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Chapter 65 Ye Huohuo's Adventures
Ye Huohuo is a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur).

Severe.

He believed that he was born extraordinary, like the protagonist of a story, and that even if he was briefly obscured, he would always stand out and shine brightly.

His adolescent delusions were so severe that he even wrote a script for his own life. In his eyes, the girl next door who was his "childhood sweetheart" should be with him and become his wife.

As it turned out, she didn't even look at his eccentric behavior and got together with a senior martial arts master who was pursuing her—and Ye Huohuo broke down.

Having a habit of projecting himself onto the protagonist of a story, he naturally interpreted this incident as a scenario where a "secret-patterned warrior bullies others and forcibly takes away his childhood sweetheart," so he signed up for the secret realm and became an exploration volunteer.

This information was given to Guan Yi by the team leader, Long Qi, who said that the people in Guan Yi's "First Exploration Team" were all extraordinary individuals.

Jiang Xue possesses star-like beauty and knows how to use her charm effectively.

The legendary assassin Zhang Sangu.

Guan Yi resolutely gave up her studies, seemingly preparing to enter the secret realm since childhood.

Add to that this severe case of chuunibyou (middle school syndrome).

Long Qi said that in the secret realm with the power of fantasy, being a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur) is a valuable talent. Ye Huohuo may die because of it, but she may also gain something that others cannot by virtue of being a chuunibyou.

Guan Yi really couldn't refute it.

In shonen manga, being a chuunibyou (a person with delusions of grandeur) isn't necessarily a bad thing. In the world of One Piece, willpower is indeed related to strength. If Ye Huohuo were to reach the extreme of self-centeredness, it wouldn't be impossible for him to possess Conqueror's Haki. However, after entering the secret realm, Ye Huohuo has never been heard from again. Long Qi thinks he might just be one of the unlucky ones.

Guan Yi never expected that she would meet this person she hadn't seen for almost four years in Wanguo.

At this moment, Ye Huohuo seemed to have lost some weight compared to before entering the secret realm. Her sunken eye sockets made her eyes bulge out, her hair was messy and dyed yellow, and her exposed skin was covered with some blue, gray, and other messy colors.

"Hey, Guan Yi, long time no see."

He smiled at Guan Yi, slipped through the crack in the door into the room, and casually found a chair to sit down, saying, "You're doing really well, managing to stay on Cake Street in Sweet City. Only the guests most valued by Lingling get to stay here."

The dye on the skin and hair must be some kind of Devil Fruit ability. The physical strength is average, but only relative to me. Compared to ordinary explorers, it is much stronger, probably at the level of a pirate with a bounty of one to two hundred million.

Guan Yi first observed and assessed Ye Huohuo's strength before saying, "I didn't expect to see you here again. You joined the Big Mom Pirates?"

Ye Huohuo hesitated for a moment, then let out a long sigh filled with mixed emotions.

"I was married to Lingling."

"……ah???"

Guan Yi was stunned, even doubting whether he had heard correctly. Earlier, Ye Huohuo had called out "Linling", but Guan Yi had only taken it as him showing off his status in the Big Mom Pirates. The fact that he could find Katakuri half an hour after Katakuri arranged for him to stay there showed that Ye Huohuo was definitely not a nobody.

But... Lingling's husband?

Charlotte Linlin?!
"It's just that I hooked up with a rich woman, what's the big deal?" Ye Huohuo's expression was slightly unnatural, clearly not as relaxed as she said: "Anyway, everything that happened in the secret realm doesn't count. Everything I did was to become a Secret Pattern Warrior and rescue Xiaoyu. Even if she knew, she wouldn't blame me!"

No? No, buddy, can Big Mom be summed up in a simple 'rich woman'?

She is 8.8 meters tall, weighs tens of tons, has more than 40 husbands, and gives birth to children as easily as popcorn, giving birth to a whole pirate crew!

Warriors, super warriors.

Even Jabba would have to call you brother.

Guan Yi felt genuine admiration, but at the same time, she was very curious: how did you get intimate with the older woman... no, how did the older woman even take a liking to you?

Could it be because of... the Poneglyphs?!

Ye Huohuo began to speak slowly.

Nearly four years ago, Ye Huohuo, who had just entered the pirate's secret realm, landed on an ordinary island. It was safe and secure, a good place to complete her initial accumulation.

But Ye Huohuo didn't stay there for more than a few days.

How can the protagonist be confined to a small place?

Go to sea!

Completely ignoring the team leader's advice—such as waiting until he had the strength to defeat Krieg before entering the Grand Line—Ye Huohuo decided to go straight into the Grand Line and seek his opportunities in a wider world!

