One Piece Talk King: Starting with Commentary on Devil Fruits

This time, the secret was exposed by the sky, and the toy soldiers could no longer hide it. But if Rebecca insisted on becoming a gladiator and fighting, her father couldn't stop her. The man knew that everything in the arena was a trap, and Doflamingo was just using them to earn tickets. No matter how many matches he won, he would never fulfill his promise.

Shortly after the father and daughter reunited, they witnessed King Riku killing Anna and Violet in the sky. The former king of Dressrosa had gone completely mad, committing such a heartless act, which deeply shocked the two of them.

"King Riku actually killed Violet. What has he been through these past five years?" Rebecca didn't even call him grandfather. Logically speaking, she was of the same generation as Elsa and Anna, and seeing them harmed, it was inevitable for a woman to feel a sense of shared sorrow.

Rebecca hasn't seen King Riku for many years, and neither have the toy soldiers. They don't know where the old man is hiding. Doflamingo has never given up on the search for the former king.

Five years later, the helmet that King Riku wore to cover his face in the sky was recognized by the citizens who often watched the arena. This image was very similar to that of the gladiator Riku. Could he really be the former king of Dressrosa?

Under the cover of a group of gladiators, King Riku, now using the alias Lich, led a group of wounded and defeated soldiers to leave the arena to avoid trouble. Because of the silver mask covering his face, no special expression could be seen from the former king who had killed his granddaughter and daughter.

The loyal retainers did not oppose King Riku's decision. Violet bearing Doflamingo's child was already a colossal scandal, severing the Heavenly Demon's bloodline in the human world; many applauded it.

In the sky, King Riku gently laid his daughter's body down. At that moment, the man seemed to have aged more than ten years. After Violet's death, most of his energy and spirit had been brutally drained away, and the man was now on the verge of exhaustion.

Looking at his daughter's resentful death, King Riku stroked Violet's eyes, wanting his beloved daughter to close them. "Violet, sleep well. You can blame me or hate me, but Doflamingo's bloodline cannot exist in this world. I'm sorry."

"Ah..." King Riku's attempt to salvage the situation failed. Violet still refused to close her eyes after her death. The heartless father finally gave up and got up to chase after Elsa. A man should do things to the extreme.

Violet, dying with resentment, could only stare at the doorway, watching her father, who had killed her, pick up his musket, push open the door, and chase after Elsa in the direction she had left. A dead person can do nothing.

The brave draw their swords in anger against the stronger, while the cowardly draw their swords in anger against the weaker. King Riku, unable to defeat Doflamingo, could only seek validation by harming his children.

Part of the reason was for the people who died in Dressrosa, and another part was for King Riku himself. He could finally vent the humiliation he had suffered over the years, and he was even more enthusiastic about chasing after Elsa following the footprints she left behind.

With her younger sister Anna dead before her eyes and her mother Violet also in grave danger, Elsa, dressed in thin clothes, had never felt so desperate. Before, she had Señor and Alan to rely on when she was out, but now that the murderer was hot on her heels, who could the little girl rely on?

Elsa turned around and looked behind her. She saw King Riku chasing after her and noticed the shoe prints on the ground. After thinking for a moment, the clever girl took off her beloved shoes, which had been bought for her by the gentleman Señor when they went shopping together.

However, a child who is not yet six years old takes much smaller steps than an adult. King Riku caught up with Elsa in just a few steps. Since the King's Highlands had been affected by the BABY5 nuclear explosion, the places where one could run and hide were ultimately limited.

Unable to distance herself from the bad adults, Elsa had no choice but to resort to hiding in a ruin. Her small size allowed her to squeeze inside, and the exposed rocks provided her with maximum protection.

Bang bang bang... King Riku fired his musket, bullets landing at Elsa's feet and kicking up dust. Fortunately, the former king was not good with guns and his aim was poor. "Don't run away, Elsa, you can't escape. I will treat you like I treated Anna, and I won't let you leave this world in pain."

