The Great Nosense

"Keep shooting Rolondo!" Stasky yelled as he smashed with his fists all the poisonous bugs that came near him and Rolondo

"I am trying! But there's a lot of tree bothering and the bullets are not infinite!

Focus on killing the fucking bugs!" Answered Rolondo, who was headshotting the huge beasts that were chasing them every time he had a 99% chance of killing them with only one shot.

"Stop yelling! You are hurting my ears!" Yelled Lerna, that due to having so many heads he felt all that noise amplified

"And you're melting our nostrils!" Rolondo and Stasky yelled at the same time, who had been making superhuman efforts not to vomit.

A few seconds ago a horde of dangerous animals completely surrounded them.

Hundreds of bears and wolves, thousands of poisonous snakes, tens of thousands of wasps attacked them relentlessly from all directions relentlessly.

Lerna didn't have much trouble fighting off the hordes of beasts. His scales and resistance to venom made him almost immune to the attack of wasps and snakes, his powerful venom was capable of killing the powerful and giant bears with a single bite and his powerful muscles and seamanship kept the wolves at bay.

However, not all of them were like him... the incessant attack of the beasts horde once again reduced by half until only Lerna, Stasky and Rolondo survived.

The two pirates with bounty were quite competent and protected each other well despite being from different pirate crews, but like Lerna he was beginning to show signs of fatigue and in their case any mistake could mean death.

For this reason, in order not to see his Fred hunting party further reduced, Lerna transformed into his full animal form, carried the survivors on his back and y ran to the highest area of the forest to escape from those beasts

Beasts that hunted them no matter where they ran or how many they killed!

"FOR GOD'S SAKE! HOW MANY DANGEROUS ANIMALS THERE ARE IN THIS FOREST!?

I'VE KILLED HUNDREDS ALREADY AND THEY KEEP APPEARING FROM ALL DIRECTIONS!" Yelled Rolondo, who mounted on top of Lerna was shooting at the dozens of bears and wolves that were chasing them after their escape.

"I don't know! But this doesn't make sense! We have entered this forest hundreds of times to hunt and we have never come across anything like this!

And how did Fred brainwashed all the beast to attack us?" Yelled Lerna, who seemed to be swimming upstream in a sea of wild boars charging toward them en masse. There were so many of them and charged with such violence that even with his multiple snake heads and the powerful constitution of a humanoid hydra Lerna was having problems to resist

"People don't call him [Beast Tamer] for nothing.

There are rumours that he's able to talk to animals as if they were people, he probably convinced them

Although I wouldn't be surprised if he had also sprayed us with something that would make them attack us in this way" Stasky said, offering information to his less informed companions as he keep protecting them from the insects that harassed them.

"WHAT AN ANNOYING GUY!" Lerna yelled with one of his heads as the others keep killing and launching boars into the air to advance, hopefully to a place with no beasts trying to kill them.

CRASH!

PLOM!

And for the umpteenth time in this chase, Lerna fell into one of the many traps that Fred had set up throughout the forest. Something that slowed their flight, made things easier for the wild animals that besieged them and made him crush sharp objects that tested the endurance of his scales every time.

"Are you alright Lerna!?" Asked Stasky, who was also trying to take care of the boars that were charging at them while his biological vehicle tried to get out of the deep hole in which he had fallen

An incredibly deep hole even for the huge body of the Hydra Lerna, which was dug in a way that was extremely difficult to get out of.

"Yes, I'm fine, but...

FUCK! HOW HAS HE BEEN ABLE TO PREPARE ALL THESE TRAPS IN SO LITTLE TIME!?

It hasn't even been forty minutes since I bit his arm!" Said Lerna, who despite suffering even now from the siege of hundreds of beasts managed to get out of that hole full of beasts and sharp bamboo, run again and...

CRASH!

PLOM!

Falling back into another similar trap a few meters away...

"FUCK! THIS ONE HAD SHARP STONES!" Lerna yelled again as he tried to escape from this other hole, lamenting his injuries as he got rid of the beasts that kept attacking him.

Although his physique and scales were very resistant, they weren't invulnerable. As he was a hard stone subjected to the constant erosion of the water, Lerna accumulated small wounds that became bigger and deeper with the attack of each beast and with the fall into each of the traps.

Except for his heads, which could regenerate, the rest of his body had accumulated many scars, especially his belly, legs and hands hands which had taken the brunt by falling into the deep holes with sharp objects inside. There were many slivers of bamboo and stones among the snake scales about to fall, while others were stuck directly into its flesh along with the teeth and stingers of poisonous animals.

Wounds that began to hurt more with each passing second, to him, to Stasky and to Rolondo...

"Yeah, even for that freak it shouldn't be possible to prepare all of this in such a short time…

The only explanation I can find is that he came to this island days ago and prepared all this without anyone noticing...

[Dark Mind] is always described in the press as someone extremely meticulous who always has contingency plans in case one fails…" Said Stasky, who could only come to this conclusion after experiencing all this nonsense

A quite logical conclusion at the same time as creepy that made Lerna reach another conclusion

"I have underestimated that demon child..." Lerna reflected as he made his way with their heads between the stampede of wild boars, bears and brave bulls that tested his resistance and patience at every second

"And I still don't see him!

Where's he watching over us from!?" Yelled Rolondo [The Sniper], that no matter how much he searched in all directions, it was impossible for him to find any trace of Fred.

It was more than obvious that Fred wanted them to spend their energy fighting endless hordes of animals and absurdly elaborate traps with an unknown activation mechanism. However, it seemed illogical to them that they hadn't found any trace of that kid, who seemed to have turned into a forest ghost.

And this frustration grew and grew with each failure and wound they accumulated...

