I am the Bandit King of the East Sea.

Vegapunk stood up and walked towards the door.

"Come with me, Dracula... or rather, the former bandit king, who once left me a diary, which he called... his will."

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

The panda bird was temporarily placed in a cage at the research institute.

Meanwhile, Sigurd and his cat followed Vegapunk deeper into the research institute.

During their walk, Vegapunk kept rambling on and on about Dracula, the bandit king.

“Dracula, or rather Sigmar, is an old acquaintance of mine.”

"He also mentioned to me a little about parallel worlds and the 'Mountain Bandit King'."

"He even said that there might be another... bandit king in the future."

It was only when Sieg reached this point that he seemed to realize something.

He felt that things had gone too smoothly on this trip, and Vegapunk was unusually friendly towards him... but he never expected that things were actually like this behind the scenes.

No wonder... the bandit king of this world has to be called Sigma, such a strange name!

Sieg thought to himself.

In fact, Dracula disappeared after the events of the ancient island in the One Piece world.

At that time, even Higurashi himself hadn't seen Vegapunk yet...

"Wait... what about the will you mentioned earlier? Is Dracula dead again?"

"Sig asked."

Vegapunk paused for a moment.

"I don't know, but he probably encountered some kind of problem after the War of the Fifty-Six Emperors."

"You may have heard of the legend of Sigmar, the bandit king, right?"

"The final battlefield of that unprecedented war was not on this sea, but rather..."

"Infinite Earth!"

Vegapunk uttered the word and unconsciously looked up at the sky.

It was already night, and the bright moon hung high in the sky. The moonlight poured softly down through the window, scattering a silvery white light on the ground.

In the ONE PIECE universe, the so-called infinite land is the moon, inhabited not only by lunar people but also by space pirates...

Vegapunk continued:

"After the war on the infinite land, only Dracula returned to this sea."

"And Dracula's will was something he specifically gave me before the War on the Infinite Land. He asked me to keep it safe and wait for the arrival of another mountain bandit king."

"I originally thought that after he returned to this sea, he would ask me for my diary back... but he didn't."

"After this incident, Dracula became increasingly taciturn and his whereabouts became more and more mysterious. Even the members of the East Sea Mountain Bandits were not very clear about his movements."

At this point, the two had already entered a room at the end of the corridor.

The heavy safe door slowly opened, revealing a diary inside.

"The writing in the diary seems to be some kind of script from a parallel world... You should know this better than I do," Vegapunk said.

Sieg took a deep breath, took the diary out of the safe, flipped through it briefly, and his last bit of wariness disappeared.

The characters used in this diary are, of course, Chinese characters.

Like Vegaponk's signature, Chinese characters are also a security feature of Siegfried.

So Sieg opened his diary and began to read it.

...........

I am Dracula, and by the time you see this, I am already dead.

In this strange world, some abilities, including the inventory, cannot be used normally, perhaps due to the strange time of this world.

In short, this is the only way I can tell you about what has happened over the years again.

Chapter 963 Dracula's Fantastic Adventures (3k)

The shadow clone Dracula existed in the One Piece world for a total of eight years.

For the first five years, he lived the secluded life that Sig had always dreamed of on the ancient island, raising Aling together with the giants of Elbaf.

Three years later, they set sail with the giants on their journey back to Elbaf. Although they arrived in Elbaf, they were later ambushed by Iron Chrysalis and his 10,000-strong Iron Crotch Army.

In this battle, Lieutenant General Iron Chrysanthemum came prepared, and Dracula was completely outmatched and on the verge of death, not even having the chance to leave a single word in his first will.

After repeated pursuits, Dracula was found dead and disappeared into the sea.

Whether it's the navy or pirates, no one knows if Dracula is alive or where he is.

Only now has Sig learned the truth from Dracula's second will.

"In the year 1482 of the Haiyuan Calendar, which is eight years after you traveled through time, I was surrounded by the Iron Chrysanthemum Kowell's forces and found myself in dire straits."

"At the last moment, my ship sailed into a strange nine-colored mist, and then I came to this world."

"In the animated version of the story, there was a strange rainbow mist that could travel through time. The nine-colored mist I encountered may be a similar situation."

