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Chapter 190 - Chapter 190: A Promise Across 800 Eras!

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[Sengoku: "Joy Boy?! What's the situation?! The information obtained from the Poneglyphs on Fish-Man Island, doesn't it say that Joy Boy was a person from 800 years ago...?"]

[Tsuru: "That's right, I remember too! Joy Boy made a promise with the Fish-Man Princess 800 years ago, but he couldn't fulfill it..."]

[Nami: "Luffy is Joy Boy. ...?? What does this mean??"]

[Usopp: "Hehehe! Did that giant elephant get senile dementia or something??"]

[Monkey D. Luffy: "I'm Joy Boy? I'm Monkey D. Luffy... ...!!! I'm the man who will become the King of the Pirates!!!"]

[Gol D. Roger: "Hahahaha!!! Luffy... ... since Zunesha said so, it can't be wrong!!! You are Joy Boy!! If you don't believe it, let that five-man secret unit from Mary Geoise explain it!"]

[Edward Newgate: "Actually, haven't the big shots not fully understood yet? Just now, during the Summit War in the white screen video, the World Government directly sent out the Five Elders and the Holy Knights to completely exterminate Luffy!! Didn't everyone clearly not understand what was going on before? Now, think carefully... ..."]

[Shiki: "Motherf***er!!! So that's the reason!!! You guys had been fighting endlessly over there for half a day, so you already knew something, after all!!!"]

[Marcus D. Kaido: "Joy Boy... ... how could Luffy be Joy Boy? Impossible! He must have gotten it wrong! I was outside the delivery room when he was born!!""]

[Gol D. Roger: "Hahaha, Kaido, you fool still haven't figured it out? Joy Boy isn't a specific person's name!! It's a specific 'King's' title!! Just like Poseidon, a Poseidon only appears once every few hundred years among the Fish-Man Princesses! And Joy Boy is the same!!!"]

[Kozuki Oden: "It's clear that '197', since Joy Boy from 800 years ago and the Fish-Man Princess lived in the same era, then it's not a problem if this generation's Joy Boy and Poseidon live in the same era, right?"]

[Basil Hawkins: "So that's how it is... ...!!! Straw Hat Luffy is Joy Boy? Then why him of all people??"]

[Issam Bazuran: "Hmph! So what if he's Joy Boy!!! Isn't Joy Boy from 800 years ago also dead? This generation's Joy Boy won't end well either!!!"]

[Macus Mads: "Don't think that Joy Boy is some sacred title. It's just a title given by people 800 years ago!!!"]

[Rocks D. Xebec: "Finally understood... ...! Old man Five Elders, this Joy Boy is probably not as simple as you say... ...?? Otherwise... ... why would you disregard everything and want to kill him? The more afraid you are of him living in this world, the more it proves his power!!!"]

[Topman Warcury: "Rocks, you're quite smart. What you said is correct. In this era... ... the one named Joy Boy!!! Why does the World Government fear Joy Boy? That's because the appearance of Joy Boy foreshadows the collapse of the World Government! Hahahahaha!!!"]

[Shepherd Ju Peter: "Don't joke around!!! He's just a mere pirate! We want to kill him completely because we don't like this uncontrollable element!! Hahahaha, if you say he has some special identity and mission, hahahaha, that's purely ridiculous!"]

[Akainu: "Nonsense!!! The World Government represents justice. How could it possibly be threatened by a mere pirate!!!"]

["Joy Boy??"]

[Hearing this, Nico Robin's brow slightly furrowed!!!]

[She immediately thought of the content mentioned in that Poneglyph she saw on Fish-Man Island before~~~]

["Joy Boy isn't a person from 800 years ago, is he?" Robin frowned~~~]

["I'm a bit confused too~~~"]

[Luffy frowned, then tried to ask Zunesha in his mind: "What happened here?"]

[Zunesha replied: "That person beside you, he brought a group of pirates before... ..."]

