I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

With a cry of pain, blood splattered across the sky. A figure swayed in the air, almost swallowed by the waves, and disappeared from everyone's sight.

Only then did everyone realize what had just happened.

"This can't be! The Scourge Warriors are clearly invincible!"

"But... the Volcano Warrior is dead. This should be the first Scourge warrior to die..."

"What kind of power is this?" Amidst the clamor of discussion, the burly man who had been chatting with Sig was covered in cold sweat. He recalled what they had said earlier:

"Is this kind of power called domineering aura?"

On the other side, the experimental subjects who escaped from the laboratory, just like Xin, stared at Sieg with shining eyes.

They didn't know the true significance of the Scourge warriors, but they saw the weight of their domineering presence.

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

"Those few ability users are a bit problematic," Stussy commented from the side.

Among the crowd, only she and Sig were knowledgeable and powerful individuals, equally proficient in physical combat and life restoration.

“Actually, they are not weak, they just haven’t mastered Haki. The most fatal flaw is that they rely too much on Devil Fruit abilities, thinking that they can’t die if they become elemental.” Stussy shook his head.

In this day and age, people with special abilities have no natural enemies.

The ocean does not reject ability users, Seastone has not yet been discovered, and the training method for Armament Haki has not yet spread.

This means that Logia-type Devil Fruit users are practically invincible, and only a very small number of users can attack their bodies.

"This is the invincible warrior they were talking about?" Sig didn't know what to say.

It can only be said that the present is not necessarily inferior to the past.

However, what Sigurd valued even more was the person who was suspected to be a user of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit.

After the opponent fled, Sig picked up a pebble, wrapped it with Haki, and threw it.

With the help of Nobita's abilities, Sig is a sharpshooter with 100% accuracy, hitting exactly where he points without causing fatalities, so you can use your full strength with confidence.

But the problem is...

The user of the Rumble-Rumble Fruit did not make any effective dodging movements, so it wasn't that he dodged the attack, but rather that Sigurd's attack missed.

"Missed it? I aimed for his back, but it went astray and only grazed his shoulder... This isn't normal."

Recalling the volcano warrior who was easily slapped into a meat patty by Sig, and then thinking about the Rumble-Rumble Fruit user who successfully escaped, Sig felt something was amiss.

"The person who ate the Rumble-Rumble Fruit should have been knocked unconscious by my attack, but he mysteriously dodged it and escaped. This is not normal..."

"Is this what Vegapunk meant by... the inevitability of history?"

Sieg suppressed his doubts and decided not to think about the problem for the time being.

"But that's not the point. Has everyone else arrived? If they have, let's set sail immediately." Sig pulled Xin and the others to the port as soon as possible, preparing to set sail as quickly as possible to avoid the pursuit of the ancient kingdom.

But after he counted the number of people, he found that there was one extra person.

Behind Xin's tall figure, a female mermaid several meters long timidly hid behind him, looking at Sig with a pitiful expression.

"Where did the mermaid come from?" he asked.

“They were the ones who were following behind those two Scourge warriors,” Heart replied.

"She took advantage of the chaos to follow us."

"A mermaid protected by two Scourge warriors? She seems to be an important figure." A possibility suddenly occurred to Sieg:

"Who are you?" he asked, frowning.

The little mermaid was so frightened that she hid behind her heart:

"Don't kill me, I'm very useful."

"I'm Poseidon, the fishkeeper who controls the windless zone fish farm. Those big fish all obey my commands..."

Sig's tightly furrowed brows relaxed instantly.

If nothing unexpected happens, the young mermaid in front of us is the current Sea King.

Before he could respond, the bald little giant next to him pointed at the little mermaid and burst out laughing.

"Haha, she's too cool."

"Brother Shan didn't intend to kill her, but she overthought it and thought she was going to die. That's what you call Dihua."

"This little mermaid is so lame, she doesn't seem very smart."

“I think she shouldn’t be called Poseidon, she should be called Di Poseidon.”

Sig: ....

Why did he feel that the person who didn't seem very smart was this underage, bald giant?

Sieg shook his head. He didn't speak, but used his telekinesis to create waves, propelling the wooden sailboat forward at high speed. Soon, it broke through the customs checkpoint and rushed directly into the Calm Belt.

The little mermaid stood at the bow of the ship, straining her mouth to call out, summoning the sea kings of the Calm Belt to part to the sides, creating a passage for the sailboat.

The journey was thrilling but ultimately safe.

Surrounded by a throng of enormous sea monsters, the sailboat crossed the Calm Belt and entered the Western Sea, heading towards Ohara.

