Pirates on Rocks' Ship 996

Olga couldn't help but sing along when she heard Reina playing.

"Hmm? You know this piece?" After the performance, because of Olga, she sang out the missing part, so Reina completed the entire performance and passed the test.

“Hmm…this is the music my mother used to sing to people when I was little,” Olga said, looking down.

“This is a piece that contains your parents’ love for you!” Reina said, rising from the piano.

This time Olga did not refute, but remained silent, seemingly still immersed in the mood of the lullaby.

“Let’s go. Now that it’s open, let’s see what’s inside!” Reina said to Olga, pointing to the passage revealed by the receding lava.

"Ok!"

The two continued on their way.

"Eagle Bridge... To obtain the shimmering gold, one must possess exceptional concentration and unwavering courage! Shoot the sacred eagle, and the drawbridge will lower!"

Reina looked at the cliff in front of him. On the top of the building opposite, there was a pattern that looked like an eagle. It was probably necessary to hit the target on the other side so that the suspension bridge would be lowered to let them cross.

“I really can’t do it this time. I’m not a sniper!” Reina looked at Olga, shook his head, and said.

"Really? Then let's go back!" Olga looked across at the other side and sighed.

“Wait…don’t you think this place…is strange?” Renal stopped Olga, who was about to leave, and said.

"Strange? What's strange?" Olga asked, puzzled.

“Look… all the mechanisms here are integrated into the environment, but your hometown Alkemi doesn’t have an environment like this, does it? What does this mean? It means that the person who made this mechanism did so after this island entered the stomach of the lanternfish!” Reina stood there, pointing around as he spoke.

"so what?"

"But...didn't you say you were all alone here? Didn't you say your bastard father died when he entered this place? Then who designed and created this mechanism? And that musical score just now...was it a lullaby that only you know?"

"...What are you trying to say...?" Olga looked at Reina, puzzled, and asked.

"Perhaps...your father is still alive?"

“Alive? That’s even better! It gives me the chance to kill him myself again!” Olga suddenly said, her eyes filled with hatred.

Reina was shocked. Although Olga had said all the way that her father was a bastard, she had never shown any hatred in her eyes. She was only angry that her father had not taken good care of her mother and herself.

"Roar~~" "Boom boom~~~"

At that moment, a giant Triceratops emerged from the platform in front of the cliff, staring at Olga and Reina, seemingly ready to attack at any moment.

"Chirp~~~" On the other side, a pterosaur appeared out of nowhere and hovered in the air, ready to charge at any moment.

"It seems we have a way to get back to the past!" Reina said with a slight smile after seeing the pterosaur.

"A solution? What solution?" Olga asked, startled.

"Wait for me here!" Reina didn't say anything, but walked directly towards the Triceratops.

Upon noticing Reina approaching, the Triceratops was indeed enraged, lowered its head, and charged at Reina.

Reina smiled and stretched out his hand, easily blocking the Triceratops.

Just as Olga was about to shout in worry, the Triceratops froze in place the moment it touched Reina, as if all the force of its impact had vanished.

"Chirp!" Before Reina could continue, the pterosaur in the air saw this and swooped down, heading straight for Reina.

Chapter 37 Pure Gold

Seeing the pterosaur charging towards him, Reina smiled slightly, jumped up, grabbed the creature by the neck, and forcefully pinned it to the ground, then gently tapped its chest with his finger.

"Awooo~~~" The intense pain caused the pterosaur to give up resisting and lie obediently on the ground, looking at Reina in fear.

“Alright, we can go now!” Reina nodded with a smile and said.

Olga, standing to the side, was completely dumbfounded; she never expected that Reina's solution would be this.

Olga was still somewhat dazed when the two of them flew over the cliff on their pterosaurs.

"Alright, let's move on!" Reina said with some regret, watching the pterosaur flee quickly after he released it.

"You're not planning to take it out with you, are you?" Olga asked uncertainly, noticing Reina staring intently at the fleeing pterosaur.

"It's a bit of a pity! If we had a pet that could fly, it would be so cool when we went out!" Reina said without hiding his feelings.

The fleeing pterosaur seemed to sense Reina's ill intentions and flew even faster. After passing through another passage, a giant crocodile head appeared before Reina and Olga.

"Huh! It seems we need to use a key to open the correct keyhole!" Reina said, stroking his chin as he looked at the ring of keyholes inside.

“If it’s wrong, the crocodile’s mouth will close, right? Wouldn’t it get eaten?” Olga said, frowning.

“That should be right, but we’ve come this far, it would be a shame to give up!” Reina said with a light laugh.

Unbeknownst to them, at the entrance to the ruins they had just entered, a burly figure was riding on the back of a water lizard that Reina had always dreamed of, rapidly advancing towards them.

"With so many keyholes, where do you think we should start?" Reina asked Olga, who was standing outside the crocodile's mouth, as he stood in front of the door, holding the key.

"How would they know? I didn't design this!" Olga asked, somewhat absurdly.

Reina touched his nose and swallowed back the words that were about to come out.

He wanted to say that this was designed by her father, and that she must know something about it, but when he thought about her relationship with her father, Reina decided to keep quiet.

After preparing to escape, Reina randomly selected a keyhole and inserted it.

"Wrong!" I gently twisted the door, but it didn't open.

Just as Reina was about to pull out the keyhole and choose another one, he suddenly noticed an electric current emanating from it, and at the same time, the crocodile's mouth was rapidly closing.

"Hey! Reina, come out here quickly!" Olga called out anxiously from outside.

