Although Fishman Street has changed a lot, with his intuition and a few remaining old signs, Tiger has successfully found his former home - the dilapidated shanty hut has now been transformed into a thriving food court, with all kinds of food stalls and all kinds of foodies......

And among these stalls, a shop that makes takoyaki on the spot immediately attracted Tiger's attention.

In front of the shop, there is a long line of diners, with a seagull-patterned turban tied to their heads, and the little octopus fish man is busy with six strong arms, each with its own division of labor, quickly and methodically packing the secret takoyaki into boxes.

"Poor hospitality, please use it!"

Hachi wiped the beads of sweat from his head, and handed a freshly made takoyaki to the guest with a smile, but when he looked up, he inadvertently looked at Tiger who was looking at him, and the smile suddenly froze on his face.

In order to infiltrate Fish-Man Island, Tiger did a disguise, carrying a shoulder bag and pretending to be a tourist. But his physique and aura, as well as some details, can't hide from Xiaoba, who has followed him since he was a child......

Seeing Hachi notice himself, Tiger nodded slightly.

The former reacted immediately, decisively put down the kitchen utensils in his hand, and regardless of the business that was still in the long queue, he shouted loudly to the surroundings:

"Excuse me, guys! Temporarily closed today!! ”

"Huh?!"

The exclamations of diners came one after another, many of them were repeat customers, and some foodies came from all over the city.

Hachi didn't explain much, hurriedly packed up his things, pushed the cart out of the crowd, and Tiger saw this, and naturally followed him, as if he was on the way.

……

A few minutes later, Hachi's new home.

"Hahahaha! You've changed a lot, Hachi! ”

Tiger laughed and gave Hachi a bear hug and patted him on the back.

“…… Tiger, Big Tiger! ”

Hachi's nose is a little sour, and his eyes are red - most of the children in Fishman Street don't know who their parents are, or simply lose their parents when they were young, and although Tiger is nominally the eldest brother to many of them, in reality this eldest brother is like a father a lot of the time.

"Alas, you boy, what are you crying about! Don't cry! ”

Tiger let go of Hachi with a smile, looked at him from top to bottom, and then nodded with satisfaction, and said, "It seems that during the time I was not on Fish-Man Island, you had a good life, and you actually became the owner of the takoyaki restaurant......"

"It's not just me, Big Brother Tiger!"

Hachi rubbed his eyes and showed a big smile, "In the time you have been away from Fish-Man Island, a lot has changed here, and everyone is doing very well now!" ”

"Oh? Then you have to tell me about it! ”

Although in the plan, Tiger will go to Dragon Palace City today to meet the Neptunes for the last time, but Tiger would prefer to stay with Hachi for a while more than the two rulers of Fish-Man Island.

……

As the most well-known adventurer in the entire Fish-Man Island, and also the most righteous Fish-Man Street brother, even after Tiger became a wanted criminal of the World Government, there will still be many people on Fish-Man Island who welcome him, and will even risk being punished by the Navy to help hide him.

But in this situation, Tiger regards this time as the last time he returns home in his life......

It's not that he plans to commit suicide, or that he has any twisted emotions in his heart, but that he has made the same choice as Jack, one of the three disasters of the Beast Pirates.

That's right, Jack is a fish-man like Tiger, but the former is a fish-man who has eaten a Devil Fruit. So while Jack won't drown in the sea, he will permanently lose the ability to swim.

And Tiger, as a high-ranking cadre of the Revolutionary Army, in order to realize the ideals in his heart and achieve the ultimate goal of the Revolutionary Army, he must be more powerful - that is, to become a Devil Fruit ability who can no longer swim.

Such a choice cannot be said to be easy, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as difficult. Therefore, what drove Tiger to make such a choice was not only the pure ideal, but also the Devil Fruit itself......

Time goes back to a year ago, that is, in the year 1506 of the Haiyuan calendar-

According to the information found by Luo and the others in the safe house of Old Simon, Long took the cadres of the revolutionary army and arrived at an ordinary sea area in the third route of the park on a warship. However, as far as they could see, it was just an ordinary, endless sea.

The ship's lookout looked around with binoculars, but looked at it and saw nothing.

