Chapter 443 The Four Horsemen (Two in One)
"Captain! I always feel that... huff... that woman Stussy! huff... there is something wrong with her..."
"Call me Heina."
"Hina... Woo!————Hoo, hoo..."
In the palace highlands, in the mansion given to the Duke, a strange atmosphere filled the air in the room. Behind the heavy curtains, there were several figures entwined and swaying...
After an indescribable long time, a two-meter-tall woman with long red curly hair pushed aside the curtain and walked out barefoot. She broke the mouth of a bottle of wine with a snap of her fingers, tilted her head back and took a few gulps. The red wine flowed down the corners of her lips and slid across her sweaty slender neck.
Several girls were still sleeping exhausted on the beds inside the tent. Lasha, who had a scar diagonally on her face, put on a nightgown and walked out of the tent with wet hair.
She sat down, feeling dry in the mouth, and took the bottle from Haena and drank the whole thing.
“You just said,” Heina smiled, crossing her legs, “what happened to Stussy?”
"I said she, huh—" Lasha wiped her mouth and slammed the bottle on the table, "She doesn't look like a good person!"
Hai Yina said indifferently: "She is the queen of Happy Street, of course she is not a good person."
"I always feel like she's observing something furtively..." Lasha said gloomily, crushing the bottle with one hand. "I really can't help but want to crush her head... Wait until her eyeballs pop out, and see if she can still stare at the captain with lustful eyes..."
"So you're jealous!" Hai Na reached out and rubbed it, then stood up and laughed, "It's been a while since we practiced boxing together, right? Come, let me see if your strength has declined!"
Lasha dodged, raised her long legs and kicked, and shouted in a rough voice: "It's Gabord you should worry about. I wonder if her sword is blunt?"
Hai Na raised her palm and slapped over, with a layer of Armament Haki wrapped around the edge of her palm. She laughed and said, "There are plenty of people over there for them to chop down. They will only become stronger!"
A layer of black also appeared on Lasha's bare feet, and they collided with Haina's palm, creating an astonishing momentum. The tables and chairs next to them cracked with a "crack" and were blown away, scaring the sleeping girls on the bed. They thought that the people who were fighting had broken in.
"Calculating the time..." Hai Yina pinched her bare feet and said to herself, "They should be back from the new world by now."
"captain……"
"Call me Heina."
Hai Na held Lasha's feet and ankles in her hands and rubbed them back and forth. Her long straight legs standing on one foot soon began to tremble. She said shyly, "Hai Na..."
Hai Yina pulled her over and said with a smile: "It's still early!"
…
Stussy stirred the coffee gently with a spoon and listened to the sound coming from the Den Den Mushi on the table next to him.
"...Yes, the other three of the Four Knights of the Crimson Pirates, Gabord, Kamui, and Koyatel, left the New World one after another ten days ago," Den Den Mushi simulated the serious expression of the other party on the communication and said slowly, "Now they have all left Marijoa and boarded the same ship. Their destination should be Kraikana Island... They will arrive soon!"
"What about the information about them in the New World?" Stussy stirred his coffee.
"Most of the time, they just act like normal pirates, but because they have the flag of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, they are more unscrupulous." Den Den Mushi reported, "However, the intelligence personnel suspect that they have had some contact with the 'Loan Shark King' and other kings of the underworld..."
Stussy propped up his chin, looked at the distant view of the palace on the high ground, and said softly: "It seems that Hai Na has already made plans..."
After I hung up the Den Den Mushi, not long after, another Den Den Mushi started to make a "boom boop" sound.
The moment the Den Den Mushi was connected, his facial features changed into those of Rob Lucci.
After listening to Lu Qi's report, Stussy said calmly: "I understand."
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〖An island of real gold and silver, a rich country, a port town——〗
Lynch came here alone, and relying on his perception of the substitute, he quickly found the location of Robin's real body and Rose.
After treatment by doctors and nurses, Gance was no longer in danger of death. He was wrapped in three layers of bandages inside and outside, like a mummy.
"What? You still want to take him out to sea?" The doctor's white coat was also patched. After hearing Rose's words, he immediately shook his hands hurriedly, "No, no! With such injuries, it's a miracle that he can survive. What he needs most now is quiet recuperation..."
The mummy Gance then barely opened his eyes a little and raised his hand to grab Rose's sleeve.
"Don't move anymore, you will really die!" the doctor said anxiously.
The bandage wrapped around Gance's mummy's arm was immediately stained with red blood. Tears welled up in the corners of his eyes, and he said hoarsely, "I'm sorry..."
Rose held back her tears, held Gance's red bandaged hand, and smiled, "Gance, you should have a good rest first... When you wake up again, you will definitely see... the peaceful Sikaial as before."