Nobody wants to die, Elsa, this little adult, wants to live. She ignores her bad grandpa's attempts to persuade her to surrender and crawls into a crevice in the ruins, a place only children can pass through.

The last bullet struck near the stone wall, startling Elsa into crawling even faster. Along the way, her clothes were torn by the rocks, but her strong will to survive made her endure the pain and scrapes as she continued to crawl deeper until she reached the very bottom.

By the time King Riku reached the crevice, Elsa had already crawled far out. He reached out to touch the girl, but it was too late. The crevice was too small for his muscular body to pass through. He could only continue his "talking therapy" from the entrance: "Elsa, you're hiding in there without water or food. How many days do you think you can last? Come out now and I'll give you a quick death."

Elsa was overwhelmed by the villain's cacophony, and she desperately covered her ears, tears of grievance streaming down her face. Today had been too painful for her; she was still a child under six years old.

Elsa experienced the pain of death and separation far too early; it was an unbearable burden in her life.

Chapter 204 Awakening of Conqueror's Haki

Elsa hid in the ruins of the King's Highlands. The young girl was suddenly struck by tragedy. She could only hope that the rocks outside could hold off King Riku for a little longer. Señor and Eren were unable to return in time. Apart from burying her head in her knees and crying, there was nothing she could do.

"Señor, where are you? I'm so scared. Why aren't you coming to save me? I'm so scared!" The girl's soft sobs did not soften King Riku's heart. The former king was determined to go all the way.

Moreover, he did not intend to waste any more time with Elsa. This grandfather was afraid that outsiders would come over. If some busybody came to stop him, the old man might not be able to complete his plan to eliminate the threat completely. To put it bluntly, he could only beat children and women at the moment. He couldn't handle any adult male. Years of imprisonment had made him very weak.

He tossed aside the empty musket in his hand, which he had picked up from the prison guard's corpse during his escape. Now that it was useless, he naturally wouldn't cherish it, and besides, the fact that it was stained with his granddaughter's blood made it very unlucky.

Using his strength, the man began to move the obstacles in his way, still grumbling, "Elsa, I've lost my patience. These stones won't stop me. I'll be coming for you soon. Come out now, you're going to die sooner or later anyway. Who told you to be Doflamingo's bastard?"

"If I can't beat the old man, I can't beat the young one either." King Riku's current mentality has transformed him from an upright and honorable king into a shameless villain.

The old man displayed astonishing perseverance in moving stones. He easily moved stones three times his own weight, disregarding physical injury as long as the girl's life was at stake. He could relentlessly advance towards this goal.

Hiding in the ruins, Elsa covered her ears, trying to bury her head in the sand and escape reality. But as the sound of moving stones grew louder, it meant that King Lyku was getting closer and closer to her.

She used her cleverness to squeeze into the crevice, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a dead end. There was no more room to maneuver in the depths, so the girl could only sit there and wait for King Likuz to arrive. Elsa was trembling all over. She could do nothing. How could a girl who was not even six years old fight against a gladiator?

"Mommy, I'm scared, Mommy, where are you?" When faced with her own life or death, Elsa thought of her mother, Violet, and never considered her adoptive father.

At a young age, she harbored a deep hatred for Doflamingo. Had it not been for this benevolent ruler's atrocities, she would have lived a wonderful life in Dressrosa. The source of all the tragedy was that high and mighty Tenyasha.

No miracle came to Elsa. King Riku used all his strength to finally move the stone blocking his way. He was covered in scratches and abrasions. The demon finally stood before his granddaughter, his face showing no sign of sadness.

"Elsa, I'm sorry, don't blame your grandfather for being heartless," King Riku said, seeing his granddaughter trying to escape. He roughly grabbed the girl's ankle and pulled her down to his body.

