Pirates: It's not a mythical beast, it's a phantom god

Upon hearing this, Rayleigh, who was leaning on a chair drinking, stood up and walked to the front of the deck to watch.

In front of me was an island that looked a little shiny, and the slightly transparent buildings reflected colorful light in the sunlight.

Even in the New World, which is full of strange islands, this is a very unique island.

However, compared to everyone's curiosity about the island in the distance, La was always looking under the water.

As soon as their ship arrived in this sea area, it was discovered by a group of strange creatures on the seabed, and these creatures have been reporting their whereabouts to the outside world.

[Is this... a modified organism?]

[This is a truly unique investigative method.]

But La just watched without any extra movements. After all, this was the other party's territory. It didn't make sense to be a guest in someone else's home and dismantle the surveillance camera.

But just as Baishou and his companions were about to continue moving towards the island, a sailboat with a child's face suddenly sailed towards them.

"La la la~"

"I am a ship~ I am a ship~"

"?!"

"Look! Shanks! That ship actually spoke!"

"Yeah! I saw it! And it can actually sing!"

“It’s amazing!”*2

The two children were shocked to see that an ordinary sailboat could actually speak.

"Is that the ability of that woman Big Mom? It's amazing~"

Rayleigh had naturally seen the other party's ability before, so he didn't react too much.

As for La, he saw through the essence of this thing at a glance.

"Oh? It's the ability to give life to dead things..."

"The so-called devil fruit abilities are really bizarre."

“But it seems a bit shoddy.”

A part of a creature's soul had been stuffed into the ship before him, but the method was extremely crude, basically only giving the other party the most basic intelligence, with no possibility of further growth.

But compared to everyone's reactions of surprise, indifference, or being used to it, Osi's side seemed much more intense.

"hu~hu~"

Her breathing began to become rapid, her body was shaking slightly, the fluorescent light at the end of her red hair flickered, and she looked like a stressed kitten.

Hiss~

"Call...Call...Call..."

A faint light had begun to gather in her mouth, but this time it was not golden but a trace of faint blue arcs and flames!

"Summon?"

Everyone except La looked at Osi in surprise as her behavior became abnormal, not understanding why she suddenly took an attacking stance.

As the light in his mouth grew brighter, Osi began to feel pain, as if the attack would hurt himself before hitting others.

This was the backlash from forcibly using powers that she had not yet fully mastered. She had not yet grown to the point where she could control the full power.

"Summon, summon...Lei..."

"Ugh..."

The faint blue light grew brighter and brighter amid Osi's painful whimpers, but it never fully condensed into shape.

“Summon thunder…!”

"Ossie."

Finally, with La Kongling's call, Osi was pulled out of his out-of-control state.

The core of divine power in his body was still beating unnaturally. Osi held his chest and sat against the fence, his face looking very ugly.

"what happened?"

La asked the question that everyone present wanted to ask. The hint of blue flame that Osi just leaked made everyone, including Rayleigh, feel a chill down their spines.

"Nothing, Sister La."

"I just saw something disgusting and lost control for a moment."

Ossi looked with disgust at the sailboat Homiz, which had fainted from fear.

Chapter 183 Arrival

Osi never thought that he would see such a disgusting thing in reality...forcing a human soul into the body of a living or even non-living being that is completely incompatible with it.

To her, who was extremely sensitive to souls, this was an even more bizarre act than fusing her daughter with a dog to form a chimera.

Fortunately, these are not complete human souls, but just small fragments, and the owners of the souls should still be alive.

Otherwise she would have forcibly sent these things to the underworld anyway.

The soul should not be treated like something to be toyed with.

"Eh? What's going on?"

"Why did the boat suddenly stop moving? Perolin~"

Perospero, who was originally sitting on Homiz's self-driving boat, was surprised to find that the boat under his feet suddenly stopped moving and the noisy singing also stopped.

You know, under normal circumstances, no matter how he tried to stop them or make these Homies shut up, it would be ineffective.

These things are like perpetual motion machines, and the silly laughter seems to never stop.

"Forget it, never mind."

"You guys, hurry up and get the paddles! Those are the people from the Beasts Pirates that my mother specifically asked me to meet. I have to go and contact them in person. Perolin~"

"Yes, Lord Perospero!"

The ships of the various forces participating in the ceremony cannot sail directly to Cake Island, where the ceremony is held, but must first dock at Candy Island, which is closest to Cake Island.

This island, headed by Big Mom's eldest son Perospero, will be responsible for the advance reception of the various forces participating in the ceremony.

Of course, Perospero couldn't trust anyone else with this rather tedious and important task. What if some suspicious person came in and disrupted Big Mom's ceremony? Then...

