Hansel gave her a reassuring smile and continued, "I'll be fine. Wait for me to come back."
Enel looked at Hansel with disdain and asked mockingly, "You really know?"
Hansel nodded firmly.
Enel vanished again and appeared in front of Hansel, grabbing him by the back of his collar. "Fine. If you dare lie to me, I'll show you what happens to those who deceive a god!"
With that, Enel whisked Hansel away, leaving the dilapidated little wooden house in an instant.
Enel had entered a fairy-tale world called the Candy House.
The story roughly followed the siblings Hansel and Gretel, who were abandoned in a vast forest by their stepmother. Lost, they stumbled upon a witch's candy house, where they were captured and nearly eaten, before finally escaping her clutches through their wits and courage.
Under the normal plot, their poverty would lead the siblings' father to be persuaded by that woman to abandon them in the forest.
But Enel's arrival had electrocuted their father to death before the story even began...
Of course, he had never read Grimm's Fairy Tales and had no idea what situation he was in.
Yet something was strange.
No matter how he wandered through the forest, he could never get out. He kept going in circles.
Now that he had a hostage, Hansel's help actually got him to the seaside in just one afternoon!
Looking at the calm sea before him, he released his Observation Haki. Every fish hidden beneath the surface came into view, and he could even clearly make out the distant fishing boats and the people chatting and laughing aboard them.
Everything seemed peaceful and normal, but to Enel, it was all completely different.
"How is this possible!" Enel's mouth twitched violently. "These people's clothes, the designs of these boats,