Chapter 17: Test Island (part 1)
“Whoa~ So high!!! Is this the legendary riding the clouds and fog? As expected of a dragon!” Aoxi shouted excitedly on the Flame Cloud.
“This cloud actually has a physical form when touched, feels just like cotton. And this supportive force, it’s just like a lifebuoy floating on the water surface. What exactly is the principle behind this?”
Obei was also acting like a curious baby at this moment, pinching left and right on the Flame Cloud, occasionally muttering something like p, nTR in her mouth.
“Captain Kaido, may you inform us of our destination for this trip?” La sat gracefully on the Flame Cloud, saying with a relaxed expression.
“The place we’re going to is called Test Island, in South Blue. There’s a guy who’s recently popped up there, and I’m going to pull him to join.”
“Oh? What kind of person is he?” Perhaps noticing that Kaido seemed a bit bored, La continued following his words and asked.
“That guy is called Sain, a member of a research organization named MADS. That guy is quite skilled in making weapons.”
“Sain? What kind of person is he? Could he be a mature sexy big sister with big wavy blonde hair?” Aoxi, who was eavesdropping on the side, poked Obei who was still sprawled studying the Flame Cloud with her elbow.
“Boring, Aoxi, can’t you use that tiny bit of computing power left in your pitiful little head for something meaningful?” Obei pushed Aoxi away and rolled her eyes.
“Who says I’m not using it for something meaningful! Haven’t I already been able to understand Sister La and the others’ conversation?” Aoxi retorted.
It had to be said that her and Obei’s learning ability was also quite terrifying; after La’s simple teaching, they had already roughly mastered the most basic spoken language.
However, at this moment, the two of them still privately stuck to communicating in Chinese.
“You only understood ‘big wavy blonde’? Weren’t you not interested in women anymore? Instead of wasting time, why not recall more 《ONE PIECE》 related information.”
“No way~ I’ve recalled, but I couldn’t remember any useful information at all. I just remember the protagonist is called Luffy, and Pirate King is called Roger.”
“Hey, red-haired brat, you just mentioned the name Roger, right! Do you know Roger?” Due to Roger’s name pronunciation being very similar in both languages, Aoxi’s words immediately caught Kaido’s attention.
“I’m not ‘hey’, my name is Osiris! Of course I know Roger, though he doesn’t know me~” Aoxi’s spoken language was still a bit stuttering, but it was enough for Kaido to understand.
“Uro-ro-ro-ro-ro~ Of course, on this Chaotic Sea, who doesn’t know Roger? A few years ago, I even fought that guy. He’s truly a terrifyingly strong man.” Mentioning Roger, Kaido’s words carried strong excitement and fighting spirit.
“But one day, I’ll defeat that guy!”
‘Dream on, you. He’s Pirate King, what king are you?’ Of course, this was Aoxi muttering softly in Chinese, and Kaido didn’t hear it.
『From Kaido’s tone, Pirate King Roger doesn’t seem to have been executed yet. Could it be now is before the plot begins?』
From Kaido’s words, La keenly captured the time period they were currently in. After all, even without watching the anime, La had heard that Pirate King gets executed at the beginning of every episode.
“Can you tell us about the current power distribution in the world? Captain Kaido.
We three have known almost nothing about the outside world since falling onto that Uninhabited Island.” La tried to continue gathering intelligence.
“Telling you is fine. You should know about Four Seas and Grand Line, right?
Right now, Four Seas and the first half of Grand Line are still controlled by those World Government bastards.
As for the second half of Grand Line, that is, the so-called ‘New World’, it’s basically held by us remnants of Rocks. Like Newgate, Shiki, John, and Linlin these guys.”
It seemed to relieve the boredom of the journey, as Kaido rarely had the interest to explain so much.
“Rocks?”
Although she was still unclear about geographical concepts like 【Grand Line】 and 【Four Seas】, La still chose to first understand this name that Kaido emphasized.
Hearing that La was interested in Rocks, Kaido’s eyes carried a bit of reminiscence as he spoke:
“Yeah, I was on that guy’s ship for a while before. That was an ambitious guy, who at the time was set on becoming King of the World!”
“Unfortunately, he was ultimately defeated by Roger and Navy at God Valley. No, there’s nothing unfortunate about it. This Chaotic Sea now is exactly what I want.”
『So this is the story before the plot happens.』
Before La could ask anything further, Kaido suddenly spoke up to remind.
“Sit tight, ahead is Red Line. I’m going to fly up higher.” With that, Kaido directly rushed upward through the cloud layer to above ten thousand meters.
“Ooooh! So thrilling~ Ah~ Ah~”
………..
At noon two days later, the group finally arrived at the destination Test Island.
Kaido wasted no words and directly blasted a Heat Breath at the plaza in front of the Royal Palace. The entire plaza vanished instantly.
“Whoa, so direct?!”
Aoxi, who had climbed onto Kaido’s back at some point, was a bit surprised seeing the other side start battle at ‘zero seconds upon meeting’.
After these two days of interaction, Aoxi’s impression of Kaido had shifted somewhat; she felt this guy, though bad-tempered, was actually not bad.
Kaido was also uncharacteristically patient with the few little ones.
“Of course. I don’t have the patience to slowly search; forcing him to come out is all.”
Inside the Royal Palace, Test Island’s Kingdom’s King was holding a grand banquet because Sain’s weapons had inflicted heavy casualties on the Resistance.
“Hahaha~ With that Plague Bomb made by Sain, this bunch of rebellious scum immediately can’t jump around anymore.
Hmph! I just levied a bit more tax from them, and these commoners actually dare to rebel!”
At the main seat, King Idit III, whose waist size matched his height, stuffed Roast Pork into his mouth while speaking. His every gesture lacked any elegance befitting Royalty.
“Your Majesty, how about raising the tax even higher? That way, these scum won’t have money to rebel.” A sharp-faced bureaucrat wearing gold-rimmed glasses at the side seat proposed.
“Hm? Hm! Haha! As expected of the Minister of Finance, well said!
Just raise the tax to ten percent directly. These commoners’ lives are mine, yet they ungratefully want my money!
Hmph hmph, with Sain’s weapons, let’s see who dares to not submit!”
“With our kingdom’s current power, even becoming a World Government affiliate nation would be more than enough, hahahaha~”
“Your Majesty is right. How about sending a ship later to find World Government people and discuss making our country an affiliate?”
“Why bother with that trouble? Just make them come over themselves.”
“Right, it should be World Government coming to request our joining!”
The nobles at the lower seats also chimed in agreement one after another, filling the Banquet Hall with a joyful atmosphere for a moment.
Boom!!!