[Zunesha told Luffy what had happened before!]

[Indeed...]

[Just as Luffy had guessed, he could communicate with Zunesha in his mind!]

[Nami: "Wait!!! Before, in the white screen video, it seemed Luffy could only hear Zunesha's voice, but couldn't actively communicate with Zunesha, right?"]

[Vinsmoke Sanji: "That's right! I remember it too! It seems only Momonosuke could talk to Zunesha, and even give Zunesha commands."]

[Trafalgar Law: "The situation with the Straw Hats on both sides is different. Could it be... ... fruit ability awakening...?"]

[Monkey D. Luffy: "My strength on that side is stronger than mine??"]

[Gol D. Roger: "Haha! It's clearly because of the awakening of his Devil Fruit ability! When the Devil Fruit ability hadn't awakened in the white screen video, Luffy on that side reached Zou, but Red Luffy's side has already awakened, that's the difference!"]

[Marcus D. Kaido: "Lord Roger's words make sense! Just now, the moment Red Luffy activated his awakened form, Zunesha reacted... ... It seems the shock was indeed due to the awakening of his Devil Fruit ability!"]

[Nico Robin: "So... ... what exactly is the significant meaning of Luffy's Devil Fruit awakening???"]

[As the only survivor of Ohara, her keen intuition sensed where the problem lay!]

[Upon learning of Jack's brutal actions on Zou, Luffy's heart instantly burned with fury!!!]

[If the other party were just a national enemy, even if their methods were ruthless, Luffy wouldn't have any objection...]

[But... ... Jack brought people to Zou wanting to capture someone. As a result, the people of Zou said they didn't have that person, so Jack directly released poison gas and almost poisoned everyone in Zou, not even sparing the infants!!!]

[This... ... is absolutely deserving of death!!!]

[Thinking of this, Luffy pulled off the gas mask on Jack's face and threw it on the ground, stomping on it with his foot!]

["Ah... ...!!!"]

[Seeing his gas mask gone, Jack's face changed drastically!!!]

[He ignored everything else, turned around, and ran towards the edge of the giant elephant, then leaped off, jumping down...]

[That kind of KK poison gas, even Sengoku praised its terrifying power!!!]

[Jack didn't want to be poisoned to death by his own released poison gas.]

[Jumping off Zunesha's back, Jack breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart.]

[Even if he fell into the ocean, because his body was a fish-man, he wouldn't drown. He just had to wait for his subordinates to fish him out of the sea...]

[But he hadn't been happy for two seconds when a large hand suddenly descended from the sky and grabbed him, pulling him back... ...!!!]

[Luffy pressed Jack onto Zunesha's back, his palm wrapped in Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki, and twisted hard!!!]

["Snap!!——"]

[Jack's neck was instantly twisted!!!]

[However... ... as a Devil Fruit user of an ancient zoan type, Jack wasn't so easily killed~~~]

[He groaned in pain, lying on the ground seemingly unable to move~~~]

["Buggy, condense all the poison gas in the air and pour it all into his mouth!!!"]

[Luffy pointed at Jack with icy cold eyes, ordering.]

["Okay!"]

[Buggy didn't ask why. He knew Luffy must have a good reason for doing this...!!!]

[Buggy first extended a finger to touch the poison gas in the air in front~~~]

[Under Nami's Slip-Slip protection, Buggy's hand immediately slipped off when it touched the poison gas, and it didn't cause any harm to Buggy...]

[But at the same time, Buggy's Devil Fruit ability took effect on the touched poison gas!!!]

["Good! Looks like there's no difficulty!"]

[After trying it, Buggy gained confidence, so he activated his Devil Fruit ability~~~]

["Chop-Chop Festival!!——"]

[His body instantly split into 1000 pieces of different sizes~~~]

[Then, Buggy looked at Nami: "Nami!~~~"]

[Nami activated her Devil Fruit ability, covering all 1000 pieces of "Buggy fragments" with a slippery protective film!!!]

