Chapter 137 World News Day 2 (Two-in-One, Nutrient Solution 46...
World News Day 2:
Meanwhile, on the other side, Mary Geoise——
"...Everyone, what do you think?" After a long silence, one of them slowly spoke.
Everyone looked at each other for a while, and finally started discussing.
"That ability... is from the same source as Master Yimu, right?! Otherwise, how could it be possible to cut off Master Yimu's power transmission?"
"Calm down! We don't know why Saint Satan died! Was it because of Wendy Carter's ability, or was it because Lord Yim took it back..."
He gradually faded away at the end of his words, but everyone understood what he had not finished.
The Five Elders were granted powers by Im. These include immortality and the ability to communicate remotely. They claim to be the rulers of the World Government, but they still answer to the true supreme ruler, Im. However, Im has lived too long to personally participate in or oversee everything, so these elders act on his behalf.
And if Yim is really angry with them, he can take back his power at any time - and then they will turn into corpses.
The scene described by Kizaru touched the most fearful part of their hearts - that was also why, although there was a pentagram on Eggman Island that they could teleport to, the four of them did not go there to take a look at it in person right away.
There was no other way. Everyone was afraid of death. Satan's communication with them before his death was terrifying enough, as if it would kill them with one strike... No one knew the true extent of Wendy Carter's abilities. Whether they would fight or die was a matter of life and death. They knew it themselves.
The four of them tacitly did not mention their own actions of not personally going out to investigate at the time, and began to discuss other things.
"And Kizaru said that Wendy Carter took out a crown from the corpse of Saint Satan..."
"Is this her real purpose?"
"What does that crown symbolize? Does it have some other power?"
"Why is there a crown?"
"Come to think of it, the news we've been receiving is that she can't kill anyone, and that it's her ghost sister who does the fighting. We've never actually seen her take action... Could she be doing it on purpose?"
"Those she 'killed' were merely unconscious from excessive blood loss, not truly dead. They would recover after replenishing their blood... Could it be that her previous actions were simply absorbing and accumulating energy for a crucial strike?"
The four of them immediately started discussing, and the more details they filled in, the more they felt that Wendy Carter was an unfathomable person.
They now have two guesses:
First, Wendy Carter used her own power to kill Saint Satan. She had previously concealed her power solely to obscure the very people she truly desired to kill. The people she'd previously "killed" had no wounds, merely excessive blood loss. This sounded very much like a precondition for her own abilities.
Secondly, at the last moment, Lord Yimu killed Saint Satan. Why was Saint Satan the one who died when Lord Yimu had clearly sent his men to siege them? It's likely that Wendy Carter revealed some secret of Lord Yimu's during the battle, and Saint Satan was murdered to silence him.
Regardless of which speculation is supported, everyone agrees on one point - she is indeed Lord Yim's niece!
As for why Wendy Carter calls Master Yim "Maxwell"... they don't even know Master Yim's former name! Master Yim has lived for over 800 years! How old are they? And what's more, Master Yim can possess other people!
"So... what should we do now?" Someone raised a key question. "There's no news from Kizaru either. It's likely Wendy Carter has taken action."
"At the moment, I'm afraid only Lord Yimu can stop her... This matter still needs to be left to Lord Yimu to make the decision."
When the atmosphere was solemn, the door of the conference room was pushed open and someone walked in.
He wore sunglasses, his long, light-blond hair gathered up into a spiky, pointed barb. His beard symmetrically matched the shape of his hair, forming a crescent moon. His hair stood out on either side, forming a pair of symmetrical spikes. He was dressed in a suit, sword in hand, as he paced over.
Everyone looked over and their expressions became serious.
"Ancient Saint Green, this is not the place for you."
"You are trespassing, Ancient Saint Green."
"Everyone, don't be so nervous. I'm only here on orders." Ancient Saint Fegalando Green strode in, his tone rather relaxed. "From today on, I am Lord Yim's new Scientific Defense Martial God. Fellow stars, please work hard together from now on."
Upon hearing this, the remaining four people felt a lot of pressure relieved - this means that Saint Satan was actually the one whose power was recovered by Lord Im... That's good.
If Wendy Carter could kill them at any time, they really wouldn't know what to do for a while.
But is this the new Five Elders?... Although it's normal for Ancient Saint Green, the leader of the Knights of God, to join, but because of what happened with Wendy Carter, they can't help but overthink... For example, could this guy's rise to power be related to his son who's wandering around but has an unclear relationship with Wendy Carter?
