Pirates: It's not a mythical beast, it's a phantom god

Osi ignored the pirates around her who were flattering her. She just held her chin with one hand and aimlessly forked the steak on the plate with the other.

[Something's wrong~ If it were any other time, this little girl's tail would have been up in the air. What's wrong with her today?]

Seeing Ossi's depressed look, Burfat turned to ask Obe.

"What's wrong with you guys?"

"Tsk~"

Ou Bei also did not respond, but stared at his sleeves with a frown, as if he wanted to see every thread on it clearly.

"Hey! Jin, do you know?"

Having hit two snags, Burfat had no choice but to ask Jhin beside him if he knew the inside story.

At this time, Jhin was having a rare meal in the cafeteria. He took off the lower half of his mask and was concentrating on eating the flying fish sashimi on the plate.

Ever since he had eaten it once while out at sea not long ago, Jin couldn't forget the taste. Finally, today, there were a few flying fish on the cargo ship from outside. Jin bought them at a high price and sent them to the cafeteria to be made into sashimi.

"It's probably because of that exam La mentioned earlier."

Jin wiped his mouth and handed the last plate of flying fish sashimi to Burfat and the others.

"Try it, it tastes good."

"I don't like fish, so I'll give it to you two little brats!"

Burfat seemed to be not interested in seafood, but since Jhin was willing to share, he couldn't refuse, so he looked at the two little ones next to him who were always frowning.

"Here, you two try it. This is what the stingy guy Jin bought at a huge price."

"Ahh, huh?!"

While thinking, Osi subconsciously picked up a piece of sashimi, put it in his mouth, chewed it twice, and then spit it out.

"Pfft...Pfft~ Why is it raw?!"

"Sashimi is of course raw."

"Take it away, take it away. I don't eat raw food." Osi quickly picked up the juice on the table and rinsed his mouth.

"Then..." Burfat turned to look at Ober again.

"I won't eat either."

The three sisters, or wandering spirits, rarely disliked anything, and raw food was one of them.

I remember that one time You Ling invited a friend to dinner. His friend chose a Japanese restaurant and out of curiosity he ordered a salmon sushi.

I have to say it looked good, but after putting it in my mouth I almost spit it out in front of everyone.

You Ling still can't remember what the sushi tasted like, as if his brain selectively forgot this memory.

"If you don't want to eat it, forget it. Come here! Guys, try it. This stuff is several times more expensive than the meat of sea kings." Burfat handed the plate directly to the younger brothers who were surrounding him.

……

"What should we do? There's only one day left, tomorrow."

"How about asking Sister La for a few more days?"

"Then go talk to your elder sister."

"No, you go."

"I don't want it either."

"Alas~" ×2

"By the way, what exactly is this assessment you guys have?"

After hearing about the assessment from Jin, the drunken Burfat came over and asked curiously.

Osi and Obei blushed upon hearing this, with the former cursing angrily, "Ugh~ You stink of alcohol! Go away, go away! Can't you see we're getting annoyed? You stinky rascal!"

"Why are you a scoundrel? I didn't do anything to you! Besides, I'm a fishman, I wouldn't look down on a girl like you!"

"Why don't you tell us the content of the assessment and we will help solve it together." It was a bit surprising that Jhin actually spoke at this time.

"Yeah, there's strength in numbers. Let's talk about it and let everyone have a say."

Ossi and Oubey looked at each other and nodded.

"The test is as follows. Suppose you are a... well, how should I put it? Suppose you are a user of the Nature-type Devil Fruit mentioned earlier. How do you control the elements and make them become a piece of clothing on your body?"

Ober didn't mention anything about divine power or energy, and probably because they wouldn't understand, he just thought of a similar example.

"Nature type! Is Ra a nature type esper?! Or are you two?"

Burfat was a little surprised to hear that the test content was related to elementalization.

"Oh~ Neither Sister La nor we are like that! It's just an analogy, for example!" Seeing that everyone was focusing their attention on the person with natural abilities, Osi quickly corrected.

"Hmm~ This is a bit troublesome. There are no users with nature-type abilities in our pirate group. Most of them are animal-type." Burfat felt a little tricky.

"I've seen several people with natural abilities, and they seem to only be able to elementalize their own clothes, but not other things."

Jin found some information about people with natural abilities from his memories.

"Yeah, those nature-type guys are weird. How come even their clothes can be elementalized?"

Burfat also remembered a natural ability user he had met before, and then looked at Jin.

"Speaking of which, you animal-types are the same. Even though your bodies are only mutating, your clothes are changing with it. Boss Kaido is so huge after turning into a dragon, but his clothes are fine after he turns back!"

Jhin did not answer, because this involved the rules of a higher dimension, which he did not know either.

"Okay, now's not the time to discuss tearing clothes... Uh~ well, it's not that bad actually."

Osi suddenly remembered that Jhin could manipulate flames flexibly, so he asked expectantly: "By the way, Brother Yantou, how do you control the flame? I see you put it on your head sometimes and on your wings sometimes. Do you have any tricks to control it?"

