Chapter 858 "D"

Joyboy!

Others may not be familiar with this name, but Robin has heard it from Lynch more than once.

She even knew that the reason why Lynch was willing to go to Raftel on the Sunny was because of his relationship with Luffy and their similar temperaments. But there was another key reason, which was that Lynch believed that Luffy was the so-called successor of Joyboy in the prophecy and would definitely become the Pirate King. On this point, Lynch and Red-Haired Shanks, who entrusted Luffy with the straw hat, had the same view.

What Robin didn't know was that the reason why Lynch was more certain than Red Hair that Luffy would be Joy Boy was naturally because this kid was originally the "protagonist of the comics". Although he only saw a part of the Wano Country arc in his previous life, according to a certain tradition, at the end of that "prophecy book comics", Luffy would probably be fundamentally bound to the concept of "Child of Destiny".

Back then in the Windmill Village of the East China Sea, there might have been an element of gambling when Red Hair gave the straw hat to Luffy, but it was different for Lynch. When he saw this kid being escorted all the way to him in the big prison by his stand and Robin, Lynch understood that Luffy's luck was indeed ridiculously good - and Luffy's greatest luck was undoubtedly himself.

Just based on the relationship with Tulip, Lynch's double mother-in-law, there was no way he could just ignore it.

“Is there someone in this stone?”

Usopp and Sanji stroked their chins, with the same puzzled expressions.

"Still with his back to you?"

"He also said his name was Joyboy... Was it him who told you that the text of the history of road signs was hidden here?"

Chopper kindly touched Luffy's forehead, as if to check if he had a cold or fever, which made Luffy puzzled.

Brook, Franky and the others found it unbelievable, but it was true. Luffy was not Usopp. This kid rarely lied - and when he did lie, people could often see through it at a glance. This was obviously not the case now.

Luffy nodded and said, "Yes, this guy is saying things like 'The stone is in the stone', 'I left everything there', 'No one can get through from now on' and other incomprehensible words... But he has been standing here, as if he was stuck to the wall, so the red stone should be here, right?"

"Isn't this a very casual inference?!" Usopp and others were shocked.

"'I left everything there'?" Nami looked strange, and looked at Sanji, Zoro and others in confusion, "Isn't this what Pirate King Roger said to the world when he was executed?"

Lin Qi sighed: "This guy is a thief!"

Robin smiled and said, "Pirates."

Brook said: "Yohoho, it's the Pirate King!"

Zoro, Sanji and others couldn't help but laugh. A legendary epic story of a king actually added a touch of funny and interesting color, as if Gol D. Roger, who had been dead for more than 20 years, told a prank joke to the latecomers who arrived at this water star island and could hear the echo of "Joey Boy" in front of the stone wall.

Robin knocked on the mountain wall that Lynch had cleared of moss and debris, looking for possible "stones within stones".

"Lynch, what are you thinking about?" Nami poked Lynch's arm curiously. He was looking at the mountain wall in front of him with only a "simplified graffiti diagram" on it, lost in thought.

"I was wondering..." Lynch pondered, "What on earth did this Joy Boy do? Why is Luffy the only one here who can sense the information he left behind?"

Nami smiled and said, "Because it's Luffy. He's weird by nature."

The others laughed too. Zoro frowned slightly, glanced at Sanji, looked at Nami, and said thoughtfully: "Indeed, when it comes to observation Haki, Luffy is not the best among us. He can't compare to your comprehensive mind network, Nami, or even the sensitivity of the color cook. He is not better than Usopp's observation Haki's insight and concentration..."

Nami complained: "So 'listening to the sounds of all things' is a special kind of observation Haki."

"So what is this kind of peculiarity?" Lin Qi said, "There should be a limit to peculiarity. A strong enough Observation Haki should be able to ignore any peculiarity. For example, some people's Observation Haki is particularly good at predicting other people's actions and psychology. Over time, they even develop the Observation Haki ability to 'foresee the future'. But other people can do the same thing as long as their Observation Haki is strong enough."

In the comics, Luffy's observation Haki is clearly able to sense the opponent's emotions and personality, but after the battle with Katakuri, he also mastered the observation Haki that can foresee the future.

