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63.45% One Piece: Dream of Immortality / Chapter 323: Poison and Pedro

章 323: Poison and Pedro

"Annoying…" Cherry muttered.

As interesting as a whole country sitting atop the back of a giant elephant was, the presence of said elephant's overpowering vital energy made it impossible to pick up anything else with her Life Sense. It was akin to trying to locate the sunspots on the surface of a star with your bare eyes… well, for a mortal anyway; Cherry could do that with her enhanced eyesight easily. The point was that, for the time being, she'd have to rely on her observation haki and physical senses.

'It's just a low level technique anyone can use, after all…' Cherry thought. 'However spiritual senses are only unlocked when body cultivators transcend their physical limits in the 7th realm. Should I rush my next breakthrough? I'm pretty close to it as is, and I think that second dyna gem can push me to perfection if I mix it with a pill carefully…'

"It looks like this place was attacked, and recently too." Jinbe observed the broken steel portcullis on the ground past a damaged stone gatehouse.

"And whatever did that probably left this trail of destruction in their wake through these trees too." Franky added.

"I don't like this. I need to find my crew." Law said, his worry clear on his face.

None of this boded well, so they hurried along the path of destruction, hoping to find some sign of what had happened here or someone they could talk to.

"HELP!!!" a voice came from the tree, followed soon after by the sound of something large charging through the brush and dark laughter. "Come 'ere, little squirrel~! We just want to ask you a question~!"

"That's funny, because I have a question for you two as well~" Cherry spoke from behind the man and woman riding a big crocodile, chasing a woman with squirrel features.

""What-?!"" Both of them tried to turn their heads to see who spoke to them, only to suddenly lose consciousness after hearing a crack of electricity.

Cherry punched the crocodile's back after zapping the two Beast Pirates, causing it to halt in its chase. The squirrel woman didn't stop running, but did turn to see what happened to her pursuers.

*boof*

She ran into something big, but too soft to be a tree. She rubbed her head and looked forward, then up at the face of Jinbe.

"Sorry about that. Are you okay?" Jinbe offered a hand.

She scooted backwards away from him. Jinbe's large teeth and unusual blue skin didn't put her off so much as the fact that he was a stranger with unknown intentions. Her own people had their share of intimidating figures as well.

"Do be more careful not to scare her, my good man." Brook said, walking into view.

"AHHHHHH?!" The squirrel woman screamed at the sight of the talking skeleton and took off into the trees again, even more confused and frightened than before.

"Idiot, you should have let her calm down before showing your skinless mug to her!" Nami rapped his skull with her knuckle.

"Go easy on him, Nami. He didn't even ask to see her panties, and that has to count for something." Cherry said, dragging two unconscious beast pirates in her wake. She handed the two off to Jinbe for safe keeping. "I wonder what Kaido's Beast Pirates are doing here, though? Normally only minks have access to those vivre cards, right?"

"That should be the case. Perhaps they caught a mink out adventuring in the world…" Law guessed. "Let's follow the squirrel woman. She might lead us to more people."

"Right! There might be injured people who need help as well!" Chopper said.

That was an extreme understatement, in hindsight.

They saw a city littered with half-dead minks, toxic gas flowing around the buildings like a river of death.

"Shuroshuroshuro! Koro is certainly effective, isn't it?" Caesar chuckled. He started choking after Cherry's hand clutched his jugular.

"This is one of yours, is it? I hope you didn't make it without making an antidote as well?" Cherry aske darkly.

"Y-yesh, of course I did! Do you think I'm an a-amateur?!" Caesar squeezed out. "It's not like I'm the one who released Kuro here!"

"Chopper, put him to work on that antidote. Law and I'll start with first aid." Cherry released Caesar and Chopper nodded seriously. This was no time for idling.

Cherry grabbed Law's hand and he felt a warmth surge into him and flood his body. "That'll keep the poison gas at bay, so just do your doctor thing without worry."

