Codex Pirates

Chapter 79 Borrowing a Human Head for Use (Part 2)

William waited until a trace of cold sweat began to seep from Felton's forehead before he opened his mouth. He said in a calm and soothing tone: "Why, Felton, my deputy captain, you think I'm on board, and you don't even want to put a boat on it?" Can't you go into the sea?"

William bit the word "deputy captain" a little bit hard, with some sarcasm.

Felton said with difficulty: "The captain said..."

"Oh, 'the captain said'," William smiled, his tone even more sarcasm, "did the captain say that he would let you have a bite of the devil fruit after he brought it back?"

When Felton heard William making fun of him, he gritted his teeth in embarrassment, but at this time William ignored him, turned to the newcomer pirate who was carrying a small wooden bucket, and said loudly without looking back: "You just Follow the captain’s order honestly, stay on the ship obediently, I’m going to have a chat with our captain alone, and talk about the future of our brothers on this ship.”

William put himself and the other members of the ship on the same front, coupled with his previous prestige, the surrounding pirates consciously made way for him.

He threw the barrel containing the spirits onto the boat, and then jumped up, and jumped onto it nimbly.

"Stolt, do you want me to go with you?" Harden asked loudly while leaning on the guard board. He was indeed not afraid of death.

William laughed loudly and said, "Thank you for your kindness, but I'm going to chat with our captain 'alone'."

After William finished speaking, he already shook the oars and drove the boat towards the broken warship of the Swordfish Pirates.

It wasn't until William left that Felton realized that he was afraid. Barbarossa was definitely not a broad-minded person. He didn't know how he would punish himself when he found William disobeyed his orders and he and others failed to stop him.

Angrily, he shouted to everyone on the boat: "If you don't stop Stolt for me, let's see how you explain to the captain when he comes back!"

Felton angrily left with his two cronies, but it's not clear how much of the anger on his face was genuine, and how much of it was faked to clear the air of responsibility.

Harden dismissed Felton's careful thoughts, but frowned slightly and looked worried at the direction William's boat was heading.

The group of pirates watching on the deck gradually dispersed, and the ship doctor Wood looked at the empty deck in a blink of an eye, with a sad face and a low sigh.

Hutchison, the old pirate who brought William to adapt to life on the ship, was standing next to Wood. He and Wood had a good relationship. Hearing the sigh, he took a few sips from the jug and said in relief: "Whoever returns to the ship in the end No one, you don't have to worry about him embarrassing you, you are the only doctor on board."

"I hope so," the ship doctor Wood touched his gradually balding head, "Who do you think can come back alive?"

"I don't know, but I hope it's Stolter," Hutcherson said, "How do we return without the navigator?"

Wood pursed his lips. In fact, he also had similar thoughts. He believed that there were not a few pirates who had left with similar thoughts. No one wanted Barbarossa, who was gradually becoming crazy, to come back.

When William drove the boat to the Swordfish Pirates battleship, there was no one standing on the deck.

The Swordfish Pirates were originally small in number, but after experiencing battles on the great route, accidents across the calm zone, and the abandonment of Selkirk and his confidantes, after a series of reductions, there was nothing left on board. Twenty or so men, the strongest Selkirk was thrown down, and no one on board was a match for Frederick Barbarossa.

The deck was full of blood and corpses. In order to get the devil fruit as soon as possible, "Redbeard" Barbarossa slaughtered the ship. Now the entire ship except William on the bow deck and Barbarossa in the navigator's cabin at the stern , no one is alive anymore.

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On the other side, Barbarossa was in a mess. When his hair and beard were hanged and cut the enemy's body, it was inevitably stained with a lot of blood. He didn't have time to tidy up, so he went straight to the captain's cabin.

As soon as Crusoe threw Selkirk away, he lived in the captain's cabin, and brought the box containing the devil fruit to the captain's cabin to put it there. Barbarossa had already asked the enemy about this point.

The interior of the captain of the Swordfish Pirates is not as luxurious as that of Barbarossa, and the layout is also very different. Although it is equally spacious, it does not have so many luxuries. It is slightly empty, and a large chart is hung in it On one wall, a rough but sturdy desk stood in the corner of the room, on which were piled up many books including the voyage diaries.

Barbarossa has no interest in this now. He quickly scanned the room with one eye, and soon found a small iron box. He quickly took out the key he snatched from Selkirk from his pocket, and stepped forward to open it. box.

Pushing open the heavy box door, a pineapple-shaped fruit covered with strange patterns immediately fell into Barbarossa's sight.

Barbarossa was about to take out the devil fruit when he heard footsteps coming from outside the house. He shook his body, closed the box again, and turned his head to look at the door.

William, who was holding a burning red knife in one hand and a small bucket of spirits in the other, was standing at the door of the captain's cabin, looking coldly at Barbarossa who was squatting on the ground.

"Stolt, I knew you were a restless guy," Barbarossa slowly stood up, his face was surprisingly calm, with no surprises on his face, just baring his teeth and claws in mid-air like a living creature. hair, revealing his true emotions, "Do you want to take this devil fruit?"

William shook his head, the corners of his mouth curled up, trying to show a smile, but after a long period of lurking, all the tricks were exhausted, and finally waiting for the day when he came out, the desire for revenge made his smile a bit ferocious.

"Captain, I want to borrow your head!"

Barbarossa's gaze flicked over the knife in William's hand, and he sneered, "So it's up to you to usurp the throne?"

William had unsealed the cask before, and he didn't reply. After taking two gulps, he suddenly swung the cask towards Barbarossa.

The barrel climbed halfway, and William swung his knife violently!

A red light flashed across the air, and then there was a "boom", the wooden barrel shattered into four pieces, and a handful of flames exploded violently, shining on Barbarossa.

Barbarossa took a step back, the beard on his chin grew wildly, and instantly turned into a furry shield, blocking in front of him.

When the flame hit the shield formed by the hair, it melted like a hot knife cutting butter. Frederick quickly reached out and wiped his chin to make the shield fall off, preventing the fire from spreading like his body.

But at this time, William had already rushed towards him like a whirlwind, and the flames made his face red. When he stabbed over, the burning hair shield turned into countless sparks and splashed in all directions, falling on wooden bookshelves and paper books, and soon and set it on fire.

A splash of sparks landed on William's face, he seemed to have no reaction, and slashed at Barbarossa again.

Barbarossa swung the iron hook with his left hand and hooked William's blade, while his right hand grabbed the handle of the scimitar at his waist, but William twisted and sent the knife, and stabbed him at the shoulder along the hollow of his iron hook.

The hair on Barbarossa's chest and arms grew wildly, and he wanted to bind Da Dao, but when the hair touched the back of the red Dao, a puff of black smoke came out. After a moment of resistance, Da Dao still pierced Barbarossa's shoulder.

"I'm going to kill you!" The pain and anger of being betrayed made Barbarossa's face hideous.

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(About the age of the protagonist William, William was born in 1490 in the Haiyuan calendar, which is 30 years before the story of the original book. The Empress is one year older, two years older than Robin, and thirteen years older than Luffy. Roger was executed and William was eight years old when the era of great pirates began. The timeline was originally planned to be played together after the end of the second volume.)