XX-level Hokage

"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.

"Aaaaaaahhhhh!" Upon seeing this incredibly bloody scene, Shirahoshi screamed instantly.

Qi Bai turned to look at the utterly panicked Bai Xing. *Thud*, she'd forgotten all about that.

Upon seeing this, Mashiro instantly activated "Memory Vision," erasing the blood memory from Shirahoshi's mind.

Chapter 109: The Drowned Fishman (Part 1)

"Okay, it's alright now," Mashiro said softly to Shirahoshi. "Huh? What happened to me?" Shirahoshi asked, somewhat annoyed.

"It's nothing, let's go see Vander Deikun, the one who's threatened you for nine years." Shirahoshi chuckled. "Are we really going?" Shirahoshi asked somewhat timidly.

"That's right, only in this way can Shirahoshi break free from her fear." Mashiro flew to Shirahoshi's side, gently stroking her cheek, and said. "Okay, okay, I understand." Shirahoshi hesitated for a moment, then her expression hardened, and she said.

"Let's go then." Mashiro turned and gave Jinbe a look, then left with Shirahoshi.

Jinbe, seeing the meaning in his eyes, spoke to the fish-men beside him: "You Muxi, find a place to bury him."

After saying that, he turned and walked towards Fishman Backstreet. He now understood that, just as Mashiro had said, if he didn't pay attention now, the new Fishman Pirates would definitely cause even more trouble for Fishman Island in the future, so he had to clean them up.

Outside Fishman Island, on the sunken ship of the Flying Dutchman, a large number of fishmen are now gathered to watch.

In addition to Vander Decken and the members of the Flying Pirates, there was also Hody Jones and the members of the new Fishman Pirates he brought with him.

Vander Decken's full name is Vander Decken IX. His ancestor, the first Vander Decken, founded the Flying Pirates. The Flying Dutchman shipwreck is the legacy of the first Vander Decken.

The first Van der Deikun brought immense wealth to Fish-Man Island and was respected by many of its fish-men. However, with each successive generation of Van der Deikun acting recklessly, his name gradually became tarnished, and he was eventually forced to leave Fish-Man Island and live on the sunken Flying Dutchman.

Originally, Vander Deikun lived a relatively comfortable life thanks to his ancestors' inheritance, until he first met Princess Shirahoshi, at which point his life underwent a dramatic change.

When Shirahoshi was 6 years old, her mother, Otohime, saved a Celestial Dragon but was shot in return. In her distress, Shirahoshi cried out, attracting the Sea Kings.

Vander Deacon, having witnessed her summon the Sea Kings with her cries, learned that Shirahoshi was the legendary mermaid princess who could control the Sea Kings, whom the First Ancestor had been searching for for many years. He believed that Shirahoshi would be stunningly beautiful when she came of age, and in order to obtain this ability and to covet Shirahoshi's beauty, he fantasized about marrying her.

Ever since Vander Decken touched Shirahoshi with his right hand when she was six years old, he had never washed his right hand again in order to use his powers to track her down. Initially, Vander Decken would send love letters to the Ryugu Kingdom at most once a week, then he escalated this to sending packages, and eventually even...

The proposal turned into a threatening one, which frightened Shirahoshi, who then reported it to her father, Neptune.

White Star's father, Neptune, was furious and ordered his three sons, the three Neptune brothers, to lead an army to hunt down Vander Decken IX, while White Star stayed in the Hard Shell Tower to avoid the attack.

Indeed, it's less about Vander Deikun's love for the stars and more about his love for the powerful celestial beings that the Little Mermaid possesses.

This explains Mashiro's confusion. When she learned from Neptune and Jinbe that Vander Decken fell in love with Shirahoshi when she was six years old, Mashiro was puzzled. Who would like a six-year-old white-haired loli? Because of this, she even thought that Vander Decken was a perverted lolicon.

The reason why Hody Jones came to find Vander Deacon was quite simple.

Vander Deacon had been invited by Aaron in the past, but was turned down by him on the grounds that he "didn't want to work under someone else." Hody Jones thought of following Aaron's example and partnered with Vander Deacon.

Surrounded by two groups of fishmen, Vander Deacon and Hody Jones sat on either side of the cabin.

"Why are you making such a big fuss to see me? Is there something you need?" asked Vander Decken, captain of the New Fishman Pirates.

“Of course, Vander Decken IX, do you remember when Arlong came to see you before he left?” Hody Jones said in a low voice. “Of course I remember. He wanted to invite me to join his Arlong Pirates, but I am the captain of the Flying Pirates, and naturally I cannot submit to someone else.”

“I have no interest in his ambitions,” Vander Deiken replied, shrugging.

“I’m here today to continue what Brother Aaron did back then,” Hody Jones asked.

“What? You want me to join your new Fishman Pirates? But that's impossible.” Vander Decken chuckled. “No, I didn't mean that. I'm here to cooperate.” Hody Jones revealed a row of incredibly sharp teeth.

“Oh? Cooperation? How do we cooperate?” Van der Deiken said absentmindedly, still showing no interest whatsoever.

"I've heard that you, Vander Decken IX, are deeply in love with Princess Shirahoshi on the island, and even forbid her from spending her life with anyone else, but Neptune has brought her into this world, preventing them from being together," Hody Jones said calmly.

"That's right, that's right! If it weren't for that Neptune guy, I would have married my beloved Shirahoshi long ago." Vander Deiken was incredibly...

He said angrily.

"So what I'm proposing is that the Flying Pirates and our New Fishman Pirates join forces to destroy Neptune's regime. In return, Princess Shirahoshi will be yours," Hody Jones said in a seductive tone.

Upon hearing this, Vander Decken pondered for only a moment before immediately agreeing to Hody Jones's proposal, asking, "What should we do?" Hody Jones laughed and replied, "I'll prepare a group of human pirates, and then you'll use your Devil Fruit ability to throw them..."

Once outside the walls of the Hard-Shell Tower, I will force them to open the city gates on the condition of regaining their freedom. After the gates are open, I will lead the new Fish-Man Pirates to storm Ryugu Palace under the pretext of rescuing King Neptune, and then silently kill Neptune and everyone in his regime.

Van der Deiken pondered for a moment, seemingly finding the plan feasible, and continued to ask, "When will it begin?" He was now quite impatient.

“After Jinbe leaves, you should know that with him around, our plan can’t succeed,” Hody Jones replied.

Just then, the sound of drums rang out. "Clap clap clap!"

"Who's there?!" Hody Jones picked up the trident from the ground and said coldly. All members of the New Fishman Pirates immediately went into battle mode.