Luke's eyes wandered around the room. Although the small house only consists a bedroom and a little table for meal, everything is neat except his clothes in the cabinet are worn out. It was as if his predecessor was obsessed of being too low key.
But all the clothes smells fresh. Very few should have known his existence in this village and those few must be the owners of these things.
He glanced at the colorful piling of panties in the corner. He admired his predecessor for letting these things openly displayed for every women to see.
It is a smart move to tell a woman that 'This is who I am, so you better stop making me take responsibility for you.'.
"Hm? This dude is pretty resourceful." Luke noticed something odd in a concrete wall and smiled.
Turned out that the money his predecessor gathered over the years are all inside the wall. The money should be enough for his small house to expand with many facilities.
"Whatever. This is his belongings and I have no use for them so let these things stuck in here for a while."
Luke laid himself down the bed. He decided to rest his mind first before planning the next course of action.
...
Morning comes and everyone in the village became busy again.
Luke dressed himself in a low key manner just like his predecessor. He also wore shades to cover his crimson eyes while covering his whole body with a worn cloth.
If only he is wearing spotless white clothes, he might be tagged as multi-millionaire in certain desert-located country in his previous world where billionaires lived.
Today, he will scout the village and what it feels like to be in a different environment. He also want to see up close the legendary hero everyone admires, Monkey D. Garp.
He could pinpoint Garp's overwhelming presence in the village.
As Luke strolled around, he noticed something peculiar in the surrounding houses. He was getting coquetish glances from every corner of the streets. Turned out those women, married or not were eyeing on him like a piece of delicious cake.
He let out a wry smile as he quickened his pace.
Without knowing, he arrived at the Bar where Makino lives.
...
Meanwhile, an old man was having a liesure while eating breakfast suddenly paused his action. This old man was Garp who sensed something or someone is spying on him.. again.
His eyes narrowed for a few seconds before continuing to devour his breakfast. His face showed irritation and frustration as he blamed it all on his breakfast. He ate with anger written on his face.
A green haired mature beauty noticed Garp's change of mood and asked, "Garp-san, what is it? Something's wrong in the meal? I will prepare something else for you right away."
"The meal is great, Makino. I was just recalling some bad memories." Garp indifferently replied. Right now, he was planning on how to solve that mysterious feeling he got. The feeling is like a bit of food that stucked between his teeth which made unsettled until it's gone.
In fact, he already sensed something wasn't out of order last night. But scanning back a couple of times, he resigned with zero result.
Makino smiled in response. She guessed it must be Garp's grandson that's giving him headache nowadays.
"Luffy's really adamant on becoming a pirate. Soon, he will be joining Ace to venture the sea together." Makino said. She herself is feeling worried that Luffy will surely face the danger by being a pirate.
"Ugh.. That brat never learns. And that red-head bastard, he's poisoning Luffy's young mind! Why can't he tell that being a pirate will make your life short?! Once we cross our path, I will let him have a piece of my justice fist!" Garp felt a headache coming.
Today, he will return back to marine headquarters. His months of day-off is over and he's getting anxious for his grandson.
Without guiding Luffy, the boy will definitely do as he pleases.
Garp didn't noticed that Luke sat near him as he ordered a drink for himself.
Makino on the other hand recognized Luke, so she happily received his orders ignoring Garp who was mentally occupied.
"Here's your order, Luke-kun." Makino served a juice while she carefully examined Luke. Her expression softened while getting mesmerized by how charming the latter was even though she only saw his lips.
She asked while confused written on her face, "You never visited this place. What's the occasion?"
'Same name huh.. What a coincidence.' Luke thought as he heard her question.
"Nothing special really. I will be leaving the village soon and may not come back again so I kinda want to have a day-off and wander around the village one last time." Luke sipped his drink as he smiled. Although intrigued on how Makino recognized him despite being fully covered. Maybe his predecessor's charm reached her by those coquetish women he met on streets.
"You're leaving? Why?- Oh I'm sorry. I'm just a bit surprised. From what I've... heard, this village is your birthplace." Makino became curious. Although it's not that big of a deal if Luke leaves. It would only be a shame that a handsome guy suddenly leaves just like that.
Women in the village have their own secret meeting agendas. While the topics discussed were top classified between them.
And Luke is one of their top secret discussion.
The topic circled around him could be said to be explicit where women like Makino also got interested in.
From what she heard, Luke is a very timid guy. He never showed his face in public once, that he wore face cover. But those who saw his actual face were all women he slept with and they all got enchanted by him.
"Better opportunity I guess. I'm not sure yet." Luke shrugged as he finished his drink.
"Is that so? Well, I can ask Garp-san to give you a ride to your destination for free." Although a bit disappointed, Makino earnestly offered a helping hand.
Garp who already finished his breakfast turned his head to Luke as he examined him.
"Where do you want to go boy? It's on me." Garp picked his teeth nonchalantly. He might as well return Makino's favor for letting her taking care of his grandson.
After finding that Luke is just an ordinary guy, he lost interest.
Luke fully restrained his power before entering the bar earlier. He didn't want Garp to be suspicious of him let alone fight him.
Fighting a veteran will result in him losing in a matter of few moves. In fact, he couldn't guess if he can barely stand a chance in fighting Garp at all while having a good experience in battle.
For this problem, Luke with have to seek for Killer Bee to hone his fighting capacity.
First impression of Luke to Garp was,
'This old man is dangerous.'
"I'm good, Garp-san. I will have to arrange things first before departing the village in a few days or weeks. After all, this village is my... home." Luke replied curtly.
"Mm.. Up to you boy." Garp stood up and walked out of the bar. He still have matters to finish before leaving the village.
After Garp existed, Luke turned to Makino and asked, "Makino-san, I haven't seen Luffy in a while now. Do you know where he is? Right, how old is he now?"
"Luffy? Err... I can't actually tell you where he is now. And he just turned sixteen last month. Why do you ask though?" Makino got confused when Luke asked for Luffy out of nowhere.
"Nothing in particular. I just recalled that he's Garp-san's grandson." Luke's crimson eyes flashed with unusual light after he received the news.
"Oh is it so? Ne.. Luke-san. How about I accompany you by touring the village today?" Makino had a tinge of redness on her cheeks as she said boldly. Clearly she wanted to take a bite of that delicious piece of cake called Luke too out of curiosity.
Luke blinked as he stared at Makino a couple of seconds without saying anything.
'This woman... ' He made a wry comment on his mind. Although he was interested in her, he wasn't in the mood for flirting women in the meantime.
The silence made the both of them felt awkward.
Makino immediately denied her previous statement saying it was only a joke.
Luke only laughed it off while having no intentions of keeping her company since he got what he wanted.
After exiting Makino's bar, Luke was in deep contemplation.
Currently, according to Bee's news, the plot of the world is the same as the original. That means everything is in place for him to take some great opportunity.
Right now, he is formulating plans in the future.
Plans that will turn the world of One Piece upside-down.