Chapter 1: Devil Fruits

To the south of the windless zone and to the east of the Upside-Down Mountains, this vast body of water is known in the world as the "South China Sea".

In an unknown corner of the South China Sea, there is a small island called "Tyrol". The island belongs to a country called the Kingdom of Hildegard, but for the locals there is little real meaning about the borders and belonging...... It's just an island in the open sea.

The land is barren and poor, and there is a town of the same name as the island, where about 2,000 people live.

Mo Fei is one of them.

It's just that he is a somewhat special person, and the "specialness" of his identity is actually very easy to describe - he is an earthling who almost drowned in the world of pirates.

When he woke up in a lonely boat and looked at the endless sea, the mood change brought about by the earth-shaking dislocation in terms of geographical location and identity was simply indescribably complicated.

"Shipwreck" is a bit unbelievable, and even more unbelievable is that it was shipwrecked in such a world.

Fortunately, with the memory left by the original owner, a little bit of insignificant food, and relying on the starry sky to guide the way, he returned to this small island from the sea with difficulty, and that was half a month ago...... inherited the identity and memory of "Mo Fei", and this island became his temporary shelter.

Mo Fei is a young fisherman who originally had an older brother, but the latter unfortunately died in a shipwreck that happened not long ago. The simple family relationship made it impossible for anyone to realize that he had actually changed someone if he paid a little attention.

Half a month is enough time for Mo Fei to figure out his situation and sort out his messy mood, and he now has to determine another thing.

After many days, Mo Fei finally walked out of his simple wooden house.

After Mo Fei went out, he stopped a little and overlooked the whole of the town. The town was built halfway up the mountain, and from where he stood he could see the sea in the distance, the small port on the coast, the old and barren town, and the poor roads of the town.

The air smelled faintly fishy and rotten.

"This unfortunate place is not inhabited." Mo Fei instantly made such a purely subjective judgment in his heart, because all he saw was poverty that could be discerned by the naked eye.

After listening for a while, Mo Fei's footsteps continued. His destination was the most "luxurious" house in the middle of the town, where the village chief, or mayor, was his home.

And by the time he got there, a girl who looked fifteen or sixteen years old and had little freckles on her face was waiting at the door of the courtyard of the big house.

The girl's name was Emisha, and she was the maid of the village chief's house, and she was also his ...... It should be said that it was a playmate of "Mo Fei" when he was a child.

"It's like a place where people live, but it's not necessarily people living in it." Mo Fei thought silently again.

This idea was not pure malicious speculation, because in a place where everyone was poor, there was an exception that seemed quite rich, which made him feel that there must be something wrong with this "richness".

"Brother Mofei, are you better?" Emisha spoke first, her eyes full of sympathy as she looked at Mo Fei.

This reminded Mo Fei of the scene when she cried bitterly when she returned to the island and brought back the news of her brother's death. Even now, she still looks like she will cry at any moment.

And Mo Fei's closed door these days should be caused by "excessive sadness" in the eyes of normal people.

"Much better." Mo Fei is naturally grateful for the fact that he survived and for the people who rescued him, but such emotions don't have to be declared all the time.

"Brother Mo Fei, all the things you asked me to help prepare are here." After a moment's sadness, Emisha remembered what she was doing, and then she pointed to the large stack of newspapers that lay at her feet.

"Thank you so much, Emilya, I'll borrow these things for a while, and I'll return them shortly." Mo Fei thanked Emisha, and then easily picked up the pile of newspapers.

Although Mo Fei has some understanding of the world, these understandings are all obtained from the "perspective of God". He felt that the "story" he read in his previous life was definitely not exactly the same as the "reality" he was in now, and the so-called "plot advantage" was not enough to believe, in fact, he only knew a rough idea of the real world now.

So Mo Fei wanted to learn about some outside things through the newspaper.

On such an island, it may not be difficult to find a newspaper in two copies, but if you want to find a set of newspapers that have been connected for months, you can probably only find it at the mayor's house.

Then Mo Fei returned home with the newspaper, and after sitting on a simple chair, he immediately flipped through it in order from front to back - "World Economic News", which should be the most important, well-informed and widely distributed newspaper in the world.

Thankfully, as a fisherman on a small island, Mo Fei is literate.

Because he only read the key information, he flipped through the newspaper very quickly, so he soon saw the first very important news - the title was "Hero Exit", and the general content was Vice Admiral, who had the title of Hero. D. Karp is about to leave the front-line combat unit due to his age, and then he will retain his rank and be transferred to the "Marine Training Headquarters".

Karp, a well-known character, had his picture published in the newspaper.

Very important, but not what he should care about now, Mo Fei shook his head, and then flipped forward. After a while, the headline of another big news came into view again:

"The marshal decided to resign"

Going on from this news onwards, almost every day the headline of the cover news in the newspaper was full of exclamation points, which were a series of reports about the causes and consequences of the "war on top", the grievances between Whitebeard and Blackbeard, and the movements of the Navy headquarters.

