Luffy, how can you become the Pirate King if you don't work hard!

Then, the future Emperor of the Sea was dragged into the kitchen by Zeff by the ear to wash dishes as payment for his debt. The training plan for becoming the Pirate King was quite a torment for him.

"Is this the Zeff I know?"

Volcano culinary master Frye was turning the wild boar on the grill when he heard this, and he looked a little surprised. "If it's that Red-Leg Zeff, I've heard a lot about his deeds."

He was quite famous in the New World many years ago. It's said that his chef-themed pirate crew ventured deep into several dangerous routes of the Grand Line, and his leg techniques were renowned.

Of course, he is most famous for his cooking skills.

Zeff suddenly disappeared afterward, apparently having opened a floating restaurant in the East China Sea.

"Hey, is that old man a great pirate too?"

"So that's how famous it is."

The crew who joined after the Grand Line let out a unified exclamation.

Sanji keeps calling Zeff an old man, but when his friends praise him, he can't help but smile.

When it comes to cooking skills, Luffy also learned them from Sanji.

At the beginning of the One Piece training program, the system forced him to learn some basic cooking skills from Sanji, a point on which his crewmates all agreed.

Because Luffy learns everything from everyone: he learns swordsmanship from Zoro, cooking from Sanji, navigation from Nami, medicine from Chopper, and history from Robin... and he learns them very well.

Hancock lowered her hand from her chin and raised her chin with a hint of pride. "Luffy has cooked for me many times before."

"It's not like I haven't eaten it before."

Nami showed no stage fright whatsoever.

How can they possibly start arguing in such a bizarre place?

Luffy thought to himself, "You guys have all been cooked and eaten by me before." On the other hand, Shirahoshi and the others were watching with great interest, not saying they supported anyone. They were just watching the show and enjoying the spectacle. This kind of thing was common on the ship.

Zoro and Sanji often argue about some inexplicable thing, and then they start fighting over each other, calling each other a perverted cook and a stinky swordsman.

The battlefield here hasn't spread.

While Nami and Hancock were taking a break, each picking up their cups to rehydrate, Vivi approached with a cup of red tea, her demeanor still elegant and poised, showing no sign that she had also watched the entire performance.

"By the way, how much did we gain on this trip to Grantezoro? I noticed that all the treasure in the storage room has been shrunk. It must have been because there was too much of it, and Merry helped to compress its size," Vivi asked.

"According to Tezzolo himself, he has tens of billions of Berries in cash, not to mention gold and silver jewelry."

Nami switched from battle mode to financial mode in an instant, and her excitement became visibly apparent.

He pulled out a ledger from his person and opened it. The densely packed numbers on it made Luffy, who had come over to take a look, gasp.

Isn't that a bit too much?

Does that mean he has to become the world's richest man before he can become the Pirate King?

Well, it's not impossible, really. Who can resist money?

According to Nami's explanation, Tesoro's wealth is mostly in fixed assets, such as casinos, hotels, entertainment facilities, as well as investment shares and arms trade throughout the New World.

If all of those could be converted into cash, it wouldn't just be tens of billions of dollars in cash; it could potentially sweep up almost 10% of the wealth of the entire ocean.

Even so, it's still a lot. Add to that the gold and silver treasures, and even the entire Sunny couldn't hold it all.

"Wow, this is the first time I've ever seen so much money!" Kuzan exclaimed in shock. Actually, a Navy Admiral's annual salary isn't small; it's the highest tier besides the Fleet Admiral. But to earn this much money, how many years of salary would it take to be an Admiral?

Maybe in the next life.

No, it's not even possible in the next life or the one after that.

Too much.

According to Nami's generous statement, everyone can just take the money if they need it, and they can also take any pretty gold or silver treasures they fancy.

She was unusually generous this time.

After all, she had so much money this time that she felt she could never spend it all in her lifetime, so being generous became effortless.

For the first time, Nami felt that even if she threw a box of Berries off the stern of the ship every day to feed the Sea Kings, she didn't know if she would be able to throw them all away by the time she died.

This feeling of being richer than a country... no, it's truly being richer than a country!

Don't forget, besides all the pewter and gold and silver treasures, the most valuable thing is actually that golden stone tablet.

After Tesoro melted down all the gold in the city of gold and cast it into a new golden monument, it may now contain nearly half of the world's gold.

What does that mean?

Anyway, Merry is feeling a lot of pressure right now, and he keeps saying he wants to train with Luffy, otherwise the ship will sink.

Thanks to the ship spirit's special abilities, otherwise we really wouldn't have been able to take so much stuff with us.

The result was merely a tool Luffy used for training.

"Aside from those, these two things are the most important right now."

Vivi put down her teacup, took out a box wrapped in velvet from her handbag, and placed it on the low table in the center of the deck.

