My partner in One Piece is Esdeath

Chapter 130 The Devil’s Curse

"you are dead?"

Esdeath looked at the "living" Tali with interest.

"You can talk and move, and then you say you're dead? You're not kidding us."

"This is the 'curse' power."

Tali's voice became smaller and smaller, and marble patterns began to appear on her cheeks, "I had already turned into stone before this, because I am a descendant of the royal family, and my blood has the power to resist this curse, so I can retain some of my consciousness after being petrified. This way I can prevent my father from controlling my body."

"This curse can also control a person's body. Are you sure your father is not a person with fruit abilities?" Annan asked in confusion.

It turns people into stone and can control their bodies. It's very familiar with a devil fruit.

"Absolutely not." Tully shook her head, "I have tried it with seawater stones, and seawater has no effect on him at all."

"It wasn't until later that I met a man named Anderson at an event hosting the World Government."

"He brought, or rather stole, a slate full of text from the library of the kingdom. The slate records the history recorded by my ancestors."

"The writing on the stone slab is unique to Shidao. Only the aborigines of Shidao can understand it. However, these words are obscure and difficult to understand. After hundreds of years, few people can recognize these words. A member of the royal family like me , I learned it forcibly under the pressure of my grandfather."

"Your grandfather is the former king," Annan said.

"Yes, my grandfather seems to know the history told in these words, but he always hides it in his heart and never tells us." Tully replied.

"And stone slabs like these with ancient writings on them were sealed off by the king's order many years ago, and we have never seen their appearance."

"Since my father succeeded to the throne, he ordered all these tablets to be destroyed. I thought I would never see these words, but I didn't expect to see them in Anderson's hands."

"Then what's recorded on this tablet?" Esdeath asked.

Tully pursed her lips tightly, her eyes showing a labored expression.

"The devil, the devil on the stone island—Christians."

"It was sealed somewhere on the stone island, but it always wanted to regain freedom. To do this, it issued a curse, and the cursed person would turn into a stone statue."

"Being turned into a stone statue, just like you... is wrong!" Annan said, and suddenly thought of something, "The stone sculptures we saw along the way are not all living people, right?"

"You're right." Tully said with a wry smile, "Those stone sculptures are indeed cursed people, and I came from there too."

Then she continued:

"When someone possesses the Heart of Millions of Stones, they can lift Christian's seal on a full moon night, and when it appears again, it will destroy the entire world."

"In the future, it will record how to fight against Christians after the seal is released, but this slate is not complete, and it is gone here."

"The heart of stone should be the heart of the people who turned into stone statues." Esdeath said, "I did a rough calculation before, and the number of those stone statues is only tens of thousands at most, far from a million. That The king shouldn’t be able to summon demons yet.”

"No, that's what I thought before." Tully said sadly, "After I was cursed, I could feel the cursed people. This may be a special feature of me."

"I can feel that there are far more than tens of thousands of people who are cursed, and they are very scattered."

"Far more than tens of thousands of people..." Annan thought for a moment, looked startled, and quickly opened the phone watch on his left hand.

"Polo, Polo, Polo..."

When the call was connected, the phone bug turned into a man wearing round glasses.

"Major Annan, what's the matter? I'm very busy right now." Kuromi said.

"Put your business aside." Annan said anxiously, "Hurry up and check for me. In the latest population survey of the World Government, what is the number of people in the Kingdom of Kunta?"

"Okay, wait a minute." Kuromi clicked a few times on the console.

"The latest data shows that there are 1,139,124 people on record. Hey, there are so many people in the Kunta Kingdom. Are the people surrounded by walls more likely to have children? This is A very good research topic, great, my research topic has been completed this year..."

"Hey, Major Annan, are you still listening?"