“Thor, you’re really going out to sea?”
“Yeah. The world is huge. I want to see it for myself.”
With Thor about to leave Elbaph and embark on his voyage, his family and elders all came to the shore to see him off.
The one most reluctant to let him go was Loki.
Despite all his sharp-tongued remarks about wishing Thor would hurry up and get lost, everyone knew he was a hopeless tsundere.
“You bastard…!”
Loki clenched his fists and held his breath before shouting at the top of his lungs,
“You bastard big brother! I admit you’re stronger than me right now!”
“But next time we meet, I’ll be stronger than you! Then I’ll be the older brother!”
After forcing those words out in one breath, Loki turned around and ran away without looking back, as though he had just done something too embarrassing to ever show his face again.
“Hahahaha!”
Loki’s hopelessly tsundere behavior made everyone laugh.
The little guy was actually pretty adorable.
Sure enough, he was still just a kid.
Thor and Loki were twins, and because there had barely been any difference in their birth times, Loki had always refused to admit that Thor was the older brother.
So when they were little, Hajrudin had made a suggestion.
Whoever was stronger would be the older brother.
That was perfectly in line with Elbaph’s traditions.
The brothers had competed against each other ever since childhood, and neither wanted to be the younger brother.
But as they grew older, Thor became stronger and stronger.
Eventually, Loki could no longer defeat him.
Even so, he stubbornly refused to concede.
Losing a fight was only temporary.
Calling Thor “big brother” and admitting defeat would last a lifetime.
Now that Thor was about to leave Elbaph, Loki had finally called him his bastard big brother.
Thor couldn’t help laughing.
“Hahaha! Next time we meet, you’ll still be my little brother.”
“No way in hell, you idiot!”
Loki’s voice came from far away.
He hadn’t actually run very far at all and was simply hiding nearby.
The hopeless tsundere made everyone burst into laughter again.
It was almost time to leave.
Thor prepared to set sail.
As both the king of Elbaph and Thor’s father, Harald gave him one final message before his departure.
“Be careful out there.”
It was only a simple wish for his safety.
Yet nothing could have been more important.
“You too, Dad. Be careful of those people in the World Government.”
That was Thor’s final warning before leaving.
He would not allow Harald to meet the same fate as in the original One Piece timeline.
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greater strength was essential.
“Viking Pirates, set sail!”
“OOOOOH!”
Amid the thunderous horns and cheers of the Giants, the Naglfar departed from Elbaph!
…
Hachinosu.
A paradise for pirates and the headquarters of the Rocks Pirates.
Some of the most vicious pirates in the world had gathered here.
Even though the Marines knew perfectly well that Hachinosu existed, they didn’t dare launch an expedition against it.
The pirates currently gathered on Hachinosu were all people who would later become infamous across the seas.
Rocks wasn’t joking when he said he intended to gather enough power to overthrow the World Government.
Today, something happened on Hachinosu that shocked even the pirates.
Rocks had returned.
And following him was an enormous ship nearly a thousand meters long.
When the Giant warriors stepped off the Naglfar, the pirates of Hachinosu were stunned.
“G-Giants?”
Thor looked at the tiny humans and the equally tiny island before him.
Hachinosu might have been a decent base for ordinary pirates, but it clearly wasn’t very suitable for Giants.
“This is your headquarters, Rocks? Isn’t it a little small?”
“Hahahaha! You want a bigger territory? Then follow me and help conquer Mary Geoise!”
Rocks laughed loudly.
Now that he had recruited Thor and a group of Elbaph’s Giant warriors into his forces, Rocks felt that the day they overthrew the World Government was practically within reach.
But his laughter soon vanished.
Because Charlotte Linlin had arrived.
Charlotte Linlin was a member of the Rocks Pirates.
Fourteen years had passed since Linlin left Elbaph.
The chubby little girl who once constantly had snot running from her nose had now grown into a beautiful young woman with a slender figure.
The moment Linlin saw Thor and the Giant warriors, surprise and delight appeared on her face.
She recognized Thor immediately.
Even after fifteen years, and despite Thor having grown from a tiny infant into a powerfully built young Giant, the pair of horns on his forehead made him unmistakable.
Only three people in all of Elbaph naturally possessed horns.
And Thor was the only one among them with blond hair.
“Thor? You’re Thor, right? Do you remember me? It’s me, Linlin! Charlotte Linlin!”
The young and beautiful Charlotte Linlin happily walked over to greet him.
At first, the Giant warriors hadn’t recognized the beautiful woman.
But the instant they heard the name Charlotte Linlin, every one of their expressions changed dramatically.
They immediately raised their weapons and formed a protective barrier in front of Thor.
“You evil god! Stay away!”
“You’re not allowed anywhere near Prince Thor!”
“What…?”
“Thor, don’t you remember me?”
They had been so close when they were children.
Thor had even brought her delicious food.
How had things become like this?
“Stand down, Linlin.”
Rocks spoke up.
He knew perfectly well what kind of reputation Charlotte Linlin had in Elbaph.
That was precisely why, when the Rocks Pirates went to Elbaph, Rocks had deliberately left Linlin behind on Hachinosu.
“Linlin, I remember you.”
Thor finally spoke.
Linlin’s expression had only just begun to brighten when Thor’s next words completely shattered her.
“You’re the woman who threw me all the way from the House of Lambs to the Giant Village.”
“I’ve trained my strength every single day precisely so I could defeat you.”
“And now, my strength has completely surpassed yours.”
“Let’s have a fair contest of strength.”
“I’m going to wipe away the humiliation I suffered back then!”
“OOOOOH!”
At that moment, whether they were Giant warriors or pirates of Hachinosu, everyone became excited.
Prince Thor versus Linlin?
Now that was a fight worth watching.
“As expected of Prince Thor! Even against the evil god, he shows no fear!”
“Don’t lose to that evil god! Prince Thor, you can do it!”
The atmosphere had been completely stirred up.
Thor had already issued his challenge.
Without another word, he turned around and returned to the Naglfar.
It was still much more comfortable aboard his own ship.
“Linlin, what exactly did you do to Thor back then?”
Rocks was extremely curious.
And he wasn’t the only one.
Every pirate on Hachinosu wanted to hear the gossip about Thor and Linlin’s childhood.
“I didn’t really do anything…”
Linlin looked terribly aggrieved.
“I was just playing with little Thor. We were spinning around in circles, and I accidentally let go and threw him away.”
“He flew really, really far, and no one could find him afterward.”
“Uh…”
Rocks suddenly remembered Thor’s duel with Harald.
So that move had originally come from Linlin.
“Damn it! I was only one year old back then! She nearly killed me!”
Thor’s furious voice came booming from the Naglfar.
This time, even Rocks—who normally loved laughing at everything—couldn’t bring himself to laugh.
Charlotte Linlin really was outrageous!