Lin Qi said: "In other words, no matter how special Luffy's observation Haki is, I should be able to sense what he can sense. But I have been looking at this stone wall for so long and didn't notice any movement. Don't you think... this is outrageous?"

"Um?"

He looked around at the crowd and was booed.

"But what Lynch said does make sense..." Sanji and the others fell into deep thought, observing the stone wall in front of them, which Luffy said was hiding the voice and phantom of a person named Joy Boy. "What on earth could be able to do such a thing? Leaving behind a message that can only be discovered by a few people with special qualifications like Luffy and Roger..."

Robin, who was groping for the stone wall, thought about it, and suddenly looked at Lynch, and said at the same time: "Bloodline factor."

This function, which is almost similar to biological identification, makes it hard not to suspect that it is related to a certain type of specific bloodline factor.

When discussing the "special bloodline factor" together with "Luffy", "Roger", etc., a highly symbolic symbol is about to emerge.

"D"! Crack, a group of lightning rolled across the cloudy sky of Shuixianxing Island. The rain was pouring down, and Robin couldn't help but think of the scene in the North Sea.

"Let me ask you...Are you also a 'D'?"

"It's 'God's natural enemy'..."

This is how Don Quixote Doflamingo, the expelled Celestial Dragon, questioned Lynch with a sneer before his death.

"It's life energy." Lynch said thoughtfully, his palm brushing over the stick-drawn red stone box diagrams on the slippery stone wall. "Joey Boy used his own life energy to leave this message. Only people with extremely similar life energy characteristics can really receive this..."

Sanji asked in confusion, "But, even among the 'D's we met, not all of them are blood relatives. For example, the black beard Marshall D. Teach doesn't look like someone related to Luffy's family... Luffy's brother Ace, Ace's father Pirate King Roger, and even Ace's mother have D in their names. Could it be that they were once the same race?"

"Impossible," said Robin.

"Oh, right." Nami, Usopp and the others recalled that on the way to Elbaf from Wano Country, they talked about the past in the water bar lounge of the Sunny. "The giant navy vice admiral that Robin knew when she was a child, it seems that his name also has a 'D'!"

Robin recalled: "Haguvar D. Sauro..."

"What are you talking about? It's so complicated." Luffy felt a headache. How could such a simple matter be made so confusing? He smiled and said, "Anyway, it's good that we can find this place! This guy named Joy Boy is really amazing! Hahahaha."

Lin Qi stared at the heartless boy for a while, and suddenly said: "Maybe the truth lies here."

"Where?" Chopper, Brook, Franky, Sanji and the others were all puzzled.

Lynch went over and pulled Luffy's mouth to the sides, pulling his rubber face into a big smile, "Here."

Zoro suddenly realized: "It's personality."

Lynch ignored Luffy's struggle, grabbed his smiling face and changed its shape, looked around at everyone, and said: "Life return, you all understand now, the essence is the intervention of the will in the body. But who says that this kind of intervention must be 'active' in nature? We can consciously control the hair to twist flexibly, we can also consciously control the body to digest food quickly, we can supplement calcium by drinking milk, and we can even use our own mental will to interfere with the mind and body of others..."

"However, some people, even if they have never heard of life return and have never practiced special training, can still control their hair," Lynch said to everyone, "and can quickly digest food to replenish their strength when their bodies are extremely tired - such as Luffy and Zoro in the past, especially Zoro. You once had the nickname 'Monster' because after being injured, you would always recover after a good night's sleep, and people thought you had a physique like a monster, right?" His eyes fell on Zoro.

Zoro scratched his forehead with his fingers and recalled: "Did this happen? It was too long ago..."

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

"It's been a long time!" Nami complained, "You were hanging around in the East China Sea as a pirate hunter, wasn't that more than a year ago?"

Lin Qi raised his fingers one after another and said slowly, "Not only that, sometimes, a person's personality and experience can even affect his appearance and body shape. A person with a mean and sinister personality may be very good-looking when he is young, but his appearance quickly collapses after entering middle age. In his old age, his appearance is wretched and his body is distorted. This is a common thing - here I want to focus on criticizing Charlotte Lingling. It is said that she was also a great beauty when she was young."

