Chapter 227: Living Giant Submarine

The soft persimmon Saint Saint Saiwen in Olga's eyes helplessly said to the stunned Jinbei and Tiger.

"Two of you, I've been kidnapped."

Saint Saint Saiwen was also enjoying Luffy's treatment.

Jinbei looked at the golden-haired little girl with pity in his eyes, unable to help but think in his heart.

Child, you specifically pick the strongest to kidnap.

There are only three people on the ship, yet the little girl chose hell-level difficulty; that little dagger probably couldn't even break the captain's defense.

After receiving Saint Saint Saiwen's eye signal, Jinbei pressed his lips together, paused for a few seconds, then feigned panic and said.

"What should we do, Captain?"

"Little miss, do not hurt the Captain."

Regarding the Captain's evil sense of humor, Jinbei considered his cooperation very adequate; his acting was quite superb.

Tiger bit his lip, turned to look at the little junior Jinbei, then looked at the Captain who was full of playfulness, and suddenly felt he was indeed old.

Unable to keep up with the new era's thinking.

Even more, he couldn't imagine that someone as strong as the Captain would be with a child... no, the Captain himself is not even twenty years old, so he can indeed be considered a half-grown child.

A big child is playing with a small child...

Olga did not notice anything abnormal, but used the dagger to press against Saint Saint Saiwen's neck to threaten Jinbei and the other two.

"Speak quickly!"

"What are you doing here at Lord Lantern?"

"That's not right." Olga suddenly realized something: "Little Bai Mao, how do you know my name?"

Saint Saint Saiwen Bear spread his hands.

"Your father specifically entrusted me to find you; for these two hundred years he has never found you, and now you are being fed by a female lizard as a child..."

"Now you are so fat you don't look human."

"You are lying." Olga got angry: "It is because of him that Mother died... If it weren't for him..."

In front of recruiting high-end talent, Saint Saint Saiwen was quite patient and continued to explain.

"Your father only created pure gold to cure your illness; if it weren't for that pure gold ring on your hand, you should have long been dead."

Lies do not hurt people; the truth is a sharp blade.

The original intention of creating pure gold was not to get rich; it was purely a father at his wit's end, an emergency prescription to save his daughter who suffered from a terminal illness and was on the verge of death.

Ironically, the pure gold was created, the daughter was saved, but the tragedy triggered a chain reaction—

Pirates killed Olga's mother to steal the pure gold, the Lanternfish was attracted by the pure gold's glow and swallowed the island, and the father and daughter got separated inside the fish's belly.

Separated by a layer of the Lanternfish's stomach wall, longing for each other but unable to meet for two hundred years.

Having understood all this, the dagger in Olga's hand suddenly fell from her grasp, and she threw herself onto Saint Saint Saiwen's shoulder, sobbing loudly.

"Liar... he is a big liar..."

"Ah... liar... they are all liars..."

Saint Saint Saiwen waved his hand to signal Jinbei to row the boat, heading toward the Lanternfish's third stomach.

Olga is not a little loli; she is a two-hundred-plus-year-old legal little loli who does not need anyone to comfort her and can recover from sadness very quickly.

The small wooden boat rowed and rowed, slowly moving forward.

On the Donghai Dihuang at the sea level,

Lei Li looked at the calm-faced Barrett: "Is Saint Saint Saiwen okay? He's been down there for such a long time?"

"Don't worry." Barrett grinned.

"Last time we dove to Fish-Man Island, the Captain stayed submerged in the seawater the whole time; he... seems able to breathe freely in the extreme deep-sea environment."

Lei Li breathed a sigh of relief.

No wonder so much time passed without seeing Saint Saint Saiwen surface to the sea, yet the people of the Morning Star Group were not anxious at all.

Able to breathe freely in the extreme deep-sea environment... Could it be that Saint Saint Saiwen possesses Fish-Man bloodline?

He doesn't look like one at all!

Saint Saint Saiwen shows no Fish-Man characteristics all over his body; he looks completely like a normal human.

No way?!

Lei Li suddenly thought of a possibility, a species that might already be extinct and exists only in the past: the Lunarian race.

If he is of the Lunarian race, it could explain why Saint Saint Saiwen can control fire and survive in the extreme deep-sea environment.

No wonder Saint Saint Saiwen's strength advanced by leaps and bounds far surpassing Luo Jie in just a few short years.

Good heavens, this kid hides very deep indeed.

Living in Luo Jie's crew for over five years, yet not a single person discovered the secret of Saint Saint Saiwen's bloodline.

That's not right; Lei Li rejected this thought again.

Even if Saint Saint Saiwen possesses Lunarian bloodline, after eating a Devil Fruit, he would absolutely not be able to ignore the seawater's effect on Devil Fruit users.

Then what is the reason?

Saint Saint Saiwen is simply a man like a mystery.

Thinking hard yielded no result, so Lei Li was too lazy to think further.

No matter what amazing secret Saint Saint Saiwen possesses, at least the friendship they shared in Luo Jie's crew is not fake.

That is enough.

One day... two and a half days later.

Tiger and Jinbei surfaced to the sea level, boarded the Donghai Dihuang, and handed a letter written by Saint Saint Saiwen's own hand to Yuzhi Xiliu.

"The Captain asked us to return to Wano first."

Yuzhi Xiliu opened the envelope, his eyes growing brighter, even his breathing becoming erratic for a few breaths.

"Senior Lei Li, Brother Baret."

"Let's return to Inazuma first."

The Donghai Dihuang set sail once more.

Below the ocean surface, in the deep sea, Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen held a radar map and directed the giant lanternfish to advance at a speed far exceeding that of the Donghai Dihuang.

Within these two days, Orga and her daughter successfully reunited and agreed to accompany Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen to Inazuma.

Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen had originally planned to kill the lanternfish outright; he never expected this giant to surrender, bringing along a group of lanternfish juveniles.

Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen reluctantly accepted the surrender.

Though he would not gain the three small islands inside the lanternfish's belly, he would gain a living giant submarine.

Not too much of a loss.

After all, it was a obedient giant sea king-class beast, barely useful.

He might as well treat it as a deep-sea mount.

Once he fed the Phantom Beast-type Frost Dragon form to the Tyrannosaurus Kawaii, Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen would have gathered—

the Frost Dragon Kawaii, the Electric Duck Ratio, and the Giant Lanternfish—three land-sea-air mounts.

Why did Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen have a special fondness for Tyrannosaurus?

It had something to do with Captain Luo Jie, who had boasted more than once: "I rode a Tyrannosaurus!"

This filled young Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen with longing.

At that time, Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen had boasted: "I will find a Tyrannosaurus more fearsome than Captain Luo Jie's, and feed it a Phantom Beast-type Devil Fruit."

The boast he once made was about to come true.

Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen decided he would ride the Frost Dragon before Luo Jie's crew—

"Look, isn't this one even stronger than the Captain's?"

As for whether this would be extremely childish?

No help for it—men's competitiveness is sometimes just inexplicable.

Captain Luo Jie won't see it, so let Luo Jie's crew, especially Shanks, see it.

In the months since leaving Inazuma,

Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen attended the World Conference, went to the Marine Headquarters to cancel the Morningstar Gang's bounty, then visited Fish-Man Island to recruit Jinbe and Teg, and finally found Pure Gold.

The harvest was finally at hand.

"Rest for a few days, then find Vegapunk to help feed the Phantom Beast-type Hellhound to Shusui."