Did You Eat a Silencer or Something? / Underhanded

"Hmm?!"

For the first time, Redfield looked surprised.

A moment ago, he had still been able to read some of the marine's surface thoughts.

But now his Observation Haki felt as though it had stopped working!

He couldn't sense what she was thinking at all!

He had never encountered anything like this in his life.

"Can't read my mind anymore?"

Atlas's mocking laugh reached him right on cue.

You Ate a Silencer, Didn't You?

"Hmm?"

Redfield stared hard at Atlas, then gave a wicked smile. "Never mind. Strange abilities are everywhere on the seas. But—"

He glanced at the brightening sky. "None of them can overcome time!"

Unlike in the original timeline,

Redfield had been released ten years early.

Even so, he could clearly feel the marks the years had left on him, along with the first signs of his strength fading.

That was why he urgently needed to find that Mythical Zoan Fruit.

The miraculous fruit was said to restore youth through drinking blood.

Unfortunately, there was something he didn't know.

To decipher where it was buried, one needed to be able to read Ancient Script!

"Time isn't something a mere Devil Fruit can hold back."

Atlas curled her lip in disdain.

Did he think a Devil Fruit alone could grant him eternal life?

At present, only the Op-Op Fruit could do that, and even then, it cost the user's life.

Even Lady Toki's Time-Time Fruit could only carry her between points in time.

It couldn't protect her from time's effects.

But...

Atlas had the Dog Talisman!

Whenever she wanted, she could gain the power to live forever and never die!

Redfield would probably die of envy if he knew.

Whoosh!

Without warning, Atlas flashed forward, instantly closing in on Redfield and whipping a leg at him.

"If you're