[The next moment~~~]

[Buggy's 1000 fragments flew out rapidly, quickly gathering in the air in front...]

[As long as it touched the poison gas that triggered the Chop-Chop Fruit's effect, it all quickly gathered towards the same position in the sky~~~]

[For a moment, it was like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea. Countless pieces of poison gas continuously poured into a single poison gas ball in the sky.]

[The poison gas ball rapidly spun, condensing and growing larger!!!]

[Not long after, all the poison gas in this area was swept away~~~]

[That poison gas ball continuously condensed and gathered under Buggy's control...]

[Even with the naked eye, one could clearly see how terrifyingly dense this poison gas ball was!!!]

["Go!"]

[Buggy waved his large hand~~~]

[This poison gas ball immediately flew to Jack's face, then a stream of poison gas branched off and drilled into Jack's mouth...]

["Ah! No... ...!!! Ugh... ..."]

[Seeing so much poison gas directly force its way into his mouth, Jack cried out in horror.]

[However, he hadn't even had time to say a complete sentence...]

[Gulp gulp gulp gulp~~~]

[The rolling poison gas made him unable to speak~~~]

[As the poison gas entered, its toxicity quickly became apparent!!!]

[Jack's entire body turned pale, like weathered limestone, looking incomparably gaunt.]

["Good enough. Bring him along. Let him purify the air here."]

[Luffy said, looking at the half-dead Jack.]

[At this moment, Robin said: "Luffy, just now Zunesha said you are Joy Boy! Does this giant elephant know something?"]

["I just asked it. It kept emphasizing that it was a prisoner... ...!!! But it seems it can only perform some simple communication, and it doesn't seem to know much..." Luffy explained.]

["Is that so..." Robin fell into thought.]

[Luffy thought for a moment, then said: "Actually, if I think about it carefully, I can understand what this giant elephant means. Joy Boy should not be a single person's name, but a title similar to 'Poseidon' or 'Sea God.' Just like Shirahoshi is Poseidon... ... and there was also a Poseidon 800 years ago..."]

["What you said makes a lot of sense! I think so too." Robin nodded.]## Chapter 190: A Promise Across 800 Eras!

[Sengoku: "Joy Boy?! What's the situation?! The information obtained from the Poneglyphs on Fish-Man Island, doesn't it say that Joy Boy was a person from 800 years ago...?"]

[Tsuru: "That's right, I remember too! Joy Boy made a promise with the Fish-Man Princess 800 years ago, but he couldn't fulfill it..."]

[Nami: "Luffy is Joy Boy. ...?? What does this mean??"]

[Usopp: "Hehehe! Did that giant elephant get senile dementia or something??"]

[Monkey D. Luffy: "I'm Joy Boy? I'm Monkey D. Luffy... ...!!! I'm the man who will become the King of the Pirates!!!"]

[Gol D. Roger: "Hahahaha!!! Luffy... ... since Zunesha said so, it can't be wrong!!! You are Joy Boy!! If you don't believe it, let that five-man secret unit from Mary Geoise explain it!"]

[Edward Newgate: "Actually, haven't the big shots not fully understood yet? Just now, during the Summit War in the white screen video, the World Government directly sent out the Five Elders and the Holy Knights to completely exterminate Luffy!! Didn't everyone clearly not understand what was going on before? Now, think carefully... ..."]

[Shiki: "Motherf***er!!! So that's the reason!!! You guys had been fighting endlessly over there for half a day, so you already knew something, after all!!!"]

[Marcus D. Kaido: "Joy Boy... ... how could Luffy be Joy Boy? Impossible! He must have gotten it wrong! I was outside the delivery room when he was born!!""]

[Gol D. Roger: "Hahaha, Kaido, you fool still haven't figured it out? Joy Boy isn't a specific person's name!! It's a specific 'King's' title!! Just like Poseidon, a Poseidon only appears once every few hundred years among the Fish-Man Princesses! And Joy Boy is the same!!!"]

