The person is wearing a straw hat, and starts with the power of words!

"It's broad daylight! Are you dreaming about admiring the moon?!"

All the Straw Hat crew members gathered on the deck of the Sunny.

Sima Di stood at the very front, facing everyone, and seemed somewhat uneasy.

"Sima Di, are you nervous?" Zoro laughed.

“Sima Di, say whatever you want. We’re all family here now,” Usopp said.

"Hmm... I understand." Sima Di tried to regulate his breathing.

It might be hard to believe, but Sima Di was a conservative and shy person, and communicating with others wasn't his forte. That's why he preferred to immerse himself in books. His later career as a freelance writer was probably 80% due to his passion and 20% due to his personality.

"Well then... let me start by introducing myself," Sima Di said, finally regaining his composure.

"Introduction? That's unnecessary. We all know each other." Nami was taken aback.

"No, you don't know. My name is Sima Di, but that's not my given name."

"What do you mean?"

“My given name is a single character ‘夕’, while my surname is Lin. So, people like Sanji should call me Lin090-xiao or Lin Tashi,” Sima Di explained.

"Lin Xiao?" Sanji tried calling out.

"Huh? Is that so? So Lin is the surname." Chopper's little face was full of shock.

"Next... I think we can skip over gender, age, and hobbies. But I can talk about my birthplace."

"Wasn't my birthplace the Golden Dragon Kingdom?" Zoro asked, his face full of confusion.

"No, it's obvious you were asleep on the train and didn't hear a thing," Sima Di complained. "I'm from..."

Boom——

A thunderclap exploded, completely without warning.

Sima Di was immediately startled.

Nami looked up in confusion, only to find the sky was perfectly clear. She hadn't sensed any sign of an approaching storm.

"The weather on the Grand Line is really strange," Usopp muttered.

Sima Di didn't take it to heart and continued, "My hometown is very similar to the Golden Dragon Kingdom, but there are also great differences. I actually come from..."

Boom——

Snapped--

Emperor Sima looked with lingering fear at the spot where he had been standing. The grass there had been scorched black by lightning and was emitting black smoke.

If I hadn't dodged in time, that bolt of lightning would have struck me.

When everyone looked up at the sky again, it was already shrouded in a large expanse of thunderclouds, with thunder crackling and sounding eerily gloomy.

"What...what exactly is going on?" Nami asked in shock.

“This absolutely cannot be explained by the weather sophistry of the Grand Line.” Usopp also looked at Shima Tei.

Everyone stared at Sima Di with astonishment. Sima Di himself was still in shock, cold sweat pouring down his face.

"Perhaps there are some things... that really can't be said." Sima Di slowly looked up at the sky, then raised his voice and shouted, "I understand! I won't say it! Is that alright?"

As soon as Sima Di finished speaking, the large area of ​​thunderclouds in the sky quickly dissipated under the astonished gazes of the crowd.

"Wow! That's amazing! Sima Di, how did you manage to control them?!" Luffy stared at Sima Di with starry eyes. "Is it because you said that incantation that you can control them? Okay, I'll try too!"

Luffy immediately cleared his throat, put on a mysterious look, and repeated himself in a strange tone.

"I actually come from~ I actually come from~ I actually come from~"

"You're actually from the planet of idiots!" Nami punched Luffy on the head without hesitation.

Sanji looked at Sima Di and murmured, "Maybe Lin Xiao really is a celestial being descended to earth or something... No, Lin Xiao is too strange. He should be called Immortal Lin!"

"Lin Xian... isn't he even stranger now?" Usopp couldn't resist making a sarcastic remark.

"Haha, it seems our first mate really comes from an extraordinary place," Robin said with a laugh.

"Hey... I've also noticed, it's quite remarkable. The main thing is, all the Spades players throughout history come from the same place as me." Sima Di had just finished speaking when he covered his mouth, but when he looked up at the sky, everything seemed normal.

Sima Di breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that as long as he didn't touch any information from the original world, everything would be fine.

“Sima Di… maybe we shouldn’t say anything.” Nami looked at him with some worry. “In your words… it’s the Way of Heaven. The Way of Heaven in this world doesn’t allow you to talk about these things.”

"Heavenly Dao? Who is Heavenly Dao? What right does it have to stop Sima Di from speaking! Tell me where Heavenly Dao is! I'm going to beat it to a pulp!" Luffy immediately said angrily.

"The Heavenly Way isn't human!" Zoro helplessly pulled Luffy back from rushing out. "The Heavenly Way is an even more ethereal existence than gods."

"Huh? Zoro knows about the Heavenly Dao? It seems you've also read Sima Di's?" Robin asked.

"I'm just bored, I'm so bored," Zoro retorted.

"In your words, it's better to train than to watch! Master Zoro." Sima Di stood up, brushed the grass clippings off his clothes, and said with a smile, "Don't worry. It seems that Tendo just doesn't allow us to talk about my hometown, but I can still tell you about Spades. From now on, I just need to carefully avoid anything related to my hometown. Luffy, sit down and listen carefully, this is about your future enemy."

"Enemy? I know!" Luffy plopped down cross-legged on the ground, his face serious, but he looked like he was about to jump up and beat up the Flying Man at any moment.

