Chapter 297

Lord Sima has decided!

From now on, one newspaper for 100 Berries, and absolutely no tipping!

Moreover......

This time he's going to freeload too!

Using telepathy to control the News Coo to drop a newspaper, then letting it go play on its own.

Lord Sima used his telekinesis to spread open the newspaper; the front-page headline was once again taken over by the Straw Hat Pirates.

Moreover......

It had nothing to do with the Dressrosa, but rather—

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24. Distributing the Spoils! A New Way to Eat Devil Fruits!

"Straw Hat Pirates' Goal to Challenge the Four Emperors Confirmed! How Will the BIG MOM Pirates Respond?"

Oh?

Lord Sima found it strange—when did they ever announce they were going after BIG MOM?

Although, that was indeed what he had been thinking.

—Lord Sima would absolutely never guess that this was a special hard dish Tesoro had arranged for the Straw Hat Pirates before his death.

Looking at the content again,

The entire piece only said "according to reliable sources," but who exactly leaked it was not mentioned at all.

"Tch! When the News King has time, I should go pay him a visit." Lord Sima said with great interest.

He was still quite curious how "reliable" this "reliable source" actually was.

Continuing to look downward.

Poor Tesoro,

The news of the fall of the Dressrosa could only be relegated to the secondary page, and the bulk of the content was still written about the Straw Hat Pirates.

To say the news agency wasn't wrong either,

The current Straw Hat Pirates, as a "rising new star," were absolutely a news hotspot!

It could only be said that the "Gold Emperor" had become a thing of the past, no longer the media's darling.

The third piece of news that followed immediately piqued Lord Sima's interest.

—Two crews, the Drought of the Kaido Pirates' crew and the Baron of the BIG MOM Pirates, are about to arrive at Dressrosa today!

At the end of the newspaper,

There was also a comment from the editor-in-charge—looking forward to the Straw Hat Pirates' first encounter with two members of the Four Emperors' crews.

In short: watching the fun and never thinking the matter is too big.

Lord Sima stroked his chin, feeling this was indeed a matter worth paying attention to—after all, they were a Four Emperors crew.

Slapping them in the face must feel pretty great, right!

Thinking of this,

Lord Sima opened the Golden Treasury, just about to operate.

A beam of light suddenly shot into the sky, exploding into the shape of a straw hat in mid-air, followed by a deafening explosion.

This was a special assembly firework made by Franky, to be used only in emergencies.

Just now, Lord Sima had been about to use this thing.

He hadn't expected someone else to use it first?

The four women, Robin included, who were still in their dreams, were all jolted awake immediately.

"Who set off the assembly signal?"

"Has something big happened?"

"It couldn't be Luffy setting it off by mistake again, could it?"

"We have to go back anyway. If he messes up again, this time I'm going to use Armament Haki on him for an hour!"

The five people successively used the Hearthstone at the fastest speed, returning to the Thousand Sunny, which was anchored somewhere unknown.

Unexpectedly, Usopp was even faster.

"Oh? Usopp, was it you who set off the signal?" Vivi said in surprise.

"Mm! It was me!" Usopp nodded seriously and said, "Wait until everyone arrives, then I'll explain what's going on!"

Lord Sima noticed Usopp clutching a newspaper; it seemed he was probably thinking of doing the same thing as him.

Not bad!

More and more like a proper crew.

Otherwise,

If it were the old Usopp, he should have already been scared off hiding somewhere by now.

Very quickly,

One after another, teleportation light pillars descended, and the Straw Hat Pirates members appeared in various forms.

Luffy, as always, came with his own meat,

Zoro carried an inescapable smell of alcohol,

Sanji also didn't know what he'd been up to, covered in the scent of rouge and powder, with several Lip Prints still on his face,

And so on until everyone had assembled.

Only then did Usopp spread open the newspaper and say seriously, "Everyone! Members of the BIG MOM Pirates and the Kaido Pirates are about to arrive at Dressrosa! Now we need to decide whether to face them head-on, or to avoid them and set sail early!"

One has to admit,

Usopp in this state really does look a bit like a captain.

At the very least, he is far superior to Luffy, who is over there chewing on the leg meat of some unknown creature.

But Usopp still has a clear sense of his own limitations,

so he only started things off before yielding the space to Sima Di.

Sima Di, however, was not in a hurry to speak of these matters; he took the gains from this time out of the Golden Treasury.

First, he tossed the small booklet to Franky, along with the Bara Bara no Mi.

"This is the method to make items consume Devil Fruit abilities; take it and research it yourself."

"Aaaah—Great!" Franky exclaimed with delight: "Leave it to me, rest assured!"

Sima Di then picked up the Luck Luck no Mi.

"This Luck Luck no Mi does not greatly amplify strength, and similarly requires touching the target to manipulate their luck, so Robin is still the most suitable... of course, if anyone else wants it, they can also fight for it."

Everyone glanced at one another,

and apart from Usopp, who felt some desire for the so-called "luck," no one else had much need for it.

But Usopp was the one who had obtained the Bomu Bomu no Mi and hadn't even figured out how to develop it himself yet.

So he remained silent.

"Alright then, it goes to Robin." Sima Di handed the Luck Luck no Mi to Robin.

Robin did not hesitate much; after taking it, she prepared to take a small bite.

"Wait, Robin-san!" Sanji called out to stop her: "Wait a moment for me!"

He ran quickly toward the kitchen, taking the Soru step to the second floor to save time, and soon returned with an object resembling a sheet of white paper.

"This is candy wrapper paper; wrap it around the Devil Fruit, and after biting down, do not chew but swallow directly; then the taste buds will only contact the wrapper, and you won't get that disgusting taste!" Sanji said proudly.

It was a good thing he could come up with such a good method!

"Hey, hey, hey! Why didn't you say anything last night?" Usopp said displeased.

He had forced himself to eat it!

"Back then, I was fighting CP0; who had time to worry about you roughneck!" Sanji said rudely.

Usopp was furious!

But this is Sanji's personality; you just can't 953 it—absolutely not because you can't win!

"Then thank you, Sanji."

Robin took the wrapper paper and, following Sanji's instructions, wrapped the Luck Luck no Mi; when she bit down, the wrapper actually stretched along with her teeth, perfectly isolating all the juice and pulp.