One Piece: The Salted Fish Fruit

"The tyranny of the Kingdom of Izekiel has been overthrown and a new emperor has ascended the throne, but judging from this emperor's photo, isn't the person in the picture here?" Upon seeing the contents of the newspaper, everyone turned to Jordan in confusion.

"Jordan, do you have a twin brother?" This was also the question on everyone's mind.

"No! Isn't this a photo I took before? I even broke that vase in the background."

"Mia, how many heirs does your kingdom have?" Maby asked, noting that the leader who overthrew the tyranny had not made himself king but instead elected a wandering prince as king.

“My brother is the only heir. When my brother and I left the city, we found that the rebel army had besieged the entire capital but hadn't tried to breach the walls. We didn't see any violent attacks along the way. We were in a hurry to escape and didn't think much about it. After finding you guys who were willing to help me, I remembered those inexplicable events and discovered that my father's life card was fine. That's what confused me, which is why I wasn't in such a rush.” There was another thing she didn't mention, not wanting those who genuinely helped her to die for no reason. She deliberately made it sound unimportant, wanting everyone to adapt to life here before making any plans. Fortunately, she made the right gamble; the group of companions she met were in no way inferior to the generals of her own country.

"A rebellion and an end without any reason! They didn't even deal with the former king before letting his child inherit the throne without any reason. Aren't they afraid that the child will find his father and take revenge on them?"

"Your country is in chaos!" Mabi looked at the news with a headache. Even if you want to control the emperor and command the princes, you still need to control the subordinates first. But it is possible that some Devil Fruit user can perfectly replicate this person and control the country.

"Okay! Right now, all we're seeing are the reports; we can only find out the truth by going there."

"Can I take a look at the Vivre Card?" Maggie was also interested in this novel thing in One Piece. After all, the ability to float and link with the owner's life points without any power support was quite peculiar.

“This is it!” Mia also took out a flat, rectangular box from her bosom and handed it to Mabi.

“The three compartments inside represent the life cards of my father, mother, and brother, each pointing in their own direction.”

"Huh? Your father and mother are together right now." Maggie asked, seeing two identical square pieces of paper with names written on them, the two right angles pointing in the same direction to the same spot.

"Together? No way! Mother has always refused to see Father and lives alone outside. She only exchanges letters with us and we haven't seen her for several years." Mia handed the Life Card to Mabi without even looking in the direction it was facing.

"Click! Click!" Mia opened the box and placed the two Life Cards together. The two right angles perfectly overlapped, proving that the two people were very close.

"What happened now?!"

Chapter 62 The Reasons for the Rebellion! Speculation

"Wow! What a huge island!" the group exclaimed, standing at the bow of the ship and looking at the endless coastline in the distance.

"I don't think this is an island! It's more like a continent! I never imagined there was such a large piece of land in the Grand Line," Maggie exclaimed. Compared to other places with hundreds of thousands of people, this could be called a kingdom! This could be described as an empire.

“Yes! My country is located on one of the largest islands in the world, and it would take at least half a month to cross over.” Mia smiled slightly from the side.

"Haha! Let's go on an adventure! Sanji, prepare my pirate bento!" Luffy laughed heartily as he changed into his adventure outfit.

"Ok!"

"Get your things ready! After we're done, we'll head to the White Sea to log back onto Merry," Mabi called out to her companions. This was the route they had agreed upon beforehand: after finishing their business, they would head to the White Sea. The White Sea passage was located in the center of the continent, and they would need to spend several days on land to reach it.

"Haha! An adventure! An adventure!" The group, relieved of the monotonous life at sea, exclaimed excitedly as they went to find what they needed and put it into their personal storage space.

“Usopp, keep the Seastone with you. I’ll put Merry away later; we can’t fit it,” Maggie instructed, recalling the forbidden items on the ship.

"no problem!"

Several of his companions who hadn't eaten Devil Fruits wore Seastone ornaments close to their bodies to protect themselves from or reduce attacks from Spirit Fruit-type attacks, like his own Salted Fish Thrust.

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“Nami, it seems we can only travel in a straight line! That’s the fastest way.” Maggie sat on the stone table and spread out a map she had bought, which showed the various geographical features and locations of the island.

"We need to cross swamps, mountains, plains, and two cities! This island is also known as the Four Seasons Island! The seasons change every month! It's late autumn now, so everyone should prepare a winter coat so we can change into it in time!" Nami, wearing a beige coat, said as she sat at the table. The change in weather upon landing on the island made them feel chilly, and they all hid their beautiful figures in their large coats, making them less pleasing to the eye.

