Chapter 859: Joey Boy

"Ghost!!!"

With a scream, everyone's eyes turned to the panicked Brooke, disheveled in the storm.

"Ghost?!" The straw hat figure with red and black wavy lines was also startled, "Where is it?"

"You two are really more clueless than each other!" Nami clenched her fists, and finally blasted all the power of lightning that she could not hold back on Brook, giving him a free hair perm. After all, she had not figured out the situation of this strange guy in front of her who was "revived" by Luffy's waves, so she could not act rashly.

Zizizizizizizi! The electricity in Brook's body flowed among the people along with the heavy rain. Sanji, Usopp, and Franky blew out white smoke from their mouths, "Nami... Don't discharge electricity casually during a thunderstorm..."

Nami stuck out her tongue and looked at Robin and Lynch. The electric current that ran over was automatically protected by the blue-black iron rod and was led into the earth like a lightning rod.

“Hahahaha, although I don’t know who you are, it’s really funny.” The straw hat figure outlined in red and black wavy lines laughed.

Luffy was also shocked, but acted as if nothing had happened, looked up and smiled, "You are having fun too! Can you poop?"

"Can you be serious?!" the others roared, and even Zoro couldn't help but want to punch Luffy.

"Poop..." The figure outlined by red and black waves held down the straw hat on his head, looked up at the sky as if reminiscing about the past, "I haven't pooped for a long time..."

"You really should answer this!!" Nami almost couldn't control herself and gave this guy a lightning punch.

Facing Nami's roar, the other party was somewhat at a loss, and said innocently: "That's right, look at me now, how can I poop——"

"Shut up! Don't bring up this subject again!"

Nami sighed, "He's so good at showing off. No wonder his appearance looks so similar to Luffy."

After all, it's just Luffy's appearance constructed by the ripples, not a real flesh and blood body. Even if it is concretized, it is more like a figure sketched with simple strokes after splashing ink, with the ripples on his face jumping, sometimes clear and sometimes blurred.

"Even this straw hat..."

"What are you talking about, Nami? How can I have a straw hat?" Luffy asked with his arms folded, and Nami squinted at him with murderous intent. Luffy quickly turned his head back.

"So, let's get back to the point," Lynch asked, crossing his arms, "You are Joyboy, right?"

"Strictly speaking, this is my nickname at work." The straw hat figure with red and black wavy lines...Okay, Joey Boy raised a finger to correct it. After taking a closer look at Lynch in front of him, even that blurry face showed an extremely surprised expression, "You are so strong. It's amazing!"

Robin asked, "What's your nickname at work? What kind of job is it? Also, do you have a clear understanding of your current situation? Are you alive now? Do you have complete memories?"

"What do you mean I'm still alive? How rude..." Joey Boy said dissatisfiedly, looking down at himself, his eyes almost popped out of his head in shock, "What the hell!? How did I become like this!!!"

Nami couldn't stand it anymore and punched him, "Don't you understand the situation at all?!"

Boom! Lightning passed through the red and black ripples, "pouring" on the stone wall and scattering, illuminating the raindrops that hit the stone wall obliquely, as well as the simple diagram carved on the stone wall that said "collect four red stones to find the final island."

Looking at the picture, Joyboy was stunned for a long time. He reached out and touched the stone wall, brushing lightly over the pattern. "Ah, I remember now. I'm already... dead."

His tone was so calm that it made people feel pity.

Luffy nodded and said, "Yeah, you're dead."

"Hey!" Nami and Usopp turned and glared at Luffy.

Lin Qi said: "Not only is he dead, but he also ruined the mermaid princess of your era."

"Hey!!" Nami and Usopp raised their hands.

"Yeah," Joyboy touched the straw hat on his head and laughed, "He's already dead, so there's nothing we can do. I'm really sorry, Ugly."

"How come you are like this too!" Nami, Usopp and the others couldn't help but hold their foreheads, but they were also very curious, "Ugly Star?"

"Could it be..." Robin pondered, "the name of the mermaid princess of your time?"

