Chapter 145: Gaining a Little Fangirl
"I've heard that devil fruits have will, but I've never encountered this situation. Since you have this feeling, let's have everyone look around carefully. Maybe we can find it!"
Zefa was once an admiral of the navy and knew a lot of secrets. Naturally, he had heard such remarks before, so he did not doubt what Vic said.
Vic disagreed. He felt that the Flame-Flame Fruit could not be here. Although there were still more than ten years before Ace ate the Flame-Flame Fruit, it was very common for a devil fruit not to appear for decades. You had no idea where it might be hiding.
The world is still very plastic and will not undergo major changes because of the presence of time travelers. Sometimes time travelers may even become key figures in promoting the development of the plot.
Victor also started searching around symbolically. It was very convenient to search using his Observation Haki.
During this time, Princess Paula has been following Vic. The look in her eyes seemed to melt people. She didn't care even when she saw Rebecca and Wendy next to Vic. Rebecca had a cold face all the time, while Wendy looked a little funny.
Vic looked around but found nothing. He already knew that the Flame-Flame Fruit would not appear on this island. The Devil Fruit would not immediately attach itself to a nearby fruit just because there was one. That was an extremely small probability event.
The new recruits of the Elite Camp tied up all the pirates and planned to send them to a naval base. They did not plan to go back to Impel Down again. The time of the Elite Camp was very precious. There was only half a year, so they had to hurry.
In the end, only Zefa took Vic and the three girls back to the palace, to send the princess back for an explanation, and then left the island.
"your Highness!"
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After they returned to the palace, soldiers saluted to Paula along the way, but Paula ignored them. She kept looking up at Vic without looking away.
This performance made Vic very helpless, and he thought to himself: Saving people is risky, I must never do this again in the future. If I can take action in advance, I must not delay. It is impossible to say what kind of biological reaction hope after despair will produce.
"Paula, you're back! Are you not hurt?" The old king also came out to greet his daughter after hearing the news.
But when he walked up to his daughter to speak, she ignored him and had a reverent smile on her face. The old king thought that his daughter had been played with, until he noticed her gaze and realized that her daughter was in love.
"Ahem, Paula? Paula, where are the etiquette you learned before? Don't lose your manners in front of the naval commander!" The old king coughed heavily several times before his daughter woke up.
"Father!" Paula, who was sober, threw herself into her father's arms. She then remembered what happened in the cellar and burst into tears. It was the first time in her life that she suffered such hardship. When she met her relatives, she finally began to vent.
"My lords, what's going on with my daughter?" the old king asked puzzledly.
"Oh, that's right. When we found her, the pirates were about to kill her. We saved the princess from the brink of death. The princess must have been greatly shocked!" Vic said this not to take credit. If a father knew that his daughter was almost killed by so many people, he would be so scared and blame himself. She is already old, so it is possible that she would faint.
"Okay, now that the princess has returned safely and our mission has been completed, let's say goodbye. We have other tasks to do."
Seeing that things were almost done, Zefa prepared to say goodbye and leave. He had never thought about asking for any rewards or the like. It could be said that he no longer had any material needs!
"No, you can't leave!" Paula became anxious when she heard that several people were leaving, and she spoke loudly immediately. Her voice was so loud and so sudden that it scared the old king.
"Yes, yes, you can't leave. You have done me and my daughter a great favor, and I haven't repaid you yet. I can't let you go like this. If other kings knew about this, they would definitely laugh at me for being stingy and rude!"
The old king reacted quickly. He immediately understood what his daughter meant and tried to keep her.
"There's no need for this. We are not a regular army yet. They are all trainee marines. There's no need to be so troublesome." Zefa really doesn't like these social interactions, especially with people he's not familiar with. This is not what he's good at.
"You are not a regular army, so I have to thank you even more. This mission must have been forced upon you. It was originally your job, but you saved my daughter at the critical moment, which is even more precious!"
The old king has very good communication skills, otherwise he would not have been able to develop this island into a country with such developed trade.
Seeing that her father understood what she meant, Paula stopped talking and kept looking at Vic expectantly, expecting Vic's agreement. She was a typical little fangirl!
"Well... okay then!" Zefa was not good at socializing, and since the king had said so, and it had already risen to the national level, he had no reason to refuse.
"Then I will send someone to invite all those young officers here. Everyone has contributed, so let's have a banquet together!" the old king continued. When Paula saw that Zefa agreed, her smile suddenly brightened.
"Okay, let's do this!" Zefa also thought it would be a good idea for the elite camp to hold a party together.
"Vic, it will take some time for your classmates to come over, and there is nothing else to do during this period. How about I take you around the palace?" Paula came over and took Vic's arm, and said to Vic expectantly.
"I want to go too!" Rebecca hugged Vic's other arm without showing any weakness.
"Then I'll go with you and take a look, reluctantly!" Wendy said with a faint smile. She didn't seem to be particularly curious about the palace.
Zefa and the old king were both a little amused when watching this scene. The performance of these two people was too obvious. So is it worthy of being a pirate world? Straightforward.
The old king was not optimistic about his daughter, not because he had no confidence in his daughter's appearance and figure. He could see that Vic was not an ordinary person and had no awe for him as a king. The status of the princess would not be in his eyes. But as a father, and his daughter liked her, he could only try his best.
Vic was sandwiched between the two girls and dragged away, followed by a man with a smirk on his face.
Vic was not excited by the close contact with beautiful women. Both girls were about sixteen or seventeen years old and had not yet developed. He had not felt that kind of oppression.
Wendy followed the three of them and casually looked at the layout of the palace. The country's trade was indeed developed, the royal family made a lot of money, and the palace was magnificent everywhere.
"Wendy, hurry up, you're almost lost!" Rebecca turned around a corner and shouted to Wendy who was looking at something in the distance.
"Yeah, here I come!" Wendy came to her senses and followed immediately.
Paula took Vic around the entire palace, and during the tour she and Rebecca were at loggerheads with each other, showing no sign of weakness.
Vic ignored her, he knew Paula was just grateful to him and she couldn't figure out her emotions yet, she would return to normal after he left.