[Kozuki Oden: "It's clear that '197', since Joy Boy from 800 years ago and the Fish-Man Princess lived in the same era, then it's not a problem if this generation's Joy Boy and Poseidon live in the same era, right?"]

[Basil Hawkins: "So that's how it is... ...!!! Straw Hat Luffy is Joy Boy? Then why him of all people??"]

[Issam Bazuran: "Hmph! So what if he's Joy Boy!!! Isn't Joy Boy from 800 years ago also dead? This generation's Joy Boy won't end well either!!!"]

[Macus Mads: "Don't think that Joy Boy is some sacred title. It's just a title given by people 800 years ago!!!"]

[Rocks D. Xebec: "Finally understood... ...! Old man Five Elders, this Joy Boy is probably not as simple as you say... ...?? Otherwise... ... why would you disregard everything and want to kill him? The more afraid you are of him living in this world, the more it proves his power!!!"]

[Topman Warcury: "Rocks, you're quite smart. What you said is correct. In this era... ... the one named Joy Boy!!! Why does the World Government fear Joy Boy? That's because the appearance of Joy Boy foreshadows the collapse of the World Government! Hahahahaha!!!"]

[Shepherd Ju Peter: "Don't joke around!!! He's just a mere pirate! We want to kill him completely because we don't like this uncontrollable element!! Hahahaha, if you say he has some special identity and mission, hahahaha, that's purely ridiculous!"]

[Akainu: "Nonsense!!! The World Government represents justice. How could it possibly be threatened by a mere pirate!!!"]

["Joy Boy??"]

[Hearing this, Nico Robin's brow slightly furrowed!!!]

[She immediately thought of the content mentioned in that Poneglyph she saw on Fish-Man Island before~~~]

["Joy Boy isn't a person from 800 years ago, is he?" Robin frowned~~~]

["I'm a bit confused too~~~"]

[Luffy frowned, then tried to ask Zunesha in his mind: "What happened here?"]

[Zunesha replied: "That person beside you, he brought a group of pirates before... ..."]

[Zunesha told Luffy what had happened before!]

[Indeed...]

[Just as Luffy had guessed, he could communicate with Zunesha in his mind!]

[Nami: "Wait!!! Before, in the white screen video, it seemed Luffy could only hear Zunesha's voice, but couldn't actively communicate with Zunesha, right?"]

[Vinsmoke Sanji: "That's right! I remember it too! It seems only Momonosuke could talk to Zunesha, and even give Zunesha commands."]

[Trafalgar Law: "The situation with the Straw Hats on both sides is different. Could it be... ... fruit ability awakening...?"]

[Monkey D. Luffy: "My strength on that side is stronger than mine??"]

[Gol D. Roger: "Haha! It's clearly because of the awakening of his Devil Fruit ability! When the Devil Fruit ability hadn't awakened in the white screen video, Luffy on that side reached Zou, but Red Luffy's side has already awakened, that's the difference!"]

[Marcus D. Kaido: "Lord Roger's words make sense! Just now, the moment Red Luffy activated his awakened form, Zunesha reacted... ... It seems the shock was indeed due to the awakening of his Devil Fruit ability!"]

[Nico Robin: "So... ... what exactly is the significant meaning of Luffy's Devil Fruit awakening???"]

[As the only survivor of Ohara, her keen intuition sensed where the problem lay!]

[Upon learning of Jack's brutal actions on Zou, Luffy's heart instantly burned with fury!!!]

[If the other party were just a national enemy, even if their methods were ruthless, Luffy wouldn't have any objection...]

[But... ... Jack brought people to Zou wanting to capture someone. As a result, the people of Zou said they didn't have that person, so Jack directly released poison gas and almost poisoned everyone in Zou, not even sparing the infants!!!]

[This... ... is absolutely deserving of death!!!]

