Pirates: Grab the dark fruit at the beginning
Chapter 149 Homiz
All nations, cake island.
Among the former queens, in the king's room.
Nuoqi sat on a black throne, and Brin obediently waited beside him.
Candy Minister Pelospero leaned on a candy cane, with a flattering smile on his face, "Brother Lei Zan, you are too powerful. It only took one day to get familiar with the ability of mother's soul fruit. If this continues, as long as we collect enough souls, the kingdoms will soon regain their glory."
Brin Shuiling's big eyes carefully watched Lei Zan's, and said, "Brother Pelospero, even if Brother Lei Zan has mastered the ability, we should not act too hastily. Residents of Wan Guo should have their own free lives. It would be too cruel to wantonly take their lives just for the sake of quick recovery."
"Hehehe, I understand what Sister Brin said. Don't worry, Wan Guo still follows the principle of paying one month's protection fee every six months. It's just that when the new king ascends the throne, he needs to pay an extra one as a congratulatory gift to celebrate Lei Zan's brother becoming king.
As for the other souls in need, brother Lei Zan, I should be the captain now, and I would like to apply to you to send General Xing abroad to arrest people. "
Nuoqi thought for a few seconds, nodded and said, "Okay, let's send General Xingsi Muji and Cracker to lead the headquarters fleet and various combatants. Let's clear up all the lingering garbage in the new world."
Due to the death of the aunt, Lei Zan succeeded to the throne, in this critical period of lack of talents.
After everyone's discussion, and with Lei Zan's permission, the position of the four generals of cracker desserts was restored.
"Okay." Pelospero agreed without saying a word.
Brin reminded again, "Brother Pelospero, just catch pirates, don't... don't hurt civilians in other places."
Pelospero narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile, "Little Brin, don't worry, brother, I understand everything."
In fact, if Brin didn't say anything, Pelospero would have told Cracker and Smudge the same way. Times have changed, and BIG MOM now has internal and external troubles, and its strength is far inferior to the other four emperors.
Going around to harm civilians, isn't this forcing the navy to send troops to destroy you?
"By the way, Captain, there is one more thing. After losing the Homiz created by our mother, many industries in our kingdom have come to a standstill. In addition, after the death of our mother, various forces have drawn a clear line with us for the first time and cut off ties, making the economy of the kingdom close to collapse.
I am afraid that this huge shortfall cannot be made up by just relying on us to go out and rob.
What's more, with powerful enemies around, we shouldn't send too many troops out, so..." Perospero looked at Lei Zan and hesitated to speak.
"So what?"
"We need to obtain a huge sum of money as soon as possible to deal with the crisis that will inevitably occur in the future, without using too many troops." Pelospero said very embarrassingly.
Nuo Qi nodded, "Then your suggestion?"
Pelospero thought about it seriously, "The only person in the world who can spend so much money, apart from other four emperors, senior world government officials and a few heads of state, is Gilder Tezoro, the owner of the Golden City Gulan Tezoro."
"Tezorro...you want me to kill him?"
Perospero waved his hand hastily, shook his head and said, "No, no, brother Rezan, you don't know something, Tezoro may not be strong himself, but he used money to control the world government, navy, and many emperors in the underground world.
One hair can affect the whole body, absolutely can't kill him, once it arouses the target of the major forces. The BIG MOM Pirates are completely over. "
Nuo Qi touched his chin and thought, "So, if we want to get money from Tezoro, we can only exchange it with something that is equivalent or even far beyond the value of the money itself?"
Pelospero sighed, "Although I don't want to admit it, but the reality is so cruel, lick lick~"
Nuo Qi said in a deep voice, "You don't have to worry about this matter. I will take full responsibility for it. You can go to your mother's funeral and other things."
"Captain, then... I will leave it to you. If there is anything you don't understand, you must consult with me first!"
"Ah."
Watching Pelospero walk out of the room.
The door was closed tightly.
Nuoqi looked at Brin, and asked with a smile, "How is it, does it feel good to be respected?"
