"Nami... Kuina! Thank goodness. I finally found you."
After leaving the Killer House, Ye Chen was wandering around with Haydon the gambler when two girls approached from the opposite direction. They were Nami and Kuina.
"Ye Chen..."
Nami broke into an excited smile, ran over to Ye Chen, and leaped into his arms.
"Damn it..."
Chris flew into a rage and smashed his wineglass on the floor. "I didn't think Ye Chen would find his companions so quickly."
Lafite suddenly came in from outside. "Island master, the Dragon Mansion just called. They heard Ye Chen has come to God King Island and want us to use the games to kill him."
"What? Use the games to kill him? How foolish. You should know that even I can't change the rules on a whim. My power lets me set up a game, but once it starts, everyone has to follow the rules."
Chris shook his head. "If I changed the rules whenever I pleased, where would the fun be? A game like that would make me sick. Tell them that if they want Ye Chen dead, they can send someone themselves."
Lafite nodded. He knew that although Chris was obsessed with games, he was a man of principle. Whenever someone completed a challenge by following the rules, Chris was genuinely pleased.
What Chris enjoyed was seeing the ingenuity and fierce will to survive that people displayed when driven into a corner, not merely the bloody aftermath of their failure.
Chris had no wife, children, or other ties, and he had inherited a vast fortune. He had few interests in life beyond tinkering with strange new games.
By chance, he had eaten the Game Devil Fruit. Ideas that had once existed only in his head could now be brought to life at