I’m Not Interested in Devil Fruits: 740 Three Brothers

[Chapter Heading Serial・Deck 8 from the World・"Kingdom of Brugea"]

[In a magic supplies store, George, a former wandering painter, had messy hair and looked sleepy at first. After opening the latest newspaper, he was so shocked that his eyes almost fell out. Tilda, the former hypnotist's proprietress, was smiling and brushing the shelves with a feather duster. A huge reward notice for the visionary Marianne was posted on the wall. The girl tilted her head and looked at the camera innocently, freezing this photo... …]

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"More than ten years ago, when Lynch and I first came here..."

Champaign Park, at the top of the Bubble Ferris Wheel, Robin and Hancock are sitting side by side. Sanda knelt on the chair and looked into the distance with curiosity.

In just a few days after the war, the once bustling Chambord Islands now looked deserted and dilapidated.

This does not mean that everyone and everything on the island has been harmed by the unscrupulous pirates.

The main thing is that people who dare to do business on this island have a keen sense of smell. When they see that the wind is in the wrong direction, a large number of people directly escape by boat, or the store doors are closed tightly and security is tightened to prevent them from leaving.

As for tourists, there were indeed many casualties during this period, but many people also fled. It is estimated that for a long time, only pirates will dare to visit this archipelago.

Before Lynch took action to suppress it, there was real chaos on this island.

I heard that there was also a major incident in which the Tianlong people were hacked.

However, at this critical moment, everyone knew that the Navy would never be able to spare a senior general to take care of the injured Tianlong people, so Sap, Black Hand, and Cold Gun all came to greet the Tianlong people.

The tyrannical Celestial Dragons in the past hid back in Mariejoia in despair. It is estimated that they will not dare to set foot on the Chambord Islands again until the situation in the navy stabilizes and the general's combat strength is replenished.

Xiangbodi Park, which was once the most lively and prosperous park, now looks deserted. If it weren't for Robin and Hancock's appearance, the park manager wouldn't dare to neglect and personally activated the facilities in the amusement park for them, allowing them to play as they pleased.

In fact, the park manager was so ecstatic that he kept taking pictures of Robin and the others with a phone bug, and decided to keep them permanently. He even chose the most beautiful one, enlarged it, developed it, and put a sign at the door. With the Devil's Son and the Pirate Queen, and even the signboard of the Ripple Messenger standing behind them, which pirate with no eyes would dare to harass his park?

On the slowly rotating Ferris wheel, Robin held Hancock's arm and softly told what happened that year.

Suddenly, Sanda next to him screamed, "It's Mr. Tulip!"

Hancock and Robin were a little surprised. They poked their heads out of the Ferris wheel bubble and saw a figure with long blond hair and a fluttering floral skirt standing under the Ferris wheel, waving a newspaper towards them. The tall woman is Tulip.

The park manager saw that she really knew the Devil's Son and the Pirate Empress, and his attitude became even more polite.

The three girls did not wait for the Ferris wheel to slowly turn to the bottom, but jumped directly out of the bubble. Robin spread out his petal wings, Sanda also flapped a pair of snake wings behind her, and quietly landed with her sister and princess. .

"Master Tulip!" Sanda greeted obediently.

"Why are you here?" Hancock walked towards Tulip.

"Can't I come and see my cute little baby?" Tulip looked at Hancock with a smile.

"Huh!" Hancock sneered, "You mean your precious son? Don't worry, he's still alive."

With Luffy's current strength, he jumped into the battlefield and became the center of attention without any scruples... If there weren't so many partners around him to help each other, there is a high probability that he would have died in Marineland. .

Tulip pinched Hancock's smooth and elastic face, this girl was just unforgiving.

Looking at Robin who was smiling and saying nothing, Tulip smiled and said: "Do you still hate yourself now?"

Robin's face suddenly turned red.

"What are you talking about?" Hancock rubbed his face, looking suspicious, looking at Tulip and then at Robin, "Why do you hate yourself?"

Sanda was equally puzzled.

Robin took two steps forward and hugged Tulip, gritting his teeth in her ear and saying angrily: "Don't tell me..."

"Okay, okay, don't say it, don't say it." Tulip smiled and stroked Robin's back.