"How does that work?" Law asked, not that he didn't believe her. He'd seen stranger things from this woman than that claim. He didn't waste time, though, as these people were Bepo's people. He plunged himself into the ominous gas and marveled at how he didn't feel the effect of the poison in the slightest even though he breathed freely.

"Magic." Cherry smirked at her non-answer. Law rolled his eyes.

Cherry's form flickered and reappeared in brief instances next to each of the dying minks. She moved so quickly that it created after images giving the impression she was in dozens of places at once in a wave of Cherrys.

The amount of vital energy she was giving each wasn't enough to save their lives, she didn't have the time to waste with each of them with untold numbers of people in need of help. However, it would be enough to extend their lives long enough for the real doctors to help them.

Law focused on moving the patients to more easily accessible positions with his devil fruit and doing triage work on the ones with the worst injuries.

Cherry tapped the head of a jaguar mink and was about to vanish again when the man grabbed her hand.

"Please… you have to save them, Duke Dogstorm and Cat Viper! They endured the worst out of any of us! They cannot die!" He begged.

Cherry felt a bit incredulous that whoever those two were could be more deserving of her help than the scattered children in the streets. Still, she didn't know the circumstances and didn't have the time to argue with the jaguar man. She grabbed his collar and hoisted him over her shoulder like he was a sack of potatoes rather than a critically injured patient.

"You can point me towards them, but I won't abandon the people who are in between here and there." Cherry compromised.

"That's.. fine.. but hurry…" the jaguar man accepted. He was in no position to negotiate anyways.

Cherry continued her work, moving in the direction that the jaguar man indicated that this Duke Dogstorm and Cat Viper were. "I'm Cherry by the way. With the Straw Hat Pirates."

"Straw Hat… I see… I'm Pedro with the Guardians, thank you for saving us… and twice in two days as well…" Pedro said.

"Twice?" Cherry asked, feeding more vital energy into him so he can make himself useful in a minute.

"The newspaper… something the Straw Hats did drew the attention of our attacker away from us… and now here you are tending to our wounded… What is this strange sensation…? I can feel my breathing getting better and my wounds don't ache as much?" Pedro said, his words slowly coming more easily as strength returned to his exhausted body.

"Magic." Cherry gave him the same answer that she gave to Law.

"It's wonderful magic…" Pedro said, almost having to fight to stay awake. He was oddly quite comfortable in this position that should be anything but.


章 324: Saving the Mink Tribe

"*whistle* They did quite the number on those two didn't they?" Cherry said, catching sight of who she could only assume were Duke Dogstorm and Cat Viper.

The two were crucified side by side and showed all the signs of being tortured. The fact that they were still hanging on to life despite each missing a limb without proper treatment was a testament to their will and vitality.

"Release Pedro this instant!" A sword, crackling with electricity, pierced towards Cherry.

Cherry reached out and caught the sword at the tip, ignoring the electric current entirely as it raced into her hand. She thought, 'That's interesting. Her vital energy is naturally amplifying the static electricity generated by her fur?'

Pedro pulled himself to his feet, gratefully finding his footing much steadier than he expected. "It's okay, Wanda. She's helping us… she's going to help Duke Dogstorm and Cat Viper."

The dog woman, Wanda, widened her eyes in disbelief. Here she was barely standing, but Pedro who had fought just as hard as her was seemingly fine now? She felt herself get tugged off balance by her sword and the human woman's hand clapped down onto her shoulder. Before she could even put together what was happening with her dizzy mind, she felt a soothing warmth flood into her body.

"You can Pedro bring anyone who can be moved to me while I work on the big doggo and the scary kitty. They're gonna need more time and attention than the rest and they'll be too unwieldy to drag around whilst I help others." Cherry commanded before marching over to the wooden Xs that Duke Dogstorm and Cat Viper were strapped to.

Pedro and even Wanda didn't ask pointless questions and got to work doing as she said. They only had this small hope to cling to and they'd be damned if they were going to let go of it just because Cherry spoke rudely about their rulers.