-

Spades, despite the Navy's public claim that this organization is the highest scientific research organization, differs from Vegapunk's scientific research in that it is a place that purely studies human psychology.

The research methods used by this organization differ greatly from those of general psychologists. Instead of observing humans, they gather direct experimental subjects in a relatively enclosed space and establish specific rules for these individuals to follow, with a limited timeframe.

By observing the actions of these individuals and recording their reactions in various situations, such as under extreme fear, in situations of isolation and helplessness, and in cases of betrayal by a loved one, certain conclusions can be drawn by integrating this data.

Due to the unique nature of this experiment—namely, its closed nature and the negatively biased rules—99% of the experimental data concerned various negative human emotions, leading to some extreme situations, such as the large number of deaths among the experimental subjects.

The executors, the successive Spades, like to call this experiment the "Death Game."

131 can be explained by nature

"And I am the sole survivor of the 98th Death Game, and I have taken over the position of Spade. That is, the tenth generation Spade, known as the Heart Sima Emperor."

"What kind of experiment is this... This is clearly just locking people up together and making them kill each other!" Nami shouted.

Not only Nami, but everyone else looked grim.

“I’d heard about this before, but I never thought it was true…” Two beads of cold sweat trickled down Robin’s forehead.

“I don’t know how many times it’s been held here. But in my hometown… based on the records they left behind, the first Death Game happened fifty years ago, and here, it’s been held a total of one hundred times,” Sima Di said. “Usopp, Zoro, do you remember Haggar Island we accidentally wandered into before?”

The mere mention of Hag Island brought back unpleasant memories for the two of them.

“Sima Di, you mean…” Usopp said.

"Yes, that's right. That's a death game. It's a game for the organizers, but it's death for the participants."

Everyone saw deep remorse on Sima Di's face.

"Then... was that guy I met back then the organizer?" Zoro suddenly remembered that skinny but extremely dangerous-looking guy.

"Yes. That's what I'm going to talk about next."

Sima Di stepped aside to clear the whiteboard behind him, on which their names were written in detail.

"It's likely that one of them possesses the ability to awaken souls from the underworld, even the dead. For example, the person Zoro saw on Hag Island was the third-generation King of Murder, Lucas, but he was executed for murder forty years ago. Because his crimes were so heinous and had such a terrible impact, his execution was public, and there was absolutely no way he could have survived. Yet now he's on Hag Island, and there's no explanation other than a user of a special Devil Fruit."

"In other words, from the first generation to the eleventh generation, everyone except me has been working within Spade, whether alive or dead, and continuing their so-called experiments here. What's worse... Lucas can make Zoro feel like he's a dangerous person, which means that at least the first to third generation are stronger than us, or even stronger than Luffy."

Sima Di drew a black line below the third generation with a whiteboard marker and put forward the worst possible scenario.

Sima Di then told everyone about his encounters with the seventh generation Horta and his envoy Machinaga in Alabasta, the eighth generation Evelyn on Long Chain Island, and the third generation envoy Brad on Enies Lobby.

"...Although the three of you easily subdued Brad at the time, he didn't reveal his true abilities. His abilities are more control-oriented, such as paralysis and mental illusions. If your attack hadn't been so sudden, and if I hadn't disabled one of his forms, we would have been the ones in trouble once he reacted," Sima Di said. "Judging from today's newspaper, this guy should still be alive. And when we meet him a second time, he will be even more difficult to deal with."

"So our enemies are these fifteen guys..." Zoro said.

“There’s an endless navy, and there might even be admirals,” Sanji added.

"Yes...that's roughly the situation." Sima Di nodded.

"But... Sima Di, what exactly is their purpose in doing this?" Nami asked, puzzled. "Even if it's an experiment, they can't just do whatever they want!"

"It is an experiment that transforms emotions into energy."

Sima Di explained to everyone the matter of Inmore, along with the artificial fruit SMILE.

"Artificial Devil Fruits?" Usopp could even imagine how powerful an army of artificial Devil Fruits would be.

“However… their collection of this data isn’t solely for improving Inmor production. For them, this might just be a side effect.” Sima Di’s face darkened.

Then, as Sima Di recounted the story, the Straw Hat crew were all horrified.

If those Spade guys actually succeed, the world will no longer be the way it is now. And that kind of future is something no one wants to see.

-

"No time to lose! Let's head to Spade Island now and wipe out all those guys in one fell swoop!" Luffy's adrenaline surged, and he could no longer contain himself.

132. Do shark meat and dragon meat look very similar?

"Before participating in the game, I was just an ordinary person. I didn't know swordsmanship, any fighting skills, had no Devil Fruit abilities, and hadn't awakened Haki beyond Sight and Observation. I was just someone who wouldn't even dare to kill a chicken. There was only one reason I was chosen to participate in the death game: because of my writing. Before I wrote fantasy and romance, my writing style leaned more towards suspense and horror. They thought that was right up their alley, so they chose me. In that game, I was lucky enough to survive to the end. But the previous Spade committed suicide in front of me after the game ended. So I was forced into becoming the tenth generation."

“Of course, I absolutely refused. I tried to run away, even to commit suicide, but I failed. Later, that guy even used my parents' lives as leverage…”