"What are you looking at!" he asked, annoyed, when he saw Mabi staring straight at him.

"I was wondering if you all would look like bloated bears if you wore cotton-padded coats!"

"You're asking for it!" A powerful punch sent Mabi sprawling across the table, her black hair scattering across the surface.

"Hehe!" Robin, who was wearing a scarf to cover his true face, laughed.

"How's Robin? Have you found out anything?" As an intelligence clerk, Robin was best suited to gather information, so she was sent to find out about the current situation in this country.

"Contrary to expectations, the country has not suffered a serious rebellion. Only a few government officials have died, which has little impact on the living environment of ordinary people. Also, the navy frequently appears here from time to time to go inland."

“The Navy? It seems Baroque Works has fled to this island,” Maby said, looking up.

"Thank you so much, Mabi! Help me fend off the pursuers." Robin said apologetically, looking at the face that was almost identical to his own.

"Hehe! I want to find them too. Being bothered by them all the time is really annoying. If they come, they shouldn't leave." Mabi laughed heartily.

Mia, looking worried, pulled her younger brother Jordan back. Seeing Mabi, she seemed to have found her pillar of support and exclaimed, "Brother Mabi! Sister Nami! We're in trouble!"

"What's wrong?" Maggie asked, puzzled. Wasn't she supposed to go find out what was going on from the local mayor? Why is she back so soon?

"That town mayor told me that the succession ceremony four days from now is my brother's succession ceremony, and no one else is participating. Now the people of the kingdom are looking for my brother. Now we need to send my brother back to the capital."

"If it really is Jordan who will inherit the throne, that doesn't make sense! They could have found him slowly and then let him inherit the throne. There's no need to announce it in the newspapers first and then frantically search for him." Maby asked curiously, wondering why they were rushing in this harsh world with so many uncertainties.

"The rebel leader was killed, and my father disappeared before that. Now the country is without a leader. At the same time, many of the World Government officials stationed there were also killed by the rebels, so they sent people to investigate. The ministers in the palace believe that they absolutely cannot let them know that there is no heir to govern the country, otherwise the country will be removed from the membership. In order to preserve the relationship with the World Government as a member state, we can only inform them first and then search for a coronation. This is what my uncle, the mayor, told me. We need to send my brother back as soon as possible."

"Pfft!" Mabi spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Wait! You mean those rebels who appeared out of nowhere didn't do much damage to this country, but a lot of World Government personnel died. Then your father disappeared during the siege and the rebel leader was killed. Now the entire country is still under the control of your ministers, and they want your brother to go back and inherit the throne."

"Do you have a grudge against the World Government? After killing those officials, everything returned to normal, but the loss was your father's throne," Mabi said helplessly, shrugging her shoulders.

“That seems to be the case! But we don’t have any conflict with the World Government, after all, we are still a member state.” Mia said, confused, after hearing Maby’s analysis.

"What happened here before the rebellion that involved the World Government?" Maggie asked for her, it seemed that the cause of everything needed to be traced back to the past.

"Before? I was the only one who was offered as tribute to the Celestial Dragons."

"Your father donated it?"

"No! They took advantage of me and made demands, so I had no choice but to run away."

"Are there any other reasons?" Mabi looked Mia up and down, but there didn't seem to be any outstanding features! Compared to the voluptuous bodies that are everywhere in the world of One Piece, her A-cup is really rare.

"Other reasons?" Mia recalled what had happened before, something that seemed very important to others but very ordinary to her.

"Does the fact that I was almost killed by pirates before count?"

"Almost killed by pirates? That's not important!" Maggie muttered.

“It’s not Mebius! It’s other abilities. Let’s find a secluded place and I’ll demonstrate them to you. I think it’s because they know about these abilities that they’re curious about me and want to capture me as a slave,” Mia said, looking at the residents walking around.

"Salted Fish Barrier!" Mabi temporarily hid this place in the space, so that nothing that happened here would be transmitted to the outside world, while she could see everything that happened outside.

"That's fine. I've fenced off the area so that no one outside can see what's happening here. You can talk now."

"Okay! Don't stop me no matter what happens." After Mia finished speaking, she took out a small dagger and cut her fair skin deeply, blood flowing out and dripping onto the stone table.

"This!" Mabi forcibly suppressed her urge to snatch the dagger from the other party's hand when she saw this. Since she was going to do it herself, she must have some understanding of the situation.

As the blade sliced ​​through the wound, tiny tentacles would occasionally extend from behind the severed area and connect back together, restoring the original smooth appearance. If it weren't for the bright red bloodstains on the table, no one would believe that she had been injured.

