XX-level Hokage

Later, due to the century-long history of corruption on Fishman Island and the Great Pirate Era, the Fishman and Merfolk races suffered ruthless destruction and abuse at the hands of humans. This led Arlong to believe that Fishman was a superior race and that humans were worthless. In his youth, he often told the children of Fishman Street about the ugliness and incompetence of humans and told them to launch a "holy war" to destroy humanity in the future.

Later, out of respect for Shirley, Arlong became a soldier in the Ryugu Kingdom. However, when he saw Queen Otohime of the Ryugu Kingdom calling for people to move to the mainland, he deliberately stole the signatures collected by Queen Otohime. Because of this, Arlong was reprimanded by Jinbe and then left the army in a huff.

Until Tiger appeared, he conquered all the fish-men, including Jinbe and Arlong, with his strength and magnanimity. Arlong's extreme ideology also influenced Tiger.

Under the influence of Ge, he gradually began to calm down.

After Tiger's death, Arlong's thoughts became even more extreme. He was determined to kill all the humans who betrayed Tiger, and was then defeated by a vice admiral.

During interrogation, Arlong concealed the truth that Tiger died because he refused to donate blood from humans, falsely claiming that Tiger died from the selfish act of humans refusing to donate blood. In the end, he was imprisoned in Impel Down, the underwater prison.

After being released from prison, he learned that Jinbe had joined the Seven Warlords of the Sea, so he left the Sun Pirates and returned to his old life. The former followers of Arlong also left with him.

Jinbe initially thought Arlong had reformed, but it turned out he had gone to the East Blue, attempting to establish a so-called "Fishman Kingdom." Soon, Mashiro and Jinbe arrived at the cemetery, where Shirahoshi was standing before Otohime's tombstone, her expression now calm.

Chapter 107: Prophecy

"Have you said everything you wanted to say?" Mashiro asked, skillfully entering Shirahoshi's bosom.

"Yes, yes, I've already said goodbye to Mother." Shirahoshi said softly. "Is there anywhere else you want to go next, Shirahoshi-chan?" Mashiro asked softly. "No, Mashiro-sama." Shirahoshi replied obediently.

"Then let's go to the Mermaid Cafe next," Mashiro said softly.

"A coffee shop?" Bai Xing asked, somewhat puzzled, as she was completely unfamiliar with the concept.

Seeing Shirahoshi's puzzled expression, Mashiro instantly understood. That's right, given Neptune's attitude towards Shirahoshi, he certainly wouldn't let her suffer any hardship.

There is no bitterness whatsoever, including the bitterness in taste.

"Coffee is a special beverage, similar to apple juice or grape juice, but it tastes bitter, and a coffee shop is a place that specializes in selling coffee," Mashiro explained softly.

"There are even bitter drinks?! Does anyone actually drink them?" Shirahoshi covered her mouth, exclaiming in surprise. "I'm just as puzzled by this," Mashiro said, spreading her hands.

She also dislikes coffee, but Izumi loves it and even had the ice cream shop create its own independent coffee brand. The Mermaid Café, a luxurious café run by "Madam Shirley," employs many beautiful female mermaids as waitresses. When the café needs staff, it hires mermaids from Mermaid Bay to help, making it very popular among the mermaids.

The shop offers cakes, underwater fruits, shellfish and seaweed dishes, but because mermaids don't eat meat or fish, the shop doesn't offer meat or fish as staple foods.

At this moment, in the Mermaid Cafe, Shirley was leaning against an incredibly soft seashell bed, holding a white clam in her hands, with a transparent water sphere inside.

Shirley would occasionally use her crystal ball to perform divination. When she did, she used the crystal ball to foresee the future, and the accuracy of her predictions was as high as 100%. The only drawback was that she could not predict the exact time when an event would occur; she only knew that it would definitely happen.

Therefore, Shirley used divination as a means of protecting Fishman Island, and would occasionally use her crystal ball to divine the island's future. "Ding-a-ling!"

The doorbell rang, followed by a waiter's welcoming voice. Shirley looked up and saw Jinbe walking in with a human girl.

"Long time no see, Shirley." Jinbe led Mashiro to the bar and greeted Shirley.

"Brother Jinbe, what brings you here all of a sudden? Is something the matter?" Shirley glanced at Mashiro, then withdrew her light and asked Jinbe calmly, "There is something I need to tell you, but let me introduce you first. This is Mashiro, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. He's acquainted with me and Arlong."

"A person," Jinbe began, introducing himself.

"One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea? If I'm not mistaken, this must be the newly appointed sorcerer." Shirley sized up Mashiro and said, "One of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. The Seven Warlords of the Sea are the World Government's recognized great pirates. Legend has it that each member possesses catastrophic destructive power and is comparable to a nation."

Its immense combat power.

It consists of "World's Greatest Swordsman" Dracule Mihawk, "Tyrant" Bartholomew Kuma, "Heavenly Demon" Donquixote Doflamingo, "Empress" Boa Hancock, "Shadow Demon" Gecko Moria, "Knight of the Sea" Jinbe, and "Sand Crocodile" Crocodile. However, since Crocodile was defeated by a new pirate, his title of Shichibukai was inherited by him.

