The Worst Fruit Among Pirates

Rumbling--

The dark clouds pressed the sky low, making people breathless; amidst the rolling thunder, lightning continued to swim in the dark clouds, and finally gathered into a dazzling thunder and struck down hard.

crackle!

At this moment, the heaven and earth were dyed with a layer of luster, as if the electric light came to life and floated above everything.

A deafening roar of thunder erupted, and the falling lightning flashed around like thousands of silver snakes dancing enchantingly, making Rossi dazzling as he stood at the top of the mast with his long knife raised up to act as a lightning rod.

"Hu~~"

Rossi exhaled a puff of green smoke and raised his hair. He moved his numb body, raised his head and stared at the sky. When the next two bolts of lightning struck, he used the third generation of ghosts to absorb these natural thunderbolts.

Dark clouds filled the air, thunder and lightning struck!

The waves are rough, the wind is strong and the waves are high!

The Great Line showed its terrifying side. The waves were ups and downs one by one, making the huge Don Quixote float and sink in this vast ocean like a leaf.

"@%￥#!"

Torrebol on the deck shouted something in dialect, which probably meant 'Awesome'.

"Pikka, watch the spinnaker!"

"We're off course and turning. Vergo—"

At the helm, Dover stared closely at the record pointer in his hand. On the Grand Route, the waves will deceive you, the wind direction will deceive you, and even the positions of the sun and stars will deceive you. Only the 'record pointer' will faithfully point to the destination. .

With everyone's busy work, the Don Quixote broke through the thunder and lightning storm area without any danger.There is a howling cold wind blowing across the sky!In an instant, the water on the deck quickly solidified and turned into solid ice.

"It's too exaggerated,"

Diamanti stretched out her hand, and crystal clear snowflakes fell into her palms, which soon turned into heavy snow.

"There was lightning and thunder just now, but now it's snowing?"

brush,

Holding the third-generation ghost in his hand, Rossi acted as a 'lightning rod' on the top of the mast while exercising his 'lightning resistance' by the way, leaping down and landing on the deck where snow began to accumulate.

"Get the shovel and clear this snow away."

After entering the Grand Route, everyone's eyes were opened.Compared with extreme weather such as submarine icebergs and sudden thunderstorms, blizzards are nothing more than child's play.

When everyone was busy shoveling the snow, Peake bumped into the main mast, and his whole body merged into the mast, and then he quickly swam upwards. After reaching the top of the mast, he took out his telescope and started to watch.

Not long after, the wind and snow in the sky suddenly stopped, and it turned into a scorching sun again.

"Is this the Grand Line?"

Jorah, who had just walked out of the kitchen, looked at the steaming spicy food in his hands and decided to go back and change it to a cold drink.

"Yes, this extreme climate change alone can eliminate ordinary people who are not physically fit enough."

Rossi put down the shovel in his hand, and this world vividly demonstrated the concept of "survival of the fittest".

"Creatures that can adapt to the great route have naturally strong physiques——"

At this time, Peake, who was on the lookout, 'swam' down the mast.

"There's a strange whirlpool ahead,"

"Strange vortex?"

Rossi, who took the telescope, looked doubtfully in the direction that Peake pointed. After all, he was also a man who had sailed for a long time. What kind of vortex——

"I've never seen this..."

A few hundred meters away from the Don Quixote, there was a huge vortex: according to Rossi's visual inspection, it was at least more than 200 meters in diameter.

Whirlpools at sea are generally caused by two opposing ocean currents. Some whirlpools are caused by submarine earthquakes or monsoons. Of course, there are also some small whirlpools formed on islands and coasts.

But the vortex in front of me is obviously different. Huge fins are constantly passing through the vortex at high speed. It seems that there is some giant beast swimming in the sea, thus creating this huge vortex!

"Get ready to fight, we encountered 'Sea Monkeys'."

Rossi, who holds the position of "Chief of Staff" in his family, naturally cannot enter the Grand Line without any preparation. The collected logbooks and his understanding of the world allowed him to immediately confirm the identity of this vortex. '.

Sea monkey, a sea animal.

The body size is between 20 meters and 30 meters.

This sea beast likes to stir up waves, turn up whirlpools, and destroy ships on the sea: for no reason, just for fun.

"Uh-huh, it's just a sea beast."

Drawing out the extra long Western sword in her hand, Diamanti made a slashing stance.

"Just let me kill them with flying slashes!"

"...Are you sure that the flying slash you just mastered can kill a sea monkey that is weakened by sea water and is over 20 meters in size?"

Although he complained like this, Rossi himself also pulled out the third generation of ghost.

"It's time to practice your long-range attack skills."

boom! !

The first one to show off his power was Gladius, the smallest among the crowd. The cannon was spitting out gunpowder smoke, and a wave mixed with red suddenly exploded in the vortex a few hundred meters away.