Perospero did not think further, but just found out the forces that he needed to go to the island to welcome in person according to the list, and then waited for the information from the sea slugs lurking on the seabed.

Twenty minutes later, with the hard paddling of more than a dozen crew members, Perospero's ship finally arrived in front of them.

"Welcome to 'Bankoku', everyone from the Beasts Pirates. I am Mother's eldest son, Minister of Sweets Perros... hm?"

Perospero, dressed neatly and carrying a candy cane, was the first to greet elegantly, but before he could finish his words he saw the situation on the ship clearly.

Apart from the faces of passers-by who were obviously ordinary crew members, standing in the middle were a blond man and four children, two boys and two girls.

I discovered that the person who came was neither Jhin, whom my mother had always coveted, nor another murloc, Burfat, but...

Perospero looked confidently at the imposing blond man. The more he looked, the more familiar he looked... He had sorted out the bigwigs on the sea again in the past few days, and he must have seen the photo of this man.

[Blonde hair, glasses, scar on right eye...]

Suddenly, his pupils shrank!

"[Pluto] Rayleigh! It's you!"

"Why are you on the beast's ship?!"

Perospero immediately became alert. He didn't remember having sent an invitation to Roger's pirate group.

"Haha! Don't be nervous, young man."

"I have an invitation here."

Rayleigh pulled out the unsigned pink invitation from his pocket and waved it in Perospero's direction.

"So it's an unsigned invitation, no wonder..."

"But why are you on the Beasts' ship? Where are the Beasts Pirates? Perolin~"

Seeing that the other party did not force his way in, Perospero breathed a sigh of relief and even picked up his habit of speaking that he had just forgotten.

"We are here, Mr. Perros."

"This is our invitation."

La, who had been standing beside Rayleigh, answered and also took out the invitation and handed it to Perospero.

Perospero was slightly surprised as he looked at the invitation slowly floating in front of him, but he still took it and examined it carefully.

At the same time, he looked at La on the opposite boat curiously.

[What a beautiful little girl, and... I didn't expect the information to be true.]

After the Beehive Island incident, the Beasts Pirates officially entered the public eye, and all major forces were naturally paying close attention to this suddenly rising star.

For a while, all kinds of information about this pirate group were flying all over the underground world.

As the Big Mom Pirates, which is known for its intelligence capabilities in the New World, it is naturally one of the forces with the most detailed intelligence.

Besides, Baishou hadn't intended to hide the major reorganization six months ago from anyone.

Therefore, the fact that the Beasts Pirates have five core members, and three of them are actually children, is actually no secret within the Big Mom Pirates.

However, no photos or portraits of these three people have been leaked yet, so Perospero was unable to recognize Lalai at the first sight.

"The invitation is fine, but..."

Perospero still looked at the two forces that came together with suspicion. As the first minister of the Ten Thousand Nations, he had to have necessary doubts.

"Since the Roger Pirates didn't have any extra ships, they came here on our boat."

"Haha, that's right. We just met by chance... young man, don't think too much."

Rayleigh also saw the other party's concerns and explained.

After all, he really brought his children to the banquet this time and didn't want to cause any trouble.

"I see, that's quite a coincidence, Perolin~"

"In that case, please follow me. According to the procedure, you will need to rest temporarily on my Candy Island before heading to Cake Island before the ceremony begins."

Perhaps fearing that this arrangement would be considered rude, Perospero explained:

"Because Cake Island is still preparing for the ceremony, it's not open to the public right now. Therefore, guests arriving early will stay on my Candy Island first."

"In that case, we will follow the local customs and follow your arrangements."

"Thank you for your understanding, Perolin~"

Perospero nodded, and his favorability towards the beautiful blonde girl in front of him increased a lot.

[Eh...if only everyone could cooperate like her.]

Thinking of Heinar, who was under the command of the Golden Lion and had arrived here not long ago, Perospero was really troubled by his arrogant and unreasonable attitude.

Following the sailboat Homiz, which had woken up but was still pretending to be dead, the group arrived at the port of Candy Island.

……

"That is?!"

As soon as the boat docked, before anyone even got off the boat, a reporter from the World Economic News Agency who had been lurking there for several days disguised as a trash can raised his camera-phone.

But when he saw the scene in the camera clearly, he was stunned for a moment, then immediately pressed the shutter and took out the Den Den Mushi used for communication.

"Oh no! President!"

“Big news!!!”

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"What did you say?!"

"[Pluto] Rayleigh actually appeared on a ship with the Beasts' people?!"

After hearing the report from his subordinates, the huge humanoid albatross began to shout excitedly at the Den Den Mushi, scaring the poor Den Den Mushi so much that it shrank its eyes back.