Cherry first went to the big doggo since gravity was working against him much more than the scary kitty with his missing leg. Ripping a sleeve off of her robes, she tied off the stump and then used vital energy to forcibly constrict his leg muscles to reduce the blood loss to the absolute minimum.

After making sure he wasn't going to kick the bucket in the next minute or so, she immediately hopped over to the scary kitty and started working on his missing arm. With precision application of vital energy and her fusion fruit, she was able to more permanently end the blood loss from his stump arm until the real doctors showed up to do a proper clean up of the mess.

She returned to the big doggo and did the same for him. Once she was sure they were both beyond the point of dying before Chopper and Law came, she turned to the people that Pedro and Wanda were bringing to her and started tending to them.

It wasn't long before the noxious gas was swept over by a different gas that seemed to make the poison melt away and disappear. A few minutes after that, Law swapped into the square where they were and frowned at the sight of a big doggo and scary kitty. Wanda tensed, but relaxed as she noticed that neither Cherry nor Pedro were on guard against him.

"I need you to help me with these two, Cherry-ya." Law took charge immediately, and Cherry was happy to let him do so. She was no doctor and these situations were annoyingly stressful since it wasn't her own life on the line. Thankfully she had already worked with him a bit back in Dressrosa, so she settled into his work flow easily.

Three hours later. Ryunosuke's progress up the elephant: 31%.

"""Thank you for saving us!""" Pedro, Wanda, and a large number of mink prostrated themselves before them in gratitude.

The emergency surgeries on Duke Dogstorm and Cat Viper went very well with the combined efforts of two world class doctors and the miraculous abilities of Cherry. They were expected to make a full recovery in only a few days, though they neglected to mention that to the minks since the two doctors would prefer they get a bit more rest than the bare minimum. Even now they haven't woken up yet.

As for Caesar, while he did technically have medical experience, they weren't about to trust him to work on patients directly beyond administering antidotes for his own poison.

"There's no need to be so formal about it," Nami said shyly. "We helped because we wanted to, that's all."

The minks were instantly on their feet instead of doing the cliche of insisting on being overly respectful. Instead the minks rushed them and suddenly there were many "Garchuu~!"s as they showed off the unique way that minks displayed affection and gratitude.

"Damn it! Why am I only getting rubbed by men?!" Cherry wanted to issue a formal complaint to the manager.

Pedro, who was currently pressing his cheek against hers, explained, "We minks have very good instincts, and those instincts are telling the women that you'd get into big trouble if they gave you a garchuu. That's what Wanda told me earlier, anyways."

"Well, I suppose it could be worse…" Cherry looked over at Brook, who was currently surrounded solely by dog minks who were suspiciously salivating.

Since it was a cultural thing, and the mink men reminded her more of Chopper than human men, she just went with the flow and let them get it out of their system. Though she suspected that this would be a recurring event during their stay on Zou.

Still, though, why couldn't she cuddle with the cute animal girls?! What kind of trouble could she possibly get into for that?!

"Achoo!" Robin sneezed, then scrunched up her face. "I feel like Cherry is up to no good…"

"Let's have a feast for our saviors!" a lion mink, whose name was Shishilian and had a glorious beard announced with his sword raised high in the air. Cheers resounded.

At the same time, the elephant's trunk raised high in the sky and sprayed a tidal wave's worth of ocean water up into the air, which then fell back onto its back and washed over the mink country through aqueducts and natural grooves in the elephant's back.

"Perfect timing! Capture as many fish as you can, comrades!" Shishilian declared. Normally the fish harvest wasn't something that everyone in the country did, but today was a special occasion and they had run low on food after days of fighting against Kaido's Beast Pirates anyways.

"I hope that water doesn't wash the others out to sea to suffer a watery doom." Cherry said.

"Stop it!" Nami reprimanded her.

"I have to say it since Robin isn't here." Cherry defended herself, as if that was a perfectly normal excuse. "I hope that that stupid 'dragon' doesn't get erased by the water. They're probably near the top by now at least."

It did get erased, causing them to all fall back down to the Thousand Sunny. They were also nowhere near the top and now had to start all over again.


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