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26.31% One Piece: Dream of Immortality / Chapter 135: Return to Baltigo

章節 135: Return to Baltigo

Sabaody Archipelago.

Serene and Going Merry had been left alone with the Thousand Sunny. Rayleigh had come to explain to them that all the others were sent flying in different directions by Bartholomew Kuma to distant corners of the world.

This news had been pretty devastating for Merry as she was filled with worry for her beloved crew.

Serene also felt somewhat depressed over these events as she had actually started to like them a little bit. Okay, maybe more than a little bit… maybe a whole lot.

Frankly she was pretty sure that Cherry would have let her go after her powers had been returned, but her status as "Cherry's prisoner" allowed her to stay with them freely without needing to set her pride aside.

But now all that was out the window. If she was still here when they got back, then they'd know she had chosen to stay with them. Otherwise she would have taken the chance to escape.

Then the Rosy Life Riders showed up and said that they'd help to protect the Thousand Sunny until the crew came back. That gave her the ingenious idea to use some perceived debt to them as an excuse, it was perfect!

With Serene's devil fruit and the assistance of the Rosy Life Riders, cleaning up the trash who came for the ship was not even the slightest bit difficult.

Merry had taken to fighting the thieves in hopes of getting stronger herself, as she did not want to simply stand on the sidelines whilst her beloved crew fought hard battles.

So Merry would fight until she could no longer do so, then Serene swoops in and makes them hallucinate for the Rosy Life Riders to clean them up.

After a bit more than a week of fighting off hoodlums, the war against Whitebeard was aired live over den den mushi broadcast.

Imagine her surprise to see Luffy and Cherry in the mix. Moreover they were both quite eye-catching in their own ways. Luffy being very strong for a rookie pirate, especially for his age, and Cherry being an absolute nightmare that struck fear into the audience.

Serene was just glad she was on that monster's side now.

A few days later, Bartholomew Kuma showed up. This was terrifying for the Rosy Life Riders, but surprisingly they held strong.

Fortunately for those fools, Kuma seemed out of sorts and wasn't hostile to them. Instead he actually started to help protect the Thousand Sunny from the bounty hunters and pirates.

This did make Merry's training a bit complicated, but they soon discovered they could simply intercept the thieves before coming within a certain range of Kuma. Kuma would only attack if they entered that range for some reason.

One day, a woman who called Shakky came to check up on them, apparently acquainted with Rayleigh in some way.

"I just came to see how you were holding up. Can't have been easy for you to be separated from your friends like that." Shakky sympathized with them.

"Baaaaah…" Merry let out a mournful bleat.

"Hmph! I'm just paying my debt to them, then I'm a free woman!" Serene spoke without a hint of sincerity.

"Right. Well since you're here, would you like me to teach you some things? I used to be quite the fighter back in the day, you know." Shakky offered.

Serene sized her up and was impressed with what she saw. Shakky might look relaxed to the untrained eye, but a martial artist can tell that she has no openings to exploit.

"I-I suppose it would help me repay my debt if I was stronger… if you'll have me?" Serene spoke hopefully, almost expecting Shakky to rescind her offer.

"Alright, I'll come by to spar with you and give you some pointers from time to time. I've got a bar to tend to, so I can't be here everyday I'm afraid." Shakky said.

Serene was a bit disappointed at that, but eagerly accepted the offer. She only really knew her massage arts, taught to her by her mother. She knew those wouldn't be enough if she wanted to face stronger opponents.

Life continued in that fashion for both Serene and Merry as they steadily grew stronger from the many battles they fought.

Black Drum Kingdom (until quite recently)

Cherry and company stuck around for a few days to keep the populace from getting any funny ideas about escalating their little rebellion towards the World Government with some well placed gossip.

After that was settled, it was time to return to Baltigo.

The return trip was uneventful and they reached the outpost from which they would receive the means to return to Baltigo.

Cherry did their little knocking routine that granted her entry into the fortress and they reported back to Dragon directly.

"Hm, you did better than I expected you would." Dragon commented.

"What, did you think I'd just walk up to the castle and drag him out kicking and screaming?" Cherry asked incredulously.

"Yes." Dragon said without hesitation. "But I am glad to be wrong, naturally."

After a moment of silent glaring at one another, they started to chuckle.

"In all seriousness, I am quite impressed that you could so easily inspire the people to rise up, as well as manipulating the political situation beforehand to minimize the consequences of said rebellion." Dragon praised.

"You're creepy spy dude should arrive sometime soon with Wapol, Musshur, and Kinderella." Cherry said." What did you want that dweeb for anyways?"