"Charlotte Lingling... isn't that the 'aunt'? She was very beautiful when she was young?"

Sanji, Usopp, Zoro, Chopper and even Luffy all had a common thought in their minds, imagining what a young and beautiful version of Big Mom would look like.

"Wow, she was really beautiful when she was young." Brooke said gracefully, "It's a pity that I didn't get to see her underwear. Wow..."

"Even if you are a beauty of Nami's level, if you suffer setbacks in your life and degenerate into a third-rate pirate," Lynch said, "I'm sure your figure and appearance will quickly collapse to third-rate..." As Nami's face became increasingly gloomy, Robin sighed and pulled his cheek. Lynch naturally changed his target, "For example, Sanji, Usopp, and even Chopper, if their beliefs were frustrated and they started to do evil in the next 20 or 30 years, they would definitely become extremely ugly, bald and fat, shrinking in stature, losing all their teeth, and looking wretched..."

"Hey!" Sanji, Usopp, and Chopper raised their hands to express their dissatisfaction.

"If things develop normally, Luffy's middle-aged life will probably be very similar to Shanks's now, and when he's old, he'll probably be about the same as his grandfather Garp..."

"Why not like his father, Doragg?"

"Similarly, Zoro will probably be like a replica of Rayleigh in the future..."

"Who is the copycat?!"

"But if you lose your faith and become muddleheaded," Lynch looked at Luffy and Zoro, "you'll probably end up like those weird, low-ranking pirates from around the world."

Nami sighed, "So what you mean is that a person's personality will also subtly affect the body."

"A kind of... passive return of life." Chopper nodded solemnly, "Will my hair and teeth fall out?"

Robin said, "It could also be that the antlers fell off."

"Huh?!" Chopper was shocked.

Lin Qi said: "That's why there is such a saying. 'D' is not a concept of bloodline... but a concept. If you accept the concept of 'D', you can become 'D'."

Sanji pondered, "But according to this statement, even if there is a so-called 'D' in the name, it is not necessarily 'D'. It may just be that someone among their ancestors recognized and accepted the beliefs of 'D'."

Robin said: "Once the ancestors accepted 'D', they would pass on this belief in the family through words and deeds, and pass it down from generation to generation..."

"Yohoho, it doesn't have to be limited to the family." Brooke laughed, "Spread it all over the world, let more people accept 'D's ideas, just like sowing countless 'D' seeds..."

"That's why there are completely unrelated families that have the same 'D'!" Usopp suddenly realized, "Even among the giants there are..."

Nami said: "And just as Lynch said, this kind of personality concept will in turn affect the body, and even affect...'bloodline factor'!"

"Bloodline factors can be inherited!"

Chopper's eyes sparkled, and he nodded repeatedly in sudden realization, "Unless the beliefs of the descendants are completely different from 'D', they will reverse the 'D' component of the bloodline factor... Otherwise, one or two family members who are not so 'D' cannot change the fact that this bloodline has become 'the D clan'."

Franky looked at Luffy who was still confused, "For example, Monkey. Luffy has a grandfather like that, no wonder he has this kind of personality."

Lynch smiled and said, "I think Luffy and Roger are probably the special kind of 'D'! Gol and Monkey are of pure blood 'D flags', and their own innate personalities are also very similar to this Joy Boy..." Seeing Luffy pretending to understand and nodding, Lynch smiled and said, "Luffy, try to send out ripples to the 'Joy Boy' you see."

"What would happen if the 'life energy' from the 'same lineage' was replenished?"

Following Lynch's words, he and Luffy excitedly clashed fists and palms, releasing red and black ripple domineering energy towards the stone wall in front of them. Soon, Robin, Nami, Zoro, Sanji and others showed surprise in their eyes. On the simple graffiti-style picture on the stone wall, there appeared faintly the figure of a man wearing a straw hat, outlined by Luffy's red and black wavy lines, with his back to them.

"The stone is in the stone. I left this building imitating the Red Earth Continent... Hey, how am I alive?!" The straw hat figure turned around as if he was startled as he spoke.

(End of this chapter)