Chapter 261: Special Weapon
Clap clap clap~
“Obei? My good sister, your sister has come to see you.”
After walking halfway and detouring to kick away the sign at the entrance to the neighboring weapon storage that said someone【No Entry Allowed】, which had been put up for the Nth time after patching it up, Aoxi arrived at the door of Obei’s wonder house——Laboratory No. 001 with an excited mood.
After a series of polite knocking sounds, the door… did not open, but instead a scanning camera popped out from the side of the metal gate’s frame.
“Wow~ It’s already evolved to this point?”
“Hello~”
Looking at the lens that adjusted a few times and then aimed at her, Aoxi greeted it curiously.
Beep~
As a beam of light scanned Aoxi from top to bottom, a mechanical female voice came from the camera:
“Beep~ Foreign visitor detected, matching database…”
“Mm~”
Aoxi nodded.
“Beep~ Iris recognition successful.”
“Beep~ Voiceprint recognition successful.”
“Beep~ Energy frequency verification—result matches.”
“Identity verification successful.”
“Identified as: Osiris.”
“Mm mm~”
“Pretty smart, this thing Obei made~”
Aoxi continued nodding.
“Authority: D-level.”
『Hm? D-level?』
“Danger level: V-level.”
『Hm??』
“Warning! Warning! Extremely dangerous individual detected, no high-authority personnel accompanying nearby, danger level elevated!”
『Hm???』
“I-level defense module activated, full-domain defense system activated, expulsion action commencing, operation code—Expel Red Hair Haki—Zzzt~”
Click~
A faint electric spark flashed, and the system’s voice broadcast stopped.
“Ah?~ It broke?”
“Oka xi nei~”
“Sure enough, these electronic things are unreliable, always prone to malfunctions~”
Looking at the camera that had started smoking, Aoxi tilted her head and said with a ‘surprised’ expression.
“…Ha, Ha… ki.”
『Tch!』
Boom—!
Intense electric current brutally destroyed all the electronic components, and the dutiful identification system’s lens returned to the mechanical homeworld.
Expressionlessly watching the pile of metal scraps on the ground, Aoxi simply stepped over them and arrived in front of the gate.
You saw that just now, didn’t you?
Next up is you! Steel Gate Taro!
Placing her hand on the gate, with countless tiny electric currents released, after a clatter, the originally tightly shut heavy metal gate actively opened.
Hm↑ hm↓
Mere electronic equipment dares to challenge a god~
Foolish!
With the arrogance of a victor, Aoxi disdainfully glanced at the now-paralyzed gate and swaggered into the laboratory.
All remaining security equipment along her path without exception offered food and drink, sincerely welcoming her.
Sizzle~
Finally, the last dutiful security door—Steel Gate Juro—also gave way under the weak point attack, and Obei’s most private laboratory was completely exposed before Aoxi.
“I’m coming in~”
“?”
Obei, who was wearing experimental headphones and focused on adjusting the weapon in her hand, was startled upon hearing this familiar voice.
“Damn! You, how did you get in?”
“Where’s my security door?”
Saying this, Obei looked up at the surveillance screen, and as expected, it was all blacked out.
“…”
“You—!”
“Obei, as your sister, I came specially to see you, so you should respond【Thank you sister, sister is the best!】, not shout【Damn! How did you get in?】 or【Where’s my security door?】 like that.”
“I—!”
Obei’s pupils dilated wide.
This world generally used surveillance Den Den Mushi as biological defense systems, but she worried about the instability of creatures and took a different path, directly using pure electronic equipment to build the alarm system.
This not only avoided the uncertainty of Den Den Mushi as creatures but also prevented traditional hacker intrusions that had formed a system…
Resulting in encountering an LV5.
“Alright alright, don’t mind such small things.”
Ignoring the shocked gaze of the other, Aoxi walked with hands behind her back and swaggered to Obei’s experimental table, just like a leader inspecting work.
“By the way… how’s my special weapon coming along?”
“You wrecked my outer security system just to come in and ask about this?”
“Hey hey hey~ This isn’t my fault, I knocked on the door, you didn’t respond.”
“Tch~ Forgot that I turned off the alarm sound in advance because I was afraid the experiment would be disturbed.”
Realizing it was her own oversight, Obei clicked her tongue, then took off her headphones and gestured for Aoxi to follow.
The two bypassed a pile of miscellaneous experimental instruments and arrived in front of a seemingly fully enclosed box.
