Chapter 257: Reducing Age by Twenty Months
Batirila Island, Cemetery.
A bouquet of flowers was quietly placed in front of Portgas D. Luju's grave.
Occasionally, someone would pass by this ordinary tomb, and no one would have thought that the person buried in the tomb was the woman who witnessed the last year of the life of the Pirate King Roger.
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The Nine Snakes' ship has left.
"Take the husband's surname? Is there such a thing?"
When the Amazon Lily women heard Giorno's question, they said they didn't quite understand it.
The two sisters of the Boya family also looked at each other in bewilderment.
Sanda Sonya said, "Do I have to change my name after marrying a man? That's too weird!"
"Even if we have to change, it should be the men who follow us..." Marigrude mused.
In the culture of Amazon Lily, "strength equals beauty", which actually hides a part. The complete statement is "a strong woman is the most beautiful woman". Because there are no men in the Nine Snakes, it gradually became "strength equals beauty". Gradually, the concept of strength, in Marigold's eyes, is naturally related to women.
Since being a woman equals being strong, Mary believes that even if a name needs to be changed, it should be the man who follows the woman... This seems like a problem!
Hancock thought there was nothing wrong with that. However, if it was a man as strong as Giorno, she could barely accept it even if he asked her to change her name!
"Jobanna Hancock"... maybe, perhaps, possibly, it shouldn't sound that bad...
"I was wrong. Why would I ask you such a question..." Lynch held his forehead and turned to look at Robin, who looked like a secretary. "So, Sister Robin?"
Robin smiled slightly and glanced at Bonnie who was silent in the cabin.
She whispered, "Because different islands are relatively isolated, many of their cultural characteristics are also different... Will women take their husband's surname after marriage? Some places do, but some do not. Even some civilizations that have disappeared in the long river of history have a culture where men marry women and change their surnames to follow their wives..."
"If the Nine Snakes allowed men to live on the island, it would probably turn out like that," Robin said to Hancock.
Hancock asked her, "Do you think I should allow men to live on the island in the future?"
She has not officially succeeded the Snake Princess yet, so she does not know many things on the island. But after Xu Lun became the Nine Snake Princess, she seemed to have learned many unknown secrets from the Snake Princess...
Hancock now vaguely understood that there was a reason why their Nine Snakes had a law prohibiting men from entering the country, and Xu Lun might very likely know this reason.
Robin stared into Hancock's extremely beautiful eyes and shook his head: "I'm not a true Amazon Lily. I... don't think I'm qualified to make any suggestions on this point."
"Really? I see." Hancock said to herself. She was very nice to Giorno and Jolyne, and didn't act overbearingly towards other people. "Thank you."
While they were cultivating their friendship here, Lynch was looking at Bonnie, who had been staring at him from time to time since she got on the boat.
Lin Qi smiled and said, "So, Portcas is the relative of the royal family of the Ice Cream Kingdom, which is also the maiden name of your mother, the Queen?"
Bonnie just looked at him without saying a word.
"Also, Lu Jiu and you are..." Lynch calculated the time, but after a while he was too lazy to calculate anymore, so he turned to look at his stand. The latter's eyes flashed with white light, and he said to the original body, "They are about thirty years apart in age." Lynch nodded, looked at Bonnie and asked, "...What's the relationship?"
Bonnie still said nothing.
"Answer his questions." Hancock was chatting with Robin and took the time to come over and help.
When Bonnie followed them aboard again, she had already been shot with a round of Medusa's snake hair venom by Hancock. Upon hearing Hancock's order, she immediately answered Lynch's question obediently, "Lu Jiu is my...niece."
"The kind of legitimate one?" Lynch asked.
"Yeah." Bonnie nodded.
"No wonder... I see," Lin Qi stroked his chin and muttered to himself, "I told you, no matter how strong your willpower is, you can't go against the laws of biology, right? Giving birth after twenty months of pregnancy... Such a miraculous thing, but if your Lingling Fruit helped, then it makes sense!"
No one else was confused, except Bonnie, who suddenly opened her eyes wide and stared at Lynch.
"You--what do you know!?" Bonnie was horrified and instinctively lowered her voice, "No, how is it possible? How do you know?!"
Lin Qi ignored her shock and shook his head, saying, "After all, it's a fetus connected to the mother and child. Repeatedly using your Lingling Fruit to reduce the age of the fetus has caused irreparable damage to the mother, Lu Jiu..." That's why she passed away shortly after giving birth to Ace.
A shadow appeared on Bonnie's face, hiding her sadness.
Back in her room, Robin closed the door and leaned against it. Lynch, who sat on the chair, looked at her puzzledly, "What's wrong?"
"The book of prophecy?" Robin asked with a smile.
Lin Qi spread his hands, "Yes, the prophecy book."
Robin walked over slowly. "Is Portgas D. Luju also in that book?"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"Yeah!" Lynch sighed.
"I am willing to damage my body or even sacrifice myself in order to extend the pregnancy to twenty months before giving birth to the child..." Robin sat down opposite Lynch and raised her hand. Clusters of petals surged from all over the room and condensed into two of her flower clones. One went to get the book, and the other went to prepare fresh flower milk tea.
Robin said softly, "Just now, 'BIB' said that Bonnie and Lu Jiu are about thirty years apart... If Bonnie is seventy years old, then if Lu Jiu is still alive, she would be about forty years old... If we calculate the age suitable for childbearing a little further back... This time point seems to become a little tricky."
"You've learned Mandarin quite well! Did you understand what it said just now?" Lynch said with a smile, "Howl, I'm Robin, I love you,' can you hear it?"
Robin rolled her eyes at him in confusion, took the book and flower milk tea handed to her by the Flower Avatar, picked up the spoon and stirred it in the cup, and continued to analyze: "And if I remember correctly... at that time, there happened to be such a big event that made her so cautious to give birth to a child."
Lynch snapped his fingers, pointed at Robin and praised, "As expected, you are Robin's sister! You guessed it right."
Then he grabbed the flower milk tea that she had stirred until it was warm and gulped it down into his mouth without any hesitation.
Robin didn't care and looked at the sea outside the window. "That means the bloodline of the Pirate King is still in this world?"
"Yeah," Lynch put down the cup, "Compared to him, you're just a pirated devil's son... Hey, why are you hitting me on the head?"
"I don't."
"You think I won't be able to see if you hit me on the back of the head with the Hana-Hana Fruit..."
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The Nine Snakes' ship sailed away, and near the coast, a warship was split into two parts by a super-large storm kick by "BIB". Another warship also came to investigate the condition of the wreckage to see if it needed to be salvaged.
At the S-9 branch base, Major General It received a call from the headquarters and said in shock: "Giorno? That man is the mysterious pirate who stole the devil fruit from Caesar a few years ago - the one whose bounty was 100 million Baileys when he debuted, and later directly increased to 150 million Baileys. Giovanna Giorno?!"
He cursed loudly: "Such important information, what's the point of passing it on now! Do you know how much we lost this time? An entire warship was sunk by one hit!"
The officer of the headquarters on the other side of the Den Den Mushi silently endured the complaints of the major general of the Nankai branch...
In Admiral Sengoku's office, Sengoku drank tea and muttered to himself: "He sank a warship with one blow... He defeated a colonel before, and now he easily defeated a major general from a branch... This Giorno is growing too fast!" He tapped his fingers on the table, then picked up the Den Den Mushi receiver and dialed a number.
The moment the call was connected, Den Den Mushi's face immediately changed into a Gothic and gloomy style.
The second update is a little later...
(End of this chapter)