(Vol 3) CHAPTER - 38 { The Secret of Devil's Mind }

*Splash*

Jumping in the sea from the edge of the island, Fenrir swam towards the mountain.

In the calm belt, there were thousands of Sea Kings. Each one larger than the biggest warship that the Navy had.

Yet, Not a single one dared to attack Fenrir in his path to the mountain.

After all, Fenrir was trained to hunt these Sea Kings at a small age by Dram.

As he came ashore, Fenrir stared at the single mountain in front of him which blocked the last sunlight.

"It should be here somewhere."

He started climbing up the mountain, not forgetting to search for the lock in the way.

The sun was about to set when Fenrir reached the top of the mountain.

There was a sole tree separate from others in the middle or center of the mountain.

His eyes looked at the tree trunk, then moved to the key in his hand.

"It's exactly the same!"

Fenrir got near the tree and raised his hand where the key was to the tree trunk.

A similar symbol to the key was engraved on the tree trunk which could perfectly fit the key.

"Finally! Father, I finally found your life's secret!"

Pressing the key into the symbol, Fenrir took a step back and observed.

Nothing happened unlike his imagination.

"Was I wrong? But it should be here?"

Fenrir frowned and inspected the tree, it was extremely ordinary with no special features.

Then did he remember that the tree is the lock and what he needed to do was-

"It's below the lock! Means underground!"

He looked at the spot where the tree's roots and the ground were.

"Ah!"

Grabbing the tree, Fenrir used his strength to pull it off from the ground itself.

His fingers dug in the tree trunks, the ground below broke up as the tree was pulled out.

*Bam*

The entire tree with some soil still tightly gripped on the tree roots was lifted up by Fenrir.

On that soil, was a box like a treasure chest inserted in.

*Boom*

Placing the tree on the ground, Fenrir pulls the box out of the soil between the tree roots.

It wasn't that big. The sun had gone past the sea horizon and night came.

The stars in the sky twinkled and the moon showed half his face.

* * *

In the old and broken house, Fenrir lit a fire and sat down near it.

"What could be inside it?"

He looked at the normal looking box with a lock. Using the key he had, Fenrir opened it.

Inside the box were some documents, a notebook, a device which Fenrir couldn't identify and an Eternal Pose.

The Eternal Pose is an hourglass-like device with only one orb in the middle of the device, and a needle hanging from a wire inside of the orb.

Unlike a Log Pose, which resets its recordings on new islands, an Eternal Pose always points to the same island, no matter how long it stays elsewhere.

"This!"

Fenrir picked the Eternal Pose and looked at the words inscribed on the top.

"Devil's Home."

His eyes twitched as he read it. Fenrir had heard this name before in some meeting with the Fleet Admiral.

"Everyone wants to know where the Devil lives. This here, does it really take to 'that' place?"

Fenrir eyed the Eternal Pose for a while before sighing and keeping it on the floor.

Next were the documents and notebook.

The first document was about Dram, Fenrir read it with his eyes wide open.

"H-He was a secret agent working for the Devil! Impossible! How?"

His hands were shaking while he continued to read further through the documents.

Each one explained and described the plans of Akuma and Dram.

The Ohara incident where the Devil's Pirates took advantage and left with most of the important people and books.

There were also the very old ones, before Akuma was captured by the Alliance.

It also contained information about what the Devil's Pirates did in those one hundred years while Akuma was in prison.

"Everything was planned from the very beginning! It's as if the Devil already knew what was going to happen today!"

Fenrir turned to look at the device, which had a few buttons on the top of it.

"Is it a kind of recorder?"

Seeing the buttons of play, pause, fast forward, etc, Fenrir had a guess.

*Press*

"Hello? Is it Fenrir? If it's you then I am very glad. But I guess since you found it then I must have already died."

The voice was very familiar to Fenrir, how could he not recognize his own father's voice.

"But if it's not Fenrir and someone else, it still doesn't matter. I just hope that you will give all the things found with the recorder to the Fleet Admiral or World Government."

"The Devil is planning something big. Something extremely scary to even imagine!"

The voice turned serious and slightly filled with worry on the top.

"See the notebook. There is some of the very little information I could collect about him and his plans. Remember, those might not be totally correct."

Fenrir picked the notebook and opened it. The first thing he saw was a photo.

A photo of a secret file clicked from a very hidden angle. But not much could be seen as the photo was very blurry.

The pages following showed that in the Devil's Home, there is a way to brainwash people.

And Maba, the servant of the Devil, gives the first touch to the child before the brainwashing.

There's also many artificial creatures created by a scientist called Eisece Hamburg.

Fenrir knew who Hamburg was. He learned it from Dram himself when he was still training to be in the Navy to fight pirates.

"The first part of his plan: Raid the Tree of Knowledge and collect all the maps and important locations."

"Second part: Gather as many pirates as possible after raiding the Tree of Knowledge."

"Third part: Find out the location of the three ancient weapons from the Void century."

"Fourth part: Using them, join all the four seas and the Grand Line into one single ocean."

"Yes, it sounds crazy! But that's what he plans. The Devil wants to destroy any block in his path to joining all the seas!"

"If we think that it's true. Then he ultimately wants to destroy the Red Line!"

Fenrir was shocked, his entire body trembling as he listened to what his late father said in the recorder.

"I don't know much about how and when he plans to do that but when he does, it will definitely not be a small wave. I hope you understand what kind of danger the Devil is."

"Also just to let you know. It won't be wonderful when the Devil's plan is successful."

"Sea Kings, the pirates, terrorist and many others dangerous things will roam the world without any barrier. And the climatic changes which occur daily in the Grand Line, might spread throughout the world."

"That kind of world, it could be called Hell! The real home for the Devil!"