If the old members of the Whitebeard Pirates choose to let Ace take over Whitebeard's captaincy.
So, as long as Ace issues a call as a member of the Pirate King's bloodline, he should be able to grow his power in a short time.
In addition, Blackbeard was tricked by Mod and failed to obtain the power of shock in the summit war, and more than half of the key elites he had just gathered together were lost.
In this way, the Whitebeard Pirates led by Ace may not necessarily be defeated by the Blackbeard Pirates.
It may even rely on the influence brought by the blood of the Pirate King to quickly grow into a force that cannot be underestimated, and then defeat Blackbeard and Weibull one after another.
The premise is that Ace is willing to do this...
"Whatever the 'future' holds..."
Maud's eyes were calm.
"I can ride the wave!"
Chapter 186 New Agreement
Law remained in the room patching up Smoothie's body.
This is quite rare corpse material, worthy of Mod's attention.
As for Vanderdyken's body, Lafayette took a trip and spent some effort to throw the body into the deep sea outside Dragon Palace City to feed the fish.
Only Maude and Luo were left in the room.
Luo was concentrating on repairing the body, while Maude was sitting casually on the table.
Clang—
Maude pulled out the autumn water and waved it a few times. She suddenly felt an indescribable weird feeling, as if she was waving a toy knife.
When Luo heard the noise, he raised his head and glanced at Maude, who was wielding a knife, and a strange color flashed across his eyes.
From his perspective, Maud, whose height had more than doubled, was holding a piece of autumn water that was only about 1.1 meters long, and looked as weird as possible.
"Maude, do you need me to help you with the 'amputation' operation?"
"Huh? Give you a chance to reorganize your language."
Maude stopped swinging the knife and looked at Luo playfully.
"Uh... I was joking."
Under the attack of Maud's eyes, Luo retreated instantly and continued to repair the corpse honestly.
Maude sheathed the autumn water, stood up and glanced at the shadow behind her.
The sudden change in body shape was really difficult for him to adapt to.
Especially the issue with the saber...
Bailey's little fool can gain weight to match his current body shape, but Qiushui can't.
The biggest problem is the incongruity caused by [length].
"Forget it, let's change it back..."
Although the current body shape can make it easier to use force in various moves, the lingering stiffness is protesting crazily to the brain...
Mod stared down at the shadow and used his ability to knead and compress the shadow with his mind.
Under his control, the shadow slowly shrank inward, causing the body to shrink as well.
On the side, Luo peeked at Maude who was [adjusting] her body shape, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.
After a while, Maude's height returned to its original height of more than three meters, and so did her body shape.
"It seems that the speed of adjusting height and body shape can be faster."
During the adjustment process, Mod realized that this skill could be applied to combat.
For example, when fighting an enemy in close combat, you can suddenly lengthen your arm and directly attack the enemy behind the weapon.
Or suddenly shrink in size to avoid enemy attacks.
The idea came to mind, and Maude began to try to increase the speed of adjusting her body shape, going back and forth to get bigger and smaller, shorter and longer, thicker and thinner.
Since he obtained the Shadow Fruit, it seems that he has tried many experiments with similar properties.
Every time it is vivid and interesting, it can deepen his understanding of the shadow fruit's ability.
Especially the one that can grow longer and thicker freely, it seems that it can also be used to cooperate with [Return of Life], so that it can do many things that ordinary people cannot do.
It can also greatly increase the intensity of the attack!
Maud had a lively mind and was having a good time there, while Luo was looking at things with dark thoughts here.
"Is that human being… "
Luo's mood was complicated.
finally.
After many attempts, Mod adjusted his height to 2.6 meters, which is only about 0.6 meters taller than the great swordsmen like Red Hair and Hawkeye.
Although Moder can adjust his height at will, he feels that with a height of 2.6 meters, the fit and feel will be better when swinging the sword, and it will even feel smoother when making moves.
When Maude chose the height, Law's work of repairing the corpse was also over.
Maud placed Smoothie's body into the Shadow Box.
Currently, the Shadow Box contains the bodies of Whitebeard and Smoothie, as well as five Devil Fruits.
The entire space of the shadow box was almost filled.
Mod is determined to expand the storage space of the Shadow Box, but this kind of thing cannot be achieved by hard training of skills. Only when the star level reaches nine stars can significant changes be ushered in.
"Let's go eat."
Maude led the way out of the room.
I haven't eaten for most of the day, and I'm feeling a little hungry after using my abilities again and again.
