Chapter 438: Stealing Fruit, Sounds Boring (Two in One)

In the ruins of the royal palace, the minister of the Rich Country felt relaxed and yet sighed dejectedly as he watched the two big pirates pat their butts and run away.

The people of the royal city attacked the royal palace...

The king was crushed to death by the rubble in the chaos...

The treasury was looted once again, and even half of the palace was reduced to ruins...

The people of the Haiqi Merchants Guild were killed by pirates...

So many things happened that night... The minister looked at the towering golden pillar in front of him. Those two men were obviously pirates, but they treated such amazing treasure as trash.

Do they know how much a giant golden pillar like this is worth?! It is worth more than their heads combined! The bounty for the two of them combined is only over 700 million berries, while the pure gold pillar in front of them is worth at least tens of billions of berries...

This is a number that would drive anyone crazy, but what happened to those two pirates!

How could they just throw such a golden pillar here just because it was said that it "couldn't fit"? "There are actually such pirates in the world..." The minister stared blankly at the horizon, "No, there are actually such people..."

"Giovanna Giorno..."

When the minister heard the sound, he turned around and saw that the black-haired boy who could transform into a leopard and was beaten like a sandbag by Giorno had woken up and was sitting in the rubble.

I'm alive……

Lucci's face was covered in blood, his eyes buried in heavy shadows, "Where are the others?"

I used 100% of my strength and fought with murderous intent...but the other party was so careless...

I tried my best, but that guy was not even willing to match my killing intent!!

Lucci felt the anger and humiliation gushing out from the bottom of his heart.

The minister was stunned and said, "Those two pirates have already left..."

………………

"What did you say? You forgot?"

In front of Lynch, Rose was stunned when she heard his words.

The girl forced a smile and waved her hands. "Haha, stop joking, okay... If even you forget what I looked like before, then I won't be able to restore my appearance, and that will be the end, right? Haha, haha..."

Soon she could no longer laugh, and the expression on her face slowly froze.

Because Giorno was stroking his chin, frowning and thinking hard, it really didn't seem like he was joking! "Rose, even if you say that," Robin comforted, "if he can't remember, then he can't remember."

Rose cried, "Are you trying to comfort me? Thank you!"

"This is actually quite normal," Lin Qi laughed. "How can anyone remember another person's appearance so clearly? It's not uncommon to even feel that your face is becoming more and more unfamiliar when you look in the mirror!"

“Don’t talk about other people’s affairs so lightly!!” Rose collapsed, grabbed Lynch’s clothes and shouted angrily, “This is very important to me! Remember it quickly! Please, remember it…”

As she shouted, she grabbed Lin Qi's clothes and burst into tears in grievance.

"If I stay like this forever... then how can I go back..."

Rose sobbed in front of Lynch, her shoulders shrugged, but when she raised her head with red eyes, she saw Xu Lun looking at her with a smile and said, "You have become more energetic. It seemed that you didn't even dare to speak loudly before..."

"..." Rose trembled all over, holding her mouth and trying to hold back her tears.

At this moment, she heard Giorno above her head saying:

“I really don’t remember, but I also do remember.”

Rose looked up with tears in her eyes.

Lynch snapped his fingers, and "BIB" understood. The entire armor disintegrated instantly. The helmet, visor, shoulder armor, chest armor, arm armor, leg armor... all parts flew out and covered Rose one by one.

Luo was unaware of anything, but heard Giorno say, "Don't resist, let your 'instinct' act for you."

Lynch really couldn't remember the detailed features of Rose's previous appearance!

However, his "BIB" has a photographic memory, and there is no such thing as "forgetting things" at all.

Rose was still sobbing, confused about what Giorno meant by "instinct", but the next second she really felt her body moving "on its own"! The armor function of "BIB" allows the wearer to use its power, but it can also act on behalf of the wearer, which is equivalent to it hosting the wearer's body.

Although "BIB" is now copying the ability of the Gold-Gold Fruit, it has the experience and memory of the original body using the Swallow-Swallow Fruit to devour and transform itself, so it is no stranger to how to use the ability of the Swallow-Swallow Fruit.

After Rose cooperated and relaxed her body, "BIB" easily controlled her body and opened her mouth. The originally delicate mouth of the girl suddenly became huge, with her chin turned upside down on the top of her head, and she swallowed herself bit by bit.

