Chapter 43
"Nami,"
Roman at the helm told Nami next to him on the deck of the Golden Merry sailing on the great route.
"My recent fruit ability development has fallen into a bottleneck, and I need to enter the 'deep development' mode to seek breakthrough..."
A serious nonsense, Roman Do not blink an eye.
"So I would fall into a state of 'sluggishness' that would manifest itself as: loss of active stress, most sensory functions shut down, and..."
"Okay," Roman decided to illustrate with a simple example, looking at Nami's blank expression.
"You just treat me as a 'White Knight'."
White Knight is a skill developed by Roman during this period of time. Form a puppet out of paper, capable of doing most of the chores, with a certain battle strength, and:
Low-level intelligence to do whatever you let it do.
"This..."
"Anyway, everything is about the same as usual. If there is any danger, just remember to wake me up with the 'password'."
"This..." p>
Roman's eyes darkened as he spoke, and he instantly changed from sharp and agile to dazed, as if he was a real 'puppet'.
Of course, only when you are with your companions can you dare to play such a dangerous act of 'hanging up'. As for Roman's 'spirit'...
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"Gol · D · Roger?"
Crocus looked towards Roman who was controlling the puppet 'White Knight', his eyes narrowed gradually.
"You know a lot, youngster."
It's intriguing that Roman's Pirate King is 'Gol D. Roger' instead of 'Gol more Roger'.
Don't look at the small difference. For some reason, World Government has made many changes to Pirate King Roger's past, the biggest of which is hiding the 'D' in his name.
So in the eyes of most people, Pirate King is 'Gol and more Roger'! Anyone who knows his real name will never be an ordinary people --
"senior, I just read more 'Xianshu' than others..."
With The old man named Crocus slowly approached, and cracks began to appear on 'Roman' body out of thin air, and even some places had turned into sheets of white paper, as if they were about to collapse!
Sure enough.
"Crocus senior, I left this puppet not to be your enemy, nor to threaten you."
Roman quickly stated his intentions .
"I just want to make a deal with senior!"
ka ka ka,
As the old man walks by, Roman says 'White Knight' 'The puppet at the core suddenly slumped out of thin air, and it looked like it was about to end with a wrinkled body! Fortunately, the other party slowly put away the terrifying imposing manner.
"Deal?"
"Yes," As long as you don't do it right away, but enter the 'conversation' part, Roman will have the confidence to convince the other party!
After all, many of this world's 'secrets' are not secrets to him.
"For example:"
"The whereabouts of the Rumba Pirates."
—press! !
ka-cha,
'Roman' looks like he was hit by a punching machine! In an instant, it turned into a pile of 'round cake'-shaped paper balls, but fortunately, this was originally something created by his fruit ability. And although the imposing manner of the old man Crocus was amazing, and even turned into a physical attack, it was not an unreasonable 'Haoshoku Haki' after all, and would not hurt Roman on the Golden Meli.
"Old Senior, I said it."
Roman's voice came clearly in the wad of paper.
"I am not an enemy of you, nor am I intimidating..."
"Well, let me express my sincerity first: Rumba Pirates is not a complete The army was annihilated!"
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When the imposing manner was taken away, the old man named Crocus seemed to be the one who reads the newspaper and basks in the sun again. The ordinary old fogey. But there was no need for him to continue to disguise in front of Roman, just spit out a word indifferently.
"Speak."
crash-bang
The paper balls on the ground flew up and assembled into a 'Roman' shape again.
This is also the reason why he came here with a 'puppet'—as the weak side, let his life and death depend on the mood of others, he will not and cannot be so reckless.
"Rumba Pirates. Led by Captain 'Baby Yankee' Uchi, the cowboy-inspired West Blue Pirates, who are good at playing musical instruments, were annihilated by other Pirates in the Devil's Triangle 50 years ago The Pirate flag is a skull with horns..."
As Roman said slowly, Crocus's hands behind his back couldn't help clenching subconsciously! He thought he had taken light on life and death, but when he learned the exact death news of his friends, he couldn't help feeling suffocated.
"However, the Pirates weren't actually wiped out!"
