One Piece: The Arm of Fate

Shano thought for a moment.

In the end, he added it to the shopping cart.

The reason he hesitated was simply that he wasn't sure if this thing could treat a "ship" as a "base."

If it could be set up on a ship, it would be worth the money.

If not, no big deal. At worst, it would just sit there for a while, and might come in handy one day in the future.

He could still afford to take the trial and error cost of only fifteen thousand points.

...

The next few items were types that didn't interest him at first glance.

Shano quickly skipped them.

He swiped several times until the last item popped up and finally caught his attention again.

[Deep Sea Breathing Method]

[Type: Cultivation Secrets]

[Price: 5500 points]

[Description: A special muscle control technique. To start, you need high physical strength. After successful practice, your body pores can temporarily simulate fish gills' function, letting your muscles transport oxygen to allow underwater breathing. The longest duration depends on your practice progress and physical strength.]

[Seller's note: "Damn it, I traveled through time and became that damn female octopus!!"]

Shano: "?"

Which world's worldview is your deep sea breathing method from?

Forget it, no matter how miserable travelers from other worlds are, it's none of his business.

Shano quickly focused on the description, eyes narrowing slightly.

The ability to breathe underwater like the fishmen was a bit expensive.

If this was in other worlds, it might not be that attractive.

But this is One Piece!

A world without continents, where oceans cover over 95% of the area!

Not to mention 5,000 points, even 10,000 points could not be missed.

As for the prerequisite, high physical strength was necessary.

Shano believed he still met this threshold.

In physical strength alone, he was confident he already stood at the forefront of the world's second echelon—only behind those top masters standing at the very top.

So he decisively added it to the shopping cart.

...

All the props in the new issue had been browsed.

He entered the checkout stage.

This time, he bought six props in total, spending 29,000 points, leaving 23,200 points remaining.

The expenditure was the largest in recent years, but the rich harvest was definitely worth it.

Shano couldn't wait to turn off the system panel, entered the cabin with a coffee cup, and began testing the new abilities one by one.

He decided to try the knocking spell first.

As the description said, as long as the knocking spell scepter was still in his backpack, the method of using the spell would naturally be imprinted in his mind.

He walked along the corridor and came to the kitchen at the end.

Next to the corner was the door to the food storage room.

Since Gin had an irregular schedule and often came out at night, Zeff specially put a big iron lock on the door to prevent him from drinking too much strawberry milk.

Shano silently recited the knocking technique formula in his heart, and the moment his fingertips touched the lock...

Click.

The iron lock opened directly.

Hey, fun.

The whole process took less than half a second—it really unlocked instantly.

With this skill, food and drink could be obtained anywhere.

Shano was like a child with a new toy, running around excitedly.

He tried almost every locked thing in the cabin.

After a long time, still unsatisfied, he left the cabin, came to the empty stern deck, and looked at the remaining things in the backpack column.

He took out Yasuo's sword secret book and flipped through it first.

Well, as expected, he couldn't understand it at all.

It seemed he would never have the chance to learn real swordsmanship in this life, and he would just give it to Kuina later.

Don't ask why; if you ask, it's because it exploded from Hanafuda.

After all, he was the brother of Mr. Kai entrenched in Wano Country, so it made sense he carried some Bushido-style kendo secrets.

Then, Shano tried unfolding the light prism tower.

The result was unexpectedly smooth.

The light prism tower automatically deployed and merged with the main mast.

No wonder it was said to be invisible.

He couldn't detect anything special with his Observation Haki.

This saved trouble.

If the crew saw the mast emitting light prisms in the future, they would probably think it was some black technology of the mast.

Don't ask; if you ask, it's the factory setting of the Giant Whale Shipyard.

Shano looked at the remaining three items in the backpack column.

There was no need to use "Prayer" for now, and the effect of the "Deep Sea Breathing Method" could only be seen after successful practice.

So, now, the last thing to test was stealing.

When this set of cards was purchased, a free trial was included.

When the backpack was opened, a text box popped up reminding him that items obtained from the trial would be returned by the original route.

