I guarded Impel Down for a hundred years in the pirate world.

"Regardless, now that things have come to this, we must first go and see Lord Im!"

……

"Senior, what are you going to do..."

On the small boat, upon hearing this, Krissy's handsome face was filled with anticipation: "As expected of you, are you going to overthrow the World Government?"

Captain Rocks shares the same ideal, and if necessary, I will try my best to persuade him to cooperate with you… I will definitely stand by your side!

"Do you want me to hold you back?" Figo shook his head and said, "There will be things that need you to do. Let me sort things out."

"Please give your orders!" Krissci was even more excited, looking like a devoted fan: "Actually, I set sail to find you. I thought you were a Mink pirate..."

"No need to explain, I understand." Figo raised his hand and closed his eyes as if to rest.

Krissi dared not disturb them any further.

Only the sound of silver feet rowing remained.

In fact, Figo was activating the Lox character event, taking advantage of the wait to watch some cartoons and see Lox's memories.

The scene appeared, and the familiar setting stirred a slight ripple in Figo's heart. Only then did he realize that Rocks' transformation was not solely due to Krissy.

"Justice! It truly exists!"

The familiar Buster Call warship and the familiar old man Doug evoked a deep sense of nostalgia in Figo.

……

From the perspective of three-year-old Rocks, he relived the past when the Buster Call warships fought against the Hell Pirates. Looking at himself from a child's point of view back then, he was ferocious and had two horns on his head, like a devil, which was quite interesting.

The scene shifts, and Lox is now seven or eight years old. In front of him appears a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy with fiery red hair.

"Brother Ah Huo, you're going to go to sea to become a pirate? Why do you want to be a pirate? Before the Holy Maiden went to reunite with her brother, she clearly told us not to join the revolutionaries or become pirates..."

"Reunion? What reunion? Only a little brat like you would be fooled! The Saintess was captured by those despicable navy men! Idiot!"

Lox found it hard to believe and sought confirmation from multiple sources.

This was the first turning point in his life.

The scene shifts again, and when he was 12 years old, he said to his friends, "Valensole, I'm setting sail. Do you want to come with me?"

So the two 12-year-old children set sail on the sea in a small wooden boat.

"Was he influenced by the older, rebellious kids adopted by Sapphire?" Figo wondered.

In the next scene, the two children have matured a bit and are around 15 years old. After three years of hard work at sea, they have gained considerable strength. After hearing about a treasure, they arrive at an island called Hatchinos, a well-known pirate island.

The island was teeming with pirates, all drawn by the promise of that treasure.

Although the two were outnumbered and outmatched, their extraordinary talent quickly earned them a reputation, attracting pirates to seek refuge with them.

Sapphire did have some effect on their teachings. The two were very picky about their companions, disliking those ferocious, bloodthirsty, and brutal individuals. As more and more people rejected them, some people with ulterior motives began to spread rumors.

Rocks and his companion wanted to keep the treasure for themselves!

What followed was a trap and an ambush. Lox faced the second turning point in his life. His best friend, Valensole, who had accompanied him to sea when he was 12, was accidentally killed!

Rocks awakened his Conqueror's Haki, which Figo believed was also due to the power of Hades. He went berserk and killed almost half of the pirates on Hatchinos Island. Standing amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood, Rocks' mentality was no longer what it used to be.

The remaining pirates submitted to him and, under his leadership, retrieved the treasure. After that, the Rocks Pirates were officially formed!

If things had continued this way, the Rocks Pirates might have remained the brutal kings of the sea. However, in the next scene, the third turning point in his life appeared.

……

"Hey, Chrissy, make sure you clean the ship properly." The burly pirate grinned and tossed a rag onto the blue-haired boy's head.

The blue-haired boy took off the rag, revealing a bright smile: "Got it!"

Just as the boy was about to sit down and rest after painstakingly cleaning the ship, the pirates nearby suddenly revealed a malicious smile and flicked a nail into the boy's buttocks.

The blue-haired boy winced in pain, lifted his bottom, saw the nail, but still smiled brightly, threw the nail away, and sat down again.

"Hey, Krissi, come here and give me a leg massage, hurry up!"

"Hey, you who only does odd jobs, why should you get meat? There's none for you!"

The blue-haired boy faced all sorts of humiliation with a smile, until one day, Rocks, now a young man, appeared before him.

“I’ve been watching you for a long time. Although everyone says it’s amusing to have a weakling like you on board, the Rocks Pirates don’t need weaklings. You can disembark on the next island.”

Looking at Lox's indifferent expression, young Chrissy finally couldn't laugh anymore.

After bowing his head and remaining silent for a while, he reached out and slowly unbuttoned his clothes, revealing his body.

A network of scars.

There are whip marks, burns, and penetrating wounds!