Brin nodded slightly, and suddenly showed an evil smile. The third eye was faintly visible through the bangs, "It's so cool. Before, Pelospero, who was under one person and above ten thousand people, dared not be presumptuous in front of me! In the past, I didn't even dare to think about it!"
"Hahaha, you'd better get used to it as soon as possible. I'm going to be away from Wan Guo for a while, and I'll leave all the internal affairs to you. Of course, the ministers will help you."
"Why are you leaving in such a hurry!? You're not in Wanguo, how can I order those arrogant ministers!" Hearing this, Brin turned into a weak girl again, pursing her mouth, her face full of sadness.
"You heard what Pelospero said. The Big Mom Pirates are in trouble. I have to solve it. Don't look at things like money. The strong don't care, but they are indispensable."
Brin rubbed his little head and questioned, "There is no fraud in this, right? Our Big Mom Pirates have never been short of money. The treasury is full of gold and all kinds of treasures. How could they suddenly run out of money?"
Nuoqi tapped the handle of the chair with his fingers and made a "da da" sound, "Your doubts are not unreasonable, but what Pelospero said is also watertight. He just said that there is a deficit and a crisis. He didn't say that he will run out of ammunition and food in the near future. So this crisis may be months or years later, and it can be rounded up no matter what."
"Then you're still in a hurry to get out?!"
Brin's eyes suddenly became weird, "It's not because I miss the Pirate Empress, I'm looking for an excuse to go out and do that kind of thing..."
Nuoqi raised his hand and gave Brin a head-scratching, "Your little head is full of messy things.
Since Pelospero mentioned this matter to me, firstly, it is because it may really become a crisis for the BIG MOM Pirates, and secondly, he also wants to test how much I am worth through this matter, and whether I am worthy of the position of the Four Emperors, understand?
Therefore, I must resolve this matter as soon as possible, and rely on it to establish prestige among the members of the Charlotte family. Regardless of the fact that everyone elects me as king on the surface, how many of them are sincerely convinced? "
"It turns out... so it's like this, can you solve it?" Brin suddenly realized.
"I don't have a particularly good idea at the moment, but I can give it a try. Gilder Tezoro, his background is indeed difficult to deal with, but he also has many weaknesses. As long as he has weaknesses, won't he be as strong as Big Mom?"
Brin nodded, "You're right, but I'm alone and helpless in Ten Thousand Kingdoms. Without your protection, I'm really afraid..."
Nuoqi stood up from the throne, with his right hand wrapped in sand, and a vortex gathered in his palm, he swung it forward, and a huge dust tornado stood in this huge room.
"Brother Lei Zan, who is this? It's coming towards me, Brother Lei Zan, stop it! I... Did I say something wrong? I'm sorry!!!"
Brin's face was pale and colorless, and she watched the tornado sandstorm getting closer and closer to her, flying sand and rocks, and the fine dust was lost in Brin's big juicy eyes.
finished? !
Brin was ashamed, she thought that Nuoqi was going to kill her to silence her.
Nuo Qi calmly turned his right hand towards the sandstorm, and shot out a ball of white light from his palm, slowly sinking into the center of the tornado, "I will give you life, be born, your name is... Houtu!!"
"calm……"
Brin seemed to feel that the wind and sand dissipated in an instant, and slowly opened his eyes, only to see a mass of flying sand floating in the air in front of him, and there was a fierce human face in it, his eyebrows were always erected, calm and majestic.
"Boss."
The cloud of flying sand floated to Nuo Qi's side, and shouted in a hoarse voice.
It seems that what kind of Homiz will be made also varies from person to person.
Big Mom and Carmelite created Homiz in a cute style, and even called them mom when they opened their mouths.
However, the newly created Houtu looked fierce and called Nuoqi the boss.
Nuo Qi nodded very usefully, obviously very satisfied with his work, "Very good, Houtu, have you seen that little girl, her name is Charlotte Brin, from now on you will follow her and obey her orders, and whoever dares to hurt her, you will destroy that person."
"I understand, boss, you must protect Miss Brin."
After Hou Tu agreed, he went to Brin and said respectfully, "Miss Brin, please take care of me in the future."
