One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

The sailboat, now encased in the membrane, began to sink underwater due to the repulsive force of the membrane, and soon disappeared from the surface of the sea.

"Take care, Luffy!" Hancock, who had been watching from afar, silently offered her blessings while gazing at the calm sea.

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"They really dived into the sea!"

"It's the first time I've seen the ocean from the seabed, and it's such a beautiful sea!"

The dazzling sunlight filtered through the seawater, casting a gentle glow. The pale blue seawater appeared above everyone's heads like a canopy, and nimble fish swam merrily overhead. The wooden hull swayed slightly with the current, making the standing group feel slightly dizzy. In the distance, a giant black shadow surged in the dark seawater. All these novel scenes unfolded before their eyes.

"Hey! Sanji's body's so weak, how long has it been since he's seen a woman?" Maggie teased, looking at Sanji lying on Angelia's lap enjoying treatment. As for his emaciated body, Chopper was there to keep him from dying.

"You perverted cook! You're too weak, you're better off drinking some wine!" Zoro, who had also followed Mabi, replied, prying open his chin and stuffing the half-finished bottle of wine into it, the liquid level in the bottle dropping at a visible speed.

"Hey! Hey! You two idiots! Angelia's treatment draws all her strength from her body to repair the missing parts. Sanji can't drink alcohol yet! He needs to eat a lot!" Seeing their actions, Chopper became furious and jumped up to punch Maggie and Zoro one by one.

"Replenish food? Sanji, I'll treat you to meat!" Luffy, who had just opened the package, picked out a bento box, quickly ran to Sanji's side, pried open his mouth, and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Damn it! He can only eat liquid food!"

"Hehe! Hehe!" Angelia chuckled softly, tossing her long, silvery-white hair and covering her lips as she watched the three of them act.

She knows how to enjoy life!

Seeing Sanji lying on Angelia's lap enjoying treatment, stubbornly refusing to get up despite the three of them messing with him, Maggie revealed an evil smile.

"Zoro!"

"What is it, you pervert!"

“These are photos I took before. Take a look and see who this looks like? I can’t quite tell. His clothes are quite strange.”

Clothes! Photos!

Sanji, who was enjoying Angelia's comforting words, suddenly opened his eyes wide, frantically swallowed the food in his mouth, and then leaped up. He quickly located Mabi's position, grabbed his neck, and pushed him against the wall in an instant, black flames emanating from his eyes.

"You pervert! Give me the photos! Give them to me!"

"What photo? How come I don't know about it? Weren't you just paralyzed? How did you wake up so quickly?" Mabi pressed herself tightly against the wooden wall and asked in confusion.

"That's the one?" Sanji asked even more urgently when Maggie denied it.

"That?" Mabi continued to feign ignorance.

"Who is this? I don't know him! He must have been killed long ago!" Zoro, who was far away, looked at the photo in his hand and threw it to Mabi in response. He didn't need to remember the losers.

Sanji reached out to intercept the photo Zoro threw at him, only to find it was just a picture of a human dressed as a monster, and all his previous tension dissipated.

It wasn't that kind of photo after all!

"Haha! How could I threaten you with something like that!" Maggie smiled brightly, but in Sanji's eyes, it was a devilish smile.

I'll use things like this to threaten you!

A wave of weakness washed over him again, and he was dragged to the center of the deck by Mabi.

Franky had already dragged out a round table and set it up, while Luffy took out and arranged the exquisite bento boxes from his bag.

"Guys! Everyone's starving after all this time, even Sanji is like that!"

I happen to have some pre-made bento boxes here for everyone to enjoy.

"Wow! I'm hungry right now." The friends who were playing around with the coating stopped what they were doing, sat cross-legged on the grass on the deck, forming a giant circle, and shared their hard-won happiness.

Maggie savored the exquisite food prepared by Hancock in her hand, and looking at her companions who were chatting around her, she reminded them, "Everyone, while you all have a rare moment of leisure, I want to tell you something."

