Pirates: Beginning with the Patrolman.

"..."

At this moment, everyone was stunned.

"Did I see it wrongly? That fruit... that fruit..."

Rebecca pointed at Remos blankly.

"You read that right. The fruit went into Remos' mouth by itself."

Mei nodded, her expression more serious than ever before.

Nami didn't say anything, she just suddenly took a step forward and punched Remos hard in the stomach.

"Pfft—you, what are you doing!?"

Remos took two steps back and looked at Nami in shock.

"What am I doing? I should be the one asking you this question! Spit it out now, do you want to die? Do you want to blow yourself up?"

Nami shouted and rushed forward again, waving her fists full of domineering power.

Remus quickly grabbed her hand.

"Calm down, I'm fine. Do I look like I'm going to blow myself up?"

Although the scene just now was indeed scary, he is still fine now and has no physical discomfort, which means that eating the fourth fruit is not a big problem for him.

After hearing what he said, Nami finally calmed down a little.

Mei and Rebecca reacted and quickly ran to her side and "controlled" her.

"Are you really okay?"

Nami looked at Remos suspiciously, as if he would explode out of thin air in the next second.

After all, although the story of eating two devil fruits and then self-destructing is widely circulated, no one has actually seen it with their own eyes. Maybe the self-destruction will not happen immediately?

"It's really okay, if you don't believe me, just look."

Remos smiled helplessly, then suddenly used the ability he had just obtained.

The next second, his body changed rapidly.

First of all, in terms of body size, Remos' body grew larger at a speed visible to the naked eye, from his original height of more than two meters to just over three meters.

The limbs and neck became short and thick, and a layer of gray scales appeared on the skin.

A round carapace grew on the back, making him look like Master Roshi.

At the same time, a short tail appeared behind the buttocks, swaying back and forth and looking very cute.

Finally, the head.

As the girls stared in shock, Remus' head transformed into that of... well, a turtle.

"puff--"

After completing the transformation, Remos was about to say something, but Rebecca on the opposite side couldn't help laughing first.

Of course she immediately covered her mouth and turned away, but her heaving shoulders proved that she was about to lose the ability to hold it back.

Nami and Mei were better off, but they were still feeling quite uncomfortable.

Mei's face was flushed and her lips were tightly pursed; Nami's eyes were curved and tears were flowing from the corners of her eyes.

"How could you be like this? I was clearly demonstrating my abilities to you, but you laughed at me."

Remus shouted in grief and anger.

Cai Ting walked over and touched his arm.

“It’s very cute.”

Her eyes sparkled.

"..."

Remos looked at Cai Ting speechlessly.

Might as well just say he's ugly.

What the hell is cute?

“Hahahahahahaha – I can’t stand it anymore!”

Nami finally broke down and burst into laughter.

When she smiled, Mei and Rebecca couldn't help laughing too.

Even Cai Ting's lips curled up, which was rare.

Remos pointed at them with his short, thick finger, wanting to curse but not knowing what to say.

Just then, he suddenly felt itchy on his back. When he tried to scratch it, he found that his arms were too short and thick to reach his back.

He wanted to ask others for help, but when he saw several girls crying with laughter, he felt discouraged.

Rely on them? I was just overthinking.

Just when he was about to deactivate his ability and give his back a good scratch.

A puff of gas suddenly spurted out from the lower part of the turtle shell behind him.

The scene suddenly became quiet and everyone turned to look at him.

"Don't look at me, it's not me, I don't know, I didn't fart!"

He really didn't fart. Doesn't he know this? He's not in his seventies or eighties and has lost control of his bowels and bladder.

"I clearly heard it!"

Nami stared at him with wide eyes.

"I've heard people say it wasn't me. I don't know what happened. First my back itched, and then suddenly a stream of gas came out. But it definitely wasn't a fart. Believe me..."

"I believe you!!!"

At this moment, a male voice suddenly sounded.

Everyone was shocked and looked around immediately, but there was not a single stranger in the entire Pioneer, including the area covered by the Observation Haki.

So the sound comes from...

"Oh, I'm really suffocating!"

A small snake suddenly crawled out from behind the turtle shell.

It was green all over, with a pair of small red eyes. It slowly climbed onto Remos' shoulder and looked around.

"Hello, my name is Xuanwu."

"Ghost!!!"

Rebecca screamed, her eyes rolled back and she fell backwards.

Nami quickly reached out to help her up.

Mei simply drew her sword and slashed at the little snake.

Cai Ting took two steps back and kicked over the wine barrel next to her.

Remos wanted to turn around, but accidentally blocked Mei's blade. Mei quickly put away the knife, and then ran headfirst into Remos's shell, and the two of them rolled on the ground.

The entire deck suddenly became a mess.

ten minutes later……

"So, you are the snake on Xuanwu's body?"

Everyone cleaned up the situation and sat in a circle. Remos turned his head to look at the little snake and said.

"Wrong! I am not the snake on Xuanwu's body, I am Xuanwu!"

The little snake stared at him and said in a decisive tone.

"You are Xuanwu? Then what am I?"

Remus raised his hand and pointed at himself.

"You are Xuanwu too!"

The little snake said affirmatively.

"Um...I don't understand..."

"It's very simple. You are me and I am you. We are one. So you are also Xuanwu and I am also Xuanwu. We are all Xuanwu."

Remos, who had read a lot of online articles, now had a rough idea of ​​what was going on.

"You must have a name, right?"

If he remembered correctly, the snake on Xuanwu's body in the myth was called Tengshe? Or Longshe? Or Guishe?

"I don't have that kind of thing, you can just call me Xuanwu!"

The little snake said confidently.

Of course, this is not impossible. The little snake is called Xuanwu, and Remos calls himself by his own name, so it is not impossible to distinguish them.

But Remos still felt very surprised. He never thought that the snake on the Xuanwu Fruit would have self-awareness.

This doubt continued until he casually opened the destiny panel.

Case solved!

Not only is there a new devil fruit icon on the Joyful Path panel, but this icon is also completely lit up!