One Piece: Kaido the Beast Playing House.

Chapter 436 Small talk
"A-choo! Which bastard scolded me?"

On the Ghost Island, Barrett sneezed heavily, rubbed his nose and complained that he felt like he was getting bored to death recently. He had to compete with others once a month to ensure the normal operation of the entire Ghost Island's high-level combat forces. After all, these high-level combat forces didn't just sit around on the island doing nothing all day.

The escort of merchant ships, commercial negotiations in various territories, the elimination of certain aristocratic forces that want to revive, and the stationing in border waters, etc., are all the responsibility of these high-level combat forces including the Twelve Hours. Not everyone has time to stay in Ghost Island every day, and they can only come back when they have time.

Barrett is not the type of person who likes to be a teacher like Kaido. In addition, due to his special circumstances, it is not convenient for him to show up in public for the time being. Otherwise, it would not be good if the World Government knew that Barrett had joined the Beasts. As a result, Barrett can only stay in Onigashima and Wano Country recently. Now he is bored and starts to go to the library to read books.

Barrett reading books, what an incredible thing, but Quinn said that if Barrett wanted to really and thoroughly develop the power of the fusion fruit, then reading more books and learning more about mechanics would definitely be an indispensable choice. So, Barrett patiently ran to the library, found a lot of mechanical books and started reading, but this boring process did make him a little drowsy.

"How did that kid Robin manage to read these boring words?"

Barrett couldn't help scratching his head. At least his mechanical principles had some illustrations, while those archaeological tomes Robin read were mostly text-only. He would feel dizzy even after reading them. However, Robin could finish a whole book at an extremely fast speed and memorize it completely. For the first time, Barrett thoroughly felt the crushing of geniuses over ordinary people. This feeling was even stronger than the crushing of ordinary people by geniuses in combat like them.

"Barrett? Why are you here?"

At this moment, a voice sounded from behind Barrett, full of disbelief and surprise.

"Olbia? Are you on duty today?"

Barrett knew who it was without turning around, but he remembered that when he came here in the morning, the person on duty in the library should be someone from the literature department. Why was Olbia here?
That's right, ever since the battle for the library ended in a draw, the "ownership" of the library has become jointly owned by the Department of Literature and the Department of History. Each side manages it on a daily basis, and when people from one side are managing the library, people from the other side rarely appear in the library. This has become a fixed routine.

"No, I just came here to look for books for comparison, but I didn't expect you to be here. Don't you always dislike reading?"

Olbia walked over to the chair opposite Barrett with a pile of books in his arms, sat down, put down the pile of tomes he had been holding, rubbed his sore wrist and said.

"I don't like reading, but I like to improve my strength. These books can help me improve my fruit development, so I came to take a look. But you, have you understood the text translation book of the historical text that Lily gave you? I can guarantee that it is really useful. After all, a bastard in Roger's pirate group was born in this country. He does understand these words, and he also said after he was drunk that this is something that has been passed down from generation to generation in their general family. So, if you really want to understand what those historical texts say, studying that thing is really useful."

Barrett put down the book in his hand and threw it on the table. After stretching, he said to Olbia that he was not so hostile to Olbia now. After all, she was Robin's mother, and during this period of time, Barrett could be sure that Olbia was indeed learning how to be a good mother.

"We understand. In fact, we have almost finished studying the comparison table. Although the information recorded on it is not very detailed and many places are deliberately omitted, it is obviously to prevent outsiders from learning it. However, that can only deceive outsiders. For us, it is not something that cannot be cracked. However, we are archaeologists, and it is not enough for us to simply figure out how to translate it. We are translators, not archaeologists. We now want to understand why Wano has preserved such a detailed historical text comparison table, what exactly was Wano like in the past, and why such a strange social system was formed. These are all what we want to know, but unfortunately, there are too few historical documents of Wano. We can only look for answers from these myths and strange records."

Olbia picked up a large book and showed it to Barrett. This book was one of the various myths and legends of Wano Country. "Myths? Can you find the correct history from these? Why does it sound so unreliable? Are you sure you are studying history?"

It was the first time that Barrett had heard of such a thing. To him, those mythological stories were at most just after-dinner entertainment. After all, the things recorded in them were often full of unrealistic fantasies and various exaggerations. Barrett remembered hearing the legend of the Five-Colored Heavenly Pond on a certain island. Anyway, there were different opinions on the island about the effects of the Five-Colored Heavenly Pond. Some said it could cure all injuries and diseases, some said it could make people immortal, and some even said it could bring people back to life. Finally, after Barrett climbed the towering mountain with great difficulty and saw the so-called Five-Colored Heavenly Pond, Barrett decided not to believe in any mythological stories anymore.

The so-called Five-Colored Heavenly Pond is just a small puddle. The reason why the water in it is five colors is that there are natural jades of various colors at the bottom of the pool. These jades reflect the sunlight, which forms this so-called Five-Colored Heavenly Pond. Barrett also took out those jades, and then found that those stones were of extremely poor quality and were not worthy of being put on the table. Barrett threw them back angrily.

“Myths sometimes contain a lot of history in them, because in the past, many people did not understand things, so they would adapt them with their own ideas, and then pass them on by word of mouth, turning them into the myths we see today. Although it is difficult to decipher the story back to the original truth, this difficulty is precisely the interesting part of archaeology and history, isn’t it?”

Olbia smiled and told Barrett their views on these myths. Even now, Olbia was always grateful to Barrett. After all, her life, Robin's, and all the historians on O'Hara's life were saved by Barrett. Otherwise, even if the navy let them go, they would never have been able to leave, and at most a few people would have escaped by luck.

"Okay, I don't understand how these intellectuals work, I'll just understand this book first."

Barrett was confused and didn't want to continue chatting with these smart people, otherwise he would feel that he was too stupid. He waved his hand, picked up the mechanics book in front of him again and started reading it, which also attracted Olbia's attention.

"Learning mechanical principles from scratch? What are you looking at this for? Have you ever learned this before?"

Olbia asked curiously.

"No, but Quinn told me that I should learn more about mechanics or something like that, otherwise my fusion fruit would be wasted. I can easily make a lot of powerful weapons with the fruit, but I didn't understand it, so I came to see this thing."

Barrett didn't hide it either, because he was about to collapse from reading this damn book. It clearly said that the book required no basic knowledge, so why was it so difficult to understand!
"Then you shouldn't read this book. I've read it. Although it says "0 basic knowledge required", it's not really that basic. You need to learn math and physics well before you can read this book. Otherwise, you won't understand the formulas in it at all!"

Olbia's words directly explained to Barrett why he couldn't understand this book. It turned out that the zero foundation did not mean that anyone could read it, but it meant that there was no foundation in pure mechanics!
"What have I been watching these past few days?"

Barrett angrily threw the book on the table. The loud noise caused dissatisfaction among the administrators on the other side. However, since there were no outsiders in the library, no one came to trouble Barrett. Barrett began to feel impotent and furious at this time.

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