Rainbow Light Fish

But Luo Han said nothing. After promising Brother Rhine that he would not add extra training, he went home with Cole.

On the way back, Cole kept his head lowered as he looked at Luo Han. After hesitating several times, he seemed to make a huge decision and looked up at him.

Cole: "Brother Han! How about this? From now on, I'll give you half my meat.

That way, you can be like me and stop being so skinny!"

Uh! But I don't want to be like you! Luo Han looked at Cole, who had gotten another rounder!

He quietly shook his head.

Luo Han: "Enough, Cole. I'm fine! It won't happen again.

And I can't eat half as much meat as you do!"

Cole: "Oh! Is that so? Hehe!"

He let out a sigh of relief. Mm! Then I can still eat my fill, Cole thought.

The two figures, one large and one small, looked after each other as they gradually disappeared down the road.

When Luo Han returned home, he was a little afraid! He was afraid Grandma Mo would see what he looked like now.

If she saw him, Grandma Mo would be very sad!

Luo Han did not want to see Grandma Mo sad!

When he entered the house, fortunately! Grandma Mo had probably gone to grind Fish Cake flour that morning.

Luo Han hurried to prepare lunch. While boiling the fish, he cooked a little extra!

Grandma Mo returned at noon!

Luo Han, who had eaten beforehand, had already returned to normal. It had to be said, people in the World of Pirates had quite good constitutions.

Whether they wanted to lose weight or gain it, it was all rather easy! It only depended on whether they ate or not.

After lunch, under Grandma Mo's reminders, Luo Han and Cole followed Uncle Witt from home toward the plaza on the first level.

They followed the winding stone stairs downward. After walking for half a shichen, they finally arrived at the first level below.

Come to think of it, this was Luo Han's first time coming down to the first level, and he was quite curious!

The Divine Tree Plaza on the first level sat right beside the lake's surface. Ladders made from vines hung from the massive tree roots.

They were probably there to make getting in and out of the water easier!

Looking deeper into the lake, he saw rainbow-colored light glowing there.

In the crystal-clear lake water, the rainbow glow seemed to fill the entire place, as though the lakebed were covered in rainbow-colored diamonds!

It was a dreamlike scene, completely different from during the Scale Fruit Festival!

In the past, because he had viewed it from so far above, Luo Han had never paid attention to the lakebed. He had not expected Ring Tree Island to have such a magical place.

What were those things giving off rainbow-colored light? Luo Han had just sensed them with Observation Haki. They could swim, but he did not know what kind of creatures they were.

Before long, after they reached the plaza, Uncle Witt told Luo Han and Cole to wait there for a while.

Then he went into the water with the other uncles from the island!

At that moment, Luo Han noticed something unusual. People who were not usually seen were basically all gathered here.

Moreover, most of them had suffered injuries.

Uncle Aite, who had lost a leg while collecting salt last time, was also here.

So this was probably where injured island residents worked?

As Luo Han thought this, Cole had already lain down in the plaza. From Luo Han's height, he could no longer see anything above Cole's chest.

He was truly round!

Time slowly passed...

Uncle Witt and the others returned. Every person who had gone into the water was carrying one or two unusual fish, each around a meter long and shaped like eels.

The reason they were unusual was because the scales on their bodies flickered with rainbow-colored light.

These were the creatures Luo Han had sensed with Observation Haki earlier, the creatures in the lake that emitted rainbow-colored light!

Smack! Smack! Uncle Witt placed the rainbow-glowing fish on the long table in the plaza. There were also some knives beside it.

They were presumably for preparing the fish!

Uncle Witt: "Luo Han, Cole, you two come over."

Luo Han and Cole walked over, unsure what they were supposed to do.

"Starting today, you'll eat this kind of fish until the Scale Fruit's transformation is complete.

There aren't many of these fish. They usually go first to people like you who have just eaten Scale Fruit."

As Uncle Witt prepared the Rainbow Light Fish, he spoke to Luo Han and Cole.

Uncle Witt then explained, "Rainbow Light Fish live by eating moss attached to the Divine Tree's roots. Because the Divine Tree contains magical energy, the moss also contains a great deal of energy.

The Rainbow Light Fish that eat the moss then highly concentrate that energy within themselves.

That is why the flesh of the entire Rainbow Light Fish gives off rainbow-colored light.

Rainbow Light Fish and Scale Fruit have always been Ring Tree Island's great treasures. In the past, the island's residents relied on these two treasures to strengthen their bodies and survive with difficulty on this island.

Until one of our predecessors created the fist technique you practiced this morning, Military Fist, based on these two treasures. With the Rainbow Light Fish's energy supporting the Scale Fruit's transformative power, the human body's potential was greatly enhanced.

That allowed the island's residents to truly take root here, and the population gradually increased.

So without the Rainbow Light Fish's energy, the Scale Fruit's transformative power is limited.

Now you should understand how precious Rainbow Light Fish are, right?"

"Understood," Luo Han and Cole answered in unison. Cole had already gotten up by then!

As long as there was food, Cole would never miss it!

"Dad, I saw lots of them in the lake! Why can't we take more for everyone to eat?" Cole asked Uncle Witt in confusion.

Uncle Witt: "The moss is bark that was originally meant to fall off the Divine Tree, but because it is underwater, it cannot fall away for the time being.

Then, transformed by the Divine Tree's innate magical energy, it becomes moss that remains attached to the Divine Tree and steals nutrients from it, affecting the Divine Tree's growth.

The Rainbow Light Fish are responsible for cleaning up this moss that harms the Divine Tree. But after they finish eating the moss, if there is no more moss, they start eating the Divine Tree's bark.

So those of us whose bodies have suffered some degree of injury are responsible for diving into the water every day and driving the Rainbow Light Fish to the parts of the Divine Tree's roots where the moss needs to be cleared.

That keeps the Rainbow Light Fish from eating the moss in one place and then moving on to eat the Divine Tree's bark.

Because of the Divine Tree's magical cell-transforming energy, Rainbow Light Fish do not grow very quickly. Fortunately, there are many of them.

There are still enough every day to meet your needs. And it is only because you two are Devil Fruit users that you can receive this additional daily supplement of Rainbow Light Fish."

So that was how it was! Luo Han could not help but marvel.

The Divine Tree was truly magical. It truly deserved the name Divine Tree!

From the Scale Fruit's transformative power, to the Rainbow Light Fish's energy-replenishing ability, and finally its seawater desalination ability.

It perfectly formed an ecological closed loop. It felt like the Rainbow Light Fish and the island residents were both cleaners hired by the Divine Tree!!

One tree truly supported an entire society!

Thinking of all this, Luo Han yearned even more for the outside world!!

The legendary underwater Fish-Man Island! Sky islands floating in the air, and all kinds of other magical islands where lightning rain fell.

He really wanted to hurry up and grow up!

"Alright, eat!" After cutting up the Rainbow Light Fish, Uncle Witt directly handed it to Luo Han and Cole.

"Do we eat it raw, Uncle Witt?" Luo Han asked after coming back to his senses.

Cole was already drooling!

Ever since eating the Devil Fruit, Cole felt he had developed an intense craving for meat, especially raw meat.

"You can only absorb the energy properly by eating it raw. Hurry and eat. Everyone eats it this way."

Uncle Witt continued preparing the Rainbow Light Fish in his hands.