Luo left the room together, followed closely behind Maud.
at the same time.
Princess White Star, who was knocked unconscious by Maud's overlord color, slowly woke up from the bed.
Neptune stood by the bed and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Bai Xing waking up.
"Shirahoshi, how do you feel?"
Neptune reached out his hand and gently touched Bai Xing's forehead.
Bai Xing looked at his father and didn't speak. Instead, he bit his lip and cried silently.
In the entire Fish-Man Island, only she and her pet Megalo know the truth about the assassination of her mother Otohime eight years ago.
But after inheriting her mother's legacy, she hid this secret deep in her heart, enduring sadness and loneliness alone in the shell tower.
Eight years of patience have made her a lot stronger inside.
After seeing the death of the three royal brothers with her own eyes, although she wanted to cry loudly, in order not to make her father uncomfortable, she held it back with great difficulty, but the tears still poured out uncontrollably.
Neptune instantly understood Shirahoshi's thoughts, and his eyes suddenly became moist.
While hating his own incompetence, he touched Shirahoshi's head and whispered: "Sharkstar and the others are no longer seriously ill. It was the doctors of the Morde Pirates who saved them."
"Really, really?"
Shirahoshi looked at Neptune in disbelief.
Neptune nodded towards Shirahoshi.
"Woooo..."
After learning that the three royal brothers were fine, Bai Xing could no longer bear it and cried loudly.
Tears flowed from his eyes, falling on the bed like a stream.
Neptune hugged Bai Xing into his arms and said with pity: "Thank you for all your hard work..."
The king of Ryugu City had obviously learned everything Shirahoshi had endured in the past eight years from his pet Megalo.
After Bai Xing's mood stabilized, Neptune told everything that happened in Ryugu City.
"Although they are pirates, they are undoubtedly the benefactors of our Ryugu Kingdom."
After informing Shirahoshi what happened, Neptune looked solemn.
Bai Xing nodded silently, agreeing with Neptune's statement.
But the image of Mod ruthlessly killing tens of thousands of human pirates in the square had turned into fear and was rooted in her head.
She couldn't imagine how she would feel if Maud stood in front of her.
"Father, I want to meet the mermaid named Luna."
"good."
Neptune complied with Shirahoshi's request.
Half an hour later.
Luna came to Shirahoshi's room, looking very restrained.
"Princess Shirahoshi."
She looked up at Bai Xing's beautiful face, a flash of wonder in her eyes.
This was the first time she had seen Bai Xing in person. As a woman, she couldn't help but be impressed by Bai Xing's charm.
"Hello, Luna."
Shirahoshi took the initiative to greet Luna.
She wanted to learn more about the outside world through the mermaid girl in front of her who had experienced ups and downs, as well as the man who frightened her - Maude.
"Can you tell me... your experience during this time?"
"ah?"
Luna looked at Shirahoshi in surprise.
Before coming, she was surprised that Princess Bai Xing, whom she had never met before, would summon her specifically.
What's more, she didn't expect that the reason why Princess Bai Xing summoned her was to ask her about her rough experience during this period.
what is the root cause
Luna did not respond to Shirahoshi immediately, but instead began to think subconsciously.
Then, a name quietly appeared in her mind.
It seemed that it was precisely because of this name that she had an intersection with the aloof Princess Ryugu Castle.
After understanding the idea, Luna blurted out and asked: "Is it because of Lord Maud...?"
"Um."
Bai Xing was slightly startled, and then confirmed Luna's guess.
When Luna saw this, her bright face suddenly became a little sad.
... ... ... .
Night falls.
Fishman Island is brightly lit.
Without the threats from pirates and slave-catching teams, the mermaids who were originally hiding in the deep-sea apartments returned to the streets one after another.
With the return of the mermaids, even at night, the streets that had been deserted for a while began to gradually become lively.
Everywhere on Fish-Man Island is slowly recovering like spring.
At this time, through the live broadcast of the walking image bug, Neptune appeared on the screens in various places on the Fish-Man Island.
As the king, he explained to the people what happened on Fish-Man Island today.
However, he still deliberately concealed the fact that the New Fishman Pirates invaded Ryugu Castle and brutally killed many Ryugu Castle soldiers.
In contrast, Neptune did not miss the key role played by the Morde Pirates in this incident at all, and even solemnly expressed his gratitude to the Morde Pirates.
However, even if Neptune did not express his attitude and stance towards the Mod Pirates through the live broadcast, Mod's current influence has already penetrated into the hearts of the people of Fishman Island.