I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Stussy leaned closer and took a look; his expression suddenly turned very strange.

The words on this piece of paper are indeed very strange.

The key point is that Stusi had heard it with his own ears a long time ago.

"Mr. Sieg, are you really sure you want to do this?" Stusky was a little confused.

“This is my first order to you, I’m not kidding.”

Sig said seriously.

Upon hearing this, Stussy hesitated for a while before reading aloud the words on the note:

“Even if I, Stussy, die, I will jump off this cliff rather than become Sieg’s subordinate and obey his orders.”

"It smells so good!" card activated!

Read it in one sentence.

Sig's tense nerves finally relaxed.

When Sig received the Utsumi Naruyoshi Card, he immediately thought of the similarly effective "True Fragrance Card"!

The "True Fragrance Card" has two uses. He planned to use it the first time when he first met Stussy, but for various reasons, the activation conditions were not met.

The first real use of the card was spent recruiting Crocus, and the "True Fragrance Card" only had one last use left.

That's why Sieg came up with this plan to deal with Stussy.

First, use the Inoyuki Shoji Card to achieve temporary allegiance!

Then, while Stussy is temporarily loyal and shouldn't refuse Sieg's orders, use the "True Fragrance Card"!

In this way, even if the temporary loyalty effect fails, the "true fragrance card" has already been achieved.

The fact that "Stusi has become Sieg's subordinate" will become an inviolable established fact.

"Did it really succeed that quickly?"

Sieg leaned back in his chair, his mood suddenly becoming very complicated.

"My scheme has finally succeeded once?"

Sieg felt a sense of unreality for a moment.

How strong is Stussy?

When Sieg was possessed by the shadow, he had already personally experienced the depths of Stussy's power.

Now, Stussy has become a subordinate he can entrust with and trust.

No more hiding it or living in fear of being exposed in front of her.

"My ambition to become the Mountain Bandit King is in sight!"

"With her here, I can retire in peace and change my ways, right?"

With his first successful plan and the first time he had a subordinate who was both formidable and trustworthy, Sieg became much more confident.

He stood up from his chair, somewhat excited, and looked at Stusi in front of him.

After a moment's thought, Sieg decided to proceed with the plan and test Stussy's loyalty in detail.

To deal with Stussy, Sieg had already prepared all sorts of gadgets...

A smile unconsciously crept onto Sieg's face.

He walked to the bedside and took a pair of chopsticks from the bedside table and placed them in front of Stusi.

"Chopsticks dance, please!"

Chapter 288 CP0's Plan

A few minutes ago.

Inside the Gothic castle aboard a terrifying three-masted ship.

Crocdale walked down the corridor with a slightly gloomy expression.

"Sigurd...where is Sigurd?"

These past few days, her mental and physical strength have really been lacking.

During this period, Sieg would repeatedly let negative spirits pass through him every day, and Crocodile did the same.

After each failure, Crocdale would search for Sig's whereabouts, intending to observe Sig's struggle against the negative spirits and learn from his experience.

The same goes for today.

The difference is that Crocdale didn't find any trace of Sieg.

"Boss Sig? He should be in the master's room in the castle, right? I just heard Miss Stussy rushed over there..."

This is how the passing bandits answered.

Without giving it much thought, Crocdale walked toward Sig's new room.

But as she approached the door, her steps suddenly froze.

She heard faint sounds coming from inside the door.

“If it’s Mr. Sig…” Stussy’s voice was somewhat ambiguous.

Ok?

Crocdale's expression changed slightly, and her brows furrowed immediately.

"Perhaps I'm overthinking it?"

She thought to herself, but then she heard sounds continuing to come from the room.

“No…” Sig’s voice remained as calm as ever.

"Mr. Sig, are you really sure you want to do this?"

"This is... an order..."

After a brief silence in the room, Stussy's voice continued:

"...Even if I, Stusi, die, even if I jump off this cliff, I will never..."

The voice gradually faded away from there.

Crocdale froze on the spot, her expression somewhat strange.

"Sig doesn't like compliant types, so he forces Stussy to say even stranger lines?"

She was a renowned pirate who had seen all sorts of storms and waves. Pirates were not people who followed the rules, and she had heard of even more outrageous ways of doing things.

However, this time, Sieg...

"No, that's not the point."

Crocdale narrowed her eyes as she considered an extremely terrifying possibility, which gradually turned her face green.

In her understanding, Stussy was the same kind of person as her.

In other words, Stusi was originally a man! He was simply mistreated by Sig and the Transvestite King, ending up in this state...

But now, Sieg has actually... attacked Stussy, who is essentially a man!

Crocdale took a deep drag on her cigar, trying to calm the complex emotions in her heart.

"This is utterly inhuman..."

She exhaled a smoke ring and prepared to leave.

But at that moment, he heard a sound behind his ear.

"Clochdale? Did you see Mr. Sig today?"

Looking down, I saw it was BABY-5, now with the new name "Weiben".

Crocdale remained silent for a long time.

"It seems he went to the zombie cemetery near the gate. I also need to see him, let's go together."

With a cold expression, Crocdale led the latter away.

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

Inside the room.

Just then, Sieg handed the pair of chopsticks to Stussy.

Stussy... she took the chopsticks somewhat blankly, almost petrified on the spot.

Long ago, on the very night they entered the Grand Line, Sieg tried to get Stussy to do the chopstick dance.

Stusi refused at the time.

That's why we have this test now!

Sieg believes that if Stussy accepts her order and performs the chopstick dance, it means she will also obey Sieg's other orders.

This is enough to prove Stussy's loyalty to him!

"Come on, hurry up."

Sieg moved a chair over and waited, a little nervously.

This reaction caused Stusi's fair face to gradually turn pale.

Click.

She used her fingers to break the chopsticks in two.

Stussy tilted his head slightly, his eyes hidden in the shadows, and looked at Sieg without expression.

"I regret to decline."

Sieg was completely stunned and asked incredulously:

"You're disobeying my orders?"

“I don’t know what you’re expecting…” Stussy’s brows furrowed even deeper: