The Enraged Red Dog! Demon God Rochi, One Billion Bounty!

The moment those words were spoken, the entire hall erupted in uproar.

Yet, intimidated by the Pirate Empress's authority, the warriors could only tremblingly put away their weapons and carefully carry the heavy man toward the most heavily guarded inner palace on Kuja Island.

Half an hour later, inside the royal palace's inner hall.

Rochi lay quietly on a lavish bed.

An elderly Kuja physician with a head full of white hair and immense experience was examining Rochi's body with trembling hands, his face filled with disbelief.

"This... this is impossible... This is practically a miracle of creation!"

The old physician's eyes widened as he cried out in shock, as though he had seen a ghost.

"What is it? What happened to his body?!"

Standing beside the bed, Boa Hancock immediately pressed him for an answer, her face pale.

The old physician swallowed hard and pointed at Rochi's empty left chest, his voice trembling.

"Lady Snake Princess, judging by the old scars on his body and the direction of his meridians, his heart should have suffered a devastating penetrating injury that completely hollowed it out in an incredibly short time!"

"With an injury like that, even a god would have died thousands of times over!"

"But... but look!"

The old physician carefully pulled open Rochi's collar.

Where there should have been a bloody hole in Rochi's left chest, his skin was astonishingly smooth and unblemished. Not only was there not a trace of a scar, it even faintly glowed with an unusual blue light!

At the source of that blue radiance was clearly an energy core beating with terrifying force, its rhythm like ancient war drums, continuously sending immense vitality capable of restoring flesh and bone throughout his body!

The old physician wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"This