"One of them, named Brut, ate a pill named ' Revive-Revive Fruit' Devil Fruit ,"
"This fruit has no effect in life, it just turns people into a landlubber who can't go into the sea. But when a person dies—"
The ability of this fruit will be activated.
"That is to bring people back to life!"
What a heaven-defying ability this is! I believe that if the World Government knows, I am afraid that the Three Great Admirals will win this fruit.
"It's a pity that Brook's soul got lost in the Devil's Triangle..."
"When he found his body, only a skeleton was left. ——In other words, he was resurrected again with a skeleton."
After finishing speaking, Roman stopped and waited for the old man opposite to digest the information in his words.
"Very..."
After half a sound, the old man named Crocus nodded.
"...great story."
hehe,
"Old Senior, I know people at Roger Pirates don't like 'Devil Fruit' ', think it's a crooked way."
Indeed, all Haki - the only one who doesn't have Haki, is Buggy of the 'Haoshoku Luck' holder. Such Pirates will certainly look down on the Devil Fruit Ability User, but:
"However, you can't deny the magic of Devil Fruit."
'Roman' spread his hands,
"Just like me."
In terms of strength, Roman is definitely not as good as the old ship doctor. But more than 'magic', the old ship doctor who still stays in the 'human' category can't compare with Roman. So Crocus had to seriously consider Roman's 'deal' after making sure that he couldn't really hurt Roman unless he left Laboon to chase the Golden Merry.
"What do you want from me?"
Faced with the old man's question, Roman said what he had long coveted.
"Haki's cultivation!"
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On the other side, on the Golden Merry in the snow.
That's right, the sun was shining brightly in the Twin Gorges before, but it didn't take long for the sky to become gloomy, and even big snowflakes floated!
"Hahaha, not bad—"
"This way, this way..."
bang!
One kick flew Luffy and Usopp, Nami patted in padded jacket was piled into a 'snowman' by Roman, helpless to drive away the two excess energy guys.
"go go go, go make a snowman! Don't play with Roman."
Roman's 'energy' is mainly focused on the Avatar 'White Knight', the puppet of the Twin Gorges that has been far away , and the ontology here is very rigid and mentally retarded. ——Originally, Roman told Luffy and the others to take good care of their bodies, but didn't expect instead became their toys...
"hahaha, look at my 'Mr. Snowman'"
"Hahaha, look at my 'Mr. Snowman'"
p>
The duo who were pushed aside to start a new activity. A classic snowman with one big ball, one small ball, two sticks and one carrot, built by Luffy of course.
"hmph hmph hmph, look at my 'Snow Queen'--"
crystal clear and near-transparent, sitting elegantly, like a daoist ice sculpture, of course it was Pirate A masterpiece by the late artist Usopp!
"Snowman Flying Fist!"
Since he couldn't defeat his opponent in 'art', Luffy immediately chose to pull his opponent to his 'level', and then used his rich experience to defeat him .
"aaahhhhMy Snow Queen!!"
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"These two guys ,"
He helped Roman, who was driving the boat, to brush the snow off his body, and Nami looked at the serious face in front of him. ——I don't know why, he is obviously the most comprehensive person among them, but Roman always gives Nami a 'very urgent' feeling, as if some beast powerhouse is chasing him behind him.
"What the hell are you afraid of, Roman..."
As a partner, if there is any difficulty, it should not be carried by everyone... , you think my strength simply can't help you?
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"hmph, what an arrogant guy."
In the Twin Gorge, Crocus, the old man with his hands behind his back, listened to Roman's After the 'deal', he just glanced at him indifferently.
"In such a hurry to improve your strength, don't you trust your companions?"
"No,"
Roman shook the head.
"Of course I trust them, and I want to protect them—"
It is because of this that Roman is eager to improve his strength. Otherwise: based on his knowledge of this world, is it not fragrant to find a place to train San Haki to a high level first, then come out and pretend to slap in the face and flip through New World?
But he couldn't, because...
"That's why I said you were arrogant, brat."
Crocus shook the head, but in the end Still agreed to Roman's deal.
"I can tell you Haki's cultivation method, but—"
Whether you can learn it or not, that's another question.
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