"Controlling fire is a talent of our clan, or you could say an instinct, just like breathing. There's no skill that can be taught." Jhin didn't care about Osi's address.

Well, maybe he cares a little, but he won’t say it.

"Like breathing? Jin, can you manipulate the flames to form a piece of clothing?" asked Ober.

Ever since the competition, Ouba never called Jin the Masked Man again. Mainly because whenever he mentioned Masked Ouba, he would think of that distorted face, and then...

"To form clothes? I can cover my entire body with flames, making it look like clothes, but it consumes a lot of energy and doesn't have much practical value."

Jhin said as he stood up and demonstrated.

He folded his wings, and then the flames behind him ignited and covered his whole body, as if he was wearing a flaming cloak.

But after just a few seconds, he quickly lifted it.

"So what kind of clothes are you talking about?"

After seeing Jin's demonstration, Burfat felt that this was still a little different from "clothes".

"like this."

Oubey lifted the hem of her skirt.

"?"×n

All the pirates, including Jin and Burfat, were confused.

"The skirts Osi and I are wearing were woven by Sister La using the energy of similar elements." Obei explained further.

"?!"×n

"You, what did you say?! The clothes you are wearing are not real?!" Burfat's eyes widened, and he directly touched the hem of Osi's skirt next to him.

"It feels like just ordinary silk, doesn't it? The only thing that's special about it is that it feels ridiculously good."

Meanwhile, Jin was staring closely at Ouba's skirt. He didn't touch it, but his trembling pupils showed that he was not at peace either.

"This is flame! And it's an extremely special kind of flame! I sense an aura from this flame that is hard to look at directly!"

Jin told the material of the skirt right away.

"I never thought that one day I would be afraid of fire."

His race, the Lunalia clan, are born children of fire, and fire is like a part of their body.

But now, Jhin actually felt tremendous pressure from this gentle object in front of him, which had none of the brutality and heat that fire should have.

But after suppressing his fear and carefully observing the two people's skirts, Jin discovered a fact that surprised him even more.

"This... this is actually the process of spinning flames into silk threads and then weaving them into clothes! It's an unimaginable skill, it's simply a miracle from God!" He stood up suddenly and lost his composure for once.

"Eh? There's fire? Sister Korra clearly said she just used pure divine power?"

Ossie rubbed the hem of her skirt with her hands, trying to wipe out some sparks or something.

But she failed. The smooth and warm texture was more like an early summer stream than a flame.

"Hey, is that really that exaggerated? I can't believe you can make such an expression."

Burfat stood aside, finding it hard to understand what was so special about these ordinary-looking clothes that could make Jin lose his composure.

"Burfat, your Murloc Karate is a fighting style that manipulates water flows. So can you control the water flows to mix silk threads and weave them into a piece of clothing like this?" Jhin made an analogy to Burfat.

"Are you kidding me?! I can turn water into thin threads, but weaving them into clothes? I'm not a sea god, how can I do such a thing! The best I can do is temporarily cover my body with sea water like you." Burfat couldn't help but feel it was absurd when he heard Jin's analogy.

"Wait, you mean the clothes on these two kids..."

"Yes, it is woven with threads made of flame."

"Hiss~"×n

This is simply a miraculous work!

The pirates around gradually understood the horror of it and gasped in shock, making the cafeteria suddenly cooler.

"Your eldest sister is a monster, right?! So the assessment for you two is..."

"Well, Sister La asked us to knit a set of clothes like this ourselves. If we don't finish it by then, she will... uh~uh~..."

Oubei quickly covered Osi's mouth. The following words could not be said in such a public place!

"This is impossible, just give up."

Jhin said this directly and decisively. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't even dare to imagine that a skirt woven with flames really existed.

"Oh~ There really is no other way..." Osi was a little frustrated. He had tried all the possible methods and was at the end of his rope.

unless……

"At this point, we can only resort to tricks!" Ou Bei seemed to have made a decision.

"Trick? How do you trick?"

"This way... then that way..." Obe whispered his plan into Osi's ear.

"Is this even possible?! This is totally cheating!?"

"You don't have to."

"Let's get ready now!"

"..."

after one day.

This is something that cannot be detected by any instrument... cough, in this empty space with no one around, Obe and Osi looked at La in front of them with trepidation.

Because the training ground has now become a tourist attraction on the island, it is crowded with people every day, so it is a bit inappropriate to take the exam there.

"So, this is the homework you handed in?" La's tone didn't convey any emotion.

“…Yes.” ×2

Osi and Obei answered with a stiff upper lip, their words full of guilt.

Now the two of them are like the class monitor and study committee member who take two or three homework books and tell the teacher that they have collected them all.

"You guys are taking advantage of the situation."

It was still that gentle and calm tone, but when it fell into the ears of the two little ones, they trembled all over.

"..."

After a suffocating silence, Ossi was the first to break down.

"Guah! I'm sorry, Sister La, I had no choice. It was Oubei who instigated me." Osi hugged La's thighs and began to cry.