"What are you talking about?" Hancock was even more confused. He pulled Robin and asked in disbelief, "You still have something to hide from me——"

But when Robin looked up, her face was flushed with embarrassment. Hancock, who had never seen her like this before, was immediately stunned.

"This is the only thing, no!" Robin bit his lip.

Seeing that the park manager on the side looked shocked and confused, Sangda quickly pulled his sister and the princess out of the park.

……

On the way, Tulip gave the newspaper she brought to Hancock and Robin, and said with a smile: "There is your latest reward order."

"At this time, the navy still has the energy to issue a new reward order?" Sanda was very curious.

Tulip said: "It is at this time that the navy will not show weakness and must remain strong. Even if it is just a show."

Hancock sneered and opened the newspaper casually as he walked.

She doesn't pay much attention to the content of the news. How many people died in the Whitebeard Pirates and how many people died in the Navy are no different from a bunch of dead snakes, insects, ants and beasts in her eyes, just a bunch of numbers. Only the words and photos about Lynch and Robin made her look twice...

"5 billion Baileys?!" Sanda, who was holding Lynch's new reward order, exclaimed.

Hancock took a look and was quite dissatisfied, "Why is it lower than Whitebeard? Is the Navy blind?"

Whitebeard’s bounty is 5 billion 46 million.

Lynch 5 billion, although the difference is only more than 40 million, or rather, it is precisely because the difference is only more than 40 million, which makes Hancock very unhappy.

"Whitebeard is dead." Tulip walked beside him, "Roger, the only one with a higher bounty than Whitebeard, is also dead."

"That means..." Robin said to himself.

Sang Da opened his mouth wide and said in surprise: "Lin Qi is the person with the highest bounty among the people alive right now?"

Tulip smiled and said: "That's almost it."

Robin suddenly frowned, touched his chin and pondered.

Hancock and Sanda opened other reward orders and soon discovered the latest reward orders for Robin and Hancock.

"Pirate Queen" Boya Hancock, bounty: 1.479 billion!

"Son of the Devil" Nicole Robin, bounty: 1.38 billion!

Even Sangda's own bounty, although he was basically on standby at high altitude during the battle on the top, and only showed his face at the end, the bounty has also increased a little, from the original 400 million to Four hundred and fifty million Baileys.

Although the increase was not much, Sang Da looked very happy. The navy is really stubborn.

Hancock looked at it twice and became even more disdainful, "It's only increased by several hundred million, who are you looking down on?"

"It's already amazing. My two precious daughters are both well-known big shots." Tulip smiled and hugged Hancock and Robin. "A bounty of this level has been raised several times. There are not many people in the whole sea."

Who cares? Hancock rolled his eyes and said, "Who is your daughter? Don't blindly identify her."

Hancock was coaxed by Tulip since he was little, so he naturally didn't care about her temper and still smiled. Robin couldn't help laughing. He put one of his hands around Tulip's arm with some emotion, and held the palm of Sanda who seemed to be a little neglected with the other hand. He suddenly asked: "Is Lynch already the one with the highest bounty?" She looked towards Tulip, "What about Dorag? His bounty shouldn't be very low..."

"Well, it is indeed not low, but..."

As Tulip said, she couldn't help but smile. The four of them went deep into the Shampoo Islands and drifted away.

……

"You only have a reward of 1.5 billion?"

In the shabby bar, Lin Qi turned the gold iron rod in his hand and was very surprised when he heard what Dorag said.

I thought you were worth five billion too!

Hearing this, Dorag smiled, raised his glass, took a sip, and asked: "I live in the shadows most of the time, and I have never publicly done anything similar to your big event, so how can I go too far? What about the exaggerated bounty? ”

"Dorag, you know what I mean." Lynch said, "Revolution, brother, you are digging up the roots of their world government, and you only have a reward of 1.5 billion?"

Saulon, who was opening the newspaper and the latest pile of reward orders, also raised his head and smiled: "The newspaper clearly says that you are the most vicious criminal in the world."

"This is about what standards the Navy uses to set the bounty amount." Dorag gently shook the wine glass in his hand and said to himself, "Although many people say that the bounty amount is It has nothing to do with the pirate's personal strength, but is that true? Most of the time, the level of the bounty does represent whether a pirate is strong or weak..."

