I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

The hand that had just held the Angel Fruit had a small amount of white residue on it, as if the Angel Fruit had faded.

Pep suspiciously took the Angel Fruit out again, examined it closely for a few more moments, and his expression immediately changed.

"Dye?"

"Tesoro, you're playing me! This fruit is fake!"

Pep flew into a rage, and with a sudden burst of force, crushed the fake fruit in his hand, scattering the shattered flesh all over the ground.

He threw the box in his hand directly to the ground, and a piece of parchment covered with writing slid out of the box and landed on the deck.

"We've been found out... These pursuers came too fast, the dye didn't even have time to fully solidify..."

Tesoro's expression also darkened.

The Angel Fruit is something that probably very few people in the world have ever seen, so even if it's faked, the pirates probably wouldn't be able to detect it.

He just hadn't expected the pirates to arrive so quickly, which created such a vulnerability.

Meanwhile, Sieg stared blankly at the fruit pulp scattered all over the ground.

"Is this some kind of Devil Fruit? Tesoro's things are actually Devil Fruits?"

"That's true... After all, this is something worth over 100 million on the market, so it's normal for it to attract pirates to fight over it."

Thinking this to himself, Sieg did not intend to interfere.

Devil Fruits are great, but this pirate with 90 million is not to be underestimated.

In the first half of the Grand Line, pirates with bounties of nearly 100 million are already quite rare.

While pondering, Pep was already commanding his origami army, preparing to charge towards Tezzolo, but at that moment, he saw Tezzolo staring at Sieg with a mixture of shock and anger:

"You bastard, how did you switch that fruit?"

Sieg was stunned for a moment, then sneered:

"You're making it way too obvious that you're trying to frame me. I didn't even open the box..."

Tesoro's face remained grim as he angrily shouted:

"You must have switched the items beforehand... No wonder a bounty hunter like you, who works for money, showed no interest in that valuable fruit and casually gave it to Pep."

"Because you had already hidden the real thing!"

These words caused a flicker of suspicion to cross Pep's eyes, who was about to launch an attack. He turned and glanced back at Sieg.

He naturally wouldn't easily believe Tezzolo's few words that framed him, but he really couldn't see through Sieg's true nature.

"What kind of farce are you putting on?" the pale-faced man, Pep, chuckled coldly.

"It doesn't matter who has the fruit... Anyway, if any of you don't hand it over right now, you're all going to die!"

With a wave of his hand, half of the origami birds swooped down toward Tesoro, while the other half of the origami beasts gradually surrounded Sig.

"They really got dragged into this by Tezzolo..."

Feeling restless, Sieg glanced at the paper beasts that were gradually closing in on him, and suddenly an idea came to mind.

“Pep, you’re a big shot with a bounty of ninety million, surely you wouldn’t mind lending me a piece of paper?” Sig asked.

Chapter 349 Believe in Yourself

Can I borrow a piece of paper?

After hearing what Sieg said, Pep looked dazed for a moment, then nodded:

"What's a piece of paper... You can take it if you want."

"It really works?" Sig was also taken aback.

The ability of the Fat Tiger Card to "borrow and never return" seems to be related to the value of the borrowed item itself.

Moreover, the so-called borrowed item doesn't necessarily have to be a physical object...

"There's great potential... Borrowing without repaying is probably not a shortcut to playing the role of Fat Tiger, but rather a promising skill that needs to be developed."

Thinking this to himself, Sieg didn't take the paper from Pep's hand, but instead continued speaking:

"Since I've already borrowed it, why don't you fold it into a flintlock pistol for me?"

“Hmm…” Pep nodded without hesitation:

"Alright, I'm a Paper-Paper Fruit user, folding a piece of paper is as easy as eating and drinking."

As he spoke, he pointed a paper flintlock pistol that he had just folded at Sieg.

The paper gun had just slipped from Sieg's hand when Pep finally realized what was happening, and his face immediately darkened.

"What's going on? What kind of Devil Fruit power do you have?"

Pep shouted sternly, but he couldn't help feeling a little panicked inside.

The unknown power of Devil Fruits is especially terrifying, particularly the ability to seemingly influence a person's mind.

His response was a loud gunshot.

Sieg pulled the trigger of the paper gun in his hand, and one of the paper bullets flew out, about to hit Pep.

But at the crucial moment, Pep seemed to flatten his entire body into a thin sheet of paper, swaying to the side and easily dodging the paper bullet.

