"Your body is a bit weak," Rosse walked up to Otohi, looked at the blonde rmaid lying on the shore panting, and couldn't help shaking his head.
"Mm... I was born a bit frail," Otohi lowered her head with a blushing face.
'So humiliating for a rfolk.'
She only swam for half a minute, and her body was already at its limit.
The key point was, it was even seen by Saint Rosse.
"Are you satisfied with this pool?", Looking at Otohi, who didn't dare lift her head, Rosse smiled and sat down beside her, letting his legs hang in the pool.
His Devil Fruit ability was related to seawater, and this seawater was created by his Fruit power.
In the seawater he created, his perception would be maximized.
This seawater was like an extension of his limbs; with Otohi soaking in it, he could clearly feel the full range of tactile sensations brought by the seawater. [T/N: Sus]
The feeling of touching her fishtail wasn't that slippery sensation of fish scales, but rather a tight, fleshy sensation.
Very magical, also very unique, and Rosse quite liked it.
"Back to our previous topic, after hearing the price that man just offered, what are your thoughts?"
One thing at a ti.
Compared to physical contact, Rosse now preferred resonance of body and mind.
Drawing a picture on blank paper into what he wanted, this was currently his favorite thing to do.
"Price, huh...", Otohi raised her head and secretly glanced at Rosse.
She felt Rosse was truly a particularly good person.
Even at this ti, he didn't forget to care about her feelings.
Suppressing the ssy thoughts in her mind, Otohi began to reflect on Rosse's words.
Right now, Rosse was making her face reality. She couldn't keep disappointing Saint Rosse.
After pondering for a long while, Otohi tentatively said, "The price difference is big? Female rfolks are especially expensive?"
"That's the number, but why? One female rfolk is 70 million Berries, enough to buy 700 ordinary people, why is a female rfolk so expensive?", Rosse continued to ask.
"Because they're rare?", Otohi guessed.
Just now, Doflamingo's quoted price had given her a huge shock.
She had just realized that female rfolks were this expensive. No wonder so many pirates and even fish-n would risk everything.
She was a princess of the Ryugu Kingdom, so she knew more than others.
Behind the increased number of rfolk trafficking incidents were often evil deeds by fish-n themselves. Many of them were bullies from Fish-Man District, and it had already beco an industrial chain.
It's just that the source was on the human side. Fish-n themselves didn't need rfolk slaves, so she had always believed that as long as rfolks and fish-n coexisted peacefully, the slave issue could be solved.
But now it seed, that might not be the case.
Even if rfolks coexisted peacefully, rfolks and fish-n would still have people beco slaves.
"Rare? Male rfolks are rare too, so why don't they fetch a price? Isn't a hermaphroditic rfolk even rarer?", Rosse countered.
When it ca to persuading soone with firm beliefs, he basically had no experience and didn't think he could succeed.
But when it ca to refuting soone, to making a pure person doubt life, he was very good at that.
By constantly making soone doubt themselves, one would subconsciously think: You can raise so many questions, so many things I never thought of, then you must be very capable, and what you say must have high credibility.
That was the effect Rosse wanted to achieve.
Besides, everything he said was true, backed by real cases, and there was nothing he couldn't say.
After all, when compared seriously, even if the order he wanted to build was unfair, it was ten thousand tis better than the current "fairness."
Everything could be asured by comparison.
"Then why...", Otohi was confused.
She had already been led in by Rosse. Following his line of thinking, she really couldn't co up with any answer.
"Because female rfolks have a market, and wealthy people have demand for them. And those people are often the ones who control most of the power and wealth in this world."
"Do you know? Just in the Holy Land alone, there are at least over a thousand female rfolks. New rfolks arrive every day, and every day, so rfolks die."
"So many?", Otohi's face turned pale with shock. She couldn't imagine such a massive number.
Although Fish-Man Island had five million fish-n and rfolks, and there were nearly a million rfolks under 30 years old…
But just thinking of over a thousand female rfolks becoming slaves, especially in the Holy Land she had once visited, her heart clenched instantly.
"That's a conservative number. Even in my palace, there are four rfolks, with backgrounds similar to yours, gifts from others," Rosse said blandly, showing no sign of avoiding this topic.
"This...", Otohi suddenly went silent.
She could be sure, Rosse was a good person.
But just like before, she'd overheard the conversation of transport personnel.
After she was captured, she'd be sent to Rosse as a gift for a big shot.
To those villains, female rfolks were like an impressive present that could be casually given away.
Just the thought made Otohi feel suffocated.
Even she had experienced it, let alone other female rfolks.
Thankfully she ended up in Rosse's hands. She didn't even dare to imagine what kind of tragedy would befall the female rfolks who fell into other villains' hands.
"So problems, even if you don't think about them, doesn't an they don't exist," Rosse looked at Otohi. Seeing her tear up again, he showed not a trace of pity.
So emotions, better released early than bottled up.
Between a saint and going dark, what he wanted more was the latter.
"I understand... Thank you, Saint Rosse, for telling all this," Otohi wiped her tears, her emotions extrely low.
As Rosse kept drawing the picture out step by step, she discovered a terrifying truth.
Don't even ntion rfolk survival.
Even among fish-n and rfolks, even among rfolks themselves, there was enormous filth between them.
These contradictions couldn't simply be brushed off by blaming it all on humans as the source.
She could vaguely sense the essence of it all.
Just like her, Neptune liked pearls. Even though she didn't like them, the people below would still enthusiastically gift her pearls.
As long as soone thought female rfolks were truly valuable, there would be soone to catch them, to use them as gifts. Such things were hard to avoid.
Unless...
"Is it possible, through dialogue, to make everyone stop seeing female rfolks as precious gifts?", Otohi raised her head, teary-eyed, and asked with hope.
This was already the most radical thod she could think of.
Force was never an option that appeared in her mind, because that was simply impossible.
Fish-Man Island had no military power, and she couldn't use such extre ans.
"Through dialogue? Then let's do a simulation, let's see if you can convince ?", Rosse raised an eyebrow, looking at Otohi with a half-smile.
If things could be solved with words, then what would we need hands and feet for?
This world is a world ruled by the strong, if you lose the fight, anything you say is wrong.
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