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Originally, Liam thought it would be fun to play a little with the young Empress, but he didn’t expect her to be so fierce. The TV had just turned on, intending to “play” an iconic opening from an infinite loop scenario, only for Hancock to immediately shoot it to pieces.
‘Kid, with such decisive ruthlessness, how did you end up being tricked by human traffickers?’
Liam, who was in the top level with Robin, couldn’t help but feel speechless.
They were watching Hancock, who had been pulled into the Den Den Mushi’s internal city and seamlessly transported into the Stand Castle within the Den Den Mushi City, falling into the first level of the castle room.
Using the powers of the Shiro Shiro no Mi (Castle-Castle Fruit), Liam had “B.I.B.” prepare some things for Hancock, like new toys.
When Hancock, who was wandering around the first level, noticed them, she only glanced at them before losing interest, casually kicking them aside.
**Bang**, the bunny toy was casually thrown on the ground and stomped into pieces.
“What kind of place is this? So boring…” Hancock said, hands on her slender waist as she walked around. “Is anyone here? I want to go back!”
She sniffed the air, catching a pleasant aroma, and followed it to another room that looked like a dining area, where a table was filled with what seemed to be a lavish feast.
Liam wasn’t a great chef, but when he was renting an apartment alone in his past life, he had learned from many cooking videos online. While the flavors he managed to replicate were decent, he gradually fell into the habit of ordering takeout…
He eventually abandoned his cooking skills, but “B.I.B.” did not. It even remembered every cooking video Liam had ever watched. Using ingredients sourced from the forests around Amazon Lily Island, it had managed to whip up a decent spread of food within its controlled castle.
Hancock found the aroma appealing and took a few bites. But that was it; she quickly pushed it aside, uninterested.
She didn’t have a strong appetite. Besides, she wasn’t hungry right now, so even the tastiest food wasn’t enticing.
Watching this unfold on the screen, Liam was left speechless once more.
‘The traditional isekai trope of conquering the natives with kindness wasn’t working. Empress, you truly are something else!’
Robin couldn’t help but chuckle quietly. She understood Liam’s attempt to earn favor— it was partly because he needed Hancock’s help to train his Haki. And knowing Liam, he wouldn’t use her and then kill or imprison her.
He would eventually let her go. Since they would release Hancock back to her world after using her abilities, Liam probably thought it best to try and make friends first…
Even so, seeing the black-haired girl on the screen dismissing Liam’s efforts, Robin couldn’t help but feel a bit amused at his expense.
As Robin watched quietly amused, Hancock’s patience wore thin.
Without getting any response, Hancock left the dining area. After circling the place repeatedly, she pulled a wooden arrow from her quiver and gripped the Salome snake bow.
With the arrow on the string, drawn to a full moon.
Hancock aimed directly at the strange room’s wall and released an arrow entwined with Busoshoku Haki (Armament Haki).
**Bang!!**
The arrow struck the wall and exploded into a burst.
The entire first level seemed to tremble slightly.
“Raging little girl, aren’t you…” Liam muttered, snapping his fingers twice. The ground rippled, and a white fluid emerged, forming the upper half of a figure clad in black armor, which then turned its head toward its main body.
Liam asked, “How did it feel, that Busoshoku Haki (Armament Haki) arrow?”
‘B.I.B.’, eyes glowing white, knocked on its helmet a few times, producing a mechanical sound: “Just a little sting… she’s much smaller than a flea right now…”
Liam squinted, “Playing Dragon Ball references in a pirate world, you sure have your way…”
Robin watched on the wall screen as Hancock’s arrow only left a faint mark on the walls of the ghostly City Castle, not even managing to break or crack it.
She could understand, though. She had once been an ability user of the Shiro Shiro no Mi (Castle-Castle Fruit) and was somewhat familiar with the fortress’s toughness.
If the full power of the Shiro Shiro no Mi was unleashed, turning the user into a giant fortress form like the one shown by that old boss Capone Bege from that criminal organization, even Marine siege artillery wouldn’t leave a scratch on the fortress.
Although the Kuja warrior’s Haki was formidable, being trapped inside the fortress, her own reduced size significantly weakened the power of her Haki-infused arrows.
Hancock didn’t know these details; she just assumed that the wall was harder than she had imagined. Slightly startled, she quickly composed herself and kept drawing and shooting arrows repeatedly.
**Whiz, Whiz, Whiz…**
Her wooden arrows, wrapped in Busoshoku Haki (Armament Haki), flew one by one, hitting the same spot on the wall precisely.
**Bang, Bang, Bang!**
The flowing Haki pounded on the same area of the wall repeatedly.