"Grandpa, please spare me! If you want revenge on Doflamingo, go find him! I have nothing to do with him, nothing at all. He's not my father!" Faced with fear, the girl could only beg the executioner to spare her. But King Riku's figure completely enveloped the girl, and the child's strength was insignificant in front of the adult.

King Riku pressed his rough arm down on his granddaughter's neck. Before dying, Elsa unleashed an astonishing will to resist, kicking the man's groin with all her might and scratching his arm with her fingertips. Unfortunately, her strength was ultimately limited, and all her efforts were in vain.

The man then grabbed the girl's neck with both hands and pressed down on her body with his knees, completely controlling Elsa's body. King Riku's tears had dried up by this time. "Farewell, Elsa. I will go down to join you and your daughter later. Goodbye."

The girl felt her neck being squeezed by a tremendous force, and less and less air was entering her lungs. Due to suffocation and lack of oxygen, her face turned red and her eyes turned purple. Elsa, this little adult, had eyes filled with hatred for the world. She had not harmed anyone since she was born into this world, yet others were full of malice towards her. Why was this happening? Why was this happening?

Elsa felt her consciousness fading. She knew she was about to die. She was about to leave this world before she even turned six. With her last breath, she vented her emotions to the world: "I...I hate you all...I hate everyone in this world..."

Just when King Riku thought he was about to succeed in killing his granddaughter, he suddenly felt a violent power emanating from the girl, who was not even six years old, due to his close contact with Elsa. "This...this is impossible!"

At Elsa's critical moment, a child under six years old awakens Conqueror's Haki. His innate kingly aura carries overwhelming power, accompanied by red and black lightning that pushes aside everything around him, including the executioner pressing down on him.

With the weight off her body, Elsa felt a sudden lightness. She didn't know why she had suddenly unleashed such power, but at that moment she was breathing in fresh air, trying to circulate oxygen into her parched lungs. If she had been a few seconds later, she would have fainted from suffocation, and even a god couldn't save her then.

King Riku was still completely bewildered. Despite being directly subjected to the baptism of Conqueror's Haki, he didn't faint on the spot. As a king in the New World, he still possessed the most basic Armament Haki, thus avoiding the fate of being instantly killed by a five-year-old girl. He was completely engulfed in the rubble and ruins. "Conqueror's Haki! You actually have this kind of talent, but why are you Doflamingo's child?!"

The old man rose from the ruins, his skin wrinkled and aged by more than ten years, but this state did not affect King Ku's determination to kill Elsa. "A demon has given birth to a demon's child. Keeping you in this world will only bring disaster."

King Riku charged forward with all his might this time, determined to kill this bastard. It was foolish of him to hesitate to strangle her earlier. His newly awakened Conqueror's Haki could only slow down the man's movements for a moment, but it wouldn't change the balance between the two prey and hunter.

With her bodily functions finally returning to normal, Elsa saw that King Riku was still determined to kill her. She raised her small hand towards the direction the man had come from, once again channeling that power, and let out a young woman's kingly roar: "You shall die! Die..."

A strange Conqueror's Haki flowed from the girl's palm, rushing towards the invading King Riku. Upon their encounter, the man's life force accelerated, and the natural symptom of aging manifested on the former king's body.

"How could this be?" King Riku finally realized that there was something wrong with the girl's Conqueror's Haki. Her body was getting older and older, and even lifting her leg was extremely difficult. Her whole body began to age abnormally. Her skin dehydrated and cracked, exposing nerves and blood vessels. Her muscles and organs deteriorated rapidly. In just a few seconds, the man's life came to an end.

No one expected that King Riku would die of old age under the celestial lens, and that he was just one step away from meeting Elsa.

Chapter 205 The Snow Queen

A girl not even six years old killed an adult with her own hands. Such an outrageous thing happened in the sky. King Riku, whose life force had been drained, collapsed in front of Elsa. This former king of Dressrosa was so old that he looked like a centenarian after his death.

