to dodge and simply slapped him, sending the pirate straight to the ground.
The sword hit Dar’s forehead without even leaving a white mark.
“Ding…
Armament Haki +10.”
He then casually punched another pirate who rushed up to him, knocking him down.
“Ding…
Armament Haki +11.”
Now, the pirates behind were scared.
They retreated one after another and looked at their Captain Rody.
Dar put his hands on his hips and said arrogantly, “When I start fighting, even I’m scared of myself.
I’ll give you one more chance: the tall ones stand on the left, the short ones on the right.
Let me punch each of you once, then acknowledge me as your boss, and we’ll call it even.”