Domino felt quite helpless about this, so she could only face her teacher from a distance, suddenly gathering strength and throwing a punch:
“Fire Fist…
Fire Gun…
Firefly…
Mirror Fire…”
“Cross Fire…
Fire Daruma…”
“Great Flame Commandment: Flame Emperor!”
She struck many different attacking poses, but the problem was that not a single one worked.
To prevent Domino from feeling awkward, the three of them timely offered praise:
“Domino, don’t be anxious, it might take some time.”
“Domino, the poses you struck look very pretty!
Hehe…”
“Domino, you might be a late-blooming type of brawler.”
Right at this moment, an albatross flew across the sky and immediately dropped a bundle of newspapers.
The Marine on the ship stepped forward to pick up the newspaper and loudly proclaimed: “Admiral Zephyr, a group of pirates has appeared in the New World again, named the Spade Pirates.”
Upon hearing this news, Domino seemed to realize something, and she collapsed into unconsciousness on the spot…
“Domino, Domino?
You must pull yourself together!”
Ain cried out in alarm and rushed forward, scooping up Domino in her arms.
As she slowly fell backward, a thought flashed through her mind: [Took the wrong cold medicine, drowsiness.
Took the wrong aspirin, pain relief.
Took the wrong Devil Fruit, what should I do?
Waiting online, pretty urgent…]
Zephyr watched as Domino was supported by Ain, feeling very curious: Why did the former iron maiden immediately pass out the moment she heard about the Spade Pirates?
He took out the wanted posters of the pirate crew and checked them one by one, abruptly discovering a pirate named Ace—[Fire Fist Ace], who possessed the power of the Mera Mera no Mi…
Just this single piece of news made Zephyr’s eyelids twitch slightly, and the rest of the information was no longer important.
Binz, standing nearby, chimed in at the right moment: “Teacher Zephyr, I think the fruit Domino ate probably wasn’t the Mera Mera no Mi…”
“Without you telling me, I know!”
After speaking, both of them cast sympathetic gazes at Domino, who was already in a state of shock.
Domino on the sickbed looked as though her spine had been pulled out, collapsing limply into Ain’s embrace.
Through tear-filled eyes, she looked like a wronged young bride.
Ain, who knew the full picture of the matter, could only offer comfort: “Domino, don’t be discouraged, maybe this fruit is a fake.”
Hearing these words, Domino suddenly regained her vigor, immediately rushed out of the cabin, put on the mooring rope once again, and jumped down without hesitation…
The on-duty Marines at the bow worked together to fish her back onto the ship…
Teacher Zephyr felt deeply heartbroken over this, watching the former iron maiden reduced to such a state, as old tears welled up and moistened his eye sockets.
Ain, offering her lap as a pillow, softly called out: “Domino, Domino!”
“Ain, am I a fool?
I even forgot the principle that ‘good goods are not cheap, and cheap goods are no good’.”
“Domino, there are no trash Devil Fruits, only ability users who don’t know how to develop them.
You were the one who preached this to us just yesterday.”
Suddenly, she was retorted to the point of speechlessness, and ironically, this roasting technique was something she had advocated herself yesterday.
Given that her phone was currently being charged with a lemon, she could only reminisce in her mind: [In the later stages, the family’s crew members all became gods, and that bloodline was practically a cow-rocket style, while mortals ultimately find it hard to reach the heavens.]
Domino wore a sorrowful expression: “The bragging we did ourselves, we must swallow ourselves!
Playing tricks with a trash fruit to make it flashy can truly demonstrate my fierce prowess.”
This speech left even Ain unsure of how to respond.
“As expected of my most promising student, as long as you persevere, you will eventually become a Sea King…” He almost accidentally said “Sea Kings”.
Knowing that the old man had a clumsy tongue, how could a student let her teacher be embarrassed?
“Teacher Zephyr is right, I will eventually become the female Sea King of the New World.” Although the title sounded a bit strange, she held her nose and accepted it.
“Domino, I also believe you will become the female Sea King.”
“If Domino becomes the female Sea King, she can suppress the Pirate King and end this Great Age of Pirates.”
“Wa Hahaha, what a grand ambition!
I suppose this old man has managed to teach an extraordinary big shot.”
As a hustle king who had been immersed in the hustle world for over a decade, her only strong point was her ability to constantly reforge her wildly hustling “Dao heart”.
The taciturn Binz saw that everyone’s emotions had been built up to the right point: “I feel that the most urgent task right now is to first inquire about the fruit’s ability?”
Domino, who was currently unable to find an outlet for her venting, suddenly jumped up: “Where are those three pirates?
Today, I will whip them to death!”
After speaking, she walked toward the cabin together with Binz.
For the crime of indirectly causing her to eat the wrong fruit, an indiscriminate dance of whips beat the three pirates so hard they cried for their mothers and screamed.
With a gloomy and terrifying tone: “Why do you all smell so bad?”
