Is this fate's arrangement?

  "Little insect!" The naval general's face was filled with disdain, and with a light lift of his foot, he kicked Shen Bao flying.

  However, Shinbei quickly got up again and blocked the Navy general's way. He was kicked flying again, but he crawled back, only to be kicked flying once more... After repeating this process 5 or 6 times, the Navy general, who had been calm and composed until then, finally ran out of patience and became annoyed.

  "Poor little captain, I really don't understand how you can tame these powerful subordinates with just this shameless trick?! Get out of my sight!" The naval general kicked Shen Bao like a football again.

  "How detestable!" Xīn Bǎo's silver teeth clenched, his chest heaved with unbearable pain, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of fresh blood. Yet, he still stood before the general once more, blocking him from approaching Long Ma and Kristina.

  "Bastard!" The general's furious, full-force iron fist! Shen Bao's chest ribs completely shattered, the unstoppable impact sent him flying like a cannonball, finally crashing into several masts, scraping out a shocking blood stain on the deck, and hanging from the ship's side, just one step away from falling into the sea.

  One eye was blurred by fresh blood, the chest was numb with pain, and breathing was extremely difficult. Every mouthful required all his strength, but fortunately, his limbs still had enough energy to move! In this way, Shen Bao crawled in front of the naval general again, his vocal cords were extremely hoarse and unpleasant to hear, his eyes were dull and without light, with only one will supporting him:

  "I... I want... to stop you..."

  The admiral was shocked by the boy's stubbornness, and he stopped in his tracks, curiously asking: "Young man, what gives you your strength? Don't these terrifying wounds hurt?"

  "How... it doesn't hurt! But... but... compared to the pain in my heart, these injuries are nothing!" As he spoke, Shen Bao couldn't help but shed tears of regret and shame.

  He regretted that he had relied on his small cleverness to act, but forgot that strength is the foundation! He hated that at the critical moment, he didn't have the power to protect his partners!

  "Is that all there is to it, my Pirate King story... In the end, I'm just a small otaku, a minor character, a small-time player..."

  Yes, his nature is just that of an otaku. With the evil of an otaku and the kindness of an otaku. Only, this evil, he only targets his enemies, and the kindness he uses to protect his own companions.

  He fears loneliness, shrouded in the heart of a homebody, with only the desolate sea and the soul-stirring bones of loneliness. However, he also extremely yearns for companions to surround him. Therefore, he is delighted with his own motherly abilities. Also therefore, he calculates the cost of losing his brother-in-law Sheng Ping, just fearing loss. Even more so, he would sacrifice his life to protect his companions.

  This is the sorrow of an otaku, and also the dignity of an otaku!

  It's just a pity that dignity requires corresponding strength to maintain, and sorrow also needs strength to sweep away and fill. Shenzhao understood these things too late.

  "That's enough, Captain. The Admiral of the Navy wouldn't be foolish enough to let this group of pirates go after being shocked like that. If they were allowed to continue growing in power, it's likely that even he would be intimidated by them eventually."

  Cut the grass and eliminate the roots! There has never been any mercy on the battlefield!

  "Pointing guns...... Ashura......"

  "Wait, wait, wait!" Death was approaching, and Shino was scared out of his wits, after all, he was just a timid otaku who feared death. Just as the crisis was unfolding before him, he suddenly had an epiphany and remembered that letter of recommendation from Smith.

  "What is this?!" The naval general took over the letter, browsed through it, and his face suddenly became inexplicably strange.

  As soon as he saw it, he cried out in his heart that something was wrong. He took out the letter and impersonated Smith, which was just a temporary measure, but at that time he didn't think much about it. Now that death had slightly moved away from him, he calmed down and immediately discovered a huge loophole in this.

  Let's just say the first loophole, his name is Shen Bao, even the number of words in his name is less than "Smith", let alone any homophonic or ambiguous connection. It's absolutely an irreparable huge loophole.

  As expected, the Admiral read the letter and snorted, then said a sentence that made Jinbao's liver and gallbladder shatter: "Good letter! Do you know that I am the General of Leimen!!!"

  As soon as he heard it, he was stunned. He really wanted to slap himself twice, regretful! It's really being blinded by greed, this isn't robbing and getting caught at the police station, showing off knives in front of Lord Guan - is he asking for death?! Now he's absolutely finished, the anger from being deceived is unimaginable.

  "So we're family after all! Good nephew, quickly get up. I'm your great uncle!" Leimen Dajiang said with a pleased expression.

  "What?!" Jinbao's mouth was wide open, and for a moment, he felt like his brain wasn't working at all. Was this really going to work?!

  "But I'm called Shen Bao, and the name on this letter is 'Smith'!" Shen Bao asked subconsciously.

  "Haha, Shen Bao must be your pseudonym. Good kid, you've suffered. Uncle apologizes to you."

  "But I'm a pirate?" Shen Bao continued to argue.

  "What's the big deal, young man? You'll always be hot-blooded. I, your uncle, used to be a bounty hunter too. Uncle forgives you. As for the Navy, it's still just one word from me."

  "But I'm a merman, not one of you humans." Shén Bǎo was unwilling to give up and finally remembered this major flaw.

  "Hey, don't look down on my brother-in-law! I won't discriminate against merfolk, although I didn't know my brother married a mermaid, but family is family, no matter what they do, I'll always support them!"

  "...". Shen Bao was completely speechless. If he had known that this Lei Men Dajiang was such a freak, why bother fighting at all? He could have just handed over the letter and sent him off. Poor Giant No. 1, completely destroyed, lost all possibility of continuing to sail; poor subordinates who fought tirelessly, crushed in a way that was unbearable to watch, and yet it ended with such a dramatic resolution!

  "Alright, from this moment on, you must disband the pirate crew and follow me to cultivate the 6 styles. You can no longer be a pirate!" Admiral Reimu said solemnly.

  "6 styles?!" Having realized his own inadequacy, Shino is now eager to learn any martial art that can strengthen himself, but when he thinks of these hard-won companions, he hesitates, "So, I'm supposed to abandon these partners?"

  "What a waste of talent! Of course, I'm taking him with me!" Lei Men said, glancing at Shen Bao as if blaming him for being so inhumane.

  Extremely precious and extremely rare.

  ………………………

  Responding to the comment below: Firstly, Zhu Jiao is a treasure, although he is a fishman of the Tiger Shark clan, he is a fishman, please don't associate him with the whale of the Tiger Shark, all fishmen have cheekbones!

  Secondly, the naval general is also a general, and in the naval system, there are marshals, generals (generals), lieutenant generals, major generals, etc. The general is also a great general, but since reader friends reacted that the general was not good to hear, then I will change it to great general from now on!