“Do you really have to burn it all?”
By the laboratory entrance.
Indigo conjured a chemical magic bomb, looking at the laboratory with some reluctance.
“Of course, why else would we leave it for the World Government?”
Kouta stood beside him with his arms crossed, a sneer on his face.
“Or do you want to keep researching this stuff?”
“No, no, no, Captain, don’t wrongly accuse me,” Indigo quickly waved his hands and argued loudly. “I’m just a little reluctant. I’ve been researching ‘IQ’ for almost 20 years, and it’s a shame to see so many notes go to waste.”
“Hurry up, we still need to check the treasury. If the Navy arrives later, I can leave, but you might not be so lucky.”
Thinking of the Navy, Indigo quickly threw the magic bomb into the laboratory.
He didn’t want to be captured by the Navy and thrown into Impel Down.
Even though he didn’t have a bounty, the Navy would still arrest him.
After all, he was the ship’s doctor on the Golden Lion’s crew! He was already registered with the World Government.
As soon as the magic bomb was shot into the laboratory, it instantly exploded upon contact with the culture tubes. The flames generated by the explosion quickly spread throughout the entire laboratory.
Watching the large fire before him, a hint of reluctance flashed in Indigo’s eyes. However, seeing Kouta walking away, he quickly suppressed this reluctance, and his eyes were filled with hope for the future.
“Following a captain like this should be interesting!”
After all, this guy was still so young.
…
Rumble—!
Looking at the thick iron door before him, Kouta’s face was filled with anticipation.
“With the thickness of this iron door, there must be a lot of good stuff inside!”
But when the door was opened and he saw what was inside, he was dumbfounded.
The treasury was filled with weapons.
There were swords, spears, sabers, staffs, firearms, and cannons, but no gold or jewels. Even the berries were meager.
Kouta stiffly turned his neck to look at Indigo beside him, a dark expression flashing across his face.
“Indigo, you guys spent nearly 20 years accumulating all this junk?”
Indigo, not noticing Kouta’s dark expression, chuckled proudly.
“Kekeke! Yes, we were planning to destroy the world, so of course we had to stock up on enough weapons!”
“Then what about the gold and jewels?”
“All converted into weapons,” he said.
“And the berries?”
Kouta’s tone grew heavier.
“Of course, it’s for weapons. Captain, berries are useless! Aren’t weapons more appealing, or…”
“Uh…!”
Indigo suddenly stopped talking. He had already seen Kouta’s dark expression.
He let out a dry cough cautiously.
“Keke… Haha!!”
“What’s wrong, Captain? Isn’t it good to have so many weapons?”
“Good, of course it’s good.”
Kouta looked at the treasury full of weapons and the piles of cannonballs, feeling like crying but having no tears.
“Good my ass, good.”
So many weapons, enough to equip an army and fight a super major battle.
However, these things were of no use to him.
He liked gold and jewels, liked berries, and disliked these cold iron lumps!
He suddenly thought of something, his eyes lit up, and he turned to look at Indigo with anticipation, asking.
“Right, Indigo, you guys have been wandering around the world for nearly 20 years, you must have found a lot of Devil Fruits, right!”
Indigo thought for a moment.
He was a little hesitant to speak, fearing he might provoke Kouta.
He now knew what Kouta wanted, but everything Kouta wanted had been exchanged for weapons!
However, seeing Kouta’s increasingly dangerous gaze, he had to brace himself and speak cautiously.
“Mhm! Mhm! Mhm!…”
Kouta rudely interrupted him.
“Stop mumbling, just say it.”
Indigo flinched at Kouta’s shout and said aggrievedly, “Captain, don’t shout so loud! I’ll tell you if you want!”
“Yes, we found a few Devil Fruits, but they were all sold to buy weapons.”
“Sold?”
Kouta felt like his whole world was falling apart.
Did that old guy, the Golden Lion, have a problem in his head?
It would have been great to let his subordinates eat them! What good were these iron lumps in the warehouse!
“But…”
Hearing that there was still a glimmer of hope, Kouta’s eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, “But what?”
“But there are two useless Zoan Devil Fruits left.”
Hearing that there were two left, he breathed a sigh of relief.