Despite having a pretty, girlish face, the terrifying sight of Chrissy's upper body sent a shiver down Rocks' spine!

"This is……?!"

“It’s not that I won’t fight back, it’s just that I don’t care about those jokes.” The young Chrissy’s face showed a pleading expression: “Please don’t kick me off the ship, Captain Rocks. I have a reason to go to sea. Only on your ship is it more likely that I will find him. Please!”

[Character Event 1: True strength is not outward ferocity, but inner strength. If it weren't for Chrisissy's reminder, Rocks would have almost forgotten the saint's teachings, lost in killing and bullying the weak. Having rediscovered his original intentions, he is very grateful for Chrisissy's appearance.]

Event objective: Help Crisisi find the Moon Hunter who saved him years ago.

The screen ends.

Figo opened his eyes, looked at Crisisi, smiled, and began to tell him the story of the sapphire.

……

at the same time.

Deep within the Holy Land of Mary Geoise.

Pangu City, amidst the flowers.

The five elders stood in a line, kneeling on one knee, awaiting the commands from the silhouette on the empty throne.

"Not Uranus (the King of Gods)."

"It's not Pluto either."

"He is a brand new light."

The three sentences that Im slowly uttered resounded like thunder in the hearts of the Five Elders, causing them to lose control of their expressions and reveal their horror.

You could hear a pin drop in the main hall.

After a long silence, Im spoke again.

"Lure him over."

After saying this, Im signaled that the Five Elders could leave, and the five dared not say another word. They knew that Lord Im did not care whether they exchanged for Saint Tecotamp or not, nor did he care whether Figo knew the truth about Hades.

He simply gave the order.

All five people can do as instructed.

Leaving the main hall, the atmosphere among the five was even more oppressive than when they arrived. Raiola couldn't help but say, "How could the lights be completely new?"

"Yes, he's not like Pluto, who's a special case; he's purely human!"

"While it's true that a completely new light could be born besides Uranus and Neptune, he hasn't even acquired the power of the demons. How could he possibly achieve that on his own..."

"Trust Lord Im's judgment."

“Indeed, if it weren’t for that, his power, which surpasses that of all ordinary people recorded in history, would be inexplicable. He must have something special about him that even Lord Im has become curious about.”

Nielborough said, "The key issue now is how we can get Gaston Figo back to the Holy Land as soon as possible. It seems that Lord Im is unwilling to go to him in person."

"Lord Im's health is approximately..."

"Won't that lawless guy come over on his own?"

“We must prepare for the worst. Gaston Figo is no fool. Judging from his reaction, he must have sensed something 25 years ago and would probably have acted cautiously.”

"Should we tell him the truth about Hades? Or should we make up another one?"

"A hastily fabricated hypothesis probably won't fool him. In any case, knowing only the truth about Hades, he can't deduce anything more."

On their way back to the meeting room, the five of them discussed their strategy until they reached an agreement, at which point they dialed the Den Den Mushi (a type of telephone phone) to contact Figo again.

"Any results yet? I've been waiting so long I almost slept," Figo's voice came through.

"Hmph, we will grant your third condition, and we hope you will release Saint Tekotamp as promised."

Listen carefully, Pluto, the god of the underworld, is indeed a colossal warship, but a colossal warship is not Pluto; rather, only that one specific colossal warship is Pluto.

This was a bit convoluted, but the next moment Saint Neilboro explained, "The real Pluto is a special life form that was born on that extraordinary, enormous warship—the ship spirit!"

Chapter 86 Legends and Disappearances

Ship spirit?

Figo was taken aback, then suddenly realized, "That's it! How come I didn't think of the ship's spirit!"

Ship spirits, also known as ship elves, are a very special kind of creature in the world of One Piece. They don't appear often, but they leave a very deep impression.

When crew members care for each other and cherish the ship, such special life can emerge on board. In the original work, the most vividly depicted is the spirit of the Merry, the main characters' first large ship. The burning of the Merry brought tears to many eyes.

So the news about Water Seven is correct.

But that's wrong too!

The story of Hades giving birth to a ship spirit is probably only recorded in the main historical texts!

That makes sense.

The fact that a ship spirit could be born suggests that the crew members who piloted the Hades warship cared for each other.

Are they a member of the D clan?

Or perhaps the precursor to D?

Since the Five Elders didn't care to tell him about the ship spirit, it's highly likely that the ship spirit has already perished and won't be revived.

But they didn't know that they knew far more than they imagined, enough to connect D with Hades, so Hades' power was actually the power of Hades' ship spirit? Compared to the Going Merry's ship spirit, Hades' ship spirit, capable of sinking an island with a single shot, probably had other special abilities?

He looked at the unconscious Lox.

The power that Rocks unleashed at the end was actually quite strong. If it weren't for his weak foundation, and if he had an SSR8 character, that strike might have actually caused moderate damage to Figo.