East Blue waters.
After bidding farewell to Sister-in-law Rouge, Seven transformed into lightning from Garp's hometown, flashing across the sea level at extreme speed.
Even now, he still couldn't understand why Garp had left that book—a record of his lifelong cultivation experience—in the wooden box.
Entrusting his legacy?
Garp was only fifty-six years old right now, still at the tail end of his peak, and he had a son in his thirties like Dragon; he wouldn't look for Seven to entrust his legacy.
Funding an enemy?
Was it because he couldn't stand the actions of the World Government and the Celestial Dragons, and wanted to use Seven's hand to overthrow the World Government?
In the world of pirates, most Marines uphold so-called justice, yet under the system established by the World Government, they have become the lackeys of the Celestial Dragons.
There seemed to be only a few Marines who dared to ignore the orders of the Celestial Dragons.
Even fewer dared to resist the World Government.
Suddenly, a flash of realization crossed Seven's mind.
"Could it be that he saw the possibility of defeating Imu in me? Is he pinning his hopes on me to defeat Imu?"
The existence of Imu was like a mountain, weighing down the six experts who participated in the Battle of God Valley back then, making it impossible for them to completely break ties with the World Government.
Rocks fell at God Valley, which indirectly led King Harald of the giants to lead the Giant Kingdom of Elbaf to become a member nation of the World Government.
From Harald's perspective—
The World Government was just too terrifying. Someone as strong as his good brother Rocks led a group of experts to God Valley, only for Rocks to lose his life and the pirate crew to disband.
The oppressive force of the World Government... was maxed out.
Therefore, Seven felt that Garp saw the possibility of defeating Imu in him.
As for whether Imu would think so?
Absolutely not.
Having ruled the world for eight hundred years, Imu had seen all kinds of storms. Imu didn't know how many times they had harvested brilliant figures like Rocks.
Since no one had been able to overthrow the World Government for eight hundred years, Imu's arrogance must be sky-high.
Even if they saw news of Seven, they would likely treat him as a slightly stronger bug.
In fact, there was a high probability that the Gorosei would not even report news of Seven to Imu.
Seven hadn't attacked the Holy Land Mary Geoise, nor had he publicly executed a Celestial Dragon, and he wasn't part of the D Clan. Perhaps in the eyes of the Gorosei, Seven was still a partner who could be won over.
But then again.
Though not from the D Clan, because he purchased the Lunarian Tribe bloodline, Seven gained the Talent to generate and control flames.
Whether he was truly a Lunarian didn't matter anymore; in the eyes of the World Government, Seven was a criminal who must be eliminated—a member of the Lunarian Tribe.
However, as long as he wasn't discovered by the World Government, there wouldn't be any issues in the short term.
Regardless, from the moment Seven accepted that book recording Armament Haki cultivation insights, as well as techniques like Fist Bone Impact, Blue Hole, and Infinite Fists of Bone—
He had already accepted Garp's favor.
The cultivation experience recorded in the book saved Seven tens of thousands of points in one fell swoop.
Currently, among Seven's Three Types of Haki, Conqueror's Haki stood out above the rest, while Observation Haki achieved an effect similar to radar sensing under the amplification of electromagnetic waves.
It specialized in ultra-long-distance sensing.
Only Armament Haki was extremely mismatched with his combat power. Previously, his physique couldn't keep up, making it impossible to cultivate Armament Haki; now his physique was heaven-defying, and even without Armament Haki, his defense was still astonishing.
Armament Haki is not just a defensive buff; the external emission and internal destruction known as Ryuo also amplify attacks.
It's just that the amplification effect isn't as good as Conquerors Haki Coating.
In Seven's previous plan, while prioritizing the purchase of Conquerors Haki Defense, he would focus his energy on Observation Haki, swordsmanship, and Devil Fruit ability training.
He would supplement Armament Haki last.
With the trip to Foosha Village and the unexpected acquisition of the cultivation insight book left by Garp, physical techniques and Armament Haki cultivation would also have to be added to the plan.
If one wants to reach the top of the world, every aspect must be mastered to the extreme; being severely lopsided is unacceptable.
Following the night, Seven returned to the east blue emperor docked at the Shimotsuki Village pier.
Flashing to the Captain's quarters, Seven took out the supreme grade meito ace and listed it on the trading platform to try his luck.
[Ace: 100,000 points, one of the supreme grade swords, the personal sword of Pirate King Roger. Seller's message: Extremely high collection value]
To be honest, Seven didn't believe at all that someone would spend a hundred thousand points to buy Ace; it wasn't a divine artifact like musou isshin.
The reason he listed it on the trading platform was that he hadn't thought of who was suitable to use this sword yet.
Seven certainly wouldn't use it. He was a One-Sword Style swordsman, and musou isshin provided a 100% boost to Haki; only a fool would switch swords.
Mihawk had the supreme grade blade black blade yoru, and Fujitora had the supreme grade blade gamblers fireline, so naturally, they wouldn't choose to switch swords either.
Kuma wasn't a swordsman; he relied more on his hands to release his fruit abilities during combat.
Ginny also wasn't a swordsman. Before eating the Gate-Gate Fruit, she mostly fought with firearms; after eating the Gate-Gate Fruit, she might become the sniper for the Morning Star Pirates.
Imagine using space gates to break the limitations of distance, field of vision, and trajectory in sniping, while simultaneously avoiding the weakness of a sniper's poor close-quarters combat.
The fired sniper bullets would achieve instantaneous arrival and 100% precision through the Gate-Gate Fruit ability.
Of course, these only existed as concepts; the specifics of how to train would depend on Ginny herself, and Seven only gave some suggestions.
As for little Robin's dream, it was to decipher all the Poneglyphs, so she wasn't under consideration.
In other words, no one in the Morning Star Pirates could currently use this supreme grade meito ace, which was why Seven quoted a price of a hundred thousand points to try his luck.
If it sold successfully, he'd make a fortune.
If no one bought it, that was perfectly reasonable.
In the East Blue trip, Seven had already achieved two of the three goals he set—retrieving the supreme grade meito ace and taking Kuma and Ginny through the East Blue.
At the same time, he unexpectedly received the gift given by Garp.
Only the matter of recruiting crew members had seen no progress. Those who originated from the East Blue and were somewhat famous in later generations were either not born yet or were only a few years old.
They simply couldn't form immediate combat power.
And he hadn't encountered a single one.
Seven did know where Yasopp was,
But compared to Yasopp abandoning his wife and son to chase his dreams... Seven actually admired Rocks more for giving up his dreams for his wife and children.
In short, he and Yasopp were not the same kind of people.
The reason he invited Mihawk to form a pirate crew in the first place was precisely because Seven wanted to find a group of like-minded partners to brave the wind and waves to reach the finish line.
For the sake of profit, one can make do with a partner for cooperation.
But not for a true companion.
If it were Beckman, Seven certainly wouldn't be polite, but as for someone like Yasopp, he'd better leave him to that fellow Shanks.
After taking a bath and washing up, Seven was just about to rest when he suddenly noticed a figure rapidly approaching above the pier.
"The brat from Roger's ship!"