I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

The Wapol Alloy Suit is made of Wapol alloy, and then the power of the Flutter-Flutter Fruit is used to transform the metal material into a windbreaker, providing excellent protection without hindering movement.

Wapol alloy is quite expensive on the black market, not to mention the battle suit processed by the Flutter-Flutter Fruit.

In a sense, this suit is a weaker version of the Germa suit, but its advantage is that it can be mass-produced.

In Becky's eyes, Sieg was frighteningly generous.

However, Sieg himself knew that this was almost a risk-free and highly profitable business.

The reason why Wahlbo alloy is expensive is not because of its low production volume or good performance, but mainly because SIG is reluctant to let this excellent alloy enter the market, lest it fall into the hands of the World Government.

For the unscrupulous merchant Sig, these five hundred alloy battle suits were simply a matter of making Wapol and the user of the Float-Float Fruit work a few more days.

"However, a mere five hundred battle suits aren't enough to arm the entire Flame Tank Pirates, are they? Would you like more?" Sig coaxed patiently.

Supernova Capone Bege's pirate crew is called the Flame Tank Pirates. Although they are called pirates, they are actually more like a mafia.

His subordinates can usually be stationed inside Bege, the user of the Castle-Castle Fruit. Each of them is a large castle, and with the firepower of his subordinates, Bege can unleash army-level firepower all by himself.

Therefore, the Flame Tank Pirates have a considerable number of members in order to maintain firepower.

“You…” Becky frowned subconsciously. He wasn’t stupid; he sensed the seductive meaning in Sieg’s words.

However, he found it difficult to refuse what Sieg offered.

Capone Bege is cold on the outside but warm on the inside. He is a loyal pirate who values ​​family and subordinates. In critical moments, he often lets his subordinates enter his body for refuge, while he himself withstands external attacks.

A suit that can protect his subordinates is also a necessity for Becky.

“Just tell me, what do you want from me?” Becky said.

“This is an employment agreement. I’m very interested in your Devil Fruit ability. As long as you stay in my bandit group, I will pay you a thousand alloy battle suits every year.” Sigtu revealed his true intentions.

"..." Becky suddenly realized why Sieg had tried to lure him with five hundred alloy suits; it turned out he had this in mind.

However, he truly couldn't refuse.

............................

Under the long-awaited sunlight, amidst the ruins of the royal city, the giants of Elbaf began their winter solstice festival.

After the doctors, led by Crocus and Law, provided ample medical care to the wounded, the giants of Elbaf, wrapped in heavy bandages, casually raised their glasses and, with pre-prepared caramel puff towers, began their feast.

The bloodshed and fire of the past have been temporarily forgotten.

However, there is another person who has also been forgotten.

On a lake outside the capital of the giants.

The giant ship Dushan was placed here by Sieg. This giant ship is an island, filling the lake completely, making it look almost like a small pond in comparison.

Almost everyone on board had left, and the giant ship was now practically empty.

After the battle, there were too many things to clean up and too many people to handle, and some had been sent by Sigra to participate in the giants' celebration.

at this time.

Below the outer perimeter of the giant ship Dushan, the alloy wall, which was originally seamless and without any gaps, suddenly flowed like liquid, and a large door quietly opened, revealing the hollow inside.

Inside was a fairly large room, not very spacious, but filled with all kinds of fitness equipment, including dumbbells and barbells of various weights.

call....

Heavy breathing came from inside the door.

A burly man with broad shoulders and a thick waist stretched his body. He was wearing only a simple vest, which revealed his ferocious and exaggerated muscles. Large beads of sweat evaporated quickly on his body, as if he had just come out of a sauna, and his whole body was steaming.

Barrett breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much better.

"It feels quite good to sweat," Barrett muttered to herself.

After learning of Roger's execution, Barret went berserk and was captured by the Buster Call fleet led by Garp and Sengoku, and imprisoned in Impel Down for many years.

During those years, he was a prisoner in the deep-sea prison, where there were naturally few recreational activities. He spent most of his time honing his physique and developing his domineering presence.

Maintaining a rigorous exercise routine in prison for decades sounds easy, but it is extremely difficult. Among the many prisoners in the Infinite Hell, he was the only one who could persevere.

Exercising in the dark and cramped space of prison has become a habit, and I haven't given it up to this day.

For Barrett, this might also be a way to relieve stress, just like these days when he's hiding inside the city walls.

"It feels like quite a while has passed, right?" Barrett said, wiping her sweat as she walked out of the room.

"Heh, so much time has passed and even Sig hasn't found me. It seems my Fusion Fruit ability is still stronger." Barret grinned smugly.

The power of the Fusion Fruit, in theory, allows the user to fuse with any inorganic matter and freely control the combination and matching of substances.

This kind of overpowered Devil Fruit is extremely powerful in the setting, but in the movie it's just a clumsy sitting duck piloting a Gundam... But honestly, who can beat Luffy in the movie?

