One Piece: Blue Scale Admiral

He picked up a fragrant cicada and stuffed it into his mouth, making a crunching sound as he chewed it.

One after another, Bepo couldn't stop eating.

The soldiers were doing the same thing at the other tables.

Once you've had the first bite, you can't help but want a second.

Soon, everyone began to devour the food piled up in front of them, their faces beaming with happiness.

Gradually, a light mist began to appear in the empty tavern hall.

The steam, seemingly emanating from the food, made the figures of the surrounding naval soldiers appear somewhat hazy.

"Lark, try this." Rorschach placed a bean-sized food in front of Lark.

"What is this?" Hibari asked, puzzled.

“These are bee pupae, a delicious specialty of the Reunion Kingdom.” Luo Xia said with a gentle smile.

"Can bee pupae be eaten? I've never had them before." Hibari picked up the food, about to put it in her mouth, but was stopped by the long sword that Law had drawn. She looked up at Law in surprise, "Law, what are you doing?"

"Don't eat! There's something strange about the food here!" Luo's face turned grim, his muscles tensed, and goosebumps appeared on his skin as he looked at Zephyr, Rorschach, Ain, and the others who had gentle smiles on their faces.

"How could this be? This food was carefully prepared by Professor Zephyr and the others..."

Hibari instinctively glanced at Bepo, who was eating the food on the table, and his body trembled.

Bepo sat there upright, a happy smile on his furry bear face.

In the dimly lit tavern, the smile on his face looked somewhat eerie.

Seeing Hibari looking at him, Bepo grinned and said, "Miss Hibari, why aren't you eating any? It's delicious."

Not only Bepo, but all the marines around him who had been enjoying their meals stopped eating, and everyone had the same satisfied smile on their faces as Bepo.

"Eat up, why aren't you eating? The food here is delicious." Luo Xia looked down at Yun Que with that gentle smile on his face.

“Brother Luo Xia…” Looking at Luo Xia’s familiar face and the gentle smile, Yun Que felt a chill for no reason.

Zephyr turned to look at Law, who had drawn his sword, and said in his usual gentle voice, "Why aren't you eating? Is it because you're not sharing the joy of this delicious food with the person you miss the most, the person you want to reunite with the most? Don't worry, he's already here."

As Zefa spoke, he turned his head to look behind Luo.

Luo seemed to suddenly sense something; his pupils dilated little by little, and his body stiffly turned around.

At the entrance of the tavern stood a tall man with short blond hair, wearing a black feather cloak and bright lip gloss, giving them a very awkward smile.

"Hey! Long time no see, Luo."

Chapter 356 You Are Not a Lark

A thousand miles to the right of the Kingdom of Alabasta, in front of the towering red earth continent.

A strange scene appeared on the shimmering sea.

A slender, tall man, who looked like a bamboo pole, was riding a bicycle, moving straight across the sea.

Wherever the bicycle wheels passed, the seawater froze.

Occasionally, one or two bloodthirsty carnivorous fish would leap out of the sea and pounce on the man riding his bicycle, but before they could get close, they would inexplicably be frozen into huge ice blocks and fall back into the sea with a thud.

The direction the bicycle was traveling seemed to be towards the towering red earth continent ahead, like a mountain range stretching across the sea.

boom!

Suddenly, the sea surface within a radius of several hundred meters to the left exploded open with a deafening roar, and a ferocious maw covered with countless sharp teeth lunged at the man riding the bicycle.

It was a massive sea king that instilled fear in anyone sailing the ocean!

This sea monster has a neck that stretches for hundreds of meters, and its head is the size of a small mountain. Hidden beneath the surface of the sea is a large section of its enormous body.

Hearing the sound of seawater exploding beside him, the curly-haired man stopped stomping and braced one foot on the sea surface.

Immediately, ice spread rapidly outwards from the spot where they stood.

"Oh dear, another sea king. How troublesome."

A stench wafted towards him, and seeing the gaping maw so close at hand, Kuzan extended his right index finger and gently touched it.

A wisp of extremely cold air shot out from the fingertip, and with a crisp crack, like an icicle falling from the eaves to the ground, it struck the teeth of the attacking sea king.

next moment.

Large swathes of ice spread rapidly across the body of this enormous creature.

In just two or three seconds, the sea king's massive body, protruding from the sea surface, was encased in a thick layer of ice emitting a chilling aura, freezing everything, including the sea surface beneath it and the enormous body hidden beneath the surface.

Kuzan ignored the thousand-meter-long sea king that had been frozen in ice, and instead turned to look ahead, taking out a folded paper map from his pocket and unfolding it.

