Chapter 229: Do you want to join the Don Quixote Pirates?
How terrifying is Diamante’s flying slash?
To be honest, Xia He only had a vague idea about it before.

But after witnessing the collapse of the cave with his own eyes just now, he finally realized how short-sighted his previous knowledge was.

“This guy can’t be viewed with normal eyes…” he thought to himself.

After all, this is the world of One Piece. Diamante, who only had a bounty of more than 30 million Baileys more than a decade before the main storyline began, has become so powerful…

What kind of scene would it be if it were Doflamingo?
I’m afraid that if we just snap our fingers, everyone here will “ascend to heaven” without exception, right?
Swish!
The sound of a knife cutting through the air.

Bits of sword energy were generated on the blade.

However, just before Diamante’s flying slash flew forward…

A huge tree suddenly appeared out of nowhere and fell down from above very abruptly.

“what?!”

Caught off guard, Diamanti immediately changed the trajectory of his sword and swung the blade into the air.

The next moment, the huge tree was chopped into two pieces, and Xia He took advantage of this gap to break free from Diamante’s restraints. The moment he landed, he pulled out a dagger and cut Diamante’s ankle fiercely.

After the last lesson, he now knows very well that the clothes and accessories worn by this guy are all “softened” with extremely hard materials.

This is the ability of the floating fruit, which can “soften” any dead object and disguise it without changing its material.

The blade touched the skin, leaving a little blood.

However, just when Xia He thought he had succeeded with his first strike and was about to take advantage of the situation to strike a second time…

A deep black “substance” suddenly covered Diamante’s ankle, blocking all of Xia He’s subsequent attacks.

As sparks flew out, Xia He couldn’t help but widen his eyes, revealing an expression of astonishment that he hadn’t seen in a long time.

Armament Haki?!

How can it be?

How could a pirate with Armament Haki hide in this tiny North Sea with only a bounty of 35 million?

This damn Don Quixote…

It’s really hidden very deeply.

Xia He’s expression gradually became solemn.

“Little brat, I never thought you really are a Devil Fruit user?”

Glancing at the tree on the ground that he had chopped into two pieces, and then looking at Xia He who was holding a dagger behind him, Diamanti’s smile became brighter, as if he had found some very interesting “toy”.

“Hey kid, what’s your name?”

Without paying any attention to Kedmo and the others, Diamanti turned his back, squatted down, and approached Xia He and asked.

But Xia He did not choose to answer. Instead, he adjusted his posture, ready to swing a second knife at Diamante at any time.

“Okay, it’s okay if you don’t tell me. How about we make a deal?”

Diamante was not angry at all. Instead, he changed his tone and said in a coaxing tone, “Join our Don Quixote Pirates, and I will let the other people in your village go, okay?”

Xia He: “?”

The expression on his face was slightly stunned.

Obviously, he did not expect that Diamanti would suddenly perform such a “drama”.

And at the same time.

“Hey! Let the kid go!”

A young man holding a hatchet approached and shouted loudly. But just as he finished speaking…

Diamante waved his sword without looking back.

A sword energy that was difficult to capture with the naked eye floated over like a spring breeze and took off his head.

Seeing the young man fall to the ground and roll all the way to his head in the weeds, everyone couldn’t help swallowing and were filled with astonishment.

However, in addition to astonishment, anger soon appeared on his face.

“Damn guy…”

“kill him!”

Several young villagers, filled with righteous indignation, picked up their weapons and rushed towards Diamante.

He was about to follow in the footsteps of the young man just now.

But just before Diamante raised the blade again…

“Wait a minute!” Xia He opened his mouth and shouted loudly.

The villagers stopped when they heard this.

Seeing this, Xia He immediately put away the dagger in his hand, and then looked at Diamante: “Is what you just said true?”

“Of course it’s true. As long as you agree to work for our Don Quixote family in the future, I can pretend that what happened today never happened.” Diamanti answered him with a smile.

Join the Don Quixote family and become a pirate…

In fact, Xia He only had two plans from the beginning.

One is to form a chamber of commerce after the body is fully developed, go out to sea to do business, find ways to expand the economy, and develop Roccadilli Island into the richest and most famous island in the North Sea…

One is to join the navy after fully developing physically, and while having a “iron rice bowl”, find ways to get promoted, step by step becoming a big shot in the army, and then rely on the network of personal connections he has built to set up a chamber of commerce in the four seas, the Grand Line, and even the New World to develop his own business…

Choosing the former will allow you to achieve a certain degree of success in a short period of time, but once you grow stronger, you will be targeted by pirate forces from all sides, just like before.

Choosing the latter may not bring success in the short term, but it is relatively safe. Once Xia He really gets a certain position in the army, it will obviously be a great advantage for him to develop business in the future.

However, no matter which one it is, it has nothing to do with joining a pirate group.

He never thought of becoming a pirate from the beginning to the end.

After all, what reason does he have to go and make an enemy of the World Government in this world ruled by the Celestial Dragons?

But now it’s different.

It goes without saying that if he really chose to refuse, not only would all the villagers in Koizumi Village die at the hands of Diamante, but he himself would probably not be able to escape in the end.

So, after hesitating for a moment, Xia He nodded and said, “I agree to join.”

“very good.”

Diamanti nodded with an expression that said “this kid is teachable”.

But then he changed the subject and said, “However, letting them go is one thing, but I still need to give an explanation for the more than 20 brothers who died.”

Xia He: “???”

The voice just fell.

Under Xia He’s astonished gaze, a flying slash flew towards the crowd not far away.

(End of this chapter)