The Pirate Princess Becomes Queen

"You want to see a doctor?" The restaurant owner, named Dama, looked at her as if he had seen a ghost.

Vivi pulled out another 20,000 Berries: "A friend of mine is seriously ill and needs medical treatment. Do you know where she is? It would be even better if you could take me there. Although I never get lost, I'm not familiar with this area, and the patient is in a real hurry..."

The duck glanced at her but didn't say anything.

Chapter 146 Dr. Kureha

The restaurant owner, Dama, refused Vivi's money. The country was in a state of extreme decay, and he could understand the urgency of the patient's family. So he closed the restaurant door and led them to the woods outside the village of Big Horn. Dr. Kureha lived in a very secluded treehouse, and he only knew the location and needed to go find it.

That afternoon, Vivi and Duck Karu finally met the top-notch old woman, Dr. Kureha.

Despite being an old woman, this old fellow was incredibly agile; you'd never guess she was seventy years older than Crocus, the old ship's doctor who spent his days lying around reading newspapers and just waiting to die...

"You stinky reindeer, I'm going to kill you!" An old woman wielding a scalpel chased after him, while Chopper, wearing a pink hat and with a very conspicuous blue nose, ran wildly ahead.

As soon as Weiwei walked in, a scalpel flew out with a "whoosh".

She hurriedly grabbed Karu the duck and tried to retreat, but she pulled at nothing. When she turned around, she found that the duck had hidden in the woods. The duck had left a shadow in the forest behind her, and the moment the throwing knife was thrown, it swapped positions with its shadow.

"Your survival skills are really good..." Vivi sighed a couple of times, then she stayed far away, watching Dr. Kureha chase Chopper like a background character.

After watching for two minutes, she understood the whole story.

It's all the world's fault. The old lady wanted to teach Chopper medicine, and Chopper studied very hard. However, Chopper encountered similar problems to Vivi: a lack of basic knowledge. The old lady was too lazy to explain some things that she took for granted. Chopper listened blankly, only vaguely understanding, and then the problems arose.

"Stop right there, you stinky reindeer!"

"No, Doctor!" Chopper ran as fast as he could.

Vivi patted Karu the duck on the shoulder, as if to say, "See? I'm so good to you!"

The duck looked terrified; it was truly frightening! Although its owner has his and her faults, he's still quite good to it.

Dr. Kureha felt refreshed after her daily workout.

Compared to Vivi's down jacket, the old lady was only wearing a short-sleeved vest in the freezing weather, and it was even a cropped style. She ignored the restaurant owner who was leading the way and glanced at Vivi and the duck.

"You don't look like a patient. Are you here to ask me the secret to staying young?" The old lady's eyes were bright as she carefully examined Weiwei, then glanced at the duck.

Weiwei was too embarrassed to mention that she was also a doctor: "Doctor, my friend is sick, so I'd like to ask you to come..."

"I'm not going!" The old lady's attitude was unusually firm: "I'm not in a good mood today, so I'm not making house calls. Let the patient come by himself. You seem to have some strength, so bring the patient over, have the money ready, and I'll treat him."

How can I "bring" a whale over 400 meters long to you?

“My patient has already arrived, right by the sea.”

"The beach?" Dr. Kureha analyzed the information contained in that sentence, while Chopper leaned most of his body out the door to eavesdrop on their conversation.

"Hehehe, little girl, is your patient not human?" The old lady took out a bottle of wine and drank half of it down in one gulp.

"Ah, um, yes... it's a whale."

The old lady's smile grew even brighter: "Whale? You mean Laboon? Let that brat Crocus come see me, hee hee hee hee!"

Vivi had no choice but to go back to Crocus, this seventy-year-old "youngster".

She previously thought the two had no relationship, but now it seems that her guess was wrong. The two definitely know each other and may have even discussed Raab's condition.

After saying goodbye to the kind-hearted restaurant owner, Vivi went to the beach again and quickly led everyone to the treehouse.

The meeting between the 70-year-old "young man" and the 140-year-old woman proceeded without any major incident.

Chopper, however, was extremely surprised by Brook's skull design. Brook made a face, which scared Chopper so much that he scrambled away and ran more than ten meters away. The old lady was furious and pulled out a kitchen knife to chase and slash Brook.

They chased and fought for ten minutes before they finally got down to business.

"Doctor Doriel, it's been many years." The old ship's doctor no longer had the inclination to argue with Vivi all the time; his words even seemed somewhat respectful.

"You've gotten too big for your britches since you went to sea with Roger, haven't you?!"

The old lady's tone when scolding the old ship's doctor was no different from when she scolded Chopper.

