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"Hahahaha..."
Beltz couldn't help but laugh happily seeing Liltotto like this.
In fact, while Devil Fruits taste terrible, it's rare for someone to react as exaggeratedly as she did.
It was mainly because Liltotto had gone in with the mindset of eating a delicacy, but instead of a delicacy, she ended up eating crap.
The contrast was so great that she couldn't stop herself from vomiting.
"What is this thing?!"
Liltotto couldn't help but say, "It actually tastes worse than a Hollow!"
"Devil Fruits just taste awful, but your reaction is way too exaggerated," Beltz said with a laugh.
"When I ate it back then, I didn't end up like you!"
"Shut up!" Liltotto snapped as she recovered, looking a bit dazed.
"You guy didn't even warn me beforehand! Were you trying to kill me?"
"But... I never said this thing tasted good either," Beltz said with an innocent look.
"Besides, I only took a small bite back then. I didn't expect you to take such a huge bite all at once."
"Damn it, I'm going to kill you!" With fire in her eyes, Liltotto lunged straight at Beltz.
Beltz quickly dodged. Caught off guard, the former plunged straight into the seawater.
"Ah... what's going on..."
As soon as Liltotto's body was submerged in the seawater, she instantly became powerless!
"Did you poison me?!"
"Ah!" Beltz quickly scooped Liltotto out of the seawater and carried her away from it.
"Sorry, I forgot to mention that Devil Fruits have a weakness: you can't soak in seawater."
By then, Liltotto had recovered. She broke free from Beltz's embrace and glared at him furiously.
"Why didn't you say such an important thing sooner?!"
"Actually, this is just a rule of this world. I don't know if our world is the same; I haven't tried it yet."
"...This weakness is way too fatal."
"It's actually okay. As long as more than half of your body isn't submerged in seawater, you'll be fine. You just need to be more careful usually."
"Fine, I've already eaten it, so I won't press the matter," Liltotto sighed.
Then she pressed her hands together and created a circular mirror in the center.
As soon as the mirror reflected him, a mirror clone of Beltz appeared in the next moment.
This Beltz was exactly the same as Beltz himself!
Beltz had no scars, so the mirror image's left-right symmetry was very difficult to recognize.
Liltotto carefully examined this mirror Beltz.
"It seems... there really isn't any problem."
"Of course there's no problem."
The two Beltz said almost simultaneously.
Ignoring his own mirror clone, Beltz continued speaking to Liltotto: "So, when the time comes, you can create mirror avatars of us to stay in the Empire and pose as us, while the real us enter this world."
"Will we really not be discovered?"
"Normally, they shouldn't be discovered in the short term..." Beltz didn't dare to give a guarantee.
After all, the people in the Sternritter had strange abilities, strange personalities, and strange ways of doing things, and there were several with very keen insight.
"There are two types of mirror avatars: one is turning other creatures or people into our likeness, and the other is generating mirror avatars out of thin air."
Liltotto then spoke, thinking of the Mirror-Mirror Fruit's ability information that had surfaced in her mind: "Generally speaking, it's best if we train two decoys and then use the Mirror-Mirror Fruit's ability to disguise them as us."
"This way, it won't just be easier for me, but the disguise will also be more convincing."
"If we create avatars directly out of thin air, it's not impossible, but it consumes too much stamina. And because they are like duckweed without roots, their combat capability would be severely weakened."
"..." Beltz nodded upon hearing this and said, "We won't be gone for too long anyway, so we can still use them even without decoys. It's enough to just have them disguise themselves as us for a short time."
"As for flaws... well, Askin!" Beltz suddenly thought of that man and said:
"As long as the mirror avatars don't appear in front of that guy Askin, there shouldn't be any issues."
Askin Nakk Le Vaar—that guy's insight is too sharp.
He was given the nickname 'Little Aizen'.
Beltz himself would be fine; after all, Askin had never seen him in the past and wasn't familiar with him at all. As long as the mirror clone didn't fight in front of him and they didn't have close contact, he shouldn't be able to discover anything.
But Liltotto is a Sternritter, and she would inevitably meet Askin. If he saw her clone, he might be able to see through it.
"It's not that exaggerated; I haven't met Askin that often either." Liltotto retracted Beltz's mirror clone and then reflected herself in the mirror, creating her own mirror clone.
Another Liltotto appeared beside her, looking at Beltz alongside her.
"Hmm... it really is similar; I can't tell them apart at all," the mirror clone said, turning to look at her original self.
"That's supposed to be my line," Liltotto's mouth twitched.
The mirror clone's mouth moved at that moment, and in the next instant, her mouth grew long and extended outward.
"The abilities can be used too."
"This way, it's foolproof."
"That's still my line!" The original Liltotto immediately retracted the mirror clone.
"Alright, we need to go somewhere next. I'll introduce this world to you on the way." Seeing that Liltotto was free, Beltz transformed into the Azure Dragon and gestured for her to get on.
"Riding a dragon? This is my first time."
Feeling a bit of novelty, Liltotto climbed onto Beltz's back and stood there, touching his dragon scales.
"You must restrain yourself; don't think about eating me."
Beltz gave a reminder, then created Flame Clouds again. After lifting that piece of land, he flew toward the South Blue.
While flying, he introduced some information about this world to Liltotto.
Including pirates, the World Government, the Marines, Devil Fruits, Haki, etc... By the time he had told Liltotto the general situation of One Piece, he had already found the location of the Red Line.
That majestic and massive continent divided the entire world, and now it lay prostrate beneath him.
As long as they crossed this continent, they could reach the South Blue.
"So this is... the Red Line..."
Sitting on Beltz's back, Liltotto also saw the Red Line below and couldn't help but say:
"This world... is really huge."
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