Arceus in One Piece - Chapter 79

“Sacred Beast Lord, why don’t we go treasure hunting? Maybe the treasure has what you’re looking for?”

Olga held up the treasure map in her hand. Although this thing was a gift, she had cross-referenced the locations on the map and verified that they were indeed real places in the New World.

Her intuition told her that there was something good inside. She had confidence in her instincts; after all, she had survived inside the belly of a giant lanternfish for so many years relying on them.

On the island, there were so many fruits. She had ideally avoided the poisonous wild fruits, encountered the amiable Elizabeth, evaded the dinosaur attacks, and circumvented the gastric tides.

Moreover, treasure hunting was one of the main occupations of pirates. She had some interest in it as well, but she was also self-aware. Going treasure hunting by herself now would be fruitless and would only cause trouble for others.

She couldn’t ask Kaido; he would most likely agree to her request, as the apprentices were favored in the crew. However, knowing Kaido’s character, he would throw her out to train alone.

Shayna wouldn’t do either. Such meaningless tasks were a waste of time for her, and she would think Olga was being too idle and pull her into extra training.

After much consideration, only Arceus would agree to this request.

And she wasn’t just saying this randomly; Arceus’s goal was to find the stone tablets, but he needed to know their locations. So, any island in the sea could be his target.

With the stone tablets in hand, the sea became his playground, and he didn’t have to worry about running into trouble.

After several months had passed without much progress, since Olga had produced a so-called treasure map, there was no harm in making another trip. They may get lucky and actually find something.

Olga had already marked the treasure map with a lot of annotations, basically confirming the route and target.

“Treasure hunting, huh? Let’s try our luck then. Tell Shayna to prepare the ship. We’ll set off tomorrow.”

“Yes, Sacred Beast Lord. I’ll go inform Sister Shayna right away!”

Arceus designated a new destination, and the corresponding workforce had already been prepared.

Meanwhile, Queen welcomed the first batch of banana harvest.

Tropical Dragon bananas were not ordinary bananas. After Queen’s cultivation, these banana seedlings grew extremely fast, reaching a harvestable state in just half a year.

Although the fruits were not completely ripe, Queen already knew that he had succeeded in cultivation.

Bananas were usually picked before they were fully ripe. Even though they weren’t ripe yet, they would be picked and left to ripen. Only those at the plantation could taste the fully ripe fruit.

Queen had tasted them prematurely, and although they weren’t as good as the original, their sweetness far surpassed ordinary bananas.

He also marvelously discovered that the shelf life of these bananas was more extended, which was undoubtedly a good thing. However, his banana plantation encountered some trouble.

In the New World, most inhabited islands had their owners, but at the borders of various powers, there were usually some uninhabited islands. These uninhabited islands served as boundary markers.

Queen chose such an island. Previously, he brought some defeated pirate prisoners here, and he established a banana plantation.

Compared to mining in the mine, working here to grow bananas seemed easier. At least they could see the sun every day. So, those people were eager to come here.

Only a few people were born pirates. Many pirates were just ordinary farmers, merchants, or fishermen before setting sail for various reasons—trends of desire or coercion by external forces eventually leading them down this path.

Growing bananas was just a profession for some of these people.

But today, a battle broke out on this island, and the reason for the struggle was these bananas.

This morning, the people on the island began to take care of these bananas as usual. There were also dozens of members of the Beast crew who were responsible for supervising.

This was originally an uninhabited tropical island. Queen had only cultivated a part of the land, so only a portion of the island was inhabited. Initially, they didn’t need to guard anything, but some time ago, Queen found out that several crates of bananas he had picked prematurely had gone missing.

This made him very angry, so he had the pirates on the island strengthen their patrols.

At the same time, another pirate ship landed on the back of the island.

The pirate ship looked very girly, with many sweet decorations on it. The pirate flag had a skull with lipstick on it, and the crossed bones behind it were replaced with candy-like objects.

The Big Mom Pirates, led by the eldest son of the Charlotte family, Charlotte Perospero.

As the eldest son of the family, Perospero bore a heavy responsibility. Some time ago, when Big Mom’s ship sailed to a nearby island, Charlotte Linlin’s cravings suddenly flared up.

Her cravings were really a matter of luck. If she couldn’t get the food she wanted, she would continue to destroy things. The last time her cravings flared up, the target was banana mousse, so the Big Mom Pirates had to search for ingredients everywhere.

Coincidentally, someone had taken away several crates of bananas from here. The pirates on the island were all asleep and never expected anyone to steal bananas.

And Charlotte Linlin was successfully won over by the scent of banana mousse. After that, she found all the other bananas unsatisfactory, and her children also planned to occupy this place.

They had come at night last time, and the pirates on the island didn’t notice them. This time, they appeared openly in broad daylight. When the pirates on the plantation saw the arrival of the Big Mom crew, they were all stunned.

“Who are you people!”

“Hehehe~ We are here to take over this island. From now on, this will be our territory. As long as you hand over enough bananas every year, you can use our flag.”

Except for the islands within the Totland Kingdom, the islands occupied outside were just borrowing the flag, and there was no need to sacrifice their lives. However, they had to pay enough tribute every quarter, or they would face destruction.

They couldn’t necessarily grow them well themselves, and they only had so many hands, so they all made the local people work for them.

Although Perospero said so, he was actually informing them.

“What kind of joke is this? Who do you think you are, little brat? This is the territory of the Beast….” Before the words were finished, a large amount of candy wrapped him up, muffling his voice.
“This isn’t a negotiation; it’s an order. Does anyone else have any objections?”

A threat from the sky suddenly came. Perospero turned his candy into a wall, blocking the attack from above, and seeds were embedded in his candy wall.

“So it seems that it was you guys who stole my bananas a few days ago, huh?”

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