The Truth About Pure Gold

"Pure gold? It's that legendary pure gold that allows people to gain eternal life?" Shiki's eyes widened; even he didn't expect that the secret treasure from Eneru's mouth would be this legendary treasure.

"Looking at your reaction, that pirate should not be lying to me, pure gold, really exists, Yahahaha!" Eneru looked up to the sky and laughed.

"The legend of pure gold is indeed circulating, except that the island of Alchemi, where the pure gold was refined, disappeared two hundred years ago, and no one knows if the rumor is true or not."

Shiki mused, "Moreover, pure gold is said to grant humans eternal life, but it's hard to say whether it will work on my injuries."

"Is that so? Yahahaha!" Eneru's face changed slightly, then waved his hand and said, "I thought that pure gold which possesses the ability to grant immortality should be helpful for injuries such as limb regeneration!"

"It is indeed not easy to say, time is too long ago, no one even knows what is the principle of this legendary metal that gives humans immortality."

Shiki's gaze burned slightly, "If it's because pure gold can give humans an incomparably powerful life force in order to make the life span infinitely longer, maybe it's really possible for me to return to my peak state!"

Eneru encouraged, "This kind of thing, it's not a disadvantage to try."

"That's right, consider it an adventure! Jihahahaha..." Shiki laughed and suddenly paused, "After all this talk, you haven't told me exactly what it takes to find pure gold."

"I heard that pirate say that two hundred years ago Alchemi was eaten in by a huge lantern fish, at that time his ancestor was on a merchant ship in the nearby sea, just in time to see the scene."

"An island-eating monster? No wonder it suddenly disappeared two hundred years ago." Shiki muttered, which in his life was not something complicated to accept.

"His ancestor later found that the huge lantern fish was likely to be attracted to the light of pure gold, so he had a guess that if he got to enough gold had the possibility of attracting that lantern fish out."

"Gold ..." Shiki suddenly realized, "You mean the gold ship?"

"Yes."

"But there is still one more thing, we must find the general range of that lantern fish's presence to do so." Shiki faces gloomy, "Otherwise, even the most dazzling light is impossible to draw it out across a sea."

"That pirate has already found it for us." Eneru said with a smug face, "He only came to my hometown because he lacked gold, chasing the legend of the golden city of Shandora."

"There is really no slightest weakness of his mind, no wonder he was made captain!" Wyper sighed in his heart once again.

"The disappearing golden city, it turns out, has flown into the sky!" Shiki was first shocked, then couldn't wait to ask, "Where exactly is that lantern fish's range of activity?"

"It seems to say that ... is in the waters of Alola in whatever New World."

"New World! It's been a long time since I've been back!" Shiki took a big puff of his cigar and exhaled a cloud of mist.

"Only, Captain Shiki." Eneru stretched and said, "There is one thing that I need to clarify with you."

"What is it?"

"Looking at you guys like this, it seems that you have been hiding your tracks, right? But if we want to draw that lantern fish out, we can't seem to keep a low profile!"

"So this is the kind of thing you're going to say?" Shiki laughed wildly, "Let them come, let the world know that I, Shiki the Golden Lion, am back, Jihahahaha!"

...

Night.

The three gathered again in the spacious and bright room.

"It's okay to talk here, right?" Urouge turned his gaze to Eneru, and among the three, the other had the strongest Kenbunshoku Haki.

"Don't worry about it." Eneru yawned, "that old guy at the moment can not work Busoshoku Haki, let alone for the more demanding mental requirements of Kenbunshoku Haki."

"Right now, he's just a loser who can't even use his shoku Haki!"

"Ch! I wonder who was beaten like a dead dog by a punk who couldn't even use his shoku Haki." Perhaps it was destiny; Wyper never looked at Eneru very well.

"Hairless bird, are you trying to turn into a roast chicken?" Eneru raised his right hand, with electric resemblances running through his fingertips.

"All lower your voice, don't forget the task explained by God's Messenger-sama." Urouge rounded up the situation.

When it comes to God's Messenger-sama, the two arguing people calm down instantly.

"Everything went according to the plan of God's Messenger-sama." Eneru said adoringly, "Shiki only thinks we came here by chance until now."

"This is normal, who would have thought that a floating island hidden thousands of meters in the air would always be under the watchful eye of God's Messenger-sama?" Wyper said.

"This is the power of divination and prophecy!" Urouge sighed, "Not only Shiki, but even the range of movement of that huge lantern fish is completely grasped by the God' Messenger-sama!"

"You guys say, why does God' Messenger-sama want us to lure Shiki out?" Eneru asked with some doubt, "That old lion is powerful, but how can it not be the opponent of God's Messenger-sama, right?"

"Idiot! What God's Messenger-sama wants is the fame of Shiki." Wyper said, "If it's just for one result, how can we proclaim the greatness of God's Messenger-sama?"

Brainwashed Urouge do not feel that this is beneficial in the slightest, but instead said with a serious face, "The Marine can only implement the concept of justice under the leadership of God's Messenger-sama, and in order to achieve true peace at an early date, God's Messenger-sama had to find a way to gain greater power within the Marine."

"In front of outsiders, don't reveal the relationship between God's Messenger-sama and us." Wyper said squarely, "Don't forget, we are now pirates."

"Ugh! I won't be able to listen to the speech of God's Messenger-sama from now on!" Eneru sighed deeply.

"From now on we are the justice that walks in the darkness. And will be led into action by Original Sin-sama." Urouge said.

After a moment of silence, Wyper asked, "Is the pure gold thing okay? I can't believe how strong that old lion would be if he were allowed to return to peak condition."

"Recovery? Pure gold is not a good thing for the rest of us." Eneru snickered, "The God Messenger-sama has said that the light of pure gold contains the power to slow down the development of all things to an extreme degree."

"This also means that the deterioration of some diseases will be delayed indefinitely. Even, those who are irradiated by the pure gold light for a long time, their bodies will remain in the initial state."

"For those big figures, this is indeed a supreme treasure!"

"But for us, it's the complete opposite!" Wyper took over, his face gloomy, "Once injured in battle, the body's blood-making ability will also be infinitely slowed down, something that will make our injury recovery speed infinitely close to zero!"

"For those of us who can't leave the battle, what can we do even if we gain a thousand years of life? Maybe because of the cost of this eternal life, we will be killed by others in a few years!"

Urouge laughed, "It would be ironic to get an even longer lifespan, only to live shorter than you would have because you lost the battle!"

"So there's no point in our Captain Shiki getting this pure gold!" Eneru laughed, "His existence can only pave the way for God's Messenger-sama and Original Sin-sama!"

Published in Qidian, July 21, 2019