Chapter 51: 51. The D family

"How is this possible? That idiot Captain and this guy has a bounty of 120 million. Even Arlong doesn't have such a bounty." Nami was stupefied and didn't know what to make of it. Arlong's bounty was a measly 20 million bellies and this was a difference of 100 million bellies.

Zoro and Luffy finally understood that Luffy had read wrong before and now he was jumping in joy.

"Yoho...120 million.... Hahahaha... The Navy does treat people well."

"Luffy... Shut up.. Now more navy will come after us... I am scared... Maybe I shouldn't have boarded this ship.... Luffy I think I have got the 'I can't stay in the ship for long' disease.. Please drop me off on an island." Usopp said.

Zoro just smiled at it and went back to his workout. It was Ken who didn't have a good face.

"Ken, don't you have a bounty? Let me see." Luffy came and took the bounty poster from Ken only to see that Ken had the same bounty as Luffy. Nami and others also ran to see if Luffy's words were true.

Nami had expected this. If Luffy's bounty was so high then this guy who could summon lightning by manipulating weather was definitely in the same league as the Captain. It was just that she had never heard of a pirate crew which had two bounties of the same amount and one of them was the Captain.

Their pirate crew was really unique.

"Yo.. It's the same as me.. hahahah... we brothers are just perfect.... hahahah." Luffy laughed. Usopp's legs were trembling. He couldn't understand why these two members had such a high bounty. They didn't do anything that would warrant such high attention.

"You don't seem to be happy?" Zoro asked as he saw Ken still spacing out seeing the bounty.

"The bounty doesn't really matter. It's just I didn't expect this name." Ken said as his name was shown on the poster.

"The Punisher - Monkey D. Kenny - 120,000,000 bellies"

"You didn't like the name? Why?"

"I was adopted by grandpa when I was small. I didn't have a name at that time. But it seemed like Grandpa had given me his family name and considered me as his family from the get go." Ken said as he felt a little emotional. He didn't expect Garp  to give him his own family name and made him a member of the mysterious D family.

He wasn't sure if he would fit in the D family as they were known to do absurd things and always proved quite a handful for the government. But it didn't matter now, since he had been considered as D by the government he needed to act like one and be a 'Dick' to the government.

"Of course Ken.. We have always been family since we were kids. Didn't we share the sake." Luffy didn't care about the name.

"He didn't mean that you were an idiot." Nami said as he punched Luffy on the head. She knew that Ken was being a little sensitive here as she didn't know that Ken was adopted. It was no wonder that he looked totally different from Luffy.

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"But why such a high bounty? I don't think taking down Captain Morgan would give you such a high bounty." Usopp was still confused.

"Probably because we did our Grandpa dirty when we escaped. Hehehehe..." Luffy was smiling from ear to ear. He was still very much proud and happy of how they took down their grandpa. He had been bossing upon the brothers for such a long time. And now they had finally got their first revenge.

"Who is your grandpa? Sounds like an amazing person."

"Garp." Ken replied.

Nami and others started thinking of who Garp was and then it finally struck them. The Marine Hero Garp!!! They had heard so much of this person of how powerful this person was. Garp was famous all over the world and almost everyone had heard of him. Of course, the government had made sure that everyone knew about as he was the pride of the navy.

"You.. You both are the grandsons of Garp... How? You both are pirates.. He is such a great marine hero. How could you become a pirate?" Nami was bamboozled by how their grandsons became pirates.

"It doesn't matter. I never wanted to join the Navy and I wanted to be free." Luffy didn't answer more and walked away. He didn't want to speak about his grandpa nor was Ken ready to speak more.

All the crew got to know that they had escaped from the hands of Garp while leaving their village and for this reason, their bounties were high as Garp might have felt that the duo were too powerful.

"Punisher? Same universe.. Wrong name." Ken thought as he saw the nickname in the bounty. Luffy had the title of Straw Hat as it was expected. Ken didn't understand on what basis his nickname was given as Punisher, but hey he didn't protest.

Punisher suits well on him. Somewhere in the multiverse, Frank Castle sneezed!!

With this small incident the ship sailed for two more days but one day they finally came across the pirate hunter duo. Yosaku and Johnny.

The friends of Zoro. Ken had already spoken of the food problem after leaving the Syrup village and they were going to the Baratie Restaurant anyways. It;s just Ken didn't expect that even after course correction, they would come across this duo.

Yosaku was ill and had to be given oranges and other citrus fruits to make him well. Luffy and Nami were more convinced that they needed a cook among the crew. After another day at the sea, they finally got to the huge Restaurant that was floating in the ocean. The restaurant had the design of a fish and it was unique in it's own way.

But before they could reach the Baratie Restaurant, a party pooper had arrived.

The Marine Lieutenant Iron- Fist Fullbody.