The legacy of Wei Wu!

The dark-skinned female captain appeared, wearing a black headscarf, her arms thicker than Robin's waist.

She pressed a finger to her lips and said with feigned shyness:

"Want to come play in the cabin? My room's pretty big."

Dill frowned and quickly retreated behind Robin.

Even split into eight, this woman would still be more muscular than Robin. He couldn't handle that.

But there was still work to do. They had to leave the harbor as soon as possible.

He raised his head and met the female captain's eyes, activating his long-unused hypnosis ability.

"Do you trust me?"

"Yes, yes, yes!!!"

The female captain nodded frantically.

"I'll believe anything you say!"

That actually made Dill a little unsure of himself.

Was his hypnosis really that effective?

"Then shall we set sail?"

Without the slightest hesitation, the female captain waved her large hand.

"Boys, we're setting sail!"

"But our cargo hasn't..."

"I said, set sail!!"

"Yes!"

The female captain still had plenty of authority. At her command, two more disheveled sailors emerged from the cabin and joined the five sailors on deck to get the ship moving.

They weighed anchor, raised the sails, and turned the helm.

Soon, the ship left the harbor.

Dill stood at the stern, watching the strange Dill Island.

Several frenzied townspeople broke through the blockade and leaped into the sea.

A few ripples spread across the water, and several bubbles burst.

Then everything went still again.

They had drowned.

"Because of the curse and the restricted zone, most of them have never really come into contact with the sea."

"A bunch of landlubbers who can't swim, now scrambling into the sea to die."

"What a cruel sight."

Dill sighed, voiced his feelings, and turned back toward the deck.

He was no great philanthropist. He couldn't go running around the island trying to find a way to save these townspeople.

If he had the ability, he wouldn't mind doing a good deed in passing.

But not now, when he could barely keep himself safe.

"I remember there was lots of gold in the treasury, and branches of Treasure Tree Adam. What a shame. We didn't take any of it."

Robin caught his underlying meaning and rolled her eyes at him.

"Stop thinking about your pocket watch. Just buy another one later."

"What's going on with that woman?"

She meant none other than the female captain, who was currently sneaking glances at them from the side.

Dill rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"He charms the women in the village, enters their homes, and eats all their food."

"What are you talking about?"

"The origin of my ability."

He beckoned Hina over and recounted the legend of the Flame-Swallowing Lord.

He breathed fire, drying out the land and leaving people with nowhere to plant crops;

He charmed the women in the village, entered their homes, and ate the last of their food.

Breathing fire and eating all the food corresponded to fire and eating, respectively.

Dill could sense these two abilities and activate them at will.

"So does charming the women in the village represent a passive boost to charm?"

He lowered his head and asked:

"Do you feel anything special? Like thinking I'm especially handsome?"

Both shook their heads. Hina gave him a strange look and said hesitantly:

"'Women' there specifically means married women. In other words, wives."

Dill: "..."

Why did it have to be married women? My surname isn't Cao.

He pursed his lips and looked at the female captain sneaking glances at them nearby.

"Hey, are you married?"

"Ah, I... yes."

The female captain hastily waved her hands.

"If you mind, I'll go get divorced right now."

"Doru, get over here! I've got something to tell you!"

She strode toward one of the sailors aboard. If Dill wasn't mistaken, he was one of the two disheveled sailors who had emerged from the cabin not long ago.

The private lives aboard this ship really were a mess.

"No need. Come have a heart-to-heart with me."

Dill led the female captain into the cabin, preparing to hypnotize her.

"First of all, Kali Dill is immune to the curse of Devil Fruits. Even if he falls into the sea, he won't suffer any adverse effects!"

"Second, Kali Dill has the ability to breathe underwater."

"Third..."

Gulp-!

Hina swallowed with difficulty, her hand trembling slightly as she pointed at the cabin.

"Could he and she have gone to..."

"What's wrong?"

Robin tilted her head in confusion. Wasn't he just going to hypnotize someone?

Back on Cologne Island, Dill had hypnotized someone every day.

Sometimes it was a gang member with decent combat strength, and sometimes it was the leader of a particular industry.

She was long since used to it.

"N-no, nothing."