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

The following content describes what happened after Dracula traveled through time.

"After I traveled through time, the timeline of this world was also in the 1482nd year of the Sea Calendar, which is 40 years before Luffy set sail."

"Perhaps it's because the timeline of this world is unique. I traveled to an era too early, and in the corresponding One Piece world timeline, we hadn't yet obtained the subsequent cards, including the Dragonborn Card?"

"That's why I can't use some of the character's abilities, including the inventory."

"By the way, we obtained the Dragonborn Card after the Seven Emperors' Coffin-Carrying Incident on Sword Mountain Island, which was also the first time the name 'Piercing Duke' appeared."

Sig has indeed discovered that the timing of this world is not quite right.

Roger in this world has entered old age; even his nose hairs have turned white.

But Rocks, who should have been older than Roger, still had a head of messy black hair and looked like a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties.

Luffy seems to have just set sail, but Zoro is already a blind, two-year-old version of himself in the New World.

Upon seeing this, Sieg immediately opened his inventory and carefully examined the "Sunbear Notes," only to find that it was still stuck on the first chapter, with no new content appearing.

Several days have passed since he arrived in the world of the Mountain Bandit King, but Higuma's Notebook is still stuck on the first day.

There were no changes in the inventory either.

This doesn't make sense... Even if Higuma stopped writing in his diary, it's impossible that he wouldn't have noticed the changes in his inventory.

Based on Dracula's account, Sig made a conjecture... perhaps the time flow ratio between the two worlds is so large that a few days here might only be a few seconds in the other world.

On Higuma's side, it was still shortly after writing the first page of the diary, and he hadn't noticed any changes in his inventory.

in other words.

At this moment in the world of mountain bandits, the void in the world of One Piece shatters.

According to Dracula's speculation, the timeline he is in may correspond to the timeline of the Seven Emperors carrying a coffin on Sword Mountain Island in the One Piece world.

Sieg narrowed his eyes, suddenly looking somewhat dazed.

When he held a coffin lid in his hand on Sword Mountain Island, he casually fabricated the story of the piercing general that had been lost to history.

His own shadow clone, who assassinated Dracula, was perhaps forgotten by him at that point in time and embarked on a journey to a parallel world.

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

When Dracula first traveled through time, it was a full 40 years from now.

For the next 30 years, Dracula lived a life of anonymity, a life that Sigmund envied.

Later, he finally went to sea.

Due to the limited power of his cards, Dracula began to seek another kind of power: telekinesis.

He became a telekinetic by hunting panda birds.

For the next thirty years, he hunted panda birds, almost single-handedly driving the species to extinction.

And through this, he gradually became the world's most powerful telekinetic.

"My experience spanning 38 years before and after the time travel taught me one thing..."

"Abandoning the bottom line of being human can truly help you live better in this chaotic era."

Sig was slightly lost in thought when he saw this.

"So the extinction of the panda bird was actually my shadow clone's fault..."

Sieg seemed to be deep in thought.

He has had many different identities.

Wang Xige is a desperate warrior under the pursuit and interception of the fifty-six emperors. The difference between him and the original Xige is like the difference between a college entrance examination candidate and an ordinary student.

Higuma is the reincarnation of Higuma after a transformation, freeing him from the shackles of his identity. After an initial period of carelessness, he began to hypnotize himself, strengthening his desire to train and become stronger, and embarked on the path of the Navy.

And Dracula?

The first eight years of Dracula's life were a veritable "Dracula Year One," and the large syringe he left behind for injecting venom, the "Flying Thunder Needle," has never been used by Siegfried.

The shadow clone Dracula is Sigurd himself, having abandoned all moral boundaries and gone completely insane.

Whether it's Wang Xige, Rixiong, or Dracula... they are all facets of Xige, representing himself in different circumstances.

Reading Dracula's notebooks is like reading a second life of your own.

It's quite counterintuitive, actually.

Sig's life in the present day has lasted less than a year, even including his time travel journey, it has only been a little over a year.

But Dracula had already existed for eight years before traversing the parallel world, longer than Sig.

Dracula's life has spanned 38 long years, more than 30 times the time Sig has spent since his time travel.