Chapter 269: Long Bread Met a Kindred Spirit

Among all ability users in the All-Blue, aside from being interested in six food-type ability users like Katakuri, Saint Saint Saiwen is most interested in Long Bread.

Not only because Long Bread's Munch-Munch Fruit can completely eliminate the existence of famine.

The more important reason: Long Bread was the chef of the Rocks Pirates and then the Big Mom Pirates, possessing nearly fifty years of cooking experience.

It counts as mutual appreciation between chefs.

Moreover, although this old fellow is short and fat,

he is very likely the father of Charlotte Lingling's first child: Charlotte Perospero.

In short, Long Bread might be Lingling's first husband.

Long Bread is equally very curious about Saint Saint Saiwen.

This is because there were rumors on the Grand Line that when Saint Saint Saiwen was nine years old, he conquered Luo Jie with his exquisite cooking skills and earned the qualification to be invited onto Luo Jie's ship.

"Taste this?"

Saint Saint Saiwen took the small pastry Long Bread handed him, tasted a bite lightly, and gave his evaluation.

"Not sweet."

Long Bread's eyes immediately sparkled with varied colors.

As a senior head chef, Long Bread naturally knows that the highest praise for a dessert is precisely: not sweet.

"Taste this one again."

At this moment, Long Bread was like someone who had met a kindred spirit, starting to frantically promote his most proud works, hoping to receive the other party's critique.

Long Bread was already used to the critiques from Lingling and Lingling's children, but Saint Saint Saint Saiwen was different.

Among Saint Saint Saint Saiwen's many identities, what Long Bread cared about most was not the Celestial Dragon, nor the Morning Star Group leader, and certainly not the Raiden Shogun of Inazuma.

It was the chef, Luo Jie the Pirate King's chef.

Taking advantage of the time while Saint Saint Saiwen was tasting the food, Long Bread asked the confusion buried deep in his heart for a long time.

"Does ALL BLUE really exist?"

On this Grand Line.

Becoming the Pirate King is the dream of all pirates, becoming the Fleet Admiral is the dream of all Marines, and becoming the world's greatest swordsman is the dream of all swordsmen.

And the dream of all chefs is to find the legendary ALL BLUE.

This is because the Red Line and the Grand Line's vertical and horizontal division causes the fish of the four seas to be separated as well, unable to reach other seas from one another.

Only the legendary ALL BLUE sea area,

gathers all marine life from the East Blue, West Blue, South Blue, and North Blue, and is regarded by chefs as a paradise of ingredients.

For a chef, finding ALL BLUE is equivalent to a pirate reaching the final island, Laugh Tale.

If there is any chef on this Grand Line who has ever reached ALL BLUE, it must be Luo Jie's crew's chef: Barzab Saint Saint Saiwen.

Precisely for this reason, Long Bread asked.

"Of course it is real."

Saint Saint Saiwen gestured exaggeratedly with both hands: "Let me tell you, such a huge elephant tuna, the meat is delicious and almost no seasoning is needed."

"The Captain and the others like to slice it and eat it raw, but I actually think frying it tastes best."

Long Bread could not help but show a look of longing.

"How wonderful."

At this moment, Long Bread was very envious of Saint Saint Saiwen, not only having found Laugh Tale, the dream land of all pirates, but also having reached the paradise of all chefs.

Truly a person favored by fate.

Or rather, a chosen one.

He, Long Bread, has lived seventy-three years in vain; does he still have a chance in this life to reach ALL BLUE?

Staying in the All-Blue definitely holds no hope.

Unless he leaves the All-Blue to join the Morning Star Group and follow Captain Saint Saint Saiwen to the paradise of all chefs.

Long Bread fell into struggle; since he first met Lingling forty-four years ago,

the two had relied on each other for many years.

First joining the Rocks Pirates, then co-founding the Big Mom Pirates and establishing the All-Blue, he had instead forgotten his former dream.