Brin was flattered and waved her hands again and again. Instead, she pinched the hem of her skirt, bowed her knees slightly, and saluted, "I should ask you to take care of me. Thank you for your hard work in the future."
Houtu smiled with a mighty appearance, "Where is it, it is my honor to serve the beautiful young lady."
Nuo Qi looked at the majestic appearance on the stage, but at the moment he was a dog-legged back soil, and silently retracted the evaluation just now.
It stands to reason that the soul in Houtu's body is closely related to him, why did it become like this? !
Nuoqi didn't want to be like aunt, nesting in the cake castle all day long, "Let's go, my Minister of Chocolate, let's go to the island for inspection."
"okay."
With the powerful help of Houtu, Brin suddenly gained confidence, walked on tiptoes, and was about to float up.
The two walked out of the king's room. Outside the door, the former queen's soldiers and the current king's soldiers were the first Homiz to be given life again.
"Your Majesty, Miss Breen."
The soldiers saluted one after another, expressing their high respect to the two men.
"Ah."
Nuo Qi nodded and led Brin straight out of the cake castle.
"Brother Lei Zan~ woo woo woo..."
When they reached the door, the "King of Sisters" Flampe, who had been blocked all the time, ran towards the two of them crying.
"I was wrong, please forgive me, she is willing to do anything for you, and Sister Brin, I was too ignorant before, please say something kind to me in front of Brother Lei Zan, woo woo woo..."
Originally, Flampe's Minister of Honey was a certainty, and her mother agreed, and a new official could take office soon.
As a result, Lei Zan became the new owner of Wan Guo overnight.
The Minister of Honey was immediately detained by Nuo Qi as the king, and the processing was postponed.
This made Flampe feel regretful. She has a total of 41 brothers in the Charlotte family, and only two brothers, Katakuri and Rezan, do not support her.
As a result, one of these two people is the head of the dessert four generals of all nations, and the other is His Majesty the new king of all nations.
Katakuri is lukewarm towards her, but the key is that Rezan still has a grudge against her.
This is a [-] in [-] probability, why did she just get bumped into it?
Brin was in power, so there was no need to deliberately cover up her evil personality. She immediately revealed her third eye, her sweet face grinning ferociously, "My sister Flampe, weren't you crazy before? Didn't you keep saying that you should teach my Brother Lei Zan a lesson? Isn't it too late to come here and beg for mercy?
I tell you, don't even think about your honey minister, ever!No!Can!able! "
Flanpe wanted to hug Lei Zan's thigh, and remembered that the other party didn't like to get too close to others. For a moment, she was floating in place, in a dilemma, and tears flowed down her eyes like waterfalls.
Facing Little Lolita's cry, Nuo Qi was very indifferent, and said, "I was never angry with you, it's just that your ability is not enough to be the Minister of Honey. If you are willing to improve yourself at ease, when your ability reaches, I will naturally give you a suitable position."
Say it.
Nuoqi waved his hands and led Brin and Houtu away.
Seeing that Flampe still wanted to follow, Brin said viciously, "Houtu, if anyone without permission comes within three meters of us, you will kill her."
"Okay, Miss Breen!"
Obviously, for Houtu, a little girl like Flampe is not his favorite, which also shows Nuoqi's own preferences from the side...
Nuo Qi visits Wan Guo's hospital.
Charlotte Bree was lying on the hospital bed with a bandage on her head, "Brother Rezan, why are you here?"
Nuo Qi said lightly, "Come here to see you, I heard that you were injured by that guy Enel, how are you doing?"
Bree covered her head, "I'm a little dizzy, but the rest is fine."
Nuoqi and Brin looked at each other.
It's a ghost if you don't have a headache. The memory has been revised so many times.
A long-legged lady with pink wavy hair and heavy makeup walked towards the two of them, "Your Majesty, I finally found you. When I led someone to count the losses in Cake Island, I found a corpse. It was my mother's best friend, Queen Stussy of Happy Street. How do you think about this matter? Stussy's forces have asked us many times about the situation. Should we tell them the truth..."
Lei Zan recognized this woman as Charlotte Garrett, the Butter Minister of the Kingdom of Nations. Her butter fruit ability is a bit like a pet fruit, and she can control people's actions with her voice.
