Chapter 164: Sweet-talking And Deception
“Seeing the future, huh… Sister La seems to have mentioned it to me before.”
This was a rather distant memory. Back then, when La was teaching Aoxi and Obei Haki, she did mention future sight.
But at the time, she didn’t understand a bit of it. Even recalling it now, it’s still a bunch of incomprehensible terms.
My head feels so itchy, feels like my brain is growing.jpg
“Anyway, until your Observation Haki reaches my level, you won’t be able to hit me!”
Kaido, with his Wolf Fang Club over his shoulder, said smugly.
“Eh? How can it be like this~”
“This is totally cheating…”
This kind of miss-maxed crap monster really drags down the gaming experience.
“Hmph! In battle, there’s no such thing as cheating or not—just knocking your opponent down is what matters most.”
“Get up for me, quick!”
“No~”
Aoxi, who had just sat up, heard this and immediately lay back down.
“Anyway, I can’t touch you, so there’s no point continuing.”
“Eh~ Life is like a vast wilderness; sometimes lying down and rotting is a choice too. Maybe you can even see scenery overhead you never noticed before~”
Aoxi, lying on her back facing the sky, suddenly spoke in a profound tone, with a hint of detachment between her brows.
After all, if you know there’s a tiger in the mountain, why not just avoid that mountain?
Sometimes, people~ still need to reconcile more with themselves~
“Don’t pull that twisted logic here like your sister!”
“If you won’t get up, I’ll use this club in my hand to help you up!”
Kaido directly jabbed the Wolf Fang Club hard next to Aoxi’s head.
“Heh~ Getting cocky, are we?”
Facing the threat right in front of her, Aoxi wasn’t panicked at all, just giving a slight smile~
“Boss Kaido~ You wouldn’t think you can keep up with my speed, would you?”
“As long as I don’t actively attack you, you won’t even touch the corner of my clothes.”
High movement speed makes you bold.
Without waiting for the other to say more, a pair of Wings suddenly grew from Aoxi’s back, and she cheekily winked at Kaido above her.
“(ω<)☆"
Kaido, who had foreseen what she was about to do, immediately reached out to grab her, but he was still a step too slow.
Aoxi did a ground-level slide right under his crotch and then pulled up at an angle, flying straight into high altitude.
“Haha! Ruling the sky, enemies will bow at my feet!”
“Wuhu~”
Like a bolt of red lightning, Aoxi instantly circled around Kaido more than a dozen times, then planned to fly off.
Her speed was undoubtedly fast; in comparison, Jhin and Kaido were like hand-cranked tractors.
“Don’t run, wait!”
“I haven’t taught you the Conqueror’s Haki techniques I mentioned yet!”
“This is the highest-level technique—master it, and on these seas, you can beat whoever you want!”
“Stop bragging. If it’s that great, how did you get beaten like a dead fish last time?”
“If it weren’t for Sister La, you’d probably still be lying in bed right now, with Jhin and Uncle Burufaruto taking turns feeding you shit and bringing you food basins~”
“Tch!”
Kaido was now even more determined to teach this brat Aoxi Conqueror’s Haki Infusion.
Otherwise, with that mouth of hers, who knows when she’d talk her way into being tied up, stuffed in a sack, and sunk into the sea by those old guys.
“You can skip learning it now, but you still need to level up your Observation Haki first.”
“Otherwise, against someone like me, you won’t even be able to fight back.”
“Don’t think beating a few of Whitebeard’s sons makes you invincible. On these seas, there are as many powerful and bizarre abilities as cow hairs!”
“Without strong Haki, you’ll trip up someday!”
Kaido shouted up at Aoxi in the sky.
“Then I just won’t go out~ I’ll stay by Sister La’s side forever, never leaving.”
Aoxi continued looking like a hopeless case.
Though she said that, she didn’t really want to be a shut-in forever.
Aoxi was still very interested in the bizarre islands and cultures on the seas.