Robin patted Rose's shoulder and handed Little Green to her.
Lynch and "BIB" stood outside the door, muttering something.
He hadn't taken it back yet, so if he wanted to let BIB know what had happened before, he had to tell it with his mouth.
BIB was quite surprised that the Stealing Fruit could actually steal the power of the Stand.
As a stand, it can take away the power of other people's devil fruits, and now it also has a devil fruit ability that can steal the power of the stand...
"I wonder if Vegapunk can figure out the principle of the Stand," Lynch pondered. "It would be amazing if he could reversely make the 'arrow'... Well, the 'arrow' is not important. What's important is the special virus contained in the 'arrow' that can awaken the Stand. Since Vegapunk can artificially create Devil Fruits, he may be able to cultivate an artificial Stand virus..."
"BIB" said: "Devil Fruits are made so that you won't die if you eat one. The Stand Virus will kill an unqualified person if they come into contact with it... Even if Vegapunk has the ability, he may not be willing to cultivate this virus..."
"That's true," Lynch agreed. "Unlike Judge and Caesar, he is still a scientist with a basic moral bottom line."
When Lynch and Robin first entered the Grand Line, their first stop was Vegapunk's hometown, the "Future Country" Balkimoia, where there was a huge magnetic device that Vegapunk used to transform the entire Winter Island into the warm Spring Island.
In the comics, Kuma, who voluntarily accepted the human body transformation of the World Government, also received help from Dr. Vegapunk, leaving the last program in his system, guarding the Straw Hat Pirates' ship, the Sunny, until the last moment...
From this, we can see that Vegapunk was able to think like a real Hokage at a very young age...
Lin Qi shook his head and asked, "You are still the Golden-Golden Fruit, right?"
"BIB" nodded.
Yesterday evening, after Lynch, Bruno and the other two returned from playing, they retrieved their Stands and cleared the Devil Fruit in their bodies, and asked "BIB" to copy the Gold-Gold Fruit to search for the gold veins buried deep under the island... It is for this reason that Lynch currently does not have any Devil Fruit abilities. Otherwise, Steele's ability to steal the Stealing Fruit would probably only steal Lynch's Devil Fruit abilities, rather than stealing the Stand's energy after there is nothing left to steal.
"Then you pay the bill." Lynch patted the stand-in's shoulder.
"BIB" was speechless, but his mind moved. At the same time, in the ruins on the high ground of the palace, from the top of the golden pillar surrounded by countless people, strands of gold flew away like water, flying towards the town in the direction of the port...
Lynch took some more gold, paid the doctor's bill, and took Robin and Rose for a walk around the town.
Robin and Lynch walked through several towns before they bought enough supplies, mainly food such as rice, as well as various condiments, fruits and drinks.
"Pay the bill." Lynch snapped his fingers. 『BIB』 also snapped his fingers in a way that ordinary people couldn't hear, and a stream of golden thread flew over from the palace...
As for meat and the like, as long as they are drifting on the sea, no matter how strong Lynch or Robin are, there will be no shortage of sources of food.
"It's so poor here that people don't dare to buy freely." Lin Qi complained while sitting in the dilapidated restaurant, "If I buy too much food, it will be my fault if people starve to death..."
Robin just smiled when he heard this while drinking his hot water.
Rose ate her meal, and from time to time stole a glance at Giorno. This was the feeling, Giorno and Jolyne, they were clearly pirates...but she always unconsciously overlooked this point.
Neither Giorno nor Jolyne has ever denied their identity as pirates, but their usual behavior is nothing like any pirate Rose has ever seen.
Even the Shichibukai Haiina and her subordinates, although they have been officially recognized as legal, still have many pirate habits. It would be impossible for someone like Giorno to consider the daily lives of the local people and not focus on the grain stores in the same town to buy a lot. They were already merciful if they didn't kill all the people in the grain stores and just robbed the grain...
"Crunch, crunch..." Rose was thinking as she ate her meal, when she suddenly realized something was wrong. Why was she chewing so loudly?!
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
She looked down and found that there were some metal devices in her bowl without her noticing. They were the communication devices of the Den Den Mushi!
Lynch was casually disabling the devices of two Den Den Mushi and throwing them into Rose's bowl.
"What a shameful waste." Lynch said seriously and released the two Den Den Mushi.
"..." Rose was silent, and ate the communication device bite by bite with a "crunch" and "crunch".
She was soon overwhelmed with emotion. Although she didn't want to admit it, she inexplicably felt that it was quite delicious...
"Grilla... I... want to buy something too... Grilla..."
"Then buy it!" Lynch snapped his fingers. 『BIB』 silently used the power of the Gold-Gold Fruit to control the golden pillar that was still under its control, and separated some gold from the top and flew far away...
