【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Chapter 417 I found you!

"You didn't understand what Lucci meant. If he can't get Straw Hat to join Whitebeard, then with Lucci's determination to protect his brother, he is very likely to leave the team and leave with Straw Hat." Thatch explained.

"Lucci should understand that he needs to let go. His brother has grown up." Marco frowned and said, "It's not good for anyone. Although I don't want to say this, with Straw Hat Luffy's reckless adventures without caring about the consequences, it should be common for him to get hurt. He can't keep protecting him like this."

"Are we going to let Lucci leave like this?" Harta wailed.

"Is this the main issue now?" Marco covered his face helplessly. "Well, it is indeed..."

"Who!? Who's leaving?" Ace suddenly woke up, opened his sleepy eyes, looked at the mashed potatoes on the table and continued to eat with a spoon, then looked at them with a confused look on his face. "What were you talking about just now?"

"We were just talking about..." Before Thatch could finish his words, he was interrupted by the sudden commotion outside.

"Straw Hat Boy is awake!"

"Vice Captain Lucci asked us to deliver the food!"

"Luffy is awake!" Ace shouted in surprise, then asked Thatch to prepare more meat. After that, he rushed out first with some food.

……

"Meat!!"

"Luffy!!"

Lucci and Sabo both showed shocked expressions on their faces, and then Lucci immediately asked someone to get food from the restaurant.

Lucci had a bright smile on his face. "I bet Thatch has his hands full."

"The ship will be restocked soon," Sabo grinned, then looked towards the door, where an excited Ace was rushing in, pushing a huge pile of food, followed by Thatch and Marco.

"Does he want to eat everything here?" Thatch stared at Luffy's eating speed in amazement. "This food is not enough at all! I'll get more!!" Thatch said and rushed out.

After a while, the Whitebeards were all stunned at how fast the food disappeared. They basically moved all the food from the restaurant over, but it was still not enough. "Send more food!!"

Lucci, Ace, and Sabo sat and watched the chaos they had caused by trying to feed Luffy, they smiled at each other as they watched the food disappear into Luffy's bottomless pit at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"His appetite remains the same, isn't it?" said Sabo, laughing.

"No, it's bigger than before." Lucci said with a smile.

"It's also tougher than before," Ace grinned.

"Do you know what our biggest crisis is right now?" Marco covered his face with his hands and said wearily, "We may have to disperse some crew members to other allied ships due to food shortages."

"You never told me your brother had such a big appetite." Thatch's face was full of despair.

"Hey, I warned you." Lucci grinned.

……

Wow, this meat is so delicious! Luffy smiled contentedly, rubbed his bulging belly, and then concentrated his energy to transform what he just ate into energy and muscle. The next second, he announced to the world, "Fully resurrected!"

Before he could remember what was happening, he was suddenly hugged by a crying Lucci and Ace. Luffy's eyes widened with confusion. Why was Ace here? He had never seen Ace and Lucci cry before. Why were they crying?

"You stupid brother, you reckless idiot, you were so stupid! I almost lost you! Why did you do that, you idiot! Idiot!!"

"You complete idiot, why on earth did you run to the most dangerous prison in the world! There are people there who would kill you without a second thought, and you almost died!"

"Lucci!! Ace!!" Luffy hugged his two brothers tightly. His brothers were here, both of them were here, they were fine. Luffy had a big smile on his face. "Why are you here? Of course I went to save you! I mean, I found you, I'm so happy that you are here!!"

Lucci let go of him for a second, adjusting slightly before pulling him into a tighter hug "Don't ever do that again, you idiot! I can't... I can't live without you!"

Luffy pulled Lucci closer, feeling the tears soaking his skin, but Luffy's brows furrowed, not understanding what Lucci was saying. Anger filled him as he thought about what happened in the end "You don't want to do that. Why would you sacrifice yourself for me? You can't die. I won't allow it!"

"And Ace, what are you talking about? I'm your brother! Why should I go to Impel Down? You're there! You're going to be executed, of course I have to save you! I would rather die than let this happen! But why are you here? I thought you were at Level 6!" Luffy looked at Ace with confusion on his face, his head in a mess, looking at the long bread and pineapple head who were shouting behind him, and the few strange people sticking their heads out of the door.

Luffy was confused, even though he liked to do things the fun way, anyone would be confused in this situation, he had no idea where he was, plus he felt dizzy, he started to wonder if this was a dream, so he took action, he pinched the side of Ace's face hard.

"Ow!!"

Now that he could rule out this being a dream, Luffy had a huge smile on his face.

"Luffy! Why did you do this!?" Ace glared at Luffy and rubbed his cheeks hard.

Lucci looked at him in shock with his eyes wide open and filled with tears, then looked at Ace.

" Make sure this isn't one of those weird dreams! " Luffy looked up at the actions of his two brothers and grinned.

"Then you should pinch yourself, not others!" Ace glared at him dissatisfiedly.

"Oh, so that's how it is... But I don't need to now, because you already told me." Luffy said with a smile, and used his long rubber arms and legs to repeatedly wrap around them, and then buried his head in the side of their face and cried loudly "You scared me to death, I thought Ace was going to die!"

"Idiot, I won't die!" Ace hugged the crying Luffy tightly with trembling hands.

Lucci hugged Luffy tightly with his other arm while holding Ace with his other arm, the three of them completely enjoying this moment of hugging each other, Lucci tilted his head to the side and looked at Sabo who was also smiling, grinning and asking him to come over.

Hearing a burst of snickers, Luffy looked up in confusion, and through his tearful eyes he looked at the familiar blue eyes and that stupid scarf standing in front of him. Luffy's eyes widened and he asked with a choked voice, "Who are you?"

"Lu, can't even your brother recognize you?"

Luffy began to tremble, tears welling up in his eyes again. He stared into those blue eyes, and the familiar emotion in them made him unable to help but call out the name of the brother he had lost many years ago.

"Sa...Sabo!?"