Pirates: How Many Divisions Do the Five Elders Have? Feel the Pain!

"Roasted bear paw is my favorite food!"

At a campsite somewhere in the forest, Ma Qiao ate honey-glazed roasted bear paws that Tahm Kench had just prepared, and sang a song.

Well, how should I put it?

Ma Qiao's singing is a worthy opponent for Sun God.

It's still very pleasant to listen to.

Trafalgar Law, clutching Devil May Cry, stared thoughtfully at the roasted bear testicles Tahm Kench had given him.

Blue blue blue~

Just then, Law's Den Den Mushi rang.

When he answered the phone, Bepo and his friends appeared on the other end, their faces looking somewhat tired.

Most of the original Heart Pirates members have now Shurima and found new jobs.

For example, Bepo became a zookeeper at the Shurima Zoo, responsible for feeding several elephants.

Whether it was just his imagination or not, Ma Qiao felt that ever since Bepo became the zookeeper, these powerful elephants from the back mountain of Foosha Village in the Goa Kingdom had been getting thinner and thinner, while Bepo was visibly getting fatter.

Ma Qiao had some suspicions, but he had no evidence.

It's really not worthwhile to install a valuable field of vision in the elephant's enclosure for such a small matter.

Bepo told his old captain over the phone about taking care of the elephants this year.

The happiest thing for Bepo, who suffers from severe captain dependency, is talking to the captain every day.

But as they talked, Bepo's happiness faded.

He looked at the things strung on bamboo sticks in Luo's hand and, for some reason, felt a vague unease.

After hanging up the phone, Luo struggled for a long time, but finally couldn't resist the temptation of Tahm Kench's top-notch culinary skills.

"As a doctor, you should try a variety of foods to overcome your fear and be more at ease during surgery."

Luo recalled the wise words spoken by his mentor, Dr. Dr. Mundo, while he was eating grilled kidneys and performing a kidney transplant.

Take a gentle bite, and you'll experience a bouncy, refreshing texture with plenty of chewiness.

Luo shed tears of happiness.

There was a hint of guilt towards Bepo.

To cover up his guilt, Law asked, "Boss Ma Qiao, why are you going to all this trouble? If we just defeat Doflamingo and expose his crimes, the people of Dressrosa will see his true colors."

Ma Qiao glanced at Luo as if he were looking at a simpleton.

To be fair, as the captain of the Heart Pirates, Law is quite shrewd in the pirate world.

At least among the so-called "Supernovas Three Fools" —Luffy, Law, Kid —Law's intelligence is far superior.

But that's all.

Law is absolutely right. As long as they knock Doflamingo away and then show him the evidence of his crimes, those equally dim-witted people of Dressrosa will be grateful to them.

This has been verified in the original work.

Straw Hat Luffy, who defeated Doflamingo, was hailed as a hero by the people.

They were even willing to use their own flesh and blood to shield Luffy, a pirate, from the pursuit of Marine Admiral.

But...

Ultimately, the rule of Dressrosa fell into the hands of the Riku Royal Family.

And the first in line to the throne was actually the dark-skinned princess who offered herself to him out of hatred for her blood feud.

e...

If the deer is lost, the virtuous will take its place.

Of course, even Sima knew to proceed gradually, and Ma Qiao was an even more patient person.

In fact, this isn't the first time Ma Qiao has plotted against the country.

Planning for a country is a very simple matter.

Crocodile fainted in the toilet after hearing this.

However, this time the King Riku was not like the Goa Kingdom family.

Ma Qiao couldn't bring himself to do it.

Otherwise, if they had sent out the top-ranked Graves from the Japanese server again, there wouldn't have been so much trouble.

Haste makes waste; taking a roundabout approach can still achieve the desired result.

However, for the still somewhat naive and inexperienced Ronaldo, Ma Qiao naturally needed to find a plausible reason for himself.

"Luo Zai, do you still remember how Doflamingo seized the country from King Riku back then?"

Ma Qiao suddenly asked.

As a former member of the Donquixote Family's leadership, Law naturally knew about this. "That guy used the power of the String-String Fruit to manipulate King Riku's body, wantonly slaughtering his people. The entire nation was chilled by King Riku's incompetent and tyrannical actions. In the end, Doflamingo seized the opportunity to overthrow his regime and become king, while the Riku Royal Family was despised by the people..."

"Childish!"

"Ah?"

"Oh, I didn't mean you're childish."