After another series of complex verifications by Obei, the pitch-black all-metal box finally ‘clicked’ open.
A wisp of dark blue light broke through the gap as the box opened, reflecting on Aoxi’s face, making her uncontrollably excited.
“Oh oh oh…”
“Dokidoki~”
The dark blue light grew stronger as the box gradually opened, finally revealing its full form after the black box was fully opened.
“This is, uh…”
“A bracelet?”
Shock and anticipation gradually faded from Aoxi’s face.
Where’s her great sword?
Where are her gloves?
If nothing else, a wolf fang club would be acceptable…
“No! Could this be the legendary super power bracelet?! With it, can I defeat any sun monster?”
Reaching out to pick up the slender bracelet, Aoxi examined it repeatedly, but still found no peculiarities, even the initial light gradually receding.
Not believing it, she tried injecting divine power into it, but it was like muddy bull enters the sea with no feedback whatsoever; it was just an ordinary bracelet like a snap bracelet.
“Uh… Obei?”
“Tch~ Give it here.”
Ignoring Aoxi’s suspicious gaze, Obei took the bracelet from her hand and began explaining while demonstrating.
“Considering your ‘swords, guns, spears, blades, clubs, this and that’ demands, I directly made this special weapon into a design like Void Myriad Storehouse that can freely shapeshift.”
“Just like your ‘Lightning Metallurgy’.”
“Of course, considering that full shapeshifting requires gradually conceptualizing details like modeling, I preset some ready-made models inside.”
Saying this, Obei injected her deep blue divine power, and the bracelet’s form began to change.
First the volume expanded, then the shape continuously distorted and changed… ultimately forming a pair of pitch-black heavy gloves.
“This is… Broken Light?”
Looking at these familiar gloves, the sound of Ora Ora echoed in Aoxi’s mind.
If during a fight it suddenly switched to eclipse form, then Ora’d the opponent for three pages of paper, wouldn’t that be explosively satisfying?!
Seeing Aoxi’s eyes sparkling, Obei continued demonstrating:
“The preset weapon models inside are all ones you’re familiar with, of course, those weird skills can’t be simulated.”
Like spacetime rupture, resurrection, etc., Obei still had no clue for now.
“But I did set a few rated power levels based on the【Key of God】 template, so you can liberate them later by increasing divine power input.”
“Slurp~”
Watching the gloves on Obei’s hand begin to “overlimit liberate” as divine power surged in, Aoxi couldn’t help wiping her mouth.
This layered power liberation setup was perfectly suited to Aoxi’s chuunibyou brat tastes.
【Ora’d too hard and didn’t notice~】
【I thought it was a sandbag~】
【Go tell my zeroth rated power!】
【How are you still alive after I hit you that hard?】
“Obei… you’re a chuunibyou too, aren’t you?”
Aoxi looked at Obei, her eyes full of【As expected of my sister, her personality takes after mine】 approval.
After all, the granularity matched too perfectly.
Obei: “…”
Changing the gloves back into a bracelet, Obei put it back in the box, locked it, and turned to leave.
“Hey hey hey~ Don’t go~”
Seeing Obei about to leave, Aoxi hurriedly grabbed her wrist, but was dragged into a stumble.
“Don’t go, even if you’re not chuunibyou, it’s fine!”
Obei’s pace quickened a few steps, and Aoxi was directly dragged along like an accessory.
“Nooo, Obei! Without a special weapon, wadashi…”
“…”
“Tch!”
Looking at Aoxi who was grabbing her wrist with both hands but hooking an important precision instrument with her feet, Obei irritably clicked her tongue.
Still couldn’t let the other rampage here; it didn’t matter what happened to Aoxi, but these instruments were quite valuable.
……
“Hee hee~”
Seeing Obei stop, Aoxi obediently let go of her hands… and feet, showing a sheepish smile.
“By the way, how did you do that just now? Why didn’t the bracelet react at all in my hand?”
“…”
“Simple.”
“Mm~”
“Because that one just now was my special weapon.”
“So only I can use it.”
Their special weapons were each made from Phantom God Alloy they produced themselves, so basically only they themselves could use them.
For others without divine power energy, even if they got it, it was just a super hard metal that was almost unprocessable, basically only good for smashing people.
While Obei and Aoxi could input divine power into their respective weapons due to the shared origin of their divine power.
But basically it was like locks from the same brand; the key could be inserted, but not turned.
And upon learning that the bracelet she had liked so much wasn’t hers, Aoxi was a bit dazed.