As an extremely powerful ability user who has developed her Devil Fruit to the point of awakening, Barret can freely modify the interior of the already completed Dushan giant ship to create new secret rooms. She doesn't even need a door; she can simply use her ability to create one whenever she wants to leave.

This ability to manipulate and modify matter at will has always been the envy of Tom, the world's number one shipwright: it is a realm that no matter how superb the shipbuilding skills are, they can never reach.

"Quite a few days must have passed. I've been hiding on Sig's ship for so long and he hasn't found me. It seems that I've clearly won this invisible contest."

"Heh, Sig, in the end I am the strongest."

Barrett put down the towel, looked around, and then gradually frowned.

All around was quiet.

It's too quiet.

Barrett was very familiar with the Dushan, after all, he had also participated in its construction.

This giant ship is essentially a mobile island, more than capable of accommodating tens of thousands of bandits, and usually carries a considerable number of people.

Barrett closed his eyes, his powerful Observation Haki radiating across the entire island, and his brows furrowed even deeper.

Is there no one on the ship?

"This is so strange. Is Sieg up to something again?"

Barrett sensed something was amiss. He slightly bent his knees, leaped, and in a few bounds, landed on the outer wall of the giant ship, then looked out.

Upon seeing this, he froze, as if petrified.

The location of the giant ship Dushan was not the ocean he remembered!

The boundless sea in my memory has shrunk to a lake, surrounded by shallow white sand beaches, tall shrubs that are several times larger than I remembered, and primeval forests that are often twenty or thirty meters high.

It's like time travel has led me to the ancient era, where the plants are much larger than I've ever imagined.

"this....."

Barrett jumped off the beach and walked along it, when an absurd thought popped into his head, and his brain seemed to freeze for a moment.

"A considerable amount of time must have passed, but surely not many years?"

Barrett looked around silently, her mind a complete mess.

The New World is a strange ocean where anything can happen; Barrett has heard of strange tales like the Rotten Chessman.

Could it be that... while he was training inside the city walls, the outside world had undergone tremendous changes, fast forward to the point where the ocean had shrunk into a lake?

"No, it's impossible."

Barrett walked briskly through the jungle, his face grim, his pace quickening until it turned into a run.

In this vast primeval jungle that seemed to come from ancient times, he felt a sense of isolation from the world, as if he had been left behind by the entire world.

"No!"

"I want to defeat all the Admirals, all the Four Emperors, and of course Roger and Higurashi, and then become the strongest in the world!" Barrett's breathing grew heavy as he sprinted forward, shouting as he went:

"No! No to that! If everyone else is gone, what's the point of being the strongest in the world!"

Barrett's shouts echoed in the sky. He had already rushed out of the jungle, and his view suddenly opened up.

Before them lay a massive city that appeared to have been ravaged by fire. On the city streets, bandits and giants were holding a celebration, raising their glasses and laughing and chatting, creating a scene of great joy.

The celebration suddenly fell silent.

Seemingly drawn by Barrett's voice, many people turned around and looked at Barrett, who had suddenly barged in, with a somewhat bewildered expression.

"Who am I? Where am I? What happened?"

These questions lingered in Barrett's mind; his head felt like it had suddenly undergone a cosmic explosion, with one ultimate question after another echoing through it.

His face gradually turned red, then purple, and then even began to turn black.

Sig coughed softly in the crowd, attracting the attention of many.

The bandits quickly understood and resumed their noisy activity as if nothing had happened.

The giants were a little confused, but they didn't pay much attention, and the celebration soon continued.

Barret remained silent for a long time. He squatted down, touched the ground with both hands, and the power of the Fusion Fruit was activated at high speed. A crack quietly opened in the ground beneath his feet, burying him into the crack.

“Actually, I can understand,” Ah Ling whispered beside Sieg.

"When I was a child, I once mustered up the courage to run away from home."

"And then?" Sieg asked casually.

"Then two hours and thirty-five minutes passed, and still no one came looking for me. When I got home, I found my parents having a big meal at the restaurant next door. They hadn't even noticed that I had run away from home," Ah Ling recalled.

"It seems to have happened when I was four and a half years old in my previous life, but I don't remember it very clearly."

"Stop talking, his Observation Haki is very strong." Sig coughed lightly, then winked at the bald man next to him.

The bald man considered for a moment, then spoke loudly into the air:

"Good heavens, yesterday was truly a fierce battle."

"Two Yonko, Big Mom and Kaido, arrived together, descending upon Elbaf, the world's strongest nation. A new bandit king was born; it was a long, dark night of war..."

Suddenly, a tall figure appeared silently in the distance behind the bald man.

Barrett listened blankly as the bald man recounted what had happened yesterday, her expression bewildered.

"I missed the whole season? Two Yonko?"

I regret it now, I regret it so much!

The main reason Barrett stayed with the bandit group instead of leaving was because Sieg was cunning and often clashed with the world's top fighters.

Unexpectedly, he had only just returned to the bandit group when Higuma spent a year staying at home in Wano Country.