Vivi and the duck rejoined the onlookers, only this time with Chopper by their side.

"Old man Crocus seems to be quite familiar with your doctor?" Vivi asked Chopper.

"Probably, the doctor drank a lot of wine just now and said a lot of things I don't understand..." Chopper suddenly realized: "Ughhhhhh—"

He jogged a short distance and ran behind a pine tree, where he once again peeked out with most of his body sticking out, only half of his face hidden.

"How dare you talk to me? Aren't you afraid of my blue nose, afraid of my voice, afraid that I'm a monster?!"

Chopper looked at them warily, while Vivi spoke in a coaxing tone, like she was coaxing a child: "Come here, why did you run so far? What's so strange about being able to talk? Karu can talk too, right?"

Karu uttered two "guguga" sounds.

Chopper remained wary.

“By the way, I’m a doctor too,” Vivi said.

Upon hearing that she was also a doctor, Chopper felt a greater sense of identification with her. Karoo the duck quacked for a while, indicating that his owner especially loved animals, which finally dispelled the initial awkwardness.

Chopper and Vivi exchanged a few words at a distance. Vivi's medical skills were routinely looked down upon by Crocus, but she was now at level 3 and could easily fool an honest kid like Chopper with some theoretical talk.

The group arrived at the beach, and Chopper, who had never seen a whale before, was astonished; it was enormous.

The old lady carefully examined Labu. Labu had accumulated too many old injuries. If the same illness were on a human, that person would be buried with grass two meters high. But the whale could still endure it. In fact, even medical experts who were not skilled enough could not see the problem.

"My body was severely depleted; various organs had suffered serious damage when I was young. Negative emotions further exacerbated my condition, and this deterioration has continued for fifty years..."

The old lady was carefully analyzing the illness, while Chopper and Brook cleared up the misunderstanding and talked about pirates for a long time. At this time, Brook kept calling him "Chopper brother" and even played "Binks' Sake" on the spot!

"You're too noisy! Go to hell!" Dr. Kureha threw a kitchen knife at Brook again, but this time she added Chopper to her list of targets.

Vivi covered her face, thinking how carefree and thoughtless people were in the world of One Piece. She often felt out of place because of her thick-skinned nature...

Chapter 147 The Righteous Crocodile

It's clear that the old lady really dislikes Brooke, perhaps because of the promise she made to Raab, or perhaps because the other's existence poses a huge challenge to medicine.

Only when Brook and Chopper huddled together, trembling, did the old lady put away her cleaver and continue talking to Vivi about the whale's condition.

"Your whale's condition has deteriorated to the extreme. The only reason it's still alive today is because of its good physical condition. It could have lived for several more years by sheer willpower, but... you must have allowed it to fulfill that wish, right? Its wish has been fulfilled, and I'm afraid it won't be able to hold on when the disease attacks its body again."

Vivi has never been one to blindly follow others. She frowned and said, "Impossible. When I was talking to Laboon yesterday, it wanted to go to Fishman Island and see the New World. How could it have no will to live?"

"You can actually talk to it? I see..." The old lady turned to look at the whale. Labu blew out two bubbles to indicate that he was in good health and had no intention of dying.

“It seems I misjudged the situation, and I apologize to you. Well, tell it to swim to the east side of the island, where my treehouse is closer, so I can check it again.”

That evening, Dr. Kureha directed several people to prepare and brew the medicine. Not only Vivi, Duck, Chopper, and Brook, but even Crocus, a seventy-year-old young man, was not spared. The group was busy all night under the old lady's direction before the medicine was brewed.

Fortunately, the group had some medical skills. Even Brook, the least skilled, was a musician, much better than the idiot Luffy. After a whole night of struggling, they finally managed to force-feed Laboon a huge barrel of medicine that was forty meters high and twenty meters in diameter.

After taking the medicine, Labu began vomiting large amounts of blood. Thick, dark brown blood clots floated on the sea surface, and the stench was carried everywhere by the sea breeze.

Even Vivi, a half-baked doctor, could see that Labu vomiting blood was a good thing, but it was also very harmful to his body. She knew without Dr. Kureha saying it that Labu needed a period of rest and recuperation, and it was absolutely not possible to send him to some new world now.

Vivi secretly apologized to the "real man" Yamato, saying that it would probably take a few more days.

“This is such a big thing, it will take me a lot of medicine and effort, and it will take at least a month to treat. Little girl, give me the money for the medicine!” Dr. Kureha held out a hand to Vivi.

Vivi took out her wallet: "How much?"

The old lady held up one palm, fingers spread: "Fifty billion peles."

