A New User of the String-String Fruit

After Lin Nuo's stream of nonsense, Kokoro blushed so hard steam seemed to rise from her head.

She did not dare look at Lin Nuo again. Hugging the sea chart notebook, she turned and ran to the railing, then jumped into the sea with a splash.

"Ha ha ha, you brat."

Whitebeard's booming laughter came from behind him. Carrying a wine jug, he walked over and watched the ripples on the sea with interest.

"Couldn't tell you had such unusual tastes. Merfolk... not bad."

"Not bad, Newgate. From the sound of it, you know quite a lot about Merfolk?"

"I wouldn't say I know much," Whitebeard said, stroking his crescent-shaped mustache.

"But I do like races full of vitality."

As the two chatted.

Ginny suddenly walked over with her hands behind her back, her gaze slightly evasive.

"Ginny, what's wrong?"

"Did Moria pull another prank?"

"No, it's not that, Brother Lin Nuo... Um, there's something I want to tell you." Ginny's voice was very soft.

Lin Nuo temporarily set aside his thoughts, nodded to Whitebeard, and followed Ginny into the cabin.

The moment the cabin door closed, Ginny turned around and carefully took a box from behind her back.

When she opened it, a strangely shaped fruit lay quietly inside. It was the String-String Fruit that had been stored away for so long.

"Brother Lin Nuo, I... I want to eat this." Ginny looked up, her eyes resolute.

"This fruit... I can feel it calling to me! Brother Lin Nuo, let me eat it! I'll work hard to become stronger! I promise!"

Hearing Ginny bring up eating the fruit for a second time, Lin Nuo fell silent.

When he had kept this fruit, he had indeed considered the team's composition.

As a second-line combatant, Ginny truly needed the strength to