Chapter 414 Pikachu. Chopper (rounded to approximately three in one)
[“Damn Valpo——!!!”]
[It was as if a roar that had been suppressed for a long time echoed in the sky above the snowy mountains. ]
[The residents of Drum Island endured Walpo's capricious laws, his brutal and immoral behavior... No matter how hard life was in such a snowy country, everyone still regarded him as the king. This was what everyone had always thought, and it was also the belief they relied on for survival. It was better to have a king than not to have one. Only with a king could there be a country, and only with a country could they not be homeless refugees...]
[However, what kind of king is he if he abandons his country and flees overseas in an instant after the pirates attack? ]
【"From today on...he is no longer our king!!"】
[“There is no need for this country to continue to be called the Drum Kingdom! The king is gone, and the doctors that everyone is proud of no longer exist. Can this still be called the Drum Kingdom?”]
[On the way down the mountain, the crowd was very excited. Some people were crying all the way, feeling extremely sad and angry.]
[Dalton had a blank expression on his face, and the raging anger was suppressed in his heart. If Valpo appeared again, he would tear that guy's face into pieces with his own hands.]
[Magnetic drum... no, the residents of this nameless country gradually drifted away in the wind and snow, and suddenly a round hole appeared on the mountain wall, revealing the face of the girl Rose inside, looking at their backs.]
[She didn't care about Valpo or not, what echoed in her mind was... the villagers' discussion about "Giovanna Giorno" and "Kujo Jolyne".]
[The circular hole on the mountain wall is closed...]
[Inside the mountain, the girl stood in a cylindrical hole that went straight up and down, and her hands and feet were stepping on the curved inner wall. The inner wall, which should have been slippery, was touched by her hands and feet, and it sank into a cylindrical hole for her to climb and land.]
[Swoosh——]
[The four round holes that Rose's hands and feet were clinging to quickly moved vertically downward, and she was descending as if she were stepping on an elevator.]
[“The terrible big pirate…”]
[The girl's hateful voice echoed in the vertical round hole.]
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[“That girl is also missing…”]
[Lin Qi and Robin walked in the snowy forest. Robin looked back at the towering Drum Peak where the royal palace and castle were located in the snow.]
[Before, after Lynch led her to leave the peak using the Moon Step, he glanced at her from afar when he returned. In front of the palace castle, only Dalton was left standing alone in the snow. Kuleha and the little girl named Rose were nowhere to be seen.]
[“She seems to hate pirates.” Robin walked beside Lynch. ]
【Lin Qi said: "It would be strange if you don't hate it."】
[“That’s true.” Robin smiled softly, “So, we are really pirates?”]
[“I, Lin Qi, have been labeled a pirate, but… forget it, I’ll forget about it later.” Lin Qi tapped his head. He had forgotten a lot of his memories from his previous life. If BIB hadn’t been there, would he have already regarded those things from his previous life as a dream? He smiled. ]
【Robin also smiled, she raised her eyes and thought for a while, then imitated Lynch's tone and slowly said: "I, Lynch, have been labeled a so-called pirate by others. When I fight, I will hit them hard. Some people are lying in the hospital. After I taught the navy who were not competent and liked to put on airs a lesson, they dared not to cause trouble again. If the food in the restaurant was not worth the price, I dared not pay... But even I can tell what is disgusting behavior! That is to abandon those who need to be protected... Valpo is such a person, right?"】
[“Pa! Pa! Pa…” Lin Qi clapped his hands with a Chow Yun Fat smile, then “Pa!” he snapped his fingers crisply, followed by a “NIIIIIIICE～～!”]
[“As expected of Sister Robin, you easily brought out a joke that I couldn’t remember!” He laughed loudly and put his big hand on Robin’s shoulder. ]
[Robin said: "Valpo escaped. You flew away in front of Dalton using the Moon Steps to make them think that you went to the sea to hunt down Valpo... You were sure that Valpo and the others would come back after they got the news that we had left, right?"]
[Lynch pointed at her and said, "As expected of you, Sister Robin. That's right, a loser like Valpo can't survive without the status of a king. Sooner or later, he will come back here and continue to harm people..."]
【Robin smiled and said: "You are the one who will punish such bad guys, is that right?"】
[Lin Qi put his arm around her and said, "I don't think I'm that kind of hero..."]
[“Isn’t it good to be a hero?” Robin raised his head and touched his slightly stubbled chin. ]
[“Doing heroic things is good, right? Of course it is good.”]
