Chapter 152

10 thousand meters underwater in an empty cafe is sitting a tall, pale man with a top hat. Sitting opposite of him is a big mermaid with a shark tail, wearing a purple hoodie.

"So what did you come here for? And are you ready to pay up for all the customers I lost because you ran in here?" asked Shyarly, the mermaid.

"Don't worry about the money. I came here hoping you could use your crystal ball to find something out for me," said Laffitte.

"You really think that I will help you! Do you even know what your Captain has done!"

Laffitte had a slight smile on his face. "Arlong did a lot of bad things, and Captain just punished him for it. Or are you saying that Arlong didn't deserve to die?" He stared at Shyarly, who couldn't say anything.

"I don't care, just get out of here! I know that he has done a lot of bad things, but he was still my brother! I can't help his murderer!"

"Sigh, if that is what you want." Laffitte stood up with a defeated look and started walking towards the door. "She has a lot of cute mermaids working here. I wonder how much I could sell them for," mumbled Laffitte.

Shyarly could hear everything he said, and a look of dread appeared on her face. She knows that she is no match for him, so the only thing she could do is comply, hoping he wouldn't touch her workers.

"Wait!"

Laffitte turned around with a grin on his face. "Did you change your mind?"

"I'll do it as long as you promise to not touch anyone on this island."

"Sure, I can keep my hands to myself," said Laffitte with a grin on his face.

Shyarly took him to the back, where her crystal ball is hidden. She grabbed it and looked at Laffitte, waiting for him to ask what he wanted to know. Laffitte grabbed a golden key from his pocket.

"Please let me know what this key will be used for. Oh, and if you ever tell someone about this key and its purpose, I will personally destroy Fish-Man Island. And don't think that I'm bluffing," said Laffitte with a deadly serious face.

Shyarly started shaking but still nodded. She focused on the crystal ball, and it started lightly glowing till vision began appearing on it. All that could be seen in the vision was utter destruction. There lay dead bodies everywhere, including those of the Azure Pirates and Ken himself. A person enveloped in shadows is standing right in the middle of it. The person had the same golden key in his hand and walked towards a door that already has 20 keys that looked exactly the same in 20 of the 21 keyholes. The person put the last key in the remaining keyhole, and once he turned it, the crystal ball exploded.

Laffitte quickly protected Shyarly from the flying glass shards.

"Wha, what, was that!" Shyarly fell on the ground, covered with sweat and shaking.

"Did this ever happen to you before?" asked Laffitte.

She quickly shook her head.

"Hmm, well, I guess you have nothing else that will be of use to us." Laffitte grabbed a check from his pocket and laid it down in front of her. "Thank you for the help. Remember not to tell anyone about this." Laffitte disappeared and left behind a shook Shyarly.

But Shyarly wasn't the only one who was shaking. Laffitte left the Island as quickly as possible to warn his Captain of the dangers.

'That person wrapped in shadows, I won't let him even take one step towards Captain! I will protect Captain with my life!' swore Laffitte to himself.

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A man was standing on a beach, surrounded by women holding weapons.

'I thought that this was supposed to be a paradise for men. It's more like paradise for M's,' thought Robert.

"What are you doing here? You know that no man except for your Captain is allowed to set foot on this island," said one of the women.

"Calm down. If I wanted to, I could easily appear inside the palace, so be thankful that I waited here on the beach. Just go and call your empress. Tell her that I come bearing a gift from Captain."

"A gift?"

"Captain said that they have some kind of curse, and he found a way to get rid of them."

The women looked shocked and excited at the same time. A couple of them immediately ran towards the palace at full speed. A couple of minutes later, the Gorgon sisters were standing opposite Robert with hopeful eyes. He grabbed a vial from his shadow storage and gave it to Boa Hancock.

"Three drops of that on the curse, and it should be gone. There are only nine drops in there, so be careful."

The Gorgon sisters immediately started running back to the palace.

"Give Ken our thanks!" screamed Boa Hancock as she disappeared into the forest. Robert just sighed and vanished from there.

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In a spacious office is sitting someone with a cigar in his mouth. Hanging on his chair is a coat that says, "Fleet Admiral."

"Fleet Admiral Sakazuki!" A middle aged man with a small stature came into the office. Sakazuki looked annoyed at the man.

"What is it?"

"Demon Sherif Laffitte has been spotted on Fish-Man Island, in the famous mermaid cafe."

"Where is he now?"

"Euhm… He disappeared quickly afterward." Sakazuki smashed his fist on his desk, and the small statured man fell on his behind.

"If you don't have his location, then what use is that information to me!"

"We don't have a location on him, but we do have a location on his crewmate, Kage Robert," said the man softly, not wanting to piss of the Fleet Admiral more than he already has.

"Speak!"

The man quickly collected himself and started speaking. "He was spotted going towards Amazon Lily. Admiral Fujitora came up with a plan to capture him. We have already found out how far he can teleport at a time, so if we managed to lay an ambush on the path he has to travel to get back home, we might be able to catch him."

"Hm? How certain are you that he will go back on that route?"

"We have been analyzing him for quite a while, and he always goes on a straight line to his goal. He never stops at a nearby island or anything like that. We already know the route he passed to get to Amazon Lily, so he will definitely take the same one back."

Sakazuki was thinking for a while till he finally nodded. "Go and tell Fujitora and Kizaru to take care of this. Don't tell anyone else, or your head will be rolling on the ground."

"Yes, sir!" He quickly saluted and ran out of the office.

'If we manage to beat one of them, that will definitely raise the morale of our soldiers. Tsk, to think one person from a pirate crew who isn't even the Captain can have so much influence on the soldiers' morale. I swear that I'll kill that brat with my own two hands if I get the chance!'

A teenager suddenly walked into the office. He is covered in sweat.

"I have completed the training you have assigned to me, master. Please give me more guidance."

"Good, Hisaki. You can go and work on a new technique for your Devil Fruit. If you keep advancing like this, you will definitely one day succeed me and accomplish your goal. So don't you dare slack off! Now go and train!"

"Yes, sir!"

Hisaki immediately ran out of the office to go and train with only one thought on his mind, to kill a certain person!

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[Sasuke, is that you? But for real, who the hell is Hisaki?]

Facts & Quotes:

- I am tired.

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"When you are tired, don't listen to anyone and just go to sleep."

- TheEnlightenedSage (Life)