Saulon frowned and thought, but Lin Qi grabbed the golden iron rod and tapped it lightly on his shoulder. He suddenly paused and said, "I understand, it's a 'guide'."

Dolag glanced at Lin Qi unexpectedly and smiled: "That's pretty much what it means."

"The navy, or the world government, deliberately gave the world such a hint..." Lynch said to himself, "The stronger the pirate's combat effectiveness, the higher the bounty. And the more subordinates with high bounties, For pirates, individual bounties will also increase, which represents the overall combat capability."

"What about me?" Dorag smiled.

"You are not a pirate in the traditional sense." Lynch pointed out, "If you are given a high bounty that is not in line with 'common sense', what kind of signal will it send? Many pirates who love the limelight also Do you want to learn something? Or, will it give people the impression that the world government is more afraid of your revolutionary power than the pirates who cause disasters everywhere?"

Lin Qi shook his head and said: "Although the World Government has given you the title of the most vicious criminal in the world, in the bounty system, it still puts you in the regular pirate system to evaluate you and put you in a An attitude that does not regard you and the revolutionary army as a real opponent."

"That's probably it." Dorag smiled and drank. "Actually, Tulip was very unhappy after being offered a bounty. He once persuaded me that we should also run a newspaper. We would also post a bounty on the navy and comment on the world. The power of pirates builds our system."

"Oh? Isn't this interesting?" Lynch was quite interested.

"I don't agree." Dolag shook his head and looked out the broken window, "The tide of the times is coming, storms are coming! There is no time."

Lynch nodded.

Zauo was half-understanding of their agility and continued to open the bounty order in his hand.

"Pirate Hunter" Roronoa Zoro, bounty: 430 million!

"Straw Hat" Monkey D. Luffy, bounty: 550 million!

"Broken Wing Bird" Marco, bounty: 1.22 billion!

"Fire Fist" Porter Carter D. Ace, bounty: 1 billion 10 million!

……

Looking at these bounty figures that seemed far out of reach in the past, Sauron couldn't help but feel excited.

"Know yourself and the world!"

"Become stronger! Try to surpass me! - Roronoa!!!"

Hawkeye's voice echoed in my ears that day, seeming to become clearer.

The last sentence gradually faded away, and Sauron repeatedly savored the previous sentence "Know yourself, know the world."

He placed his hands on the three knives at his waist. He could tell which knife was which by the touch of his fingertips without looking.

The evil sword and the ghost have been destroyed for three generations, the good sword is gone, the big sword and the Taoist text... The eyes of the three-sword swordsman are burning with fighting spirit.

Over there, Lynch and Dorag looked towards the door of the shabby bar. Tulip came with Robin, Hancock and Sanda.

"It seems you know." Robin waved his latest reward order to Lynch.

"It's just a matter of fun." Lin Qi said with a smile, "It looks more festive."

The bounty amount is so scary, how can it be festive? Sanda was speechless, the best bounty in the world!

Hancock sat next to Lynch, picked up his bottle and took a sip.

"..."

Lin Qi put his arm around her shoulders, pinched one of her cheeks and touched it.

Hancock was forced to pout his face obediently, frowned and glared at him: "What are you doing?"

Lin Qi smiled, pinched her, and turned back to Dorag: "--And in this sea, if you want to become stronger quickly and get a higher bounty value, there is a shortcut, and that is to become Devil fruit users."

Everyone's eyes were on him.

"In this way, many things will be easier to handle..." Lynch said to himself, "For the world government, for her."

Dolag looked at Lynch with sharp eyes, "There are rumors that the cause of Whitebeard's final death was bizarre, and at the end, he left a message to the world, what were the specifics?"

"What you asked is actually the same thing."

Lynch pulled Hancock, who was dissatisfied, to stand up and asked Robin and Zoro to leave the shabby bar together, "Let's go, Luffy and Ace should be awake. They should all have similar questions. , let’s explain it together.”

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"Nami, your bounty has been increased to 300 million beli?!"

"Even Chopper has 100 million Baileys?!"

Luffy woke up, the blanket slipped off his body, and he looked at Usopp yelling while holding a newspaper on the grass.