[Lynch grabs Robin's hand and rubs it against the stubble on his chin.]
[“But… if people think of me as a hero, that’s not good. Very bad!]
[“To be a hero is to do good things, to do good things all the time.]
[“I’m going to do something bad!]
[“I want to do good things, so I do good things. I want to do bad things, so I do bad things. What I pursue is a happy thing~~”]
[Robin raised his hand, pinched Lynch's nose, and chuckled: "If you were a pirate, you would probably be the strangest pirate, right?"]
[“I’m not waiting for that guy Valpo to come back…” Lynch led Robin through the snowy mountains and forests, “I just happened to want to stay here for a while. Now that I’ve met an interesting little guy, wouldn’t it be a pity if I don’t catch him and play with him?”]
[“Hmm?” Robin was still wondering which funny little guy he was talking about when he saw a familiar black shadow lingering near a tree in front of him.]
[In the snow, the narrow eyes of the black armor glowed white and looked towards them. Robin waved at it and soon found the tree where "BIB" was floating... A little reindeer was lying in a pile of dry grass beside the snow, and seemed to have fallen asleep.]
[It was the little deer that had eaten the Human-Human Fruit... Robin followed Lynch and walked over.]
[Their footsteps were not deliberately concealed, and they made a "crunching" and "crunching" sound on the snow. When they were about ten meters away, the little reindeer resting in the dry grass immediately opened its eyes alertly and stood up quickly.]
【“Chirp?”】
[The little reindeer noticed two humans approaching him, and seemed to still have unpleasant memories of humans. He immediately panicked and tried to run away.]
[『BIB』 reached out and caught it. 】
[“Chiu! Chiu!” The little reindeer swung its four hooves in the air, panicking and wondering, how did it fly? ]
[Two huge figures came around and blocked its view.]
[“Furry, so cute.” It couldn’t help but look up when it heard the male human say this.]
[Female human said: "You have eaten many animals with similar comments..."]
[“Chiu?!” The little reindeer was so frightened that his eyes turned pale, and the fur on his body stood up. He kicked his hooves even harder, but unfortunately, his fur on the back of his neck was held by an invisible hand, so his hooves could not touch the ground and he had nowhere to escape.]
[The male human’s hand reaches out to it…]
[The little reindeer closed his eyes in fear...]
[The little reindeer trembled in unspeakable fear, and finally could no longer endure this torture, and roared:]
[“Uwaaa!! Don’t eat me!!!——Huh?”]
[The little reindeer was shocked when he fell down in the snow. He covered his mouth and said stupidly, "I can speak again...?"]
[In the snowstorm, the little reindeer that had just landed on all fours disappeared, and was replaced by a burly man covered in fur, sitting in the snow...or rather, a burly snow monster with a blue nose.]
[The blue-nosed snow monster stared blankly at his own hands. They were not deer hooves, but human-like five-fingered palms...]
[“How do you feel?” He was startled when he heard the human male’s voice. He looked up and saw Lin Qi smiling and asking, “How do you feel after you no longer have the Human-Human Fruit?”]
[“Human-Human Fruit?” The blue-nosed snow monster stood up. He was taller than Robin and comparable to Lynch, but his face was filled with a childlike confusion. “What is that…”]
【Lin Qi said: "You haven't figured it out yet? Then try again..."】
[As he spoke, he was about to reach out to grab the blue-nosed snow monster's chest again. He was wearing a left arm armor with a blue flame pattern on it. ]
[“No!” The blue-nosed snow monster screamed, waving his hands instinctively, sweating profusely, “No… Ah! I remember! It was you who did something to me before, and then I…”]
[The blue-nosed snow monster had a confused and frightened expression on his face, which was a bit curious compared to normal humans. He muttered to himself: "The Human-Human Fruit... I remember that I ate something before and became like this... So that's it, the fruit is called the Human-Human Fruit..."]
[Robin said: "The illustrated manual says that the normal form of the Human-Human Fruit will give the user human-like intelligence... I guess it's because of it that you can speak like a human."]
[“…” The blue-nosed snow monster opened his mouth and asked weakly, “Who are you? Aren’t you afraid of me? Don’t you hate me?”]
[Robin asked with a smile: "Are you scary?"]
