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Upon seeing Wood extend his hand to them, Mary and Sonia instinctively closed their eyes and crouched down.

Although Hancock was also afraid, as the older sister, she resolutely ran to her two younger sisters to protect them.

Although Hancock closed her eyes tightly out of fear, she still opened her arms to protect her two younger sisters behind her.

One second, two seconds... time slowly passed, but Hancock did not feel the pain she remembered coming from her body.

So soon, she opened her eyes again, puzzled.

Then, what came into view was the black-haired man in front of him, smiling and eating his food heartily.

The hand that the other person had just reached out was not meant to grab them, but rather to grab the food in front of them.

And eating these foods in front of them was also to prove that these foods didn't contain any strange additives.

"How about it? Are you relieved now? Although I've never considered myself a good person, I still wouldn't stoop to using such underhanded tactics."

Your sister must have been starving for days. It would be a real headache for us if you starved to death along the way.”

Wood didn't immediately show that he was a good person, because that would only make the little girl in front of him more wary of him.

"I want the food you're holding that's half-eaten!"

Hearing what Wood said, Hancock was still not completely wary of him and cautiously expressed her desire for the half-eaten roast meat in Wood's hand.

"Alright, cautious little guy, as long as you don't mind."

Hancock cautiously took the half-eaten piece of roast meat from Wood's hand, then immediately distanced herself from him, as if worried that he might do something to her.

After taking a look at the roasted meat that had already been bitten several times, Hancock checked it repeatedly to make sure it was okay, and then quickly handed it to her two hungry sisters behind her.

Mary and Sonia, who were already starving, were even less likely to mind that the roasted meat had been eaten by someone else when they received it from their sister, and immediately began to wolf it down.

As for Hancock, seeing her two younger sisters eating with relish, her expression revealed longing. However, as Mary and Sonia's older sister, Hancock would definitely try to steal food from her sisters.

“Look, little girl, I also took a bite out of this apple, so you should believe it’s okay now.”

Hancock looked at the roasted meat in her sisters' hands, and her stomach, which hadn't eaten for many days, involuntarily let out a muffled drumbeat.

However, just as her attention was completely drawn to the barbecue, a half-eaten apple suddenly appeared in front of her.

Looking at the apple in front of her, Hancock wanted to pick it up and throw it away, but her current physical condition wouldn't allow her to do so.

Unlike most of the people here who had completely given up hope for the future, even after becoming a slave, Hancock did not completely give up hope.

Besides, what would happen to Mary and Sonia if she collapsed first?

With that in mind, Hancock suppressed her disgust for Wood, took the apple from his hand, and began to take large bites.

Because the auctioneers were worried that the slaves would escape, they kept them from dying and never fed them properly.

Hancock and the others had also been hungry for several days, so a single apple was certainly not enough to satisfy her hunger.

So quickly, Hancock finished almost half an apple in just a few bites. When she saw Wood reach for the food in front of her again, Hancock picked it up first and started eating it in big mouthfuls.

She could tell that the food provided by the other party was probably fine; otherwise, Wood wouldn't have been so confident.

Now that she had confirmed the food was safe, Hancock had no interest in eating other people's leftovers, and even less interest in Wood's saliva. Naturally, she wouldn't let him enjoy the food in front of her.

The three Boa sisters ate with great relish, and they seemed perfectly fine.

So soon, the others locked in the iron cages also became excited and reached their hands into Hancock's cages.

As for those who were farther away, they began to ask Wood for food, completely forgetting that they had just ignored him.

However, this is the real reality: when faced with dire circumstances, not everyone can stay true to themselves.

These people had been starving for days, and when they felt there was no hope, their attitude was naturally quite tough.

However, when they saw that Wood actually provided them with food, they couldn't escape the "it smells so good" phenomenon.

Chapter 50 The Sudden Attack of the Fishmen

"Now that you've eaten your fill, you can talk to me now, otherwise it's quite boring to be alone."

Actually, I've felt that the three of you look familiar. What are your names, and how did you get caught?

Hancock remained deaf to Wood's questions. Although he had indeed provided them with food, that did not change the fact that he was working for the Celestial Dragons.

However, Hancock's failure to answer Wood's question does not mean that Mary and Sonia did the same.

Hancock is more mature, after all, she is now twelve years old, while Mary and Sonia are still children.

In their eyes, Wood had given them delicious food, unlike the bad guys at my auction. Moreover, Wood seemed sunny and kind, not like a bad person at all, so they answered Wood's questions without thinking.

"Big brother, we were kidnapped from the Kuja Pirates and taken to the Sabaody Archipelago by human traffickers."

My name is Mary, and my sisters are Sonia and Hancock. Can you let us leave?

"When we return to the Amazon Lily Kingdom, we will repay you in the future..."

“Mary, he’s with those bad guys. Don’t think he’s a good person just because you’ve given him a little food!”

Mary had only spoken halfway when Hancock, who was standing next to her, reprimanded her.

