Huh.

Since there seem to be a lot of people who hate this book, I originally didn’t want to write a final statement to criticize; but after all, there are readers who like this book, and there have been readers who have liked this book, so I might as well leave a few remarks at the end.

Let's take a moment, which can be regarded as an explanation of this three million word journey. Let us use a small tidbit as an introduction - one year and eight months ago, it should be around the time I uploaded the first chapter of this book.

, Happy Luo, an author of a pirate novel who did not want to be named, said: Please remind me when you write about getting on the ship later, and I will go to your book review area to see the excitement.

Then let’s start the first, only and last SBS of this book!

D: (Applause) (Applause) From your accent, do you mean that when you wrote the first chapter, you had already decided that this book would be a "following the boat"?

Y:?

D:?

Y: Your question reminds me of a little tidbit...

D: Why do you have so many tidbits?

Y: Around the time when the book was about a hundred chapters old, when Lynch and Robin passed by the Guan Island, the Transvestite Island, and the Boeing Islands one after another, I forgot where I saw a comment, which roughly means: This protagonist

Why do you keep running to the island where the plot happened two years ago? Do you want to follow the boat?

D:...So?

Y: What I mean is, if you read from the back to the front, the feeling of embarking on a ship in this book is actually very obvious. Otherwise, why did the protagonist pass by the islands related to Straw Hat's doubts when he entered the Grand Line for the first time?

?Why does the protagonist hardly call himself a pirate group, and never recruits new crew members? Why does he have to go to Kuja in a detour? Why did he not go to Fish-Man Island because of an accident even though he had already arrived at Shampoo Land?

(laugh).

Y: By the way, Chapter 610, the title is "I don't want to be a hero." When I wrote that chapter, I felt that I was almost making it clear... The "hero theory" in Lynch's mouth was basically copied from the comics.

Luffy and Zoro made similar speeches.

D:? Let’s not talk about it explicitly or not. I didn’t go to Fish-Man Island because it was to treat Whitebeard? What does it have to do with getting on the ship later?

Y: After Whitebeard’s treatment, wouldn’t he still die at the top?

D: If you say that...

Y: Treating Whitebeard is just a cover-up to cover up the fact that I absolutely do not want the protagonist and Robin to go to Fish-Man Island before boarding the ship. It seems strange to mention it specifically, but I have such a self-restraint when writing it.

: If I had crooked my hand while writing and asked Lynch and Robin to go to Fish-Man Island in advance to "step a bit", then I would have given up getting on the ship later.

D: It's good to give up. Why don't you give up? That's...

Y: Something similar: If you accidentally write that Lynch lets people other than Robin board the ship and form a de facto pirate group, then you will also give up following the ship; even if you accidentally write that

If Lynch wrote it in a style such as "I am the captain of the JOJO Pirates", then he would give up following the ship later; if he accidentally wrote the first half of the story in a style that was "less like a pirate comic", then

I also gave up following the boat later...

D: Wait a minute. It’s written in the style of a pirate comic. Is that intentional?

Y: What else? (laughing) In fact, there was a special effort to ask Lynch to do things that people on earth would not be able to do but people on the Straw Hat Ship would be able to do. What impressed me most was that in the early stage of the West China Sea, Lynch could do

He deliberately played with fire when faced with a gun; he directly robbed Caesar on the flower boat; when he fought Haina on the island of Kraigana, he did not "think about the cycle" when faced with the enemy's strange abilities.

To be a "perfect solution"... To put it bluntly, it is to deliberately make him "irregular" and "brainless". Lynch's speaking and behavioral style, while trying not to deviate too much from the protagonist of the Internet novel, also try to be consistent with the Straw Hat

The atmosphere of the group fits together.

D: If you put it this way, when Lynch faced the gang in the first chapter, he would have the kind of "seeking death" reaction...

Y: I wrote it that way on purpose (laughing), just to highlight a clever person.

D: Also, Lynch is sometimes said to be a benevolent pirate, because there are few books about how he slaughtered trash fish...

Y: If the writing is too gory, and if it describes head-on how many people Lynch killed, it will always feel inappropriate with the style of Straw Hat. So yes, it deliberately avoids the description of killing - just like in the comics.

D: I suddenly feel so boring...

Y: (laughing) You have to talk about it from the perspective of writing. Writing a novel is inherently boring, especially when you already have the overall outline of the book at the beginning, which makes it even more boring. But when you put it into the story

In itself, when did Lynch decide to get on the boat? It was after the battle on the top. For Lynch at the time, not being able to get on the boat had little impact on him, and he himself didn't mind it very much.

This matter, coupled with Luffy's persistence, so it happened naturally - at least it was the effect I hoped to achieve.

D: There is no such effect.

Y: It seems so.

D: So back to the beginning - why follow the ship? This is too outdated. What's the point of following Straw Hat's crappy ship?

Y: I also hate the New World chapter, especially Luffy after the Big Mom chapter, and even the entire Straw Hats. I feel like they don’t have the same internal flavor as before.

D:?

Y: That’s why you miss the Straw Hats in the first half even more, isn’t it? If the Straw Hats in the first half and the Straw Hats in the second half are divided into Straw Hat A and Straw Hat B, then I think the reason why I want to

On the one hand, I feel that in Straw Hat A's story, there are some things that would be better if they could be done (such as leaving Merry behind and bringing Rab with him), while Straw Hat B's story is terrible and disliked.

