Chapter 426: Gun-Gun Fruit (Two in One)
From a distance, this is an island with beautiful mountains and clear water.
Even under the morning sun, the outline of the island seemed to be bordered with a layer of golden brilliance.
The small sailboat painted with butterfly and ladybug skull patterns slowly sailed towards the shore... However, this place was obviously not the coast, there was nowhere to dock, and there might be a risk of running aground or stranding. When the small sailboat was more than 50 meters away from the shore, it suddenly rolled up the canvas and slowed down.
Then, the bottom of the ship suddenly broke away from the sea surface with a loud noise, and the entire hull became suspended.
The small sailboat seemed to be lifted by an invisible hand, skimming over the waves on the sea, drawing an arc in the air, and flying straight to the shore.
After reaching the shore, the boat also floated in the air, more than two meters above the ground.
Three people walked out of the cabin. Lynch and Robin jumped down calmly. They looked back and saw a certain Princess Rose clinging to the railing of the ship, staring blankly at the floating ship.
Lynch ignored her and knocked the "storage bag" in his hand against the wooden board of the ship.
With a whoosh, the entire small sailboat suddenly shrank and flew into the body of the Den Den Mushi.
Rose let out a soft cry and fell from a height of more than two meters, but did not fall down.
Her feet were suspended off the ground, and the back of her neck seemed to be... being held up by something.
It's a ghost... Rose thought so, and then the force on the back of her neck loosened, and she stood firmly on the ground.
After letting go, "BIB" glanced at the stunned Rose, then turned around and followed his real body and Robin to the island.
Lynch held the recording pointer in his hand, and the pointer trembled slightly as it pointed to the island under his feet. It was storing the magnetic force of this island, and would only point to the next island when it was full.
Robin observed the landscape features of the island along the way, and soon compared the natural environment with the names of islands he had collected along the magnetic route they were on, and found out which island they were currently on.
"It's the Kingdom of Harahetania." After Robin put Little Green into his shoulder bag, he took out a booklet, flipped through a few pages and read, "It's an island rich in precious minerals such as gold and silver, so this island is also known as the 'Island of Real Gold and Silver', and the Kingdom of Harahetania is also called the 'Rich Country'..."
"The Island of Real Gold and Silver," Lin Qi touched his chin, "What an arrogant name..."
The two of them walked in front towards the inhabited town on the island, followed closely by the dark shadow armor.
And "BIB" turned around and saw the girl Rose who was following him and the others silently.
Rose naturally couldn't feel the sight of the stand-in armor, and her mind flashed back to what happened that night...
[“The only female Shichibukai?”]
[After hearing what Rose and Robin said, Lynch was a little confused at first, but after thinking about it, he quickly came to his senses.]
[Hancock is not a Shichibukai at this moment...]
[Besides, I just played with Hawkeye a while ago, and I know that guy is not a Shichibukai now. ]
[Also, Kuma should still be with Dragon to connect with his revolutionary comrades. I wonder if he has received an invitation from the World Government's Shichibukai...]
[In this case, an obvious conclusion is that the current Shichibukai either have vacancies and are less than seven, or, except for Crocodile and Gekko Moriah, the other five are great pirates of this era that Lynch is not aware of...]
[However, Lin Qi usually doesn't pay much attention to newspapers, and has no interest in the current political news in this world. ]
[Robin is different from him. On every island he arrives at, he will quietly set up his ears and eyes in the dark. This is to serve as a warning and to collect some random intelligence. In addition, whenever he has the chance to meet a news bird, he will buy the latest newspaper. If he hasn't bought one for a long time, he will buy a lot of old newspapers and read them all at once after landing on a new island.]
[Even so, Robin doesn't know much about the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Lauto Heina.]
[“She became a Shichibukai almost eight years ago.” Robin recalled.]
[“Eight years ago?” Lynch calculated, “Isn’t that the year Roger was executed?”]
【Robin nodded and said, "The Pirate King's last words opened the curtain of the Great Pirate Era. Pirates several times more than before swarmed into the Grand Line. The Navy was overwhelmed for a while. Soon, Admiral Sengoku proposed the 'Seven Warlords of the Sea' system with legal rights to plunder in order to curb the almost crazy rampage on the sea at that time... and Laut Heina was one of the seven great pirates at that time."】
[“After becoming a Shichibukai, the bounty will be revoked.” Robin added, “Before the revocation, the total bounty on Laut Heina is…”]
[Lose sighed: "Seven hundred and ninety million Baileys..."]
[“Wow!” Lynch said exaggeratedly, “Seven hundred and ninety million? How scary…”]
[He touched his chin and said, "Good fellow, one person is equivalent to ten 'Devil's Sons'."]