When the box is opened, two Devil Fruits of different colors lie quietly on a black velvet cushion, their surfaces adorned with unique patterns. One is a gradient gray-white, while the other is a light green Paramecia-type Devil Fruit.

This is what she found deep inside Tesoro's private vault, locked in a specially made sea stone safe. If it weren't for Merry's abilities, just opening that safe would have taken a lot of effort.

"It's a Devil Fruit, does anyone recognize it?"

Everyone crowded around to take a look, and then looked up at Weiwei.

Among the people here, she was the only one who had seen the Devil Fruit encyclopedia.

Vivi nodded and then said, "One is a Zoan type and the other is a Paramecia type. The description of this Zoan type in the Pokédex is rather vague. It doesn't specify which animal it is, but we know that it may belong to an ancient Zoan type."

An ancient species of the animal family?

Everyone's gaze involuntarily turned to the Devil Fruit that Vivi pointed to. The name was actually quite familiar to them; the elephant they encountered in Zou was an Ancient Zoan. Vivi had mentioned information about the Kaido Pirates, saying that most of the main officers possessed Ancient Zoan Devil Fruits.

Compared to ordinary Zoan-type, Ancient Zoan are significantly stronger, and even if they can't compare to the strongest Mythical Zoan, they aren't that far behind.

Vivi then pointed to the light green fruit, "This Paramecia-type fruit is a negative fruit, which can inflict various negative effects on the user's attacks, including burning, poisoning, paralysis, weakness, confusion, petrification... These effects can be stacked or activated individually as needed. The attack method is not limited to physical attacks; ranged attacks are also applicable."

After Vivi finished speaking, everyone couldn't help but look at Usopp.

Paramecia-type Devil Fruits with negative effects—those effects are practically an epic boost for Usopp, a sniper.

For a sniper, there is no more suitable fruit.

Usopp swallowed hard, a hint of excitement in his eyes.

The idea of ​​using a slingshot to fire projectiles with both burning and paralyzing effects, rendering enemies immobile before they even get close, made his breath catch in his throat.

But he quickly calmed down.

Because eating a Devil Fruit means becoming unable to swim.

"Aren't there too many people with superpowers on our ship? What if we fall into the sea?" Usopp couldn't help but ask.

Luffy pouted, "What's there to be afraid of? I'm not afraid of seawater."

Kuzan nodded. "I'm not afraid either."

His Ice Age could freeze the ocean into walkable ice fields.

The sea was a wonderful terrain for him.

Jinbe poked his head out from the side of the ship and said, "I'm not afraid either."

He was a fish-man, and the sea was his home.

Hearing the conversation from another cabin, Shirahoshi timidly added, "I... I'm not afraid of seawater either."

Everyone: "..."

There seem to be too many people on this ship who aren't afraid of seawater.

They're both landlubbers who ate Devil Fruits.

"Then I'll eat it."

Usopp took a deep breath and held the light green fruit in both hands.

The fruit was cool to the touch, and the swirling patterns on its skin seemed to shimmer slightly the moment he touched it.

He closed his eyes, took the worst bite of his life, and almost threw up his entire breakfast.

"What the hell is this smell?!"

Usopp covered his mouth, his face scrunched up, and his eyes reddened. "Like a moldy rag soaking in swill!"

"Welcome to the Ability User Club,"

Luffy clapped his hands with a completely unsympathetic laugh, "Now you're a landlubber too!"

He didn't really feel anything when he ate the Devil Fruit, because he was scared by Shanks and then swallowed it directly.

As for the other Zoan-type Devil Fruit, everyone looked at each other, seemingly uninterested.

Zoro goes without saying; he only has eyes for swords, and forging swords into black blades is his training. Eating Devil Fruits is, in his view, a desecration of the swordsman's path.

Sanji shook his head as well. "Although I don't want to admit it, the Vinsmoke family has indeed left me a lot."

The Vinsmoke family's exoskeleton made their bodies incredibly hard, like aliens.

The boost from the Zoan type was more of a bonus than a necessity for him, and given his determination not to be a non-swimmer, this fruit was out of his reach.

Everyone looked at each other, and there were only a few people without Devil Fruits, and they didn't seem to want to eat them.

"Why not give it to Reiju?"

Sanji suddenly spoke, looking at his older sister sitting on the side of the women.

Reiju was taken aback, not expecting her younger brother to consider this for her.

“我不需要战斗。”

Reiju shook her head and smiled, "I'm only traveling with you to see Sanji; I won't get involved in your battle."

Franky stared at it for a long time before asking, "Could this Devil Fruit be a dinosaur type?"

"Dinosaur?!"

"Could it be possible to transform into a mechanical dinosaur?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Luffy and Chopper stared at Franky with their eyes lighting up. "Can we see the mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex?!"