[Thinking of this, Luffy pulled off the gas mask on Jack's face and threw it on the ground, stomping on it with his foot!]

["Ah! No... ...!!! Ugh... ..."]

[Seeing his gas mask gone, Jack's face changed drastically!!!]

[He ignored everything else, turned around, and ran towards the edge of the giant elephant, then leaped off, jumping down...]

[That kind of KK poison gas, even Sengoku praised its terrifying power!!!]

[Jack didn't want to be poisoned to death by his own released poison gas.]

[Jumping off Zunesha's back, Jack breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart.]

[Even if he fell into the ocean, because his body was a fish-man, he wouldn't drown. He just had to wait for his subordinates to fish him out of the sea...]

[But he hadn't been happy for two seconds when a large hand suddenly descended from the sky and grabbed him, pulling him back... ...!!!]

[Luffy pressed Jack onto Zunesha's back, his palm wrapped in Armament Haki and Conqueror's Haki, and twisted hard!!!]

["Snap!!——"]

[Jack's neck was instantly twisted!!!]

[However... ... as a Devil Fruit user of an ancient zoan type, Jack wasn't so easily killed~~~]

[He groaned in pain, lying on the ground seemingly unable to move~~~]

["Buggy, condense all the poison gas in the air and pour it all into his mouth!!!"]

[Luffy pointed at Jack with icy cold eyes, ordering.]

["Okay!"]

[Buggy didn't ask why. He knew Luffy must have a good reason for doing this...!!!]

[Buggy first extended a finger to touch the poison gas in the air in front~~~]

[Under Nami's Slip-Slip protection, Buggy's hand immediately slipped off when it touched the poison gas, and it didn't cause any harm to Buggy...]

[But at the same time, Buggy's Devil Fruit ability took effect on the touched poison gas!!!]

["Good! Looks like there's no difficulty!"]

[After trying it, Buggy gained confidence, so he activated his Devil Fruit ability~~~]

["Chop-Chop Festival!!——"]

[His body instantly split into 1000 pieces of different sizes~~~]

[Then, Buggy looked at Nami: "Nami!~~~"]

[Nami activated her Devil Fruit ability, covering all 1000 pieces of "Buggy fragments" with a slippery protective film!!!]

[The next moment~~~]

[Buggy's 1000 fragments flew out rapidly, quickly gathering in the air in front...]

[As long as it touched the poison gas that triggered the Chop-Chop Fruit's effect, it all quickly gathered towards the same position in the sky~~~]

[For a moment, it was like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea. Countless pieces of poison gas continuously poured into a single poison gas ball in the sky.]

[The poison gas ball rapidly spun, condensing and growing larger!!!]

[Not long after, all the poison gas in this area was swept away~~~]

[That poison gas ball continuously condensed and gathered under Buggy's control...]

[Even with the naked eye, one could clearly see how terrifyingly dense this poison gas ball was!!!]

["Go!"]

[Buggy waved his large hand~~~]

[This poison gas ball immediately flew to Jack's face, then a stream of poison gas branched off and drilled into Jack's mouth...]

["Ah! No... ...!!! Ugh... ..."]

[Seeing so much poison gas directly force its way into his mouth, Jack cried out in horror.]

[However, he hadn't even had time to say a complete sentence...]

[Gulp gulp gulp gulp~~~]

[The rolling poison gas made him unable to speak~~~]

[As the poison gas entered, its toxicity quickly became apparent!!!]

[Jack's entire body turned pale, like weathered limestone, looking incomparably gaunt.]

["Good enough. Bring him along. Let him purify the air here."]

[Luffy said, looking at the half-dead Jack.]

[At this moment, Robin said: "Luffy, just now Zunesha said you are Joy Boy! Does this giant elephant know something?"]

["I just asked it. It kept emphasizing that it was a prisoner... ...!!! But it seems it can only perform some simple communication, and it doesn't seem to know much..." Luffy explained.]

