One Piece: The Legend of Beasts

“Hiss…it hurts!”

Following an unusual noise coming from the rubble on the mountain path, Stussy crawled out, rubbing his waist. He felt a burning pain all over his body and his consciousness was a little blurred.

She calmed herself down a little, trying to keep her brain clear, and quickly glanced around the surroundings. She saw ruins everywhere, except for a few broken pillars that were barely supporting it. There was no sign of any buildings, and no trace of any living people. It was as if the place had fallen into deathly silence.

No matter who comes to such a place, they will definitely not want to stay there for even a second. Stussy is no exception. When she thought of the culprit who caused her to be in such a bad situation, she immediately became furious. She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth and cursed: "Bastard Lingling! How dare you abandon me on the way? I must teach her a lesson later!"

"With your limited skills, it will take at least ten years before you can settle the score with her."

Stussy immediately recognized the mocking voice coming from behind. He turned around and saw a gorgeous woman sitting on a high ground with her legs crossed, teasing her pet python from time to time. The woman made a face at him and the anger accumulated in his heart became more intense, as if it would burst out at any time.

Even so, she managed to hold it back in the end, revealing a malicious smile on her pretty face: "I was wondering who it was. If you don't hurry to the square, be careful that someone else gets the treasure first~ Or...?"

She paused deliberately, raised her slender jade fingers to her lips, and narrowed her beautiful eyes into two slits, teasing word by word: "Could it be that you were thrown here like me, and couldn't find the way, so you had to stay here obediently, waiting for kind people to take you out of the predicament?"

As if what she said hit the nail on the head, Guloliosa couldn't help but blush and coughed a few times. Looking at that ridiculous smile, she couldn't help but shouted, "Who said that...!

I just want to enjoy this embarrassing look! I can leave this damn place anytime I want! "

"Really?"

Stussy tilted his head and stared at her with a look of complete disbelief. He took a step forward and said in a provocative tone, "In that case, let's just have a competition. Whoever finds the treasure first can use the other person as he pleases for a year!"

"Okay, just what I want!"

Guloliosa jumped down from the high ground with both hands, walked to Stussy with big strides, pointed at her nose, and said in a retort without giving in, "I'll let you experience what despair is!"

"Eh? You guys are fighting among yourselves without even understanding the basic situation. Are you stupid or are you screwed?"

A voice as sweet as a silver bell but filled with a weird tone suddenly rang out in the air, making Stusi and Guloliosa seem to be pulled by some invisible force. They immediately stopped their fierce argument and turned their heads to look at the source of the sound. They saw a huge stone platform standing on a wide open space on the left, and a petite girl was sitting on it. Her long dark purple hair cascaded down like a waterfall, softly draped on both sides of her shoulders, swaying gently with the wind.

At this moment, she was swinging her slender legs leisurely, with a bright smile on her face as she waved and greeted the two women. If it weren't for the black tight soft armor stained with a little blood and the weird-shaped puppet head in her other hand, no one would have thought that such an angelic face actually hid a devil's heart.

If those words were spoken by someone else, Guloliosa would have beaten that person without any explanation, but it was a different story when they came from a sweet-looking girl. Therefore, when she saw the other person's true face, her anger immediately disappeared by more than half, and a rare smile appeared on her face. She asked, "Little sister, who are you? The battlefield is not a place for a little girl like you to play, right?"

Before she could finish her sentence, Stussy beside her reached out to stop her from continuing. Then he looked the girl up and down for a while, suddenly sneered, pointed at the girl's clothes and asked word by word: "If I'm not mistaken, your cape is the same style as that handsome guy with pointed hair, right? Why, you don't want to act with your companions?"

Just like a keyword was triggered, when the words "pointy-haired handsome guy" came into the girl's ears, her innocent smile immediately sank, and the silly hair on her head turned into the shape of a sharp knife. She said bitterly: "Who would bother to get close to that silver-spear candle-head? How dare you bring up the name of that adult and make him stay here alone? I'd rather be killed by the enemy sooner!"

She seemed to be getting angrier as she spoke. She exerted force with her right hand and crushed the head of the puppet, which was still muttering "spare me" in a low voice. The head turned into pieces that flew everywhere, and blood spurted out, staining the surface of the stone platform with blood.

