I will suggest that Kuma, the person, is not truly dead. Vegapunk downloaded his whole mind in storage and can resurrect him. The original plan was to go behind the WG and allow him to vanish into obscurity at some future time. Now he has the option of passing as an advanced model pacifist

The world is super different, not even time skip yet. Luffy accidently created a 10-year-old on a revenge path with Bonnie! All of Kuma's friends are going to hate the Strawhats. Alabasta being a Strawhat territory is going to be rough for them. Not protected by bizarre weather like new world islands. Enemies can attack it without much difficulty, especially people who hate the crew. It will be interesting where the story goes now. Excited to see Big News Morgans coming to collect on interviews by crew deal back in Sabody. Hope Perona stays her dynamics, with the crew already great calling Luffy captain. If not, let her and Zoro have a sweet goodbye moment. Zoro's is usually just the strong first mate who trains, naps, and drinks. However, Nami pointed out he and Perona actually hang out together, a miracle considering his lone wolf personality! Perona is probably the first girl he's felt so comfortable with since Kuina. That might complicate Zoro's mind, but he can get advice from Luffy. Shouldn't worry though, Perona floats no need to use stairs!

Fantastic aproach and History, Thank you very mutch

Awesome!

Awesome job on this incredible story!

love this story so far please keep up the great work and i hope to read more of this story soon please keep on writing more chapters to this story i would love to read what happens next and i wish you a happy new year!

An amusing thought if sanji's sister eventually joined the harem his reaction could fun to spin into the story,

What are the Newkamas doing now? Can't remember if they stayed at the prison, do they take control now that it is empty? Join Kamabakka Kingdom and/or revolutionary army?

Well this certainly sets up a lot of interesting bits of news that could occur. With that ending though and Luffy revealing what really went down in the war to the "ninja gull". That will definitely catch a lot of attention with Big News. Considering how the story the World Government put forward severely under plays what Luffy pulled off. Granted Big News may not publish the entire story of all involved to the full public but wouldn't put it past him to run a "special edition" that's less edited to certain parties. Would have some interest in what Kaido thinks of what really went down. Luffy being a younger stronger beast severely injuring and beating powerful fighters at the moment. As well as Whitebeard not having been taken out by hyenas as said but by accomplishing something nobody else had done killing a Gorosei. Would at least have him regard it as a much more worthy death than what the World Government tries to claim. If not taken out by a younger beast should at least go out accomplishing something impressive.

The bit with Bonney will probably be interesting to see what becomes of it whether reconcile with Luffy or not is the question.

On the matter of Shanks with THAT devil fruit that will be somewhat interesting to see how it plays out from there though his affinity for it would be questionable.

Speaking of Devil Fruits with all those deaths during the battle there would be quite a few that would be let loose on the world. I would wonder how many the World Government manage to recover however there's the question of how many could have fallen into possession of the Whitebeard Crew or the Straw Hats as well. After all you could actually assume that both other parties potentially had fruits and such on their own ships that could have been transformed. It may or may not take a few days after that for such to potentially be discovered though. Nevermind any that may make an appearance from some other island instead of merely a nearby fruit.

Honestly the scariest thing involving Luffy for the moment is it's somewhat implied as only one now that could potentially wield two devil fruits merely because the water weakness changes him into "Ranko". Who has no access to the lightning devil fruits powers but doesn't have the weakness either so can be used to escape from drowning or Seastone. Outside of being a counter to the weaknesses of having a Devil Fruit once the cover is blown that forms a bit of a liability at the moment. Without access to the lightning it's also a hindrance to Kenbunshoku Haki as well in some ways. Overall it means potentially the Ranko form would have to get its own Devil Fruit or develop something that's almost exclusive to that form. Otherwise it would become a liability in combat if not able to take advantage of either water or Seastone. Only other potential option would imply that form developing a specialized version of one of the Haki that's unusable by the Luffy form. We've seen lately that there's some sub-types of Haki that seem to be exclusive to individuals. Or at least specialties in Haki that makes some users more unique than others. Either way you go Luffy will definitely see that the Ranko form needs to be able to step it up or the two advantages it does give him wouldn't be worth the trade-off. Especially if the mechanism to trigger the shift were to become known. One splash of water and the logia threat is gone leaving only a standard non Devil Fruit fighter.

It'll be interesting to see where you go from here. Especially since this is the point where in canon we jump ahead 2 years.

Thanks for the great chapter

Great chapter, I can't wait to see more.

Good chapter, but a nitpick:

"As Rika's mother hurried to obey and Luffy cocked his head thoughtfully to one side his fingers beginning to twitch, Helmeppo turned to Rika, his sneer becoming even larger as he looked between her and her mother. "Oh, and since I'm bored, I've decided to execute Zoro tomorrow. Look forward to it!" With that he laughed loudly, throwing is head back as if he had just told the funniest"

This sentence is incomplete.

Otherwise, glad to see Luffy, including Ranko, be competent.

Dang, Shanks JB is insane. Nice chap

Great chapter I liked how everything went on this story wish to read more I absolutely loved how it went