Heading to the Flower Capital! Two Heaven-Defying Devil Fruit Abilities

"Answer... Oh, never mind!"

With his Conqueror's Haki-coated hand gripping the severed blade, Lin Ye had barely opened his mouth when his Observation Haki detected people entering its range in the distance.

Crack!

The blade snapped. Lin Ye tossed aside the broken sword and turned to leave.

Behind him, the pirate dropped to his knees, clutching his throat with both hands.

A moment later, Lin Ye saw the people his Observation Haki had detected. Unfortunately, they were not pirates.

They were raggedly dressed and thin, bearing the classic appearance of Wano Country.

He sized up the group, while the terrified people opposite him sized him up as well.

Only after Lin Ye turned and left did they finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Was he one of them?"

"Probably not. If he were, he definitely wouldn't have let us go."

After Lin Ye left, the group whispered among themselves, their expressions easing slightly.

Lin Ye paid no attention to the voices behind him. His Observation Haki had already detected a large gathering of people.

Kuri!

Once Lin Ye arrived, he immediately knew where he had landed in Wano Country.

Had Moria and Kaido's great battle still erupted in Ringo?

It was very possible.

Lin Ye asked some frightened townspeople for a map of Wano Country, then discovered that reaching the Ringo region meant crossing the entirety of Wano Country.

He was not disappointed. Instead, he felt that this was rather good.

Crossing all of Wano Country would let him harvest along the way.

After asking for the route, Lin Ye immediately set off.

"Hurry and report it! An outsider pirate has appeared! The lords in the Flower Capital said that anyone who reports an outsider pirate will be rewarded with plenty of food!"

After Lin Ye left, the people who had seemed so compliant moments ago immediately became excited.

And Lin Ye, who had kept his Observation Haki active, noticed everything.

Lin Ye rested his hand on his sword hilt.

Ordinary people rarely dropped traits, so Lin Ye seldom attacked them. There was little to gain from it.

The chance of a trait dropping was proportional to the person's own strength.

Especially for these sallow, emaciated people.

However, Lin Ye did not draw his sword. He merely slowed down.

He was alone. Rather than searching for them himself, it was better to let them come to him.

As for these people...

Once the matter in Wano Country was over, he could take them away along the way.

Before that, it would be best if they could call over more people.

Lin Ye headed toward the Flower Capital on foot.

News of an unfamiliar pirate appearing in Kuri was swiftly delivered by those people to the nearby samurai of Wano Country.

In less than half a day, Lin Ye encountered the first group to arrive.

However, they did not delay Lin Ye's steps.

As he walked, Flying Slashes shot forth, cutting all the samurai blocking his path in two.

Lin Ye glanced toward the back of a nearby hill. Someone was still hiding there, but Lin Ye did not kill him.

If he killed them all, how would the news get out?

Anticipation flashed through his eyes as he continued onward.

Behind the hill, a samurai pressed his back tightly against the ground. He did not even dare breathe too heavily, his face filled with terror.

Only after a long while without hearing any sound did he relax slightly.

He stole a glance, then dared not linger for even a moment before getting up and running.

The Flower Capital.

Kurozumi Orochi stood in a high pavilion, watching the dancing figure on the street below and letting out a smug laugh.

"What a pitiful sight!"

Kurozumi Orochi laughed until tears came out, and the crown on his head trembled as though it might fall off at any moment.

"Lord Orochi, a pirate has landed from Kuri. He is a formidable fellow."

Whoosh!

A figure darted over and landed beside Kurozumi Orochi, startling him into a shudder.

Kurozumi Orochi flew into a rage, turned around, and kicked the kneeling man.

"Bastard! How dare you startle me?"

"My apologies, Lord Orochi. News has just arrived from Kaido's side. Once a pirate is discovered, people must immediately be sent to surround and kill him."

At the mention of Kaido's name, Kurozumi Orochi's body shuddered.

"Then send people."

Kurozumi Orochi waved his hand and turned back to admire the dance of the burly man below.

The ninja who had appeared raised his head at those words and glanced at Kurozumi Orochi, then shifted his gaze toward the old man with enormous earlobes standing beside him.

Fukurokuju.

The leader of the Oniwabanshu ninjas under Kurozumi Orochi.

After he gave the ninja a slight nod, the kneeling ninja rose, leaped away, and vanished.

Kurozumi Orochi muttered as he watched below, but when Kozuki Oden reached an exciting part of his dance, he immediately clapped and cheered in delight.

Kozuki Oden still held considerable prestige in Wano Country. This disgraceful display would surely disappoint many people in him.

Kurozumi Orochi chuckled smugly, looking immensely pleased with himself.

On the street below.

Kozuki Oden, naked except for a loincloth, sang his own accompaniment while twisting his body.

Everyone on the streets of the Flower Capital stared in stunned disbelief at the sight.

Kozuki Toki hid in the shadows with her son and daughter, watching Kozuki Oden with worry and sorrow immediately appearing on her face.

Yet the two children in her arms giggled as they watched Kozuki Oden twist his body.

Elsewhere.

Lin Ye's plan succeeded without any surprises.

At first, those who came were not samurai, and their numbers were few.

But in less than half a day, the ninjas became fewer, and the ones arriving were Wano Country's samurai.

The speed at which he swung his sword did not weaken in the slightest. No matter who came, none could halt his advance.

Even those flashy ninjas could not conceal themselves before his Observation Haki.

Still, quite a few miscellaneous ninjutsu traits dropped, though none of them were useful.

Most of them could only be broken down into a single Blank Trait, which showed just how lacking those ninjutsu were.

Although their quality was low, their quantity was enough to make up for it.

Wano Country was a fairly large island, but it was not large to Lin Ye.

Even though he slowed down to give them time to send people after him, he still reached the Flower Capital within a day.

Lin Ye looked at the Flower Capital before him and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Besides harvesting a large number of Blank Traits, he had two other objectives this time.

Two Devil Fruit users.

Kozuki Toki and Kurozumi Orochi.

Both of their Devil Fruit abilities were utterly monstrous.

Kozuki Toki's Devil Fruit ability was related to time. Not only could she travel through time herself, she could even send people twenty years into the future.

Such an ability was simply monstrous.

He just did not know whether it could travel backward in time.

But whether it could or not, Lin Ye would not let this ability go.

A time-based ability would be an enormous gain no matter which aspect of it he obtained.

Even if it merely accelerated his own time, it would still be immensely useful.

The other was Kurozumi Orochi's Yamata no Orochi Fruit ability.

The rest did not matter much. Most importantly, it granted the ability to revive even after being killed.

It was equivalent to having nine lives.

If he could obtain it, it would greatly improve his strength.