"What is it, Maggie?" Robin, sitting to one side of Maggie, tilted her head slightly and asked in surprise.

"It's about one of our benefactors!"

Chapter 218 The Method to Save Bartholomew Bear!

"Who?"

“Bartholomew Bear!” Mabi nodded as she looked at her companions’ questions.

"It's him!"

"It's him! A Shichibukai!"

A few gasps rang out instantly!

However, there are also characters who don't understand, such as Luffy and Chopper, who are looking around with blank expressions.

“Yes! A former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the benefactor who drove us all off the island two years ago when we were under siege,” Maggie explained slowly.

The companions around them gradually put down their food and listened attentively to Meibi's explanation, occasionally letting out a gasp of surprise. The questions that had troubled them two years ago were finally answered.

He was willing to give up his own life just to get involved with others, simply to save them.

"So, I would like to ask everyone to help him try to see if he can regain his memories!" Maggie slowly revealed her thoughts.

“Helping him is fine, but we have no idea where he is. After all, you said before that you knocked him into the ocean near Marineford,” Nami said, puzzled.

“Him?” Maby pondered for a moment.

"Two years ago, when Shanks took me through the Sabaody Archipelago, we found Bartholomew Kuma, who was still wandering around the island. Then I used Shanks' power to imprison him on our ship."

"On the ship? Maple, tell me quickly, let's go save him!" In his desperation, Luffy stretched out his neck and arms urgently, asking.

"Yes! Mabi, tell us quickly, Angelia is definitely there and can cure him." Hearing that their benefactor was right beside them, everyone was overjoyed. As long as they found her, they could help him.

"Don't worry! Don't worry! You will definitely see it."

After saying that, Mabi picked up a Den Den Mushi the size of a human head from the table and shouted.

"Old Tong! Release the man."

"Received." A mature and authoritative voice came from the other end.

On an empty deck beside them, a portal opened.

A thick, green vine, as thick as a bucket, wrapped around a large green cocoon and sent it out, then retracted and closed the opened portal again.

This is exactly what the plant life that ate the Door-Door Fruit sent out under the old man's instructions. The Den Den Mushi was also a transmitter that was configured for him, so that he could hear the outside world even in the other dimension. He could make a call to open the space door and send out what he wanted, so that he wouldn't be left alone there.

Mabi stepped forward, drew her sword, and sliced ​​open the vines surrounding the green cocoon, which was several meters in diameter, revealing the broken mechanical limbs inside.

“A mechanical body! There are more parts than before, but why is it so broken, covered in knife marks?” Franky analyzed, holding his mechanical armor.

"Resist! It's too difficult to capture him alive." Mabi said helplessly. It was easy to cut Shanks in half, but it was too difficult to capture a Shichibukai without injuring him. In the end, she could only destroy his weapon systems one by one before giving up.

"Ugh! I feel so weak!" Luffy looked at the strange helmet on his head and reached out to pull it off, but felt a wave of weakness wash over him.

Thump! A gray-white helmet fell from the bear's head with a dull thud.

Beep beep! Beep beep! Beep beep! Urgent alarms rang out from the broken mechanical limbs. The previously motionless bear suddenly straightened up, its scarlet prosthetic eye scanning the surroundings, and a synthesized electronic voice came from its mouth.

"Straw Hat Pirates! I've been waiting for you all this time, and now the mission is finally complete."

After speaking, he loosened his joints, stood up, and walked towards the ship's side.

"What's wrong with him?" His companions looked at his cold tone, which didn't match the person they remembered at all, and couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

“He’s been modified. Now his body is practically all mechanical parts, with only half of his brain remaining human to power his body. Even his personality has been erased by those people, leaving him as a emotionless robot!” Maggie explained, picking up a blanket, taking the seastone helmet that Luffy had pulled off, and putting it back on. This caused the remaining Devil Fruit power in his brain to be imprisoned by the seastone, making it difficult for his mechanical parts to function. He then sat down quietly on the ground.

