[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-one-piece-starting-by-finding-red-haired-s-sever":3,"chapter-one-piece-starting-by-finding-red-haired-s-sever-one-piece-starting-by-finding-red-haired-s-sever-chapter-17":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","One Piece: Starting with Shanks' Severed Arm",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2215517,3907,"Chapter 17: Why Won't You Let Me Leave in Peace?","one-piece-starting-by-finding-red-haired-s-sever-chapter-17",17,"\u003Cp>\"Ahhhhh!! A monster—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" finally woke up, screaming and retreating repeatedly, while commanding the remaining puppet dolls, \"Stop it! Kill it! Kill it quickly!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Monster?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is he talking about me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the first time Siano had heard someone call him that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn't think it sounded very good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But thinking about it carefully, in his subconscious, he seemed to quite enjoy this title.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Call me whatever you want!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He approached with a ferocious grin, throwing several punches, sending the puppet dolls that came to block him flying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one that thrust its sword at him from the front was directly clamped by his elbow, and with the help of his waist and abdomen strength, he kneed it fiercely and tore it into two pieces with both hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wood chips flew everywhere, and in the gap of his vision, \"Carpenter’s\" face became increasingly terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Snap!* Siano leaped up, jumped down from the ring, and landed right in front of the door, blocking the other party’s retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the only ones still guarding the other party were the town sheriff and Major Tomt of the Marine branch.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Get lost!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two more punches were thrown, and the two men, along with their guns, groaned and flew out several meters, falling to the ground unconscious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the result of Siano deliberately holding back; these two guys hadn't been completely puppetized, and perhaps after solving Carpenter, there was still hope for them to recover into normal humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Click.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siano reached out, his speed far exceeding that of ordinary humans, leaving \"Carpenter\" with no way to dodge. He was grabbed by the neck and lifted up like a chick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" struggled hard, but the boy’s grip was like iron pliers, and he couldn't move at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Cough... cough cough...\" \"Carpenter’s\" breathing became increasingly rapid, and he struggled to spit out words through his teeth. \"Going, going to suffocate, let go! Let go of me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siano didn't let go, his eyes filled with disappointment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You are really weak.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re a Devil Fruit user, after all. I thought you could make me have some fun, but it turns out you’re just a coward hiding in the back, fierce in appearance but weak in reality.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Without the puppet dolls, you have no confidence at all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"With you being this weak, how on earth did you manage to control the masters of the Eight Great Dojos?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What nonsense are you asking? Don't look down on people!\" \"Carpenter\" gnashed his teeth. \"At first, I couldn't beat them head-on, but couldn't I sneak attack? If it weren't for encountering a non-human monster like you, who on Asakura Island could be my opponent...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Boss Siano!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Junichi walked up at some point. He wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, his eyes red, and he held a sword he had picked up tightly in his hand. \"I beg you, give me a chance! Let me kill him with my own hands!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Don't be in a hurry.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siano reached out to stop him, turned his head, and narrowed his eyes to look up and down at this middle-aged man in a luxurious trench coat. \"I still have a few things I don't understand, and I must ask clearly.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you humiliating me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" shouted in shame and anger. \"Who wants to answer your questions! At worst, just give me a quick death! Besides, I’m almost out of breath. If you don't let go, how can I answer your questions!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look, this is one of the suspicious points.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Siano wasn't hitting people, his cell activity seemed to return from his muscles to his brain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced at his right hand, which was still gripping tightly. \"I’ve been choking you for so long, are you really out of breath?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\" \"Carpenter\" was stunned. He looked down abruptly, only to realize that his breathing was still smooth, and the suffocation he felt at the beginning seemed like a false illusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why, why is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How is it possible?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know if you’ve noticed, but many of the things you say and your actions have no logic.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siano narrowed his eyes and continued. \"Let me ask you, you suddenly ran here and exposed the identities of yourself and the ten puppets you controlled completely. What for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Haven't you been racking your brains to make money? You’ve been operating on Asakura Island for many years before finally holding it in your hands. Why did you suddenly have a self-destructive tendency today? Preparing to run away and change places to make money?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s right, how could this happen?