The Great Voyage: The Props Master on the Straw Hat Ship

294 What?! Roger turned himself in?! Kid, wanna work for me?!

"puff?"

The gorilla dressed in human clothes next to the two of them was chuckling to itself.

Link:

He had thought that Shiki would have a relapse, but he hadn't expected it to be this severe.

How did he connect place and time, two different dimensions?

It's like looking in a mirror and mistaking your reflection for a rooster, or a storm for an afro.

"Is that right?"

Shiki scratched his head and looked Link up and down:

"They came from the East China Sea, and they said they couldn't let the East China Sea be damaged, and they even came to me specifically..."

Shiki chuckled, crossed his arms, and once again exuded that powerful aura.

"No matter how you look at it, it seems like they know something and came here with ill intentions."

"I do know some information, but..."

Faced with the imposing aura of the Golden Lion, Link smiled unmoved.

"I didn't mean any harm."

"I just want to ask, Mr. Golden Lion, what exactly is your purpose in preparing for the past twenty years to destroy the East China Sea?"

"Purpose? There aren't that many purposes."

The golden lion, with a cigar in its mouth, looked completely unconcerned.

"For me, I can destroy whichever sea I want; everything is done according to my whims."

He raised his arm, and the chant of "887" along with the clothes draped behind him swayed in the air.

"Isn't it just the East China Sea? Known as the weakest sea, weakness is its original sin; such a sea has no reason to exist!!"

Seeing that Link was able to hold his own against his imposing presence, and that he was also from the East Blue, Shiki was happy to have a good talk with him.

"Is it really?"

Link smiled slightly, "Isn't it because the Pirate King Roger was executed and died in the East Blue that you also hate the East Blue to the core?" "Huh?!"

The Golden Lion raised his eyes, his gaze towards Link slightly gloomy.

"What rubbish are you spouting?"

"Or perhaps you feel that Roger's arrest by the Navy and his subsequent death in the Weakest Sea is an insult to him, and you want to seek justice for him?" Link continued, unmoved.

"Hello..."

The golden lion's eyes were now filled with hostility.

"Stop talking to me like that..."

"Roger turned himself in."

Link said casually.

The golden lion's roar abruptly stopped.

"What did you say?!"

His eyes widened suddenly. "You just said one..."

"Saying Roger is a spider?"

Link: "???"

"He said he turned himself in, Roger turned himself in!!"

Dr. Indigo, standing behind the Golden Lion, patted his forehead again, reminding him.

"Oh, so it was a surrender... Roger surrendered... What?! Roger surrendered?!"

The golden lion's eyes bulged out of their sockets, and its tongue trembled in its mouth.

Link: "..."

Okay, he's beyond saving, just wait to die.

The hero is past his prime; clearly, this golden lion has almost lost all its claws and mane.

"Hey kid, say that again!!"

The golden lion, having regained his senses, still had a hint of disbelief on his face.

Using the mobility of the Float-Float Fruit, he dashed right in front of Link.

He was so excited that he wanted to grab Link by the collar and yell at him.

But~

Slap!

A flash of lightning streaked across the ground, and Link's figure vanished instantly.

When it reappeared, it was already in a different place.

"Huh? Instant teleportation?!"

The golden lion's eyes instantly cleared.

Having experienced the era of the Rocks Pirates, the Battle of God Valley, the Battle of Edd War, and the invasion of Marine Headquarters, among other battles~

The Golden Lion, a veteran of countless battles, was always on guard when facing a powerful opponent, thanks to his extensive combat experience.

Was that an electric arc just now?

He squinted at Link and asked, "It's a Logia-type Devil Fruit, the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, right?"

"You did eat something quite rare and powerful!!"

Logia-type Devil Fruits, once eaten, already represent the possibility of infinite power in the future.

Anyone who acquires this ability is no ordinary person; they are bound to create quite a stir on this vast ocean!

Judging from Shiki's assessment of Link, he is clearly not an ordinary young man.

"Hey kid..."

He steadied himself, "Want to work with me?"

"With your Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability combined with my Float-Float Fruit ability, we can definitely bring true terror to the sea!!"

He extended an invitation to Link, saying, "Your abilities and my abilities are a perfect match!"

"I am deeply honored to receive Mr. Golden Lion's recognition and invitation."

Link then took out something while shaking his head in refusal:

"However, I have already joined a pirate crew, and I am the vice-captain of that crew, so I can only appreciate your kindness."

"Is this so..."

A hint of regret flashed in the Golden Lion's eyes.

He really does have his eye on Link's abilities.

Whether it's the combination with his Float-Float Fruit or the immense destructive power of his Rumble-Rumble Fruit, it all makes Shiki's heart flutter.

However, he can no longer kidnap Link like he did with Nami in the original game.

As a fellow Devil Fruit user specializing in mobility, he was very clear about what such a powerful Devil Fruit ability meant.

"That's really a shame..."

Golden Lion scratched his head. "Right, where were we? Oh, wasn't it Roger? He... surrendered himself?!"

He suddenly shouted again.

Link: "..."

Why are you yelling so loudly? Besides, weren't you already shocked just now?!

He looked at Shiki, who was sniffling, with a speechless expression, and threw the decanter he had just taken out at him.

"this is……"

Golden Lion instinctively took it and then pressed the button.

"Click."

"Roger turned himself in."

A familiar voice came from within the sound of the bell.

"Rayleigh?!"

The golden lion's pupils contracted slightly.

“I met with Rayleigh, the vice-captain of the Pirate King Roger, and it was from him that I learned that the Pirate King Roger had surrendered.” After saying this, Link said no more and quietly waited for Shiki to accept this reality.

Before he came here, he specifically asked Rayleigh to record this sound, just to prevent the Golden Lion from not believing his story.

"Did Rayleigh say that?"

The Golden Lion, who was already somewhat shaken, was even more convinced of this statement after hearing that familiar tone.

"Roger really did turn himself in..."

He muttered to himself there, pressing the detonator again.

"Roger turned himself in."

"captain……"

Dr. Indigo, who had followed the Golden Lion for decades, knew all too well his feelings at that moment.

He immediately wanted to go forward and say something.

"Click... Roger, he turned himself in."

"that……"

"Roger turned himself in."

"Hey, I said..."

"Roger turned himself in."

"Stop! That's enough!!!"

"Ok?"

Just as the Golden Lion was about to press the button again to hear the sentence, he stopped and turned his head to look at the somewhat frantic Indigo beside him.

"Isn't it enough to hear that once?!"

Indigo looked at Shiki speechlessly.

"How can that be? This is Roger!!!"

The Golden Lion, however, didn't care at all and pressed the button as if he were doing something else.

After listening to Rayleigh's account of Roger's true story, he couldn't help but grin from ear to ear.

"Hehehehehe!! I knew it! That damn navy, how could they possibly capture Roger?!"

Hearty, unrestrained laughter echoed throughout the palace!

"What an idiot I am! I never imagined Roger would turn himself in!"

"That's right, aside from Roger himself, who in this world could possibly catch him?!"

"With those useless Navy soldiers?! Even Garp, that idiot, couldn't possibly do that!!"

"After all, he's the one who defeated me, hehehehehe!!!"

The golden lion felt more relaxed than ever before. The knot in his heart that had been knotted for twenty years suddenly untied at this moment, and he felt enlightened!

Wow!

As he laughed, an overwhelming aura instantly erupted from his body!