One Piece Dragon King - Chapter 17
Hals wore a pained expression.
It was like watching someone eat various Devil Fruits in front of a powerless person: the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, Ice-Ice Fruit, Glint-Glint Fruit, Magma-Magma Fruit, Flame-Flame Fruit, Dark-Dark Fruit, Sand-Sand Fruit, Gum-Gum Fruit, Soul-Soul Fruit, Love-Love Fruit, Float-Float Fruit, String-String Fruit, Shadow-Shadow Fruit, Paw-Paw Fruit, Flower-Flower Fruit, Quake-Quake Fruit, Shine-Shine Fruit, Gold-Gold Fruit, Fusion-Fusion Fruit, Straw-Straw Fruit, Mochi-Mochi Fruit, Cracker-Cracker Fruit, Lick-Lick Fruit, Squeeze-Squeeze Fruit, Heat-Heat Fruit, Ghost-Ghost Fruit, Hobby-Hobby Fruit, Slow-Slow Fruit, Dice-Dice Fruit, Wax-Wax Fruit, Venom-Venom Fruit, Weapon-Weapon Fruit, Munch-Munch Fruit, Clear-Clear Fruit, Human-Human Fruit: Daibutsu Model, Bird-Bird Fruit: Phoenix Model, and Kaido’s Fruit (unknown).
And then telling them that the fruits weren’t bad tasting at all, quite delicious actually, and even performing a trick where the Devil Fruit user swims.
Some of these Devil Fruit users even had no side effects, like the Venom-Venom Fruit.
Then picking up an ordinary Zoan-type fruit and saying, “I can eat this Devil Fruit too and not explode.”
The author uses this scenario of eating powerful or strong fruits, finishing them all, without any issues, to express Hals’ current jealousy and envy, definitely not to pad the word count.
(This is all in the free chapters.)
“Crunch crunch.” (chewing sounds)
“Delicious.”
Oh, that was heartbreak.
Hals was actually heartbroken because his dream of meeting all his ideal girls in the One Piece world might be shattered.
Heartbroken to the point of suffocation.
Although he wasn’t one of those who kept saying, “so-and-so is my waifu,” now that he was in the One Piece world, he couldn’t help but think, “hehehe.”
He wore a perverted grin, not suitable for those under 18.
Ahem, ahem, ahem.
Let’s get serious.
Luckily, Hals couldn’t actually make that lecherous face.
Kizaru probably could.
He always had a lecherous look.
On his face, it was really just heartbreak.
“Wh-what’s wrong?” x3
Ace, Sabo, and Luffy looked at Hals with concern.
Hals’ face was filled with despair, much like Whitebeard’s in the New World.
“N-nothing, just thinking my journey might end here.”
“Wh-what happened?”
Sabo stepped forward, grabbing Hals’ shirt.
Even if this guy seemed unreliable, he was Luffy’s brother, well, technically Garp’s grandson and, therefore, Luffy’s brother.
You see, Luffy didn’t object.
Since he was Luffy’s brother, he was also Sabo’s brother.
And since he was his brother, it was natural to care for him.
“N-nothing, just that I might have offended Whitebeard.”
“Why would you offend Whitebeard?”
Ace stepped forward, his face full of worry.
Hals had just painted a picture of the Emperors as incredibly powerful, so naturally, Ace was worried about his friend being targeted by one.
“I just said I was the 2nd division commander of Whitebeard’s pirate crew. That might have offended him.”
Those negative emotional values weren’t fake. It was the first time Hals saw negative emotions exceeding a hundred thousand.
No wonder he’s an Emperor.
Just getting angry produced enough negative emotions for me to learn a new spell.
Sigh.
“But this is the East Blue. Isn’t Whitebeard in the New World?”
Ace asked again.
“Don’t underestimate the strength of an Emperor. They are incredibly powerful.”
Hals suddenly spoke seriously to Ace.
Ace: “…”
Can the Emperor-level warriors even do that? Then, back when I cursed the old man, was I…?
Now I understand why I always got beaten up before meeting Luffy.
Ace gasped.
“Emperor-level warriors are terrifying.”
Ace said this.
The other two agreed.
Shocked face.jpg
However, Hals thought.
It was probably just like in anime when you curse someone, and they suddenly sneeze.
As for why Whitebeard produced so many negative emotions…
He probably sneezed into his drink while drinking.
Heh, drunkard.
“Forget it, it’s fine.”
Hals waved his hand.
“Slap”
Luffy looked hurt: “Hals, you hit me.”
Luffy held his face.
Hals hadn’t noticed and accidentally hit Luffy when waving his hand.
“Sorry, Luffy, I didn’t mean to. Can you forgive me?”
“Sure.”
Luffy said happily.
“Thud.”
Hals punched Luffy, not too hard.
Luffy bent over, showing the punch had some strength.
Luffy: “…”
Why hit me?
Luffy’s eyes were filled with despair. He felt like he had to save the world, bring the terrifying era back on track, defeat the Celestial Dragons, and defeat the Void King, Im.
Luffy seemed to turn completely grey.
No, he was completely grey.
Even his straw hat turned grey.
Totally out of place in the colorful world.
Wait, his outline was disappearing.
He was becoming like a paper cutout of Luffy from grey paper, with no lines.
“Negative emotion from Luffy +100”
“Hey~ Hals, why did you hit Luffy?”
Sabo was puzzled about Hals hitting Luffy, but since they were brothers, he asked for a reason.
“Sorry, Luffy, I didn’t mean to. Can you forgive me?”
“Sure.”
Luffy said happily again.
“I didn’t mean to, but I did it on purpose.”
Hals told Luffy.
Luffy’s eyes widened, filled with despair, and he turned grey again.
Even his straw hat was grey again.
“Negative emotion from Luffy +100”
“Uh…”
“You…”
Sabo was speechless, Ace scratched his head.
What a weirdo.
“Just kidding, Luffy.”
Luffy seemed to regain his color.
“Oh, okay, I forgive you.”
Uh…
I didn’t even ask for your forgiveness, but fine.
At this age, Luffy was an angel, just a bit silly, but later on…
He’d be a simple happy-go-lucky idiot.
“Ahem, forget it.”
Hals put on a serious face.
“Why? You’ve offended Emperor Whitebeard.”
“From what I know, Whitebeard is a terrifying man but wouldn’t care about such a small matter. If he left the New World, the Navy would know. If he approached the East Blue, Grandpa would take us to Marineford, where three Admirals and an Emperor-level warrior would be guarding.”
Hals explained simply.
“I see, Grandpa is as powerful as an Emperor. Grandpa is so amazing.”
Ace’s tone fluctuated, seemingly hesitant.
Hals: “…”
You almost said old man, didn’t you? You almost said terrifying, didn’t you?
Forget it. It’s fine. As long as they see Emperors as powerful, they won’t mess around later.
On a certain Navy ship…
“Achoo”
“Am I getting a cold?”
An elderly man with a dog-head hat looked sad.
“Getting old, getting old.”
“Ace, Hals, Luffy…” The man’s eyes were full of sorrow, “And that kid with the black top hat whose name I don’t know.”
“You all need to grow up quickly. I won’t be able to protect you much longer.”
The usually carefree old man showed a deeply sad moment when no one was around.
“Forget it, let’s go back to the room.”
“Negative emotion from Garp +70000”
Hals: “…”
What now?
By the way, Jozu’s fruit isn’t the Diamond Fruit, it’s the Shine-Shine Fruit, as corrected now. This was confirmed by Oda himself.
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