"After his invention of 'wapometal', we realized the potential in Wapol's devil fruit. The man himself is too foolish to use it properly, but we will make excellent use of it." Dragon explained.

"By the way, it isn't very nice to call Giles 'creepy'. The look is intentional, but it still hurts his feelings." Dragon admonished.

"I'll keep that in mind. Now let's get to training already! I've gotten antsy without my daily routine of haki training!" Cherry insisted, practically dragging a helpless Dragon out the room.

Sure enough after a couple more weeks Giles and his crew arrived at Baltigo with their prisoners. Musshuru was gagged and squirming inside his bindings, and Wapol was still depressed. Kinderella was clearly annoyed that she'd been tricked and thus captured without a chance to run away, but otherwise cooperative.

She also wasn't very happy that she was the one who had to force feed Wapol on account of him not eating or drinking of his own volition.

Cherry decided to come meet them herself to see how the three prisoners were fairing after the journey. Hopefully they were pleasantly infuriated and she could get some amusement out of poking fun at their expense.

"Well hello again, my queen! I hope you enjoyed the trip to your new home?" Cherry exclaimed.

Kinderella recognised Cherry, but didn't remember ever having met her herself.

"I understand the confusion, I was in disguise at the time I brought you out of the castle after all." Cherry enlightened her.

"What?! How dare you trick me?!" Kinderela was about to go on a tirade cursing her, but swiftly remembered what a terror this woman had been during the war at Marineford and shut her mouth.

"It's good that you have more sense than your husband and brother-in-law. Perhaps your stay will be a little more comfortable as a result." Cherry said.

Kinderella straightened her posture and immediately wore a pleasant smile on her face. If she could increase her quality of life, she was going to snatch up the opportunity by any means necessary.

"I will be on my best behavior, Miss Harpin. Perhaps I can be of service in some way to you?" Kinderella offered.

"How about a foot massage?" Cherry asked. She did so miss Serene's foot massages ever since she stopped forcing her to do so.

"Y-yes, Miss Harpin! Whatever you like, I will do it for you." Kinderella managed to say, masking her dissatisfaction quite well.

"Excellent. Come along then, you won't be staying in some dingy prison cell if you serve me well." Cherry said, her words being a great source of relief from the anxiety of the trip. Kinderella almost forgot that Cherry was the one who put her in this mess to begin with.


章節 136: Belo Betty

Cherry led the procession of revolutionaries carrying the idiot drum brothers and Kinderella back to the fortress.

Once inside, Cherry remembered that she should probably unfuse Perona's negative hollow from Wapol.

'Man, I almost feel bad for leaving him like this for weeks. Almost." Cherry thought to herself.

She placed a hand on Wapol's back and activated her devil fruit to release the negative hollow from his body.

The ghost-like form slipped out and had a melancholic look on its face, a stark difference from the usual goofy smile they wore. Only now did Cherry feel some guilt for what she did to Wapol, though the pity was directed towards the negative hollow that had the misfortune to be stuck inside Wapol for so long.

Wapol took a deep breath in and looked around a face filled with wonder and awe.

"This place, it's so… BEAUTIFUL!" Wapol exclaimed with a big smile.

The room they were in was a prison cell and even as far as prison cells go it was pretty dismal.

"I feel so ALIVE! So WONDERFUL! LIFE IS SO AMAZING!" Wapol was shouting at the top of his lungs in pure unadulterated joy.

'Wow. I was worried he would have gone insane after living in the deepest depression for so long, but it seems it only increased his outlook on life after he escaped it. I wonder how long it'll last?' Cherry pondered.

Wapol spun around to take in the rest of his surroundings.

"YOU?!" Wapol pointed at Cherry. "Did you… save me? Even after our previous encounters?"

"Sure, let's go with that." Cherry said, deciding to see where this was going.

"You have my utmost gratitude! I thought I would be trapped in that dreary state of mind forever, but you had it in your heart to rescue me in spite of our rocky past!" Wapol was crying genuine tears of gratitude.

"Mm, well it was the right thing to do. After your brother usurped your throne, your citizens were so upset I just had to do something." Cherry lied.

"WHAT?! That ungrateful wretch! This is the thanks I get from rescuing him from his exile?!" Wapol was enraged.

"Don't you worry though. All your subordinates may have sided with him, but we'll get you back on your throne eventually! We might need your help with the war effort, if you're willing to use your devil fruit to help us?" Cherry asked with a sparkle in her eye.

"Really?! Naturally I'll assist in any way I can, it's the least I can do with you helping me get my throne back!" Wapol agreed enthusiastically.

"Great, you stay here. I'll see you again soon." Cherry said.