‘B.I.B.’ reported its sensations to the main body in a robotic voice: “The stinging sensation has become stronger, perhaps a slight cramping feeling… Different from the first arrow. She seems to be using a technique similar to Ryuo (Flowing Sakura)…”
“What the heck!” Liam exclaimed in surprise. “This little girl knows Ryuo (Flowing Sakura) too?”
He wasn’t shocked that Ryuo (Flowing Sakura) would appear outside of Wano Country. In fact, it first appeared in the Sabaody Archipelago when Rayleigh used it to remove the slave collar.
Additionally, there’s Sentomaru’s Air Wall technique, where he used Haki to hit Luffy from a distance, knocking the rubber man away and causing significant pain. This demonstrated it as a Haki technique that could leave the body, showing it as a flowing Haki.
It wasn’t surprising that a warrior from Amazon Lily Island, skilled in Haki, would know this advanced form of Busoshoku Haki (Armament Haki).
What puzzled Liam was how such a fierce girl like Empress had been tricked into being a slave for the Celestial Dragons. Did she venture into the outside world, lower her guard, and turn into a naive, sweet girl?
“If she knew Ryuo (Flowing Sakura), why didn’t she just remove the collar and escape when she was a slave?” Liam noticed a glaring inconsistency.
However, he also thought of a possible answer, and ‘B.I.B.’ answered for him: “Perhaps fear made her lose her ability to think, or maybe she tried to escape and was caught again. Most likely, she hadn’t witnessed Rayleigh removing the collar, so she didn’t know it was possible.”
Liam murmured, “After being fed the Love-Love Fruit, even knowing Ryuo (Flowing Sakura) would be useless.”
During the Wano Country arc, Luffy had the chance to remove his collar using Ryuo (Flowing Sakura) because Queen had lowered the Seastone handcuffs’ purity to exploit prisoners for labor.
Otherwise, as a Devil Fruit user, Luffy wearing Seastone cuffs would have been too weak even to move, let alone muster the stamina to use Haki for an escape…
Robin listened quietly from the side.
Liam was speaking in that strange dialect again…
“This girl really lacks proper education!” Liam stroked his chin, then suddenly snapped his fingers and said to the Stand Armor, “Plan B!”
‘B.I.B.’ remained silent. When did Plan B come into play?
On the first floor, Hancock continued firing arrows but suddenly found her quiver empty; she had shot all her wooden arrows.
**Bang, Bang, Bang…** The arrows repeatedly struck the wall. After a series of explosions, the wall didn’t even crack; at most, there were some slight scuffs.
On the contrary, many of the fallen arrows had self-destructed.
“How annoying!” Hancock angrily threw her snake bow to the ground. Her pet snake, Salome, flinched twice and slithered away, wary of its mistress’s temper.
Hancock kicked over chairs and tables with a furious expression on her face. Her black hair floated up as if blown by an invisible wind. She gritted her teeth and shouted, “Whether or not someone is here, I’m truly angry…!!”
An invisible wave swept through the room, and an astonishing aura erupted from the seemingly fragile frame of the 1.5-meter-tall girl, penetrating the entire castle.
Just as Hancock was throwing a tantrum, she noticed something falling from the ceiling.
**Pā dā**, A book dropped in front of her feet.
Hancock’s intense aura halted. Confused, she wondered why a book had suddenly fallen down.
She frowned, reached out with her nimble toes, and flipped the book over to reveal its cover. On it were two large characters: “The Room.”
As if anticipating her reluctance to read, a line of text was added below the title: Main Character, Hancock.
“…”
Hancock looked even more bewildered.
Upstairs, Liam steadied Robin by the shoulder as she finally woke up from the brief unconsciousness caused by Hancock’s Haoshoku Haki.
“What just happened to me…”
“It was Haoshoku,” Liam explained. “It was definitely Haki leaking! I barely managed to withstand it. It was intense…”
“…” Robin looked at the screen and saw the black-haired girl, now sitting cross-legged on the floor, engrossed in reading the book that had appeared in her hands.
Liam chuckled, “It’s a typical overpowered protagonist trope; she should find it quite relatable! Tsk, tsk…”
‘B.I.B.’ was speechless nearby, thinking about the chaotic story it had made up. The main body sure went to great lengths to deceive the Empress into the trap, even tailoring the protagonist’s character to perfectly match Hancock herself, making it highly relatable…
Considering the true story of “The Room,” who knows what kind of psychological impact it would have on the Empress…
…
“…And so, the charming young girl Hancock bid farewell to her father Liam and mother Robin and ventured alone into the Grand Line, where strong winds blow constantly. What adventures await her next?”
From the first-floor room came the frustrated voice of the young girl: “Why did it end here?! What happens next? What happens next?”
(End Of Chapter)
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