Chapter 107

On one hand, it could also strengthen Konice's control ability.

Two birds with one stone.

Luo Bin wasn't idle on the ship either.

She began using the delivery seagulls to gather all sorts of information from across the sea.

If her dream lay at Laugh Tale at the end of the Grand Line, she would inevitably clash with many factions and powerful figures, and learning about them in advance was a very important task.

That day.

After a storm had passed.

The sky was clear and bright.

Wearing sunglasses, white denim shorts, a hooded short-sleeve jacket, with her hair in a ponytail, looking as if she were on a beach vacation, Luo Bin sat in a deck chair, looking at the newspaper in her hand.

"Time to eat."

Konice and Kung Fu Sea Lion Little Seven, who always wore a thick steel vest, carried several plates of food out from the cabin and set them on the table in front of Luo Bin.

"What a wonderful smell."

Luo Bin looked up and said, "What is this?"

Konice, her golden hair hanging to her waist tied low with a red ribbon, wearing an apron, smiled at her with curved eyes:

"Sky Island specialty flavors, tropical set meal series — baked shellfish noodles, sauce meat mixed rice, jam-filled toasted bread, and vegetable soup."

"Mm-hm, uh-hm!!"

Kung Fu Sea Lion Little Seven chimed in in agreement at Konice's feet.

"What a feast, Konice, thank you for your hard work." Luo Bin smiled at Konice.

"You're welcome."

Konice curved her eyes into a smile at her.

Luo Bin set the newspaper in her hand aside, pushed her sunglasses up onto her forehead, and sat down at the table, ready to enjoy the meal.

Cloud Fox Sisi couldn't wait any longer and hopped up onto a chair.

After Konice had laid out the bowls, chopsticks, and forks, she turned her head to look toward the cabin and asked: "Where's our captain?"

"Seems like he's still in the machine room, I think he said he was making something today." Luo Bin thought.

Kung Fu Sea Lion Little Seven raised its hand: "Mm-hm, uh-hm! (I'll go call Master!)"

With that, it hopped off toward the machine room.

Before it could even get close to that iron door.

The door opened.

Luo En walked out from inside, wearing work clothes, his hair in disarray, his face smudged with black oil stains.

"Mm-hm, ah-hm! (Master, time to eat!)"

Kung Fu Sea Lion Little Seven rushed to his feet, tilted its head up, and called out to him eagerly.

"Got it."

Luo En said, then, facing the warm sunshine, stretched lazily, and called down to Luo Bin and Konice on the deck below: "You two go ahead and eat, I'm going to take a shower."

Just as he was about to head toward the bathroom, his steps paused.

"Oh right."

Under Luo Bin and Konice's puzzled gazes.

Luo En pulled out a black bow tie from his pocket, bent down, and slipped it around Kung Fu Sea Lion Little Seven's neck.

"?"

Kung Fu Sea Lion Little Seven tilted its head, a little puzzled.

After Luo En finished putting it on, he bent a finger and flicked it on the forehead.

*Snap! *

"That hurts, Master, what are you doing?"

Kung Fu Sea Lion Little Seven rubbed its forehead with its little short hands and asked in confusion.

And what came from its mouth was no longer "mm-hm ah-hm" and the like, but pure human language!

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"Eh?"

After realizing this, it couldn't help but be stunned.

*Clatter. *

The fork in Konice's hand dropped to the ground.

"I didn't hear wrong, did I? Little Seven just now... spoke?!"

She looked at Luo Bin, the two women's eyes met, and each could see the astonishment in the other's eyes.

"Wh-what exactly is going on?"

Luo Bin couldn't help but ask Luo En.

Luo En scratched his head, yawned, and said: "Nothing much, just made it a translation tool — uh, that black bow tie. Whatever it says will be automatically converted by that bow tie into a language humans can understand, then transmitted through a synthesized voice."

"It's more convenient this way. I won't say more, I'm going to shower first."

After Luo En left.

Kung Fu Sea Lion Little Seven scratched its head, looking a bit dazed at Konice and Luo Bin on the deck, and said: "Could it be... now besides Master Luo En, Big Sis Konice and Big Sis Luo Bin, you two can understand me too when I speak?"

Konice and Luo Bin nodded blankly.

Heard it very clearly.

A few more days later.

An island appeared ahead on the sea.

As the Voyager drew near that island.

They were attacked by a Sea King roughly the size of a warship, a hundred meters long.

Logically speaking, a Sea King of this caliber usually appears more often in the Calm Belts; encountering one here was truly rare.

At the instant that Sea King raised its massive tail and slammed it down toward the Voyager.

Luo En, on the deck, flickered and appeared midair.

He lashed out with a kick!

The wind pressure that had stalled the air itself abruptly halted; the next second, it exploded with a roar, the terrifying colliding wind pressure coalescing into a visible shockwave that blasted outward in all directions. The Sea King's enormous fishtail was kicked curling backward, then slammed heavily against the sea surface.

The seawater exploded apart.

Luo En, hovering midair, reached into the void and drew out the black blade Qiushui, then swung it in a slashing arc toward the sea.

A crescent-shaped massive sword qi swept across the sky above the deck. Under the stunned gazes of Kainis, Luo Bin, and Kung-Fu Sea Lion Xiao Qi, it flashed and vanished in an instant, cleaving into the sea like a falling black crescent moon.

Whoosh!

The sea surface for roughly a hundred meters was split directly open, the seawater parting to both sides.

A straight line of blood appeared on the body of the Sea King beneath the water.

Pfft!

A great gush of strangely colored blood spurted out, dyeing the sea surface an odd hue.

After the seawater churned violently for a moment, there was no further movement, and it returned to calm.

"Master Luo En, amazing!!"

Xiao Qi's eyes sparkled as she gazed up at Luo En, who held the black blade Qiushui in the air, her little tail wagging furiously.

Kainis, after her shock passed, also looked at the black-haired youth with a touch of worship and longing in her eyes.

When could she become this strong too…

Luo Bin, on the other hand, wasn't so surprised; she had already witnessed Luo En's strength back in Alabasta.

She was only somewhat puzzled.

A Sea King of this hundred-meter body length was already considered a medium-sized Sea King, and generally only appeared in the Calm Belts—why would one show up in this stretch of sea?

Was it because of the island ahead called Taigu Zhidao…

Sea Kings, by classification, can roughly be divided into small Sea Kings, with body lengths under a hundred meters; medium Sea Kings, with body lengths between a hundred and five hundred meters; and large Sea Kings, with body lengths between five hundred and a thousand meters.

Super-large Sea Kings generally exist only in the deep sea, with body lengths exceeding a thousand meters, some even reaching a terrifying five thousand meters.

Compared to humans, these Sea Kings are the true rulers of the sea.