Looking at the three large characters 'Chongfeng Kingdom' marked on the map, and then at the empty sea in front of him, Kuzan's brows gradually furrowed, and a hint of doubt appeared in his eyes.

This place doesn't look like the territory of a member state that only joined the World Government last year at all.

The island that should have been backed by the Red Earth continent has completely disappeared without a trace of destruction.

It's as if this country has never existed.

.

.

sizzle.

A streak of lightning descended from the sky and landed on a churning cloud, revealing Enel's bewildered gaze.

He looked at the snow-white sea of ​​clouds in front of him, and not far away, at the small floating island that rose from the center of the sea of ​​clouds and was covered with green vegetation. Looking at the familiar layout of the floating island, Enel couldn't help but feel a little dazed.

Bika.

This floating island was his home, the cloud island that he had completely destroyed with lightning.

This place is clearly no longer a sky island, so why is there a sea of ​​clouds and the destroyed sky island of Pika?

Enel's powerful intuition told him that something was amiss here, and it was best not to approach easily.

However, according to his Observation Haki, there were some familiar life signs on the small sky island of Pikachu not far ahead, which made him unable to resist taking steps toward it.

As he drew closer, the misty town gradually came into view, and the sounds of laughter and playfulness grew clearer.

"Hahaha, get up, Enel! Come and chase me!"

"Hurry up, hurry up! If you can't catch up, you won't get this apple back!"

Those were the sounds of children laughing.

Hearing those familiar laughs, Enel's expression grew increasingly silent.

As the fog billowed, the streets of the town came into view.

On the street, five children are running around a little boy with short blond hair, their faces beaming with bright smiles.

Among them, a little boy, dressed in tattered clothes like a beggar, sat weakly on the ground, tears welling in his eyes, his gaze filled with fear.

"Enel! You bastard without parents, are you perhaps a descendant of those naked, barbaric Shandians? Get out of Bicaka!"

"You dare steal my apples? You shameless thief!"

"Die! You monster with one wing missing!"

Five children of varying heights and builds surrounded the little boy, uttering vicious curses as he watched in terror.

"Pluck out his other wing! This deformed bastard is unworthy of the sacred features of our angel race!"

"Yes! In that case, he will neither be accepted by the barbaric Shandians nor tolerated by the Angels. It would be best if he were eaten by the basilisk in the Sanctuary!"

As they spoke, five laughing children reached out and pressed the skinny little boy to the ground. A bloated fat man with a smug smile on his face stepped on the little boy's back and reached out his big, fat hands to grab a snow-white wing growing from the boy's shoulder blade.

"Thieves deserve to be punished, Enel!"

Unable to break free, the little boy was forced to his knees on the cold ground, his head pinned down. Tears of despair streamed from his eyes as he sobbed tremulously, "I...I didn't steal it. It was an apple tree my mom and dad left us..."

"lie!"

The chubby boy's face contorted, and with a burst of strength from his two fat arms, he grabbed the only wing on the boy's back and pulled it upwards.

With the little boy's painful screams, a blood-soaked, snow-white wing was held high by the chubby boy as a trophy.

On the distant street, some adults with wings on their backs glanced over a few times, then turned away indifferently and began chatting and laughing with their companions.

Boom!

A pale bolt of lightning crashed down, blasting the chubby boy holding his spoils aloft, along with the adults laughing and chatting behind him, and the entire street and town, into dust.

Aini walked forward expressionlessly and stood in front of the little boy who was curled up on the ground, hugging his body.

"I'm not a thief, I didn't steal the apples..."

The little boy had tears streaming down his face, blood flowing down his back, and he was making weak, delirious murmurs.

Enel slowly crouched down and extended a slightly trembling hand toward the curled-up little boy.

Suddenly, a fair and soft hand reached out from in front and clasped his right hand.

Enel felt a chill run down his spine and looked up abruptly. He saw a tall woman with long red hair, a vertical line between her eyebrows, and an extremely beautiful appearance, as if she embodied all the gentleness and maternal instincts in the world. She bent down, extended her right hand, and grasped his hand.

"Enel, don't be afraid, Mom is here."

The woman spoke in a gentle voice.

Enel was first taken aback, then enraged, and raised his hand to unleash a bolt of lightning to strike the other's face.

however.

"What...what's going on?"

Enel looked at his slender, delicate hands, at his tattered clothes and emaciated body, and his mind suddenly became muddled.

I've shrunk.

Not only that, but also came a heart-wrenching pain from behind.

That excruciating pain that makes you wish you were dead is so familiar.

He had experienced it once before.

But I never imagined that I would experience it a second time.