【“…” Robin wanted to hold his forehead with his hand, or poke this guy with his finger. He did it on purpose.】
[However, with Rose present, Robin tensed. ]
[Lose didn't react at all, and didn't even remember what the "Devil's Child" was. For most people in the world, the "Devil's Child" Nico Robin, who had a bounty of 79 million Baileys, was just a topic of conversation after dinner. In the West Sea, people might pay more attention to her. If they caught the girl worth tens of millions of gold, they could report her and claim the reward. But for people in other seas, it seemed too far away.]
[A carefree princess like Rose a few years ago actually didn’t know what the “devil’s son” was. ]
[She only knew that 790 million Baileys... this was a despairing number.]
[The bounty in the One Piece world is not completely equivalent to an individual's strength, but similarly, the bounty number is not completely independent of the pirate's individual combat strength. ]
[The bounty, in most cases, is a very effective standard for measuring a pirate's strength, and it is also the most intuitive number. ]
[And a reward of 790 million, what does that mean? ]
[List the bounties of several famous people to give you a feel for it. ]
[“Two years later”, the Straw Hat Pirates swordsman Zoro, 320 million. ]
[Before being promoted to the "Fifth Emperor" by Morgause, Straw Hat Boy Luffy, 500 million. 】
[Ace, captain of the second division of the Whitebeard Pirates, 550 million.]
[Charlotte Snaggle, the biological son of the Sea Emperor and one of the four dessert generals, only has 600 million berries.]
[Katakuri, who is regarded as the "Vice-President", and Jack, one of the Three Calamities, have bounties of just over 1 billion.]
[And seven years ago, the bounty for Laut Heina was as high as 790 million berries...]
[Look at how heavy the shadow on Rose's face is at this moment, and you will know how terrifying the other party is. ]
[However, Lin Qi felt that unlike Lao Sha and Ming Ge, who were invited to join the Shichibukai as soon as they emerged, and whose old bounties did not match their actual strengths, Hai Na, as one of the first Shichibukai, her original bounty might be quite consistent with her actual weight class.]
[“The Rot-Rot Fruit…” Robin recalled carefully and shook her head, “I haven’t heard of anything related to her Devil Fruit… Maybe she rarely showed her Devil Fruit ability before, or maybe she got the Rot-Rot Fruit after becoming a Shichibukai.”]
[Lin Qi groaned and nodded: "Hmm!"]
[Lynch and Robin both looked at Rose who was sitting on the carpet, but the girl lowered her head and remained silent, ignoring their gazes and did not react for a long time...]
If I ask for their help to defeat Laut Heina...
On the "Island of Real Gold and Silver", Rose looked at the two men's backs with sadness in her eyes. She thought dejectedly, what good would it do to ask them for help?
Heina is not Crocodile. Heina's bounty once far exceeded that of Crocodile, who is also one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea...
Giorno could chase sand crocodiles all over the sky, but Heina? The bounty of that female pirate seven years ago was more than the combined bounties of Giorno and Jolyne today.
Besides...
Rose clenched her fists, her guilt growing wildly. She thought painfully: I actually wanted to send two people who were very good to me to their deaths...
I am such a pathetic and hateful person...
I really want to just disappear so that I won’t feel any more pain.
"Ah, we're in town now."
Giorno's voice interrupted the gloomy expression on Rose's face. She seemed to wake up and looked up to see a town in front of her that looked prosperous but a little dilapidated upon closer inspection.
The residents on the street are wearing local costumes.
Many people's clothing styles were exaggerated, with exquisite patterns. Some people's clothes seemed to be designed by famous designers, and they were very expensive. But Robin soon noticed that most people's flashy clothes looked old, and a few people's clothes were even patched...
"A rich country on an island of real gold and silver..."
Lynch glanced at the residents coming and going on the street, "That's it?"
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
He is over two meters tall, so physically speaking, the sound his voice produces cannot be small.
Many passers-by heard it. Some glared at him and muttered to each other; some looked at him indignantly, then looked up again and quickly lowered their heads, pretending nothing had happened and hurried past.
Some people even looked at him and the tall woman next to him with a look of doubt and wonder, thinking they had seen this combination before...
"BIB" floated up from the side, and the mask disintegrated, covering the face of the main body.
Through the narrow, dimly glowing eyes of the visor, Lynch saw his past memories called up by the stand-in.
The comic page flashed by quickly, and finally stopped at chapter 524. The island that Skeleton Brook arrived at after being slapped away by the big bear...
The "poor country" on the "broken copper and iron island" is also called the Kingdom of Harahitania.
In the comics, this island is basically a dilapidated deserted island. The houses of the residents on the island are shabby, and there is no intact house. There are ruins everywhere. I am afraid that even the pirates are too lazy to care about this island. Only the neighbors of Jianshan Island, the Long Hands Clan, who are isolated from the news and even normal humans regard them as rare and exotic animals, will come to visit from time to time as robbers...
