I agreed to win with Roger, but the guy I met was too young Chapter 103

Rhett stood at the bow, gazing at the turbulent waves in the distance, suddenly lost in thought.

“Tesoro.”

“Hmm?” The Golden Emperor was elegantly sipping red wine, Stella feeding him fruit. He looked up at the sound.

Rhett suddenly found that he didn’t want to call him that much anymore.

Rhett thought of something: the original storyline only began after Luffy came of age and set sail. Rhett could remain eternally young, but his crew couldn’t.

By then, he would be leading a crew of uncles and aunties, while the captain was a young man in his twenties. That image wasn’t cool enough.

“Do you think… in a decade or so, we’ll turn into a bunch of old, washed-up uncles and aunties?”

The deck instantly fell into an eerie silence.

Moria was sprawled on a lounge chair, gnawing on a watermelon, and spat out a mouthful of seeds with a “pfft”: “Captain, what’s gotten into you?”

Moria was now showing a tendency to evolve into a literal couch potato.

Enel sat with his legs crossed, a look of disdain on his face: “How can a god grow old? I am a Kami.”

Perona floated over, pinching Rhett’s face: “Rhett-sama, did Hawkeye knock you silly? How old do you think I am? I want to grow up quickly!”

Rhett slapped her hand away, his face serious. Rhett had already considered it: “Brother Roger was executed at 53, Whitebeard was so old he needed IV drips, Brother Rayleigh became a coating old man, and Brother Jabba’s kids might be four, five, or six times Rhett’s height…”

He slammed his hand on the railing, blood mist surging: “I don’t want to turn into a bald, beer-bellied, greasy pirate in a few decades, especially you, Moria!”

Rhett looked at everyone, his tone light and calm, as if discussing what to eat for dinner: “Me, I don’t want to experience the feeling of losing family a second time.”

Everyone looked at Rhett. Even though Rhett concealed it well, they could all feel his intense sorrow in that instant.

Tesoro adjusted his glasses, his golden rings glinting slightly: “So?”

“So—” Rhett grinned, revealing his stark white teeth, “Let’s go find ‘Pure Gold’!”

Pure Gold, a legendary metal said to grant eternal life.

Two hundred years ago, the scientist Myschina Olga successfully extracted it, but then the entire research team mysteriously vanished, leaving only scattered legends—

“Those who wear Pure Gold can live for a very long time.”

Tesoro frowned: “Isn’t that just a fairy tale?”

“No.” Rhett shook his head. “It really exists.”

Lena pulled out the nautical chart, her fingertip tracing a blurry sea area. According to legend: “It is said that there were rumors of eternal life here, but we don’t know how to find Pure Gold.”

Rhett shook his head, a smug look on his face. “I spent a good while looking for it before. We need to find a lantern fish; there’s something we want inside its lantern.”

“Lantern-sama?” Perona tilted her head. “What’s that?”

Rhett gritted his teeth: “A super-giant lantern fish that’s lived for thousands of years! Don’t let me catch it.”

Laboon: “…Woo?” (Suddenly had an ominous feeling)

Moria lazily raised his hand: “Can I not go? It feels like too much trouble. And Captain, do you still have any of that black bubbly water you were researching the other day…?”

That was the “Fatty’s Happy Water” Rhett replicated in his spare time. Fatty with Fatty’s Happy Water—you’re invincible, Lao Mo.

“No!” Rhett grabbed him by the collar. “If you, a salted fish, don’t exercise, you’ll really die in your room!”

Enel sneered: “Mortals are so troublesome.”

Rhett backhanded him with a splash of blood mist to the face: “Then don’t go! When we’re all eternally young, and you’re the only one crumbling to dust, let’s see how you act like a god!”

Enel scurried over to Rhett, poking his arm: “Captain Rhett, I think you need a brawler… I’ll go and help you conquer territories.”

Tesoro sighed, his golden rings flashing, and the entire ship was coated in a golden film: “Since we’re going, let’s be fully prepared.”

The Nirvana had been circling the target sea area for two whole weeks.

Rhett lay idly on the deck: “Lena, weren’t you quite reliable before? What’s going on?”

After asking, Rhett regretted it. This was Lena, who was currently directing the ship’s course. Oh no, family.

Lena, who was directing the ship’s course, had a vein pop on her forehead: “I’m a navigator, not a treasure hunter, Captain-sama.”

Rhett felt a sense of déjà vu, like when Spencer, who managed finances, scolded Roger for wasting berries.

Family, this feeling had finally come to him. There was nothing Rhett could do but squat in a corner, drawing circles.

“Captain, are you sure it’s here?” Moria slumped on the deck, his shadow drooping listlessly. “If we keep circling, I’m going to get seasick…”

Rhett irritably scratched his hair: “The intel isn’t wrong! The ‘lantern fish’ should be in this sea area!”

Enel sat cross-legged on the mast, full of impatience: “If you ask me, just blast a ‘God’s Judgment’ into the sea and see if it comes out!”

“No!” Lena frowned. “If we scare it away, it’ll be hard to find again! If it runs, all your golden figurines will be confiscated.”

Enel squatted beside Rhett, drawing circles with him.

Just as Rhett and Enel were determined to draw through the deck,

“Woo—!”

Laboon suddenly let out an urgent cry. Everyone turned to look, only to see its small fish jerky had accidentally fallen into the sea!

“Ah! My special spicy fish jerky!” Laboon flapped its fins in a panic. That was a limited edition Tesoro had bought at a high price from Food City!

It was clear Laboon was really anxious; it was so anxious it could speak human language.

Rhett sighed: “Forget it, I’ll buy you more…”

Before he could finish—

“Splash—!!!”

The sea surface suddenly exploded with a giant wave, and a colossal, abyssal mouth abruptly opened, swallowing the small fish jerky along with a large amount of seawater!

“Lantern fish?!”

Laboon’s eyes instantly turned red.

“Woo—!!!” (Translation: Give me back my jerky!!!)

It pulled a ball of mist from its small top hat, slapped it onto its body, and plunged into the sea. Its body began to transform the moment it entered the water—muscles swelled, and its island whale size began to recover.

Everyone was shocked Σ(っ °Д °)っ,

But there was no time to dwell on it now!

Beneath the surface, Laboon was already wrestling with the lantern fish! Don’t forget, little Laboon had eaten the Human-Human Fruit, Fighter Form!

“Ora ora ora!!!”

Laboon’s fins slammed into the lantern fish’s face like a storm, each blow carrying the terrifying strength of an island whale! The lantern fish writhed in pain, twisting its body wildly, creating giant waves that violently rocked the Dawn Nirvana!

But ultimately, this lantern fish was larger. Laboon’s interior was a resort park; the lantern fish’s interior was an entire kingdom.

“Not good!” Lena gripped the railing. “At this rate, the ship will capsize!”

Rhett grinned: “What’s there to be afraid of? Everyone—”

“Get ready for a one-day trip inside a fish’s belly!”

In immense pain, the lantern fish suddenly flipped over, its giant mouth wide open—

“Boom—!!!”

The Nirvana, ship and crew, was swallowed whole!

Inside the ship, everyone stumbled about.

Perona floated in mid-air, her face tear-streaked: “Waaah… are we going to become fish food?”

Tesoro’s golden rings glowed, illuminating the surroundings: “Don’t panic, the ship is coated, so it won’t be corroded by stomach acid for now.”

Rhett smiled brightly:

“Alright, now—”

“We finally found it.”