If the story never happened at all, or if Straw Hat A was used instead, people would be able to understand... For example, it was just to let Luffy say that her ability was annoying to Xiaodama, and to let Luffy say that Oden was too naive, I didn't write it.

uncomfortable……

D: Okay, okay, "I made these dumplings just for this bit of jealousy" is a bad joke...

D: You haven't answered the previous question: Why do you follow the boat? Do you have some hobby?

Y: I actually read very few Pirates fanfics. I read Naruto the most, and I have written it myself; I like Dragon Ball fanfics the most, but I don’t read them much (because there are fewer people who write about them), and I have written them, too.

Two books; for One Piece fans... The most impressive ones I can think of so far are "One Piece: I am a Devil" and the other is "One Piece: The Legend of the Mage"... Unfortunately (laughs), this

Both books are so-called "ship-following", especially the latter. The protagonist of the latter also takes the risk on his own first, and then gets on the ship.

D:...Are these two books dug out of ancient tombs?

Y: So I haven’t read much. Plus I’ve never written a pirate novel before. This is my first attempt. Is there any reason not to write a genre that I prefer?

D: Oh. So I wrote follow the boat. Oh.

Y: When I decided to write about boat travel, I encountered a very difficult problem.

D: Is it because no one likes to see this thing?

Y: Personally, I don’t really like nanny-style protagonists who follow ships. Although the demon and mage legends above, especially the mage legend, are a bit nanny... On the other hand, other pirate novels, even if they are not based on

Ship flow, sometimes when you meet a plot character, even though it has nothing to do with the protagonist, the protagonist will still go all the way there and give without asking for anything in return. This feeling is actually quite annoying.

D: Didn’t you say you read very few pirate novels?

Y: It’s quite rare, but it’s not like I haven’t seen it before. I just glanced at it casually and threw it away if I didn’t like it, so it didn’t leave much of an impression in my mind.

Y: Since I don’t like protagonists who do this, I try to avoid similar feelings when writing. Take the plot in this book as an example. The design that I am more proud of is Momonosuke in Wano Country.

The arrangement - Lynch subjectively never thought of specifically targeting Momonosuke, a little kid, but Momonosuke would fall into that kind of end, and it was related to the incident where Lynch killed Doflamingo.

Things are closely related. To sum up, I just like this feeling: no matter how much I want something to happen, if it is not suitable for the protagonist to do it, then I will not force the protagonist to do it himself.

Y: For example, the plot in Windmill Village where Garp takes Shanks and the others to meet Ace. This is of course a plot I intentionally wrote, but on the surface it has nothing to do with Lynch. But if it weren’t for Lynch, Tulip wouldn’t be there.

Will go to Windmill Village alive. If he hadn't been worried about Tulip, Garp would not have returned to his hometown in the East China Sea early, and he would not have met Shanks who had not had time to leave. Now that Garp has met Shanks, the rest of the matter will be a matter of course.

Already...

D: Aren’t you talking about the ship when you pull so many hammers?

Y: Since I don’t like nanny-style protagonists, the first plan to kill them is to follow the boat from the beginning of the story. Follow the boat from the beginning, and write one to two million words. It seems that it is a bit difficult to think about not being a nanny.

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Y: On the other hand, if you follow the ship at the beginning, there will be a problem that is difficult to deal with: Should the BOSS you encounter be fought by Luffy or by the protagonist? If you fight Luffy, what will the protagonist do?

Come? To fight the protagonist. The limelight and experience have been given to the protagonist. Why did Luffy come here? - And if he chooses to follow the ship, it is obviously because he likes the Straw Hats, and in turn wants to fight with the protagonist.

Luffy's BOSS and experience packs rob the limelight and grab the highlight moment, which seems to be putting the cart before the horse again.

D:……

D: So this is the reason why others don’t like to follow the boat and don’t like to write about the boat. Haven’t you noticed? This subject is inherently deformed in online articles!

Y: You can't just give up when you encounter a problem? Think about it again. Then consider another question: When the protagonist wants to get on the ship, what range should his strength be when he gets on the ship? When the protagonist gets on the ship, his strength should be less than or equal to

In the case of Luffy and Zoro, then obviously this is a way of writing that they grow together - but this will lead to the fact that if the protagonist does not grow as fast as Lu Suo, he will look a bit useless, and if his strength is not as good, then obviously the quality of the monsters on the road will also be poor.

It's not as good as Lusuo to give up the highlight moment and BOSS to Luffy. Although I personally don't think it's a problem, I also know that it is definitely not suitable for the reading habits of online books; and if the protagonist grows faster than Lusuo, this will

It's even more nonsense. In this case, what is the meaning of Luso's existence? The characteristics of Luffy and Zoro are in fighting. Characters who lose their characteristics will be boring...

D: You make it sound like Lynch is not as strong as Lu Suo...

Y: When it exceeds too much, it won’t have any impact (laughs). It is based on this view that the current plot line was finally finalized: the first half is the protagonist’s own adventure, and the middle part officially takes the ship after the battle.

, the protagonist only participates in the second half of the new world process.

D: I have lost my memory? How do I remember that I also wrote the first half?

Y: Because I really want to write. I said it in my acceptance speech, how could Meili just give up???

Y: But this also brings up another new problem: since it has been decided that the protagonist will officially board the ship after being promoted, then obviously the protagonist’s strength is already in the first echelon at that time, but we still have to write the first half of the story, so

First, does the protagonist board the ship before the New World Chapter, or in the first half? If it is the latter, the protagonist seems to be the nanny...
To be continued...