Among the former queens, in the king's room.
Nuoqi sat on a black throne, and Brin obediently waited beside him.
Candy Minister Pelospero leaned on a candy cane, with a flattering smile on his face, "Brother Lei Zan, you are too powerful. It only took one day to get familiar with the ability of mother's soul fruit. If this continues, as long as we collect enough souls, the kingdoms will soon regain their glory."
Brin Shuiling's big eyes carefully watched Lei Zan's, and said, "Brother Pelospero, even if Brother Lei Zan has mastered the ability, we should not act too hastily. Residents of Wan Guo should have their own free lives. It would be too cruel to wantonly take their lives just for the sake of quick recovery."
"Hehehe, I understand what Sister Brin said. Don't worry, Wan Guo still follows the principle of paying one month's protection fee every six months. It's just that when the new king ascends the throne, he needs to pay an extra one as a congratulatory gift to celebrate Lei Zan's brother becoming king.
As for the other souls in need, brother Lei Zan, I should be the captain now, and I would like to apply to you to send General Xing abroad to arrest people. "
Nuoqi thought for a few seconds, nodded and said, "Okay, let's send General Xingsi Muji and Cracker to lead the headquarters fleet and various combatants. Let's clear up all the lingering garbage in the new world."
Due to the death of the aunt, Lei Zan succeeded to the throne, in this critical period of lack of talents.
After everyone's discussion, and with Lei Zan's permission, the position of the four generals of cracker desserts was restored.
"Okay." Pelospero agreed without saying a word.
Brin reminded again, "Brother Pelospero, just catch pirates, don't... don't hurt civilians in other places."
Pelospero narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile, "Little Brin, don't worry, brother, I understand everything."
In fact, if Brin didn't say anything, Pelospero would have told Cracker and Smudge the same way. Times have changed, and BIG MOM now has internal and external troubles, and its strength is far inferior to the other four emperors.
Going around to harm civilians, isn't this forcing the navy to send troops to destroy you?
"By the way, Captain, there is one more thing. After losing the Homiz created by our mother, many industries in our kingdom have come to a standstill. In addition, after the death of our mother, various forces have drawn a clear line with us for the first time and cut off ties, making the economy of the kingdom close to collapse.
I am afraid that this huge shortfall cannot be made up by just relying on us to go out and rob.
What's more, with powerful enemies around, we shouldn't send too many troops out, so..." Perospero looked at Lei Zan and hesitated to speak.
"So what?"
"We need to obtain a huge sum of money as soon as possible to deal with the crisis that will inevitably occur in the future, without using too many troops." Pelospero said very embarrassingly.
Nuo Qi nodded, "Then your suggestion?"
Pelospero thought about it seriously, "The only person in the world who can spend so much money, apart from other four emperors, senior world government officials and a few heads of state, is Gilder Tezoro, the owner of the Golden City Gulan Tezoro."
"Tezorro...you want me to kill him?"
Perospero waved his hand hastily, shook his head and said, "No, no, brother Rezan, you don't know something, Tezoro may not be strong himself, but he used money to control the world government, navy, and many emperors in the underground world.
One hair can affect the whole body, absolutely can't kill him, once it arouses the target of the major forces. The BIG MOM Pirates are completely over. "
Nuo Qi touched his chin and thought, "So, if we want to get money from Tezoro, we can only exchange it with something that is equivalent or even far beyond the value of the money itself?"
Pelospero sighed, "Although I don't want to admit it, but the reality is so cruel, lick lick~"
Nuo Qi said in a deep voice, "You don't have to worry about this matter. I will take full responsibility for it. You can go to your mother's funeral and other things."
"Captain, then... I will leave it to you. If there is anything you don't understand, you must consult with me first!"
"Ah."
Watching Pelospero walk out of the room.
The door was closed tightly.
Nuoqi looked at Brin, and asked with a smile, "How is it, does it feel good to be respected?"
Brin nodded slightly, and suddenly showed an evil smile. The third eye was faintly visible through the bangs, "It's so cool. Before, Pelospero, who was under one person and above ten thousand people, dared not be presumptuous in front of me! In the past, I didn't even dare to think about it!"