After staring blankly at King Riku's corpse for several minutes, Elsa did not go forward. Instead, she picked up a stone at her feet and smashed the fist-sized rock against the man's body to see how the wicked old man would react. After trying several times and seeing that the corpse did not react, the girl finally felt relieved.

"I killed someone, I killed someone today..." The girl's aura suddenly dissipated, and her strange Conqueror's Haki receded into her body.

After standing there stunned for a moment, the girl sat down in the pile of rocks. She stared quietly at the corpse of the evil old man. The first time she had killed someone, she did not feel fear or any discomfort. Taking someone's life was as easy as stepping on an ant.

Faced with this calm and composed feeling, Elsa realized for the first time that she was somewhat unfamiliar with herself. Could it be that she was born a bad seed, killing people related to her by blood without feeling any inner turmoil?

"So this is what it feels like for Mom to kill someone. Why don't I feel any burden?" The girl murmured to herself, burying her head in her knees with her legs together. The events of the day were too cruel for her.

After a long silence, the girl wiped away her tears. This feeling of helplessness made Elsa very uncomfortable. Even though she had dealt with the pursuers, she couldn't feel happy. She thought of her gentle mother Violet and her lovely sister Anna. Her life used to be so wonderful. Who had destroyed it all?

Was it King Riku? Or that cheapskate father, Doflamingo? Or Eren who triggered the Rumbling, or Ichigo the Straw Hat she met at the restaurant? Elsa didn't have a definite answer in her heart. She didn't know who to hate, so she might as well hate everyone, hate this dark world. The birth of a child into this world was destined to be a tragedy. At this moment, the girl wished she had never been born.

After thinking for so long, the girl felt a little hungry. She hadn't eaten since morning, and her body was at its limit. Elsa looked around the ruins hoping to find something to eat. "What am I thinking? How could there be Mother's cake in this wretched place? Maybe not even a piece of fruit. Huh?"

She glanced casually at the corner and saw a plant growing there, bearing a fruit that looked like a snow-striped apple. Elsa was so hungry that she felt acid reflux, and she didn't care whether the fruit was poisonous or not.

Picking the strangely shaped fruit, an apple she had never seen before, the girl hesitated for a few seconds. "If it's poisonous, at most it'll just give me a stomachache. Filling my stomach is the most important thing now," Elsa said, opening her mouth and biting down with her tender little teeth. But the taste of this apple on her tongue was indescribable; she had never eaten such a terrible apple before.

Having fallen to this point, Elsa, with tears in her eyes and a wronged expression, ate the apple bit by bit. The power within her made her so hungry that she didn't even spare the apple-eating girl. "It's so disgusting. I'll never eat an apple again."

Elsa ate a fruit as big as a girl's face, filling her stomach to the brim. The unpleasant hunger gradually disappeared, and a sudden, inexplicable chill rose within her, causing her to sneeze.

"Did I make this? Why is it frozen?" The girl sneezed in the direction of a large rock, which was now covered in frost, freezing the stubborn rock from the inside out.

Soon the girl noticed the changes in herself. Her golden hair, which she had inherited from Doflamingo, had turned completely silver, and even the color of her pupils had changed to blue. All of this was the effect of the apple.

Elsa suddenly recalled her memories of being with Señor. This uncle who loved wearing baby clothes had explained to her that there was something called a Devil Fruit on this sea, which would grant the user power after being eaten. Thinking of that strangely shaped apple, "That fruit should be a Devil Fruit, but why does it grow in a place like this?"

Even the girl found this divine favor strange; the place where the Devil Fruit grows must be quite capricious. However, Elsa was overjoyed to have this frost power, as she now had a second way to save her life, giving her the strength to survive in this cruel world.

Because she had crawled into the crevice between the rocks, Elsa's clothes were torn to shreds, and she had several scratches on her arms. "If only this power could conjure up a new outfit," the girl thought, disgusted with her own disheveled appearance.

