16 Chapter 16 - Deal
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After understanding the meaning of the agreement Lepus asked for, Rocinante then asked.
"Why should I trust you?"
Lepus answered.
"You have to. You have no choice but to do that. Because even if you tell your brother about the true me, he'll amused instead. But if I tell your brother about the true you, he'll be furious. You know yourself how cruel he was from the start."
"...."
Rocinante was silent.
Because what Lepus said was true.
Doflamingo even had the heart to kill their own father, so it was not impossible that he had the heart to kill his younger brother too.
After thinking for a while, then Rocinante finally nodded slightly with a bitter face.
"Do I have a choice? .... Fine. I agree."
"Nice for you to understand. And nice to working with you."
Lepus grinned then extended his hand for a handshake in a agreement and Rocinante then shook his hand.
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After shaking hands, Rocinante somewhat hesitantly asked Lepus.
"You.... Did you ate two devil fruits?"
"Hm? Ate two devil fruits? That can't be, right? I'm not that stupid and reckless."
Normally, every person can only ate one devil fruit in their life. Because if a person who already ate a devil fruit ate one again, the eater will die instead. The myth is because the 'Devil' from the fruits will fight each other and resulting in the eater die exploded inside out.
"Then.... How did you... make your body untouchable and also... be able to tear and open this dark space?"
"Oh, that's.... As I said at dinner, I ate a new devil fruit which I later named Kara Kara no Mi. At first, the first thing I could do after eating the devil fruit was that I could remove or made a rock disapper and then bring it back. That's why, I named it Kara-Kara no Mi from the word 'Empty'."
"Remove a stone? But wasn't...."
"Yeah.... As you can see before, I can also hollowed my body and open a space tear. However, those are only part of what the true ability of my devil fruit can do."
"True... ability?"
"Right."
"What ability?"
"Better don't ask.... I'm afraid you won't be able to sleep if I tell you."
Rocinante frowned because Lepus didn't answer.
Then he asked another thing.
"You... Who are you truly? Or where are you from?"
"Don't ask that either.... You'll go crazy if I answer that."
Rocinante frowned even more because Lepus didn't want to be clear about himself.
"What about that little girl?"
Rocinante then asked about Brisa instead.
And this time Lepus choose to answer.
"Brisa? She.... She was abandoned by her mother in the mountains because she was considered useless and only spent food in their barren and poor village."
"That... Really pity."
"Right."
The two of them were silent for a while until Lepus spoke again.
".... Rocinante-san, I trusted you, so I hope you didn't disappoint me. You understand what I mean, right?"
"I know.... And after all, I'm a 'mute' person."
"It's good that you understand.... Our conversation is over. You can leave."
Then Lepus waved his hand to open the gap.
"Ah! Maybe after this we'll never talk to each other again. That's pretty shame actually."
".... Maybe."
Rocinante with a rather regretful face then stepped to out from the gap.
"Wait!"
Just before Rocinante came out, Lepus called out.
"Rocinante-san, you can't tell anyone about everything you saw, happened, and we talked about in this midnight. But..., I'll give you one exception. You can choose to send my little warning to Sengoku later, "I won't disturb, if not disturbed." That's all."
Rocinante frowned at the warning. But in the end he responded.
".... I will remember it."
After Rocinante came out, Lepus closed the tear.
After that, Lepus returned to his room and slept.
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