[Pirate] I! Orochimaru! I will never split! Chapter 204

Character name suggestions: Franky, Nami, Sanji, Chopper, Luffy, Zoro, Usopp, Trafalgar Law, Basil Hawkins, Vegapunk, Caesar Clown, Doflamingo, Sabo

Brownbeard looked at the screaming (Franky) Nami, his brows deeply furrowed.

“Hey! Shut up, you… person…”

He stared at the robot with Nami’s voice and Franky’s body, and for a moment, his words were caught in his throat.

This strange combination in front of him made him unsure how to phrase his words. He paused for a moment before continuing,

“Lord Orochimaru is absolutely not a cunning snake!

That lord… is kind, gentle, and beautiful…”

Brownbeard closed his eyes, and Orochimaru’s image appeared in his mind. A blush involuntarily spread across his face.

His expression was as if he had fallen into a whirlpool of beautiful aspirations, his eyes filled with intoxication and admiration.

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When Brownbeard slowly opened his eyes, what greeted him was the Straw Hat Pirates’ faces full of disdain.

Immediately, his eyes widened in anger, and he roared like thunder,

“What kind of expressions are those?! Lord Orochimaru is such a kind person! What kind of attitude is this?!”

(•̶̑ ૄ •̶̑) Luffy picked his nose and flicked a booger onto Brownbeard.

“Sure enough, he’s talking about someone else. What a coincidence, someone has the same name as Orochimaru.”

A group of people nodded in agreement.

(Nami) Sanji took a puff from his cigarette.

“And then? What do you want to say? Besides the beauty part, which I agree with, the rest is completely off…

If it really is Orochimaru, then he must be so beautiful that he’s making you hallucinate.”

“Mm-hmm…” The group nodded in unison again.

“You are truly rude. I suppose you people are unable to comprehend Lord Orochimaru’s compassionate heart.”

Brownbeard scoffed disdainfully, looking at everyone with pity.

It must be that Lord Orochimaru disdains them, which is truly regrettable, leading that lord not to bestow mercy upon them.

“Anyway, you’re all about to be killed. Law will definitely come to save me, so I’ll be merciful and tell you.

I hate this generation of pirates the most, but Law and Lord Orochimaru are exceptions.

The one who destroyed my Brownbeard Pirates was Basil Hawkins.

Thanks to him, I lost my legs and could no longer be a pirate, and all my companions were annihilated.

The place I escaped to, barely alive, was this Punk Hazard.

Do you know what kind of place this is?

This island, it was once known as a lush treasury of life.”

A group of people stared at Brownbeard with confused expressions. “Here??”

Luffy was the first to speak, his voice full of confusion,

“I don’t see anything special about it at all.” As Zoro’s voice fell, everyone nodded, their gazes wandering over the surrounding ice mountains.

“This place was originally the World Government scientist Vegapunk’s experimental facility, a place where weapons and drugs were constantly developed and experimented with.

Some of the prisoners were not sent to prison but were brought to this island. They were treated like lab rats, used as human experiment subjects.

But four years ago, Vegapunk’s chemical weapon experiment failed, and two of the three research labs were blown up. This is the ruins of the lab.”

Listening to Brownbeard’s words, Luffy and the group gasped in amazement.

Usopp patted the surrounding buildings. “No wonder it’s so messy here.”

Brownbeard continued to speak, his voice somewhat heavy.

“The explosion spread high heat and toxic substances, taking away the island’s life.

However, under these circumstances, those people in the government abandoned the experimental prisoners, fled without leaving a single one behind, and completely sealed off the island.

It is said that the remaining prisoners, in order to survive on the island where the poisonous gas spread, hid in the only remaining intact Third Laboratory.

Those who didn’t die lost the use of their lower bodies due to neurotoxins, with no future to speak of.

But after a year passed like this, our compassionate master came to this island.

He used his special ability to purify the poisonous gas on the island and bestowed scientific legs upon the prisoners who couldn’t walk, taking them as his subordinates.”

(Chopper) Franky and (Sanji) Chopper heard this and were moved to tears.

Brownbeard continued to tell the story of the island, his voice getting excited at this point.

“I came to this island a year later, which was about two years ago. At that time, I was dying, having lost my legs, and struggled to crawl on this island.

There were still some residual toxins on the island at that time, and I felt like vomiting with every breath. I had lost the will to live.

Then, a giant object appeared out of nowhere and smashed onto my head, bringing me to the brink of death.

At that moment, the one who saved me was Lord Orochimaru!

Ah… Lord Orochimaru, what a beautiful person…

Lord Orochimaru, fed me healing medicine, allowing me to barely survive.

And without tiring, tied my body with a rope and dragged me to the master’s side.

The master was overjoyed that I could become his subordinate, and to thank Lord Orochimaru, he specially gave Lord Orochimaru a set of experimental equipment.”

“Dragged??”

The group couldn’t help but twitch their mouths when they heard that word.

They could almost imagine the scene, convinced that Orochimaru, disgusted by the dirt, must have dragged him.

This Brownbeard couldn’t possibly have had some strange hallucination while near death, could he? Orochimaru isn’t the type to just save people.

It must be that he wanted that set of experimental equipment and didn’t want to pay for it, so he used Brownbeard to exchange for the equipment.

Everyone looked at Brownbeard with a subtle, meaningful gaze, secretly thinking, this is another unlucky fellow who got scammed by Orochimaru.

(Nami) Sanji sighed helplessly and asked, “May I ask, what’s your bounty?”

Brownbeard looked bewildered and replied, “Eighty million Berries, why?”

Upon hearing this, everyone covered their foreheads in unison… Well, that confirms it.

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The situation at the time was this:

Orochimaru sat on Doflamingo’s shoulder and arrived at Punk Hazard with him.

“Doffy, I’ve taken a liking to Caesar’s new equipment. It’s not expensive, just eighty million. Do you think he’ll give it to me?”

Doflamingo hesitated.

“You didn’t pay for the equipment last time, did you?… I don’t think it’s likely, because he’s told me many times about it, asking you to stop thinking about his equipment.”

Orochimaru “Tsked.” After all, he had just become Doffy’s lover, so he couldn’t just keep taking advantage of one person. Caesar was easier to fleece.

As the two were talking, Orochimaru suddenly saw Brownbeard crawling below. His eyes lit up, and he pulled out a stack of bounty posters from his space, flipped through them, and handed them to Doffy.

“Doffy! Look! Eighty million, isn’t that right here?!

You go find Caesar first. After all, your transaction is a secret. I’ll handle this person.”

Doflamingo looked helplessly as Orochimaru leaped from his shoulder, landing directly on Brownbeard’s head.

He secretly mused to himself: That’s quite a height. Jumping down like that and landing on someone’s head, it’d be a miracle if they survived.

As expected, Brownbeard instantly became, almost dying.

In desperation, Orochimaru rummaged through the leftover medicines he had made for Sabo, found a defective pill, and fed it to Brownbeard.

Then, he dragged Brownbeard to Caesar, and after some coaxing and intimidation, successfully obtained the eighty-million-Belly equipment.