"Hahaha, you'd better get used to it as soon as possible. I'm going to be away from Wan Guo for a while, and I'll leave all the internal affairs to you. Of course, the ministers will help you."
"Why are you leaving in such a hurry!? You're not in Wanguo, how can I order those arrogant ministers!" Hearing this, Brin turned into a weak girl again, pursing her mouth, her face full of sadness.
"You heard what Pelospero said. The Big Mom Pirates are in trouble. I have to solve it. Don't look at things like money. The strong don't care, but they are indispensable."
Brin rubbed his little head and questioned, "There is no fraud in this, right? Our Big Mom Pirates have never been short of money. The treasury is full of gold and all kinds of treasures. How could they suddenly run out of money?"
Nuoqi tapped the handle of the chair with his fingers and made a "da da" sound, "Your doubts are not unreasonable, but what Pelospero said is also watertight. He just said that there is a deficit and a crisis. He didn't say that he will run out of ammunition and food in the near future. So this crisis may be months or years later, and it can be rounded up no matter what."
"Then you're still in a hurry to get out?!"
Brin's eyes suddenly became weird, "It's not because I miss the Pirate Empress, I'm looking for an excuse to go out and do that kind of thing..."
Nuoqi raised his hand and gave Brin a head-scratching, "Your little head is full of messy things.
Since Pelospero mentioned this matter to me, firstly, it is because it may really become a crisis for the BIG MOM Pirates, and secondly, he also wants to test how much I am worth through this matter, and whether I am worthy of the position of the Four Emperors, understand?
Therefore, I must resolve this matter as soon as possible, and rely on it to establish prestige among the members of the Charlotte family. Regardless of the fact that everyone elects me as king on the surface, how many of them are sincerely convinced? "
"It turns out... so it's like this, can you solve it?" Brin suddenly realized.
"I don't have a particularly good idea at the moment, but I can give it a try. Gilder Tezoro, his background is indeed difficult to deal with, but he also has many weaknesses. As long as he has weaknesses, won't he be as strong as Big Mom?"
Brin nodded, "You're right, but I'm alone and helpless in Ten Thousand Kingdoms. Without your protection, I'm really afraid..."
Nuoqi stood up from the throne, with his right hand wrapped in sand, and a vortex gathered in his palm, he swung it forward, and a huge dust tornado stood in this huge room.
"Brother Lei Zan, who is this? It's coming towards me, Brother Lei Zan, stop it! I... Did I say something wrong? I'm sorry!!!"
Brin's face was pale and colorless, and she watched the tornado sandstorm getting closer and closer to her, flying sand and rocks, and the fine dust was lost in Brin's big juicy eyes.
finished? !
Brin was ashamed, she thought that Nuoqi was going to kill her to silence her.
Nuo Qi calmly turned his right hand towards the sandstorm, and shot out a ball of white light from his palm, slowly sinking into the center of the tornado, "I will give you life, be born, your name is... Houtu!!"
"calm……"
Brin seemed to feel that the wind and sand dissipated in an instant, and slowly opened his eyes, only to see a mass of flying sand floating in the air in front of him, and there was a fierce human face in it, his eyebrows were always erected, calm and majestic.
"Boss."
The cloud of flying sand floated to Nuo Qi's side, and shouted in a hoarse voice.
It seems that what kind of Homiz will be made also varies from person to person.
Big Mom and Carmelite created Homiz in a cute style, and even called them mom when they opened their mouths.
However, the newly created Houtu looked fierce and called Nuoqi the boss.
Nuo Qi nodded very usefully, obviously very satisfied with his work, "Very good, Houtu, have you seen that little girl, her name is Charlotte Brin, from now on you will follow her and obey her orders, and whoever dares to hurt her, you will destroy that person."
"I understand, boss, you must protect Miss Brin."
After Hou Tu agreed, he went to Brin and said respectfully, "Miss Brin, please take care of me in the future."
Brin was flattered and waved her hands again and again. Instead, she pinched the hem of her skirt, bowed her knees slightly, and saluted, "I should ask you to take care of me. Thank you for your hard work in the future."