Looking at Robin's innocent face, Hina could only wave her hands and pretend nothing was wrong.

Robin was only ten, after all. It was normal for her not to understand such things.

"Ah, my face!"

Robin suddenly startled, covered her face, and hid behind Hina.

The three of them had come in such a hurry that she had forgotten to conceal her face with her ability.

Hina had no bounty, and Dill was maintaining his two-meter-tall beast form. She was the only one who might be exposed.

"Hina, do me a favor!"

"What?"

"Get their Den Den Mushi first. We can't let them report me."

Hina looked around. Intimidated by Dill eating a gun in public and the female captain's favoritism toward him, the seven sailors on deck had no intention of bothering them.

Looking at their dark skin and patched sailor uniforms, she didn't think these people would have a Den Den Mushi.

Still, to be cautious, she gritted her teeth, summoned her courage, and walked up to a sailor, waving her black gun and trying to look fierce.

"Hand over your Den Den Mushi!"

The sailor froze, then looked utterly speechless. Why were all three of them so bad at robbery?

"We don't have anything like that. Only the captain has one on her."

"I suggest you don't go in looking for them right now. They're probably really getting into it."

Hina inwardly sighed in relief, but her cheeks couldn't help reddening.

Her parents had raised her to be a prince's consort, so naturally they had taught her about such matters.

Just as she was agonizing over when to go inside, Robin suddenly grabbed her hand and headed toward the cabin without another word.

"Let's go!"

"W-wait, is it really okay to go in and interrupt them now?"

"What's wrong with it? I've watched plenty of times."

Click~

The two pushed open the cabin door and went inside.

There was a sack of grain and several bunks in the cabin, but nothing else.

Having returned to his height of 1.6 meters, Dill sat cross-legged on the floor, gnawing on a radish as he worked on the hypnosis.

He caught sight of an anxious-looking Robin out of the corner of his eye and said:

"Good. Now close your eyes and imagine that light, free feeling~"

The female captain closed her eyes as instructed.

Dill walked over to the two girls and asked quietly:

"Did something happen outside?"

Robin shook her head, then pointed at her face.

Dill immediately understood. He reached out to rub her head and reassured her:

"Don't worry. Leave it to me."

Just seven sailors. Nothing to fear.

"By the way, Hina, why are you looking at me so strangely?"

Hina hastily waved her hands.

"N-no reason."

"Good, then. You two find somewhere to rest. I'll get back to work."

The hypnosis wasn't finished yet. He had to keep going.

An hour later, the female captain left, leaving only Dill and the two girls in the cabin.

"Look at this. Your bounty's gone up a whole lot."

Robin pulled a bounty poster issued yesterday out of the newspaper.

"Arsonist, Kali Dill. Bounty: one million Beli."

The performance on Cologne Island the day before yesterday had worked. The World Government had finally realized that one thousand Beli was a little ridiculous.

Robin looked a little regretful. She wouldn't be able to tease him using newspapers as a unit of measurement anymore.

Dill, on the other hand, was delighted. One million was no small sum.

Higuma, the king of the mountain bandits with a bounty of eight million, had killed fifty-six people like Shanks.

With his bounty of one million, killing seven Shanks would be no problem for Dill!

Click~

The cabin door opened, and the female captain came in, pulling a sailor along.

At the sight, Dill cleared his throat and looked at the sailor.

"Do you trust me?"

Three hours later, the hypnosis ended.

He couldn't help stretching, an irrepressible smile on his face.

All he could say was that it truly lived up to being a Mythical Zoan.

The passive charm ability saved him time when hypnotizing married women.

An impatient type like the female captain saved him even more time.

Although he received no bonus when hypnotizing men, the abundant stamina granted by a Zoan allowed him to perform high-intensity hypnosis multiple times a day.

With enough food, he could even eat to recover his stamina while hypnotizing people, continuing nonstop all day long.

One person every three hours meant eight a day, two hundred and forty a month, and two thousand eight hundred and eighty a year!

"What are you grinning about?"

Robin waved a hand in front of his face and reminded him:

"We're about to dock. Are we getting off?"

"So soon? Yes, of course we are."

"And once we're off, we're having a big feast!"