The new Shichibukai's name is unknown; all that is known is that she is a woman with the code name "Sorcerer."

Of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Dracule Mihawk, Bartholomew Kuma, Donquixote Doflamingo, Gecko Moria, and Jinbe are male.

Only Boa Hancock and the sorcerer are women, and Boa Hancock, as the queen of Kuja, has a serpent companion. Given this, Mashiro's identity can be quite clearly guessed.

“That’s right, I am Mashiro. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mrs. Shirley.” Mashiro smiled and extended his hand to Shirley. While Shirley was sizing up Mashiro, Mashiro was also silently sizing up Shirley.

Compared to other ordinary mermaids and humans, Shirley is much larger.

She had short black hair that covered her right cheek, cold blue eyes, pale skin, and a rather voluptuous bust.

The front half of its tail is dark blue, the back half is white, it has a dorsal fin on its lower back, a pair of small fins near the tail, and a crescent-shaped caudal fin.

She wore a dark purple hooded top, buttoning only the middle button, revealing her breasts and belly, and wore purple nail polish and red lipstick. To be honest, Mashiro now completely agrees with what Jinbe said earlier: compared to mermaids, fishmen are somewhat too crude.

As half-siblings, looking at Shirley and then at A-Long, it's like comparing heaven and earth. Shirley hesitated only for a moment before offering her hand to Mashiro's outstretched one.

Shirley has a very calm and dignified personality and dislikes vulgar questions and crude behavior. Masashi's appearance, temperament and behavior are all very much in line with Shirley's aesthetic.

"Speak, is there anything you want to tell me?" Shirley asked Jinbe after gently shaking his hand and withdrawing it.

"Arlong is dead." Upon hearing this, Jinbe said bluntly. Shirley was stunned for a moment.

"He attacked and occupied more than 20 villages in the East Blue and established his own military rule. Under the pretext of establishing an empire, he charged fees to the people he ruled and committed all sorts of evil deeds. In the end, he was killed by a passing pirate." Jinbe explained Arlong's cause of death very succinctly.

“Alright, I understand. He deserved it.” Shirley sighed softly and said. “Since you already know, we’ll be leaving now,” Jinbe said.

"Wait, Brother Jinbe, could I speak with this sorcerer alone for a moment?" Shirley suddenly asked. "Sure."

Although somewhat puzzled, Jinbe nodded and then turned and walked out of the coffee shop.

"I wonder what Mrs. Shirley wanted to talk to me about?" Mashiro asked with interest after Jinbe left. "Who are you?" Shirley asked with utmost seriousness, without answering Mashiro's question.

"I wonder what Mrs. Shirley means by this?" Masashi asked, her eyes wide and her expression smug.

When I was three years old, I used a crystal ball to predict that the mermaid princess would be born ten years later. When I was four years old, I predicted the death of Gol D. Roger and the arrival of the Great Pirate Era. When I was six years old, I foresaw the Marineford War and the death of Whitebeard.

My divination predictions are 100% accurate; I even predicted that Fishman Island would be thrown into chaos later.

But you have never existed in any of my prophecies, the sorcerer of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, your name has never appeared in my prophecies.

"So, who exactly are you?" Shirley asked, stroking the crystal ball in her hand with unwavering determination and seriousness.

"Who am I? That's a good question," Mashiro said with a light laugh. Then Mashiro looked into Shirley's eyes.

Suddenly, Mashiro's eyes turned into light blue tomoe Rinnegan, and then into light green tomoe Rinnegan.

Immediately afterwards, an overwhelming force filled Shirley's mind. Fear, despair.

Shirley's body froze instantly, leaving only a slight, uncontrollable tremor. Overwhelmed by intense fear, Shirley briefly lost control of her body.

At that moment, she seemed to see a pair of enormous eyes looking down at her in her mind. This was a feeling she had never experienced before.

That feeling that was about to make her so insignificant that she couldn't muster any resistance, even the courage to run away and scream, was taken away with her. "Thump!"

Shirley's crystal ball rolled to the ground.

Chapter 108: Fishman Street

Mashiro stepped forward, picked up the crystal ball from the ground, gently placed it in Shirley's hand, and said with a light laugh, "Miss Shirley, you must take good care of such a precious thing."

Xia Li suddenly snapped back to reality, juice dripping down her forehead. "Okay, okay."

"By the way, Miss Shirley, I'd like to invite you for coffee tomorrow. Do you have time?" Mashiro said softly.

At this moment, Xia Li was filled with fear and doubt. She desperately wanted to refuse Mashiro's invitation and just wanted to get as far away from Mashiro as possible.

But faced with Mashiro's smiling gaze, Shirley found herself completely unable to give a negative answer. "Okay, okay, I understand."

"See you tomorrow, Mrs. Shirley," Mashiro waved gently and turned to leave the Mermaid Cafe. "What did you and Shirley talk about?" Jinbe asked curiously at the entrance of the Mermaid Cafe.

"Nothing much, we just talked about some things related to the occupation," Mashiro replied softly. "I see," Jinbe said without asking any further questions.

