I.T.M.W.T.G.F / Chapter 1: Waking up again and meeting Garp!

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{Be vigilant about those who lurk in the dark, my son, those who can rob you of everything. Never come near the source again, just live your life and enjoy...}

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                In a forest that looked even stranger than the forests on the Planet Earth, a young man's eyes flickered before opening wide, but his vision was still a bit blurred.

                The young man felt a terrible pain in his head as mysterious words were repeated in his ears, but the buzzing in his head prevented him from truly understanding what he had heard.

                However, it didn't take long for his gaze to match the sunlight of this world, and then a deep confusion appeared in the young man's brown eyes.

                The young man struggled to get up, and after trying so hard he was able to sit on the cold dirt ground.

                 He hadn't yet realized that his body was riddled with scrapes and bruises as if he had been beaten by a large group of people and then dumped here in the open area to rot... In fact, they dumped his body after his death .

                Well, that was exactly what happened.

                 Because after a short while Lionel completely absorbed the memories of the dead young man who also had the same name. and from those memories, he saw how brutal those people who kill previous Lionel were.

                The story summarizes that when he was gathering weeds peacefully in the jungle and out of trouble, he unexpectedly met a group of today's misplaced mountain bandits leading to his miserable death.

                Although their name is mountain bandits, they are often close to areas that contain villages or towns. That means, it's very rare for them to be in deep places in the forest like today, considering that the forest is dangerous and there is no point in going deeper into it unless they want to get their own livelihood... Well, if the case like that, they wouldn't be called bandits in the first place!

                The previous Lionel was just a poor orphan boy who struggled for 18 years of his life.

                When he was 5 years old he was taken out of the Goa kingdom and thrown into the Gray Terminal. But he couldn't bear to live with organic trash and also human trash for long, so after two years of experiencing all kinds of physical and psychological hardships, he moved to the mountains and lived in a small village not far from Foosha Village, called Cloud Village.

                As for the current Lionel, all he knows is that he actually died somehow in his previous life. he has somewhat hazy memories of that life, but for some reason, he can still remember what he watched from anime, movies, series, manga, manhwa, novels, comics, etc. they are very clear, and also the memories of the basics of life did not disappear as if they were imprinted in his mind instinctively.

                Lionel's current feeling was very complicated, even after sitting for a few minutes trying to clear his mind and come up with a logical explanation for what was happening he couldn't. It seemed like something was holding him back as he tried to think about his social life from his previous life. all he could remember vividly was his name and that he was a voracious Otaku as well.

                Fortunately for him, throughout the period that accompanied his awakening again, the adrenaline was circulating in his blood terribly, so he didn't feel any pain except for severe migraine. but as soon as his physiological response began to fade... the pain from his broken body began also to attack him fiercely.

                But that pain didn't stop him from feeling dazed right now.

                Lionel took a deep breath and screamed in his mind. Goa Kingdom!

                Gray Terminal!

                Foosha Village!

                Mountain bandits!

                Pirates!

                Nobles!

                Aren't these terms from the One Piece manga?!

                "No...! It's really One Piece manga!"

                The adrenaline that was decreasing in his body regained its vitality and started another round of wandering in his body due to the intense excitement at this moment.

                "Am I dreaming now? This can't be a dream, can it?"

                 He said before pinching himself to make sure he wasn't dreaming.

                "Ouch! It hurts... that means... hehe... so I'm not dreaming? It's all real!!"

                Lionel took a deep breath and held back his excitement. Having calmed down, he rose and slowly took his first steps into this new life, and headed toward a nearby stream with his legs trembling in pain.

                After arriving in front of a small river, he saw himself in the reflection of the crystal waters, he saw a young man who was at least two meters tall, but he was thin due to lack of food.

                 With tanned brown eyes, pale brown skin, and short curly black hair with some unnatural tufts of white, it was as if life's hardships had made parts of his hair turn gray at his young age as he was just a young man of twenty years old .

                Sadly, the previous Lionel was so poor, that he had no way of getting the healthy food he needed to feed himself to be healthy, if he had, he would surely have looked handsome as an earth-shattering idol. As he hadn't a family to depend on and no friends to make him rid of loneliness, he was completely alone. his death may have been his liberation.

                Lionel gave a minute's silence to bid farewell to the previous Lionel's soul in his mind, wishing him good luck in his next life and vowing to take revenge on the people who killed him.

                Lionel liked his new look a lot, but his broken body was soon strained by a scary fact.