"Handsome man, beautiful lady, do you want some clothes?" Suddenly, someone on the side of the road came over holding some beautiful clothes and showed them to Lynch and Robin. "These are all works by top designers from the Sabaody Archipelago. They'll only cost you 30 million Baileys. How about that? You can take them for 30 million Baileys!"
Robin reached out and touched it, and it seemed to be the real thing.
"Thirty million," Lin Qi commented, "These two sets of clothes can buy a basket of pirate heads in the East China Sea."
Thirty million Baileys was exactly the amount of the bounty offered for Luffy when he defeated Arlong. However, it was only worth two pieces of clothing in the hands of this ordinary resident of the "Rich Country".
This men's suit is very nice. Robin really wants to buy it for Lynch...
But before she could say anything, someone on the other side jumped out and cursed, "Bah! Thirty million is too expensive!"
The people in front of Lin Qi and the others immediately became unhappy and yelled back, “Why is it expensive? I spent 80 million Baileys to buy it three years ago as a collection and never wore it. Now I sell it for 30 million and you think it’s expensive?!”
"That makes sense." Lynch nodded, "But, 80 million Baileys?"
As if they were in sync with each other, his eyes met with Robin's who was looking up. It seemed as if the two of them could communicate with each other through their gazes and understood each other's eyes.
——"The son of the devil, it turns out he's only worth two sets of clothes. The navy is really stingy."
——“…”
The man who jumped out also took out two sets of clothes that were obviously well-preserved from the patched bag, one set for women and one for men. He had good taste. The women's clothes were a black leather lace dress with a slightly Gothic style, and the other was a white casual suit that suited Lynch's figure very well. The two sets of clothes complemented each other.
Robin's expression twitched slightly. If the price wasn't too outrageous...
"Eight million Baileys!" The man held up two fingers and said decisively, "I bought these two sets of clothes for 100 million Baileys in the Chabaoti Archipelago five years ago. Eight million Baileys, take them!"
Lynch looked down and saw that this man was wearing even more tattered clothes than the previous one.
I guess I’m poorer now and need money more.
Soon, many hidden clothing dealers on the street saw the opportunity and rushed over.
"Me! Look at my clothes! Isn't eight million a rip-off?"
"I have three sets of clothes. You two can take the seven million!"
"I'm not bragging, I bought this suit for 50 million Baileys. If I wasn't in urgent need of money and had to pay the Heavenly Gold, I wouldn't be willing to sell it to you two. So, the price is 5 million."
“…”
When Lynch and his friends walked out of the crowd and entered a restaurant with a cracked signboard, Robin already had several bags of clothes in his hands.
Rose seemed a little silent. She turned around to look at the crowd that had just rushed in and were trying like crazy to sell Giorno and Jolyne. They dispersed in a hurry, showing the desolation after the prosperity.
In the distance on the street, soldiers passed by. Several people who had just been selling things to Giorno and Jolyne burst into tears in front of the soldiers. Rose vaguely heard words like "gold from the sky", "chess from the sea", and "loan".
The princess sat down in the restaurant with Lin Qi and Robin with mixed feelings. When the latter were ordering, she suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the neighboring table behind her: "How sad..."
Gance?! Rose's eyes turned pale and she secretly turned her head to look. The person sitting at the table behind her with his back to her was clearly her father's captain of the guard, Gance.
How could he be here! ? "The Rich Country will probably have to change its name soon..." Gance said with his back to her.
The man at the same table with him took a sip of wine, looked out the window and smiled: "Are you sympathizing with them?"
"No," Gance turned his head and looked out the window, "I'm just enjoying the beautiful view."
Bang! Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and one of the soldiers who was arguing with the residents outside the restaurant window fell to the ground with blood spurting from his forehead.
"Someone fired a gun!"
"Ah! Murder!"
The street outside the window immediately became chaotic, soldiers and residents confronted each other, and the crowd was in turmoil.
The same was true in the restaurant. Many people seemed to hear gunshots nearby, but they did not see anyone holding a gun, nor could they see any traces of gun smoke.
Lynch had no reaction and just ate the food on the table.
"..." Robin heard the noise and turned her head to observe. Several people sitting next to her left the restaurant in chaos. Suddenly, she saw Rose with her head down, and her shoulders seemed to be trembling slightly.
Rose's eyes were filled with disbelief and fear. When Gance and the others passed by her from behind, she clearly heard Gance's tone, which was completely different from his usual gentle tone. He chuckled and said, "This will be more interesting..."
Gance, it was Gance who fired the shot!
Rose was terrified. Why did he do this? Why was he here? What happened to him? The captain of the guard, Gans, was the user of the Gun Gun Fruit! I didn't finish writing in the early morning, and my brain was blocked until noon, so I just took a nap.
I woke up at night and continued writing, but it was past midnight...
On that day, the second leave application disappeared when I didn't want to use it.
(End of this chapter)