Usopp, Don't Run—I'll Send You to Horror Island to Train Your Abs

"Why are you running? Long Nose, I can tell you've got extraordinary bones. You're made for great things."

Lei En's devastatingly handsome face looked even more terrifying than a demon from hell in Usopp's eyes right now.

"Waaah—! Don't come any closer!"

Usopp was scared out of his wits and let out an incomparably shrill scream.

He scrambled up from the ground, shouldered the ladder he had dropped in fright long ago, turned around, and tried to run into the village.

"Help! Murder! A pervert wants to capture me for experiments!"

Usopp ran while shouting at the top of his lungs, trying to attract the villagers' attention.

However, Lei En merely stood where he was and curled his lip in utter disdain.

"You want to run?"

He could not even be bothered to make a move to chase him. He simply raised his right hand casually and grabbed at Usopp's retreating back from afar.

"Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Pull!"

"Crackle—!"

A powerful invisible electromagnetic force erupted instantly!

Usopp, who had been fleeing for his life, felt as though an invisible giant hand had seized him tightly, leaving him unable to move in an instant.

The next second, his entire body flew backward out of control. Along with his broken ladder, he was roughly suspended in midair by Lei En.

"Let me go! Let me go! You Great Demon King!"

Like a duck being choked by the neck, Usopp frantically flailed his arms and legs in midair.

In order to survive, he even began desperately inventing illnesses for himself.

"I... I have a terminal illness called 'I'll die the moment I set sail'! Really! I can't leave this village!"

"Oh? Is that so?"

Lei En raised an eyebrow, revealing an exceedingly "kind" smile.

"Perfect. I know a little medicine, and I'm especially skilled at treating all kinds of difficult diseases. For your condition, electrotherapy works best."

The moment Usopp heard the words "electrotherapy," his crying stopped abruptly.

He stared in terror at the blue arcs of electricity dancing at Lei En's fingertips, so frightened that he barely dared breathe.

Lei En shook his head helplessly as he looked at Usopp, who was trembling like a quail.

This guy had inherited Yasopp's top-tier talent for sniping, but his current mouse-like cowardice was simply too pathetic.

However, Lei En knew very well that in the original story, Usopp was an undisputed king of turning things around in desperate situations.

His luck and creativity could, at crucial moments, be even more useful than Zoro's and Sanji's.

A talent like this had to be captured and properly reformed!

"Tch. Too timid, too weak. Other than bragging and running away, you're practically useless."

Lei En dangled Usopp as though inspecting a piece of scrap metal.

"Looks like I'll have to get serious with you."

Lei En snapped his fingers, and a thin bolt of lightning shot into the sky before exploding in midair.

This was his signal for contacting his subordinates.

A few minutes later.

Dadi and Kuina hurried over from the direction of the village entrance.

When they saw Usopp dangling from Lei En's hand and Kuro beside him, dressed in servant's clothes and lying there like a dead dog, neither of them found it particularly strange.

They had nearly become immune to their lord's habit of "picking things up" wherever he went.

"My lord, what are your orders?" Dadi asked respectfully.

Lei En pointed at the still-shivering Usopp and spoke to Dadi.

"Dadi, weren't you once a master marksman at Marine Headquarters?"

"From today onward, this Long Nose will be your disciple."

"Teach him every last bit of your skill, and teach him until it kills him. If you fail to teach him well, I'll hold you accountable."

"Me?" Dadi froze for a moment. He glanced at Usopp, who looked close to wetting himself, and seemed rather troubled.

"My lord, this kid... doesn't look like he's cut out to hold a gun."

"People are forced into shape."

Lei En tossed Usopp to Dadi without further discussion.

Then he pointed toward a deserted island far out in the waters around Syrup Village, one wrapped in thick black poisonous miasma and looking exceptionally gloomy and terrifying.

That island was called the Devil's Nest in the East Blue. Rumor had it that it was filled with massive, savage prehistoric beasts, and even the most vicious pirates did not dare approach it lightly.

"Do you see that island?"

An exceptionally cruel curve appeared on Lei En's lips.

"That will be your new home, Long Nose."

"N-No! Don't!"

The moment Usopp heard that he was going to be thrown into such a hellish place, he began crying outright and clung tightly to Dadi's leg.

"People will die there! They really will die!"

"You won't die."

Lei En snorted coldly.

"I'll have Dadi teach you the most basic survival skills and marksmanship first. Then I'll throw you onto that island alone."

Lei En's gaze turned icy cold.

"The day you can survive on that island by yourself for one month and kill the strongest overlord-class beast on it will be the day you graduate."

"As for now..."

Lei En snatched the still-bawling Usopp from Dadi's hands.

He walked to the edge of the cliff, his arm muscles suddenly swelling as he spun twice in place like an Olympic shot-putter.

"First, I'll let you experience what real wilderness survival means!"

"Off you go!"

"AAAAAAAH—!!!"

Accompanied by an exceptionally miserable scream that tore through the sky!

Usopp's entire body turned into a black meteor, tracing a perfect parabola through the air as he flew with extreme precision toward that horrifying island wrapped in poisonous miasma!

With a bang, he smashed a small crater into the island's beach, then scrambled and rolled into the dense jungle, disappearing from sight.

"Phew... The world is finally quiet."

Lei En dusted off his hands, looked at the distant island, and nodded in satisfaction.

He believed that under the pressure of such extreme survival, Usopp's latent sniping talent and survival instincts, hidden in his bloodline, would definitely be completely awakened.

When that time came, a true "Muscular Sniper King" would be born.

He turned around and stretched lazily as he looked at the utterly stunned Dadi and Kuina, as well as Kuro, who was trembling all over in terror.

"All right, stop standing around."

Lei En rubbed his somewhat empty stomach, anticipation appearing on his face.

"After all that, I'm hungry."

He pointed toward the distant horizon.

"I heard there's a place around these waters called the Baratie, the sea restaurant. The food there is supposed to be pretty good?"

"Let's go have a good meal, and while we're at it, take a look at that curly-browed pervert cook."