The three sisters were kidnapped because they trusted others too easily, which has led Hancock to have a great distrust of everyone around her now.

However, what Hancock didn't notice was that when he heard Mary announce their names, Wood froze on the spot.

Mary and Sonia are one thing, but the name Hancock is a household name for anyone who has watched One Piece!

Boa Hancock, the Pirate Empress, is known as the world's most beautiful woman. She is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit user with the Love-Love Fruit and one of the future Seven Warlords of the Sea. She possesses both strength and beauty.

No wonder Wood felt the group looked familiar; they must have run into some big shots!

According to the timeline, Hancock and her companions were indeed brought to the Holy Land of Mary Geoise at this point in time.

They were then tortured by the Celestial Dragons for several years until the fishman hero Fisher Tiger climbed up the Holy Land of Mary Geoise with his bare hands. After the slaves were freed, the three of them were able to escape Mary Geoise in the chaos and return to the Amazon Lily Kingdom.

Hancock, now twelve years old, may not yet possess the stunning beauty of the future "world's most beautiful woman," but her current face already shows that she is a true beauty in the making.

As for Mary and Sonia, while they weren't as good-looking as Hancock, they were still quite attractive. Wood simply couldn't understand why the two of them had turned into such grotesque creatures twenty years later...

While Devil Fruits do cause some degree of physical changes, Mary and Sonia's appearances twenty years later have even deviated from the realm of normal humans.

Upon learning that the three sisters before him were the future empresses of the Amazonian lily kingdom, Wood had originally intended to take the opportunity to improve his relationship with them.

However, before he could speak, the two-masted sailboat they were on suddenly began to rock violently!

The sea is calm and the weather is quite normal. Unless it hits a reef or encounters other problems, such a phenomenon is unlikely to occur.

Gion received a perfect score in navigation at the naval academy, and with the guidance of nautical charts, it was impossible for her to make the mistake of navigating the ship into a reef area.

That means the only possible cause of the ship's violent rocking is an external force.

"Wood, our ship has been attacked from the bottom. They must be after the captured mermaids."

If the hull is breached, not only will the two of us perish, but everyone else will surely die here.

There were no other ships around, and even if Gion didn't explicitly say so, Wood could probably guess that the other party was a fish-man.

Fishmen and mermaids are both races living on Fishman Island. Fishmen have fish faces and human bodies, so most of them are ugly and are rejected by humans.

Mermaids, on the other hand, have human bodies and fish tails, and are generally very beautiful, so they are usually kept as pets by wealthy people in this world.

Mermaids possess the world's fastest swimming speed, while fish-men, though not as fast as mermaids with fish tails, possess considerable combat capabilities.

The most common way fishmen attack human ships is to pierce the bottom of the ship, causing the opponent to fall into the sea.

Because once they enter the sea, the fish-men are invincible!

Fishmen have always considered humans to be an inferior race because they cannot breathe in the sea, but they are different; they can move freely whether on land or in water.

From a biological perspective, fish-men are indeed more evolved than humans.

After all, they are amphibious and possess intelligence equivalent to humans. The fact that they can breathe underwater is enough to prove that fish-men are indeed more adapted to the environment of this world.

Now that Wood and his crew have only recently left the Sabaody Archipelago, even if the ship were scuttled, Wood and Gion's combined strength would allow them to return to the island using "Moonwalk."

But what about the others on the ship? Regardless of their own strength, their hands and feet were bound with iron chains, and they were locked in a large iron cage.

Once the ship sinks, everyone except the mermaid who can breathe in the sea will almost certainly die!

This is probably the original intention of those fish-men in the sea. The reason they chose to act now is because even fish-men do not have the physical strength to cross the ocean.

In addition, apart from the mermaids on the ship, all other people, whether slaves or those responsible for escorting them, were not considered by these fish-people to be their kind. If they died, they died, and no one would go back to sympathize with them.

Feeling the ship rocking, Gion didn't hesitate. She immediately took off her coat, revealing a bikini that Wood found very attractive, and prepared to jump into the sea.

Fighting fish-men in the sea is undoubtedly an extremely foolish act, but given the current situation, Gion really doesn't have a better solution.

"Let me go down. You are responsible for protecting the people on the ship."

Seeing Gion about to jump into the sea, Wood took off his shirt first and jumped into the sea from the boat before Gion could speak.

Human visibility in the ocean is very low, and fish-men are extremely fast in the water. Wood, who has mastered Observation Haki to a certain extent, is indeed more suitable than Gion to fight fish-men in the water.

Chapter 51 Are fishmen invincible in the sea?

Human activities in the sea are certainly not comparable to those on land.

Besides the fatal weakness of not being able to breathe underwater, the strong resistance of seawater also greatly weakens the power of punches, kicks, and slashes.

Wood used to always carry an extremely heavy weight suit, and his daily activities and training had made him accustomed to this kind of gravity.