One Piece: The World King Who Emerged from the White Town

"Abel, I've brought you today's newspaper."

"Okay, let's leave it there for now. This training session will be over soon."

Abel said something to Baby-5 who was running over, and then focused on his training.

A specially made, enormous barbell seemed weightless in his hands as he continuously performed chopping motions.

Only after the number reached ten thousand did he exhale a breath of hot air and put the huge barbell down.

Then he sat down on a chair not far away and picked up a towel to wipe his sweat.

At this moment, Baby-5 had already poured him some black tea.

Abel took the drink naturally, praised the little girl a couple of times, and then picked up today's newspaper.

Strangely enough, more than three years have passed since he joined the family, but Baby-5's height has hardly changed at all, and she still looks like a little girl.

If he hadn't already known that she would grow up to be a curvaceous and adorable mature woman, he would have suspected that Baby-5 would only ever grow to that height.

Isn't it always said that girls develop earlier than boys? This doesn't seem to be the case.

However, considering that Baby-5 is two years younger than him, he might be a typical example of someone who has accumulated experience and talent over time.

He shook his head, no longer bothering with such trivial matters as Baby-5, and began to seriously examine today's newspaper.

This has almost become a habit for him throughout his life.

After all, there is no internet in this world, and if you want to know what is happening at sea, you can basically only rely on newspapers.

Although he had gained a god-like perspective and knew some of the world's trends and certain major events.

But it's impossible for him to remember even the exact time, not to mention that there are many other important things he doesn't even know about.

Then he saw a familiar figure appear on today's front page headline.

The Nine-Headed Serpent Empress Joins the Seven Warlords of the Sea!

It's about the current emperor of the pirate nation Amazon Lily, Boa Hancock, the current captain of the Kuja Pirates, who accepted the World Government's summons and became another Shichibukai.

As for what agreement Boa Hancock reached with the World Government, that remains unknown.

It wasn't mentioned in the newspaper, and it's unlikely anyone would know.

The report also included several photos of Boa Hancock.

Judging from the angle, it's clear this was a candid shot, but even so, this Nine Serpent Empress is beautiful from every angle!

The next report immediately started stirring things up.

This Nine-Headed Serpent Empress was named "the most beautiful woman in the world"!

The submission address was also provided, welcoming people from all over the world who disagreed to send in photos of the world's most beautiful woman.

He also claimed that if he discovered a woman more beautiful than Boa Hancock, he would publicly apologize to everyone and bet his entire fortune!

This report was already extremely eye-catching, but this editor's manipulation of the narrative has shifted the public opinion from "What strength and achievements does this Kuja Empress possess to be worthy of being one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea?" to a debate between "The Empress is the most beautiful, no arguments accepted" and "She is beautiful, but not necessarily the most beautiful woman in the world."

It's likely that someone with expertise guided her behind the scenes, easily defining Boa Hancock's status as one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.

Then it gained a huge wave of popularity and traffic, and incidentally crowned the empress as the world's most beautiful woman.

Killing multiple birds with one stone, that's amazing!

Otherwise, countless people would question his reasons for becoming a Shichibukai.

After all, who had ever heard of the names Kuja Empress and Boa Hancock before this?

Does she have any real achievements?

For example, did he challenge Whitebeard, or defeat some powerful naval officer?

Or did they set foot on the Red Earth, rescue slaves, and plunder 'Heavenly Gold'?

There are none of these.

In fact, she was one of the freed slaves back then.

Of course, this matter is only known to a few individuals.

Although the World Government can decide who is qualified to become one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, if it is too arbitrary and cannot be accepted by the public, it will become a huge joke.

Abel put down his newspaper, still feeling a bit unsatisfied, as if he had just stumbled upon a juicy juicy story.

But this empress is indeed beautiful.

Aside from having a bad personality and being a hopeless romantic, he doesn't have any other flaws.