Ma Qiao picked at his ear. "I mean, the people of Dressrosa are naive. This generation is no good."

"What... what does this mean?"

Luo asked, looking puzzled.

"The Riku Royal Family ruled Dressrosa for eight hundred years, only to have their rule crumbled by such a simplistic scheme of sowing discord. It's incredibly naive of them."

Ma Qiao shook his head and said, "This shows that the people of Dressrosa have a very simple way of thinking, almost like diodes. I need to give these young diodes a lesson."

"Therefore, I am not stealing the prestige of this country, but merely educating the people here, enlightening them, and letting them know what political maneuvering is, so that they won't suffer losses when they go online and engage in political discussions with their counterparts in other countries after Dressrosa gains internet access."

"In short, I meant well..."

Ma Qiao's twisted logic left Luo completely bewildered.

If it were King Luffy, he would be completely immune to Ma Qiao's nonsense.

But Luo thought about it more and realized that what Boss Ma Qiao said did make a little bit of sense.

The people of his homeland, the White Kingdom of Flevance, were so naive that they were easily manipulated by the king and the World Government.

If...

Perhaps then the tragedy of Flevance wouldn't have happened again.

Luo remembered the nagging of his parents, now ghosts, before he left; he must listen to his boss.

"I understand, Mr. Ma Qiao. To save more countries and more people, even dressing up as a woman and imitating Fox's howl is worthwhile."

That's right, the talking Fox that the unlucky old man met wasn't the Nine-Tails fox demon Ahri, but rather Luo, who was forced to wear women's clothing.

This wasn't Ma Qiao's perverse sense of humor, but rather a last resort.

Previously Ma Qiao had Ahri try it out.

As a result, a bird named Lao Liu who came to the forest saw the beautiful and charming Ahri and immediately suffered an acute stroke.

There wasn't even time to administer the medication; if Ma Qiao hadn't happened to have learned the Astral Infusion, this guy would have almost died.

In conclusion

"Luo Zai, it's time to get to work."

Ma Qiao kicked Law in the butt. "You'll need to step in to modify Malphite!"

It has to be said that Law's Op-Op Fruit ability is really useful.

For example, transplanting Vel'Koz's eyes onto Zephyr's arm.

Ma Qiao did indeed achieve Dr. Mundo through a true surgical transplant.

In reality, Luo could do it with just a wave of his Devil Cry, even simpler than changing eyes in Five Villages Melee: The Legend of the Eyes.

This time, Ma Qiao let Ronaldo take the lead.

This time, we're not doing addition, we're doing subtraction.

Ma Qiao had Law remove one of the Lava Giant Malphite's eyes, and then transplanted the remaining eye onto his forehead.

Ignore the optic nerve pathway in the brain; that's not important.

The miraculous Op-Op Fruit can solve all of this.

Although the two-eyed and one-eyed stone figures were essentially irrelevant to the overall plan, Ma Qiao did so out of respect for tradition and out of Chinese instinct.

Having lost an eye, Malphite was swallowed whole by Tahm Kench, who then swam to the bottom of the river.

Ma Qiao's seemingly foolproof plan encountered a minor setback.

The next day, the sun shone brightly; it should have been a good day for construction work.

Result...

According to Ma Qiao's research, the people of Dressrosa, modeled after Spain, have a personality similar to the EU's PIGS —pure lazy dogs.

Of course, it's also possible that all the hardworking people have already been captured by Doflamingo and enslaved.

After all, slavery was an old Latin tradition.

In short, after Ma Qiao for a long time, several hundred men, young and old, worked on earthwork for less than forty minutes under the not-so-scorching sun before complaining of being tired and in pain.

Then everyone agreed to start singing, dancing, and having afternoon tea.

After afternoon tea, it's time for another two-hour nap.

By evening, they worked for another half hour, and then their day's work was finished.

Throughout the entire process, the men and women spent more time flirting and even wooing each other into the grove than actually working.

Even more alarming, Ma Qiao discovered people inhaling suspicious powders or injecting themselves with unknown drugs intravenously.

Come to think of it, Doflamingo is the biggest drug smuggling tycoon in the Underworld; how could a country under his rule not be rife with drugs?

This left Ma Qiao speechless, and he even began to doubt whether he should reunify Dressrosa.

"This is the leisurely lifestyle of the people of Dressrosa; that's why it's known as the city of romance and passion..."

Wearing a ghillie suit and holding binoculars, Luo Rushi, who was also lying in wait with Ma Qiao, introduced the situation.

