āHow stupid to really think someone like you could be a pirate.ā Benn laughed at the man in front of him sarcastically. After Gold Roger's execution everyone thought they could be a pirate now, sailing down the Grandline and make the quick money. What fools they were. As if just a mere percentage of the people who headed for Raftel would even make it to most dangerous sea ā the Grandline ā alive. They would fail, not even reach Reverse Mountain, as Gold Roger had failed, in the end.
āI will find Roger's treasure,ā the man shouted, angrily, and pushed forward, to attack Benn. With ease he avoided the fist. It punched the air next to Benn's head, and he took the chance to grab the man's shirt, to throw him into the dirt of the small alley they were in.
āAh yes, I see ⦠and how do you wanna do that, not even able to beat me? You're just as much a fool as all these people, dreaming of gold and wealth. I bet the 'One Piece' isn't even real. A last prank by the king who wasn't even able to escape the marines.ā
Yes, Benn was was angry at the pirate king. He was disappointed, angry, frustrated and annoyed he even cared. But Gold Roger had been the only man that ever came close to an idol to the young man and now he was dead. Beaten and killed by the marines. Benn had thought better of the pirate. He had thought the man would give him something, anything to yearn for, to look at, to give him a hint what to do with his own life. Instead he got himself killed, and left Benn at Louge Town, wondering what would become of the world. There was nothing he lived for. Nothing he dreamed to achieve. He just knew those fools who wanted to find the āOne Pieceā would fail, and he knew he wouldn't be one of them. So he stayed in Louge Town, even though he didn't know why.
āThe 'One Piece' is real,ā the man hissed and Benn rolled his eyes, before he turned and left. Whatever ⦠it was just one idiot who would be a dead idiot, as a lot of other people would be as well. As Gold Roger was now.
He wandered through the street, no destination in mind, when he saw a young boy with amazingly red hair, sitting in a dark corner, looking more dead than alive. Oh gosh ...