Chapter 508: Chapter 508: God Valley Arc — Team-Building Event, Meeting Loki

Orin’s bounty went up again.

Crime: sinking the Navy warship led by Garp.

By the time Orin returned to Hachinosu Island, the news in the papers had already spread across the world.

"Since the one you beat was only a Vice Admiral, the bounty only went up a little bit, huh~"

Orin didn’t care about it at all, but Keek was happy about it for a long time. After all, that was Garp!!!

He still remembered that strike from Captain Orin back then. While Garp was still stepping through the air with Geppo and hadn’t reacted at all, Orin was already holding the black gun and charging it, space power and Conqueror’s Haki Infusion thunderstorm wrapping around the stock. Under Garp’s suddenly changing gaze, he brought it down in one swing straight into Garp’s face. Instantly lulled to sleep, Garp, because of his own carelessness, lost consciousness and fell into the sea.

Orin didn’t think much of it.

After returning to Hachinosu Island, he met Rocks and the others.

At this moment, they were gathered together, looking like they were about to set sail as a group again.

"Oh? You’re back, Orin."

"Perfect timing, we’re heading out. Want to come along?!!!"

Not just Rocks—there were also Whitebeard, Golden Lion Shiki, Charlotte Linlin, Kaido, and others... almost all the officers were going to move this time.

"What’s up? Is something urgent?"

Orin was a pretty sociable guy and didn’t mind joining group activities, especially with the God Valley incident a year later in mind, but the timing clearly didn’t line up.

"We’re going to the International Philanthropy Federation. The monks there have a lot of treasures..."

"Monks?"

Orin didn’t know much about that, because he’d never worried about money or treasure. He didn’t like money, and he had no interest in treasure.

"It’s an international charity organization, supposedly donating to children and disaster victims. But in reality, it’s all just their private property. Let’s go rob them!!!"

The Rocks Pirates weren’t always just a synonym for evil—after all, Orin knew the World Government wasn’t anything good either. Still, he’d never really done something like robbing before.

"Sure~"

It wasn’t about punishing evil; it was more that he’d never experienced it before.

Keek stayed behind at the main base, while Orin followed the main force toward the target. But Orin felt that this group of great pirates really didn’t need to make such a big show of it—after all, there weren’t many on the seas who could match the current fighting strength of the Rocks Pirates.

...

Inside the temple,

Orin carried a big sack of treasure and ran out with the group. He tossed the treasure to Linlin, who was twice his height and wearing shorts, and looked sexy.

"This feeling is actually pretty good—being a bandit and all..."

Orin didn’t think much of the treasure filling the basement, but the atmosphere felt very real.

Nearby, Whitebeard and Kaido weren’t as relaxed as Orin. They looked at the ladder that had been taken away above them, and at their companions who had run off, their faces full of dark lines. 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

"Truly worthy of the Rocks Pirates, the ’All-Star Villains’..."

When it came to backstabbing, they were even smoother than himself. Orin saw that not only had no ladder been lowered, someone even threw bombs into the basement. It was that guy Shiki.

"Ze hahahahaha!!!"

"A few more people to split the treasure are gone!!!"

Shiki sneered, but in the next instant he realized the temple had been locked tight with iron bars. Before they could react, waves of destructive power surged up from underground.

"This is!!!"

"Is it an earthquake?! Whitebeard???"

"No!!!"

The entire island began to shatter, even spreading to the surrounding seas, descending like a natural disaster!!!

"Kurororororo!!!"

"So you have an ability like that too?"

Whitebeard, who was unleashing a large-scale earthquake in the basement, curled the corner of his mouth slightly and looked at Orin beside him, whose hands were gathering black matter and shattering a vast area of space, and couldn’t help but smile.

"There’s no helping it. Those guys were planning to ditch us and run!!!"

Orin replied with a grin. Black power coiled around his hands, and he threw another punch, [Space Quake], blasting out. The already shattered island now truly broke into piece after piece of fragments.

After all, it was him and Whitebeard using their abilities together. Before this, the two of them had once, over the Fish-Man Island issue, forcibly beaten a super-massive island into an archipelago.

Kaido, being thick-skinned and tough, looked on enviously at the two using their abilities.

"Such enviable abilities... I want something like that too."

Perhaps after seeing Orin and Whitebeard’s abilities, Kaido also developed the idea of searching for a powerful Devil Fruit.

Whitebeard held his naginata and replied,

"Abilities... you have to look for them slowly."

On the island above, Linlin and the others, who had been carrying treasure and fleeing, were also swept up by this massive quake-like disaster. The complete change in terrain sent them falling toward a collapsing abyss, their mouths still cursing nonstop.

After flattening everything, Orin and the others walked out of the basement. Clearly, they were very unhappy about being backstabbed.

"It was you, Shiki, right?"

Orin wasn’t that angry, but just looking at Shiki’s expression annoyed him.

"Oh my, Orin, you’re still alive. I was so worried about you!!!"

Orin didn’t waste words. Looking at Shiki floating in the air, he directly used [Space Field · Gravity] and sent him crashing face-first into the ground.

As for Rocks, he seemed long used to all this.

"Do less pointless stuff. The treasure’s all fine, right!!!"

"It’s fine!!!"

Just as the Rocks Pirates were about to set sail, several Navy warships appeared on the sea, forming an encirclement. It looked imposing, but...

You’re trying to surround and annihilate the Rocks Pirates—are you serious?

Orin felt this was probably another bunch of Marines who had offended someone and were sent to carry out this kind of mission.

Like crushing rotten wood, a Navy fleet configured on par with a Buster Call was completely wiped out.

...

After that, the Rocks Pirates arrived at an island in the New World.

"Elbaf, huh?"

It wasn’t Orin’s first time here, but the impression wasn’t very deep.

"Yeah, we’re here to visit an old friend, Harald. That guy is still fantasizing about getting along with the World Government."

Rocks said disdainfully.

Orin knew Harald—that was a powerhouse among the giants. Ancient giants were never weak, let alone their king. Harald had the strength to clash with Rocks.

Orin followed Rocks toward the tavern, but he soon noticed a figure. It was a giant child with bandages wrapped around his eyes. The other party looked at them, and in the end it seemed his target locked onto Orin.

Orin stopped. He didn’t follow Rocks into the tavern. He also wanted to see what Loki wanted to say.

"Tell me... how did you join the Rocks Pirates!!!"