One Piece: Book-Book Fruit
Chapter 268

Mental Shackles

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However, even as his undefeated streak kept growing, Kyros became increasingly confused and lost:

He was invincible in the arena, yet he could not save the poor people forced to sell themselves into slavery because they could not repay their debts, because it was legal;

He was invincible in the arena, yet he could not shut down those harmful casinos, because they were legal;

He was invincible in the arena, knocking down evildoers time and again, yet he never saw a single one repent.

Uh, no, that was not quite right. There was one person who had abandoned evil and turned good: Charlotte Amande.

After learning about this, Mousse understood why Kyros, who had once deeply despised his third sister Amande, had now changed his attitude and was even willing to eat the noodles she rolled out.

Still, they were far from getting together. What concerned Mousse more was Kyros's conflicted state of mind.

When Mousse watched the One Piece anime before transmigrating, he had felt that Kyros lived a miserable life. Even if he had once committed a crime, he had long since atoned for it through his actions. Why should he still feel inferior and not dare accept living with his daughter?

Now that he understood the troubles Kyros had faced over the past few years, Mousse found the man even more perplexing. "It's not like he lacks the strength to intervene. If he's dissatisfied, why not act? What's the point of wallowing in self-pity and torturing himself?"

"He follows the rules too closely. Doflamingo must have seen through that, which is why he never got rid of King Riku, right?"

Mousse saw the problem, but he did not rush to persuade him. Such an obviously abnormal state had to have a deeper cause behind it.

He did

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