"My body can heal all wounds. Perhaps it was because I was slashed from behind while saving a child that the Celestial Dragons noticed me, since they could play with my body at will," Mia said sadly. She wasn't unaware that what seemed like a holy place was actually the darkest place in the world. She had left the palace to prevent being forcibly taken away, fearing that she would truly be called a plaything.

"Did your father love you? And how did the World Government officials stationed here treat you?" Maggie asked, having probably figured out the whole story by now.

“They definitely love me! As for their attitude? Back then, they insisted that my father hand me over, saying that no one could escape the demands of the world's nobles. Then the rebellion broke out, and I took the opportunity to escape,” Mia replied.

“That’s right! Do the residents of Robin Island know about the formation of the rebel army and the king’s whereabouts?” Maby turned and asked.

"They believed that the rebellion was caused by local tyranny, and that the king had been hacked to death by them in revenge."

"Everything went smoothly! My guess is that when your physique was exposed, someone told the Celestial Dragons that you had to go to the Holy Land. Your father, in order to protect you, organized a rebellion, causing chaos and killing those stationed personnel and himself along the way. I suppose if you hadn't left, you would have died in the chaos. Then the rebel army was wiped out by something, leaving your younger brother to inherit the throne alone."

"Wouldn't I have ruined Father's plan!" Mia exclaimed, looking at the Life Card in her hand and slumping weakly onto the table. It turned out that her father had arranged everything without her having to leave.

“You’ll only truly understand once you find your father,” Maggie comforted her.

"Brother Mabe! It's smoking!" Jordan, who knew the reason, also realized what was going on. He looked up and saw the smoke in the distance. Since his voice couldn't reach the smoke, he reminded him.

Maby removed the barrier and wondered, "Could it be one of our people?"

Chapter 63 The Sand Crocodile Attack

"Hahaha! Mapi! Nami! The Marines are here, let's go!" Luffy, wearing a red robe, was the first to ride over on a giant lizard that was six meters long, two meters high, and three meters wide, shouting. Usopp, wearing a brown coat, followed behind on a lizard as well. Behind them were Sanji and Zoro, who were running and cursing at each other with their heads down.

"You damn green-haired bastard! Why don't you just cut down those marines?!"

"Who's that perverted cook staring at the female navy officer?!"

"These two idiots!" Nami said helplessly, covering her forehead at the sight.

Mabi glanced at the pursuing navy and figured they must have just stumbled upon each other and started capturing them on a whim.

"Let's go! Get in the vehicles they bought." They had previously discussed buying a few vehicles to accommodate everyone because the journey was too long.

"Miss Nami! Miss Robin, please let me, a knight, protect you with my strong chest!" Sanji's eyes lit up with hearts as he saw the group.

As a result, a group of men were herded into the one Luffy was piloting, while the remaining women rode in another vehicle and started running, leaving the Marines, who had no means of transportation, far behind.

"Stop chasing! Our target is the Baroque Works group; we're just capturing Straw Hat Luffy as an afterthought." Seeing that they couldn't catch up, a naval captain stopped to stop the pursuing marines.

"As ordered!"

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"Give me the reins, Luffy, let me drive!" Maggie shouted as she got on.

"No way! I want to play!"

"This requires a high level of technical skill, let me do it!"

"Jack's here! He'll communicate with it, it's that simple!"

"Jack is so scared of you that he's clinging to your neck and won't move!"

With a loud bang, the people on the lizard's back leaped high into the air and crashed down, causing the lizard below to squeak in pain.

"I have a feeling we're doomed!" Mabi worried about their journey ahead, looking at the winding route that didn't even follow the S-curve.

"You pervert! Where's the green-haired moss head?" Sanji was the first to notice Zoro's absence and shouted to Mabi.

Mabi, true to their close friendship, immediately noticed the other's absence and pointed behind him to where Zoro had been caught by a tree branch during the tremor and was now hanging there.

"Aaaaah! The green-haired guy ran off to Robin!" Sanji, who had been watching closely, saw Zoro being pulled back onto a mount full of ladies by Robin. Overcome with jealousy, he roared to the sky and stomped his feet, wanting to jump over as well.

"Hey hey hey? What are you doing?" Luffy, who was piloting the lizard, felt it screaming wildly and becoming difficult to control again, crashing into the bushes beside him.

As the world spun around, everything returned to calm.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Nami, who had caught up, gave the group, who were still fooling around, a good beating. Chopper and Angelia were tending to the giant lizard, whose eyes were filled with tears from its fall. The lizard had never suffered like this in its lizard life, being covered in bruises in just a few minutes.