Pirate's Freedom

"..."

Looking at the note in the photo frame, Hancock felt a tightness in her chest for some reason, and she murmured in a touched voice.

"I do not quite understand……"

"It doesn't matter, Hancock. There are many people who will never get along with this sentence in their lives. It's enough that you seem to understand it now."

Xia Qi took the small photo frame from Hancock's hand and put it back, then turned to look at Sebastian, who was sipping his wine.

"You've had a drink, we've had a conversation, why don't you go? You must be busy too, okay, just tell me if you have anything to do."

"Miss Xia Qi, I really can't hide anything from you."

Sebastian put down his wine glass and said with a smile.

"The more detailed information you have about the human auction next month and those slave ships, the better."

"how?"

Xia Qi said in surprise.

"It's such an obvious fishing, do you want to bite the hook?"

"If you don't even bite the hook, Miss Xia Qi."

Sebastian narrowly raised his eyebrows.

"I'm afraid the world government won't take the bait anymore."

"Gluck cluck~"

Xia Qi laughed softly.

"Although I really want to sell you this information, I can't be a second-rate dealer in front of others. You'd better ask Lao Lei. He has accumulated a good reputation over there."

"Really? Mr. Reilly... I thought you would finish your meal at home and then at home!"

Sebastian was really surprised now, and Reilly laughed.

"[Coated Lao Lei] is well-known over there. Otherwise, where do you think I get the money to go to the casino?"

"After all..."

Sebastian thought for a moment and said speechlessly.

"Mr. Reilly, you still did it, right?"

"Hahahaha~ Since you have to do something like robbing your employer, which is a bad thing, of course you have to do it without leaving any trace!"

……

The waters of the Shampoo Islands.

Near the Red Continent, a green sliding door suddenly opened on a bare reef, and a small figure walked out.

Looking at the towering red rock walls like mountains in the distance, Tata Tot carefully identified the natural landscape that could serve as a landmark.

"Erwin."

The waves crashed on the rocks under my feet and splashed with foam. A black pointed shoe poked out of the green-lit air door.

"How is the orientation correction going?"

"This is the last time."

Tata Tot found a few familiar ups and downs, and after confirming its location, he turned to look at Doflamingo, who was carrying the box, and told him.

"We're already here, Dover."

"Have you arrived so soon? Fufufufufu... What a convenient fruit ability."

Looking around, Doflamingo quickly subconsciously focused on one direction.

"..."

After a moment, he looked away.

"Now that we've arrived, let's proceed as planned. Erwin, I won't go sit at your place."

Doflamingo knelt down, placed the suitcase he was carrying on the ground, opened it, took out a bag and threw it towards Tata Tot.

"These things... furofurafur... can be regarded as greeting gifts for your companions."

Tata Tot opened the bag, and it was filled with slender stone nails. He shook the bag and dug out a few incompatible things...

"After the founding of Wano, craftsmen who could process seastones were controlled. There were fewer and fewer seastone weapons circulating in the world, and they are now rare."

click!

Doflamingo closed the clasp of the suitcase, stood up and saw what Tata Toto had in his hands, and continued with a smile.

"After the competition that shocked the world, I found a way to buy some [certificates of participation], furfururafur...! The difficulty of secondary processing of these things has been greatly reduced."

"...Dover, don't you think it's a bit wasteful?"

The stone badge engraved with the word "food" was turned over on the tip of Tata Tot's claws. He looked at it carefully for a moment and asked without raising his head.

"This thing should have a lot of room for appreciation, right?"

"The dark world is not that easy to deal with. There are some customer channels that are difficult to open even if you don't have to spend money. Besides, the less of this kind of thing, the more valuable it is..."

"Once you see the right opportunity, you will take action without hesitation. You are worthy of being the [illegal transaction] middleman [JOKER] who has become famous in recent years."

"Fufufufufu...!"

Doflamingo's laughter was low.

"That's ridiculous, Erwin."

"Empty way!"

Doflamingo raised his right hand high, and a thin line invisible to the naked eye shot into the sky, tying the clouds passing in the sky, and the whole person quickly lifted up.

