Zongman: Evolution Paradise

"Hey! I want it! I want it!"

"...Shizuka, your skin is already very good."

"Jolyne, you should know that no woman would refuse to have better skin!"

"Shizuka is right, I want one too."

"Saeko! You're bullying me, waah~"

Nami was stunned at first, then overjoyed.

Devil Fruit?!

A Devil Fruit rumored to be worth 100 million Berries?

Just one, just one, and she could redeem her village from the Arlong Pirates! The remaining money would be enough to take everyone away from the Cornish Islands! To a place without fish-men and start a new life!

But how is she supposed to get it?

Nami fell into deep thought.

Chapter 451 Nami Appears

[You have opened Alvida's treasure chest]

[You have earned 500 Paradise Coins]

[You have obtained the item - Treasure Map]

[You have acquired the equipment - the Tyrannical Wolf Fang Mace]

Equipment - Tyrannical Wolf Fang Club

Description: Three blows shatter the deserter's soul; General, I am here to obey orders.

Effect: To intimidate the enemy's will.

Bonus: Strength +2

Usage requirements: Strength 8

"What garbage green board equipment."

Jolyne completely disregarded it, casually tossing the spiked club into the workshop. She then picked up the treasure map and discovered that her Luck 3 had finally come in handy.

Item - Treasure Map

Description: Circles, crosses, and lines—a skilled pirate can find treasure using these symbols.

Effect: A treasure.

Usage conditions: as shown in the figure.

Just as the park described, the yellow treasure map does indeed only have circles, crosses, lines, and a prominent pattern in the middle.

The content of the pattern is:

An oval with two leaves, surrounded by lines representing radiant light.

The location of the treasure is circled in red, and an arrow points from here to the map.

The meaning of the treasure map is obvious: the ultimate treasure is a Devil Fruit.

Given that the treasure chest came from Alvida, it must be the Smooth-Smooth Fruit, which is indeed an extremely powerful Paramecia-type Devil Fruit.

After all, developing things like eliminating friction is still just a concept. The Devil Fruits in this world have undergone a mutation, and they may have more potential than the limits they could have in the original work. Maybe the [Bubble-Bubble Fruit] can even be developed into something like the [Soft and Wet Beyond] from JoJo?

"But how do we interpret this treasure map?"

Listening to the discussion among the people on the ship, Jolyne came to the edge of the ship again and looked at the water. These pirates were not so weak that they would all die as soon as they fell into the water.

He asked directly via telepathy, "Who among you can decipher the treasure map? There's only one spot available."

"My lord! I will choose myself!"

"Me too! I can even clean the deck!"

"I can not only clean the deck, but I can also cook!"

The pirates who were still alive in the sea were overjoyed. Without considering whether they were capable or not, they began to fight each other to save their lives.

Nami was already thinking about how to get on the ship, so how could she resist such an opportunity?

He immediately deactivated his ability, and with incredible audacity, pretended to have fallen into the water with the other pirates, putting on a pitiful expression and shouting loudly, "These people don't even know how to read a treasure map! My lord, choose me! I am the navigator of the Alvida Pirates!"

"Nami???"

The sudden surprise startled Jolyne. Looking at the orange-haired beauty in the water, he determined her name by her features, but a bunch of questions immediately arose in his mind.

No, where did you come from?

I didn't sense you just now.

Has the little thief become a vengeful old thief?

I knew I had already reached a luck stat of 3, how could I possibly pull Alvida!

Nami pitifully pulled down her shoulder strap, revealing a glimpse of white skin at the neckline. The waves soaked her dark green short shirt, wantonly displaying her wet and seductive body. Although her face still had some childishness, the nascent curves of her body already hinted at a vast future.

However, Jolyne was more concerned about the tattoo on Nami's left arm than her looks.

It was a black vortex pattern, clearly not the symbol of the Arlong Pirates. More importantly, it exuded a sense of pollution. When Jolyne opened her eyes and looked at it again, the vortex seemed to come alive and merged into the sea, turning into a void, with the surrounding tides constantly surging into it.

then,

The scene before his eyes suddenly changed.

The sea turned dark, as if a giant ship had leaked oil; the thunderstorm in the sky stopped; and the whole world was silent as if welcoming death.

There was a "click".

The world returned to normal, just as Joan of Arc pinched his waist.

Joan of Arc snorted softly, glancing at her own childlike appearance with secret annoyance, because Joan's gaze lingered on a strange woman.

She has realized that if her body doesn't grow up faster, not only will she be unable to catch up with rivals like Saeko Busujima and Medea who have already reached the finish line, but one day even idiots like the human-faced dog and Princess Goldfish might walk into the room from outside right in front of her!

She absolutely! Absolutely cannot tolerate it!

Jolyne was unaware of her thoughts. He pried open Jeanne's increasingly tight fingers and looked at Nami, who was starting to break out in a cold sweat and wanted to run away because she felt something was wrong due to his lack of response.

"In this pirate world, Observation Haki must have become a means of suicide, right?"

Jolyne sighed. He had only glanced at the pattern, and somehow it had inexplicably dialed the phone number of an evil god.

And because this is not a listener.

He also finds it difficult to hang up.

The underlying principle lies in the word "medium".

When the medium is the listener, because it is Jolyne's own power, he can naturally hang up whenever he wants through the workshop. But when the medium is Nami, Jolyne's gaze is fixed on what he sees, and he cannot stop the evil god from descending with power through Nami.