"However, these guys live a relatively wealthy life compared to people in other countries, don't they?" Ma Qiao scoffed.

"That's how it is..."

Luo nodded. "The standard of living in Dressrosa is far higher than in other countries; people have enough money and leisure time to fill the entire arena."

Upon hearing this, Ma Qiao recalled the appalling behavior of the spectators during the gladiatorial match that King Luffy and Rebecca participated in in the original timeline.

Those guys, to put it nicely, are violent, indifferent to life, and ruthless; to put it bluntly, they're a bunch of scum.

Judging from the proportion of people, such individuals are by no means a minority in Dressrosa.

Could people's moral values Satori overnight just because the king changed from Doflamingo to King Riku?

Ma Qiao felt that his casual remark, "This generation of people is no good," might actually be true.

What Ma Qiao did to the nobles and upper-class citizens in the Goa Kingdom might need to be repeated in this country in some variation.

If that's the case...

Ma Qiao frowned.

Although compared to King Luffy, whose plan is to save a country by defeating the enemy, Ma Qiao's original plan was already very thorough and meticulous.

But now, Ma Qiao realizes he oversimplified things.

If the former Goa Kingdom was similar to India, with a clear division between high and low castes, then Dressrosa is less like Southern Europe and more like a hybrid of the United States and Southern Europe countries.

The people of Dressrosa live a wealthy and comfortable life, and are open to prostitution and drug abuse. Apart from the strict prohibition of possessing weapons, they are practically identical to the United States.

As for work, they are like Southern Europe, lacking any drive for involution and living a life of just getting by.

In short, the whole country looks like the paradise everyone dreams of.

But what is the cost?

Is their ability to live such a life truly due to some stroke of luck in Dressrosa?

That's just that there are people they don't even know are being exploited and fed.

Doflamingo truly deserves to be called a far more successful schemer than Crocodile. He somehow mastered the two great weapons of music and the prison empire without any formal training, hiding the sins and suffering of Dressrosa in the shadows, allowing all the "respectable" people to live what they considered to be wonderful lives.

Ma Qiao didn't know how King Luffy managed to turn Doflamingo into a group of hardworking commoners after knocking him away; perhaps he hadn't done anything at all.

But for Ma Qiao, such a society needs radical change, and such people need radical transformation.

Revolution cannot happen without bloodshed.

Therefore, the battle plan needs to be changed.

After seven full days, the laborers who organized the river repairs finally unearthed this enormous one-eyed stone figure.

Actually, this is all thanks to Rebecca.

Although Rebecca, who was raised by Toy Soldiers since childhood, has many idealistic tendencies, she hasn't picked up many bad habits, except for her love of wearing bikinis.

The reward of 1,000 Beli for 3 days is among the lowest of the conscripted laborers.

But Rebecca did the most work.

She single-handedly accomplished the workload of almost 100 people.

On the one hand, Rebecca's physical condition was excellent as Kyros's daughter; on the other hand, the work efficiency of the others was simply too low.

During this period, Rebecca was harassed, verbally abused, and even physically assaulted.

However, Rebecca endured it all in order to give Mr. Toy a new leg.

Not only did they endure it, but they also had to do their best to avoid giving their supervisor a reason to deduct their income.

Finally, with a seemingly ordinary shovelful of water, the impatient Malphite emerged from beneath the riverbed.

"As solid as a rock... Ah no... Let me think..."

Malphite scratched his head, and before everyone could scatter in terror, he roared, "Don't underestimate the Stone Golem with one eye, a whole screen of dragons will ride your face; don't underestimate Dressrosa, Golden-haired Shiki is my boss!"

With that, Malphite pulled a signal flare from under his buttocks, pulled the fuse, and the flare shot into the sky with a whoosh.

At the same time, taking advantage of his height, he opened his arms to the panicked, scattering crowd:

"Feel the pain, contemplate the pain, accept the pain, understand the pain. Those who do not understand pain cannot understand true happiness—that's just rubbish!"

With that, Malphite unleashed his ultimate move, "Unstoppable," hurtling towards the crowd like a giant meteorite.

Such a massive body, such a terrifying impact.

No common sense was needed; everyone was running forward with all their might.

The same goes for Rebecca.

However, as the shadow drew closer and grew larger, Rebecca stopped and glanced at the rushing crowd behind her.

Even though these same people had spoken ill of her not long ago.

But she still drew the Long Sword from her back.