Very brave.

The result was naturally failure.

He was shipwrecked and nearly swallowed by a sea monster, but luckily, he was swept by the waves to a strange island and rescued by an old man who was on his deathbed.

"It's a deserted island, inhabited only by Grandpa Cook, who hasn't left it for over thirty years. It's not that he doesn't want to, but that he doesn't dare, because he claims to be a remnant of 'God Valley,' someone the World Government wants to erase."

The remnants of the Valley of the Gods? Is this the Valley of the Gods I know? Guan Yi was slightly surprised.

"You know about God's Valley, right?" Ye Huohuo paused for a moment and asked, "This island is unknown to most people because of some secrets, but Lingling knows about it. You're doing so well, you must have heard of it, right?"

Guan Yi paused for a moment and nodded slightly.

“Then I don’t need to explain.” Ye Huohuo continued, “Grandpa Cook said he was sent flying to that deserted island by some kind of Devil Fruit power. He thought he was going to die with a belly full of secrets, but I appeared in front of him unexpectedly.”

He frowned as he recalled, "He said some strange things back then, something about being protected by the ancestors of the 'David' clan. I still don't understand it, but it must have been some important side plot..."

After that, Ye Huohuo stayed on that deserted island for two years, learning from Cook how to master two types of Haki and accumulating strength far exceeding that of ordinary explorers. After Cook's death, he successfully entered the Grand Line and became a pirate.

He told this story in a very ordinary way, after all, in his view, this was the kind of adventure that the protagonist should have.

After entering the Grand Line, he successfully "created" a new adventure for himself.

"Before Grandpa Cook died, he gave me a Devil Fruit. He said he found it on that deserted island. He only knew it was a Paramecia type, but he didn't know what its specific power was. Whether I eat it or not is up to me."

He grabbed a handful of his golden hair and said, "After I ate it, I found out it was a Paramecia-type Dye-Dye Fruit. It can only dye things and doesn't have much fighting power, but I quite like it."

Guan Yi could tell.

"Before Grandpa Cook died, he entrusted me with one more thing. He said that he had once served the Rocks family as a servant, but after the destruction of God Valley, he lost contact with the Rocks family. But he believed that even though Lord Rocks was gone, Lord Rocks' son must have survived."

He asked me to find this person; his name should be Locks D. Teach, or Marshall D. Teach, or something else entirely…”

Guan Yi's eye twitched slightly.

Clearly, in Ye Huohuo's view, this was the main quest entrusted to him by an important NPC on his deathbed, and he secretly searched for Teach after entering the Grand Line.

But it can't be found right away.

So he had a sudden inspiration and began to secretly act under the name of Rocks.

“My name here is Lox D. Cook, but it seems that the name Lox is not as famous as Grandpa Cook said, and for a long time I got nothing.”

Awesome.

You're lucky you didn't die.

Guan Yi originally thought that Ye Huohuo had come to the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Kingdoms in this way, but it turned out that it wasn't.

"Because I used the Dye-Dye Fruit to dye my body, one day Baron Egg from the Kingdom of Ten Thousand appeared in front of me and asked if I was from some kind of strange race." Ye Huohuo's tone became erratic.

He thought it was a miraculous encounter, so he immediately accepted it and was taken back to the Kingdom of Ten Thousand.

"After I arrived, I learned that Lingling had been collecting 'husbands' from various races, arranging for her children to marry people of different races, in order to establish a kingdom that would gather all races. She saw through me at a glance that I was just an ordinary human and wanted to take my soul."

Just then, by sheer chance, Ye Huohuo discovered that he could 'decipher' the Poneglyphs. His name, Rocks D. Cook, also caught the attention of the old lady, who temporarily locked him up.

Ye Huohuo felt that everything she had experienced was the same story as the protagonist, so she recalled the details by piecing together the threads, remembering the inexplicable words she had when she first met Grandpa Cook.

"Under Lingling's persistent questioning, I confessed to her that I was actually a member of the 'David' clan, a descendant of the people of God Valley. Although I still don't know what race the David clan is, Lingling seemed to know, and her attitude changed immediately. She invited me to join the big family of the world."

Until this point, Ye Huohuo still thought he had received the script of a live-in son-in-law, but he never expected that the bride was someone else!

After hearing Ye Huohuo's entire story, Guan Yi was overwhelmed with emotions and didn't know what to say.

Aside from suffering heavy losses at the hands of Big Mom, his tumultuous journey can be described as legendary. He directly intervened in one of the major storylines of the One Piece world, the God Valley Incident, and even became 'David'?
Dude, are you really the main character?

(End of this chapter)