"The most important issue right now is Wendy Carter's... She kidnapped Vegapunk and destroyed the Navy's 8th Research Institute."
"Regarding this... I actually have a suggestion. I've already consulted Lord Yim." Ancient Saint Figalando Green took off his sunglasses. "Wendy Carter's abilities are extraordinary. We don't have to fight her head-on. We can even give her some convenience when necessary... All we need to do is announce that she is the Celestial Dragon Princess of Mary Geoise when her power is about to grow. Everything she does is to cooperate with us and toy with them. In the end, she will abandon those lesser ones and return to Mary Geoise to inherit the throne."
"When the time comes, we won't have to waste our manpower. The people closest to her can handle it for us."
The other four people suddenly realized that it was a good idea.
But this brings up another problem...
"But those people wouldn't necessarily question Wendy Carter about this, right?"
"Isn't that better? With those who question it and those who support it, civil strife will make it even more difficult to make a decision, right?" Ancient Saint Fegalando Green smiled softly. "The more powerful a force, the easier it is to collapse from within."
On the other side, in Marineford, at the Navy Headquarters——
"What are you doing, Sengoku? What on earth do you want from me?" Garp pushed the door open and shouted carelessly.
"Garp..." Zhan Guo looked over with a complicated expression, and for a moment he didn't know how to say this to the other party.
Because the current situation was developing too outrageously, he didn't know whether it was bad news or something else...
"What's wrong?" Garp looked at the other person's expression, his heart skipping a beat as he asked nervously, "Did something happen to Wendy?!"
After all, if something happened to Long, Zhan Guo's expression would not be so complicated, as if he felt the same way as him.
"Something did happen... but it might not be a big deal for her, but it's a big problem for us." Sengoku sighed, looking troubled. "Wendy attacked the Marines' No. 8 Research Laboratory and took away Vegapunk, Zhan Taomaru... and Kizaru who was heading there to deal with the matter."
As for the death of the Five Elders, the news was suppressed by the higher-ups. Even if Zhan Guo later learned that the Five Elders had been replaced, he would only think it was a matter of transfer from above. He would never have guessed that it was Wendy who did it - after all, even the Five Elders thought that it was Im who made the final move.
Garp was horrified when he heard the news: "Why is Kizaru joining in the fun?!"
Zhan Guo: "..." So he didn't take what he said before seriously, right?! And was Kizaru just joining in the fun?! He was captured... Uh, should he really be captured? There can't be other factors, right?
"Anyway—this matter will have a serious impact on the navy!" Sengoku said, "The World Government wants us to bring Kizaru back as soon as possible... I'll leave this matter to you and Aokiji."
After all, Garp is Wendy's nominal father, so he should give her some respect...right? — Sengoku was a little unsure.
"I can't guarantee this. Wendy has always been very stubborn." Garp was also very troubled when talking about this matter - although Wendy was not his biological daughter, she was exactly the same as Dragon and Luffy in terms of stubbornness.
She even seemed more like Luffy... No, I should say Luffy's personality was more like hers. If Dragon hadn't made it clear when he brought Luffy back, he would have really thought Luffy was Wendy's biological child, and even had nothing to do with Dragon.
This can't be blamed on Wendy having taken Luffy in as a child. There were so many people who had taken Luffy in as a child: him, Ace, Dadan, everyone in Windmill Village, even Red Hair... But Luffy just happened to learn from Wendy, who had only taken him in for a few months.
Zhan Guo also knew that this matter would not go so smoothly, so...
"If we can't reach a secret agreement with Wendy Carter..." Sengoku's expression gradually became serious, "then we should announce to the public that the fall of Research Institute No. 8 was due to Kizaru's defection, the destruction of the island, and the surrender of Vegapunk to the Eternal Continent Pirates."
Garp was stunned for a moment and frowned: "Warring States..."
"No matter what exactly happened... if it were announced that Vegapunk was captured by the captain of the Eternal Continent Pirates, and even the admirals were taken prisoner, the Navy would be completely humiliated." Sengoku said solemnly, "We absolutely cannot increase the prestige of pirates!"
Even though Wendy herself may not have intended to commit a crime, and even the sailors on the island were only unconscious and not dead, and she did not plunder and even protected civilians from non-member countries...as long as she is now standing on the opposite side of the navy, she must control public opinion!
This world cannot allow pirates to grow in arrogance any longer! Only the civilians will suffer!
***
Back to the Eternal Continent Pirates————
After Kizaru said that, the other two fell silent.
