Heading to North Blue, Baby 5!

"Excellent. From now on, you're my third subordinate!"

Mislanda nodded in satisfaction.

With the contract in place, he felt much more at ease.

Only then did Mislanda take out the Gold-Gold Fruit and place it before Gild Tesoro.

"Eat it. This is the power that belongs to you!"

"Thank you, my lord!"

Gild Tesoro accepted the Gold-Gold Fruit and swallowed it immediately!

"The fruit you ate is the Paramecia Gold-Gold Fruit. As its name suggests, it grants you the ability to control gold!"

"From now on, what you need to do for me is use the Gold-Gold Fruit's power to earn wealth!"

At those words, Gild Tesoro's eyes instantly lit up with excitement.

He had once deeply experienced the pain of having no money!

"Alright, take this money. Use it to make even more money!"

Mislanda took out half of his funds—one billion Berries!

Over the years, Mislanda had done quite a few things. He had raided the treasury of some kingdom and wiped out quite a few pirate crews, so he had amassed no small fortune!

"Also, take these two Devil Fruits with you. You'll need two bodyguards!"

Mislanda handed the Tiger-Tiger Fruit and Bomb-Bomb Fruit to Gild Tesoro as well.

In the original story, Gild Tesoro's subordinates had been far too useless, with practically no combat power. That wouldn't do!

And so, Gild Tesoro set off with Mislanda's orders.

Mislanda believed in Gild Tesoro's abilities. In the future, he would definitely be able to help him control the lifeblood of the economy!

The Golden Emperor!

With a subordinate like that, Mislanda felt like he had hit the jackpot!

After staying at the Sabaody Archipelago for half a day, Mislanda prepared to leave.

"Oh, right. I nearly forgot about this!"

"Ten Thousand Mile Flight—Mastema!"

Whoosh!

The next moment, a pair of enormous wings appeared behind Mislanda. They were covered in sharp feathers, each one capable of being fired out and incredibly sharp!

"Let me see what you can do!"

With that, Mislanda controlled Mastema, flew into the sky, and sped toward North Blue!

The people below only felt a gust of wind sweep past them!

Among the four seas of east, west, south, and north, excluding the Grand Line, North Blue ranked second in terms of chaos.

South Blue was first, North Blue second, West Blue third, and East Blue fourth!

East Blue had not originally been weak. After all, Roger had come from East Blue, and he had single-handedly raised its standing.

But Garp often went back to his hometown!

After all, he still had two grandsons in Foosha Village of East Blue.

After three days of flight, Mislanda crossed the Calm Belt and entered North Blue!

"Alright, I admit it. I was too hasty in dismissing it before!"

Looking at the enormous wings behind him, Mislanda had no choice but to admit how narrow-minded he had been back then!

Ten Thousand Mile Flight—Mastema!

Mislanda had only used it with the attitude of giving it a try, but he had not expected its effects to be this good.

For one thing, its flying speed was far faster than his Dark-Dark Fruit!

And Mastema had no restrictions whatsoever.

Besides that, Mastema's offensive power was not weak either.

Mastema's skill was called God's Feather. The wings on his back would transform into something like light, and its attack method was similar to Kizaru's Yasakani no Magatama!

All things considered, Mastema was not as valuable as Susanoo, but it was about on par with Little B!

Mislanda looked at the enormous wings behind him in satisfaction, then took out a small slip of paper.

A Vivre Card!

And the owner of this Vivre Card was Mislanda's main reason for coming to North Blue!

At that moment, in a mysterious stretch of sea in North Blue, a massive castle was slowly moving forward.

Looking closely, it was no ordinary castle. Beneath it were enormous snails!

The snails continued crawling forward, carrying the castle on their backs as it moved along with them.

This was a kingdom—Germa 66, the famous assassin nation of North Blue!

Someone had even created a comic about this kingdom, and it was quite popular in North Blue.

At that moment, the king of this nation, Vinsmoke Judge, stood atop the castle with a newspaper in his hand!

Looking at Mislanda in the newspaper, Judge could not help recalling the mysterious man who had broken in here over a year ago!

At the time, Judge had been training his clone soldiers when someone silently appeared behind him.

He had fought that person, but he lost!

Although he did not know the other man's name, Judge still vividly remembered that mysterious Devil Fruit ability!

After defeating him, the other man had proposed recruiting him, but Judge had refused on the spot.

Yet the other man had not gotten angry. He had merely said that he would return someday!

"Father, what are you thinking about?!"

Just then, a little girl walked over.

Vinsmoke Reiju, Judge's eldest daughter.

Judge had five children, all genetically modified humans. He had altered them using his own Lineage Factor.

Reiju, Ichiji, Niji, Sanji, and Yonji.

And anyone who knew them well understood that Sanji would become one of the three main combat forces aboard Luffy's ship. But Sanji was already in East Blue now, at the sea restaurant!

"Father, are you thinking about that man from a year ago?"

Judge said nothing. He handed the newspaper in his hand to Reiju and walked into the laboratory.

Aside from being the king of Germa 66, Judge's scientific accomplishments were considerable!

Especially in cloning technology!

After all, he had once worked with Vegapunk!

All of his soldiers were clones—genetically modified clones. They were powerful, absolutely loyal, and absolutely fearless!

All of this was Judge's handiwork!

"Silvers Mislanda!"

"If you want me to become your subordinate, then let's see whether you have the strength!"

On an island in West Blue!

Mislanda sat beside a campfire, looking with great interest at the little girl beside him.

Just moments ago, Mislanda had passed through this place and discovered that there was actually a little girl here.

[Baby 5, Strength Level—Bronze. Defeating her will not grant Strongest Points!]

That was right. This was the obedient little maid, the user of the Arms-Arms Fruit!

If things had developed normally, this little maid would have followed Doflamingo.

But Mislanda had caused the butterfly effect!

Now that the Arms-Arms Fruit was still in Mislanda's hands, it would naturally affect Baby 5's entire life!

"Come here."

Mislanda extended his right hand toward her.

Looking at the hand he held out, Baby 5 seemed somewhat frightened and unwilling to approach.

Seeing this, Mislanda smiled.

He remembered that the way to win over this little maid seemed to be...

"Come on, I need you to come over, okay?"

Need?!

Hearing his words, Baby 5's eyes immediately changed.

Need me? Am I needed?!