That's why Jolyne didn't directly provoke the evil gods this time. This was their territory, and if he angered them, they might actually use a divine vessel to personally block his path, not to mention he had crew members with him.

Jolyne had already realized from that glance that Nami was indeed in a lot of trouble. She was at least a potential familiar of an evil god. But so what? He didn't intend to refuse a navigator who had come to his door. It would be a good opportunity to learn about the abyss of this world.

Jolyne smiled and said to Nami below the ship with interest, "Once you're on my ship, you'll have to leave behind an arm if you want to leave."

Goto Ichiri: “!!!”

Goto Ichiri was horrified!

She remembered that she was only a temporary worker, so why were there such rules here? You know, the arm is a guitarist's most precious limb!

Suddenly, Kanroji Mitsuri discovered that Goto Ichiri, whom she was holding, had turned into "Ichiri-chan," slumped on the deck, and even developed mold.

"Jolyne must be joking!"

Kanroji Mitsuri quickly explained, prompting Kingyo-hime to ask in surprise, "So you were just joking?"

It must be said that the Baka Ghost Stories have a touch of the local atmosphere of the One Piece world.

"Of course I'm not joking."

However, this time the ghost story was right, and Jolyne said that she was not wrong.

"In that case, I won't get on the ship."

Nami casually stuck out her tongue, but she already had a bad feeling. In her original plan, she would reveal her identity as a navigator, and the fierce but stupid pirate would immediately take her to the ship and demand that she find the treasure, or else he would kill her in a few days, blah blah blah. And the little thief Nami would use her intelligence to steal the Devil Fruit and the ship's treasure!

Chapter 452 I'll stop once I've earned 100 million

Most of the local pirates are not very smart. They are vicious but lack cunning and treachery. They are straightforward and act like background characters in a comedy anime.

Boarding the ship, crisis, theft, escape...

Things were supposed to go this way, but when Nami met Jolyne's eyes, the theft plot she was conceiving in her mind could no longer continue, because those eyes seemed to see right through her, and his blunt words were more like a warning given in advance.

Nami felt a pang of regret. She shouldn't have let greed consume her vigilance after hearing about the Devil Fruit worth 100 million Berries. She could have easily accumulated 100 million Berries by simply avoiding risks and stealing from low-risk pirates, just like before.

"Bye-bye, I'm leaving now."

Nami turned away nonchalantly, and then Saeko Busujima once again wielded her sword. The gentle, moonlight-like sword energy robbed the pirates of their last breath, their blood swallowed by the waves before it could even stain the sea.

"There's no chance anymore."

Seeing that Jolyne cared a lot about her, Saeko Busujima threatened, "If you don't agree, you'll die."

"I suddenly want to get back on the ship."

Nami turned around again, her face showing no sign of resistance. If Saeko Busujima hadn't been able to read minds, she would have thought Nami had resigned herself to her fate.

Using telekinesis, the Hound of the Humanface set sail again after Nami boarded the ship.

Jolyne wasn't in a hurry to ask questions. She asked Saeko Busujima to take her to change her clothes first, and then looked at Ichiri Goto and explained to her, "What I said didn't include you."

He wasn't joking, but the rule that "once you're on board, you can't easily leave" only applies to locals in the pirate world like Nami, and doesn't include players like Goto Ichiri from the main world.

The former is carefree and has fewer troubles.

Like followers of Paradise, once a contract is made, unless Jolyne dies, there is no way to betray him unilaterally. Jolyne is also somewhat domineering. Since Nami has boarded his ship, how could she possibly have the option of going elsewhere if their ambitions don't align?

His ship holds so many secrets; it's not a place where you can come and go as you please.

The latter is different.

As a player in the main world, Jolyne respected Goto Ichiri's choice, and it was alright for her to be a temporary worker like Yukino Yukinoshita.

"...Not including me...I'm not...I didn't really mean to refuse..."

Goto Ichiri returned to normal, but panicked again at Jolyne's explanation, her eyes turning into less than signs as she pounded her head with her fists in distress.

"Let me guess."

Jolyne: "Although she looked panicked, she was actually secretly pleased. She was thinking that because she was forced to stay, she had to tell herself, 'Ichiri-chan, you have to get rid of your past of living alone and spend the rest of your life here with so many beautiful girls.'"

Goto Kazuri: Σ(???ノ)ノ

Was she really that obvious?!

"Oh, it's okay. Even if the adventure ends and Ichiri-chan returns to the main world, I'll be happy to welcome her if she comes to visit me."

Jolyne's analysis was so cold, while Mitsuri Kanroji's embrace was incredibly warm.

Goto Ichiri's dilemma was just an isolated case; the others didn't care much about it, since everyone's positions were already set so far that they could no longer leave Jolyne.

Nanriko leaned lazily against the edge of the boat, and as she witnessed all of this, she suddenly felt that her hands were a little idle.

After spending some time together, she and Ciri Alice's mercenary squad naturally joined Jolyne's camp. Life here was much better than being a freelance mercenary in Night City, and the salary was obviously higher than that of an Umbrella Corporation employee. Taking advantage of her good friend Shizuka Marikawa's status, Minami Rika even became a salary thief, only concerned with making up for the hardships of the past four years.

"Shizuka, I forgive you."

"Forgive what?"

Shizuka Marikawa asked curiously, then, recalling the events, asked guiltily, "Did you discover that last night...?"

"What happened last night???"

Nanri Kaori withdrew her remark and began to press Shizuka Marikawa for answers, focusing on her weaknesses.