Chapter 309: The Perfect Imperial Tool - The Crossed Tail
A new addition to the crew, Kakuzu, was holding a stack of wanted posters, desperately trying to suppress the urge to take action.
It wasn't because he had never seen money before, but the amounts listed on the wanted posters were just too much.
To Kakuzu's eyes, the members of the Dawn Pirates aboard the Invincible were like walking mountains of gold, and his eyes sparkled with a greedy green glow.
Though, his eyes were naturally green.
"'Ghost Princess,' a bounty of 100 million Berries? Is this little girl the one?" Kakuzu asked, sounding suspicious. The girl in front of him, dressed in a Gothic Lolita-style dress, was slender, with weak limbs, and could be knocked out by a single punch. How could she possibly be worth this much money?
This made him doubt the purchasing power of Berries. Could it be like the Zimbabwean dollar, used as toilet paper?
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?!" Perona shouted angrily. With a single wave of her hand, she declared, "Negative Ghost!"
Kakuzu quickly dropped to all fours, apologizing, "I'm sorry, losing to such a young one..."
"Damn, even the words you say while in a negative state are so annoying! Newcomers are really the worst!" Perona stormed off, the floor beneath her feet banging loudly.
"Click." Deidara quickly took a photo with his camera, teasing, "Kakuzu, you've fallen for it too. Hmm."
"Ha..." Kakuzu recovered from the negative state and stood up. "No wonder she has a 100 million Berries bounty. Once hit by that, it's nearly a guaranteed loss in battle."
"Also?" Kakuzu's voice came from under his mask. "Seems like you've had your fair share of trouble with her."
Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Deidara suddenly jumped up in protest, "Hey, hey, hey, don't make baseless accusations!"
"Accusations? Just ask anyone on the ship," Kakuzu replied.
Deidara was about to retort but suddenly changed his expression and pulled Kakuzu away to the other side of the hallway.
Because at that moment, a dazzlingly beautiful young girl walked toward them, her violet hair adorned with a petal-shaped hairpin. Her graceful figure was wrapped in a light pink dress, with her slender legs peeking out from under her skirt, wrapped in snow-white stockings. A true beauty who could turn heads more than 120% of the time. And yet, Deidara, of all people, seemed to grow uneasy and stepped aside?
This young girl had a cultured air about her, nodding and greeting from a distance before walking down the hallway toward the opposite lounge.
It was none other than Miya Kyu, who had won the underwear fitting contest last time with perfect results. She had a broad chest the size of Kurumi's head, a slender waist, a melodious voice, and a beauty that could make any man fall for her.
Unfortunately, she couldn't capture the attention of these two men, whose eyes were fixed on money and mud.
But of course, Miya Kyu didn't mind.
"You seem to be afraid of her," Kakuzu flipped through the wanted posters in his hands. "But there's no wanted poster for her. What's going on? Even you have a bounty of 180 million Berries."
Deidara explained, "She has a condition where she's afraid of men."
Kakuzu mocked, "Seems to me like you're the one afraid of her."
"I..." Deidara looked away, "Never mind. I'm afraid of her. I advise you to stay away from her too. Most of the men on the ship follow that rule. Consider this my advice."
"Most?"
Deidara didn't want his old comrades to know about the embarrassing events he had gone through.
"I understand." Kakuzu's calm personality was unlike his former comrade Hidan's loud mouth. He could gather plenty of information from just a few words.
Flipping through the wanted posters, Kakuzu tried to commit all the bounty targets to memory. After all, these were all money!
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Doflamingo's body lay on Da Vinci's operating table, with Law and Da Vinci performing a modification surgery.
Law asked, "Was Kurome' first doll created by your modification surgery?"
"Yes," Da Vinci guided Law through the cutting process. Law used his Surgery Fruit ability to easily cut through Doflamingo's tough muscles.
"Using your ability for surgery is really convenient," Da Vinci casually asked, "I heard Doflamingo was your arch-enemy. Don't you want to crush his bones into dust?"
Law replied indifferently, "He's already dead. What's lying here now is just a pile of rotten flesh."
Kurome, who had been standing by, didn't like this response, calling out, "This is my doll!"
"Is it?" Da Vinci continued using his Swallow-Swallow Fruit ability to create "Da Vinci Memory Alloy" to fill the large hole in Doflamingo's chest, while simultaneously using his hands with God's Hand - Perfection to disassemble Shifting Tail - Crossed Tail. These two Imperial Tools had been bought from the system mall by Eric .
Pika, Diamante, and Lao G had already been modified. They had their bone hardness and muscle strength reinforced.
However, Doflamingo's modification was more complicated. His Haki was powerful, and his physical strength was remarkable. Without enhancing his power through modification, it would be a waste of such an excellent material.
Eric had purposely bought the Shifting Tail - Crossed Tail Imperial Tool from the system mall to compensate for Doflamingo's loss of his Line-Line Fruit abilities.
For the past few days, Da Vinci had been using Perfection to analyze Crossed Tail during his free time.
After disassembling Shifting Tail - Crossed Tail, it was perfectly integrated into Doflamingo's body. Finally, the repairs to his damaged body were completed.
The modification surgery, which lasted for three hours, was finally completed. Law, exhausted from using his abilities, wiped the sweat from his forehead and collapsed onto the floor.
"Good job, Law," Da Vinci thanked him. "Without you, this surgery wouldn't have been completed so easily."
Law glanced up at her and said flatly, "If the World Government found out we know how to regenerate Devil Fruits and control the bodies of powerful pirates, we'd become the world's public enemies."
"Don't worry, your brother-in-law has already thought of that," Kurome said as she controlled Doflamingo to stand. The threads from Shifting Tail - Crossed Tail slid out from the small holes in his fingers, moving along his bones, making it undetectable to others.
The tough threads in Doflamingo's hands transformed into various shapes, sometimes into a spear, other times into a thick whip. It was almost as if the Line-Line Fruit was still inside him.
With his arrogant grin, orange-tinted sunglasses on his nose, and a pink feathered coat draped over his back, Doflamingo looked no different from when he was alive, except for the unnatural armor covering his abdomen.
Law watched this scene, almost drawing his sword to strike Doflamingo.
"Whoosh!"
The tough whip easily split the experimental table in two...
Da Vinci screamed, "My table! My experiment!"
Kurome quickly apologized, "Sorry, sorry! I didn't control it well!"
She hurriedly began to help Da Vinci clean up.
(END CHAPTER)
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