One Piece: The Strongest Trait System novel Chapter 228

Chapter 228: [228] : [BONUS] - One of the Three Ancient Weapons! ’Sea King’ Poseidon!

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King Neptune, knowing his wife well, didn’t need Rowen to elaborate, he could roughly guess Otohime’s intentions.

In this world, Fish-Men and Merfolk suffered discrimination from humans. This discrimination had bred racial extremists like Hody Jones, who harbored deep-seated hatred for humanity.

Otohime’s dream was for Fish-Men and Merfolk to live freely on the surface, advocating for coexistence through communication and mutual understanding with humans.

When Shirahoshi was six, Otohime learned a shipwrecked Celestial Dragon’s vessel was requesting entry to Fish-Man Island.

Not wanting the cycle of hatred to continue, Otohime personally sheltered the Celestial Dragon, Donquixote Mjosgard, from the wrath of the island’s citizens.

Her efforts awakened a change in Mjosgard.

Through this Celestial Dragon, Otohime returned with a signed petition from the World Nobles—agreeing to form friendly relations between Fish-Men and humans.

But while collecting signatures, she was assassinated, and the petition she had gathered was burned.

Hody Jones, at the time a respected soldier in the Ryugu Kingdom army, had claimed a human shot Otohime.

But Neptune, even after Otohime’s death, was not swayed by this, he inherited his beloved wife’s will, continuing to advocate for coexistence with humans. In Neptune’s view, if he abandoned that ideal, his beloved wife would truly die—on a spiritual level.

And now, the full truth was revealed...

THE ONE WHO SHOT OTOHIME WAS HODY JONES!

Neptune and the others had no doubt about Rowen’s words. Sky Sovereign was an Emperor. Fish-Man Island was but an insignificant power before him.

Why would he stoop to deceiving them with lies? Besides, the look on Hody Jones’s face was all the confirmation they needed.

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"Have you lost your mind??" Jinbe snarled, his gaze turning chillingly cold as he looked at Hody Jones.

"JAHAHAHA! Humans are just the lowest form of life! Coexistence?? DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH! That’s an insult to our GREAT Fish-Man race! And you, Neptune! Accepting the protection of the one who killed Boss Arlong! YOU DESERVE TO DIE TOO!"

Hody Jones shrieked like a madman, his eyes scarlet.

"Did the drugs make you stupid?" Rowen, completely unbothered by this fodder’s barking, instead used his Observation Haki with keen interest to sense Hody Jones’s emotional fluctuations. They were incredibly chaotic.

Hody Jones’s primary method of increasing his strength was by consuming Energy Steroids—a ’vicious drug’.

This drug multiplied the user’s strength, but at the cost of their lifespan. It also affected the user’s mind, causing mental instability, just as Hody was now—completely devoid of normal thought patterns.

Arlong, for example, still knew fear when facing overwhelming power like Haki.

Hody Jones felt no fear.

In Earth terms—he was completely high!

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"The last one who spouted that nonsense, Arlong—do you know how he died?" Rowen asked, a crimson-black light flashing in his eyes.

Rowen, with his current status, had no need to engage with such fodder’s barking.

"He lost everything that made him a fish-man and drowned in the deep sea. You... shall experience it as well." Rowen’s eyes turned chillingly cold.

"Plunder!"

Under Hody Jones’s horrified gaze, his body began to undergo a terrifying transformation.

His powerful physique, inherited from the immensely strong Great White Shark Fish-Man lineage, began to wither.

All his strength, from the depths of his very cells, was being stolen. This sensation of feeling his cells shrivel, watching helplessly—made even the drug-addled Hody Jones feel a terror that came from his very soul.

Then, something even more horrifying happened.

The gills that were the pride of the fish-men, the very feature that race supremacists like him used to claim their superiority over humans—they began to regress, shriveling away into nothing.

In just an instant, everything that defined him as a Great White Shark Fish-Man—vanished.

"What... WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME???"

Not just Hody Jones, but the other New Fish-Man Pirate officers were also stripped of everything that made them Fish-Men. Their bodies withered, their gills shriveled.

They collapsed to the ground, terrified and helpless.

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"Th-This..." Neptune and the others stared, dumbfounded.

Though they had heard the rumors—this was the first time they had seen it with their own eyes!

The world’s most dangerous, most vicious ability.

The power unique to the man who could plunder anything—Sky Sovereign!

He had stolen their very essence as fish-men. To see it happen, to watch the entire process, was to truly understand the terror of the man standing before them.

This ability was monstrous...

He was like an emperor, no, more than an emperor. If you angered the other Emperors, death was the likely outcome. But if you angered Sky Sovereign, even death was a luxury.

Neptune and the others knew very well—for Hody Jones and his crew, losing everything that made them Fish-Men was a fate infinitely more painful than simply killing them.

To have their entire identity, their source of arrogant pride, stripped away, leaving them as grotesque abominations that were neither human nor fish... they were no longer even Fish-Men—they were, utterly and completely, racial trash.

"Mmph! Mmph!"

And Sky Sovereign didn’t even have the interest to listen to their horrified screams. Threads shot out, gagging their mouths. Neptune and the others could truly see the utter despair in Hody’s eyes.

This was a fate worse than death. And death was not an option.

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"Is this handling acceptable to you, Jinbe?" Rowen asked, looking towards Jinbe.

"Sigh... this is all due to my negligence," Jinbe sighed.

As fellow countrymen and former followers, Jinbe had been somewhat lenient with Hody Jones and his crew. But he never imagined their hatred for humans was so immense, even leading them to assassinate Queen Otohime.

Jinbe knew humans had never done anything egregious to Hody Jones. Hody Jones was a complete madman, just wanting to vent his inner hatred and negative emotions. Jinbe could not tolerate such actions.

He fully accepted Rowen’s judgment!

"I’ll leave them for you to deal with," Rowen said, looking at Neptune. His meaning was clear: Killing them would be too merciful.

They had the audacity to insult an Emperor—they would endure a fate worse than death. For a fish-man supremacist like Hody Jones, there was no greater torture than to be stripped of their race and imprisoned, forced to live every second as an unidentifiable creature.

This was the price for angering an Emperor.

"Yes," Neptune and the other royalty, naturally understanding this, nodded grimly in acknowledgment.

The guards quickly dragged Hody and his men away to the dungeons.

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"Your daughter... she’s been dealing with some harassment, has she not?" Rowen asked, looking at Neptune with a smile.

"Y-Yes," Neptune, not hiding anything, sighed and recounted the facts.

Sky Sovereign Rowen’s Observation Haki, amplified by the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, was an open secret. Nothing on the seas could be hidden from this man.

The ability to summon giant Sea Kings was a terrifying power, far too great for the Ryugu Kingdom to handle. The only one who ’could’ handle it was the man before them.

"This is the Hard-Shell Tower," Neptune sighed, looking at the structure. _{f .r e\ewebnov(e)(l).c om}

WHOOSH!

"The signature of the Mark-Mark Fruit’s ability."

CRACKLE!

A bolt of crimson-black lightning materialized from thin air, and the axe clattered harmlessly to the ground. In that same instant, Rowen’s Observation Haki locked onto the ability’s signature.

VMM!

"Divine Judgment——"

"Huh?" Neptune and the others stared in confusion at Rowen, who seemed to have done nothing. ’Sky Sovereign acted? Why was there no sound?’

"Grant."

GURGLE! GURGLE!

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