Heal-Heal Fruit

Before coming to Dressrosa, Maud had been worrying about how to get the princess of the Tontatta Tribe to help.

After all, it concerned the loss of lifespan.

Normally, it would be difficult to receive a response.

Of course.

Using force would be another matter.

But the Tontatta Tribe was neither a group of utterly evil pirates nor a slave-hunting squad that had abandoned its humanity. How could Maud use force against them?

Since force would not work, he could only try persuasion.

That had been Maud's original plan.

He had not expected that, after coming all this way, he would happen to help the Tontatta Tribe resolve a huge crisis.

With that, the problem was easily solved.

Without the slightest psychological burden, Maud got straight to the point and directly made his request to the Tontatta Tribe.

"I need your princess's ability to help two of my elders restore their severed limbs."

"!!!"

Hearing Maud's request, the Tontatta Tribe members inside the cage, who had yet to recover from their rescue, all stared at him in astonishment.

Gancio, the old Tontatta chieftain whose arm had been severed by Monet, looked up at Maud with a pale face.

Although he was surprised that Maud had suddenly made such a request, Gancio quickly calmed down.

He endured the pain and shakily rose to his feet.

Seeing this, the Tontatta Tribe members beside him carefully supported Gancio.

Drip, drip—

A little blood trickled from Gancio's severed arm.

Even after applying the Tontatta Tribe's specially made plant-based hemostatic ointment, it would still take some time to stop the bleeding completely.

Gancio was already old. Now that he had lost an arm, standing up had become extremely difficult.

But he still clenched his teeth and stood.

"You... You are the benefactor of our Tontatta