Codex Pirates

Chapter 42: Devil Fruit News

After the drunken Ward and his companions came out of the tavern, they went into the alley alone to relieve themselves.

Naturally, the pirate didn't have any sense of public morality, he just unbuttoned his pants like this, hummed a song, swayed from side to side and shot at the base of the wall indiscriminately.

There seemed to be someone looking into the alley, but he couldn't see clearly in the night. Ward caught a glimpse of him out of the corner of his eye, and turned his head and cursed, "Get away!"

As soon as Ward finished speaking, he heard the sound of breaking wind behind his head, and then he didn't know anything.

When Ward regained consciousness again, he was already trapped in a chair with his hands and feet fixed.

He first opened his eyes in some confusion, and all he could see was a piece of mottled wall that had peeled off the skin. Then he looked around and found that he was in an empty room that had been abandoned for an unknown period of time. Oil lamps provide a somewhat dim light.

The four men stood not far in front of him. Because of the backlight, Ward couldn't see these specific looks clearly.

Ward's head was still a little dizzy, especially the back of his head was aching. After struggling twice, he found that his hands and feet were tightly tied to the armrests and legs of the chair with strong belts.

"Who are you?" Ward twisted his body, and the chair he was carrying was also shaking back and forth in place, "Do you know who you are messing with?"

"Oh? Who did we offend?" The tallest man in the middle seemed to ask with interest.

"I'm a pirate under 'Redbeard' Barbarossa!" Ward gritted his teeth.

The tall man who just spoke walked towards Ward. When he got close, Ward realized that the other party was just a young man, probably less than twenty years old. looked into Ward's eyes for a moment, then suddenly smiled.

"Do you think I'm lying?" Ward looked at those blue eyes with a full face, "I don't care who you are, if you don't want to die a miserable death, you'd better let me go!"

"No, what I want to catch is the members of the Redbeard Pirates," the blond young man patted Ward's cheek lightly, making a few crisp sounds, ignoring Ward's increasingly angry expression. , continued, "I laughed because I didn't catch the wrong person."

Ward was furious: "You guys are looking for death...."

Ward hadn't finished speaking when a young man with flaming hair rushed over. This man's temper seemed to be the same as his hair color, and he kicked Ward's chest directly, Ward kicked the whole chair down.

The red-haired young man wanted to hit Ward, but he heard the blond man who first started talking to Ward say to his back without looking back: "Ah Jin, grab him."

These four young people are exactly William, Arkin, Aramis and Edmund.

Ajin stepped forward to grab the vengeful Edmund, and comforted him in a low voice.

William helped up Ward, who was still cursing, and reached out to help him gently pat the dust on the back of his head from the ground.

"This... sir," William paused, and asked politely, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to address you yet? What's your name?"

Ward sneered, turned his head and ignored William's question.

William smiled: "Tough, amazing."

After he finished speaking, he turned his head to Aramis over there, and Edmund, who was calmed down by Ajin.

The two of them understood, stepped forward, left and right, lifted Ward and the chair under him, and placed them horizontally on a large wooden table in the center of the room.

I don’t know where this wooden table was a defective product. One corner of the table leg was a little shorter, which made the table tilted a bit. Ward was laid on the table head to toe, suppressing a trace of fear in his heart, so Tsukuru looked at William and the others with disdain.

"Looking at you, you must be an old pirate. You must be good at water." William took out a cotton cloth from his arms and shook it in front of Ward. "So I invite you to play a little game related to water." game."

William covered Ward's face with a cotton cloth, and at some point, Ah Jin had already picked up a kettle in his hand, and slowly poured water on the cotton cloth.

Some of the cold water fell on Ward's face, which startled him slightly, but when he realized that it was just water, he relaxed a lot.

At this moment, Edmund had already stretched out his hand to fix Ward's head, as expected, but after a while, Ward struggled violently.

Edmund pressed Ward's head with a ferocious face, William slowly took out another cotton cloth from his arms, and covered Ward's face, while Ajin continued to pour water on his mouth.

This kind of criminal law was naturally thought up by William.

In William's previous life, "waterboarding" has not been outdated since its birth in the Middle Ages until his time. This seemingly simple and not terrifying method of torture has been used since the Spanish Inquisition tried heresy, and has been used by the CIA to torture terrorists. Molecules, it can be said that they have really experienced the test of time, can make the tortured people feel the pain of drowning most clearly.

William calculated the time, and then took off the cotton cloth, and Ah Jin stopped in time.

As soon as the cotton cloth was removed, Ward breathed heavily with wide-eyed eyes, and the water remaining in his nasal cavity rushed into his lungs, causing him to cough loudly again.

Ward, who was still very stiff just now, was showing weakness at this time. When Edmund let go of his hands, his head tilted weakly, and he kept panting heavily.

"Can you tell me now?" William asked.

"What, what? Tell you what?" Ward said with a pale face, as if he had agreed to confess.

"wrong answer!"

But when William heard this, he ignored Ward's struggle, covered the cotton cloth again, and made a show of flirting with Ajin, who then picked up a new kettle and started watering.

William silently counted the time in his mind, and after a while, he took off the cotton cloth again.

"Ward, Ward, I, my name is Ward." After the cotton cloth was torn away, Ward couldn't wait to say after breathing fresh air again.

"Very good," William nodded in satisfaction, "How long have you been on the ship of the Redbeard Pirates?"

"Seven months."

"Is there any connection between the Redbeard Pirates and Navia Kingdom, World Government or Navy officials?"

"I-I don't know." Ward replied after a moment of hesitation.

William raised his eyebrows, and Ward shouted in panic when he saw this: "I really don't know! I didn't lie to you!"

William ignored his pleas for mercy, and put on the cotton cloth again, but this time the cotton cloth was removed for a shorter period of time.

"Let me put it another way, do you know that the Redbeard Pirates have 'any' connection with the Navia Kingdom, or officials of the World Government?"

Under the threat of death, Ward's mind turned quickly: "We often anchor in the private port near Kalmar City, and sometimes go to the city to rest, and the guards will not stop the questioning during the process, and there is a man named Crowe on board. of young people..."

William didn't give Ward time to react, and suddenly interrupted: "Tell me about your captain, what is his strength? Where did he come from?"

"What? Me," the original train of thought was suddenly interrupted, Ward's brain was in a mess, and he said incoherently, "I don't know too well."

Worried about being tortured again, he almost didn't think about anything, so he spit out the first message that emerged in his heart: "I only know that he has eaten a devil fruit..."

As soon as the name Devil Fruit came out of Ward's mouth, not only William couldn't hide the surprise on his face, but even Aramis, Arkin and Edmund raised their heads and looked at each other.