"Hm, yes. I will stay here. This is a splendid room, if I do say so myself. And I've got quite the eye for luxury, mind you!" Wapol said, seemingly oblivious to the dinginess of the prison cell, with only an old mattress as furniture.

'It seems that his perception has been altered significantly. Perhaps everything seems to be much better in his eyes after coming out of a month long, deep depression? I wonder if it's permanent?' Cherry pondered as she left the cell, the guards shutting the door behind her and locking it.

Cherry decided to go get something to eat at the cafeteria.

When she was almost there, Robin came running up behind her with crossed arms. Arms bloomed from Cherry shoulders and firmly planted over her eyes. After a quick Life Sense, Cherry realized that Belo Betty was in the cafeteria at the moment.

Cherry had taught Robin how to use Life Sense and she had been practicing with it by preventing Cherry from catching a glimpse of the apparently very sexy Betty.

They had set the rule that Cherry wasn't allowed to use Life Sense inside the fortress so she wouldn't be able to find Betty in that manner.

"That was a close one, darling." Cherry said, wrapping an arm around Robin's waist. "You'll have to feed me since I can't see."

Robin agreed with the stipulation. Truthfully, she wasn't that jealous and she trusted Cherry not to cheat. She was mostly doing this because they both found it amusing, like an inside joke.

Entering the cafeteria, Betty glanced over at them.

"Why do you always have those hands over your eyes when I'm around? Do you have a problem with the way I dress?" Betty asked sternly. She knew they didn't do this for anyone else in the fortress, not even Morley.

"You've gone and done it now, Robin. She's angry at us." Cherry said, whilst Robin blushed with some embarrassment.

"Sorry, Betty." Robin apologized, releasing the hands from Cherry's eyes.

Cherry looked upon Betty for the first time since she arrived here.

"Are you sure you were jealous and not that you wanted to keep this glorious sight to yourself?" Cherry asked, raising an eyebrow at Robin who then punched her in the shoulder.

They got some food and sat down across from Betty to have a chat with her and make a proper introduction.

"I see. So it just turned into some sort of game from then on." Betty said. "I would have preferred if you included me in any games that involve me."

"Hear that, Robin? Maybe we should think of a new game?" Cherry suggested jokingly.

"I can certainly think of a game we can play. It's not very original, but it never gets old." Betty spoke, giving them a playful look over her sunglasses.

Robin blushed lightly and glanced at Cherry. Cherry was looking right back at her with a smirk, but gave no opinion on the matter.

"Maybe we can all meet up after you're finished with your work tonight." Robin said softly after a moment of hesitation.

"That's alright with me. Should we meet at your quarters, or mine?" Betty asked, with a wide smile.

After ironing out the details, Betty returned to her duties with a saunter.

"Wow. I'm very surprised, to say the least." Cherry said, poking Robin in the side.

"Shut up." Robin muttered.

Cherry and Robin went to go train for the rest of the day, then later met Betty at her living quarters where they got to know each other a lot better.

Turns out Betty's devil fruit was useful for more than just improving the morale of an army.

After leaving Betty's quarters late the next morning, they were intercepted by Sabo, who had returned from his impromptu vacation.

"There you are! I just want to say thanks again, it was the right choice to go now rather than later. By the way, Dragon-san wants to speak with you, Cherry." Sabo said, seeming to have a hue weight off his shoulders since the last time they met.

"Alright. Was he mad that you took almost two months off?" Cherry asked.

"... Maybe…" Sabo said, looking a bit sheepish.

Cherry made her way to Dragon's office, where she found him grumbling to himself about Sabo's absence.

"Hey chief. You wanted to see me?" Cherry announced herself.

"Mm, I did. How did you disable the devil fruit abilities of Wapol? Even after taking off the sea stone cuffs he couldn't use his powers." Dragon asked.

"Trade secret." Cherry said, which wasn't the response that Dragon wanted, but he accepted it regardless.

"Very well, keep your secrets. Can you undo whatever you did to him, though? I'd like to make use of his powers in developing new alloys and weapon manufacturing. Thanks to your deception, he's being rather cooperative right now." Dragon asked.

"Sure thing." Cherry agreed.

Cherry went down to the prison cells and unlocked the seal on Wapol's devil fruit. Although, this seal was different from what she used on Serene, as the seal was still in place and could be activated again with a touch.

After another long day of training, Robin and Cherry were lying next to each other on their bed in their quarters.

"So, you like them big huh?" Cherry asked out of the blue.

Robin hit her with a pillow. "No I don't!"

"Are you sure, I've got this martial art I picked up from CP9 though. I could make mine bigger temporarily, if you like?" Cherry asked with a smirk.

"... Maybe…" Robin said, before promptly turning towards the wall and going to sleep.


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