Above Pirate King - Chapter 134
The next morning.
Palace’s Study
Inside the study, there hung an exquisite painting depicting Arthur with outspread wings, surrounded by an image of thunder and lightning.
On the table in front of the painting was an incense burner.
Arthur took three cigars, lit them one by one, holding them in both hands with a serious expression. He bowed once, twice, and thrice.
“Great Arthur, bless me to draw something good!” Arthur murmured as he bowed.
Yes, today Arthur was going to draw the lottery again!
During this period, he had gained quite a bit of reputation points, partly from two headline articles, and mostly from the New Year.
Currently, his reputation points had reached 6.1 million.
After inserting the three cigars into the incense burner, Arthur took a deep breath and went straight to the lottery draw.
Ten draws for 10,000 each.
Three boxes of Spicy Bars, three boxes of large cola bottles, three boxes of potato chips, and one Bamboo-copter!
The items were average, but Arthur didn’t mind. After drawing so many times, he had long been accustomed to the feeling of being indifferent to gain or loss.
Next, he spent another 100,000 points.
Five Bamboo-copter, three air cannons, an Oni Mask, and a 3D projector.
“Huh!?”
“An Oni Mask?” Arthur furrowed his brow tightly as he looked at the fierce mask in his hand. He sensed an inexplicable evil aura from it.
He opened the mask’s description.
[Wearing this mask will significantly enhance physical qualities and allow summoning a hundred shadow ninja troops. The ninja troops possess strong combat capabilities, swift movements, and a wide range of weapon types, including sticks, projectiles, smoke bombs, ropes, and hooks, and they can also launch darts and shuriken remotely. Once the mask is worn, the inner darkness will gradually be released, corrupting the wearer’s inherent goodness and conscience, ultimately swallowing their mind, extinguishing their humanity, and turning them into a cold, heartless, and entirely evil devil.]
“Ah,” Arthur thought carefully for a moment and finally recalled the origin of this thing. It came from “Jackie Chan’s Adventures,” specifically, the Rairakku Mask.
It seemed powerful according to its description, but in reality, it wasn’t very useful. If measured against the standards from the original series each of the shadow ninja troops had combat strength comparable to a lower-ranked soldier, and even with the attribute of their shadows, they were only on par with upper-ranked soldiers, slightly stronger than regular soldiers.
The only thing that tempted him was the ability to enhance physical qualities.
However, after reading about the side effects, Arthur gave up the idea!
He thought for a moment and decided to put the mask on the side of the table and deal with it later!
Unbeknownst to him, under the sunlight, his shadow coincidentally covered the mask, and a strange change seemed to occur between the mask and the shadow.
Then, he picked up the 3D Projector and examined it closely.
The 3D Projector was quite large; it was a silver-white belt with a magnificent, colorful gem embedded on it.
“It seems interesting!” Arthur held the belt with curiosity and carefully explored it.
When he tied the belt around his waist, a projection screen instantly appeared in front of him, displaying various scenes to choose from.
With curiosity, Arthur chose one of the snowy scenes and set the range to be limited to the room.
Suddenly, a heavy snowfall filled the room, and everywhere he looked, there was a white landscape.
If it weren’t for the fact that he felt no change in the air temperature, he might have thought it was genuinely snowing.
Cherry blossoms falling, snowing, raining, volcano erupting, underwater world, haunted house, storm, falling from a great height—all these dazzling scenes captivated him for a while.
After a long time, Arthur finally came to his senses.
“Forget it, let’s continue with the lottery; I’ll play with these later!” Arthur muttered.
Then he spent another 1.000.000 points.
“Pizzaz-Pizzaz Fruit?” As soon as he heard the name, Arthur had a bad feeling. Immediately, an image of a ridiculous devil fruit surfaced in his mind—not from the One Piece world!
Sure enough, what appeared in his hand was a yellow grape-shaped devil fruit.
Giant Hammer!*
The phrase suddenly appeared in Arthur’s mind, along with an image of a hammer between his legs. If he gave it to someone else…
“Hehe!” A wicked smile appeared on Arthur’s face.
However, he thought again and couldn’t see any other use for this thing besides harming others. After pondering for a moment, he casually placed this non-locally produced foreign devil fruit aside for now.
Continuing to look at the next item, this time it wasn’t directly sent by the system but was for Arthur to use directly.
Storage Space!
This kind of thing was always a staple for the protagonist.
Either the system provided it at the beginning, the master gave it, a beauty gave it, or they bought it with money. From fantasy to science fiction, from urban to historical, eight of the ten protagonists would have it!
In the past, Arthur had always felt that he was lagging behind the protagonists since he had drawn the lottery hundreds of times without getting anything like this. Unexpectedly, today he finally caught up with them!
But using the Storage Space required him to get a symbol tattooed on his body.
As for tattoos, Arthur personally didn’t like them!
There generally two opposing thoughts about tattoos.
In the eyes of those who got tattoos or liked them, they represented trends, fashion, and more.
But for those who didn’t have tattoos or didn’t like them, tattoos represented stories, societal issues, and sometimes even when parents were educating their children, they would say that people with tattoos were bad.
Arthur’s profession before transmigration had destined him to dislike tattoos!
Of course, he just didn’t like them; he wouldn’t discriminate against others who had them and would treat it with a normal mindset.
“What kind of design should I get, and where should I get it?” Arthur pondered.
Ultimately, Arthur decided to get a watch-sized rose tattooed on his wrist.
This way, unless someone looked closely, they would mistake it for a watch. Moreover, he could cover it up when wearing long-sleeved clothes, and the rose pattern happened to be the flag of the Kingdom of Saint Martin.
With a thought, the next moment, a delicate rose pattern the size of a watch appeared on his wrist, looking stunning and enchanting.
At the same time, the instructions on how to use it also appeared in his mind.
The method was simple: put his wrist on the item he wanted to store, and it would be stored inside. To retrieve the item, he just needed to press his mind against the pattern and think of the item he wanted to retrieve.
Seeing this, Arthur felt relieved.
Fortunately, there was a reminder not to get the tattoo in a strange place.
Otherwise, it would be awkward when he stored things later.
Of course, the awkwardness of storing things was just a minor issue. The most terrifying thing was, if he had tattooed it in a strange place, he would have to place his mind there when retrieving the item!
Then, filled with curiosity, he placed his wrist on the table and began storing everything on the table one by one.
Documents, pens, the Pizzaz-Pizzaz Fruit…
“Wait!”
“Something seems off?!”
“Where’s my mask?”
“What happened to the mask I just drew?”
*TL note:
See Gintama episode 227
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