Reincarnated into the world of One Piece, in a land of giants with open eyes?!

Chapter 135: What can you do to me?

Oro remained unfazed by the sudden increase in pressure.

He simply stretched out his arm and put his arm around the shoulder of the golden statue of Lox, as casually as if he were putting his arm around a drunken companion in a tavern.

He shrugged indifferently: "A price or something —"

Oro's tone was even a little impatient, as if the other party had asked an unnecessary question: "You'll know after you sign it, you have to sign it anyway, right?"

"Is there a difference between asking now and experiencing it after signing? If I know the consequences in advance, what if I regret it and don't want to sign anymore? That would be so embarrassing."

"Let's just be straightforward and sign it first. Whether it's good or bad, we'll bear the consequences ourselves."

The gentleman was silent for two seconds, looking Oro up and down, and then suddenly smiled again, but this time there was something else in his smile, like a child who had discovered a new toy.

"ah----"

He drew out his words, as if suddenly realizing something: "I see, I understand now."

The gentleman used his free hand to poke his temple hard and stirred it: "You're not sincere about signing the contract at all. You're just stalling for time. You're thinking of indirectly finding out the contents of the contract by invading the brain of this rude pirate."

His gaze fell on the golden statue of Lox: "Hmm, that's true."

"After all, he swallowed six roses, and even though he is now in this state, his mind and his soul are still intertwined with those gifts."

"You want to use your abilities to forcibly read his consciousness at this moment to steal information?"

The gentleman's voice became a little sharper, with a smug satisfaction at knowing the secret: "How—not very honest."

"On the surface, they were dealing with me, bargaining, and showing no concern for the cost, but in secret they were plotting these underhanded tactics."

"Tsk tsk, human cunning, no matter how much time has passed, is always so—full of lowbrow humor."

Oro showed no panic at being exposed, nor did he intend to refute; he simply raised an eyebrow and put on an innocent look.

"Oh?"

Oro blinked: "What are you suddenly babbling about?"

"Is adding a skill requirement too much? I think it's very reasonable."

"After all, times have changed. The packages from eight hundred years ago are no longer sufficient. They need to be upgraded, perhaps with an expansion pack or something."

His unreasonable demands seemed to have driven the gentleman to his last shred of patience.

"You want another explosion on the tower?"

The gentleman's voice turned cold, devoid of its exaggerated inflections and seductive endings, becoming flat and dangerous: "Hmm, I see. Your gold is oscillating at a high frequency, larger in scale and with more concentrated energy than the one that exploded in the tower before—"

The gentleman licked his lips morbidly, tearing away the veneer of elegance to reveal the inhuman grotesqueness beneath.

"Oh dear, after their plan was exposed, they became enraged and decided to use violence to cover it up?"

"But it's a pity~"

He abruptly changed the subject, his tone mocking: "You are a Devil Fruit user, and this is the ocean ten thousand meters deep!"

"You really believe that those three little girls in that ridiculous metal hull floating above the city can pull you out in time?"

"Or are you confident you can force me to comply?"

The gentleman slightly raised his chin, his contempt undisguised.

"Tsk."

Auro dropped his innocent expression and smiled somewhat unhappily: "The devil's mind-reading ability, huh? How terrifying."

He said it was terrible, but his tone showed no fear: "However, you mentioned the explosion on the tower, right?"

"Oh dear, have you forgotten that you couldn't stop me from blowing up the tower?"

He took a small step forward, closing the distance between himself and the gentleman, which was already less than ten meters.

This action caused a slightly larger ripple to spread across the black water behind the gentleman, which had been gently undulating.

"Your actions of taking away the mud tablet and performing the act of cutting a rose from a heart were really impressive, and the visual effects were amazing."

Oro spoke calmly, showing no sign of panic: "But no matter how much you try to intimidate, no matter how much you display your strangeness and power, you can't hide one fact—"

"You were forced to reveal yourself under our attack, and you were only able to evade my senses to some extent and play those tricks after capturing my gold dust."

Auro's golden pupils grew brighter, illuminating his aggressive face: "A demon who can grant immortality can only resort to such means when facing two mortals?"

"Your methods are simply not worthy of the status you aspire to."

Auro spread his hands: "I'll assume you're a real demon, but you must have a lot of limitations, right?"

"So much so that you need to use this method to guide, entice, or even require customers to take certain steps on their own initiative?"

"So big that you can't crush us two tiny insects?"

Oro gave the gentleman a provocative, scrutinizing look: "Even if I refuse to sign, besides continuing to use persuasive tactics to seduce and intimidate, or showing off some mind-reading tricks like you did just now—"

He tilted his head slightly, mimicking the gentleman's previous demeanor: "What can you do to me?"

"What an adorable stress response!"

After Oro finished speaking, the gentleman simply smiled calmly and said, "If you don't want to sign, then don't waste my time."

Upon hearing this, Oro immediately mustered all his strength to respond.

The gentleman waved his hand dismissively at Oro's all-out effort: "But in the end, I still want to thank you for your little favor."

"Believe me----"

The gentleman's voice began to drift, as if coming from a great distance, or as if echoing directly in his mind: "You will come again, and then you will be begging me in a sorry state."

As soon as He finished speaking—

"Thump!"

Oro felt the surrounding scenery blur and stretch instantly!

After a dizzying, nauseating twist, the solid black platform beneath his feet vanished, replaced by icy, bone-chilling seawater—he was instantly transported from that twisted giant city to the depths of the ocean!

Caught off guard by the sudden contact with seawater, Oro managed to heat his face in time, and the large amount of bubbles prevented the seawater from penetrating his body, but the feeling of powerlessness still grew stronger.

His body surface had lost sensation due to contact with seawater, but he could still control his bones, which had also turned to gold.

At the critical moment, Oro decisively detonated his already golden left arm.

A small sun rose abruptly from the pitch-black seabed at a depth of 10,000 meters!

The dazzling light instantly pierced through the seawater within a radius of several thousand meters, illuminating the strange and unusual deep-sea creatures in the surrounding waters.

A futuristic black submarine, like a large black fish chasing the sun, darted over urgently.