[On Nine Snake Island and Ruth Kaina Island, she and Lin Qi had seen a lot of beasts and monsters, many of which had been eaten by them... Even if this little guy in front of them was a real snow monster, there was nothing to be afraid of. What's more, it was just a fawn that had eaten the human-human fruit...]
[The blue-nosed snow monster pouted, tears welled up in his eyes, which were not very pretty after being fully humanized, and his voice was childish and crisp: "But... I am obviously a monster..."]
[“How narcissistic!” The human male made a face at him, “With your level, you are worthy of being called a monster?”]
【“…” The blue-nosed snow monster stared at this person blankly. 】
[“You are a deer.” Lynch patted his shoulder and said with a grin, “You are furry and feel so good, if you are not a deer, then what else could you be? Humans who eat animal-type devil fruits are not considered animals. Similarly, you are just a reindeer who happened to eat the Human-Human Fruit, that’s all.”]
[The blue-nosed snow monster's eyes were red, but he didn't say anything.]
[“Don’t just stand there like an idiot,” Lynch stretched out his hand and looked around, “Find out where that old woman Kuleha is… go to her house and ask for some hot soup. I have something good to give her! Oh, I’m such a good person, kind-hearted, generous and magnanimous…”]
[“Is there such a doctrine?” Robin asked.]
[“Today I have…”]
[They walked in front, and the blue-nosed snow monster stopped and looked at their backs for a while, then quickly followed them and walked behind them.]
[Lin Qi suddenly asked in front: "Hey, Deer. You haven't answered me yet. How do you feel after losing the Human-Human Fruit?"]
[“…!?” The blue-nosed snow monster pursed his lips, looked down at his human-like hands, and murmured in a childish voice, “It’s like… I had an endless nightmare…”]
[Robin turned around and stroked the furry neck of the blue-nosed snow monster with a smile, "Don't be afraid, you won't have nightmares again."]
[The blue-nosed snow monster looks at her with tears in his eyes. Robin withdraws his hand.]
[It really feels good... and it's warm...]
………………
[The three of them wandered around in the snowy forest, and soon, with the help of Lynch and BIB's observation Haki, they found Kuleha's lair.]
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
[“Right, right.” Lynch suddenly remembered something, “Hei, you will be the one assembling the Castle Fruit for now.”]
[He returned the arm armor to the Stand. After the assembly of "BIB" was completed, he stretched out his left arm covered with blue flame patterns, took out the Magnetic-Magnetic Fruit chip from the Stand, and then unzipped Robin's backpack and took out the green battery inside...]
[“Bululu?” The little green head who hadn’t woken up yet asked a question. Soon, the Castle Fruit chip left its body, and the things in its body flew all over the sky. ]
[Most of the furniture and decorations in the castle were actually transformed by the ability of the Castle Fruit. There were not many foreign objects belonging to Lynch and Robin, just a pile of clothes and daily necessities, as well as stockpiled food, and a sailboat that was neither too big nor too small...]
[With lightning speed, 『BIB』 sent the Castle Fruit chip into its main body, returned to its main body and flew out instantly, copied the Castle Fruit ability to itself, and took out the Castle Fruit chip from its main body while unleashing the Castle Fruit ability, taking all the scattered items that popped out of the Den Den Mushi castle, including clothes, food, and the small sailboat... into its current ghost castle.]
[The blue-nosed snow monster in the back is looking up in amazement...]
[Robin watched this smooth operation and suddenly asked, "Why did you guess that?"]
【“What?” Lin Qi didn’t react. 】
[A question mark appeared above BIB's head, and it didn't even react to what Robin was talking about.]
[Robin reminded: "I guess Rose is the princess of the country she mentioned was sick..."]
[Princess? A princess in distress? If 『BIB』 had facial features, it would definitely have an expression of "Ah this" at this moment. 】
[Lin Qi said with a grin: "Well, isn't this a common routine? I just hope she doesn't ask me to help her go home and fight the boss or something like that..."]
【『...』The Stand Armor was speechless. 】
[The blue-nosed snow monster was confused the whole time, and had no idea what the two humans were talking about.]
[Soon, the three of them approached the tree hole house in front of them where the witch lived...]
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"Hey, old lady, it's so cold outside, why don't you invite us to your house?"
Outside the tree hole door, Lin Qi raised his hand and greeted with a smile.
"..." Kuleha looked at the three people outside the door, two tall and one short, Giorno, the snow monster? And Jolyne... This time she ignored the rude "old woman" in Lynch's mouth, and asked: "Didn't you find that guy Valpo at sea?"