(Nothing really?) Even if there is an island, you can do it...... ）

Luo, who was looking around on the deck with the dragon and the others, couldn't help but think like this—according to Old Simon, the top-level natural devil fruit that can make "Lily Carnations", the Sensen fruit, is at this coordinate.

Before, Luo thought that the coordinates they had obtained were a small island that could be inhabited, or simply a desert island, but there was nothing here.

After the ship had been around for a while, the sound of a lookout searching for no success came from the mast:

"Mr. Long, we've seen it all, and there's nothing around here...... Well, except for a coral reef. ”

A remark added behind the lookout caught the dragon's attention.

"Coral reefs?"

The dragon was stunned for a moment, then he frowned again and ordered, "Lean in." ”

The warship slowed down slowly, and finally approached a large expanse of vegetation spreading across the sea...... It looks like a coral reef from afar, but it's not. However, there should be a reef underneath the plant, and the plant that grows on the surface of the sea is not a plankton, but a plant of some kind.

"Strange ......"

After the warship anchored here, and the ship stopped, Belo Betty, the commander of the Eastern Army of the Revolutionary Army, looked at the plant and couldn't help but mutter.

"What's so strange?"

Lightning, the deputy commander of the Great Shipping Army, asked rhetorically, thinking that the other party had seen something...... But it's not a strange thing if plants grow on the sea.

"No, it's nothing, it's just ...... I just haven't seen this plant before. ”

Although Belo Betty appears as a female warrior at the forefront of the battlefield every time she eats the fruits of Superhuman inspiration, she is actually a delicate aristocratic lady who has studied with various scholars since she was a child and is very knowledgeable - and she can be sure that the plants in front of her are not common plants.

"Haven't you seen Betty......"

The dragon fell silent, and after a moment, he spoke again, "The ship is temporarily parked here, and we are in charge of the guard, Tiger, please go down and have a look." ”

Compared with other senior cadres on the deck, Tiger is indeed the least "qualified" after wandering on the sea for a long time, and finally joined the revolutionary army, but because of his feats in Mary Joy, everyone respects and trusts him very much - the reason why he is allowed to act at this time is nothing more than because everyone else is a "landlubber" ability, and he is a fish man who lives in the water by nature.

"No problem!"

So Tiger plunged into the sea with a fierce son.

After Tiger entered the sea, gradually, the surface of the sea began to fog up, and the surroundings became blurred...... The dragon and the others on the ship immediately raised their vigilance to the highest level.

On the other side, as Tiger dived, he found a reef group underneath.

Tiger looked around, and after a general observation, he noticed that the flora spread out in a large area on the surface of the sea, and when it reached the water, the rhizomes began to gather, as if it was not a plant, but a plant...... It's like the Chambord Islands, except that it's much smaller.

After confirming that the plants were all gathered in one place, Tiger didn't think much of it and immediately swam towards the gathering place.

The plant's taproot sprang out from the side of a volcanic reef pile, and after Tiger circled around the pile a few times, he noticed a hidden passage that stretched inward on the other side, and he began to swim in.

After a long swim in the winding passage, the narrow waterway began to widen, and then Tiger felt the air outside.

Inside is a cave in which a large amount of air is blocked by seawater...... The plant can also be seen in the cave.

Or rather, Tiger found the growing point of the plant.

Wet stone steps, moss, stalactites...... It's undoubtedly a hidden abode.

The plant grew in the middle of the cave, and when Tiger came to the cave, he first circled around the plant and found a large pile of boxes in the back corner.

He walked over and kicked lightly at one of the outer chests, only to see that the decayed wooden box was destroyed and a large pile of golden coins rolled down.

Tiger didn't care about the coins, though, and he circled back in front of the plant again.

In front of it was a flat stone, which may have been used as a simple table, but now it has been curled up by the roots of the plant......

There seemed to be something on top of the rock, and Tiger immediately used fish-man karate to cut off some of the roots with his knife and then take it out.

Is it a book?

No, it's a diary.

The material was not the parchment that the pirates loved to use to draw treasure maps, but a special kind of paper, similar to the bark of a tree, and it is probably for this reason that the diary was able to survive in this environment.

"July 28, 997, fine."

"My crew and I were lucky enough to leave the Golden Country, taking with us the big secret we found there......"

Tiger casually flipped through the journal and read the page. The date of the diary made him feel at ease, because according to the information they found, the last person of the Sen Sen Fruit was a sea thief who was active five or six hundred years ago.