"The remaining brain, the ability to alter personality is truly terrifying! That's always been a forbidden zone for me; a slight misstep could cause complete paralysis of an idiot." Franky replied, disassembling his body with tools in hand. Each part was disassembled and neatly arranged on the deck by his skillful mechanical hands.

“Yes!” Mabi nodded, glancing at the looks her companions were giving her, and continued speaking.

"This is also the task I want to ask everyone for! The brain has always been a forbidden zone for humanity, and it is also the abode of the human soul. Now his brain is completely damaged, and his soul has also been repaired. It is practically impossible to repair it with medical skills. But Devil Fruits are the most special abilities in the world. Some special Paramecia-type fruits can achieve the effect of controlling the soul."

My request is to gather all these Devil Fruit users and attempt to save Bartholomew Kuma by using their Devil Fruit abilities to revive his soul.

"The Soul Fruit!" Everyone's eyes turned towards Brook, the world-renowned Soul King.

"Ah! Are you all looking at me?" Brooke exclaimed in surprise, his dark eyes gleaming.

"I can stir up the emotions of a person's soul, making life either uplifting or depressed, but I don't know how to heal the soul."

"Brook, don't worry about it. One person's ability is one-sided. What we need is to search the world for all kinds of ability users. We'll eventually encounter special Soul Fruits that can repair the soul." Maggie came to his rescue. She couldn't let her companions' hopes rest on him alone; that would put too much pressure on him.

"So, Maggie knows some soul ability users, and what we need to do is get their help," Robin asked, tucking a strand of black hair behind her ear.

“Yes,” Maby replied, sitting back down on the lawn and downing her drink. She then gestured for everyone to sit down and not huddle together, causing trouble for Franky.

The pale blue seawater rippled gently outside the hull, the Sunny slowly sank with its sails billowing, and the surrounding environment gradually darkened. Maby's clear voice echoed on the deck.

"There are all sorts of Paramecia-type Devil Fruits! They involve all the material transformations in the entire world, and those with soul abilities possess even more diverse powers."

As far as I know, the only Devil Fruit user whose abilities can affect the soul is Perona's Negative-Negative Fruit, which allows her to put a person's soul to sleep.

Zoro should know. He finished speaking and glanced in Zoro's direction.

"Yes, I've been living with her for the past two years. If we're talking about the Soul-Soul Fruit, then she definitely qualifies," Zoro nodded, holding the sake bottle in his hand.

Everyone wanted to gossip about why Zoro was living with a girl, but Maggie's next answer left them no time to pry into Zoro's private life.

"Abi's Whisper Fruit is essentially about communicating with souls, since she can know the thoughts of any living being from the depths of their soul." After saying this, Mabi ruffled Abi's soft, long hair beside her.

“Communication? I’ll give it a try!” Abis, whose hair was tied up by Mabi, glanced sideways and placed her hand on the broken mechanical body.

Whisper Fruit ability activated.

Chapter 219 A Lifelong Mission! Collect all Soul-type Devil Fruit users in the world!

"Besides the three of them, there's Trafalgar Law's surgical ability, which allows him to transfer souls; my Salt Fish Fruit, which can put souls to sleep and stimulate them; Charlotte Bell's ability to strip and grant souls; and Charlotte Pudding's ability to cut and extract soul memories."

"Law? I think I can ask him for help when the time comes," Luffy replied first.

"That would be perfect." Maggie nodded in agreement; their friendship was so strong that Luffy could reach the summit.

"Charlotte? Mebius, could it be that family?" Mia, sitting to the side, frowned slightly. As a princess of a nation, she had some understanding of the world's power dynamics.

"You guessed right, it's that big family that occupies one of the four in the New World."

Tsk! Those who knew who Mabi was talking about immediately gasped. Only the Four Emperors controlled a quarter of the power in the sea.

Asking the Four Emperors for help without equal status will only anger them, and they might even destroy your pirate crew.