Confession, Shattered Understanding

Seeing the siblings' reactions, Xia Luo merely smiled and offered no explanation.

Then, he took them on a tour of the ship.

The Ark Maxim was twice the size of the Dark Dragon Shining Sea, stretching an astonishing hundred-plus meters in length, with an equally astounding width and height.

By the end of the tour, Olvia and Oran's mouths had not closed once.

Finally, Xia Luo brought the siblings before two treasure chests.

Olvia asked, "Xia Luo, what are these?"

"I'm guessing they're gifts for us. Hehe." Oran grinned.

Xia Luo nodded. "That's right, they're gifts for you. Open them and take a look. Oran, the one on the left is yours."

"Huh? Really? We get gifts just for moving?!"

Amid his startled cries, Oran opened the treasure chest on the left.

A strange-looking fruit came into view.

"Is that—a Devil Fruit?!" Olvia exclaimed.

"What? This is a Devil Fruit?" Oran could scarcely believe it.

Then he casually opened the treasure chest on the right. "Sis, yours is a Devil Fruit too!"

Olvia let out a long breath. "Whew... This is far too precious. Put them away, Xia Luo."

"In your hands, they can serve a far greater purpose instead of being wasted on us."

Xia Luo shook his head. "No. I prepared these two fruits specifically for you. They can greatly improve your ability to protect yourselves. Only after you eat them can I rest easy."

"What need is there to protect ourselves at Marine Headquarters? Is there any safer place in the world than Marine Headquarters?"

Clearly, Olvia also believed they were moving to Marine Headquarters.

"I never said we were moving to Marine Headquarters."

At that moment, Xia Luo spoke quietly.

Since things had come to this, he decided to stop hiding it from Olvia and Oran.