Chapter 180: Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment
“Gah! That really hurts!”
“Obei, why did you suddenly shoot me?!”
Aoxi turned her head back to its original position, rubbing her forehead as she said.
“Nothing, I just thought you were too noisy outside.”
Obei looked at the strangely shaped pistol in her hand and replied perfunctorily without lifting her head.
But soon after, she noticed the three strangers who had appeared on the ship.
“Yo~ Hello, little girl. I’m the first mate of the Roger Pirates, Rayleigh. These two are the interns Buggy and Shanks.”
Before Obei could speak, Rayleigh took the initiative to introduce himself and the others.
“Roger Pirates…”
“Is that the pirate crew of Gol D. Roger?”
The title of Pirate King also piqued Obei’s interest slightly.
“Haha! I didn’t expect that guy Roger to be so famous already?”
Seeing several children in a row know their captain’s name, Rayleigh felt a bit proud.
“That’s natural.”
“As a pirate, there probably isn’t anyone more famous than him.”
After all, he was the only man in the entire server known before crossing over to have obtained the “Pirate King” title.
“Hey~ Hey~”
“Hello~”
“The sister you just shot is still crying~”
“Can you see?”
Seeing Obei ignore her and chat enthusiastically with others, Aoxi unhappily squeezed in between them, waving her hands to disrupt.
“Hm? You’re still here?”
“Is something wrong?”
Obei glanced at her and said with disgust.
“What do you mean ‘is something wrong’? What exactly did you shoot me with just now… Huh?!”
Halfway through her words, Aoxi suddenly saw the strange weapon in Obei’s hand clearly.
“woc! This is… 【Heavenly Fire】?!”
【Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment】—a famous weapon from a certain three-word game, with forms of dual pistols, hand cannon, and great sword, it is the key of destruction driven by a god’s core.
Of course, the one in Obei’s hand definitely wasn’t the original, not even a castrated version.
If anything, it was just a cosplay prop with over 90% similarity in appearance.
After all, she had neither soul steel as raw materials nor a god’s core as the energy source.
However, even this downgraded version of a downgraded version was enough to make Aoxi’s eyes light up.
A prop from the game manifesting in reality—what could be more exciting than that?
Moreover, judging from the pain on her forehead that hadn’t fully subsided, this thing could genuinely fire powerful attacks!
“By the way, isn’t your leap too big? You were doing World War II tech not long ago, and now you’ve suddenly jumped to the fantasy side?”
“Didn’t you always talk about ‘science’ and ‘logic’?”
“Quick! Let me play with it!”
Aoxi impatiently took the Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment from Obei’s hand and examined it carefully in her palm.
She aimed at the distant sea surface, closed one eye, and then pulled the trigger.
Click!
～～
Nothing happened.
Click! Click! Click!
～～～
Still nothing happened.
“What’s going on? It won’t fire? Is it broken?”
“This quality is too poor~”
Aoxi shook the Heavenly Fire in her hand, then pointed the gun muzzle at her own eye and peered inside carefully.
This indescribably forbidden operation made Obei’s anger surge!
“Move your eye away from there!”
“This thing is an energy weapon that uses divine power as bullets. The magazine is empty now, so of course you can’t fire!”
“Ah? Then what do I do?”
“Sigh~”
Obei sighed wearily and pointed at a floating diamond-shaped rotor-like thing at the rear of the gun body, saying:
“Simple. Inject divine power into the core at the magazine position, then pull the trigger.”
“Oh~ I’ll try.”
As crimson divine power was injected, the patterns on the 【Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment】 gun body began to glow, but unlike the original’s flame-like orange-red, this gun’s patterns glowed Aoxi’s crimson red.
Bang!
A red light flashed by, and the distant sea surface instantly surged with waves over ten meters high, with many glowing-scaled sea fish blasted flying into the sky.
“Mm~ Not bad power~”
“It’s just a bit stronger than an ordinary cannonball. At the end of the day, it’s still just a toy in the experimental stage.”
Obei’s evaluation was clearly different from Aoxi’s; she truly wanted to recreate a fraction of the original’s power.
“In the end, it’s limited by the raw materials.”
Obei could rely on her own talent to make a Heavenly Fire with similar principles and appearance, but she really couldn’t do anything about the raw materials limitation.
Even a genius like shrimp dumplings could only make a “Invincible Player” cartridge?
The current one in her hand still relied on special metal provided as the core and conduction path for energy.
If it were native materials from this world, the moment the trigger was pulled, it would either fail to fire due to poor divine power conduction or melt down instantly from excessive energy.
While Obei was pondering whether to deduct a core from her cheap sister, Rayleigh and the other two nearby had already widened their eyes.
“So, so amazing!”
“Did you see that, Shanks!”
“That super cool-looking gun can actually shoot bullets with cannonball-level power!”
Buggy shook his little partner’s collar back and forth, looking incredulous.
“I saw! I saw!”
“It’s really impressive.”
“Let go of me first, Buggy.”
Shanks thought it was impressive too, but he preferred using swords to attack like Captain Roger, to become a great swordmaster.
As for firearms… he liked them too, but only viewed them as secondary weapons or small props.
And as an experienced adult, Rayleigh clearly saw more than the two still young ones.
『These brats really aren’t simple.』
『A gun with this much power… The blue-haired girl called Obei’s talent might not be inferior to the legendary Vegapunk.』
『And the redhead just took that shot head-on without using Haki and emerged unscathed.』
『Plus the extreme speed she showed earlier, and that so-called ‘divine power’…』
Rayleigh finally looked at La, whose gaze had been fixed on Buggy and Shanks.
This little girl had always given him the feeling of being ordinary.
Apart from her exquisitely refined appearance that didn’t fit in with the surroundings and a slightly mature personality, he hadn’t noticed anything unusual about her from beginning to end.
Even being around her made people subconsciously feel a slight sense of reassurance.
But now, seeing the undisguised abnormalities of the other two brats, he couldn’t help but suspect if he had misjudged.
Maybe this golden girl had already reached a level where he couldn’t gauge her depth?
『Truly terrifying…』
『Beasts Pirates… When did another monster like this appear on the sea?』
Rayleigh fell into silence, recalling the Rocks Pirates he had seen at God Valley.
Back then, if not for their internal disunity, even with the Navy’s help, their side probably wouldn’t have been their match.
And now, this emerging Beasts Pirates was very likely to grow into another Rocks Pirates, or even stronger and more terrifying.
『After this trip back, I need to discuss it with Roger.』
The frameless glasses reflected the glaring sunlight, making Rayleigh’s expression unclear, but the furrowed brow clearly showed his inner seriousness at the moment.
Obei’s first fantasy side tech product—I chose the Honkai series, since the early Honkai weapon designs really suited my taste. Especially Heavenly Fire Holy Judgment, which kicked me straight into the pit despite my original indifference to great swords.
Damn! How can there be a great sword that’s so cool, so overpowered as a weapon!