Well, it's December 1520 in the Haiyuan calendar, and the "War on the Top" was already four months ago.

It's a once-in-a-decade event, but Mo Fei didn't borrow these newspapers to focus on the most intense conflict ever between the Navy Headquarters and the New World pirates. After scanning through the stories about the "War on the Top", he continued to scroll forward, and finally found what he really wanted to see:

"The captain of the Flying Pirates, the admiral of the Golden Lion Pirate fleet, and the Golden Lion, known as the "Flying Pirates", have been arrested again! ”

Most of the content is irrelevant, but the focus is on the outcome of the event. According to this news report, the pirate Golden Lion, who was preparing to make trouble in the East China Sea, was finally arrested by the three vice admirals of the Navy Headquarters, Ghost Spider, Fire Mountain, and Stoloberry, and was once again imprisoned in the large prison "Advance City".

There must be an element of falsification in this news, because it is not the navy that solves the sea pirate, but I don't know whether the result of the golden lion being imprisoned in the "Advance City" again is true or false. If the final result is correct, then the contradiction arises - when the "Advance City" was captured by Blackbeard, one of the current "Four Emperors", a few months ago, there was no golden lion in the prison.

So......

Not a "push city" at all?

Or is it ...... "secret execution"?

In the same prison, the pirate admiral with the same name as "One Piece" is imprisoned at the same time, plus the second captain of the Whitebeard Pirates, and other vicious pirates, and at the same time, they have to face the Whitebeard Pirates who may attack at any time, so the pressure is really beyond the limit.

The navy, naturally, does not have the right to execute criminals at will, but the world government can. The Grand Prison "Advance City" is not a military facility of the Navy, and the management power is vested in the judicial administration...... In other words, the "Advance City" is not a subordinate organization of the Navy Headquarters, but a subordinate agency of the World Government.

Mo Fei felt that the "Golden Lion" was most likely dead.

The reason why he was concerned about this matter was because Mo Fei wanted to find out if the Devil Fruit he ate was the fruit...... Naturally, he knew what he had eaten when he was shipwrecked.

Next, I saw Mo Fei suddenly let go of his hands, but the strange thing was that the newspaper that recorded the arrest of the golden lion was still floating in the air, and then with a wave of Mo Fei's fingers, the newspaper automatically turned another page......

Piao Piao fruit.

As the name suggests, it is a fruit that can make everything but living things float.

The golden lion was likely dead, and coupled with the ability he had shown, Mo Fei had reason to believe that the fruit he ate would be a fluttering fruit.

After confirming the matter of the golden lion, Mo Fei recorded some important information he saw in the newspaper in a notebook, and after making a good record, he decided to return the borrowed things as soon as possible.

By this time, it was approaching evening.

And when Mo Fei came to the vicinity of the mayor's house again, he heard a reprimanding voice from a distance.

"As a servant, you dare to steal your master's things, where did you get the guts? Do you understand the rules? ”

Then came a crisp thud.

Mo Fei frowned, and then walked over there quickly. After turning a corner, he saw a middle-aged man in his forties reprimanding Emisha in the courtyard outside the big house.

Emisha hung her head, but the red palm prints on her face could not be concealed.

Mo Fei looked at the newspaper in his hand, and after a little thought, he understood what was going on.

These newspapers are nothing more than useless waste to the master, and the master's waste can be littered, but the servant cannot move around, and if he moves, he steals.

Is this little thing worth making a big deal about?

But the reality is like this, the smaller the place, the more the "little people" who emerge from ordinary people, the more they are far more domineering than the real "big people", because only this kind of "domineering" can express their "greatness and nobility".

Mo Fei pushed the door directly and walked into the courtyard, he was the cause of the incident, so naturally he would not just watch the little maid continue to be beaten.

The mayor of the town quickly noticed the person who broke into his home, and the direct intrusion of a poor person like Mo Fei obviously increased the anger of the other party again...... What's going on today, why do the poor ghosts in the town dare to go straight to his house?

The mayor shook his arm and strode towards Mo Fei, seemingly wanting to slap him first without saying a word.

"What are you? How dare you ......"

However, before the mayor could walk to his position or Mo Fei to speak, their behavior was interrupted together...... Suddenly, something heavy streaked through the air with some strange and familiar screech, and then a burst of fire came from somewhere in town.

Then there was a tremor and a loud noise.

Shelling?

Riots and noises of people came from the small port below the mountain.

"Pirates!"

"The pirates have landed!"

Pirate? Mo Fei first looked at the port, and after thinking about what was happening, he quickly turned his face back for the first time, admiring the panic on the face of the mayor in front of him......

The expression on Mr. Mayor's face now formed a strong contrast with the domineering just now, and Mo Fei felt that this contrast was far more exciting than the attack of pirates...... It's a boring bad taste.

But I have to admit that a person's little arrogance seems to be very simple to be broken.

Like what......

A cannonball.