The bright sunlight blew a salty sea breeze, and the surrounding vegetation swayed slowly. A few seagulls let out shrill cries and descended from the sky onto the sandy shore to find something to eat.
- Did you hear this guy?!!
However, a sudden scream nearby frightened them, and they flew away in panic, leaving only a few feathers in the air.
Sonic sat on a large rock and looked at the telephone bug in his hand with a sullen face, which continued to mutter:
"This task is an order personally given by those five Your Excellencies. You must give 120%, we must deliver the Gum Gum Fruit to the sacred land of Marijoa without a single mistake. Do you understand me, Sonic?"
It turned out that shortly after the fierce battle at Stone Castle, an emergency order from the World Government once again forced the CP agents who had not yet left the island to rush into work.
Some members of Frank's group were still grateful that they had surrendered in time and survived. However, in the end, they were all mercilessly executed, and no one escaped this fate.
The treasures left behind by Frank Jeff were also loaded onto the ship and carefully sealed.
As one of the commanders of this operation, Sonic naturally received "friendly advice" and high expectations from the CP9 commander.
- Yes, yes, Sir Spandine, I understand you!
Sonic rolled his eyes in irritation, raised his right hand with some irritation, picked his ear with his little finger, and replied casually.
- Do you think I don't hear you denying it? Scoundrel!
Spandine, who was far away in Enis Lobby, gritted his teeth, slammed his fist on the table and growled:
- I'm telling you, boy, this escort is very, very important! If it fails, even you, the best of CP9, won't be able to escape responsibility!
- By the way, Chief Spandine, can I refuse this assignment?
- What?!
Sonic pretended to be pitiful and said:
"Although I'm a little embarrassed, but listen – I seem to have an illness that prevents me from accompanying the Gum Gum Fruit!"
- Really? The sea is really amazing. Such a strange thing... Stop lying! How can such a strange disease exist!
- What a pity that I couldn't convince you.
- Who would believe such nonsense!
…
Sonic shook his head and sighed with resignation. Spandine, who was almost deceived, was so angry that even the phone bug's eyes were spitting anger.
Actually, Spandine was surprised too. It's just a normal Paramecia Devil Fruit. Why is it so important to the Five Elders?
And this Sonic… This is just a normal escort mission. He himself needed to return to the ship in Enis Lobby. It's practically a matter of five minutes. Why is he being so defensive?
However, despite his doubts, Spandine chose the path of comfort in order to reassure his strongest subordinate.
Well…
After a while, Sonic looked at the switched off phone in his hand with a dejected expression and sighed deeply.
He had no good reason to refuse, so he had to accept the task.
Although Spandine hinted that after completing the Five Elders' mission, he would be allowed to transfer to the CP0 department, he was not at all happy.
CP0 is a CIPHER-POL that reports directly to the "World Nobles", the Celestial Dragons. Their main task is to protect the Heavenly Dragons. No matter what they do, they will protect them without any restrictions.
In his life plans, he had no intention of spending the rest of his life in the World Government, much less protecting the Celestial Dragons for the rest of his days.
It should be known that the Celestial Dragons, as the "world nobility", are the privileged class that governs the world government. The descendants of 19 of the 20 kings who founded the world government 800 years ago, call themselves "descendants of the Creator" and enjoy all privileges. If they are offended, the Marine Admiral or CP0 must be immediately dispatched to protect them.
That's why these guys call themselves "descendants of the Creator," consider themselves "gods," and everyone else "mortals." Male Celestial Dragons add "Saint" to their names, and females add "palace."
As Celestial Dragons, they can ignore the law, any behavior they do is considered correct, there are no restrictions on their actions, they treat everyone except Celestial Dragons with serious discrimination and do not consider other people as people. They can make anyone their slave, and the slave will be completely under their power.
Absolute power leads to absolute corruption - as the starfish once said: For many years they (the Celestial Dragons) have abused their privileges!
Although Sonic is not cynical and does not want to change the world, he has no desire to become a lackey of the Celestial Dragons.
Sonic's original plan was to use the World Government as a temporary refuge and training ground where he could gain strength. After he mastered the "Armament Haki" technique, he planned to leave the World Government and seek his dream of "immortality".
After all, in this magnificent magical world, there is a way to gain "immortality" that countless residents of the Blues dream of!
There were no supernatural powers in his home world, and of course, it was impossible for the immortal Reaper to crawl out of the ground and demand money.
If that happened, it would be a clear scam!
But in this world, Sonic knows several ways to achieve "immortality":
- Op-Op Fruit, capable of performing a "rejuvenation operation"!
– A special metal that makes a person immortal is pure gold!
- The medical skills of Dr. Kureha, the "Witch" of Drum Island (she lived to be 141 years old)!
- The rejuvenating elixir of Neiqin, a former ship's doctor from the remnants of Waldo's pirate crew, "Master of Traditional Medicine", which can restore the appearance and state of youth even at 80 years old.
Some say that immortality is torture.
Sonic wants to answer: "Please, torture me!"
Well, it's weird. You're a short-lived species, how can you judge the long-lived ones?
Is immortality torture, let me try it first and then I can tell!
However, plans don't always go as planned. One Rubber Fruit and the mission to escort it completely ruined Sonic's plans.
In the original story, Who's who was on a mission to escort the Gum Gum Fruit. As a result, he was attacked by Red-Haired Shanks' pirates, the fruit was stolen, the mission failed, and Who's who himself was imprisoned.
Now a time traveler named "Baptiste Sonic" has entered the game, introducing unpredictable variables.
Perhaps due to the Butterfly Effect, the ship carrying Sonic and Who's who did not encounter the Red-Haired Shanks Pirates and successfully delivered the Rubber Fruit to the Holy Land of Mariejois, marking the World Government's first successful operation.
This could change the fate of the entire world, preventing Monkey D. Luffy from ever coming into contact with the Rubber Fruit and transforming into the legendary sun god Niku!
But after thinking about it, Sonic decided that this was unlikely.
After all, both the Gum Gum Fruit and Monkey D. Luffy carry the fate of the world. Even if the World Government successfully obtains the fruit, some accident could happen and they will lose it.
He also assumed that at that point in time, the red-haired Shanks was also a person with the destiny of a "protagonist", and everything he did was predetermined by fate. The proof of this was the straw hat he inherited from the "Pirate King" Roger.
In fact, the red-haired Shanks could be an important link between the Rubber Fruit and Monkey D. Luffy, a key part of the established destiny.
The most important thing was that Red-Haired Shanks' pirates were probably hunting for the Gum Gum Fruit, and this caused Sonic great anxiety and confusion!
Although his assumptions were somewhat far-fetched and lacked theoretical basis, they were not impossible.
Sonic knew that with his current strength, he would definitely not be able to defeat the red-haired Shanks and his entire team. The result would be a failure of the mission and the same sad fate that befell Who's who .
But if he didn't meet the Red-Haired Shanks Pirates and successfully completed the mission, then he would have to join CP0 and become a direct subordinate of the Celestial Dragons - something he absolutely did not want.
He couldn't carry out the mission and refuse to join CP0. The World Government's top brass weren't stupid. They would immediately realize that he had other intentions and that he was dissatisfied with the Celestial Dragons. In that case, they would definitely send assassins to eliminate him.
So in the end he had only one option left - to escape early!