"Hey, if you don't co out, I'll have soone take care of you too."
Suddenly, just as the battle ended, Zane turned to look at a large tree nearby and shouted with a smile.
"Help !!!"
Chopper, who had been hiding behind the tree peeking, was so scared that his hat flew off. He cried out and turned to run.
As he ran, he transford from a tanuki-like appearance into a reindeer, kicking up a long trail of snow.
"A talking reindeer?"
As Chopper fled, Baby 5 reacted quickly, charging forward aggressively.
However, when she saw that the fugitive was a reindeer, she froze in surprise.
"Just an ability user, nothing to be surprised about."
Zane walked up from behind, wrapping his arm around her waist as they followed the direction of Chopper's escape.
The fifty guards of the hunting team followed closely behind.
A mont later.
Zane arrived in front of a treehouse built within a towering tree.
Obviously, before Wapol had fled, Chopper couldn't possibly live in the castle on the Drum Rockies.
The treehouse before them was Chopper's ho.
*Creak!*
Just as Zane and the others arrived, the door of the treehouse was pushed open from the inside, and a fairly stylish woman stepped out.
Well... her body looked young, but the wrinkles on her face were enough to prove that this fashionably dressed woman was actually an old lady.
"Kid, you're not from Drum Island, are you? What are you doing here?" Kureha stood with one hand on her hip, scanning the group before fixing her gaze on Zane.
'A Three-Eye Tribe mber?'
'I didn't expect any of the Three-Eye Tribe to still be left in this world.'
'Very nice.'
'Life shouldn't wither away like that.'
Discreetly noticing the third eye on the forehead of the man across from her and confirming it was real, Kureha couldn't help but feel a bit happy inside.
Behind her legs was Chopper, who had changed back into his tanuki-like form but was hiding his body the wrong way.
His round eyes looked at Zane and the others with alertness... and curiosity.
"I've co because of your reputation, hoping to invite you both to join my team." Looking at Kureha and Chopper, Zane imdiately stated his purpose with a smile.
"An invitation? Are you pirates?" Kureha raised an eyebrow.
At these words, Chopper's eyes widened behind her, becoming even more curious.
Because of his childhood experiences, he had a great yearning for pirates.
Zane shook his head. "No, strictly speaking, I should be considered a Professional Hunter."
"A Professional Hunter? A Bounty Hunter, then. Whatever, I appreciate the offer, but I have no intention of leaving Drum Island," Kureha said casually.
As a doctor, and especially a top-tier doctor with world-class dical skills.
She had been invited more tis than she could count.
Thus, she wasn't at all surprised by Zane's invitation.
"Is that so? That's a real pity." Zane felt quite regretful.
Although his main target for coming here was Chopper, it would naturally be even better if he could also invite Kureha onto the ship.
Her dical skills could very likely be called the best in the world.
"Then what about this one? Can I invite him?"
After Kureha's refusal, Zane turned his gaze toward Chopper, who was hiding behind her, and pointed.
"?!" Chopper pointed at his own face with a small hoof in utter shock.
Kureha was also slightly taken aback.
She took a deep look at Zane. "You seem to know a lot about us, kid."
If it were just her, being invited wouldn't be strange.
But Chopper was different.
Although he had inherited her dical skills, he had never been known to outsiders.
"Since I made a special trip here, I naturally have so understanding of both of you. Chopper, right? Do you want to go out to sea and see the world outside?" Zane smiled and spoke to Chopper in a tempting tone.
"This..." Recovering from his shock, Chopper was a bit flustered.
'Wanting to see the world outside?'
'If I could, I'd definitely want to.'
'He had a great deal of longing for the outside world.'
'But...'
"I don't want to at all!" Chopper suddenly shouted, then scurried back into the treehouse in a flash.
"Hey, you brat! How dare you yell at our Captain?" Baby 5 wanted to step forward angrily, but Zane imdiately pulled her back.
"There, there. That little guy is just a bit shy." Zane comfortingly patted his beautiful maid's head.
"Bastard! I'm not shy at all!" Chopper's voice ca from inside the treehouse, sounding embarrassed and annoyed.
"Hey, you're from the Three-Eye Tribe, right? Although I haven't been out for a long ti, I know that your tribe's situation is quite dire. I won't allow my adorable disciple to be in danger," Kureha suddenly said.
She looked straight at Zane.
Catching her gaze, Zane imdiately understood her aning.
He suddenly started laughing.
"I've heard that the king of this country is quite a vile person. I assu you won't mind if I make that person disappear?" Zane turned to look at the towering Drum Rockies in the distance.
Kureha raised an eyebrow. "I certainly don't mind. That bad brat Wapol should have disappeared a long ti ago."
'Is he going to use Wapol to prove he can protect Chopper?'
'Fine, if this kid can really do it, then not only can I feel at ease handing Chopper over to him, but this country can also beco a bit more stable.'
"It's snowing. At a ti like this, it should be accompanied by lightning."
Zane watched a crystalline snowflake land on his hand and gave a light chuckle.
CRACKLE!!!
He transford into lightning.
In an instant, a dazzling bolt of thunder streaked across the sky over Drum Island, like a dancing silver dragon.
The brilliant lightning went from the treehouse straight to the distant Drum Rockies, and then in just a single breath, the lightning doubled back from the mountain and landed in front of the treehouse.
"Alright, you should hear the news of this country's king disappearing in a mont." Zane looked at Kureha with a smile, crossing his arms over his chest.
"You... the Rumble-Rumble Fruit?" Kureha looked at Zane in shock.
As soone who had lived over 100 years and was one of the world's top doctors, Kureha's experience was far richer than others.
"That's right!"
Zane nodded slightly and said with a smile, "So, you should believe now that I can protect your disciple properly, right?"
"I didn't expect you to find this long-lost invincible fruit. It seems I was worrying for nothing just now." Kureha quickly cald her emotions and laughed along.
No wonder this kid from the Three-Eye Tribe was so boldly exposing his third eye.
If he was a Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability user, then indeed, not many people could do anything to him.
Similarly, with a Rumble-Rumble Fruit user as a protector, she could feel at ease letting that little guy Chopper go out and explore the world.
.....
After Zane revealed his Rumble-Rumble Fruit ability, the rest naturally went smoothly.
After a heart-to-heart between Kureha and Chopper—this pair of master and disciple, mother and son—Chopper finally clarified his feelings and chose to head out to sea with Zane.
Besides gaining an excellent doctor, Zane also successfully seized the Munch-Munch Fruit.
That's right.
He hadn't just gone to the Drum Rockies to make Wapol disappear; he had also plundered the other's Munch-Munch Fruit ability in the process.
This fruit's power was also one of Zane's objectives for coming to Drum Island.
The Munch-Munch Fruit allows the user to eat any object and transform it into a part of their body.
It can also synthesize eaten objects into new types of alloys and other substances.
One can even change their body by eating themselves.
With its various wonderful uses, it could be said to be quite excellent.
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