Even though the two girls had seen a lot of storms, they couldn't help but feel a palpitation when they saw the scene before them. They could never have imagined that this girl, who looked no more than eighteen years old, could be so cruel and ruthless.

"Oh, I almost forgot. I haven't introduced myself yet~"

In just one second, the girl who was originally still angry completed the transformation from a femme fatale to a girl next door. She rolled over and landed steadily in front of the two girls. She lowered her body slightly, put her hands elegantly behind her back, and put on a childlike innocent smile on her face again: "Nice to meet you. My name is Cornelia Sallynel, a descendant of one of the original twenty. You can just call me Little Sally. It seems that there is no point in telling you all this. After all, you will know it when you become someone's collection in the future!"

After hearing her aggressive words, Guloliosa did not get angry. He just put one hand on his waist and sneered, "Blind self-confidence is not a good thing for young people, Miss Sally, otherwise you will suffer a lot."

Crawling on her shoulder, Heroti poked his head out and spit out his tongue. His pupils turned into the vertical pupils unique to wild beasts and glared at the girl fiercely, always standing on the same front with his master.

"I advise you not to put up any unnecessary resistance, little girl."

As he spoke, Stussy took out a pistol with a smirk on it from his waist, pointed the muzzle at Sally's head, and raised the corners of his sexy lips into a smile of victory. "It's too arrogant for one person to deal with us. It's better to surrender as soon as possible and tell me everything you know. Otherwise, I can't guarantee that I won't use extreme measures."

"Alone? Pfft~"

Sally was stunned when she heard the words, as if she had heard the funniest joke in the world. She couldn't help but burst out laughing, then she restrained the smile on her face, spread her hands helplessly, and her beautiful eyes revealed naked sarcasm. She said softly, "I'm sorry, I don't quite understand what you mean. Can you tell me who you are talking about?"

Before he finished speaking, accompanied by the sound of tumbling, figures crawled out from the ruins. A closer look revealed that they were not humans, but mechanical puppets made by some skilled technology, with irregular wood textures all over their bodies. Although they had the same facial features as humans, they had no vitality at all, as if they had no self-awareness.

As Sally snapped her fingers, the group of puppets seemed to have received some special instructions. They took out the sharp weapons equipped on their bodies and rushed towards the two women from all directions. In the blink of an eye, they surrounded them like an iron barrel.

"This is the first time I've received such a warm welcome. I'm really flattered..."

Looking at the puppets slowly approaching him, Guloliosa clearly felt the tremendous pressure emanating from them. Each one of them was incomparable to the armored soldiers he had encountered before. If he was careless, it would likely cause irreparable consequences.

Moreover, Heroti, who always had an extremely sensitive sense of smell, was hurriedly raising its snake tail and gently poking her shoulders a few times, hissing continuously. Only she, who had been dealing with snakes since childhood, understood the message that the snake wanted to convey, and the expression on her face became complicated.

——The puppets are crying in their hearts? They hope I can give them a quick death? ...Tsk, pirates don't have the habit of doing good deeds!

Although she thought so in her heart, her actions were not slow at all. She quickly walked to the woman who was shocked by the scene and was speechless. She bent her slender fingers and flicked her forehead with just the right force. She reminded her in a ruthless tone: "Instead of wasting time here, you might as well think about how to solve the problem in front of you. You should have remembered that thing, right?"

The sudden pain brought Stussy back from her daze. She rubbed her forehead reflexively, trying to hold back the tears that were welling up in her eyes. She grumbled and complained, "I've been carrying it with me all the time. There's no need to hit anyone with it, right?"

"Hmph, who knows if you will fail at the critical moment."

Sally squatted on the ground with her hands on her chin, watching the two girls' argument in a well-behaved manner. The hair on her head kept shaking from side to side, as if she felt a little bored. She yawned nonchalantly: "No matter how much you discuss countermeasures, it will be useless, right? Or are you two actually very close and plan to be intimate again before you die?"

"Even though you were born into a noble family, it seems that you need to start from scratch with your basic education, Miss Sally."

Suddenly turning her attention to Sally, Guroliosa had a gentle smile on her face and her voice was calmer than ever before. Even Stussy, who knew her very well, was quite surprised. It was not until he moved his eyes down and saw her slightly trembling and clenched right fist that he realized that she was extremely angry.