Lin Qi said indifferently: "That kind of rubbish will come back sooner or later, don't worry about him. Come and take a look at this guy, isn't he interesting?"
He hooked the blue-nosed yeti-like muscular man and walked into the tree hole house with a smile.
After everyone came in, Kuleha closed the door, and the howling sound of wind and snow stopped outside the house.
“…”
In the quiet house, Kuleha looked at the blue-nosed yeti.
Lynch loosened his arms, and the muscular man suddenly disappeared.
Kuleha looked down and saw that the guy who was a big man just now had turned into a small guy with two legs and two antlers on his head...
The little guy became very nervous when she looked at him. He chirped, chirped, and quietly hid behind Robin's legs, leaving most of his body exposed.
"..." Kuleha said, "You dodged it the wrong way, didn't you?"
"......?!" The little guy was so scared that the hair on his body stood up. Chirp, chirp, and then he quietly adjusted his posture and turned his body over to hide behind Robin's legs.
"..." Kuleha said slowly, "I've seen a similar figure from afar... I see, you must be a reindeer that ate a devil fruit? What? I thought there really was a snow monster!"
Lin Qi nodded in agreement: "If the snow monster is so weak and so cute, it would be very disappointing!"
“Woo… woo…”
Robin heard the whimpering sound and looked back down, only to see the little fellow with antlers on his head covering his face, his body trembling slightly.
"Why are you crying?" Robin squatted down and touched the little guy's furry head.
“Because… because…” The little fellow raised his big watery eyes and cried, “You didn’t treat me as a monster… Oh, oh oh oh…”
So cute... Robin thought to himself, but also so pitiful...
Hmm, the crying sound is also very strange...
Lin Qi drank the hot soup and said in confusion: "Didn't I tell you that you are just a reindeer that ate the Human-Human Fruit? You can be called a monster for that?"
"Hey! Boy!" Kuleha was speechless and kicked him, "Who allowed you to eat the soup I cooked without permission!"
"Don't be so stingy, old woman!" Lynch held the hot soup, tasted it spoonful by spoonful, and turned to avoid Kuleha's attack.
"You rude brat! I am a 127-year-old beauty!"
Boom, boom, boom. The two were fighting in the background. Robin heard the little deer in front of him sobbing while wiping tears: "I know... I didn't say that... It wasn't..."
Robin was startled, touched the little guy's head, and said softly: "Don't cry, if you have anything to say, sit down and talk slowly, okay?"
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"Swoosh~~" The little deer held the plate and drank hot soup for the first time in his life, "Wow~ so delicious!"
It had completely lost the sadness and grievance it had when it was telling Lynch, Robin, and Kuleha about its past experiences. With stars in its eyes, it licked the mushroom soup on the plate with its pink tongue.
Three humans and a phantom listened to its story...
"Poor thing abandoned by the deer herd... Really." Kuleha took a sip of wine.
"..." Robin was silent, looking at the little deer licking the plate excitedly, "When it said it was a monster, it didn't mean what it looked like after eating the Human-Human Fruit..."
Lynch propped up his chin and sighed, "I mean my blue nose! My childhood trauma is really tragic..."
He turned his head and looked at Robin next to him.
Robin reached out and pushed his head back...
The little deer quickly finished a plate of delicious mushroom soup, licked his pink tongue, and rubbed his furry belly with aftertaste, "I've never eaten food like this before..."
"Hey!" It heard the human male suddenly say, "I can't keep calling you 'Hey' or 'Deer'. There are too many people who can be called 'Hey' and 'Deer'..."
"Huh?" The little guy looked confused and didn't react.
Robin smiled and said, "He said that you should be given a name."
Kuleha held the bottle of wine, thought for a moment, and suggested: "Let's call him Tonito..."
"Let's call him Pikachu! How about that?" Lynch clapped his hands and smiled with self-satisfaction, "Pikachu. Chopper, sounds good, right?"
"Pikachu... Chopper..."
The little guy raised his head, his big eyes fluttering and sparkling.
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"Hehe... Pikachu, Chopper... Pikachu, Chopper..."
The little guy was very excited. He covered his mouth and giggled non-stop. He walked around the tree house with a chirping sound. Kuleha drank and looked at Lynch, wondering, "You said you had something to show me?"
(End of this chapter)