["Is that so..." Robin fell into thought.]

[Luffy thought for a moment, then said: "Actually, if I think about it carefully, I can understand what this giant elephant means. Joy Boy should not be a single person's name, but a title similar to 'Poseidon' or 'Sea God.' Just like Shirahoshi is Poseidon... ... and there was also a Poseidon 800 years ago..."]

["What you said makes a lot of sense! I think so too." Robin nodded.]

"And, don't you think it's very interesting? The Poneglyph we saw on Fish-Man Island before, it said that 800 years ago, Joy Boy made a promise to the Fish-Man Princess of that time, promising to let Fish-Man Island live under true sunlight, and also to take the Fish-Man Princess for a walk in a true forest..."

"And now, if Zunesha isn't lying to me, then it's equivalent to... me, this 'Joy Boy,' taking Shirahoshi, this 'Poseidon,' for a walk in a true forest! It's like fulfilling a promise from 800 years ago, spanning time and space!"

Luffy chuckled~~~

Although he felt what he said was a bit mystical, if he thought about it carefully, it really did seem to be the case...

"Luffy-oniichan, do you mean we have some kind of mission on us...?" Shirahoshi asked timidly.

During this time spent with the Straw Hat Pirates, Shirahoshi's timid nature had improved somewhat. At the same time, she also learned of her identity as 'Poseidon'...

"Yes, that's right~~~"

Luffy nodded with a smile and continued, "If it was just based on the content of the Poneglyph and Zunesha's call, I might not be so certain... But connecting it to why the World Government suddenly issued an order to kill me during the Summit War... the answer seems very obvious~~~"

"The answer you're talking about is...?" A eager light to know the truth appeared on Robin's face~~~

The other companions also looked over.

Luffy analyzed: "The moment I used my Devil Fruit awakening ability just now, this giant elephant trembled, and then began to actively contact me!!!"

"And before, when we set out to sea, we were already wanted very early on. At that time, our pirate crew's strength wasn't very great, but the World Government didn't send anyone to kill me..."

"It wasn't until the Summit War that the World Government seemingly suddenly decided to kill me without mercy!!! So, if you think about it carefully, my Devil Fruit awakening ability also happened to be exposed to the World Government's view during the Summit War..."

"So... if I'm not mistaken, the meaning represented by my Devil Fruit in its awakened state is these four words: Joy Boy!!!"

Hiss... 2.7...!!

When Red Luffy's analysis was displayed before everyone's eyes, the observers collectively gasped in cold air~~~

What is a monster?

This is a monster!!!

Possessing such powerful talent, and willing to put in effort that matches that talent... And at the same time possessing such terrifying wisdom!!

If you're not Joy Boy, who else could be?

Sengoku: "That Red Luffy actually connected all the clues together in such a short amount of time, and deduced the truth...! Truly amazing!"

Tsuru: "Clearly, his analysis is logical and well-founded!!! There's no need to doubt... this must be the factual truth!!!"

Silvers Rayleigh: "Joy Boy has appeared..."

As the sole survivor of the Lunarian race, Yan Calamity had once hoped to meet the legendary Joy Boy, hoping that Joy Boy could change the world~~~

However... for a long time, he had always regarded Kaido as Joy Boy!!!

Later, when Kaido was no longer at his peak, he also began to wonder if Kaido was still Joy Boy...

He only hoped that Kaido could change the world and create a new world!

Watching the true Joy Boy appear... Yan Calamity felt a little bitter~~~

Because even if the true Joy Boy appeared, it was impossible for him to follow Joy Boy...

Now, he only recognized Kaido!

Gol D. Roger: "Hahahahaha!!! Those five old geezers from Mary Geoise still won't admit it!! Now you see it, right... Red Luffy figured it out himself!!!"

Edward Newgate: "Gurararara...!!! Joy Boy, the awakened form of the Gum-Gum Fruit, this is what the World Government fears!!! "

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