“Stop hitting us, I admit it, I don’t wash my hands after going to the restroom!”
[I’m sorry, this cannot be forgiven!]
“Stop hitting us, I don’t need to wash because I didn’t wipe!”
[I’m sorry, this is even more unforgivable!]
“Stop hitting us, I wash and I wipe, I just didn’t wash my feet!”
[I’m sorry, this definitely cannot be forgiven!]
After the second vent-style flogging, Domino finally calmed down and pointed her leather whip at the opposite side:
“Confess and you will be treated leniently, resist and you will be dealt with harshly.
Confess on your own accord!”
“We are pirates, plundering merchant ships is only natural!”
What corrected him was a nearly frantic whip dancer…
“As a pirate, killing a person, setting a fire…”
Before he could finish speaking, another nearly paranoid whip dance followed…
“I am the successor of the Pirate King, I am free…”
This answer was wrong and required double the flogging…
The pirate, beaten to the brink of death, revealed a clear look in his eyes.
Only after a sudden enlightenment did he return to the right path.
“I was actually willing to confess!
At least ask before you start hitting!”
“Who beats people like you do, starting to lash without even asking a question!”
“Although I am a pirate, I am also a human who loves freedom!”
The three pirates felt utterly humiliated and couldn’t help looking at the beauty in front of them.
Sporting a head of pure blonde hair, paired with a form-fitting tight suit, her graceful figure was complemented by black silk high heels.
Yet she held a leather whip in her hand, ruining the overall aesthetic…
“That Devil Fruit on the ship?” The art of interrogation lies in letting the opponent guess your methods.
“Paramecia-type · Pain-Pain Fruit!”
“We originally wanted to sell it for 100 million Berries!”
“It was really hard to sell, so we thought about trying our luck in the New World!”
The three men’s enthusiastic attitude in speaking up made Domino’s expression sink—she had a hunch the fruit was bad, but she never thought it could be so bad that it wouldn’t even sell?
“You guys aren’t ability users, didn’t you ever think of using it yourselves?” She couldn’t ask about the ability directly, fearing the other party would guess she had used it…
“Haha, stop joking, that’s the Pain-Pain Fruit, it has quite significant flaws.”
With a “Snap” sound, a whip lashed out: “Don’t beat around the bush with me, tell me what you know directly.” Domino was already on the verge of berserk.
“We know!
The previous owners of that fruit were all despised by their crew members and ultimately died on deserted islands.”
“I acquired the fruit by accident and wanted these two to contact a buyer, so we could annex the buyer’s pirate crew.”
“We all know that the Pain-Pain Fruit unconditionally bestows its user’s own pain onto all surrounding living creatures.”
Combining the eager, overlapping answers of the three men before her, Domino roughly figured out the fruit’s ability.
She coldly spat out a single sentence: “Continue…”
“There are no bonuses when hitting people, but when the ability user is hit, everyone present has to feel the pain along with them.”
“As the saying goes: ‘Fighting a pain user in a melee is equivalent to beating the entire crew.'”
“I’ve already contacted the Krieg Pirates, planning to stage a drama of selling one fruit to two families over in the New World.”
Domino finally heard a familiar name: [That pirate crew being chased and slashed by Hawkeye?]
The three pirates were very good at reading facial expressions.
Seeing that the whip-wielding woman wasn’t asking questions, they quickly continued the topic.
“The previous owner of the fruit had a spar with Mihawk, and fearing they would harm innocent people around them, they agreed to duel on an uninhabited island.”
“We have no way of knowing what happened during that time, but the birth of the Pain-Pain Fruit means that person must have died.”
“The remaining crew members of the Pain Pirates also wanted to buy back their Captain’s relic, but they didn’t have enough money.”
As for the story that followed, even without using her brain, Domino could guess it just with the “melons” on her chest.
[Sell it at a low price to the crew members of the Pain Pirates, then instigate Krieg to go rob them!
Mihawk kills the Captain of the Pain Pirates through a duel, and afterward, Krieg murders the remaining crew members of his former rival.
Doesn’t this amount to making Mihawk act as Krieg’s muscle?
Given Hawkeye’s arrogant and aloof personality, it would be a wonder if he didn’t slaughter the Krieg Pirates to pieces!] At this point, a perfect closed loop formed in her mind.
When Domino looked at the pirates before her again, she suddenly felt that her teacher’s kindness was quite pedantic, yet recalling his stubborn streak, she inexplicably appreciated it.
“For now, your crimes do not warrant death, but you need to accompany me in doing some experiments.
Afterward, you will be sent to Impel Down.”
She thought to herself: [Impose both kindness and severity, make use of waste.] She simply overlooked the fact that the phone in her pocket was blinking suggestively.
The three pirate Captains were very happy to hear this, terrified that the femme fatale in front of them would violate Zephyr’s reputation of not killing.
Domino’s mind was flooded with thoughts; she wanted to test the method of pain transmission, as well as the detailed distance and actual power.