"No, I haven't recovered yet, and I've already been tricked. It's really..." Reina said with a wry smile.

No sooner had he finished speaking than the crocodile's mouth closed completely, trapping Reina inside.

"Rena!" Olga shouted from outside.

But Reina didn't respond at all. Just when she didn't know what to do, there was a sudden explosion. The crocodile's mouth was completely shattered, and Reina appeared in front of her with the key.

"This is infuriating! If I had known it would turn out like this, I would have just smashed it from the start!"

Just now, when the crocodile's mouth closed, Reina's Black Emperor ability was passively activated, directly absorbing the squeezing force. After absorbing enough energy, Reina released it, completely shattering the crocodile's mouth.

"Reina, are you alright?" Olga asked as she stepped forward when she saw Reina come out.

"It's alright... but..." Reina looked at the door he had damaged and said somewhat awkwardly, "It seems we can't get in. I'm so sorry, what's inside is something your father left you!"

"What?! I don't care about that bastard father's stuff!" Olga said with a hint of arrogance.

"Who are you people? How did you manage to get here? So you really came for the Shining Gold?" Suddenly, a voice came, causing Reina and Olga to turn their heads at the same time.

"You are..." Olga froze when she saw the fat man emerge from the shadows.

"Huh~ A water lizard!" Reina's eyes lit up as he spotted an orange water lizard following behind Mischna Asie.

“O... Olga... Is that you?” It was clear that Mischna Asie recognized his daughter immediately.

"You are Dr. Mischna Assie?" Reina asked with a smile.

"Who are you? Olga, come here! He might be a bad guy!" Mischna Asie was startled, only then remembering that Reina was also there.

"Don't worry, I'm not interested in your so-called 'shining gold.' I was just here by accident," Reina waved his hand and said, "But I am very interested in that sea lizard behind you!"

"Sea lizard?" Mischina Asie was puzzled. Wasn't this person threatening his daughter to steal the shining gold?

Reina knew what the other party had misunderstood, so he recounted what had happened.

At this moment, Olga, who had been silent all along, suddenly stared at Mischna Asie and said, "Why aren't you dead yet? 170 years have passed, why are you still alive?"

“Olga…” Mischna Asie looked at his daughter and was speechless.

“Olga!” Reina suddenly patted Olga on the head and said, “Isn’t this your chance? You can ask him directly! Don’t let hatred blind you!”

"Ask? Ask what? They don't care about him at all, and they have nothing to do with him!" Olga said stubbornly.

“Dr. Mischna Asie… I’ll call you that for now! Olga said that back then, because of your research on pure gold, her mother was killed by pirates, and Alkemi was eaten by lanternfish. Why did you do that? Was it really just because you wanted to do research?” Reina asked Mischna Asie.

“This…it seems you already know about the pure gold!” Mischna Asie sighed and said.

"Why are you still asking him? He's just a mad scientist! No, he can't even be called a scientist anymore!" Olga said, her eyes red.

"No...that's not how it is! Olga, let me explain! Back then..." Mischna Asie finally revealed the truth. It turned out that Olga had a terminal illness, so the couple, both scientists, began to study pure gold because pure gold has the effect of slowing down aging.

This is also why the father and daughter still look the same as they did more than 170 years ago.

After learning the real reason why her father had been researching pure gold, Olga finally opened her heart and reconciled with her father.

However, in Reina's opinion, perhaps because Olga had always hated her father and lived alone, she didn't know how to express herself. Mischina Asie was the same; he simply couldn't express his love for his daughter, otherwise he wouldn't have been misunderstood for so long.

"What illness did Olga have back then?" Reina asked, frowning.

"South China Sea Emperor Fever! An incurable disease!" Axi sighed.

"I see. Don't worry! I believe there will definitely be better medical treatments available for Olga in the future! I know there's a major medical power in the first half of the Grand Line; maybe they've already developed a cure!" Reina said with a smile.

In the original story, Olga was cured by Chopper, but he didn't know how. Although he is now considered a doctor, he is only at the most basic level.

Mischina Asie looked at the ring on Olga's hand and nodded.

"By the way, did you come here to search for Shining Gold?" Mischina Asie asked.

Reina shook his head, pointing to the water lizard behind him, and said, "No, I came here looking for this! I stumbled upon this place by chance, thinking there might be your belongings inside, so I helped Olga open the mechanism here! But... I'm sorry, I destroyed the final door!"

“Hehe…that gate is fake, the real gate is here!” Mischina Asie said, taking out a switch from the entrance and turning it on, revealing a large hole in the floor.

The three of them then entered the large cave, which indeed contained a research lab, though it looked like it hadn't been maintained for a long time.

"After discovering pure gold and controlling Olga's condition, I haven't come back here since!" Mischina Asie said, looking at her laboratory.

However, Reina and Olga's attention was drawn to a fist-sized piece of pure gold in the laboratory.

"Is this pure gold?" Reina asked curiously.

“That’s right, if you want it, I can give it to you!” Mischina Asie said earnestly.

If it weren't for Reina, his relationship with Olga would have been even worse.

"Really? Well then, thank you. Since you don't want it anymore, I'll just keep it as a collectible!" Reina chuckled as he put away the pure gold.

After the three of them left the lab, Reina asked Olga, "How are we getting out of here? I don't want to stay here any longer! How have you guys managed to stay here for over 170 years?"

“I’m not sure either, but through my observations over the years, I’ve noticed that Lord Lantern occasionally vomits! And when he vomits, stomach acid refluxes, so we can leave here with that stomach acid!” Olga shook her head and said.