Chapter 191: Making An Appearance
With Aoxi’s impatient low growl, the scene immediately fell into dead silence again.
“Hm…?”
Big Mom narrowed her eyes, staring intently at the direction of the entrance.
There, three small figures were gradually becoming clearer from far to near.
『Are those the brats who just joined Kaido’s side? What a troublesome ability…』
Not to mention those Homies that were scared to death, even her own soul trembled just now, and Napoleon on her head was still shivering.
Prometheus and Zeus had directly shrunk behind her, not daring to even glance that way.
Among those three brats, one of them seemed to have an ability that countered her Soul-Soul Fruit.
『Is this a show of strength, or…』
While Big Mom was lost in thought, the others weren’t idle either, all looking toward the plaza’s entrance.
Hiss—
Unlike the pirates with powerful strength, these faction bosses whose physiques were closer to ordinary humans first focused on more superficial things.
As visual creatures, regardless of gender, everyone on site held their breath for an instant after clearly seeing La and the two others’ appearances.
“Hey, hey! You’re kidding, right? These three brats…”
“They’re too beautiful, aren’t they? More beautiful than any mermaid I’ve ever handled. Are they really humans?”
A slave merchant who dealt in slave trade widened his eyes, staring unblinkingly at the three little ones who seemed to have a filter added to them.
He couldn’t imagine that any creature could be this beautiful; they weren’t even in the same art style!
But fortunately, all three were still just children, so the crowd quickly broke free from their exquisite faces.
“Such children are actually pirates? They couldn’t be some country’s princess forcibly taken by the Beasts Pirates to serve as a figurehead, right?”
“If so, why aren’t there any executives accompanying them?”
“And if they’re just ordinary princesses, how dare they act like this on Big Mom’s territory? Could they be Kaido’s daughters?”
While the smaller factions had to resort to increasingly outrageous guesses due to their low-level information channels, the underworld bosses weren’t idle either.
“So those are the three newly promoted executives of the Beasts Pirates from the legends… Regardless of their strength, their appearances are top-notch.”
Umit said with his hands in his pockets.
“Indeed, at that age, the signs are already visible. I can hardly imagine what kind of terrifying charm these three will have once they grow up.”
“They could probably easily incite wars between countries just with their faces… with that strategic-level terrifying beauty.”
Du Field nodded in agreement.
Previously, whenever he saw those historical novel tropes about starting national wars over beauties, he would scoff, thinking the author was just making things up to attract attention.
But today, after truly witnessing this level of appearance, he naturally wavered.
“Yah hahaha~ This is fantastic!”
“Regardless of their identities, just publishing photos of these three will make my newspaper sell like hotcakes!”
“‘Beauty and the Beast’—what better hook could there be?!”
Compared to the last sneaky shot, Morgans couldn’t help laughing again after seeing the three’s appearances head-on this time.
This time, even if he wrote nothing, just pasting the three’s photos on the newspaper would probably sell out immediately.
……
“Huff~ huff~”
Slightly rapid breathing came from beside Old Media, making him instinctively feel that something was wrong.
『Oh no!』
“Caspar, you…”
“Absolute, absolute top quality! Real top quality!”
“Simply perfect! Any one of these three is too perfect!”
“This, this is without a doubt the work of a god!”
Caspar was showing signs of losing control. If Old Media hadn’t gripped his wrist tightly, he probably would have rushed over already.
“Hm? Father?”
Feeling the restraint on his wrist, Caspar turned to look at his father, whose face was already full of anxiety and fear.
“Are you going to defy the will of the gods?”
“Have you gone mad, Caspar?!”
“Can’t you see such an obvious anomaly? Those three brats’ appearances clearly aren’t human.”
“Do you want to bring the entire Mediya Family to utter destruction?!”
“Cough, cough cough!”
“Father…”
Old Media’s painful coughing temporarily brought Caspar back to his senses, but it couldn’t change the decision he had already made in his heart.
『The Beasts Pirates and the Mediya Family must be bound together through a marriage alliance.』
『But which one to choose? Or all three…』
……
Regardless of everyone else’s swirling thoughts, on the Beasts side, La calmly led the two little ones through the crowd to stand before Big Mom.
“Nice to meet you, Charlotte.”
“I’m the representative from the Beasts Pirates this time. You can call me La.”
“These two are my sister Osiris and Obelisk.”
Seeing Big Mom’s gaze turn to her, Obei gave a perfunctory nod, then continued fiddling with the object in her hands.
Meanwhile, Aoxi beside her turned her head away as if she had seen something disgusting, not hiding the disgust on her face at all.
Seeing the other’s attitude, Big Mom naturally didn’t look pleased either.
“Well~ it seems that brat Kaido doesn’t take my celebration seriously at all!”
“I’ve always treated him like a younger brother, yet he sends you three brats who haven’t even been weaned?”
As she spoke, she bent down, widening her eyes to stare at the three, her massive body—which was even taller than Kaido—exuding a chilling aura.
……
Normally, she wouldn’t bother arguing with a child like Aoxi. Being frequently in her lactation period, she had unusual patience for children.
But this time was different. The girl with the disgusted expression in front of her actually had an ability that countered her own, and Big Mom couldn’t figure out what Kaido meant by sending her.
Showing off? Provocation? Pressure?
He couldn’t simply think that one ability-countering little girl could do anything to her, right?
Big Mom’s greatest reliance had never been the Soul-Soul Fruit…
“I think there’s some misunderstanding, Charlotte. The Beasts Pirates have of course come with sincerity.”
Facing the intimidating Queen of Whole Cake Island, La remained composed.
“To that end, Captain Kaido personally selected a gift.”
La reached out her hand, and the Millennium Puzzle on her chest flashed with light. Twelve golden lines intersected in the air, ultimately forming a perfect cube.
“Oh oh oh! This is…”
“A Devil Fruit ability? Superhuman or Logia?”
“That, that golden thing couldn’t be…”
This apparent Creation from Void ability immediately piqued the interest of those around.
Whether the small factions watching for fun or the bosses and overlord pirate crews gathering intel, everyone’s line of sight focused on La.
The light faded, and a golden cube a full cubic meter in volume floated in midair, slowly drifting toward Big Mom.
“Hm?”
“Mama~ mama~”
“That brat Kaido still has such terrible taste in picking gifts.”
Though she said that, Big Mom grabbed the golden cube in front of her.
“Gulp~”
Quite a few people secretly swallowed. It wasn’t that they were modest; many of them had never seen so much gold at once in their lives.
Such a huge lump of gold was sent out so lightly—these pirates were all so rich?
