Pirate: It’s not a phantom beast, it’s a phantom god!

Chapter 176 The Children of the Murlocs
Ossi: “?”

Kaido: "..."

Ossi: “?!”

Kaido: "..."

Ossi: “↑↓”

Kaido: “┗(￢￢)┛”

Oshi: "(￣へ￣)"

"Then I'll leave this matter to you."

"彳庍口巴..."

“But I can’t guarantee success.”

"It doesn't matter. If it succeeds, that's even better. If it doesn't, there's no loss."

Kaido patted Ossi's shoulder, then stood up and left.

From beginning to end, he never even looked at the merman children in training.

……

"Hey, Ossi. What does Boss Kaido want from you?"

"So mysterious."

Seeing that Kaido had walked away, Burfat also came up to Osi and asked in a low voice.

"Ah~"

"Nothing, just asking me to cause some trouble at the ceremony. It would be best if I could find a good excuse to beat up Big Mom's sons."

"what?!"

"Why do you do this?"

The relationship between them, the Beasts, and the Big Mom Pirates is actually quite good, especially recently as more and more new pistols are produced by weapons factories, Wano Country has also started purchasing them in large quantities.

The two sides are actually relatively important trading partners.

"Use them as cushions~"

Ossie pouted.

"You were calling her 'Ling Ling, Ling Ling,' so affectionately, and yet you turned around and made trouble on someone else's most important day..."

"Boss Kaido is such a person...tsk tsk tsk~"

"It's a pity that a person like me, who is honest and good at speaking, has to pick a fight with others... Don't you think this is embarrassing for me, Ao?"

"I don't know how I'm going to open my mouth when the time comes."

Ossi put his hands behind his back, shook his head and sighed.

It was as if she had suffered a great injustice and her innocence had been tarnished by agreeing to this matter.

"Haha...just be careful with what you say when the time comes."

Burfat smiled awkwardly and sighed in his heart.

After all, he is the boss Kaido, he is really good at judging people!

If this matter was handed over to La or Ou Bei, they probably wouldn't care at all, and they might even get scolded.

Only Osi, the outspoken female ghost, is the most suitable.

It's just a pity for Big Mom's sons.

"Humph~"

Ossi glanced at Burfat and ignored him, walking back swaying his steps and humming a little tune.

"I'll beat you with a steel whip, and I'll beat you to death, you little bastard!"

……

During the break, the fish-man children who had practiced fish-man karate for the whole morning sat in groups of three or four on the training ground and began to chat.

It was their first time to come to the world above the sea and they were full of curiosity about it.

"Boss Jinbe, the place where humans live isn't that great either. Not even as beautiful as Fishman Island."

“The food is good, though.”

"Xiao Ba, don't you think so?"

The person who spoke was a shark-like fishman who looked about the same age as Ossi, but had a mouth full of sharp teeth.

He was lying on the ground, legs crossed, a toothpick dangling from his mouth, looking rather nonchalant. This child, named Aaron, was a fish-man orphan brought to Fenrir Island by Bulfat a few weeks earlier; he was among the earlier arrivals.

After arriving here, these children were first arranged to have the first full meal in their memory. Then they trained with Burfat during the day and were forced to read and learn to read at night.

"Humph! You brat."

"Back when we were in Fishman Street, you'd sneak up to the surface every now and then to peek at the human world, but now you don't seem to be interested anymore?"

"Besides, here we have food to eat, a bed to sleep in, and we can even learn skills like Fishman Karate. What more could you want?"

Before the octopus-fishman child named 'Xiao Ba' could speak, another whale shark-man who was sitting next to him, holding a literacy booklet and studying seriously, looked up and gave him a lecture.

He was older than Aaron, about fourteen or fifteen years old, and looked big and strong. He was kind of a leader among this group of kids.

"Shahaha~ Don't be angry~ Boss Jinbei, I'm just saying that."

Seeing his elder brother like this, Aaron also laughed awkwardly.

"Hey~ I wonder where Brother Tiger is traveling now. Is there any chance for me to meet him?"

"Now that we've come to land, there's always a chance we can meet."

Jinbe thought of the legendary figure who conquered Fishman Town and then traveled on land, and he couldn't help but feel envious.

Unfortunately, he is not strong enough now and cannot walk alone in the human country like that.

"By the way, Boss Jinbei, do you know that pretty human chick and that tall monster with horns?"

Osi and Kaido, who had just left, left a deep impression on Aaron, who had never seen the world.

Whether it was Ossi's face, which was a hundred times more exquisite than all other mermaids, or Kaido's aura, which was more terrifying than the great knight King Neptune, both severely impacted the fragile worldview of this little fishman.

It turns out that there are people like this outside of Fishman Street, outside of Fishman Island, and on the sea.

Generally speaking, aesthetics is quite subjective, and the gap between mermaids' and humans' aesthetics is even greater.

But there's no way around it, Ossi is objectively beautiful.

Originally created by human hands and refined by the power of gods, its face almost meets the aesthetic standards of all creatures.

This is the instinctive yearning of ordinary creatures for perfect creatures.

"A human chick? A horned monster?"

Hearing this, Jinbei simply closed the booklet and said seriously:
"These two are not ordinary people."

"Brother Burfat told me that the girl is a core member of the Beasts Pirates, just like him, and she's even stronger than him."

"Stronger than Brother Burfat?! How is that possible?!"

"That's just an ordinary human child about my age, right?"

Aaron was so shocked when he heard this that he sat up. As a fellow fishman, he knew Burfat's strength better than anyone else.

It is an extremely powerful monster that can hardly be matched in the entire Fishman Island.

"It's true. Brother Burfat told me this himself."

"Besides, she's not just an ordinary human girl. She seems to be from some phantom god or phantom beast tribe. In any case, she's definitely not human."

"Brother Burfat said that none of the captains and core members of the Beasts Pirates are pure humans."

"It's not human..."

Aaron nodded and lay back down again.

"What about that horned monster? Is he also a core cadre?"

"No, that's the captain, or governor, of the Beasts Pirates—Kaido!"

Thinking back to the aura that Kaido had just unconsciously released, Jinbei felt a chill on his back.

He had once had the good fortune to witness that terrifying power that could make people unable to move with just a casual glance.

It was at the Fishman Island Festival a few years ago. Jinbe was mixed in with the crowd and wanted to take advantage of the chaos to grab some food.

Then he saw the man walking with King Neptune, the great pirate who was like a devil and protected the entire Fishman Island with just one word - Edward Newgate.

"Aaron, you'd better behave yourself here and stop being lawless like you were in Fishman Street."

"There are too many people in this ocean that we, or even the entire Fishman Island, cannot afford to offend."

Jinbei warned his younger brother, who had some personality issues, in a serious tone.

"I know, I know."

Arlong responded with a toothpick in his mouth, but he couldn't help but think of Kaido's attitude of not taking them seriously at all.

[Core cadres, Governor-General…]
[Just wait, one day I, Aaron, will become strong enough for you to look at me in the eye.]
(End of this chapter)