In other words, this trial was purely for him to familiarize himself with the skill's effect, so that he wouldn't operate improperly when officially using it in the future and lose a chance in vain.

Coincidentally, at that moment, a news bird flew by in the distant sky.

It was at least 20 kilometers away from the End, appearing as a blurry white dot at the limit of his visual range.

It was perfect for use as an experimental subject.

Shano took out the card set from the backpack, and six light golden cards appeared in his hand instantly, five of which were real, and the one for trial was just a phantom.

After aiming at the news bird, Shano's mind moved, and the card phantom instantly turned into a stream of light and disappeared.

Then Shano patiently waited for something to appear in his hand. Although he had taken a random item, there was nothing on the news bird.

It seemed that it was either a hat or a newspaper in the parcel...

Snap!

The next second.

A sticky, hot mass landed precisely on the palm of his hand.

Shano looked down and saw—

Bird shit.

Still fresh.

Although the next moment, the bird shit disappeared without a trace and returned to its original position, the wet touch and fishy smell on his hand still remained...

"..."

Shano was silent for two seconds, and the veins on his forehead throbbed.

Is this a rectal animal? It just happened to run into me when I was about to make a move, and it was shitting in the sky. Isn't that unethical?!

Trial version, right? Free experience, right?

Sure enough, free things are never trustworthy!

He was so angry that he looked up at the news bird.

The news bird seemed to have noticed the ship moving at full speed on the river, and happily jumped in that direction, approaching this side.

A moment later,

The news bird, with a bruised face and nose, flew away aggrieved.

Well, I feel better.

Shano clapped his hands contentedly. This kind of bird without public morality must be beaten and taught a lesson to vent his anger.

However, as compensation, he also packed all the newspapers in the mailbag so that the working bird could finish its performance and go home early.

Picking up the kendo secret book and newspaper, Shano walked to the bow.

He was going to give them to Kuina and Nami, who was eagerly waiting for the newspaper.

On the way,

He opened the newspaper and glanced at it.

As expected, the news of the demise of the Hanafuda Pirates had not yet reached the headquarters of the World Economic News Agency.

But it should be soon; at the latest, it would be tomorrow.

But this does not mean that this issue of the newspaper had nothing to do with them.

It was even the opposite.

This time, the front-page news could almost be said to be created by Shano alone!

——"The Fall of Judicial Island! The Blue Oni and the Red Oni, two legendary giants from a hundred years ago reappeared in the sea!"

Under the specially bolded title, there was a huge photo that took up half of the page.

In the photo, the entire Judicial Island was in ruins, with rubble and fallen guards everywhere.

Even the towering Tower of Justice, along with the World Government flag that should have been flying in the wind, collapsed to the ground!

Among the ruins, four huge figures were hugging each other and crying under the setting sun, their bodies covered in blood, obviously having just experienced a great battle.

The text report below also fully demonstrated Morgan's usual characteristics, adding fuel to the fire, and writing horrifying stories.

"Shock! One of the three major institutions of the World Government, Judicial Island, suffered a devastating blow recently!"

"According to eyewitnesses, two legendary giant warriors—Blue Ghost Touri and Red Ghost Broki—led two equally huge giant companions, and they were unstoppable, defeating all the defenders on the island!"

"The naval fleet that came to support urgently from the vortex behind the Gate of Justice was also destroyed! Two vice admirals of the headquarters were seriously injured!"

"The Tower of Justice collapsed! The Gate of Justice was destroyed!"

"The flag that symbolizes the authority of the World Government was torn into pieces and trampled underfoot by the legendary warriors from Elbaf!"

"Where did they come from, and who released these two beasts that were famous a hundred years ago!!!"

"This is going to be lively."

Shano chuckled and closed the newspaper.

It seemed he had accidentally caused big trouble for the Navy Headquarters.

I can only say that they are worthy of being the giants with straightforward and hot personalities.

Judging from the time, after reading the note he left, the two uncles could no longer sit idly by, ended the duel that lasted for a hundred years, and set sail again.

The first stop was to go straight to Judicial Island.

