I'm Not Human Anymore!

Even so, Minos still took out his Three-Eyed Tribe Bloodline, placed it on the Golden Scales, and browsed the other abilities on the opposite side.

He had no idea what principles governed the Golden Scales' exchanges. The Three-Eyed Tribe Bloodline generally traded for eye-related abilities, but their strengths often differed by worlds apart. Maybe this was some kind of first-time bonus?

There was the Three-Tomoe Sharingan, the Byakugan, and strange eyes such as Laser Eye, X-Ray Eye, and Petrifying Demon Eye.

The most powerful one, in Minos's opinion, was probably the Kenjutsu Eye. He had no idea why such an overpowered eye was placed alongside the Sharingan and Byakugan. He truly could not understand the Golden Scales' standards.

"If only there were an exchange that could directly make me as strong as Charlotte Linlin. Then I could leave the Charlotte Pirates right away." Minos spoke as he idly flipped through the options. The items on the Golden Scales changed every day; new things appeared, while old ones disappeared.

That was why he came to observe it every day. Unfortunately, eyes could only be considered support abilities at best. Trying to reach the heavens in a single step was nothing but wishful thinking.

Hmm!? Minos's hand paused slightly as he looked at what he had found.

Evil Eye. An eye transplanted into Hiei in Yu Yu Hakusho. This eye possessed Thousand Mile Eye and the ability to control and hypnotize others. It could transform its user into a Hundred-Eyed Yokai, greatly enhancing the body. In addition, Hiei combined the Evil Eye's summoning ability with his own fire-based Demonic Power to create the ultimate techniques of the Flame-Killing Series.

The Evil Eye came with Demonic Power of its own. The power cultivated by the original recipient would be greatly weakened as a result, though their potential would also increase. After Hiei received the Evil Eye transplant, he once fell from a top-tier A-Class fire yokai to D-Class, becoming an ordinary yokai who could only use swordsmanship.

But when he cultivated himself anew afterward, the Evil Eye's ability to summon flames quickly allowed him to surpass his former strength again.

"Still," Minos muttered with a frown, "if the Evil Eye's power is adapted to the pirate world, its ability to summon flames will definitely be gone. There probably won't be any Demonic Power either. The Hundred-Eyed transformation, Thousand Mile Eye, and hypnosis abilities should remain, though."

"But the most important thing is..." Minos reached up and touched his forehead. "At least this thing can pass as a Three-Eyed Tribe trait!"

No matter how much the Three-Eyed Tribe's power was developed, it was still only a support ability. The Evil Eye, however, possessed genuine frontal combat power.

The Hundred-Eyed Yokai transformation might not look very impressive, but the boost it gave his strength was real. At the very least, it was equivalent to a Zoan Devil Fruit transformation.

The combination of Thousand Mile Eye and hypnosis should also surpass a support ability like hearing the voice of the world.

More importantly, changing from a Three-Eyed Tribe member into a yokai would elevate his very life essence. Combined with the Evil Eye's potential-enhancing effect, it would greatly improve both Minos's potential and physique. Since Minos had not cultivated any power to begin with, he did not need to worry about losing his strength.

As for the racial change... Minos touched the eye on his forehead and thought of Hiei's Third Eye in Yu Yu Hakusho.

"Forgive me for being so obsessed with looks, but Hiei's Third Eye as an Evil Eye user looks way cooler than the Third Eye of my Three-Eyed Tribe."

"Then... I'm not human anymore!"

"Trade, begin!"

The moment he spoke, both sides of the Golden Scales erupted with intense golden light. Minos felt a sharp pain bloom in his forehead, followed by convulsive agony throughout his body, as if his tendons were being pulled and his bones torn apart. A moment later, the golden light on his side vanished without a trace.

Weakness flooded Minos's entire body. Before he could react, the golden light on the other side of the scales instantly surged toward him.

"Urghhhhh!"

If the previous sensation had been like having his tendons pulled and skin flayed, then this felt like Wolverine having red-hot Adamantium poured into his bones. Intense pain instantly spread through Minos's whole body, making him scream and roll around as he repeatedly fainted, only to be jolted awake by the pain.

After an unknown amount of time passed amid the agony, Minos finally regained a little clarity. He stood up tiredly, shook his head, and closed his two eyes, leaving only the Evil Eye that had grown on his forehead after the trade open.

"Such powerful eyesight. Dynamic vision, clarity, long-distance vision... Are these the Evil Eye's basic functions?"

After leaving the space where the Golden Scales resided, Minos turned toward a mirror in the room.

The Third Eye on his forehead, which had originally looked no different from his other two eyes and gave people a chilling feeling, had now shrunk somewhat. Its eyelashes were gone as well.

Most importantly, the shape of the entire eye now seemed centered on the point between his brows. It had finally lost that awkward, eerie appearance.

"Will Charlotte Linlin notice?" Minos felt slightly worried, but when he thought about the manga and the pirates he had observed over this period, he immediately relaxed.

Those pirates were not merely careless—they were practically brainless. His forehead eye had only changed a little. As long as it had not disappeared, they probably would not notice anything at all.

Even if they did notice, it would not be a problem. Minos could simply claim that his Three-Eyed Tribe Bloodline had undergone some kind of ancestral reversion or awakening and brush it off.

Minos clenched his fists and could clearly feel that his physical abilities had improved considerably. His reaction nerves, in particular, were countless times faster than before.

This was reflected in his body as a major increase in speed. He felt that he could now handle ten or twenty of his former self without any problem.

"I wonder if my lifespan has increased. I don't have Demonic Power, but I really count as a yokai now... It should increase, right? Giants in the pirate world can live for over three hundred years, and there are also the Op-Op Fruit and the Immortality Surgery. That proves this world does allow immortality."

As he thought, Minos clenched both fists, gathered his strength, and began testing the Evil Eye's second ability.

The muscles on his body gradually swelled and turned black. Then, eyes appeared all over him.

"Such powerful strength. I feel like my strength has increased nearly tenfold! No, it probably only feels that way because I used to be too weak."

Minos casually crushed a wooden board in the room, then easily bent a long blade before withdrawing from Hundred-Eyed Yokai mode.

Only then did Minos let out a soft breath of relief. Although he was still a small fry in the New World, he could at least be considered an elite among small fries.

In Hundred-Eyed Yokai mode, he was probably comparable to a pirate worth twenty or thirty million. In a Yonko Crew, he could serve as... a squad leader of the Ten-Man Squad?

Thinking that, Minos curled his lip and felt all his excitement vanish.

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