One Piece: The Devil Fruit Collector-Chapter 228: Body Outside Body, Suppressing Disaster Alone
Chapter 228: Body Outside Body, Suppressing Disaster Alone
Cases similar to that girl’s before were clearly not isolated in Dressrosa now.
On the contrary.
They could be seen everywhere.
"Ah!"
A scream came; a woman lay beside her husband’s corpse, watching her daughter being snatched by a pirate.
"No! Don’t hurt my daughter, please!"
"Get lost!"
She was kicked away by the pirate. Beside her, a toy dressed as a chef waved a kitchen knife rushing forward. "Let go of Sania."
But similarly, its fragile toy body had no combat power.
So next moment, it was cut in two directly by another pirate’s steel knife; its broken body fell heavily to the ground.
"Hahaha! This little girl looks really pretty, definitely worth a lot sold as a slave later."
"Hey hey, that woman beside is not bad too—why not grab her?"
"Ah? She indeed looks okay, but already old, not a very valuable good... aren’t we going to the colosseum? Carrying such goods will affect subsequent battles, right?"
"Idiot! Go to what colosseum—didn’t you see? Even The Zodiac monster came... Kingdom of Iron’s strongest army didn’t even last three seconds before being wiped out."
"Yeah, that Caesar the employer commissioned us to snatch is definitely unsnatchable, better grab more goods back to make up for losses!"
Watching several pirates grinning hideously walking toward the woman, hearing the wailing "Mother, run quickly" from the girl held hostage by them.
"Sania, Sarah..."
The toy chef struggled.
As a toy, body damage wasn’t enough to make him lose consciousness.
So now, although cut in two, its upper body still tried hard to crawl forward, trying to stop the pirates. "Not allowed to hurt... them..."
Although they didn’t remember him anymore, although they formed a new family.
But he remembered—before he was turned into a toy, they were his wife and daughter!
He remembered his wife’s smile, remembered the warm touch when holding his daughter.
That was the only comfort left in his heart after becoming a toy.
But next moment...
"Hm? This toy is still alive—speaking of which, how are these toys in this country made exactly?"
It was stepped on by a pirate.
"Pity, heard this thing can only exist in Dressrosa... otherwise taking it out would count as a rare good too."
The pirate grinned, raising the huge hammer in his hand. "As for now... just smash you to death!"
As words fell, the huge hammer in his hand smashed down abruptly.
So, despair rose in the toy chef’s heart.
Clearly he decided to use his everything to protect them.
But finally, just like being turned into a toy irresistibly back then.
"Still... can’t do it?"
He thought so.
But next moment...
Accompanying a roaring sound.
The toy chef saw a giant staff sweeping from the sky.
The pirate was blasted away along with the hammer in his hand—judging from the twisted arc of his body, he clearly couldn’t survive.
"Hm!?"
Subsequently, other pirates hearing the sound stopped their evil actions too.
They turned heads instinctively, then saw...
Step! Step!
That figure slanting the staff on shoulder, wearing a monkey face mask, walked out slowly.
"Sa... Saru!?"
"Impossible—isn’t he near No. 5 Gate?"
So, they almost couldn’t stand steadily instantly.
Why would a big shot of The Zodiac appear before small characters like them?
"W-wait a minute, we leave immediately—you..."
They wanted to say something.
But...
Click!
Next moment, they heard mechanical and engine sounds.
BOOM!
Instant later, that ’Saru’ with eyes flashing golden light appeared before them.
But the key was—now, the pirates noticed clearly.
The ’Saru’ appearing before them now, his body clearly wasn’t flesh and blood.
On the contrary.
His body showed metallic luster.
"You guy, what thing..."
Pirates’ horrified words couldn’t finish.
Because the next instant, golden light burst from that ’Saru’s’ eyes; the iron staff in hand swung out already.
So moments later, only pirates’ corpses cut by lasers and flattened by iron staff remained on the spot.
"..."
Watching this, the surviving mother and daughter stared wide-eyed at ’Saru’ before them.
But before they could speak, they saw Saru’s figure change the next instant.
Smoke rose; a light seemed to fly out from ’Saru’s’ body.
Moments later, in the mother and daughter’s wide-eyed gaze, he turned into a hair fluttering to the ground, then disappearing without a trace.
"Mother... th... this is..."
Watching this, the girl named ’Sania’ couldn’t understand somewhat.
Clearly, her mother couldn’t understand what happened either.
But moments later...
BOOM!
Sound from another direction attracted their attention instantly.
They turned instinctively, then saw—in the distance accompanying a burst of dust, another ’Saru’ also leaped out from dust, blasting a group of pirates away now.
"That Lord Saru, n... not just one?"
So, they realized that incredible fact instantly.
But clearly, as a mother, Sarah reacted quite fast now.
"Quick! While that Lord Saru is helping us, let’s go to the colosseum quickly!"
She pulled her daughter, looking at the approaching ’Birdcage’ behind, making the correct choice.
"Wait, mother..."
Sania naturally understood mother’s meaning.
But now, she gritted her teeth, then dragged her equally injured body to the toy chef cut in two.