Not only Long Bread, but even the Golden Lion and Lingling, sitting nearby drinking, were leaning their ears to eavesdrop.

As a pirate, especially a great pirate like them who has already become a Yonko, being only one step away from the Pirate King.

I ask you, who does not want to find Laugh Tale!

That is the Pirate King, an achievement reached only by Luo Jie and Luo Jie's crew in history.

At this time, all other Luo Jie crew members have retired, leaving only four members of Luo Jie's crew active on the Grand Line.

The first is Baret.

However, although Baret was once a member of Luo Jie's crew, two years before reaching Laugh Tale, Baret lost heart because Luo Jie was suffering from a terminal illness and chose to leave the pirate crew voluntarily.

He failed to accompany Luo Jie to complete the final voyage.

The second and third are Luo Jie's crew's apprentices,

the Golden Lion once heard from Buggy.

Before reaching Laugh Tale, Buggy suddenly developed a high fever; because Shanks insisted on staying behind to take care of him, the two failed to reach Laugh Tale.

The last person is Luo Jie's crew's chef, Saint Saint Saiwen.

Saint Saint Saiwen is the only former Luo Jie crew member who reached Laugh Tale and is still active on the Grand Line.

So, does Saint Saint Saiwen have a permanent compass pointing to Laugh Tale in his hand?

The Golden Lion believes there definitely is one.

In the years since joining the Morning Star Group, the Golden Lion discovered that Saint Saint Saiwen has absolutely no interest in collecting Poneglyphs.

Except for the stone tablet recording the Sea King on the Empty Island.

The other four Poneglyphs are located on Zou, Whole Cake Island, Wano, and Fish-Man Island.

Now that Zou has become part of Wano, Saint Saint Saiwen already possesses two Poneglyphs.

The other one is on Whole Cake Island.

The final Poneglyph was once located in the Sea Forest of Fish-Man Island, but it is currently missing, its whereabouts unknown.

In other words, if Saint Saint Saiwen so desires, he can seize the Poneglyph on Whole Cake Island at any time.

He only needs to find the fourth stone tablet.

Then he can reach the final island, Laugh Tale, through his own efforts without a Log Pose, and become the second Pirate King.

Unfortunately,

Shiki understood: Saint Saint Saiwen had no interest in becoming the Pirate King; Saint Saint Saiwen's dream was to overthrow the World Government and become the King of the World.

Having realized all this, Shiki suddenly found that being the second Pirate King was just so-so.

People will only remember the Pirate King, Luo Jie.

The second Pirate King is ultimately inferior, which made Shiki, who had been defeated by Luo Jie his entire life, truly find it hard to accept.

In that case,

he might as well wholeheartedly assist Saint Saint Saiwen in becoming the King of the World, an achievement even Luo Jie never realized.

Shiki's thoughts instantly cleared, and his entire demeanor changed abruptly; he radiated the aura of the Eternal Lion more and more.

Charlotte Lingling, sitting opposite Shiki, was completely stunned after noticing this change.

We were just drinking; did you evolve?

Did this old guy have a secret crush on her before?

Did Shiki achieve enlightenment just because he got to drink with his dream girl?

The stunned feeling did not last long, for Charlotte Lingling belatedly realized: she could not let Barzab and Big Mom continue talking.

Big Mom was now like someone who had met a kindred spirit.

If they kept talking, there was a high probability Big Mom would be seduced away by Barzab, that succubus.

Damn it!

A person cannot be shameless to this extent,

she had already lost her most beloved and most outstanding son, Katakuri; she absolutely could not lose the Head Chef as well.

At the same time, Charlotte Lingling finally understood why the Morning Star Corps had so many top-tier combatants.

It was all because of Barzab, that succubus.

Even with an old guy like Big Mom, Barzab could find an entry point, almost coaxing Big Mom back into an embryo.

"Barzab, stop while you're ahead."