No wonder in so many fanfictions, whenever a harem is created, this empress can't escape the clutches of evil.

Anyone would be happy to take that place!

Then the Den Den Mushi in his pocket rang. Abel took it out and saw that it was Doflamingo contacting him, so he answered it directly.

"Is it Abel?"

“It is I, Captain Dover.”

"Two new members have joined the family. I plan to call everyone back so they can get to know each other."

Abel looked surprised. "A new member? Okay, I'll go back."

After hanging up, he wondered where Doflamingo had recruited this new recruit.

"Summoning everyone back means the other party has passed the test and become a full member from a trainee? Who could it be?"

"Never mind, we'll know once we get back and take a look."

Chapter 340 The Monet Sisters

For the Don Quixote family, recruiting new members is quite an important matter.

After all, we are a family.

Once you join the family, you're all one family.

Can it work if we don't know each other?

In addition, Doflamingo has always attached great importance to this matter, so the officers who were on missions all dealt with their matters as soon as possible and rushed back to the family base.

Abel returned with Baby-5 as well.

Then he saw the new members of the family, one big and one small, two girls.

He seemed to know who had joined this time.

Soon after everyone had arrived, Doflamingo formally introduced the two newcomers to the group.

Just as Abel had suspected, the two were indeed Monet and Sugar.

One is 17 years old, and the other is only 9 years old; they are sisters.

Even Abel couldn't help but show a surprised look, because he really didn't know this information.

“I went back to Beihai a few days ago and happened to rescue the two of them. Afterwards, I saw that they had nowhere to go, so I took them in. From now on, we are family.”

Doflamingo said in a serious tone.

Few people present probably believed it.

Even Abel didn't believe he was that kind-hearted; there must be some other reason behind it.

Just like when they first took in Buffalo and the other children, it was only to select some promising talents to cultivate as fresh blood for the family.

This time will probably be the same.

It's just unclear what it is about these two sisters that makes Doflamingo value them.

Monet immediately showed an expression of immense gratitude, expressing his loyalty to Doflamingo and his willingness to die for him.

This scene made Abel somewhat thoughtful. Perhaps it was for this reason that Doflamingo made them members of the family.

After all, the family's strength and influence are not what they used to be. The shift in recruitment criteria from strength and potential to loyalty is also in line with Doflamingo's state of mind after being betrayed by his own brother.

A powerful traitor is indeed not as good as a loyal subordinate who would even die for you.

At least for Doflamingo right now, that's the case.

As Abel had suspected, what Abel didn't know was that Doflamingo had already orchestrated many elaborate schemes to gain such a 'family member'.

But in the end, most of them failed.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to plunge someone into the abyss and then rescuing them.

But people's hearts are not so easy to control.

This return to Beihai was also by a twist of fate, which led to Monet's absolute loyalty.

Doflamingo believed that even if he asked the other party to die at this moment, the other party would carry it out without hesitation.

Furthermore, the bond between sisters virtually eliminated the possibility of them betraying him.

That's why he brought Monet and her sister Sugar back to the family, skipping the apprentice stage and introducing them directly to everyone else.

If Monet knew this inside story, he would probably collapse immediately.

The 'hero' who saved himself was actually the demon who created that hellish situation.

After Doflamingo introduced the Monet sisters to everyone, Lao G then timely recounted the 'Blood Family Rules,' giving the two newcomers a taste of their own medicine.

Doflamingo didn't stop them, after all, the family rules absolutely could not be broken.

Then he added, “Baby-5, after the meeting, you will be responsible for telling them all the family rules in detail.”

"Okay, young master."

There was indeed no one more suitable than her to do this task.

Next, each cadre reported on the recent situation and the increase or decrease in the business they were responsible for.

Overall, it presents a thriving and rapidly developing trend.

Just like blowing up a balloon, it gets bigger and bigger.

Arms and weapons have been smuggled to many countries in the first half of the Grand Line.