                He remembered that he reincarnated into the world of One Piece!

                He was incarnated in a forest full of monsters and bandits, plus he was in a situation that needed urgent medical attention because he was still bleeding!

                And that's not all, this "One Piece" world is very dangerous. In his current state it will surely die within a day if not hours.

                Since he still had all his memories from the manga and anime, he knew very well the danger of the "One Piece" world, if he didn't get his gold finger he would surely die.

                “Sigh, from those novels and fanfics that I read in the past, didn’t most transmigrators like me get a system or something to reach the top?”

                Lionel sighed in a low voice after having to lie on the dirt ground again due to the condition of his body, since the first stage of one of his dreams in his previous life has come true (Reincarnation). But where is the second stage (Golden Finger)? Doesn't this story follow the same scenario?

                "So where's my cheat? Anything that allows me to live is fine with me."

                Lionel cried out in frustration while holding his hair, given the gravity of the situation he was in and the physical pain coming back to remind him of how severe his injuries were.

                Lionel resisted the pain and crawled to the clear water stream next to him, not thinking much about maybe the the water was contaminated or something, as his only concern at the moment was to quench his thirst, and restore some of his weak vitality.

                After drinking the water which was too refreshing for his dry throat, he felt a little better and washed his dirty face.

                The clear stream water was contaminated with blood and dirt on his face, but his blood soon disappeared with the current.

                After resting for a while, he could stand up again although he was still unable to stand upright, he turned around and looked at the trees and grass scattered around. Then he looked at the tattered clothes he was wearing, he didn't have anything to change them with at the moment because that's all he had here. the previous Lionel had only brought a wallet with him to this trip to save the herbs he had picked out from the forest, but even that was taken from him by the fuckers bandits who killed him because they did not find anything useful in him.

                "Sigh, my small wooden house is far from here."

                Even if he wanted to crawl back to his home in Cloud Village, he wouldn't guarantee that he would arrive or not.

                But before he was bitter about his misfortune, he heard a cold mechanical voice in his mind that interrupted his frustrating chain of thoughts.

                [Ding! You've obtained the Main System, Fate Transcription System.]

                Lionel's chain of thoughts faded, then after a few seconds, it quickly became chaotic again with the intensity of the excitement he felt.

                "Here! It's here! Hahahaha! My golden finger is here! A system, The hell  I got a system- Oww!!" He screamed and jumped for joy because of the excitement, but it faded when he felt pain washing his body, from the intensity of excitement he forgot that he was seriously injured at the moment.

                Lionel was unable to celebrate when he heard another mechanical tone, leaving his mind blank.

                [Ding! You've got the Subsystem, Dimensional Chat Group.]

                “Holy shit?! Another cheat?! I have two golden fingers?!”

                 He screamed again but did not make unnecessary movements to avoid the exacerbation of his injuries.

                Lionel's mind was clouded with excitement as adrenaline rushed through his mind, leaving his mind blank for a moment.

                After he ended his hysterical celebration and returned to reality, Lionel fell into deep thought.

                Even if his existential memories were a bit blurry, it wouldn't affect his current existence. From his basic logic and his memories of the entertainment world based on movies, anime, manga, manhwa, and even novels, he obtained an enormous amount of information, which made him unwilling to think anything else about his past life. He wanted to live as freely as the protagonist.

                 He wanted to experience the feeling of strength and level up like the unbeatable hero of Isekai anime, and he wanted to have fun and make a huge harem like the one he's reading in his favorite harem novels!!!

                And whoever stood in the way of his dream, would become for them like Fang Yuan, Irene Yeager, or Yun Che, or simply become a God of Destruction to them!

                 He didn't care if this was evil in the eyes of the world. Whoever wants to destroy his happiness will become an enemy, and the enemies must die, no matter what world they will be in.

                What was his existence, what was his reason for being, or what god would he enjoy seeing him do all of this... It didn't matter, these weren't things he needed to think about right now.

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                {...just $& live $&your life & $? and enjoy...}

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                Suddenly, his head started hurting like hell, a choppy voice echoed in his head, but for some reason he couldn't comprehend, he soon forgot everything about that voice because he fainted.

                Everything turned black and he lost consciousness.

                After an unknown period, Lionel regained consciousness and was able to realize that he had lost consciousness but it was due to his injuries and loss of a lot of blood, he couldn't remember anything about the mysterious voice.

                "It seems that now in the middle of the day."

                Relying on his predecessor's senses and knowledge, he was able to tell the current time just by looking at the sun, which took the middle of the sky as its place.