"How much!? -- I didn't hear you clearly, please say it again!" Vivi's voice trembled. Fifty billion Berries, that's almost Whitebeard's bounty. These days, no one can extort money from her, even if you're Rocks' grandmother, she'll still argue with you!

The old woman calmly explained the costs to her: "Many medicinal herbs are in the king's castle. Although I'm still a young woman in my thirties with plenty of energy, sneaking in to steal the herbs would be risky, wouldn't it? And after stealing them, I'd have to transport them out, back and forth. That's part of my job, isn't it? A whale is that big; I'd have to make at least twenty trips for just one dose, and then keep doing that for a month. And that doesn't even include the work of brewing the herbs..."

Weiwei understood the implied meaning in the song and got it.

"You mean... if the environment in Drum Kingdom improves, then so much money won't be needed, right?"

The old lady smiled but said nothing.

Vivi nodded: "Okay, actually, that King Walbourne here has a grudge against me. That grandson back then... Hmph, don't worry, the hero of justice, the savior of the desert world, Mr. Crocodile, will uphold justice for the people of Drum Kingdom!"

......

Wapol, the king of Drum Kingdom, was obese and ugly. Unlike Kaido, who was both evil and powerful, Wapol was both evil and stupid.

After the World Conference concluded, he returned to his country.

It must be said that the shock caused by the rumor that Crocodile was going to wreak havoc in the Holy Land Mary Geoise during the World Conference was greater than the Five Elders and Crocodile himself had anticipated. These kings were just too weak; the slightest disturbance could scare them like quails.

Before Alabasta could even finalize its plan to transfer Zephyr into the allied military system, the Goa Kingdom, far to the east, was already preparing to hire Vice Admiral Garp to go to their country, in the so-called "homecoming," to serve as the captain of their guard.

The Five Elders are powerful figures, and when facing the Crocodile, they exude a sense of superiority, lack empathy, and fail to understand the feelings of those kings, even though they are all panicking.

King Wapol of Drum Kingdom, one of the few kings who had eaten a Devil Fruit, was also very nervous. Why? Because Alabasta was close to Drum Kingdom! This was their neighboring country, and Drum Kingdom's next stop on the Grand Line was Alabasta, and the fame of the heroes of Alabasta had already reached him.

He knows his own situation best. He is extremely cruel to the people. How could he not be afraid of the "righteous" Crocodile Sand? He is so afraid that he can't sleep.

He was terrified that the other party would come to kill him. Since returning to the Drum Kingdom, he had practically never left the castle. The king's decrees were all delivered by his soldiers, and he himself had not left the castle even once.

He picked up a machete from the side, put it in his mouth, and started eating it with a "crunch, crunch" sound.

He is a user of the Gluttony Fruit, capable of consuming any substance or living being. Just by looking at the word "any," you can tell that his fruit ability is extremely powerful. However, he is too weak and has ruined this powerful fruit through his training.

Wapol grew increasingly frightened. Even the machete, which used to taste crisp and delicious, no longer held any appeal for him. He shouted, "Quick! I'm hungry! Get me some more food!"

The sound carried far and echoed in the corridor, but the expected number of his men did not appear. Instead, he heard a faint scream.

"Lord Crocodile, spare me! Ah—" The screams sounded so eerie in the empty castle.

Wahlbo mustered his courage and looked outside. He saw that it was pitch black outside, with only a faint golden hook in his eye. Then he heard a muffled thud. His agent, Cromarimon, who had an afro and usually wore boxing gloves, lay on the carpet like a dried-up corpse with his cheeks sunken and his eyes lifeless.

"Spare me! Spare me! Lord Crocodile, spare me! I'll give you as many Berries as you need!" Wapol cried out. From within the black mist, only a cold laugh, neither male nor female, could be heard. He hesitated for a moment, then opened a hidden door, slipped into a nearby tunnel, and rushed out of the castle.

He could no longer stay in the Drum Kingdom; he was going to the Holy Land of Mary Geoise to lodge a complaint against the Crocodile for plotting to seize his country!

Chapter 148 The Sand Crocodile's Mission

If there were a list of villains in the One Piece world, Blackbeard would definitely be at the top.

With his patience, intelligence, resourcefulness, clear understanding of his goals, and sufficient strength, Blackbeard's success was not a fluke.

Wapol's ability to escape Blackbeard's sudden attack in the future suggests that this guy, having committed numerous evil deeds, possesses some self-awareness and is quite adept at escaping.

Vivi, disguised as Crocodile, had no intention of killing him. Seeing Wapol running faster than a rabbit, she controlled the Dark Veil to chase him for a while before returning.