A huge wave was set off on the sea.

This was naturally good news for him.

From then on, there were two extremely powerful allies on this sea. If they went to Elbaf in the future, there would be one more person who could act as a bridge.

Moreover,

The bigger the Judicial Island incident became, the more the attention of the World Government and the Navy Headquarters would be distracted. In the short term, they would not have the time to cause trouble for themselves.

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The End continued to sail along the Santa Dora River.

As night fell, the group successfully arrived at Alubana, the capital of Alabasta.

The palace was brightly lit.

The dinner had already been prepared.

As a country located in the desert, Alabasta, with most of its territory extremely barren, was not very wealthy.

Even so, in order to express gratitude to the End Adventurers for their help, the standard of this banquet was still set very high.

In the main hall, the silver candlesticks flickered with warm light, reflecting the dazzling array of delicacies on the long table.

Golden roasted large bone ribs, fragrant lamb stewed with dates, and a wide variety of precious fruits piled up into a small mountain...

The fine wines that the royal family had collected for many years were all brought out without hesitation, allowing Shano and others to enjoy.

Even King Cobra, who was originally bedridden, forced himself to attend the banquet in person despite his illness.

The face was given enough, and the guests and hosts were all happy.

In this situation,

Let alone Shano and his friends, even if they were really vicious pirates, they would probably be embarrassed to have any bad intentions.

When the banquet ended, it was already late at night.

The drunken crew members were helped by the maids to go to their rooms to rest, and Nami, a minor who was not eligible to drink, was pulled by Vivi to play in her room.

As for Shano and Robin, they both tacitly did not drink much.

After leaving the table, they came to the side hall of the palace, where they met with Cobra and prepared to talk about Crocodile and the main text of history.

...

At the same time.

Thousands of miles away, in the Red Earth Continent, in the Holy Land of Marijoa,

another meeting was also taking place.

However, the level was a little higher...

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Pangu City.

The Five Elders gathered in the top-floor conference room, and the atmosphere was so solemn that it seemed that water could be squeezed out.

On the long table in front of the sofa, there were several newspapers and espionage reports scattered around, and on the top was the headline of today's World Economic News Agency.

"The Judicial Island was destroyed, and the Gate of Justice collapsed..."

The blond Five Elder in a crimson suit slammed the newspaper on the table, his tone cold:

"In just one month, first the Seven Warlords of the Sea Crocodile was killed, then the encirclement of Thor Island failed, and coupled with this sudden major event, the majesty of the World Government has been trampled to nothing."

His name is Shepard ten Peter, and he currently serves as the God of Agriculture.

"The blue demon Touri, and the red demon Broge..."

The Five Elder in kimono holding the demon sword narrowed his eyes, "Didn't those two giants duel in the small garden for hundreds of years? How come they suddenly left and attacked Judicial Island with such precision?"

Izambaron V. Nasujuro, the God of Finance.

"Someone intervened."

The curly-haired Five Elder wearing a flat cap flipped through the intelligence sent back by the CP department and said lightly:

"According to the description of the seriously injured guards, when the giants hugged each other and cried in celebration, they mentioned a name called Shano. It seems that it was thanks to him that the Blue Ghost and the Red Ghost learned that there were giant companions on Judicial Island who were successfully deceived by us and sent to guard the gate."

Jaygolucia Satan, the God of Scientific Defense.

"Shano?!" The blond Five Elder turned his head suddenly, "This Shano again?!"

The first two major events he mentioned were also done by this guy!

"From Rogue Town to Thor Island, it has been less than two months since we entered the Grand Line, and so many major incidents have already occurred. Now even the commotion on Judicial Island is related to him. This kid is simply like a plague. Wherever he goes, there will be..."

"The world turned upside down."

The white-haired and long-bearded Five Elder, who had been silent, interrupted him and said indifferently:

"By the way, before I came to the meeting, I just received the latest emergency intelligence sent back by CP0. Another Shichibukai Hanafuda died in the Kingdom of Alabasta yesterday. The person who did this was also this Shano."

"What?!!!"