"Good shot -" As Gladius shot down, the huge vortex in the distance suddenly accelerated!The diameter is rapidly expanding, causing the Don Quixote to tilt in that direction.

"Ghost Slash·Flying Break!"

The third generation ghost in Rossi's hand suddenly swung out, and the giant sword energy, which was dozens of meters long, flew out and struck into the vortex with a black-red light.

"Half Moon Funeral!"

Diamanti also tensed up her muscles, and suddenly swung the extra-long Western sword made of heavy gold in her hand, and an emerald green flying slash also shot out.

It's just a little smaller than Rossi's, and it doesn't have the black-red ghost aura associated with rotting flesh and corroding bones.

"Fufofuf, holy bullet!"

Wrapping the armed color around the index finger, compressing the armed color to the extreme made Dover's fingers glow with a layer of metallic light, and then the lines on his fingertips turned into bullets and popped out——

puff!

A ray of light flashed across the sea and instantly hit a sea monkey in the water, but...

"This attack has little effect on enemies of huge size."

While Rossi was speaking, Jorah next to him had already taken a step back, made a power-charging movement, and suddenly kicked the glass slipper on his foot forward:

"Lan feet!"

The vacuum fluctuations like flying slashes turned into crescent-shaped light and flew out against the sea, and then tore the sea water apart with a pop, accompanied by a scream.

——As for the place where Rossi and Diamanti’s flying slashes landed, two huge corpses had already floated up.

The lower body is a fish, and it looks like a seal magnified ten times, but it has the face of a monkey. It can only be said that this world is really full of wonders.

"Hey hey, I leave it to you."

Torrebol, who had already exercised into a round and burly figure, sat back, and his slime formed a chair.

Although he doesn't have long-range means: he throws the slime out and then ignites it to use as a 'firebomb'.

But it was completely useless against targets in the sea, so he decided to be lazy by paddling.

"You take the helm,"

After his attempt failed, Dover pushed up his sunglasses in displeasure, and handed Torebol the rudder and record pointer. At the same time, behind him, there were a large number of silk threads winding together at a rapid speed:

"Xianxian·Platinum Star!"

brush,

The purple-armored muscular warrior flew out. Although he had the name of 'Platinum Star', this was just Rossi's bad taste. Naturally, the range couldn't be just C.

With Dover closing his eyes and concentrating on his control, the 'Platinum Star' composed of threads flew above the vortex, and then displayed a strength that surpassed the 'Strength and Speed ​​Double A'. In one wave with one hand, transparent silk threads appeared on the five fingers. And out.

"Five-color line!"

The remotely controlled Platinum Star swiped its five fingers downwards, tearing five cracks out of the sea surface.

Although it was smoothed away by the swirling seawater in the next second, among the large amounts of red blood that soon appeared below, a lifeless sea monkey emerged, rising and falling in the direction of the whirlpool.

"Squeak...squeak!!"

In a panic, the sea monkeys who were suddenly hit hard immediately gave up their plan to roll up a whirlpool and capsize the merchant ship - the "bipedal monkeys" standing on the ship were too strong.

As the sea monkeys dive into the sea one after another, the vortex slowly disappears and the crisis is resolved.

"Very good, the first round of sailing is over."

After putting away the third generation of Onitsuru, although the extreme weather and giant sea beasts in the Grand Route are very dangerous, for the current Don Quixote family, these are not challenges.

"The next step is to repair...no, the first challenge is waiting for us."

Following Rossi's gaze, everyone first saw a black dot; as the black dot continued to enlarge, it was the flag at the top of the fortress; then the appearance of an island gradually appeared on the sea level, as well as the defensive buildings surrounding the island.

"Beast Fighting Island, here we are."

The smell of blood wafted in the wind, and even without seeing and hearing the Haki, everyone could clearly feel the dangerous aura emanating from the island ahead.

"Be careful. Since it's called 'Beast Fighting Island', it's definitely not a kind place."

As the Don Quixote continued to approach the island, the extreme weather and sea beasts disappeared, and only slight waves rocked the ship's hull, making the entire sea seem like a comfortable bed for a nap.

The island in front has lush foliage and dense woods, and it looks like a 'summer island'.

The weather on the great sea changes at any time, but the islands are fixed in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter. You can know the climate of an island just by looking at the vegetation.

"Not bad, it looks interesting."

Dover glanced around the island in front of him: surrounded by lush plants, there was a long wall.

However, it is not a stone city wall, but a mixed structure of earth and wood, composed of logs that are two or three people high.Each log was extremely thick and sharp, and was patrolled by men armed with flintlock guns, making it look murderous.

"What's the point?"

"The family has conquered stronger fortresses and ports than this."

Facing Gladius who pulled up his mask to cover the lower half of his face, Rossi shook his head.

"Don't underestimate this island. The real power is not the power on the surface, but the power in the city."

Just as the Don Quixote was slowly approaching, a small patrol boat came up to meet it.

"Visitors from afar, please come this way!"