At least there were some. He thought this trip would be in vain!
As the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. He had initially thought there would be plenty of gold, jewels, berries, and Devil Fruits.
After all, the old man was going to destroy the world, so how could he not have money!
Who knew the old man would buy so many weapons.
“Hmm! So many weapons, if given to the Revolutionary Army, then the Revolutionary Army would truly take off.”
He stroked his chin, staring at the treasury in a daze.
Then he shook his head. Impossible, even if he gave them to the Revolutionary Army, they wouldn’t be able to transport them, because the Navy would arrive soon.
It seemed he had no choice but to destroy them all. He couldn’t leave them to the World Government.
Even if the latter didn’t lack these things.
Indigo cautiously glanced at Kouta, and seeing that Kouta’s expression had clearly improved, he let out a sigh of relief.
He was still quite afraid of Kouta, as he had only joined recently and didn’t know Kouta’s personality yet.
Kouta turned to Indigo and said irritably, “Since there are two left, why aren’t you getting them out?”
“Yes, yes!”
Indigo quickly entered the treasury and, from a pile of scrap metal behind the door, found two pineapple-sized fruits and walked out.
To the Golden Lion, these two fruits were less valuable than weapons, so they were casually discarded in a corner of the treasury.
Looking at the fruits Indigo dug out from a corner that resembled a garbage heap, Kouta’s mouth twitched.
He wanted to see what kind of trash fruit it was that made people so disdainful.
Taking the fruits from Indigo, he flipped them over and couldn’t tell what kind of fruits they were.
He looked up at Indigo.
Sensing Kouta’s gaze, Indigo quickly explained, “This black one is the ‘Zoan: Ant Fruit,’ but as for its form, it’s completely unknown.”
“From past experience, this is just an ordinary Zoan fruit. Eating it allows one to transform into an ant-man. Since the strength boost from ants is too weak, it couldn’t be sold, and thus it has been kept until now.”
“Ants, looked down upon? This thing is quite strong! They have armor and great strength.”
Kouta stared at the black ant fruit, which looked like a large grape, and asked doubtfully, “How could no one want it?”
“Although ants seem strong among insects, it’s different when it’s on a human. This thing can only boost strength by about double at the beginning.”
“And…”
“What?”
“And the price is unaffordable for ordinary pirates. If it’s too expensive, it won’t sell. We can’t just give it away for free, right! In the end, it was just discarded here.”
“Indeed, compared to other fruits that can boost strength several or even tens of times, this thing is garbage.”
Kouta nodded, looking at the black fruit in his hand.
“Ants?”
He didn’t believe ants were really that weak. It must be that no one had truly developed its potential! After all, ants were not the bottom rung of insects!
“Then what about this one?”
Kouta held up another white fruit and asked, “This one is similar to the Ant Fruit. This is the Rabbit Fruit. It also couldn’t be sold because its physical strength boost was too low.”
“Hmm! Rabbit?”
Kouta stared at the white fruit, a hint of curiosity flashing in his eyes.
“What would it look like if a beautiful woman ate it?”
He shook his head, quickly dispelling the terrifying thought that suddenly popped into his mind.
Rabbit ears and bunny girls, he didn’t want that!
Besides being cute, rabbits only had good hind leg jumping power.
Unlike ants, which he could imagine developing into invincible strength through training.
And perhaps there would be other surprises.
But for rabbits, he really couldn’t think of how to train them.
Hmm! It seems rabbits can go berserk.
He suddenly remembered that rabbits could go berserk, and there was the saying of red eyes. If it could go berserk.
Kouta looked at the white rabbit fruit, his eyes lit up.
“Then this thing is not a garbage fruit.”
However, this thing depended on luck. If it didn’t have berserk or other abilities, then it would truly be a garbage fruit.
Then he thought of Ah Hua or Ah Tao eating this thing, and couldn’t help but shiver.
No bunny girl, but a fat rabbit.
“Let’s go! The Navy should be here soon.”
He threw the fruits to Indigo, asking him to find a box to put them in.
After Indigo had packed these two fruits, he then slashed at the treasury twice.
So many weapons, so many cannonballs, how could it not explode!
Then he expanded his space domain, controlled a piece of the door, and left with Indigo.