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  Coby, the se from a distance, couldn't help but grin like a child. The ses pying before him mirrored those of his favorite anime, a story he had followed with bated breath every time he watched it. He thought of intervening and dealing with Krieg swiftly, but the thought of breaking the plot again but the potential arrival of Mihawk and the legendary se that would follow gave him pause. His eyes flickered with anticipation, already brimming with excitement to see the legendary ssh.

  Zeff, in respo's demand, remained unfazed, his expression cool as ever. As expected of a man who cut his main leg and ate to survive. The room suddenly tensed one former and oen, two pirates looked at each other in challenge of staring. The chefs and patrons looked on, unsure of what would happe but nervous that Zeff's response could anger Krieg.

  Krieg, growing impatient with Zeff's sileook a step forward. "Hand it over, old man. Y-book will guide my fleet to the Grand Line, and this time, I will quer it!" he procimed, his determination clear in his voice.

  Uo tain himself any longer, Luffy stood up, his eyes burning with a fire in his eyes and it his fists. "Hold it right there! I am going to be the King of Pirates!" he decred although it was totally uo tense in the room. Well, Luffy never needed an audieo scream his dream. The chefs around him backed away, shocked to hear such decration from the goofy teen they got used to i two days, "Get back, boy, he will kill you," one of them warned, but Luffy just grinned, a grin that spoke cluelessness of legendary proportions, plete ignorao those had no dreams and people who tried to dissuade others from chasing theirs. This time it was first, sed, third all together. These cooks had no dreams and tried to dissuade Luffy from his. Foolish really.

  Zoro, seeing Luffy was itg for a fight, felt battle was ing, maybe he felt the arrival of his goal, who knew. He grinedly. "I'll give him a hand," he announced, his hand instinctively resting on the hilt of his sword. Usopp, in stark trast, shrank back, his usual bravado nowhere in sight. But Luffy turo them. "Don't, guys. I deal with this," he said, his role as captain required him to beat the captain, it was a simple math. And for Luffy, that was the only math he could solve.

  Krieg ughed at the dispy, his amusement clear in his mog tohis is your crew? Two people?" he scoffed, uimating the group before him. Luffy shook his head, uerred. "I have three more," he tered, refusing to be belittled. Sanji, annoyed and trying to distance himself from the flict, interjected, "Don't t me in." Krieg mistook Luffy's words as mockery, his patience wearing thin. "Don't py with me, brat! I had 50 ships, 5000 men. And it took seven days for my fleet to be destroyed. In that demon of the sea!" he bellowed. Still feeling the pain of losing all that power.

  Krieg then turned his gaze upon them, a menag glint in his eyes. "I will give you a ce. I will take this food to my ship and feed my men. When I return, leave and leave behind the log. If anyone is here, I will kill them. With this ship, I trick others and amass another Armada, then I will go back to quer Grand Line!" His threat was a decration of his ruthlessness and promise to kill aandiween him and his twisted pns.

  The restaurant fell into a tense silehe patrons and chefs unsure of how to react to the dire situation unfolding before them.

  At this moment, Gin was visibly shaken, his looked at dog of a man he called captain. "Krieg! You want to go back to that horrendous sea? One man, just one maroyed 49 ships," he muttered, his voice barely above a whisper. The surrounding crowd, already on edge fr's threats, now turheir attention to Gin. "One man?" echoed through the room, the cept unfathomable to the patrons and chefs of Baratie.

  Gin, his eyes haunted by the memory, tinued, "It was terrible, I still 't believe it. That man with pierg hawk-like eyes that could kill with a gnce." Zoro, who had been calmly the situation, stiffe the description, he reized the characteristic of the phantom enemy Gin describing in a fsh.

  Zeff, overhearing the versation, muttered under his breath, "It must be him. Hawkeye." The name carried a weight, a reputation known far and wide in the world of pirates and marines alike.

  Usopp, his curiosity piqued amidst his fear, turo Coby and asked, "Who is he?" His voice was of fear and intrigue, the name Hawkeye sounded dangerous enough, but could a single man really destroy 49 ships?

  Coby replied with a smile, "One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea." He paused, gng at Zoro, "And the man Zoro has been looking for."

  Luffy tilted his head in fusion. "What is Shichibukai? Something delicious?" His question dispersed the heavy air suddenly.

  Coby chuckled at Luffy's question. It was always amusing to see Luffy's clueless and goofy side. He took a deep breath and expined, "The Shichibukai, or the Seven Warlords of the Sea, are powerful pirates who ally themselves with the Wover. In exge for a pardon of their past crimes, they help maintain the bance of power in the world. They're a mix of heroes and vilins, each with their own goals and motivations."

  As Coby spoke, the patrons and chefs of Baratie listened ily, the cept of the Shichibukai o many of them. The idea of pirates w with the gover was both fasating and terrifying, but most felt disgusted by them. Piracy was to be free of trol of the gover so what was the point of being a pirate if they were to end up being leashed again?

  Luffy, humming at the information, nodded slowly. His gaze then shifted to Zoro, a silent question in his eyes. Zoro, feeling the weight of Luffy's gaze, responded with a determined nod. "Yes, Hawkeye Mihawk. The man I must surpass to bee the world's greatest swordsman." His voice really clear, which showed how resolute he was in his goal.

  The chefs of Baratie asked, visibly disturbed. "What did you do to attract such a monster?" they questioned Gin, their voices full of fear and disbelief. Gin, with a shake of his head, replied, "Nothing! We were just at the wrong pce at the wrong time!" Zeff, overhearing the versation, added in a grave tone, "Or perhaps you just disturbed his nap." Gin, his voice rising in frustration, excimed, "This isn't a joke, old man! He sughtered my mates!" Zeff's response was calm but firm, "I'm not joking. That's the nature of the Grand Line."

  Luffy, his eyes sparkling with excitement, chimed in, "Wow, that sounds amazing! A pce where anything happen!" Usopp, pale-faced and trembling, pleaded, " we please sider the dangers for once?" Meanwhile, Zoro's eyes glinted with a hint of eagerness, "Now I know where I o go. The Grand Line is where I'll find him."

  As the group engaged in their discussion, a series of loud, guttural roars began to reverberate from outside. The Krieg Pirates, now fed aed, were rallying for an assault. Krieg, standing at the forefront, bellowed ands to his men, his voiing like thunder. "Attack the floatiaurant! Let's show them the might of the Krieg Pirates!"

  But before the pirates could advance, a strange humming noise pierced the air, causing everyoo freeze iracks. In the blink of an eye, Krieg's st ship was bisected ly down the middle. The sight was both awe-inspiring and terrifying. The ship, once a symbol 's power, now y in ruins, its two halves slowly sinking into the sea.

  The chefs and patrons of Baratie gasped in shock, their eyes wide with disbelief. "What just happened?" one of them whispered, his voice barely audible over the sound of the colpsing ship. Coby, Luffy, and Zoro turheir gaze towards the source of the destru.

  Standing on a small, sleek boat was a man with pierg eyes and a presehat atention. He was a bck cape, his hat casting a shadow over his face. This was no ordinary man; this was Dracule Mihawk, the world's greatest swordsman and one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

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