“…”
“Ah?”
“Then where’s mine?”
“There~ Under that table leg.”
Obei nodded toward under the table where the box had been placed, indicating that the thing propping up the table leg was Aoxi’s special weapon.
“Ha?!”
“Why is your weapon nicely stored in a box, while my special weapon is being used by you to prop up a table leg?!”
“And this shape…”
“Why is it a brick?!”
Aoxi walked over, took out the crimson ‘brick’ from under the table corner, examined it in her hand, swung it a few times… it was surprisingly handy.
“Because I accidentally broke off a chunk of the table corner, so I temporarily used your special weapon to prop it up.”
Reaching out to steady the nearly tilting table, Obei explained while looking around for a replacement.
“Temporarily…”
Aoxi suddenly felt the stifled frustration of her usual precious bike being stood up and pedaled at someone else’s place.
“Don’t worry, the special weapon retains the super high hardness of the base Golden Cube, no matter what you do, it won’t leave a single scratch.”
“And don’t you think using a brick as a weapon suits you perfectly?”
“Or if you don’t like it, you can change it to a bracelet like mine… or an ankle bracelet is fine too.”
Finally finding a handbook of the right size, Obei used mental power to retrieve it to her hand, then placed it under the table.
Although she had shifted her focus to pursuing technology, Obei hadn’t neglected her own training.
Though she lagged behind Aoxi in many aspects, at least in mental power usage, she was ahead of Aoxi.
After all, as mentioned from the start, piercing the world barrier in the Millennium Puzzle required not only massive divine power but also strong mental power as support.
……
Watching Aoxi leave joyfully like a monkey getting the Ruyi Jingu Bang, Obei sighed.
After using a Den Den Mushi to notify her subordinates to write a supply application form for purchasing surveillance Den Den Mushi and submit it to Ra, she returned to the experimental bench.
On the experimental bench lay a broken sword longer than Obei herself by a good margin.
This was Ember’s weapon.
Kaido’s wolf fang club had been completely destroyed in the battle with Wald, so Ra directly made him another one.
Anyway, for Kaido, as long as the club was hard enough, and the one Ra made was theoretically almost indestructible, it truly suited him perfectly.
However, due to its glaring golden appearance, Kaido had someone spray it with black paint on the surface… Black Blade (Club) achieved instantly.
As for Ember’s in front of her, it had been cut in half by some Navy swordmaster in a battle a month ago, so it was sent here for repair, thinking to add some mechanisms along the way.
For the practicalist Ember, the blade was just a pure weapon; as long as it could hurt the enemy, mounting a Gatling Gun on it was fine.
“Hm… Add a mechanism on the blade to lock the enemy’s blade during clashes, quench the edge with some inorganic poison…”
“As for the hilt… directly transform it into a concealed pistol? Or shoot cold arrows with Seastone tips?”
“No… better make it Seastone bullets directly. Arrows have too slow initial speed.”
“And Ember’s flames, that needs consideration too; have to design a special amplitude structure for the flames…”
……
Meanwhile, as Aoxi took her new weapon to show off to the group of Fish-Man children, and Obei continued immersing herself in weapon design, in the meeting hall on Fenrir Island, Kaido and others were discussing a certain piece of news with great interest.
“So what does this World Government mean? Publicly recruiting pirates?”
“And what’s this【Shichibukai】, isn’t it obviously disgusting, making people be their dogs!”
“And the conditions offered are legitimate raid rights… What, they can issue licenses for this stuff too?”
Burufaruto was clearly disdainful of the conditions offered by the World Government; in fact, any pirate with a bit of arrogance wouldn’t take this job.
Especially in the New World where the strong thrive and the weak perish, once you join the World Government, you’re basically out of the overlord contention.
Haki is the power of the heart; once you admit submission, losing that arrogance means your strength will plummet.
“Maybe some failures in the New World will try it. For those who can’t survive Navy encirclements, it’s not a bad fallback…”
“But it has nothing to do with us.”
Ember didn’t care much; for pirates, the World Government and other pirates were both enemies, whether they allied or not didn’t matter.
“Mm… Ra, what do you think.”
Kaido looked at Ra who was spacing out; unusually, she wasn’t busy with her own things this time, probably in the absolute refractory period after two whims…
Asking her now might get a less perfunctory answer.
Sure enough, Ra snapped out of her daze upon hearing Kaido’s call, even making a thinking gesture.
Moments later…
“Regarding this【Shichibukai】, best to arrange some of our people to join.”