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" was dazed and suddenly couldn't figure it out either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He seemed to have had a similar feeling a long time ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—Whenever he was about to figure something out, there seemed to be a membrane deep in his brain. As soon as his thinking collided with it, he would become dizzy and turn away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The final actions he took were completely contrary to his original plan, but he felt it was normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" suddenly shouted. \"I was almost fooled by you, brat. Where did I expose my identity? Wasn't that bastard Sakuraba Tree the one who sought death and exposed all these things himself!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But when you came in, he hadn't exposed the fact that the masters of the Seven Great Dojos had also long since become puppets!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siano suddenly raised his volume. \"Didn't you bring the sheriff and that Marine major in yourself! When you came in, you could have directly controlled him and interrupted his later words! Then there are ten thousand ways to make the public believe he was an impostor! Why didn't you do that!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" became increasingly confused. That’s right, why?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were plenty of ways to cover it up and continue happily making his black money, so why did he suddenly want to tear off the mask?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly recalled something even stranger about himself in the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clearly knew that among all the puppets, Sakuraba Tree’s puppet was the hardest to control, and from time to time, it would have its own opinions and ideas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he never thought about completely puppetizing the other party, and even kept him by his side, handling the most secret and important things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Come.\" Siano suddenly stretched out his other hand and grabbed the other party’s right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is this for?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Control me.\" Siano said coldly. \"You lost eight puppets, so you can use the freed fingers to recruit new puppets, right? Use your ability to control me and try!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bu, but people with great strength are not so easy to control. You are even more impossible to control than Sakuraba Tree back then...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" stammered. Before he could finish, Siano pulled Junichi over abruptly. \"Then try it on him!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Eh? Boss Siano!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Junichi had been listening with fascination and had also calmed down, starting to ponder the suspicious points. Suddenly being dragged into Carpenter’s hand, he was dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" reached out tremblingly and grabbed Junichi’s arm, but soon became dazed again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Planting puppet strings, controlling others... He knew the principles of the Devil Fruit, but, what was he supposed to do again?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Look, simply controlling these few puppets is the maximum authority you have obtained.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siano pulled Junichi back with one hand and looked at this middle-aged man in luxurious clothes. \"Do you still think you are really the 'Carpenter' who can make puppets?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the words fell, Siano suddenly slapped the other party’s chest fiercely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Bang!* The sound was crisp and short, like hitting a hollow bamboo tube.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Carpenter\" knew better than anyone what this meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siano finally let go, letting the middle-aged man slide down softly and sit slumped on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I, I am not Carpenter...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was dazed, unable to accept reality, his voice hoarse. \"I, so I, am also just a puppet?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In other words, the real 'Carpenter' is actually someone else?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Junichi felt his brain swelling, almost crashing. \"Then... then who could it be? And what grudge do they have against my father to attack him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Siano looked at Junichi with pity and finally sighed:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Whoever started this farce today is the Carpenter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly threw a punch, collapsing the middle-aged man’s chest, and then turned to look at the corpse on the ring, speaking in a low voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Am I right, Mr. Sakuraba Tree?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one answered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wall clock ticked second by second. In the sound of the ticking, this pin-drop silence lasted for more than ten seconds, and finally, there was movement on the ring.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>*Click, click.*\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The tooth-aching sound of wood friction sounded abruptly. The corpse’s limb joints suddenly bent backward at ninety degrees, and with an eerie posture that violated human ergonomics, it drove the upper body to stand straight again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Accompanied by dense clicking sounds, Sakuraba Tree’s body was still facing away from them, but his head slowly turned one hundred and eighty degrees, revealing that withered, thin face that looked like it was crying yet not crying, full of sorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Junichi froze in place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hands and feet were cold, and he felt an unprecedented chill rushing from his spine to his skull.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The withered human face finally spoke sorrowfully. The voice from his throat sounded like an old phonograph skipping a track, the human voice and the vibration of the wood overlapping eerily. \"Why on earth...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why did you have to find out, and why did you have to say it out loud.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why... won't you let me give the identity of Sakuraba Tree a perfect curtain call and leave in peace?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 20 =====\u003C\u002Fp>",1609,"2026-06-17T09:04:16.852Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","93cacd57d87470ab80534f67b25e4b229c1200d0e5864c81f183f09a7517fc30","one-piece-starting-by-finding-red-haired-s-sever-chapter-18","one-piece-starting-by-finding-red-haired-s-sever-chapter-16",139,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fone-piece-starting-with-shanks-severed-arm-cover.jpg"]