Chopper, who didn’t know who he was, was still twisting his body shyly, while Usopp quickly knelt down on the ground in frustration, crying silently: "It's because my Transparent Battle is too... Was it successful? It was not noticed at all. The bounty was only symbolically increased by 10,000 beli..."

"It's doubled!" Chopper comforted from the side.

"It went from 10,000 Baileys to 20,000 Baileys. I don't want this doubling!" Usopp yelled with tears in his eyes.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Luffy passing by with a bandage on his body. Usopp couldn't help but happily held up the bounty sign and shouted: "Luffy! Your bounty has increased a lot!"

"Huh? Oh, I know." Luffy asked, "Usopp, Chopper, have you seen Ace?"

Nami and Brooke came over and pointed to the distance: "It should be in the woods on the other side of the hillside. They have just disposed of the remains of Whitebeard and their companions."

"I'll go take a look." Luffy ran over there as soon as he heard it.

"This guy is very quiet..." Usopp and Chopper touched their chins in unison, looking at Luffy's running back and thinking, "Could it be the quality of your Senzu beans, Chopper?" There’s a problem. Did it destroy his head?”

"Yeah, yes, it's a fairy bean-" Chopper jumped up and punched Usopp, "How is that possible!"

"Hehe..." Meili, who was sitting on Nami's shoulder, covered her mouth and snickered.

"Luffy! It's okay!" Nami shouted from a distance. Over there, Luffy turned back, grinned, and gave a thumbs up.

Nami smiled helplessly, "What a worrying captain..."

……

When Luffy found Ace, he saw him kneeling there, as lifeless as if he were dead.

The remaining captains of the Whitebeard Pirates gathered around, leaving a space for Ace. Seeing Luffy coming, someone wanted to stop him from disturbing Ace - Marco stretched out his hand to stop him and nodded to Luffy, "Go ahead. When he woke up and found out that his father had died, he was really shocked..."

"Ace..." Luffy murmured, and walked step by step to Ace, who was kneeling in the open ground and letting the sun shine. He was suddenly startled, and the face of Ace in front of him was filled with tears, and he was speechless. crying.

As if his soul had been sucked out, Ace's face was expressionless, but tears kept falling.

"It's me, Ace!" Luffy turned to sit in front of Ace, but he had never seen his brother look so fragile. He was at a loss for a moment and didn't know what to say. "You..."

Ace was always in a daze, and Luffy couldn't see it. After pondering with his brain, he stood up, rubbed his fists, and punched Ace hard in the face.

Bang!

Ace was punched and sent flying, falling several times before he stopped.

Many of the surrounding Whitebeard remnants were startled and couldn't help but rush over, but were stopped by Marco, Bista and other captains.

"Stop acting like this! This doesn't look like Ace at all!"

Luffy clenched his fists and said loudly, "My brother Ace is a man who will never give up on his companions!"

He pointed at the pirates around who wanted to protect Ace's Whitebeard remnants, "Don't you still have them?!"

Seeing what the Straw Hat Boy said, Bista heard that many brothers around him were very touched, and some were even wiping tears. In fact, everyone has been hit one after another recently, and because of dad's sacrifice, we are a little depressed and sensitive.

"Luffy..."

The corners of Ace's mouth were bleeding and half of his face was swollen. He sat up with his hands on the ground and suddenly heard a chuckle from behind him: "You actually let this kid Luffy educate you. Ace, as a brother, it's a bit embarrassing. ! ”

This voice——? !

Ace turned around suddenly and heard Luffy yelling in surprise: "Saab?!"

Sure enough, walking up from a short distance behind Ace was a young man with short blond hair who was dressed similarly to that time, wearing a high hat and goggles, still holding a broken water pipe as a weapon - ―Saab.

"Ace, I'm sorry..."

Saab walked over step by step, leaned over and stretched out his hand to Ace, smiling with tears in his eyes, "I'm late."

"..."

With half of his face swollen, his face covered with tears from crying, and blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, Ace lowered his head and murmured, "Nope..."

Pa, he took Sabo's extended palm and was pulled to his feet. Luffy shouted excitedly from behind: "Saab!!!"

Ace looked back, and saw Luffy rushing towards him with open arms, no, it should be said that he hit him.

"What are you doing, Luffy! I'm still injured!"

Bang!

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(Slightly modified from the previous chapter)