『BIB』 put himself in other people’s shoes, so he suspected that until he was recovered by the main body and the power of the Gold-Gold Fruit was released, all their expenses would be borne by the golden pillar...
Rose thought that her strength was lacking. Whether it was the Swallow-Swallow Fruit or the Pipe-Pipe Fruit, with her own combat skills, it was hard to say how much power she could exert. So she went to buy some guns and ammunition.
Although this place is still a legal member of the World Government, in such an era of great pirates, the business of guns, ammunition, swords and other weapons cannot be eliminated.
Coupled with the chaotic situation in the country in recent years, Rose easily bought a suitable flintlock and several boxes of ammunition in a store on the corner.
Although it is a flintlock rifle, it is a flintlock rifle that can fire continuously.
“Bang!” “Bang!”…
Robin bought some books and put them into Little Green's castle. When he left the town, he saw Rose testing a gun in the woods outside the city.
Lin Qi sat on the tree and ate fruit. "I'm afraid this kind of gun can't deal with pirates under the Seven Warlords of the Sea."
Smoke was coming out of the muzzle of the gun. Rose pursed her lips and said helplessly: "I know... but at least it can give me the courage to face those pirates."
“Really?”
Lin Qi slid down from the treetop, laughed and said, "Let's go."
He was about to throw away the half-eaten fruit, but Robin intercepted him and said, "It's shameful to waste it."
Robin opened his mouth and pretended to eat...
While Lynch was staring at it, he suddenly reached out and stuffed the half-eaten fruit into Lynch's mouth, then slapped Lynch's chin upwards to close it.
Lynch almost choked! Robin couldn't help laughing, and Rose also smiled.
In this way, they came to the shore. Lynch reached into Little Green's mouth, took out a small sailboat and threw it into the sea. The three of them jumped onto the deck one after another.
"BIB" raised his foot and pushed hard on the boat! Whoosh! The small sailboat cut through the waves and headed towards the distant sea like a sharp arrow.
The island of real gold and silver was far behind, and the black armor followed the small sailboat closely. In the sky behind it, wisps of golden threads floated slowly...
In the ruins of the palace, a huge golden pillar was tied up with bundles of ropes. Some people climbed up and down to move it away. Suddenly, the minister rubbed his eyes and muttered, "Why do I feel that this pillar is a little short..."
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"Laut Heina is the...Grand Duchess of the Kingdom of Sikaial?"
In the small sailboat with the JOJO skull flag printed on it, "BIB" was at the helm as usual. On the table was Rose's permanent pointer to Kraikana Island and Little Green who was always dozing off.
In the castle inside Xiaolu's body, Lynch was a little surprised after hearing what Rose said.
Rose lowered her head, her lips bitter.
At the beginning, a strange disease spread in the Kingdom of Sikaial, and people all over the country were in a panic. It was the appearance of Haiina that stopped the ravages of the disease and quickly brought it under control. It was also because of this that her father later made an exception and granted Haiina the title of Duke...
A pirate became a high and mighty noble, but the people of the Kingdom of Sikaial had no objection and even felt that this was enough to repay his kindness.
Robin said: "The Seven Warlords of the Sea is a legal identity recognized by the World Government, and the noble titles granted by the kings of the member countries of the World Government are also automatically recognized by the World Government."
"That's right." Lynch nodded.
He was just a little surprised. In fact, there is someone even more outrageous in the comics, and that is Doflamingo.
How could a pirate known to everyone become the ruler of a country? And he was still legal.
In comparison, Haiina is only a duke, and cannot be as arrogant as Mingge who is the king.
Speaking of the Shichibukai Haiina, Robin talked about some information she knew.
"After she was awarded the title of Shichibukai many years ago, most of the members of Haina's Crimson Pirates faded out of most people's sight..."
Robin recalled the contents of some books he had read before. "It was a small pirate group, and a considerable part of it was made up of women... The most famous members were the four female pirates under Heina, known as the Four Knights. It is said that the once famous 'Silver Axe Pirates' were destroyed by Heina's Four Knights..."
Robin rubbed his chin and said slowly: "Some people also say that if it weren't for the times, if they weren't willing to be under Haiina, otherwise each of the Four Knights... would have strength that is not weaker than the later Seven Warlords of the Sea, such as Crocodile."
According to the idea of the book, if Heina was not defeated by Lynch (this is not a spoiler, right??), then after she completely destroyed the Kingdom of Sikaial, she was removed from the title of Shichibukai and went to the New World to become a Four Emperor (but this does not mean that Heina now has the strength and status of a Four Emperor), and was later replaced by Red Hair. So here her pirate group is definitely a little stronger than Crocodile
(end of this chapter)