Modifying the Ship

The impact of Bear King's steel train and Daddy's Impact Barrier collided with a roar, triggering a shockwave that echoed across the sky and sent sparks flying in every direction.

However, there were no surprises; Bear King was sent flying once again, his eyes rolling back into his head as blood gushed from his scalp.

No one was tougher than Daddy!

Honey Queen, who was frantically fleeing through the crevices, had even lost her clothes in the process. Her mastery of the Paramecia-type Paste-Paste Fruit was still at a rudimentary level, unable to even assimilate her garments.

In the Grand Line, the traitorous Marine Gasparde could transform his entire body into syrup and shift into various forms thanks to his Paramecia-type Candy-Candy Fruit.

And the leader of the New World's Sweet Commanders, Katakuri, played with his Paramecia-type Mochi-Mochi Fruit with terrifying skill; mimicking the moves of Straw Hat Luffy's Gum-Gum Fruit and unleashing dozens of fists at once was child's play for him, making his ability seem as powerful as a Logia.

Perhaps this was the absolute gap between a 7.8 million, 95 million, and 1.057 billion Beli bounty!

Honey Queen morphed into a puddle of paste, shivering in the corner of a crack as she prayed for these gods of death to leave Clockwork Island quickly.

Even the powerful Captain Bear King had been defeated so easily; she felt that this strongest pirate crew in the East Blue were truly devils!

"Come out!"

Suddenly, a voice made the terrified Honey Queen tremble again, but she dared not move or speak.

"I know you're in there. If you don't come out, I'm going to kill you!"

Daddy punched the crevice, blasting out a massive crater that made the Honey Queen inside shake so hard she couldn't maintain her paste form.

She didn't understand how this man could pinpoint her location!

"I can sense your life force; you can't run! If you don't come out now, once I catch you, the outcome will be death!"

Daddy said coldly. If she wasted any more of his time, she shouldn't blame him for being ruthless!

"Don't kill me! I'm coming out!"

Honey Queen immediately surged out from the crevice and slowly manifested before Daddy, though she remained in her paste-like humanoid form.

"Can you give me some clothes?"

Honey Queen asked with a sobbing tone. This man was too terrifying; the mere chill of his presence made her entire body tremble!

But the next moment, a pitch-black, hardened hand grabbed her throat, forcing her to instantly shed her paste form and return to her original state.

Struggling for breath, her face flushed bright red.

Why could this man grab her paste body?

"You've wasted a lot of my time, and I'm very fired up right now!"

Daddy looked at the fair-skinned woman, who was currently a "censored" sight, and suddenly felt a surge of wicked fire. Like a man possessed, he pressed her down.

I don't know how much time passed.

The fair-skinned, blonde woman, wrapped in Daddy's great cloak, followed him back to the center of Clockwork Island with a flushed and pitiful expression.

By this time, the entire island was under the control of the Big Daddy Pirates.

Except for the pirates who had been slaughtered on the spot, the rest were all kneeling in the hall, including the residents of Clockwork Island who had been suppressed and coerced by the pirates.

Kuro of a Hundred Plans gave Daddy a meaningful look, clearly aware of what had transpired, but Daddy didn't care in the slightest. He was a pirate who pursued power and lived without laws!

He had just needed to blow off some steam.

Nami was busy trying to dismantle the massive Diamond Clock, determined to haul away the treasure worth hundreds of millions of Beli. She had no time to notice the missing Daddy; right now, she only had eyes for the Beli.

"Should we slaughter all these pirates?"

Kuro of a Hundred Plans said this with a smile, yet it made people feel as if they had fallen into an icy cavern, chilling them to the bone!

Daddy didn't answer, instead walking toward the mayor and his wife, the couple dressed in scientist attire.

"You can modify ships?"

Daddy asked. If they could transform an entire island into a clockwork mechanism, their technological capabilities were quite impressive. Surely, they could manage the tech to utilize clockwork for short-term flight on a pirate ship?

"How do you want to modify it?"

The mayor and his wife asked with a hint of fear. This group of pirates was even more brutal than the Trump Pirates, and they dared not offer the slightest resistance.

"I want to add an emergency escape function to the stern, and clockwork-powered upward propulsion to the bottom of the hull!"

Daddy gave them a rough outline of his ideas. At the very least, it provided an extra escape route, or perhaps preparation for landing on a Sky Island!

"We need time, materials, and manpower."

Seeing Daddy's uncompromising expression, the mayor and his wife had no choice but to bite the bullet and agree.

"You can use these pirates however you like; it doesn't matter if you work them to death, just finish the modifications as fast as possible!

By the way, your son is not dead yet. Help me finish the modifications properly, and who knows, your son might just return!"

To prevent these scientists from sabotaging the work or leaving defects, Daddy threatened them directly with their son.

"Really?"

The mayor and his wife said excitedly. When the Trump Pirates first occupied Clockwork Island, they had been forced to set their newborn son adrift on the sea to find a way to survive.

They never expected to hear such news now; it must have been the information they left with the infant that allowed this pirate to find him.

"Modify it well! If you satisfy me, your island will be liberated!"

After saying this, Daddy left the remaining matters for Kuro of a Hundred Plans, the resident strategist, to arrange, while he took Honey Queen to tour the island and, incidentally, find a place for round two of their stress-relieving session.

Daddy had possessed a shred of conscience when dealing with Dezaya, and he had held a sliver of it for Nojiko as well, but now, facing Honey Queen, he had no conscience left; this was purely a product of desire, devoid of any emotional attachment.

And so, the Big Daddy Pirates made a brief stop on Clockwork Island, waiting for their ship to undergo reinforcement and modifications.

Kuro of a Hundred Plans attempted to learn from Daddy, using his methods to subdue Bear King, the captain of the Trump Pirates, by tossing the Steel-Steel Fruit user into the sea to soak, or forcing him to commit suicide if he refused to submit—in any case, Kuro would not kill him outright.

As for Pin Joker and Pig Jack, by the second day, they had been tortured to the point of begging to join the Big Daddy Pirates as mere lackeys on the ship.

This finally elevated the status of the Cat Brothers and Iron Wall Pearl on the ship, meaning they were no longer at the very bottom of the hierarchy.

Without a bounty on one's head, one couldn't even qualify to be a lackey for the Big Daddy Pirates!

Nami also caught wind of the relationship between Daddy and Honey Queen, and in order to secure her own position on the ship, she began to show off her charms in front of Daddy a bit more often.

She absolutely could not let the financial authority of the ship fall into the hands of that vixen, especially the Diamond Clock she had just acquired; she could not let Honey Queen get her hands on it!

Daddy also appropriately expressed how much he valued Nami, as her navigational talent was an indispensable and vital part of the Big Daddy Pirates!

Of course, if she wanted to become an truly indispensable part of Daddy, she might still need to develop a bit more!