As if she really didn't notice anything wrong with Guloliosa, Sally reached out and lifted the long hair beside her ear. Her lively eyes rolled around, and a harmless smile appeared at the corner of her mouth: "Ahaha, there's no need to be polite to commoners who will never get to the top in their lifetime! Not to mention old ladies like you who find it boring to be pets~"

When she mentioned the word "old aunt", she deliberately emphasized her tone, and her expression revealed undisguised sarcasm. Not only was Guloliosa extremely angry, but even Stussy, who seldom got angry with outsiders, became so angry that his face turned as black as coal, and the same idea popped up in their minds at the same time.

——I will definitely beat you so hard that you won’t even know how to laugh, you jerk with a sharp tongue!

The two women, who have always been incompatible, have never been more in agreement than now. If someone who is familiar with them suddenly sees this scene, they will definitely have suspicions stronger than the sun rising from the west.

"real or fake......"

Azrael stood in a bare open space. The huge sickle on his shoulder unconsciously dropped down. His eyes were full of disbelief. He couldn't believe what he saw. He shouted loudly without turning his head: "Are you sure this is the right place?"

Behind him, Agent Nova, who was wrapped in bandages, half-knelt on the ground and responded respectfully: "I have investigated thoroughly in advance. None of the slaves on the missing list are missing. Please take a look, Saint Azrael."

Although Azrael had no previous experience with the agent named Nova, he had heard that he always scouted the terrain whenever he arrived at an island. Therefore, no matter how remote the path he took was, he never had any doubts.

Under Nova's guidance, they passed through the winding mountain road and came to a quiet and peaceful valley. The valley was covered with snow-white flowers, swaying and dancing in the breeze, just like the fresh snow in the morning. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, you probably wouldn't believe that there was such a paradise on this island full of murder and blood.

Dozens of meters in front of them, there were dozens of tall and short people gathered at the foot of the mountain. Each of them had a pair of handcuffs on their wrists. They curled up and shivered, occasionally looking up at the two sudden uninvited guests, their eyes full of fear, and they seemed extremely scared.

"It seems that you didn't lie to me, some of them do look very familiar..."

As he spoke, Azrael's eyes swept over every slave present, and finally landed on the largest boy with a bow and arrow stuck in his vest. His originally listless eyes suddenly lit up, and he rubbed his chin and nodded with satisfaction, "I didn't expect that the brat from the Bakania tribe is here too! Since that day, my luck has never been so good!"

When this sentence reached his ears, Nova's eyes seemed to emit light, and his body trembled inadvertently. The next moment, his eyes returned to calmness, and he said in a tone without any emotion: "It is only by relying on your supreme bloodline that these untouchables have nowhere to hide."

Fortunately, Azrael did not notice his abnormality. He just turned around and strode to him, looking down at this subordinate whom he had only known for half an hour, with a wicked arc on the corner of his mouth: "I am a little different from ordinary celestial dragons. As long as my subordinates complete the task, I will reward them. Since you successfully led me to find this batch of slaves, I will naturally not break my promise. After this war is over, I will personally apply to the Five Elders to guarantee you to become a member of CP0!"

Seeing him speak so confidently, Nova immediately showed a grateful expression, and hurriedly prostrated himself on the ground and kowtowed several times, unable to suppress the excitement in his voice: "Thank you for your kindness, sir! I will repay you with my death! If you don't mind, please let me serve as your personal shield!"

Azrael slowly squatted down, patted his shoulder enthusiastically, and laughed, "I have met at least hundreds of agents, but none of them is as loyal as you. In this case, I am not refusing to agree to your request!"

Amid the laughter, there was a "hiss" sound, and Nova suddenly screamed, and his body convulsed and collapsed to the ground. As wisps of heat continued to rise from his shoulders, the bandages tied all over his body broke apart, revealing his gradually festering and swollen skin. His whole body began to melt bit by bit like mud. The only thing he could do was stare at Azrael with eyes bigger than copper bells, as if he could not understand why the other party would suddenly kill him.

As if he had guessed his thoughts, Azrael gently stroked his right hand, which was glowing red. He looked at the pool of blood on the ground that was bubbling with bubbles, and a malicious smile appeared on his pale face: "Since you are so eager to go through fire and water for me, then isn't it natural for you to die for me without a word of complaint?"