As soon as she finished speaking, a cloud of ice and snow swept over the girl. As if it were alive, the ice and snow kept combining and wrapping around Elsa's body, eventually weaving into a blue dress that replaced Elsa's tattered clothes, and a white transparent cloak also appeared behind her.

The ice and snow clothing didn't make Elsa feel cold; instead, the close contact with her skin gave her a sense of intimacy. This power to create things from ice and snow at will was something the girl could achieve as long as she had the idea; the Devil Fruit within her would grant any wish.

The silver hair and blue dress accentuated her noble air, making her even more beautiful and delighting Elsa. Since she could conjure up a dress, she decided to conjure up a means of transportation to get the girl out of the ruins without relying on her own legs.

"What should I transform into? I've never ridden a horse before, so I'll transform into a pony," Elsa said with a smile, exhaling a breath of cold air. The exhaled air mixed together, and soon a tall ice horse appeared before the girl's eyes.

The ice horse that was created had a life of its own. It actually knelt down and turned its head to look at Elsa, indicating that its master should come and ride it.

It was the girl's first time riding a horse. She stroked the ice horse's head, then straddled it. Once her owner was settled, the ice horse lifted Elsa high on its limbs. It didn't move immediately, needing its owner to point it in the right direction.

A pair of small hands gripped the mane on the ice horse's neck. "Take me home, let's go home now."

Upon receiving its master's command, the Ice Horse spread its ice wings, and Elsa couldn't help but exclaim, "So you can fly! Your wings are so beautiful!"

Upon receiving praise from its master, the ice horse neighed, flapped its ice wings twice, and took off. The girl enjoyed the feeling of flying in the sky for the first time, excitedly shouting "Ah ah!" on her pet's back. At this moment, Elsa revealed her girlish nature. After all, she was still a child under six years old, with an innate curiosity about new things.

The ice horse carried its master at a steady pace through the sky, and in less than a minute, Elsa's home was in sight. A sliver of hope lingered in the girl's heart, but the reality was that beyond that door lay only endless sorrow.

Chapter 206 The Snowy Tomb

When Elsa arrived at her home again, she had made a magnificent transformation. She was now capable of protecting herself and her family, but the slightly ajar door made the girl hesitate. She still fantasized that her mother was still alive, and that her sister Anna, who had been shot by a musket, might still be saved, and that she could use her ice and snow abilities to revive her loved ones.

Elsa, with her wings spread, once again humbly knelt down to put down her master, who was not yet as tall as an adult, on her back. Elsa, dressed in a noble blue gown, looked like a proud ice queen.

"Mommy, sister, Elsa is back," the girl greeted as usual. She gently pushed open the door and the first thing she saw on the floor was a large, bloody male footprint.

Seeing her sister's blood again plunged Elsa's newly recovered good mood into an ice cave. Reality is reality and does not change according to other people's thoughts. These were the bloody footprints left by King Riku when he went out to chase after her. He had stained Anna's blood.

The girl walked into the greenhouse with a gloomy face. When she saw her mother's unseeing face, Elsa's psychological defenses were broken once again. Elsa didn't know how she got to her mother's body. At this moment, she understood what it meant to be a walking corpse. Intense sadness filled her young mind.

Elsa knelt before her mother Violet, extending her trembling left hand to caress the woman one last time. The daughter then voluntarily closed her mother's eyes—a truly agonizing process.

Perhaps the mother in heaven sensed that her daughter had returned, and this time she did not refuse to close her eyes. Violet, the woman whose neck had been broken, closed her eyes again, and Elsa finally survived, so she could rest in peace.

The girl looked at her sister lying in a pool of blood. Anna's death was horrific. The musket bullet had pierced through her chin and shattered her brains. The bullet's path left a deep hole, and half of her chin had been blown off. Half of her tongue was sticking out, along with a few tender teeth mixed in with the blood.