More than a month later, they were nearing the end of their journey, Ohara, and could see the outline of the island, as well as the four-thousand-year-old Omniscient Tree in the center of the island.

Over the past month, the little mermaid has stopped being afraid of Sig and the others and has become familiar with the experimental subjects, especially the giant boy.

After Sieg displayed his domineering power and killed the Scourge warriors, the group of kids' enthusiasm for training soared even higher. They have been training hard for more than a month, especially their hearts.

To Sieg's surprise, during this time, the trendy new word "Di" spread among the experimental children.

Like Xin, anyone showing signs of being "Di-ized" would be addressed by these children as "Di" in a half-joking manner.

At first, Sieg found it quite amusing to listen to the children bickering and arguing, and treated it as a pastime.

But as more and more people in Dihua came to have "Di" in their names, Sig gradually sensed something was wrong.

"Joey Boy Dee Heart?"

"Sergey D. Scott?"

"These names sound a little strange..."

Sig muttered it a few times, then his heart skipped a beat.

He turned around and saw that Tianyue Shi, Stussy and the others were casting strange glances at him, clearly they had all thought of the same thing.

“I remember now... I was young when I traveled through time many times, and I don’t remember many things clearly. I just seem to have heard a rumor about it.”

Tianyue tried her best to recall her childhood memories:

“In the early days of the World Government, there was a strange legend that circulated in the world.”

"It is said that there once lived a demon on this sea who was good at manipulating people's minds. Those who came into contact with him would be inexplicably attracted and their minds would be affected by indescribable influences."

"A few people who have had contact with him have the word 'Di' in their names, which has an unclear meaning and is said to be related to demons."

"As time went by and the world government became more powerful, this rumor gradually disappeared from people's mouths."

"The Di clan, whose names contain the character 'Di,' has unknowingly become the so-called D clan. They have even forgotten the meaning of the word 'D,' simply using it as the middle character of their name, and this tradition has continued to this day."

After hearing this, Vegapunk, Stussy, and the others looked at Sieg with increasingly strange expressions.

Stussy sighed, "The D clan is a very mysterious unsolved enigma. They are not a nation, race, or family, but a group of people who share a common spiritual will, and in modern times they are known as the natural enemies of the gods..."

"But..." She hesitated for a long time before finally saying softly:

"It seems that eight hundred years has really distorted many things and made them lose their original true meaning."

Stussy was at a loss for words.

The D clan, the Di clan?

The idea of ​​God's natural enemy was originally just a joke by Sieg.

“I don’t think so.” Vegapunk shook his head at this point.

"Think about it, in our modern world, what kind of people have a 'D' in their name and have had contact with Sieg?"

Everyone was taken aback. After a moment of thought, the names of many important figures came to mind.

Gol D. Roger, the Pirate King; Rocks D. Xebec, the ruler of the seas; Monkey Garp, the Marine hero; and also Dragon, Luffy...

Marshall D. Teach, Trafalgar D. Wattier Roth...

Upon careful consideration, this legend does seem to be true.

None of these people with the letter D in their names are simple characters, and they have all been influenced by Sieg to varying degrees.

Many of them even joined the Liangshan Alliance under their own identities, and were about to become enemies of the World Government.

The Celestial Dragons call themselves gods, and Higuma is a demon incarnate. So, aren't these members of the D. clan the natural enemies of God, opposing Him?

"Could this also be an inevitable historical event?" Sig was completely bewildered.

He shook his head, banishing the thought from his mind for the time being, and looked up at Ohara ahead.

Now, he has another important thing to do.

"The journey has come to an end, so our exchange of equivalent value should also come to a close."

Sieg steered the sailboat to a stop in the waters near Ohara, looking at the hundreds of young people who had escaped from the laboratory.

This voyage, which lasted several months, had given Vegapunk ample experimental data, making it unnecessary for him to stay with the experimental subjects any longer.

What truly alarmed Sigurd was the Rumble-Rumble Fruit user who had escaped from his grasp at the entrance to the Calm Belt.

"Let's stop here. My decision to observe Joy Boy was just a passing fancy, and it's time to end it now."

Sieg explained the meaning of separating to the group of young experimenters.

After he finished speaking, no one spoke for a long time.

Although these kids who escaped from the lab are naive and inexperienced, they still know who is good to them.

Compared to the scientists of the ancient kingdom, Sig's side was clearly more compassionate, and they even helped them reach Ohara—with their individual strength, it would have been impossible for them to evade the pursuers, let alone reach their final destination, Ohara.

Chapter 1261 I'm Not Human Anymore