Hawkeye didn't question it much, because Wendy often talked about killing the "Five Shadow Gays"... that is, the Five Gays of Mary Geoise... oh no, the Five Elders, so it made sense for her to have the means to kill them.
Having witnessed his wife's various special abilities, Hawkeye felt that this was a possibility.
In contrast, Crocodile, who knew very little, reacted immediately...
"Impossible!" Crocodile frowned and said vehemently, "Wendy Carter never kills anyone!"
Kizaru couldn't help but look at him with surprise - in Crocodile's heart, is Wendy Carter such a pure and beautiful image?
If Crocodile knew what Kizaru was thinking, he would definitely protest—he just thought Wendy Carter wasn't that strong! He thought she couldn't kill anyone!
After all, although he works for the Eternal Continent Pirate Group, he does not consider Wendy as his opponent.
Because Wendy is so eccentric and doesn't seem to have any ambition at all. She just thinks about cultivating her poor piece of land all day long. She says she's good at fighting, but it's her sister Abigail who fights... In such a situation, when someone suddenly tells him that Wendy Carter is actually full of ambition, his first reaction is naturally to refute her.
However, after he refuted and found that Hawkeye did not say anything, he had a bad feeling - could it be that... Wendy Carter actually did have this ability, but was just acting, and Hawkeye knew it?
Crocodile fell silent.
He secretly felt a surge of disbelief. If Wendy Carter was truly so cunning... then she must have been playing dumb all along! His chances of success in capturing Hades plummeted dramatically... so was all his work going to waste? Was he just working for Wendy Carter for free?
The two people present were both smart people and saw a little bit of his mentality, but neither of them pointed it out.
Kizaru thought it was better to mind his own business, as the internal problems of the Eternal Continent Pirates had nothing to do with him; and Hawkeye...
...Sand Crocodile is definitely overthinking it. — Hawkeye thought.
He knew very well that Wendy's motive for all this trouble was probably something that others couldn't understand... such as her new clothes. This time she changed into new clothes and brought back a crown, so it was very likely that the main purpose of this battle was for these two things.
You can tell by the fact that her first reaction when she came back was to show everyone her new clothes.
"...I'm going out for a while!" Crocodile turned and left with a gloomy face.
Hawkeye watched him leave, then looked at Kizaru: "Are you really doing this for Wendy?"
"Not really. I just chose the path that's most suitable for me right now." Kizaru pulled a chair and sat down, crossing his legs, with an attitude of "Although I want to retire, I haven't reached retirement age yet, so I'll just work for a few more years." "If she doesn't let me go, there's nothing I can do. If she's willing to let me go back, I'll go back... But can you really trust me to work here?"
Hawkeye said calmly, "The admiral of the navy is always quite powerful."
And Wendy is indeed short of people...
"Oh, are you starting to flatter me? No, I'm just a prisoner. The navy might even expel me." Kizaru stood up and got a glass of vegetable cocktail from the refrigerator - this was specially placed by Wendy's for Vegapunk, and Kizaru and Zhan Taomaru enjoyed it too.
Vegapunk particularly liked this refrigerator, but his favorite was Wendy's cooking. After all, for a time-poor scientist like him, eating was a complete waste of time. Wendy's food, on the other hand, could be devoured instantly, yet it left a strong sense of fullness and even had a refreshing effect. Furthermore, if one only ate Wendy's food, they wouldn't even need to defecate!
Vegapunk even felt that he was too late to find Wendy - if Wendy was in Dragon's Self-Defense Force at that time, and if he had met Wendy, he would definitely agree to join the Self-Defense Force instead of cooperating with the World Government!
"This wine is really good." Kizaru also said with emotion while drinking, "Although you are poor here, the food is really good."
You can tell by looking at how Zhan Taowan was a little hesitant at first, but after eating he started calling her "Miss Wendy" all the time.
At this moment, Crocodile, who had quietly broken through his defenses and barely recovered himself, returned and said, "If what you said is true, that Wendy Carter killed one of the Five Elders... the World Government can't just sit there and do nothing, right?"
Kizaru was practicing Tai Chi calmly: "Sa~ Who knows."
It's impossible to say that your leader might actually be the little princess of Mary Geoise, or the kind who can really inherit the throne, but we don't know whether he was exiled or ran away from home.
But he didn't say it, in fact the other two had guessed a little.
Hawkeye had some guesses about this, and Crocodile remembered Wendy's cry in Marijoa when she went to the New World... but he thought at the time that Wendy's uncle was being treated as a slave... Now it seems that his power has just been taken away.
