Aboard a Four Emperor’s Ship

The red-haired man chuckled and paid it no mind. Instead, he added another reminder. "This drink is on me. Remember, go home as soon as you finish it."

"Captain Shanks, kids will hate you if you keep nagging!" Lucky Roux grinned as he stuffed his face with meat, the fat on his body rippling like waves in a rather comical sight.

Shanks laughed and scolded, "You should worry about yourself, Lucky. You’re always the one who talks the most."

Then Makino returned to the bar with a glass of rum and slid it over to Chu Yang.

Chu Yang accepted the drink and raised it toward Shanks, who lifted his own glass in return. Chu Yang drained it in one go before saying, "You got one thing wrong. Even after I finish drinking, I can’t go home."

The smile on Shanks’s face suddenly faded, and he frowned.

Chu Yang explained, "I’m a slave. I only seized an opportunity to escape not long ago. The word ‘home’ is a luxury to me."

As he spoke, Chu Yang pulled down his clothes slightly, exposing the faint scar on his chest. Though it had already faded considerably, Shanks could tell from its shape that it had once been an extremely severe, potentially fatal wound.

The tavern gradually fell silent. The Red Hair Pirates’ crew all focused their gazes on Chu Yang. Hearing a child speak such words so calmly was undoubtedly a powerful shock.

Upon hearing of Chu Yang’s miserable experience, Shanks suddenly thought of the arson case that had taken place at Mary Geoise several months ago. Back then, many Celestial Dragons’ slaves had escaped from Mary Geoise.

Shanks instantly understood Chu Yang’s identity, and sympathy naturally surfaced in his eyes.

If slaves in this world could be ranked, then the Celestial Dragons’ slaves were undoubtedly the most miserable of all!

The temperamental Celestial Dragons were exceptionally skilled at torturing slaves. They could casually employ all sorts of punishments beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Chu Yang’s words and the wounds on his body made Makino’s eyes redden, but she had no idea what she could say to comfort him.

Only little Luffy continued fooling around without a care in the world.

Fortunately, thanks to him, the tavern soon livened up again after that brief awkward silence.

Amid the laughter and chatter, Shanks handed Chu Yang another drink. This time, however, he did not repeat that nonsense about going home after finishing it.

After going through so much, no matter how old one was, they needed the comfort of alcohol.

The two clinked glasses and smiled at each other.

"Luffy! What did you eat?!"

The panicked shout immediately drew Chu Yang and Shanks’s attention.

When he saw that the treasure chest beside him had been opened, Shanks’s expression changed drastically.

He grabbed Luffy by the ankle, turned him upside down, and shook him hard.

He was trying to shake out whatever Luffy had swallowed.

But in his panic, not only did Luffy fail to spit it out, he swallowed it completely instead.

Smack!

Little Luffy stretched like a piece of rubber and stuck to the floor, while his leg remained in Shanks’s hand.

The scene terrified everyone. The tavern instantly erupted into chaos, while only Chu Yang calmly continued drinking.

That night, Makino’s tavern closed. The pirates returned one after another to the pirate ship at the harbor to sleep, while Chu Yang followed the crowd back to his own small boat.

As Shanks prepared to board, he happened to notice Chu Yang’s little boat, drifting alone on the sea like duckweed.

Beckman, standing beside Shanks, had seen every one of his reactions. He smiled and said, "If you can’t bear it, bring the kid aboard. Can you really rest easy leaving him to drift around alone on the sea?"

"What a hassle." Shanks grumbled, but his body honestly headed toward Chu Yang. He stopped in front of Chu Yang’s little boat.

Chu Yang was sitting upright inside, meditating.

"Hey, kid, come with me. Your boat doesn’t even have anywhere to shelter from the wind and rain!"

The next day, Chu Yang became the youngest apprentice crew member of the Red Hair Pirates and began his pirate life of further studying Haki.

Naruto world.

Compared with Chu Yang, who had smoothly joined a Four Emperor pirate crew in the One Piece world, Chu Yang here was having a far less pleasant time as a teacher.

The Third’s timidity and shyness during childhood had all been fake. Once he became familiar with his surroundings, he was far more than merely mischievous. He was even worse than Naruto had been as a child.

Not long after the school term began, he had already thrown the entire school into chaos!

Using the Three Body Technique to prank teachers had become part of his daily routine.

Together with Shimura Danzō, who looked honest but was actually full of bad intentions, the two of them had the ninja academy’s teachers completely dizzy and overwhelmed.

One worked from within and the other from without, coordinating flawlessly. They were already faintly displaying the beginnings of how they would manage Konoha in the future.

The teachers at the school simply could not deal with them easily. Their greatest concern was the Sarutobi clan behind Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Besides Sarutobi Hiruzen, the children of the other great clans at the school were much the same. When they made mistakes, most teachers chose to let matters rest.

Konoha had only just been established, and the open and covert struggles among the clans were exceptionally fierce. The ninja academy was also a special place. If anything were handled improperly, it could lead to unnecessary misunderstandings.

For example, if the young master of one clan beat up the young master of another clan, whichever side the school took, the other side might interpret it as the school sending some sort of signal.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, Tobirama Senju, as principal, would not personally punish students, even if they had committed serious violations of school rules.

But Chu Yang felt this could not continue.

If excessive behavior from Sarutobi Hiruzen or the children of other great clans was always tolerated and rarely punished, then one day they would become increasingly outrageous and easily cross the line.

The worst-case scenario would be those great clan children joining together to oppress commoner students.

Once class status took root in the school, it would deal a devastating blow to the students’ development. After all, nearly half of the students came from commoner backgrounds.

After sharing Magic Chu Yang’s memories, Chu Yang of the Naruto world deeply understood the dangers of tacitly accepting bloodline-based thinking.

He did not want an organization similar to Slytherin to emerge in the ninja academy.

So Chu Yang went to find Tobirama Senju overnight and explained his thoughts.

As someone born into a clan himself, Tobirama Senju was somewhat blinded by his own perspective on this matter. It was normal that he had not considered this angle.

If Chu Yang had not reminded him, he probably would not have realized the severity of this issue for a long time.

Having just finished dealing with government affairs, Tobirama Senju fell into deep thought after hearing Chu Yang’s report. Then he could not help sighing. "In this regard, you’re as sensitive as my older brother. If the school’s attitude isn’t clear and firm enough, it will inevitably fuel this unhealthy Evil Qi."

"But who should handle it is another problem. Ordinary teachers would likely be quite wary of pressure from those clans."

Chu Yang smiled. "I’m the best candidate. Publicly, I’m a teacher. Privately, I’m also a disciple of Lord Hokage and you, Teacher, as well as a member of the Senju clan. I can withstand the pressure."

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