Pirate Bloody Hand Mary

"I am full."

Sitting on the chair, Mary stretched out, picked up a tissue and wiped her mouth.

Looking at Lilia who had started cleaning naturally, Mary covered her neck.

After eating, let’s talk about business.

"Well...Lilia, do you know what big things happened in the Capital of Seven Waters recently?"

"Like a celebration or something."

As one of the most well-known big cities on the Grand Line, the Capital of the Seven Waters has always been crowded with people for various activities, so many celebrations and festivals are held.

If you don’t know where to go, it would be a good idea to go to a celebration.

Lilia, who was cleaning, raised her head, thought for a moment, and said:

"There don't seem to be any celebrations or anything like that lately..."

"However, there are a few big things."

"Oh? Tell me."

Lilia nodded, put down her plate temporarily, and sat across from Mary.

"The first thing, Mary, you should know, it was in the newspaper before."

"Straw Hat Luffy is causing trouble on Judiciary Island."

Mary nodded.

"I do know...but what does this have to do with the Capital of Seven Waters?"

"Of course! The Straw Hat Pirates attacked Judiciary Island, but it was because CP9 captured their members." Lilia said with a serious look on her face, "This is nothing, but the most important thing is that those CP9 have been lurking around Next to Mr. Bingshan, the president of Carrera Company."

Looking at the aggrieved Lilia, Mary couldn't say anything.

Although Mary and CP also have some friendship, what the CP9 group is doing is really unreasonable. Carrera Company is the largest systematic shipbuilding company in the Seven Islands of Water, and is the world's leading commercial leader in hull manufacturing, repair, and renewal. , a large company jointly created by the merger of seven shipyards in the water city. It is no exaggeration to say that Bingshan, as the president, is the face of the Seven Waters Capital. This time CP9’s behavior is a serious provocation to all normal people in the Seven Waters Capital.

"Well...that's one thing," Mary nodded, "Are there any more?"

"Well, and oh, a few days ago, Akula Ragna, the God of Water, suddenly and unexpectedly attacked the Seven Waters City in advance!"

Speaking of this, Lilia looked concerned about Yu Ji.

"For the Gods of Water in so many years, the one a few days ago was the most terrifying one. If Mr. Iceberg hadn't received the news of Akula Ragna's approach from the sea train sailing outside in advance, he would have done something in time. Without the evacuation command arrangements, many people may be killed this time."

"A few days ago?"

At the mention of this, Mary's eyes narrowed and she asked seriously.

Lilia was stunned for a moment, raised her eyes and thought for a moment.

"About ten days ago."

"More than ten days ago..."

Mary made some comparisons and immediately determined that the time when the Seven Waters City was invaded by the water gods was exactly when they encountered a horrific natural disaster in the Devil's Triangle.

"...Lilia, is there any news from other places recently?"

"It's like a natural disaster or something."

Because in the Devil's Triangle, Mary and her group had seriously deviated from the normal course, and the blood-wing flight for a period of time after escaping from the wind barrier exacerbated this deviation, so that Mary and her group had not encountered the News Bird for such a long time. , that is, in a state of isolation from the world.

Therefore, when Mary heard that the Seven Waters City encountered the water gods at the same time as they suffered natural disasters, she began to suspect——

Could it be...that this is not a coincidence?

"Huh? Natural disaster...ah, there is!"

Lilia clapped her hands and replied:

"Recently, a major earthquake broke out throughout the Red Earth Continent. It is said that Mary Joa took this opportunity to launch a slave uprising, but it was quickly suppressed."

"Then the sea near Fish-Man Island suddenly became extremely poisonous, and there seemed to be a strange ocean current that isolated Fish-Man Island. Since then, no one has come out of or entered Fish-Man Island. Island.”

"Even Malinfando suffered a huge tsunami."

"What time is this... huh?"

Lilia told the news she knew in detail, and then suddenly reacted.

"And Akura Ragna both happened on... the same day?"

Mary felt cold inside.

really……

This is not a coincidence!

She took a white stone from her folded pocket.

This white stone broken off from the floating island, her intuition told her that it was a very important thing. There was a man who knew that the object was not big, so she always carried it with her.

Now it seems...

‘Sure enough, if you have the chance, you must contact Nicole Robin. There must be something very important in those historical texts. ’

'And what this white stone is, maybe there is a record in it. ’

Mary's desire to translate those historical texts grew stronger.