Gance, who was still covered in wounds, was shocked! He had just gone through a series of ups and downs. According to the conversation between the girl who claimed to be Princess Rose and Jolyne Kujo and Giorno, it seemed that this girl might really be Princess Rose! It was just that her appearance had changed temporarily... But just when Gance was a little skeptical, the girl suddenly opened her strange huge mouth and swallowed herself. In the end, only a delicate cherry mouth was left on the ground...

The most bizarre and terrifying thing is that the cherry mouth that fell on the ground is still moving, as if chewing something...

Even with the experience of the guard captain Gans, seeing such a scene, he was horrified and got goose bumps all over his body.

"No, that's impossible," he shook his head repeatedly, "The princess is the user of the Guan-Guan Fruit, she is definitely not like this..."

Gance was denying it again and again, but after chewing for a while, the cherry mouth in front of him opened its mouth again and spit out a figure - without a trace of excess saliva left, the one who reappeared from the cherry mouth was no longer the girl just now, but Princess Rose! Not only her appearance, but also her height... Gance's pupils trembled. If she was disguised as a princess, it would be impossible for her to take into account the growth of the princess' height in the two years since she left home.

The princess before him was not exactly the same as the one in Gance's memory, but that was precisely why it was more convincing.

The princess in his memory was from about two years ago, but the princess in front of him was what she looked like after wandering alone overseas for two years...

"Princess... Rose..." Gance's eyes were filled with tears, and he knelt on one knee with his badly injured body.

Although Rose didn't know what Giorno had done to her, she was so happy to be able to return to her original state that she covered her mouth and cried, "Gance..."

The two of them hugged each other and cried, and didn't mention it anymore.

"If Hai Na really has the power to corrupt people, then she must have deliberately designed to let you, the princess, leave..." Gans cried and gritted his teeth in hatred, "Only in this way can she have the opportunity to make me 'corrupt' and take advantage of the power of my Gun Gun Fruit... God, all these days, I have helped Hai Na and the Haiqi Chamber of Commerce, what have they done...!!"

Rose sobbed and cried, unable to speak.

"Speaking of the Gun-Gun Fruit," Lin Qiqi said, "that one before... that one..."

Robin reminded: "The person named Steele Lauter Heina."

"Steel!" Lynch continued in confusion, "He seems to have used the power of the Gun-Gun Fruit as well. What's going on?"

It is common sense that there can only be one user of the same Devil Fruit ability at the same time.

Of course, "BIB" can copy the original devil fruit ability, so that there are two people with the same ability at the same time. But it is obvious that Lynch's stand is not within the scope of common sense.

Gance wiped his tears with the heel of his palm, exhaled, shook his head and said, "I don't know much about Steele's ability..."

"I saw it before," Rose's face turned pale, recalling the scene she saw with Xu Lun's help, "the apple that Steele was holding rotted quickly..."

Gans was stunned and said, "That might be the apple processed by Hai Yina... just like the 'redemption water' used by the Haiqi Chamber of Commerce... Hai Yina incorporated what she did to me and the princess into the water through the Rotten Fruit..."

Although the effect may be slightly worse, it is the same ability, and it is the power to corrupt people's hearts.

"Rot, the Rot-Rot Fruit, Heina." Robin said at this time, "Guns, the Gun-Gun Fruit, Gans. Beside Steele, there are always other people with abilities corresponding to the abilities he uses. It would be strange to say that there is no connection between them..."

Gans was shocked and frightened when he heard this. He was like a possessed man. He had mixed up with terrible pirates like Hai Na and Steele. What was even more frightening was that he didn't think there was anything wrong with this! He really believed that the Kingdom of Sikaial, which was caught in internal turmoil, would be better off destroyed!

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

Princess Rose, who abandoned her country, had better die in the open sea! It doesn't matter if this boring and rubbish world is completely destroyed...

When Gans recalled his state of mind some time ago, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Cold sweat seeped into the wounds on his body, and a burning pain spread all over his body.

The pain made Gance's mind clearer. He dragged his tired body to get up and said, "We must go back. The king and everyone in the Kingdom of Xikaial are still deceived by Haina..."

"Gance, you're seriously injured." Rose wiped away her tears and said with concern.

