Grumble~
Accompanied by the sound of his stomach growling, the youth opened his eyes and stared at the wooden planks of the ceiling.
“Hungry again.”
He sat up, threw off the blanket, walked over to the table, and began eating the leftover roast meat from last night.
“Soon, very soon, I will set out to find that man!”
The youth’s name was Hel Kazi, given to him by his mother, Hel Navia.
Since it was a single-parent household, he took his mother’s surname.
He was originally a low-level employee at a certain company on Blue Star, but due to excessive overtime, he suddenly died of sudden death one night.
By the time he regained consciousness, he was already in Navia’s womb.
Not long after, he was born into this world.
Through what he observed in daily life, he discovered that he had come to the world of the Pirate King.
In his previous life, Kazi was an orphan.
The orphanage director had named him Meng Yuan.
He started working to earn money right after graduating from middle school, busying himself until late every night, all just to buy a house of his own, save some money, and marry a wife.
After struggling for over a decade, just as he had bought the house in full, he died suddenly and left that world.
If there was anything he still missed about that world, it was probably that house.
After coming to this world, it was the first time he felt the warmth of a home, and his mother’s love made him deeply cherish it.
After coming to the world of the Pirate King, Kazi had always lived in the deep mountains with his mother, a single wooden cabin being their entire world.
They fetched water from the river to drink, and for food, they could go to the nearby town to trade for some rice and flour.
Their livelihood came from his mother and him hunting in the mountains; animal pelts were still quite valuable.
Kazi had been healthy and possessed immense strength since childhood.
Now eighteen years old, he was already over three meters tall.
His mother had trained Kazi since he was young, constantly muttering that as the son of *that* man, he was destined to become a powerhouse in the future.
Navia started training Kazi after he turned eight.
The first two years were fine, just simple physical training, but then she introduced Rokushiki.
But when he was ten, when Kazi saw his mother’s hands turn pitch black, he could hardly believe his eyes.
He loved watching Pirate King in his previous life, so of course he recognized this as Armament Haki.
Kazi had originally quite enjoyed this carefree life, but with Navia’s “loving mother Armament Haki” raining down on her son, Kazi howled in pain as every strike landed with critical force.
In the year Kazi turned eleven, he successfully awakened Two-color Haki, which made Navia lament once again the gap between different people.
Then came a deep sense of pride; as expected of her son, he was indeed a genius in a million.
One had to know that Haki required physical strength to sustain.
It was fine for adults, but for Kazi, who was only ten at the time, Navia would never have taught him Haki so early if his body hadn’t been exceptionally strong.
Happy times are always short-lived.
Just when Kazi turned seventeen, Navia fell terminally ill and unfortunately passed away.
They had searched for every doctor in the town at the time, but every time a doctor finished examining her, they would just shake their heads, unable to help.
This caused Kazi immense pain.
On her deathbed, Navia lay in bed, holding Kazi’s hand.
The illness caused her great pain, but seeing her proud son, she still smiled with relief.
“Kazi, after I die, you should set out to sea.”
“Your father is a pirate named Edward Newgate.
Mama used to be a Marine Captain.
It was precisely because I was pregnant with you that I took the initiative to resign and came to live in seclusion in the deep mountains.”
“He doesn’t know that I gave birth to you.
Back then, I followed Admiral Sengoku to hunt down the Whitebeard Pirates, but due to my recklessness, I was unfortunately captured alive by Newgate.”
“They didn’t mistreat me; instead, they took me to several banquets.
After spending several months together, I gradually fell in love with that idiot who cherished family.
But to my surprise, when I proposed joining his pirate crew, that bastard actually rejected me and told me to go back to being a Marine.”
“Not long after I left the Whitebeard Pirates, I found out I was pregnant.
I simply left the New World and came to the East Blue to live in seclusion.”
“I know he wanted me to return to the Marines to protect me, since pirates live on the edge of a blade after all, but I just couldn’t let it go.”
“So Kazi, promise Mama, once your strength surpasses his in the future, you must beat that bastard up for me.”
“You must…”
After saying this, Navia slowly closed her eyes, a smile still on her lips.
It was clear that she was very satisfied before her final departure.
“Ah!!!”
His mother’s death was a massive blow to Kazi.
Having lived two lives, he had finally experienced a mother’s love, but in just over a decade, Heaven had confiscated his happiness once again.
Accompanied by Kazi’s roar, a terrifying aura erupted from his body.
The animals in the deep mountains were terrified, and in the next second, they all fell fast asleep.
Kazi buried his mother’s body not far from the wooden cabin.
He did not plan to set out to sea immediately; he wanted to observe a year of mourning for the mother who loved him so deeply, fulfilling his duty as a son.
Moreover, having just awakened Conqueror’s Haki, this one-year period was also the golden time for him to train his Conqueror’s Haki.
Furthermore, he didn’t have a boat.
It was imperative that he chop some wood in the deep mountains himself, buy some tools in town, and build a small boat.
It didn’t need to be too big; as long as it didn’t sink, it would be enough.
Once he was out at sea, he could just steal someone else’s ship.
Having awakened all three types of Haki and possessing an extraordinarily gifted physical body, running amok in the East Blue would be incredibly easy for him.
Now, with only two days left before the one-year mark, Kazi’s heart had already drifted toward the sea.
This year was the Year 1510 of the Sea Calendar, and his cheap old man wasn’t getting any younger, so it seemed he had to hurry up.
“Out of food again.
Looks like I have to go hunting in the mountains again.”
After finishing breakfast, Kazi planned to solve the food problem first.
All his savings over the years had been spent on canned food—canned vegetables, canned fruit, and canned meat, which were essential for sailing the sea.
He had built ten large wooden barrels himself, filled them with fresh water, and placed them on the boat.
Once the one-year mark arrived, he would set sail immediately.
Kazi walked into the deep mountains with practiced ease.
He had lost count of how many times he had been here; it was no different from his own backyard.
There was only one thing: the animals weren’t stupid either, and this place had practically become a forbidden zone for them.
They knew there was a two-legged upright monster that kept hunting them, so these animals kept heading deeper, and Kazi had to go deeper and deeper as well.
“It’s been a long time since I walked this way.
The last time I came here was a year ago.
Let’s see if there are any delicious little cuties.”
Kazi plunged into the path on the left.
After walking several dozen meters, he spotted a wild boar wandering aimlessly in the distance.
“You’re the one, Peppa!”