Almost all natural disasters started after Mary broke off this snow-white stone... What kind of power does this stone contain?

In the original One Piece... is there any power that can affect the weather?

While Mary was still deep in thought, Lilia looked curiously at Mary who was silent and deep in thought, and asked tentatively:

"Mary?"

"Um?"

Mary suddenly woke up and realized that she was still talking to someone else.

"Ah, sorry, I was thinking about something else just now."

"No, no, it doesn't matter, I just saw that you haven't spoken..." Lilia waved her hands quickly.

Mary smiled and shrugged.

Let's go out and look for a public phone booth later.

No, don't worry about public phone booths, they might also be monitored.

...with iceberg?

As Tom's apprentice, Bingshan himself has been monitored by CP9 and has no reason not to prepare a phone-tapping bug emergency response.

However, Bingshan is already dissatisfied with the World Government, and now it is a bit too hasty to ask him to use it to prevent phone bugs for no reason.

Let's figure it out later.

Putting this matter behind her for the moment, Mary then looked at Vivian.

"Well... let's not talk about this for now. Is there anything else?"

"For example, a place to play?"

This is business, business.

She came to this island just for fun, and that's why she didn't plan to cause too much trouble.

Otherwise, with her character, she really needs to use anti-phone bugs and just use her strength to force Bingshan to give her, but it's not necessary.

It would be conservative to say that this would probably cause a mess. She just wanted to relax and have a good time. It would be best if she could stay on an island quietly.

"Ah, a place to play?"

Lilia looked at Mary, and after a moment, she said, "The art of violet blue and white wax sculptures was recently exhibited here in the Capital of Seven Waters."

“Finally found a place to play.”

Mary nodded with satisfaction, and then asked: "What is the origin of this violet blue and white wax figure art? I have never heard of it before."

"Oh, you're talking about this." Lilia thought about it for a moment and introduced it to Mary, "Violet blue and white wax sculpture art is a group that has become famous in recent months. It's no wonder you don't know, I also prefer art. I only noticed this combination because of something like this.”

"This combination is composed of an uncle named Hyacinth and a little girl named Tianxing. The uncle is responsible for making wax figures, and the little girl is responsible for painting. Both of them are quite top-notch in their respective fields. Their wax figures are in great Air routes are starting to become more popular.”

As she spoke, Lilia showed a longing look.

"If I didn't have money, I would also like to buy a wax statue of myself from them and put it in the store."

Hearing Lilia's slightly regretful voice, Mary smiled and asked:

"How much does it cost to order a wax figure from them?"

"It's said to cost one million Baileys. I can't afford that much money..."

"Snapped!"

Before he finished speaking, a stack of Baileys was slapped on the table.

Lilia slowly opened her mouth and looked at Mary who retracted her hand.

"Here are two million Baileys. Use it to buy what you want. Also, decorate this store, such as changing its name."

Mary said nonchalantly.

Lilia could barely react, stood up quickly and waved her hands hurriedly.

"No, no, no, how is this possible..."

She swallowed and looked at the thick wad of money on the table.

The huge visual impact made her ignore the question of where Mary took out the money, and instead focused on whether she should take the money.

"I, I just cooked a meal for you, you don't need to pay me so much..."

"Take it."

Mary waved her hand and interrupted Lilia's speech.

Bailey is the least valuable thing to her, because in the system, Bailey is just a white item.

And it is a white item that can be exchanged infinitely.

One unit of Bailey can be exchanged for a full 10 million Baileys. Therefore, for her, there is no such thing as lack of money.

You know, she provides all the pocket money on the ship. The excuse she used was the secret funds given by Mr. Zefa. Even if Kuhlman was suspicious, who would be in trouble with the free money?

Now giving two million to the little girl in front of me is really just a drop of money for Mary. The food this little girl cooks is quite popular with Mary. As the saying goes, money can’t buy it. I’m happy. Now that I’m in the mood, I’ll reward this little girl. It's human nature at all.

"This this……"

Lilia stammered a bit, then looked at the money on the table, then glanced at Mary's nonchalant expression, and carefully picked up the money.

"Then...thank you."

"No, no, no, no~"

After stretching and standing up, Mary watched Lilia carefully put the money back into her storage cabinet.