"It's not heavy enough!" Gans took two breaths and smiled on his bloodstained face. "In the eyes of Heina and the others, I am still a pitiful pawn who has been deceived and used by them. I can take this opportunity to go back to Xikaial first and deceive their trust..."

Lin Qi pondered and said, "Is it necessary to go through so much trouble? Why not just challenge Hai Yina to a fight and find a place to practice..."

"Heina..." When Gans read this name, his eyes became gloomy and heavy.

That was a few years ago, before the birth of the Seven Warlords of the Sea system, in the era of Pirate King Roger, he had already become famous, and his bounty was once as high as 790 million Baileys! And such a terrifying existence is the enemy that he, the princess, and their country have to face...

Gans shook his head and said in a hoarse voice: "That's not an opponent that can be defeated head-on..."

"Okay, whatever you want." Lynch naturally let the old man be happy.

Gance struggled to stand up, wanting Lynch to hit him a few more times so that he would look more miserable, as if he had escaped from Lynch and the others, and only then would he gain the trust of Heina, Steele and the others.

"I think you look miserable enough." Lin Qi said sincerely, "Of course, if you are so determined, then I don't mind it too much..."

He rubbed his fists. Rose was so scared that she quickly stood between him and Gance, "No!"

………………

They quietly got a small fishing boat. The captain of the escort, Gans, was completely exhausted and covered with wounds, looking particularly miserable.

Rose sent him to the beach, and Gans asked, "I remember that the princess was originally the user of the Guan-Guan Fruit..."

Rose lowered her head and shook it, sighing, "This matter is irrelevant. Besides... Xikaial, what you need more is the Swallow-Swallow Fruit, right?"

"Hey, I didn't say I was going to give it to you." Lynch and Robin were walking behind, and looked up in dissatisfaction, saying, "I can give it to you, since I'm tired of playing with it anyway. But you can't snatch it, understand?"

Robin tilted his head and said, "You stole it too, right?"

"Which side are you from?" Lynch reached out and pulled Robin's cheek.

Giovanna Giorno... Gance looked back at the pair of pirates flirting with each other, and suddenly remembered something. Although he had been blinded in the past year or two, he was not completely insane. He was still living and reading newspapers from time to time... He suddenly remembered some rumors about the pirate Giovanna Giorno. He could take away other people's devil fruits! So that's it... Gance looked at Rose who was looking down. The princess must have known it, but she didn't say it just now...

Are the princess and these two pirates already friends?

Gans jumped onto the small fishing boat and said firmly to the princess on the shore: "Princess, we can definitely...save Xikaial!"

Rose, with tears in her eyes, waved and said, "Yeah!"

Gance, who was covered in scars, glanced at Giorno and Jolyne who were chatting with each other behind the princess, and finally said nothing. He went into the cabin and controlled the fishing boat to sail towards the distant sea.

Robin took off the black mask on his face and whispered, "I looked through the Devil Fruit Encyclopedia again. If Steele really used the abilities of the Rot-Rot Fruit and the Gun-Gun Fruit one after another, then the Devil Fruit he ate is most likely a parahuman-type Devil Fruit called the Thief Fruit..."

"The Stealing Fruit..." Lin Qi stroked his chin, looked at the sea and murmured, "It sounds boring..."

Rose stared at the receding ship and slowly lowered her waving hand.

Robin and Lynch turned around. Because of what happened yesterday, they hadn't had time to buy supplies yet...

"Giorno! Jolyne..."

Rose looked at the shadow of the ship on the horizon, bit her lip and didn't turn around, "Please..."

"Didn't we already promise that?" Robin turned around and said with a smile.

Rose burst into tears and turned around to throw herself into Robin's arms. Robin patted her on the back and said, "Don't forget, I'm the captain. The next island is the Kingdom of Sikaial on Kraigana Island... Do you have any objection, crew member Giorno?"

"As you wish, Captain." Lynch drew his fingers across his forehead, raised his fist and shouted, "Go see the baboons!!"

Robin reminded: "It's to deal with Hai Yina."

Lin Qi raised his fist and waved it casually, "Go fuck Hai Na..."

"You can also take a look at the baboons." Robin smiled.

"Go see the baboons!!" Lynch punched hard.

Rose burst into laughter, and was moved. Suddenly, there was a loud explosion in the distance behind her. Her eyes turned pale and she saw the small fishing boat on the horizon burning...

"Gans?!!!"

(End of this chapter)