Journey to Amazon Lily

"All right, what are you thinking about?" Yota lightly tapped Charlotte Pudding on the head.

"If I really were the kind of person who only cared about profit, would you feel safe staying by my side? Aren’t you afraid I might sell you off someday?"

"I wouldn’t get sold!" Charlotte Pudding stuck out her tongue. "I was just saying. It’s not like I really wanted to steal their Golden Bell."

"By the way, Captain, now that you’ve obtained the Rumble-Rumble Fruit, where are we going next?"

Yota narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment. "Amazon Lily. I remember there should be two Snake-Snake Fruit users there."

"Amazon Lily, the territory of Shichibukai Boa Hancock?" Charlotte Pudding asked.

"Could it be that you want to go see the world’s most beautiful woman too, Captain?"

As for the title Pirate Empress, the Big Mom Pirates, where Charlotte Pudding had grown up, had never acknowledged it. In their eyes, there was only one female emperor in the entire Pirate World: Charlotte Linlin.

That was why Charlotte Pudding had developed the habit of never referring to Boa Hancock as an empress.

Yota rolled his eyes. "Seriously, there are so many people with face blindness in this world. How exactly did Boa Hancock become the world’s most beautiful woman?"

In fact, not only were there many people with face blindness in the One Piece World, their tastes were all over the place too.

Just think of Charlotte Linlin’s husbands. They came from every imaginable race, and Big Mom had never minded in the slightest.

Then there were Big Mom’s daughters. Some were indeed beautiful, but quite a few looked bizarre as well. Yet even they could find true love. That alone showed just how varied the tastes of people in the One Piece World truly were.

And yet, even so, every man and woman in the world unanimously acknowledged Boa Hancock as the most beautiful woman. Yota could not help finding that strange. Since when had these people’s standards of beauty become so united?

"Well, I’m not really sure either. But she is indeed very pretty." Yota’s question stumped Charlotte Pudding. After pondering for a long while, she could only answer helplessly.

Could it be the effect of the Love-Love Fruit? Yota wondered uncertainly.

Yota’s overthinking was not without reason. Boa Hancock’s Love-Love Fruit was simply too overpowered. Who knew whether he could withstand it?

If the Love-Love Fruit’s abilities truly were the main reason behind Boa Hancock’s charm, then that would actually be good news. Everyone knew that while Devil Fruits could be absurdly powerful, the more absurd an ability was, the greater its cost and the more conditions it required.

If it really was the Love-Love Fruit’s effect, then as long as one’s Haki was strong enough, it should be possible to weaken Boa Hancock’s Devil Fruit abilities.

But if Boa Hancock’s own charm was the dominant factor and the Love-Love Fruit merely served as support, then the chances of her Devil Fruit abilities being weakened by Haki would be much lower.

People in the One Piece World were naturally simple-minded and single-track. Some were extremely lustful, while others were not particularly sensitive to women, and there were even quite a few gender-bending Newkama. Yet even so, when facing Boa Hancock, most of them were fated to be petrified.

As for someone like Yota, whose thoughts were complicated and whose resistance to female beauty could only be called average, if he truly faced Hancock and her Devil Fruit abilities could not be weakened by Haki, then he really might capsize in a gutter!

As for whether he would come into conflict with Boa Hancock… based on Yota’s understanding of her, a clash between them was practically 100% certain.

After all, she was so narcissistic that there was something wrong with her head. Yota did not think he could possibly see eye to eye with her.

Her two younger sisters probably did not care much about their Snake-Snake Fruits anyway. After all, the Celestial Dragons had forced those fruits down their throats purely for amusement. Hancock had been lucky enough to eat the Love-Love Fruit, but the Snake-Snake Fruits eaten by her sisters could not be considered particularly powerful Devil Fruits.

Under normal circumstances, if Yota wanted to extract their Devil Fruits, Hancock’s two sisters might actually be willing.

Of course, Yota did not think normal circumstances would happen. Amazon Lily was a den of thieves to begin with, and Hancock was even more unhinged. A fight breaking out would be the most normal outcome.

Amazon Lily lay within the Calm Belt, making it nearly impossible to find through ordinary means.

Of course, black technology ran rampant in the Pirate World. The Calm Belt could only stop ordinary sailing ships. What was truly terrifying was the vast number of Sea Kings beneath it.

However, after their trip to Sky Island, Yota’s Azure Dragon had been modified using equipment dismantled from Enel’s Golden Ark.

The reason Enel had built his ark entirely out of gold was purely for the sake of grandeur. In reality, aside from certain internal circuits and electrical transmission devices that required metal, the outer shell could have been made of wood.

After dismantling the Golden Ark’s internal motors and propellers, Yota installed them on his Azure Dragon. As a result, the Azure Dragon could now fly.

Although this method of flight still required Yota to supply electricity, at least he no longer had to haul the ship around every day.

In the sky, Violet scanned the surroundings and continuously directed the ship forward. Since gaining her extraordinary range of vision, Yota’s group had never used a Log Pose.

This time was no exception. No Log Pose pointed toward Amazon Lily, and they only knew its rough direction. But with Violet’s eyes, even a rough direction was enough to easily locate Amazon Lily.

"That should be Amazon Lily over there, right?"

Looking at the distant island, Yota spoke.

"That’s right, it is." Violet nodded. "But I don’t see Hancock or her two sisters there!"

"That’s normal. Everyone on Amazon Lily is a warrior, and as the Amazon Lily Queen, what Hancock does most often is head elsewhere to raid."

"Come to think of it, among the Shichibukai, Hancock is the only one who counts as a traditional pirate."

Crocodile had gone off to seize a country. Doflamingo went without saying—he was the King of Dressrosa and also the ruler of the underworld.

Tyrant Kuma was with the Revolutionary Army while also serving as Vegapunk’s test subject. Jinbe was the representative of the fish-men. Hawkeye wandered alone and merely enjoyed challenging strong opponents.

None of them did something as low-class as raiding. The Shichibukai privilege of being allowed to plunder freely meant nothing to them.

Only Moria and Hancock truly engaged in piracy at sea. Even Moria merely preyed on other pirates, robbing pirates. Hancock was the only one who even raided merchant ships.