If that's the case, then Kizaru's behavior at this time...
"You want to switch to Wendy Carter's side?" Crocodile crossed his arms and frowned, questioning, "You don't think that just by serving as a prisoner over there, you can be considered one of our own, do you?"
...You're not one of us either. — Hawkeye glanced at him and thought to himself, but didn't say it out loud.
After all, the other party was indeed helping Wendy with the work.
"I don't think so. After all, I'm still doing well as an admiral of the navy." Kizaru said, showing off the seastone handcuffs on his hands. "So if you want me to leave, why don't you help me untie these? I can leave at the speed of light without any delay."
The speed of light he mentioned is the speed of light in the physical sense.
"It's not that simple, is it?" Crocodile narrowed his eyes. "If you were truly captured by accident... how do you think the Navy would react to you being abruptly taken away and then released? I'm afraid you'd just be feared and treated as an undercover agent we released. Similarly... I also have reason to suspect you're an undercover agent the Navy was trying to plant."
***
While the three of them were having their own guesses in their hearts and engaging in verbal confrontations based on them, Wendy, the creator of the incident, was leading her two older sons to watch Vegapunk ripen Shui Mu.
"I checked the ingredients in the tree jam you gave me, Wendy, and conducted an experiment to extract the active ingredients, but failed... However, I later modified it to increase the tolerance of this water tree, increasing the number of fertilizations and shortening the intervals between them. Finally, it worked!" Veg Punk said, looking at Wendy who had taken out the tree jam. "Wendy, you can give it a try."
Wendy immediately applied fertilizer eight times, and then watched as the tree in the water suddenly grew a lot taller, its shade covering the entire Abigail, and its roots gradually became larger and thicker, forming a small piece of land.
"Wow! Lao Bei, you are so awesome!" Wendy raised her hands and cheered - she didn't expect Lao Bei to be so useful. She had originally thought of releasing Lao Bei after the celestial line ended, but now it was no longer possible. Lao Bei was an upgraded version of her scientific machine!
"Wow... it's really impressive." Ace was also a little surprised and clapped his hands politely.
Sabo also applauded, but he was concerned about another question: "Can this become the new Sabaody Archipelago?"
"At its current growth rate, it could form a continent, but it probably wouldn't reach the scale of the Sabaody Archipelago," Vega Punk explained. "Once the waterwood reaches a certain growth threshold, it will become increasingly difficult to increase its growth rate in a short period of time."
"It's all good now..." Wendy said. Crocodile came out and shouted at her, "Wendy Carter! Come here!"
"Here I come!" Wendy ran over with her walking cane - in order to match the outfit for going to the moon, she specially changed into a corrupted cane and felt great.
After running over, she saw Crocodile with a dark face asking her: "Wendy Carter, answer me a question honestly... Did you really kill one of the Five Elders?"
"Huh?" Wendy blinked and shook her head. "No."
Crocodile was about to breathe a sigh of relief when he heard Wendy continue, "I killed one of the Shadow Five."
Crocodile choked, and after reciting numbers in his mind to calm himself down, he took a deep breath and asked, "Can you kill people?"
"No, there's a protection mechanism." Wendy shook her head.
Crocodile: "...How did you kill those five gay guys?"
Wendy said innocently, "After he reaches the second stage, he will become a boss. I can just lock onto the boss and kill him!"
…Here we go again, this feeling of feeling like she's said everything, but in fact, she's said nothing, which only makes people angry, but because she seems very honest, it seems like she can only sulk by herself…
Crocodile now pondered a question seriously: Do I really want this Pluto, even at such a cost?
"Wendy, did you use Abigail's attack to kill one of the Five Elders?" Hawkeye walked over and asked.
"No, I replaced Abigail's mod with a new one, and I beat it myself." Wendy said as she walked over and took his hand, complaining, "It was so hard to beat. It's a good thing you shared yourself with me before, otherwise I would have almost lost."
Hawkeye: "...Ahem, there's no need to mention this kind of thing."
Although he didn't know how he could help with something like that...
Crocodile: “……???”
He looked skeptical. Wait? What sharing? Could Wendy Carter acquire other people's abilities this way?
Just when the atmosphere seemed a little weird, Sabo ran over with a newspaper in his hand: "Mom, there's news about you in the new newspaper!"
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The author has something to say: I almost missed it! I was writing and it turned into two parts!
Yes, you should be able to see it by now, Uncle Kizaru is going to stay on the boat [Cooked Dog]
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