I Have Been Sleeping Among Pirates For A Hundred Years

Looking around, Buggy saw Joel half-crouching.

And his two cadres, like the gangsters' subordinates, surrounded this man loyally, as if... the other party was their captain.

"What the hell is going on with these two guys?!"

Buggy was a little angry and walked over.

But as soon as he walked over, he was deeply attracted by a red symbol on the ground in front of Joel that resembled a treasure mark.

Before he could show his joy, the crooked red symbol suddenly glowed red, erupting with an astonishing momentum.

At the same time, the ground shook without warning.

"What...is happening? Is it an earthquake?"

The pirates looked in all directions in fear.

"It's time to wake up..."

Joel looked at the blood-red symbol on the ground with nostalgia and murmured slowly.

The "deed marks" carved on his body are now gradually elongating and deforming as his body grows.

"Ouch——"

As Joel finished speaking, a deafening roar came from the ground.

"What the hell is that sound!"

Alvida held the mace and looked around in panic.

"Maybe it's some kind of monster that's hard to deal with..."

Crowe pushed up his glasses, with a hint of retreat in his eyes.

He doesn't want to risk his life here yet.

"Since there are guards and the like here, it means there must be treasure!"

Unlike others, Buggy actually showed a look of joy...

He firmly believes that nothing can stop a pirate from pursuing treasure!

"No, this sound is not coming from the ground!"

Alvida suddenly realized something and shouted.

"Isn't it coming from the underground? Where else could it come from..."

Crowe showed a hint of surprise. Before he finished speaking, the ground shook even more violently.

Mud and stone powder suddenly peeled off from the ground during the shaking.

The lush branches and leaves in the lush forest in the distance made a "squeaking" noise in the sea breeze that was constantly being swept up violently.

Directly below the ground, there seemed to be some kind of behemoth slamming the entire island, about to break through the ancient seal!

Suddenly, the tide on the sea surface right in front kept rising.

A huge columnar object like a mangrove tree on Sabaody Island poked out from the bottom of the sea.

Four huge flippers slowly swam outward from the four corners below the island.

that is……! !

After seeing the whole thing clearly, all the pirates' pupils almost shrank, and they finally realized one thing.

There is not some kind of monster sealed under this island, but...

The island itself is a huge creature! !

"I finally woke up. It seems that you, like me, have been sleeping in this sea for a long, long time, old friend..."

Joel looked up at the huge head, which was many times larger than it was a hundred years ago, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, like an old friend reunited.

More than a hundred years ago, when he was still the crown prince of the Kingdom of Herman,

He once accidentally picked up a turtle egg drifting in the sea, and then he hatched it using the warmth of his blood.

After these long years, the little turtle that could lie on the shoulders in the past has now completely grown into an adult body as big as an island.

"Ouch——"

After seeing Joel, the island turtle howled with great joy.

Even though it has not seen him for a hundred years, under the "Blood Contract", the sense of belonging and obedience reflected by the marks made it instantly recognize its master.

"Hey, this is incredible!"

"How can there be such a huge creature in this world..."

After witnessing such a strange yet spectacular existence, the pirates' minds were completely empty, leaving only incomparable shock.

"Everything you see is what you get..."

Crowe looked around the entire Turtle Island in all directions, and suddenly said with enlightenment, "So, is this the so-called treasure that can rival a country..."

What could be more valuable than... an island that can be inhabited and move freely on this sea? !

This is worthy of being called a treasure.

Moreover, it is a truly priceless treasure!

Of course, the prerequisite for this is... to obtain the allegiance and surrender of this island turtle.

"Clo, don't make boring inferences!"

Even though he vaguely noticed something, Buggy still refused to give up and insisted, "The treasure of the Blood Crown... must be buried somewhere on this Turtle Island!"

"B-Captain Buggy..."

Kabaji tugged on Buggy's clothes, swallowed and whispered, "But compared to the treasure, don't you think that man's identity is more problematic..."

Mochi on the side immediately nodded in agreement like a chicken pecking at rice.

"What's the problem? Even if there is any problem, it's not more important than the treasure of the Blood Crown!!"

Buggy held the bloody crown in his hand and shouted stubbornly.

This is the closest he has ever come to a legendary treasure.

If he just negated everything he had done so far, he would really not be willing to do so!

"Are you talking about the bloody crown?"

Hearing the excited shouts behind him, Joel couldn't help but turn around and look at Buggy, with a hint of teasing in his eyes.

"That thing... is actually just a broken turtle egg shell, but as the only companion creature, I used it as a medium to sign the blood contract.

As for the so-called treasure, it is just a legend passed down by rumors. "

"how could be……"

Buggy looked at the blood-colored crown in his hand that gradually lost its bright color and turned into an ordinary eggshell, and couldn't help but murmured absentmindedly.

Suddenly, he woke up from his dazed state, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and seemed to understand the abnormal behavior of Mochi and Kabaji in the past two days.

But at this moment, I could only bite the bullet and ask, "Who...are you?"

"Then, let me introduce myself."

Joel took a leisurely look at all the pirates present, and a frightening red light flashed in his pupils.

"My name is Joel, but others like to call me...Xue Tong."

"Sure enough... he is Xue Tong..."

Kabaji and Mochi completely let go of their past grievances at this moment, with tears streaming down their cheeks and hugging each other tremblingly.

Although they already knew it, hearing the other party reveal their name with their own ears, their fragile hearts were still strongly stimulated, and they felt... that they were about to die.

"Blood Eyes..."

For a moment, Buggy seemed to go back to the last time he heard this name.

At that time.

After joining Roger's Pirates as an intern, he entered the captain's room for a visit with Roger's permission.

When he saw the vague reward list hanging on the wall, he couldn't help but ask Captain Roger, who was the man on the reward list?

Captain Roger laughed and said:

"him?

His name is Xue Tong, and he is a willful bastard pirate who wants to turn the whole world upside down!

However, if possible, I really want to go back in time and see that man with my own eyes, hahaha! "

Even after many years, Captain Roger's words still echoed clearly in his ears.

But at this moment, this man whom Captain Roger had never seen before his death was standing in front of him alive.

This is luck,

Or...

What about misfortune?