She hugged the toy chef in her arms, saying firmly, "I want to take Mr. Chef with us."
"...Mm."
Hearing her words, her mother looked at the toy cut in two for protecting them.
She revealed a slight smile. "Let’s go together."
Cases like Sania’s family.
Were not isolated in Dressrosa now.
"Un! Unbelievable! So many ’Saru’, so many! Is that also that lord’s ability!?"
"He appears everywhere in the entire Dressrosa—those trash giving up the match and starting burning, killing, looting... are being disposed of at extreme speed!"
On the big screen, commentator Gatz’s voice explained what was happening now.
Yes.
Now, in the entire Dressrosa.
No matter where, as long as before villains committing burning, killing, looting.
A ’Saru’ would appear out of thin air.
Although their strength was obviously far inferior to the real ’Saru’, they still possessed overwhelming power.
Their bodies seemed composed of steel, possessing various technological weapons. The combination of iron staff and laser in hand was enough to instant-kill most rioting villains.
After clearing an area, they would turn into a hair and disappear, replaced by another ’Saru’ appearing elsewhere.
[Weapon Transformation · Germa Technology · Autonomous Robot]
[Homie Creation · Hair]
Combined, became what appeared in Dressrosa now.
[Monkey Hair Homie · Body Outside Body (Shen Wai Hua Shen)]
Just as Gatz’s almost voice-cracking roar said.
"He... he is suppressing the riot of the entire country with the power of one person!"
"Is this the power of ’The Zodiac’!?"
"What... incredible ability is this?"
Now, somewhere in Dressrosa.
"Actually can do such a thing..."
A man just putting a mask on his face put down the helmet in hand with astonishment.
The man had white beard and hair, clearly quite old, but muscles all over body still knotted.
He was ’Riku Dold III’, the former king of this country forced to abdicate due to Doflamingo’s frame-up and manipulation.
Beside him stood a beauty with brown-black long hair wearing a dancing dress.
She was Donquixote Family assassin, codenamed ’Violet’.
But her other identity was King Riku’s daughter, former princess of this country—Viola.
"Father, since so, hide quickly."
"Doflamingo doing this must have a conspiracy, maybe wanting to capture you..."
She said somewhat worriedly.
"No, Viola, you don’t need to say such words."
But hearing her words, King Riku shook his head. "You and I both know Doflamingo’s plan this time isn’t for this old man—this old man doesn’t have this qualification."
"He never cared about this old man’s hatred, nor would make a plan of this level for this old man."
He said mockingly.
Hearing this, Viola was silent.
She naturally knew her father was right.
Doflamingo didn’t care about this former king overthrown by him—or rather, he didn’t regard King Riku as an ’Opponent’.
In Doflamingo’s eyes, he was more like a ’Toy’.
So in that conspiracy a few years ago, Doflamingo chose to spare King Riku because Viola was willing to join Donquixote Family actively—not because how special Viola was, just because he liked watching ants begging for mercy.
"Using own daughter joining enemy’s command to exchange for life... Fuffuffuffuffu, sounds like an interesting trade."
He spared King Riku just for ’Fun’.
Benevolent king once loving everything of this country, living among people after losing everything, watching people spurning him, watching them walk toward destruction in ignorance—Doflamingo enjoyed this pleasure of toying with others.
He naturally wouldn’t set up a conspiracy and trap of this level for a toy.
"This conspiracy is either against ’Beasts’ or against ’The Zodiac’... Viola, that intelligence you learned accidentally is quite important."
King Riku said deeply. "Ignore me, go tell the intelligence to people who should know—currently, The Zodiac is relatively trustworthy."
"Then you..."
Viola looked at her father.
"Me? I am the kingdom’s sinner."
Now, King Riku slowly put on the armor put down just now again.
"In the past, due to my unwisdom and weakness, people suffered such disaster..."
"I can’t hide, Viola—I have nowhere to hide either."
Yes, actually just now, he planned to rush to the battlefield after putting on armor.
He knew his strength couldn’t save all people, but at least he could save a few.
And now...
"That Lord Saru suppressed the country’s riot with one person’s power."
"I don’t have power like his."
He clenched his fist, looking at the already devastated kingdom in the distance, those people fleeing toward the colosseum, and the shrinking ’Birdcage’ behind them.
He had lived weakly in this country for several years.
And now... he didn’t want to be that pirate’s ’Plaything’ anymore.
"In crisis, the King should be with the people."
He was going to the colosseum.
"I want to protect my people, or... perish with them."
That was the duty a king should fulfill—though he was driven off the throne long ago.
But just then...
"Sorry, didn’t mean to interrupt your father-daughter conversation."
A voice sounded suddenly in the father and daughter’s ears.
"Who!?"
So, father and daughter became vigilant immediately.
They turned around instantly.
Then, Viola and King Riku’s bodies stiffened instantly too.
They looked incredulously at the figure appearing out of thin air from the air.
It was a figure wearing a Rat Mask.
They naturally recognized the opponent.
That was The Zodiac—Nezumi (Rat).
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