This action reminded Sieg of the Paper Drawing technique from the Six Styles of the Navy.

Paper drawing allows the body to twist and turn as if drawing on paper. The Paper Paper Fruit user in front of us seems to be able to make his body as thin as paper, possessing the characteristics of paper, and has a similar effect to paper drawing.

"He dodged the bullet...which means the bullet must have been effective against him."

Sig thought to himself.

Previously, Pep's paper doll clones, even when hit by bullets, would only have a few transparent holes and could still move freely. However, it seems that Pep's original body does not have this characteristic.

"you!"

Seemingly enraged by Sieg's shot, Pep reached out and summoned several paper beasts and Pep's paper clones, which swarmed towards Sieg.

"and many more..."

Looking at the group of origami animals around him, Sieg began to have another idea.

The origami animals around me, including origami birds and origami tigers, were folded rather perfunctorily, and it was obvious that they were made of white paper.

But those paper doll clones were different. Apart from being a little pale, they looked no different from real people and could even talk to Sig and the others.

This gave Sieg an idea.

"Pep, lend me another piece of paper. Just fold it into a delicate, fair-haired, haughty little girl."

Sieg casually made a request.

"What do you take my abilities for?!"

However, this only fueled Pep's anger. He yelled and waved his hand, sending a series of paper tigers lunging at him.

"Tch...did it fail?"

Sig felt a little disappointed. He activated his Observation Haki, and as the paper tiger pounced, he reached into the pouch tied to his belt and grabbed a handful of pebbles.

Before leaving Char Island, Sig also prepared some simple items for self-defense.

Unlike when he was shooting with a gun before, this stone was larger than a bullet, and the compatibility with Fat Tiger Card had exceeded 10%, giving Sig a strength of over 600KG with just one arm.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh...

Sieg quickly threw stones, and a series of whooshing sounds rang out as each stone, like a bullet, pierced the air and struck the paper tigers.

puff...

With a muffled thud, the stone smashed a hole through the paper tiger, and the force it carried sent the paper tiger flying backwards to the ground. The entire paper body was smashed into a ball, completely deformed, and then fell silent.

"Throwing stones seems more effective than using guns against this kind of thing?"

Sig stretched his arms, clenched his fist, and felt the power brought by Fat Tiger Card.

The stones he throws are still subject to the limitations of [non-lethal marksmanship], preventing them from causing fatal damage to people. However, they are not limited in their ability to destroy these paper creatures.

Sizzle!

The paper figure, Pepp, remained expressionless as a giant paper sword cleaved through the air. The sword was as large as a door panel but as thin as paper, extremely sharp, and it sank directly into the floor upon landing, splitting the wooden planks as if they were nothing.

Sig felt a chill run down his spine. Sensing the attack with his Observation Haki, he took a small, precarious step back, narrowly avoiding the blow.

"I really don't want to waste my Possession Card on an enemy of this level, but... it's so exciting."

During this battle, Sigurd's Emperor Engine began to accelerate, but his heartbeat was blocked by the power of the Silence-Silence Fruit and could not be heard by the outside world.

Although there was no sound, the heartbeat was unaffected, like a powerful water pump, pumping blood every moment to accelerate the flow of blood throughout the body.

call....

Sieg took a deep breath and threw the stone in his hand again. This time the stone was faster and more powerful, with a whistling sound, directly piercing through the two paper tigers one after the other, then smashing through the deck railing and falling into the sea with them.

"Both strength and speed have increased, and there are no extra strange noises. It's more like a simple Gear Second... The power of the Silence-Silence Fruit is like eliminating the side effects!"

"I think I've really gotten stronger."

Sieg glanced at the broken deck railing in disbelief, somewhat bewildered.

But just as this thought crossed his mind, he felt the frequency of the Emperor Engine's pulse decrease slightly.

"No, we can't drift. If we drift, the Emperor Engine's effectiveness will be reduced."

Sieg took a deep breath and repeatedly told himself:

"I need to believe in myself."

"I am a weak person."

"No matter how much strength and speed you increase, you can't compare to a pirate with a bounty of nearly 100 million. You have no chance of winning!"

"I'm going to die today."

Sig's eyes widened. In the darkness, most of his hard-lined face was hidden in shadow, making him look particularly intimidating.

"Hmm? This person is indeed not simple."

While Peppa, the captain of the Origami Pirates, was still fighting Tesoro, they both turned to look at Sigurd at the same time, their expressions changing.