Chapter 519: Chapter 519: God Valley Arc — An Explanation to the Old Man

In the smoke-filled battlefield of God Valley, Orin made a lifelong promise to Linlin. Oh, right—this was the future "Orin." Orin suppressed a laugh as he made the promise; for a moment the atmosphere turned ambiguous, a bit like when Rayleigh rescued Shakky.

"Are you serious?"

Hearing this, Linlin swallowed and didn’t hurry to demand the Devil Fruit anymore. After all, a monster child was far more tempting to her than something like a Devil Fruit.

"But this comes with conditions—you’ll have to wait twenty years~"

Orin said with a smile, dropping words that left Linlin confused.

"As for why, don’t ask. Just promise me you won’t have any more children, and that you can keep your figure and looks as they are. If you can do that, I’m happy to make the promise to you."

After hesitating for a moment, Linlin still left with Napoleon on her shoulder. Before going, she didn’t forget to look back at Orin.

"I’ll remember this, Orin. This time, you owe me a big favor."

"Yes, yes~"

Watching Linlin walk away, Orin then tucked the azure, scale-covered Dragon Fruit into his clothes. Beside him, Kuma stared at them with a blank face, rubbing his smooth head, seemingly still not quite sure what had just happened.

"Little Kuma..."

Orin patted the honest-looking Kuma’s head.

"You’re the MVP of God Valley~"

...

Elsewhere, Alice also broke free from Rocks.

"Put me down!!!"

Alice held Teach and rolled several times on the ground.

"If I can’t even protect my child, if I’m a woman who has to depend on you all the time, you wouldn’t fall in love with me either, right~"

"We both have to live on."

"See you in Lulusia."

Under the gaze of Rocks and Keek, Alice fled outward with Teach. Seeing this, the pursuers behind them grew excited.

"So you’ve finally put your wife and child down. Then how will you attack?"

How will you attack?

Keek swallowed. He hadn’t expected the God’s Knights to be this fierce. Faced with an unrestrained Captain Rocks, instead of thinking about how to escape, they wanted to clash head-on?

It was the first time he’d seen people like this.

Rocks brought his blade down in a single strike. The enormous slash almost split half of God Valley apart!!!

Even though Keek was outside the range of the attack, he was still shaken to the core by this disaster-like blow.

So this is Rocks—the overlord of this era?!!!

How terrifyingly strong!!!

... 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Elsewhere, Linlin left with the Qilin Fruit. Not only was she not disappointed, she was actually in high spirits.

"This fruit is just right for Katakuri. When my child with Orin is born, I’ll find another one for him..."

As she was thinking, suddenly—

"Bang—"

The side of her face that Orin hadn’t hit just now was smashed hard by a spiked club, and Linlin’s consciousness blurred again.

Young Kaido was right behind her. He opened his mouth wide and swallowed the Qilin Fruit in one gulp, chewing as he went, a satisfied smile on his face, as if to say,

"This little thing has some flavor~"

"Does Haki reign supreme over everything?"

A teasing voice sounded at that moment.

"Click—"

Two photos appeared: one of Kaido eating the fruit, and one of Big Mom knocked out.

With that, all the Yonko meme shots were finally complete. That included the moment just now when Whitebeard and the others were being chased by Garp—he happened to snap photos when he got there. Unfortunately, by then Keek had already split up from Newgate and the others.

Now, though...

Orin looked toward the distance. It was time to go find that old man Keek.

In the central area of God Valley, Rocks stood like a demon god, alone with his blade. In the distance lay a field of "corpses." Saint Garling, already bruised and battered, now lay on the ground like a dead dog, beaten into a bloody mess.

The God’s Knights who had been arrogantly teaming up earlier were truly beaten into the "God’s Kids."

Keek had basically been carried the whole way. Watching this, his face was full of excitement, as if he were the one who had won—until a hand patted his shoulder and he snapped back to reality.

"Combatant Keek, this isn’t a place you should be, right~"

"Captain Orin!!!"

Orin smiled. Facing Keek’s delighted expression, he directly tossed over a Devil Fruit.

Keek hurriedly caught it with both hands. It was a Devil Fruit covered in blue scales.

He froze for a moment.

"This is..."

"Fish-Fish Fruit, Mythical Zoan, Azure Dragon Model."

Orin said calmly.

"It’s for you. Eat it."

Keek’s eyes widened. He knew the basics about Devil Fruits—Mythical Zoans could be said to be among the best of them. But...

"Why give something this precious to me?"

"Well..."

Since he was about to leave anyway, Orin didn’t bother hiding it and simply said it.

"Actually... I’m your grandson~"

"I came back from the future through the power of a Devil Fruit."

He explained the whole story concisely. It took Keek a long while to react, as if his worldview had been hit by a truck.

So, the Captain Orin he respected and admired so much was actually his future grandson?

And he also learned that the other party was the child he had met and adopted after leaving God Valley.

"Back then, you couldn’t withstand the blow of the Rocks Pirates’ disappearance. After returning to your hometown, you fell into a slump for a time, until I showed top-tier monster potential..."

On the battlefield, the young grandfather and grandson chatted.

"...So, you should eat this fruit."

"After you eat it, even if you can’t match an Admiral, beating a Vice Admiral at Marine Headquarters won’t be a problem."

But Keek clearly had his own plans.

Since this Devil Fruit was so powerful, wouldn’t it be a waste for an untalented old man like him to eat it?

Keek’s thinking gradually stretched toward a longer-term view. He felt that instead of eating it himself and ending up mediocre, it would be better to create a real monster. If...

If Orin didn’t encounter a satisfactory fruit in the future, this one could at least serve as a fallback for his monster grandson...

Thinking this way, Keek didn’t bite into it. Instead, he carefully put it away.

Seeing this, Orin didn’t force the issue. He simply molded another black cube with his hands and tossed it to Keek as well.

"This time, don’t give this one away. Keep it to save your life. It’s a bit of filial piety from me~"

In fact, there was more than just that. Orin also left behind a large pile of unused treasure. And finally, to eliminate future troubles and prevent the World Government and others from coming to cause problems, he was about to give the upper echelons of the World Government some "insurance."

Orin took the black gun off his back. He also sensed, from the distant canyon, that powerful presence that had turned into a sky-reaching black shadow.

"Imu..."

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