Joey Boy laughed and said, "Her name is Meixing, but she's too vain and has an annoying personality, so I like to call her Uglyxing. Hahaha."

What kind of person is this? Nami rubbed her hands together, wondering if she could give this guy a beating on behalf of Shirahoshi's ancestors.

Robin asked, "You left an apology letter written on the main text of the history on Fishman Island. What exactly are you apologizing for, Meixing?"

"What a surprise," Joy Boy was indeed surprised, and looked at Robin carefully, "Can you recognize those words? I thought that no one except the Kozuki clan who closed their country could decipher those words. Is there anyone from the Kozuki clan among you?" He checked everyone with great interest, and when he saw Merry in Brook's afro, he said in surprise, "A user of the Yomizumi Fruit ability?"

"Generally speaking, I'm the one who attracts more attention, right?" Even the good girl Mary couldn't help but complain.

"A ship spirit. Only the one who gave birth to you would think you are precious." Joy Boy said with a smile, his eyes fell on the fox Onimaru who was like a drowned rat at Zoro's feet, "A Komamon from Wano Country?"

"You guessed wrong." Onimaru said, "There is no one from the Kozuki family here. The only bloodline of the Kozuki family left is Princess Kozuki Hiyori, and she is now the general of Wano Country."

Robin did not hide it and said, "It's me. I can decipher ancient texts."

"This is even more surprising." Joyboy said to himself, "After all, you don't look like a three-eyed person..."

Robin said calmly, "I am a historian. The doctors in my hometown worked hard and successfully deciphered the ancient characters in the historical texts, so I learned it from them."

Joyboy laughed heartily and said, "Is there such a thing? These scholars are really amazing!"

"Yes, it's extraordinary." Robin's tone was calm, but his eyes were slightly red. A strong big hand reached out and held his palm.

Robin clenched his hands and took a deep breath, saying, "It's a pity that they are all dead. Because of studying this kind of text and interpreting the historical text, my hometown was razed to the ground by the World Government. All historians, including my mother, were destroyed. I am the only survivor..."

"..." The straw hat figure outlined by red and black ripples seemed to be looking into the distance, muttering to himself, "World Government... Is that the current name of the Twenty-Nation Joint Forces? It does sound like something they can do... I'm sorry. Really, I'm sorry." He looked at Robin again.

Robin shook his head and said nothing more.

"Wait a minute, I have a question." Sanji suddenly raised his hand. After Joyboy and the others looked at him, Sanji said seriously, "I have had this question for a long time. Your reaction just now made me more confused. Why can you, or let me put it another way, why can the World Government, or the Twenty-Nation Alliance you mentioned, be so sure that no one can decipher the ancient text?"

"The world is so big, and some islands have never been visited by anyone. I think even with the power of the World Government, it is difficult to be sure that something has been completely erased from reality. When this thing is a text, a system of knowledge," Sanji loosened his tie, which was tighter after being wet, and wondered, "when it is something that can be passed on by word of mouth, it is even more impossible to be so sure."

"Sanji-kun, if you put it that way..." Nami realized, "That's right. How can we be sure that a language has been eradicated? Eight hundred years ago, should we kill all the people who knew this language? That would kill an entire generation..."

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

Usopp, Chopper and the others shuddered.

Zoro said: "It's useless. As long as some people who know this language pretend not to know it when facing the butcher's knife, there will be people who can get away with it. Unless the world government kills all the people and ethnic groups in the world who are even slightly suspicious..."

"But if we do that," Franky stroked his chin, "it's hard to imagine how many years it will take for the world to recover..."

"A blank hundred years..." Robin muttered to himself.

Joyboy said nothing and just looked at these people quietly.

Luffy looked left and right, putting on a serious look.

Lin Qi suddenly said: "Childlike Fruit."

"Um?"

Nami, Sanji, Zoro and others were confused by his sudden words, but Joyboy's phantom immediately stared at Lynch, seeming to be laughing and crying.

"It seems that I guessed right?" Lynch said slowly, "Instead of spending a huge amount of money on a killing project to kill all suspicious people who know ancient characters, and even incredibly erasing a hundred years of history from everyone's memory..." He shook his head and sneered, "Haha, if the world government has such a huge hand, I would say bluntly, is it necessary to do such a thing? So what if people who know ancient characters survive? Who can rebel in front of such a behemoth? They will erase history, erase ancient characters, and even erase you, Joyboy."

"This in itself shows the guilt and powerlessness of the twenty-nation coalition eight hundred years ago." Lin Qi looked at the silent phantom made of red and black ripples. "Besides hearing about it from the few people who reached the top of this world, your name is only recorded in the historical text left by you on Fishman Island. In other words, I think your existence is likely to have been erased by some means, just like the blank hundred years, like ancient texts."

"And to erase a person's existence from the memory of everyone in the world..." Lynch said, "Coincidentally, I know a devil fruit that can do that."

"The superhuman childlike fruit." Lynch and Joyboy said at the same time.

There is such an "evil" devil fruit?! Nami and the others felt terrified and felt a chill on their backs. It can completely erase a person's existence from the memory of everyone in the world. Even the closest relatives will not remember the existence of this person. In this way, other people will not even have the motivation to save this person... This devil fruit ability is simply too terrifying!

"To be precise," Joyboy said with a wry smile, "it's the awakened fruit of childhood."

Lin Qi said in an almost cold and calm tone: "After awakening, it seems that the Childlike Fruit can even erase a text and a history? This is why no one knows what you apologized for in the apology letter you left for the mermaid princess. Because your existence was erased by the Childlike Fruit, everything about you has become a memory that cannot be recalled, and naturally it cannot be accurately passed on..."

"Yes, for most people, yes." Joy Boy rubbed the straw hat on his head and sighed, "Except for the daimyo of the Kozuki family at that time who exhausted all his life and barely saved all the descendants of the Kozuki family from being affected by the Childlike Fruit... But even Kozuki was still a step late and forgot about the tragic hundred years. Only the knowledge of ancient characters was retained in their minds..."

Robin imagined the world eight hundred years ago. The twenty-nation coalition destroyed a once huge kingdom and established the current world government. One of them used the power of the awakened Childlike Fruit. The remaining people who inherited D's will could take revenge on the world government, but they gradually forgot why they wanted revenge...

Originally, the people who had everything taken away could accumulate strength and take back what belonged to them, but the past history, and even those symbols and words, have faded from their cognition.

Without any fighting or bloodshed, the world government has erased a hundred years of history and memory from the minds of people all over the world.

The most sinister thing is that this practice has caused people all over the world to have no feeling of "I have lost something" from the beginning, and thus lack the desire to "get something back".

Robin finally understood why the blank 100 years was so obvious. No history book mentioned that period of history, and no one thought there was anything wrong with it. Except for the scholars of O'Hara, no one in the world thought there was a problem with this matter. The fundamental reason was that the ancestors of the people of the world had accepted this obviously contradictory and strange thing 800 years ago, and passed this cognition to the next generation, and then the next generation... After 800 years, the original weirdness and disharmony became a common and normal phenomenon, and the blank 100 years was not so abrupt.

This kind of thing... in essence, has the same effect as "D's will".

When a cognition is deeply rooted enough, it will in turn affect a person's bloodline factors, which are hereditary.

Eight hundred years have passed, and this kind of cognition is enough to form a social consensus, common sense, and everyone's intuition: This is it, what's wrong with it?

"So, those scholars in your hometown are really amazing." Joey Boy said wistfully, "Challenging 'common sense', questioning 'intuition', and going against the current..." He raised the corners of his mouth, revealing a carefree smile, and pressed down the straw hat on his head, "I hope that I can have a drink with them in the underworld and make friends with them, hehe."

Lin Qi said: "You haven't told me yet, why exactly do you want to apologize to the mermaid princess Meixing?"

"Well..." Joyboy's tone was filled with regret, "I promised her that I would turn all mermaids and mermen back into ordinary humans. We agreed that we would stand on the grass with the same legs and feet. We agreed to get married like this..."

(End of this chapter)