The trip to Sky Island last time was just a taste, and now with nothing going on, La wouldn’t let her go out alone, saying she was afraid of her being tricked.
Do I look that easy to fool?
You think I’m a total idiot too, right.jpg
Anyway, Aoxi’s current state was like raging after losing a dozen games in a row, yelling ‘What a crap game, uninstalling!’
A few hours later, once her sanity bar filled up, she’d yell ‘My fate is mine, not heaven’s’…
“Tch! What a troublesome brat!”
“Here’s the deal: if you can hit me once more today, I’ll give you a gift.”
“Hm? A gift?”
“That’s right.”
Kaido pulled a pink, ridiculously gaudy card from his pocket.
“This is… a bubble bath voucher?”
“Eww~ Boss Kaido’s just a man after all~”
Aoxi looked strangely at the gold-embossed little card painted with cakes, candles, and pink hearts, full of girly style.
“Bubble bath? This is the Whole Cake Island Founding Ceremony Invitation.”
“That old woman Linlin, after getting all the islands in Totland Sea Area, is preparing to formally found her nation.”
Kaido explained.
“Yo~ Lin~Lin~, calling her pretty intimately, huh~”
“Old flame?”
“And why’s she inviting us for her founding? Not after our contribution money, is she?”
“…”
For the first time, Kaido found talking to Aoxi this exhausting.
How does this girl know nothing? She really just eats, drinks, and plays every day?
“Charlotte Linlin used to be on the same ship as me, so she’s an acquaintance.”
“Last time during the Hachinosu Island attack, she took the chance to annex all of Totland’s territory. Now she’s preparing to establish her so-called ‘Whole Cake Island’.”
“As for why she’s inviting us… that old woman loves these grand, lively events. She used to drag a bunch of underworld people into her tea parties all the time.”
‘Big Mom’s Tea Party’ is very famous in the entire underworld and even the entire New World. Many underworld bosses and other influential factions get to know each other here.
And they often use the Tea Party to exchange intelligence with each other.
That’s also why Big Mom’s Pirate Crew leads in intelligence in the New World.
Gotta say, Charlotte Linlin has some real skills when she’s not going crazy.
“So this thing is an invitation?”
Aoxi looked at the pink little card in Kaido’s hand, thinking it didn’t look like any proper invitation.
“Right. If you can hit me once more, I’ll let you go…”
“I don’t want it.”
“Hm?”
“I don’t wanna go to some Founding Ceremony… Sounds boring just hearing about it.”
“Give this thing to whoever you want.”
Aoxi waved her hand dismissively. This sounded like one of those ordeals standing for hours, listening to someone drone on with a manuscript.
Maybe even forced to watch some weird formations.
“Is that so… What a shame.”
“After all, with that woman Linlin’s personality, there should be all sorts of cakes and delicacies at the event…”
『Hm?』
『Cake?』
Shake~ Shake~
Aoxi’s ahoge twitched.
“I heard every Tea Party before had a ten-meter cake.”
『Ten, ten meters tall?!』
Shake shake~ Shake shake~
“This time it’s the national Founding Ceremony, so that woman will probably cover the whole island with all kinds of sweets.”
“Maybe even a cake as big as a villa.”
『Whole island? Cake as big as a villa?』
Shake shake shake~
For some reason, even though her body now didn’t need to worry about balanced diets, La strictly controlled these two little ones’ eating.
Every meal was meat and veggies, and snacks like small cakes were only occasional.
“Ah… probably not as big as a villa.”
『I, I knew it, how could there be…』
“They’ll probably just make a whole Cake Castle. After all, that old woman loves that boring stuff.”
“Gulp~”
“Gotta say, your little card hooked me, Boss Kaido.”
“Slurp~”
Aoxi wiped her drool and extended her right hand.
“Hand over the thing.”
Seeing her take the bait, Kaido put the invitation away.
“Hey! You know the rules!”
“Want it? Come take it yourself!”