                He felt familiar and unfamiliar with this world.

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                After analyzing all his memories he got a lot of ideas about how to live his life and survive in a world as cruel as the Pirate World.

                It's just that he wasn't brave before without any guarantee of his survival, but what now?

                 It's very different! He has two systems! Although one is a main and the other is a sub, the fact that they are two systems cannot be changed.

                But first, he had to use them to survive his current situation, which was urgent, since he could no longer bear the intense pain from his broken bones and tattered wounds, so he couldn't help but scream...

                "Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!"

                He could only remain to lie there like a dead man.

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                "Luffy!"

                "Luffy!!"

                After a while, when Lionel was about to ask the system for a solution, he heard a deep, raspy voice not far from his current location, since the owner of the voice was a bit far away he didn't hear the content of the voice very well.

                He was now lying down in an open grassy area but there were a few tall trees that gave shade surrounding him from the scorching light of the midday sun.

                Suddenly, a macho old man came out of the trees and walked towards him. He carried a bag of biscuits that he ate from time to time.

                The old man had gray hair signifying his long years, and two sunken eyes that bore the pressure of someone who lived a lot of experiences in life, but his majestic white robe was on his broad back. He proved to be an influential and powerful person, his own feral presence warns you not to mess with him, but he's smiling face strangely denies it.

                After getting close enough, Lionel could realize this as his body tensed up in fear of the newcomer, and raised his head with difficulty as he saw a familiar old man looking at him with a deep look.

                “Bwahaha! Don’t be afraid boy, I'm not here to hurt someone who was injured enough already. You have a really strong will, with this kind of wound and a weak body you should have died now.”

                 The old man laughed as he scratched the back of his head.

                Then the old man stepped forward to support Lionel to stand up and then asked him.

                "What's your name, boy?"

                “Lionel… My name is Lionel…”

                Lionel was still at a loss because of the current situation, how lucky he was to meet this old man here! But the system window and notification that heard inside his head when the old man touched him made him even more confused.

                [Ding! The host had interacted with the fate of a 'strong man']

                [Name: Monkey D. Garp ❎

                Title: Marine Hero, Iron Fist ❎

                Age: 75 years old ❎

                Gender: Male ❎

                Position: Vice-Admiral of the Navy ❎

                Skills:

                *Physical Strength, (Level: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) ✅

                * Armament Haki, (Level: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) ✅

                * Observation Haki, (Level: ⭐⭐⭐⭐) ✅

                *Rokushiki {Six Powers}, (Level: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) ✅

                *Sword Mastery, (Level: ⭐) ✅

                *Weapons Mastery, (Level: ⭐⭐) ✅

                *Navigational Ability, (Level: ⭐) ✅]

                [Explanation: The host can copy a single ability or skill under the allowed category in the current system level as long as you win over its owner or the opponent announces his surrender.]

                [By copying a certain ability, the host will get it flawlessly, because the system ability is the perfect transcription.]

                [System advice: Don't try to mess with this old man, you will only get a very painful love punch.]

                The system summed it all up simply so there would be no confusion, it's a good system, no, it's very cool!

                But in his current situation, how would he beat someone to copy his ability?

                When Garp saw Lionel's very excited face, he sighed in his mind and thought that the poor young man had recognized him as Marine Hero, as he looked very happy when he saw him, but unbeknownst to him, he had fallen into the claws of the devil...

                Garp gently patted Lionel's shoulder before asking again.

                "What happened to you boy? How did you get this way?"

                Garp's voice reminded Lionel that he is in front of a very powerful and influential person in this world.

                He looked at Garp with a complex look and filled with unwillingness because he was literally touching a treasure bag but he couldn't take anything out of it, unless this treasure bag said, "I give up!" Loudly.

                “While searching for some rare herbs in this safe place of the forest, I came across group of mountain bandits, and was violently attacked by them.”

                Lionel lowered his head telling the truth, then continued, "And you? What are you doing here, old man? By the way, thanks for helping me stand up. I'm really grateful, I'd be happy to pay that debt back if you help me go to a nearby  clinic..."

                "You're a good boy, but you're still a hundred years short to help me."

                Garp shoves some sembi in his mouth at once, then adds, "I'm here because my annoying grandson ran away when he heard that I was back to the village, so I looking for him to give him some love fist, but he's a slippery brat. "

                Upon hearing this, Lionel looked at Garp's right fist and got goosebumps when he remember the system's advice.

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