Not far from the Mermaid Cafe, Shirahoshi floated gently, surrounded by several curious little mermaids.

"Let's go, to the next stop, Fishman Backstreet," Mashiro said softly, then flew towards Shirahoshi. Fishman Backstreet was originally a large place built by the Merfolk royal family to take in orphaned fishmen.

However, due to the incompetence of the management, Fishman Street became a gathering place for illegal groups. As a result, many well-known and powerful fishmen were born in Fishman Street, including Fisher Tiger, Jinbe, Arlong's gang, and Hody Jones, the current boss of Fishman Street.

"Although both belong to the fish-people race, the fish-people race and the mermaid race are two different races. Although both have half-human and half-fish characteristics, there are significant differences in appearance, abilities and living habits."

The characteristics of the fish-men are that their upper body is like a fish and their lower body is like a human. They can walk upright and have extremely strong physical abilities. Their arm strength is dozens of times that of humans. They also have some unique abilities of fish. They feed on fish, and only a few fish-men can communicate with marine life.

Mermaids are characterized by their human-like upper bodies and fish-like lower bodies. Around the age of 30 or after marriage, their fins split into two, becoming like human feet, allowing them to walk on land. However, in the water, they can still swim with their fins together.

Mermaids also possess powerful physical abilities, swim extremely fast, and can communicate with fish, regard them as partners, and do not eat fish.

In the past, most female mermaids would go to land and marry human men after the age of 30. However, due to the deteriorating relationship between fish-men and humans, mermaids are now choosing to marry other mermaids, which has created huge problems.

Unlike mating with humans, when mermaids mate with fish-men, the child could be either a fish-man or a mermaid, resulting in four possibilities: male mermaid, male fish-man, female mermaid, or female fish-man.

Mermaids are generally beautiful, while fish-men are generally ugly due to their fish-like features. Therefore, many mermaids who have mated with fish-men choose to abandon their fish-man children.

As the number of abandoned merfolk babies increased, Merfolk Street was born.

The original purpose of Fishman Street was to take in abandoned fishman orphans and raise them, but due to funding issues and internal conflicts, it was eventually abandoned and became a place left to fend for itself.

Many abandoned fishmen grew up in Fishman Street, and these fishmen were eventually divided into two groups.

One group worked hard to make a living and, as they grew up, participated in the discovery and improvement of Fishman Island. The other group became a gang of hooligans on Fishman Island.

Fishman Town was thus divided into Fishman Front Town and Fishman Back Town. "Jinbe began to recount the history of Fishman Town.

"It's outrageous! So many poor children have been abandoned. It's just too much. When I get back, I'm going to tell my father about this," Bai Xing said, her eyes brimming with tears.

As a kind and pure-hearted girl, Shirahoshi felt immense sympathy for the fish-men who had been abandoned by their parents.

"If Aaron and Hody Jones grew up in this kind of environment, I could understand, but what I didn't expect was that Tiger and you also..."

"That's how I grew up," Mashiro said with deep emotion.

Indeed, for some people, the environment cannot change their nature.

"Actually, I was fearless when I was a child. It was Tiger and Queen Otohime who changed me," Jinbe said with a smile.

“Since it can be changed, it means that the body’s essence is not actually bad. After all, the people you’ve been through, Arlong has been through too, and Arlong is just as brutal and dark,” Mashiro said softly.

"Perhaps." Jinbe nodded slightly. Soon, the three of them arrived at Fishman Town.

Fishman Town wasn't much different from the other streets on Fishman Island, in terms of architectural style and most of the goods sold. The only difference was that there were no mermaids in Fishman Town, and there were many shops selling weapons. Therefore, Mashiro and her companions attracted the attention of many fishmen.

The gazes directed at Jinbe were mostly filled with admiration and complexity, those directed at Shirahoshi were filled with surprise and longing, while those directed at Mashiro were full of malice and disgust.

"Well, no wonder it's the stronghold of fish-man supremacists," Mashiro thought to herself, feeling the gazes of those around her.

At that moment, a fishman wearing a race car driver's helmet and with eight arms walked over, smiled at Jinbe, and said, "Jinbe, welcome back to Fishman City!"

"Mooshi, where's Jones?" Jinbe asked.

He recognized the fishman in front of him; he was one of the officers of Hody Jones's New Fishman Pirates. "Boss Jones took Doss and the others out," Mushi replied.

"They went out? Do you know where they went?" Jinbe continued to ask. "Well, I don't know either," Mushi shook his head.

“I think I know where they went.” Just then, Mashiro suddenly spoke up. “You know?” Jinbe looked at Mashiro with some surprise.

“You should have heard of this name, Vander Deikun,” Mashiro said softly. No sooner had she finished speaking than Mushi attacked her with her spear. “This is a conversation between fish-men, humans don’t interfere, ahhhhhh!”

Before Mushi could finish speaking, his eight arms fell to the ground, blood gushing out. "This is a warning to you, for Jinbe's sake," Mashiro said calmly.

The moment Mushi attacked, Mashiro launched her own attack. She originally intended to strike him in the waist, but out of respect for Kihei, she only severed eight of his arms.