Houtu smiled with a mighty appearance, "Where is it, it is my honor to serve the beautiful young lady."
Nuo Qi looked at the majestic appearance on the stage, but at the moment he was a dog-legged back soil, and silently retracted the evaluation just now.
It stands to reason that the soul in Houtu's body is closely related to him, why did it become like this? !
Nuoqi didn't want to be like aunt, nesting in the cake castle all day long, "Let's go, my Minister of Chocolate, let's go to the island for inspection."
"okay."
With the powerful help of Houtu, Brin suddenly gained confidence, walked on tiptoes, and was about to float up.
The two walked out of the king's room. Outside the door, the former queen's soldiers and the current king's soldiers were the first Homiz to be given life again.
"Your Majesty, Miss Breen."
The soldiers saluted one after another, expressing their high respect to the two men.
"Ah."
Nuo Qi nodded and led Brin straight out of the cake castle.
"Brother Lei Zan~ woo woo woo..."
When they reached the door, the "King of Sisters" Flampe, who had been blocked all the time, ran towards the two of them crying.
"I was wrong, please forgive me, she is willing to do anything for you, and Sister Brin, I was too ignorant before, please say something kind to me in front of Brother Lei Zan, woo woo woo..."
Originally, Flampe's Minister of Honey was a certainty, and her mother agreed, and a new official could take office soon.
As a result, Lei Zan became the new owner of Wan Guo overnight.
The Minister of Honey was immediately detained by Nuo Qi as the king, and the processing was postponed.
This made Flampe feel regretful. She has a total of 41 brothers in the Charlotte family, and only two brothers, Katakuri and Rezan, do not support her.
As a result, one of these two people is the head of the dessert four generals of all nations, and the other is His Majesty the new king of all nations.
Katakuri is lukewarm towards her, but the key is that Rezan still has a grudge against her.
This is a [-] in [-] probability, why did she just get bumped into it?
Brin was in power, so there was no need to deliberately cover up her evil personality. She immediately revealed her third eye, her sweet face grinning ferociously, "My sister Flampe, weren't you crazy before? Didn't you keep saying that you should teach my Brother Lei Zan a lesson? Isn't it too late to come here and beg for mercy?
I tell you, don't even think about your honey minister, ever!No!Can!able! "
Flanpe wanted to hug Lei Zan's thigh, and remembered that the other party didn't like to get too close to others. For a moment, she was floating in place, in a dilemma, and tears flowed down her eyes like waterfalls.
Facing Little Lolita's cry, Nuo Qi was very indifferent, and said, "I was never angry with you, it's just that your ability is not enough to be the Minister of Honey. If you are willing to improve yourself at ease, when your ability reaches, I will naturally give you a suitable position."
Say it.
Nuoqi waved his hands and led Brin and Houtu away.
Seeing that Flampe still wanted to follow, Brin said viciously, "Houtu, if anyone without permission comes within three meters of us, you will kill her."
"Okay, Miss Breen!"
Obviously, for Houtu, a little girl like Flampe is not his favorite, which also shows Nuoqi's own preferences from the side...
Nuo Qi visits Wan Guo's hospital.
Charlotte Bree was lying on the hospital bed with a bandage on her head, "Brother Rezan, why are you here?"
Nuo Qi said lightly, "Come here to see you, I heard that you were injured by that guy Enel, how are you doing?"
Bree covered her head, "I'm a little dizzy, but the rest is fine."
Nuoqi and Brin looked at each other.
It's a ghost if you don't have a headache. The memory has been revised so many times.
A long-legged lady with pink wavy hair and heavy makeup walked towards the two of them, "Your Majesty, I finally found you. When I led someone to count the losses in Cake Island, I found a corpse. It was my mother's best friend, Queen Stussy of Happy Street. How do you think about this matter? Stussy's forces have asked us many times about the situation. Should we tell them the truth..."
Lei Zan recognized this woman as Charlotte Garrett, the Butter Minister of the Kingdom of Nations. Her butter fruit ability is a bit like a pet fruit, and she can control people's actions with her voice.
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