"So...furfufufu...Erwin."

He raised his hands widely in the air and saluted.

"Looking forward to seeing you again in Mariejoia."

……

Watching Doflamingo go away like a swing, Tata Tot played with the Sea Tower Stone badge in his hand, feeling every detail in his body.

"..."

The other consciousness did feel an uncomfortable and powerless feeling, but in his own perception, he only felt that the movement of the body was slightly rigid, and every move felt a bit sluggish.

It seemed that the biggest threat to those with devil fruit abilities had been weakened, but Tata Tot didn't feel much joy in his heart.

It is not a good thing to be a prophet who knows too much... or rather... who knows only a little.

When it comes to Devil Fruits, bloodline factors and life plans come to mind. Tata Tot has always thought that eating Devil Fruits and becoming a person with abilities is actually a mechanism similar to the [X-gene] of mutants.

But after Tata Tot indirectly controlled the Gate Fruit and developed it to a certain extent, he suddenly realized——

Devil Fruit does not directly transform the body of the esper. On the contrary, Devil Fruit resides in the soul and is reflected in the body.

If you think about it, if eating the Devil Fruit is just a simple interference and transformation of the bloodline factor, Brooke's situation of relying on the [Underworld Fruit] to continue to survive in the form of a skeleton becomes a paradox.

Continuing to deduce, the principle behind the sea floor stone that makes people with abilities powerless is not a direct chemical reaction that acts on the body, but disrupts the connection between the soul and body of the person with abilities that is different from ordinary people.

Tata Tot's current situation, and his different reactions to the Sea Tower Stone while sharing the same body with Xiaoshou, are undoubtedly strong evidence that a Devil Fruit resides in his soul.

However, due to the previous wrong cognition, the resulting blind spots in thinking have led to the overturning of many inferences. The possibility that [ageing-free surgery] is a surgery on the soul rather than the physical level...

"..."

Thinking of this, Tata Tot remained silent, walked into the air door again and disappeared. After finding the direction, he continued on his way in the light green alien space.

On the fast-moving heavy-duty locomotive, Tata Tot shook his head, focused on the present, and turned his thoughts to the other half of his body...

Due to the huge gap in consciousness strength, after the two merged under the ability of [Swallowing Fruit], Tata Tot occupied the absolute dominance of the new body.

Interestingly, the card also flexibly judged Xiaolu as a plug-in equipment, successfully showing the extent of his development of the door fruit ability.

But this situation will not last forever. After all, it is a sea slug nicknamed "Little Slug" by Tata Tot that eats the Devil Fruit and gains abilities. Tata Tot himself does not actually have the ability of the Devil Fruit. By.

Under Tata Tote's tireless teachings, and with the help of the strange state of mind-to-heart connection after merging, he has successfully restored the life of the little slug to the door, and initially mastered the ability of the door fruit.

In addition, and more importantly, under this method similar to the initiation and transfer of power, Xiaoju's spiritual world is rapidly improving. To put it simply, its intelligence level is rapidly improving.

It won't be long before this situation of using Xiaoshou's consciousness as an operating interface for Tata Tot to use Devil Fruits will be gone forever.

Therefore, it is obvious that it is not Tata Tot who cheats, but Xiaoxiao.

but.

Tata Tot had no objection to this. He just hated that the little slug was not opened wide enough.

Because once it involves the deeper and subtler levels of consciousness and body, whether it is the return of high-level life or the awakening of Devil Fruit, Tata Tot cannot complete it for it.

However, the little slug has the same habits as most sea slugs. Even if it improves its intelligence, it still regards eating and sleeping as the only ideal of a slug...

"call--"

Thinking of this, Tata Tot, who was driving the car, let out a depressed breath.

What can he do?When he thought that Im might need to re-evaluate his strength, he felt like a parent who wanted to study for his child during the college entrance examination but was unable to do so.

Tata Tot can only... take advantage of the fact that the little slug is only at the intelligence level of a seven or eight-year-old child and try to trick it into believing that it is a Neptune that looks a lot like a sea slug, using the ugly duckling over and over again. The story of turning into a swan motivates it and increases its enthusiasm for hard work.