He flipped through it.

After reading a few articles in a row, Tiger probably understood what kind of story was recorded in the diary.

The owner of this diary was once just an ordinary pirate, but he was lucky enough not to die on the cruel sea, but instead recruited a group of reliable men and made his way to the "Golden Country" in the second half of the Great Voyage......

The name "Golden Country" is not common in the world today, and it can even be said that few people use it anymore, but five or six hundred years ago, this name became famous, because it was this rich country that gave birth to the powerful "Dragon Slayer" Ryoma.

That's right, the "Golden Country" is the name of today's samurai country and the country.

And in this land of gold, the owner of the diary witnesses the battle between Ryoma and another powerful swordsman, Celaeno, and the two of them crack the sky and shatter the earth.

The owner of the diary and his companions were swept away by the aftermath of the battle and fell into a bottomless crack......

......

"July 15, 997, fine?"

"I thought we would be crushed in the abyss, but who would have thought that at the bottom of the abyss would be a large barnacle forest? Hahahaha, Lao Tzu's luck has always been good! ”

"It's not just barnacles, it's all kinds of plants, it's a big forest......

"But this great forest at the bottom of the abyss is nothing compared to anything else we see...... That's the ruins of another country of gold! Submerged in the sea! Intact and neat, it was as if it had been swallowed by the sea in one night......"

"Why? Why is there a Golden Country underneath the Golden Country? Why is it submerged in the sea? ”

"And we've seen *****......."

"It's a pity, it looks like it's broken, and no matter how much we manipulate it, it doesn't react at all...... It looks like a very powerful weapon! ”

"But we saw something else in what looked like a temple! The pattern, the shape! That's right! That's a Devil Fruit! And it's the top natural Devil Fruit! ”

……

"August 10, 997, cloudy."

"One Devil Fruit is obviously not enough for a boatload of people, so Lao Tzu killed them...... As a captain, this is a matter of course. ”

"I knew I would have done it when I was at the bottom of the abyss, but that was when I needed their strength, after all, I had to go out......"

……

"August 19, 997, fine."

"It's unpalatable! It's worse than! Is this what Devil Fruits taste like? But in order to gain power, I still didn't have any skin and juice left, so I ate it all......"

"My body is starting to grow saplings, numb, itchy, it feels weird......"

"But it doesn't feel very strong, this natural fruit...... Is Lao Tzu going to be a farmer? ”

……

"September 9, 999, fine."

"Sink five pirate ships in one go today, hahahaha! The luckiest thing in my life is to get this Sen Sen fruit! What a powerful force this is! This is nature itself! ”

"All the characteristics of plants can be reflected in me, all!"

"By the way, fire is really annoying! Why is there fire in this world? ”

......

The name of the journalist's owner suddenly appeared in the diary, in a self-proclaimed way, "Baron of Carnival...... And this name, Tiger once heard them talk about.

The miscellaneous fish pirate named Arthur, who tried to find the "Lily Carnation" that could make people immortal, only saw the words left by the "Carnival Baron" and started to act...... But the "carnival baron" and the "carnival baron" in this diary, shouldn't they be very far away from each other?

For a moment, thoughts raced through Tiger's mind, and finally he suddenly turned around and turned his gaze on the plant.

------Off topic------

ps: I didn't expect it, I directly interspersed the latest information! According to the latest information, Wano Country was a large island country before, but in order to protect the Hades, a huge wall was built, but due to the accumulation of rainwater, the original Wano Country was flooded, and people built a new Wano Country at the highest point. And the so-called founding of Wano Country is to break down those walls

PS: There is a historical text hidden in the secret room at the bottom of Wano Country, there are many plants, and the Hades King is here

PS: Since Jack is a fishman, Kaido also knows that there is a secret down there

ps: Ryoma has been active for around 1000 years, and that Celano is also the character officially designed by Oda, the second largest swordsman in the world

ps:The green cow is really pulling.,The most stretched of the current generals.,I watched him chat with the vine tiger before.,I thought it was a dick...... Pretending to be forced is quite skillful. I'm going to give the Sen Sen Fruit to Tiger and make a really strong character come out

PS: A joke

Green Bull: I am nature!

Redhead: I'm the face king!

Green Bull: Then I will naturally give you face!

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