"Lilia, tell me where the violet blue and white wax sculpture art exhibition is. There happens to be no place to go."

"Oh, on the 74th Street of the Third Island, I forgot which exhibition hall..."

"It doesn't matter, it's enough to know this."

After taking a rest and adjusting her clothes, she was going to a so-called high-end art place next, and Mary had to keep her temperament up to par.

To be fair, although Mary's figure is not great, her appearance can be regarded as one of the best in the world. Although the little white dress she was wearing was not very high-end, it unexpectedly matched her current appearance.

She has always subconsciously restrained her charm, otherwise her lethality to certain special groups would have been comparable to that of the Pirate Empress. Even to ordinary people, her current appeal is definitely no less attractive than people like Nami and Robin.

If she didn't deliberately restrain herself, she wouldn't have a good life.

With this kind of capital, Mary is somewhat confident about entering high-end occasions involving the art field.

"Are you leaving? I'll see you off."

Lilia, who watched Mary walking towards the door, hurriedly followed her.

"Oh, thank you."

Mary responded politely, looking at Lilia and thinking.

In just over half an hour, Mary was the only customer in the entire store. Even though the name of this store was indeed a bad choice, this is a commercial street with dense crowds. Mary was really surprised by this situation. .

"Don't you even have regular customers in this store? Your cooking skills are actually very good."

Mary said in surprise. Logically speaking, if a local has tried Lilia's cooking skills once, there is no reason not to promote it around the area. Even someone like her, who lived in a country with great food in her previous life and has a sophisticated taste, is quite satisfied with Lilia's cooking skills, so there is no reason why no one here would appreciate it.

It's a bit strange that I haven't seen a single repeat customer for such a long time.

"Ah, this is because this is a new store..."

Lilia scratched her head and smiled sheepishly.

"I am an orphan. I have been working in other restaurants. I have been saving money. Thanks to Mr. Bingshan's management, even a person like me can save enough money to open a restaurant."

"Being a chef has always been my dream, so I opened a restaurant."

"This store has only been open for a month, so there are not many regular customers."

Hearing Lilia's answer, Mary nodded in understanding.

"I see……"

Sanji's appearance appeared in her mind, and she said subconsciously: "I know a person who may be very compatible with you..."

"Ah, what?"

"No, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Looking at Lilia's rather pretty face, Sanji's pig-like attitude when he saw a beautiful woman directly overturned Mary's impression of his superb cooking skills.

She shook her head, then turned to wave.

"Then I'll leave first. If I have the chance, I will bring my friends here for dinner."

"Oh! Thank you so much!"

Lilia suddenly shouted excitedly, looking even happier than when Mary gave her two million Baileys before.

Mary couldn't help but laugh.

Is this the mentality of someone who is very passionate about cooking?

…

On the coast, a broken boat slowly docked.

"boom!"

A very fat man with black hair was tied into a bun with a hairpin, and his hairstyle looked like a gourd. A long-nosed man wearing a woolen coat, a red and white striped scarf, and armor on his arms suddenly jumped from the ship to the dock.

Crew members on other ships also hurriedly got off the ship.

That embarrassed look attracted the attention of many people.

"Hey, look at them, what happened to them to become like this bear..."

A passerby smiled and pointed at the group of people and said. Next to him, a passerby wearing glasses changed his expression and immediately covered his mouth.

"What are you talking about? Do you want to die?"

He bared his teeth and shouted in a low voice: "Look what's on their sails!"

The passerby looked up and saw a waving skull wearing a top hat, pink curly hair and lipstick printed on the sail.

His face suddenly turned pale, his whole body was trembling, and his legs were weak and weak.

"This, this is..."

Not to mention the strange reactions of passers-by, the tall and fat man suddenly stretched his muscles and cursed in a low voice:

"Damn it, how could we encounter a tornado in the windless zone? It's really unlucky."

Next to him, an extremely tall man wearing an airplane-shaped helmet walked up to him and asked:

"Snag, what do we do now?"

"Nonsense, let's find someone to repair our ship first!"

Snag glared at Charlotte Saint-Marc and then said:

"Then send all the people out to investigate on the island to see if anyone special has come to the island recently."

"We must not let go of any places that have traces of the people we want to track down. This is the biggest event in the group in the past few years, do you understand?"

"clear."