Chapter 137

"What… he really isn't afraid of seawater?!"

Konis's face was full of shock.

Bonney also found it hard to believe the sight before her that defied common sense: "How is this possible?! How could there be a Devil Fruit user who isn't afraid of seawater?"

"Perhaps, just as the captain said, he didn't eat a Devil Fruit."

Luo Bin said calmly, "The Float-Float Fruit's power was obtained through some other unknown method."

"Luo Bin is right."

Luo En stood atop the sea surface, turned his head to glance at the few of them, and said with a smile:

"This counts as one of my secrets."

……

The ship of the Heart Pirates.

"Captain, everything I said is true. Back then, that huge stretch of sea was floating up into the air."

The white bear Bepo said anxiously to Trafalgar Law.

"Stop talking nonsense."

Trafalgar Law sat on a deck bench, drinking sake, not wanting to pay any attention to its wild ravings.

"Didn't we already sail to the stretch of sea you mentioned? And we didn't see anything either. This stretch of sea couldn't possibly just float up for no reason, right? You must have gotten confused from your afternoon nap."

"But…I really did see it."

Bepo looked a little wronged.

Law glanced at its pitiful, aggrieved look and truly couldn't fend it off: "Fine, I get it, I believe what you said, alright? Stop acting cute in front of me!"

"Captain, there's a ship ahead."

Xia Qi, who had been looking ahead through a telescope, turned her head and said to Law.

Law looked at her and said, "Is it a pirate ship?"

"It doesn't seem to be."

"It's not, huh…"

Law furrowed his brow.

"We're running low on supplies. If it were a pirate ship, that'd be great—we could just rob them of their supplies…"

"Too bad it isn't…"

The white bear Bepo cut in, "Captain isn't very good at dealing with ordinary people compared to handling pirates."

"Shut it."

Law smacked its head with his scabbard, then looked at Xia Qi and said, "Anyway, let's pull the ship over and take a look first."

Bepo asked curiously, "Captain, what are you planning to do? Rob them?"

"So what if we do?"

Law, shouldering his long sword, raised the corner of his mouth into an arc tinged with a scheming air: "We are pirates, after all…"

Xia Qi also gave a knowing smile:

"Understood."

123, the trembling Trafalgar Law

On the Voyager.

Just as the Heart Pirates' ship was drawing closer.

Konis was busy working in the kitchen.

Bonney was cleaning.

The Kung-Fu Dugong Xiao Qi was training in the gravity room.

Luo Bin, lying on a deck recliner reading a book, spotted the ship.

"Hm?"

She closed her book, stood up, and walked toward Luo En's room.

Inside Luo En's room.

When Luo Bin walked in, he was studying the abilities of the Float-Float Fruit, pondering how to develop them.

"What's wrong?"

Luo En sat on the floor, a ball of water hovering above his palm, constantly shifting shape.

Luo Bin, holding her book, leaned against the doorframe and looked at him: "It seems a pirate ship is heading our way."

Hearing Luo Bin's words, Luo En swept the area with his Observation Haki.

After 'sensing' that pirate ship and the people on it, Luo En smiled: "So it's him."

Luo Bin was slightly surprised: "You know that pirate crew?"

"I've heard of them, I suppose."

Luo En stood up. "Let's go take a look."

He and Luo Bin came up onto the deck together.

Soon, the Heart Pirates' ship arrived near the Voyager.

Trafalgar Law, clutching a long blade, leapt onto the Voyager's deck along with the white bear Bepo and Xia Qi.

"Which one of you is the boss of this ship?"

Law asked, looking at the two of them—Luo En and Luo Bin.

"That would be me. What business do you have?"

Luo En stepped forward and looked at him as he spoke.

Luo Wang looked at the black-haired youth before him, feeling vaguely familiar, as though he had seen him somewhere before...

"We'd like to trade some things with you..."

Before Luo could finish speaking, he was pulled back by Bai Xiong Bepo.

"What are you doing?"

Luo turned to look at him, only to be shocked to find Bai Xiong Bepo and Xia Qi both trembling all over, looking as terrified as though they had seen a ghost.

"What's wrong with you two?!"

Luo could not help but frown.

"C-Captain, that guy..." Xia Qi, with snot running from his nose, stared ahead with a trembling expression, his voice quivering: "He looks like the one who killed that... that Golden Lion guy..."

"The one who killed Golden Lion... you mean that traveler Luo En?"

Luo was slightly taken aback.

The panic-stricken Bai Xiong Bepo nodded vigorously at Luo:

"No mistaking it, this guy looks exactly like the one in the photo! The woman next to him and that Nico Robin look exactly the same too."

Luo whipped his head around to look at the man and woman before him.

Only then did he finally recall.

Why did this guy look so familiar? Wasn't it precisely because his face was identical to that traveler Luo En in the newspaper photo?!

A bead of cold sweat immediately broke out on his forehead.

Luo En looked at him with a smile: "Looks like you recognize me?"

"Room!" The moment Luo recognized his identity and felt that oppressive pressure, he did not hesitate, immediately activating his ability to transport him and his two companions back to their ship.

But before the spherical space he created could unfold, a hand landed on his shoulder, interrupting his ability.

Under that faint yet terrifying pressure, every hair on Luo's body stood on end, cold sweat pouring down, not daring to move even a little.

A voice tinged with amusement sounded in his ear.

"What's the rush to leave? I still have some things I want to ask you."

…………

From Luo and the others, Luo En and Luo Bin learned most of what had recently happened on the seas.

Including the shockwaves from his killing of Golden Lion, and how, for sheltering Nico Robin, he had been declared a criminal by the Marines and put on a bounty of 430 million Beri...

"I see. So the Marines put out a warrant and a bounty on me, which is how you recognized me."

Luo En sat in a chair, drinking cola with a smile. "A bounty of 430 million Beri on my very first one — that's certainly not low."

Unlike his calm composure, Luo Bin's expression was somewhat heavy.

Although she had long anticipated that this day might come, she hadn't expected it to arrive so quickly.