CRASH!

PLOM!

Especially for Lerna, who had gotten tired of falling and getting out of holes while dozens of animals hit him from all angles.

I don't know where he is, but...

WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE HIM FUCK OUT!

COVER ME!" Lerna yelled extremely angrily as he turned into his hybrid form, leaving Stasky and Rolondo on the ground.

Lerna stopped running towards the top of the small mountain in the center of the forest, instead he brandished his long spear... which for some reason, like his clothes, got bigger when he transformed... and started cutting down the trees around him like a madman again.

SLASH!!

Using practically all his strength, Lerna brandished his spear, creating a burst of cutting energy that cut the trees in front of him and with his heads bit and poisoned the beasts that tried to interrupt his deforestation plan

"GET OUT ONCE YOU SON OF A BITCH! I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"

None had any doubt that Fred was watching them, waiting for the right moment when they were too tired and injured to fight and then he would show himself to finish them off to claim their heads and avenge his arm.

"FUCKING TREES! FUCKING TREES!"

And the only places where he could hide and at the same time observe them were the innumerable trees that made up that forest, which seemed to have become a death trap for them, as the now-dead greatest pessimists warned before entering and dying

"Where!? Where is!?

WHERE THE HELL IS HE!?" Lerna yelled, who after several minutes of killing beasts and cutting down trees still couldn't see his hated teenage enemy.

In front of him he only saw cut trees and another horde of mangy beasts that covered all the trees that he still had to cut down to leave without hideout the second being he had come to hate the most in his life.

And behind him...

"Lerna...

Stop cutting down trees and help us around here...

More keep coming

This doesn't seem to have an end ... " Stasky said, who extremely exhausted and with his fists full of insect remains, beast blood and his own blood, kept hitting the horde of animals that came out of the trees

For minutes they had been lightening Lerna's load by protecting his back while he felled trees, but neither he nor Rolondo could endure by themselves any longer

"Grjjh...

I'M COMING!" Shouted Lerna, who stopped wasting his time and energy with the trees to focus on the animals despite knowing that this was what Fred wanted

In the treeless area, where they could see their enemies arriving with nothing to obstruct them, back to back the three pirates fought fiercely against the beasts.

"LET'S STAND TOGETHER! DON'T RUN! IT'S WHAT FRED SURELY EXPECTS!"

The three of them were super men capable of killing bears, wild boars and wolves like that without much trouble, but that absurd amount made everything more complicated, after all only Lerna had area attacks and they were attacked from all sides.

"COME ON! THEY'RE JUST FUCKING BRAINLESS ANIMALS! AFTER WE'LL EAT THEM ON THE GRILL!"

On top of that they had to face thousands of hard to kill and defend small flying poisonous insects, as well as poisonous snakes and even anacondas that took advantage of any opportunity to bite their leg or restrict their movements and strangle them to death.

Something that made it very difficult for them to attack the larger beasts correctly...

"BE CAREFUL WITH YOUR LEG! FUCK LET ME GO! THEY BITTED ME IN THE NECK!"

And not only that, they were all in a state of constant paranoia in which they looked everywhere in search of Fred, who would surely jump on their necks in any moment

"DON'T FALL! KEEP FIGHTING! THERE'S LITTLE LEFT!"

No matter how many millions were offered for their head, being in a situation like that was incredibly stressful for any living being

"WHEN WILL THIS END!? WHERE DID SO MANY ANIMALS COME FROM?! THIS FOREST ISN'T SO BIG TO HAVE SO MANY PREDATORS!"

Until in the end, after shedding a lot of blood, sweat and tears, that horde of beasts finally ceased, giving a small moment of rest to the tired and injured pirates who were beginning to regret many of the decisions they had made in their lives.

"Fuck...

I hope our Akuma No Mi sells for a very good price..." Stasky said as he bandaged his wounds, ripped the stingers out of his skin, sucked the poison from his ankles and prayed that all this would end soon.

Everyone, including Lerna, tried to tend to their own wounds and get new energy in fear that another horde of thousands of beasts would attack them shortly. However, no matter how much they tried to rest, none of them could do it as if they had severe case post-traumatic stress.

The chances that something or someone could assault them in the precise moment they let their guard down for even a second were so high that they didn't even sit down to rest. All of them were still on their feet, looking in all directions in search of the next threat for their lives

However, unlike his companions, after not finding anything among the trees, Rolondo locked up at the clouds "This...

Stasky...

You said that Fred can talk to animals as if they were humans right?"

A question that Stasky had no problem answering with another question "Why you ask?"

"Is it just me or...

Has that bird never left us at all?" Rolondo replied with another question, witout take his eyes off the sky

A night sky partially covered by clouds and illuminated by a large full moon that revealed the silhouette of a large bird circling around the area that Lerna had deforested.

Precisely the area where they were resting right now!

PAM!

Despite being extremely short of ammunition and not having expressly consulted with his leader, Rolondo followed his intuition and shot the only animal that hadn't attacked them until now, but that had been following them from the beginning

Plom!

To check if there was something out of place with that peaceful beast, the three pirates To check if there was something out of place with that peaceful beast, the three pirates ran to the area where the bird fell and upon seeing it they noticed something unusual...

"This hawk...

What..."

On the body of the falcon in front of them was equipped with a small necklace, proof that he had been trained by a human. But in addition, that necklace emitted from one of its strange decorations a slight hum and sound that they were able to hear better after removing it and bringing it closer to their ears.

"Captain McNugget!

Answer, please! What has happened to you!"

Although they didn't know exactly how, the three were able to hear the voice that belonged to Fred, their most hated enemy at the time, something that confirmed Rolondo's suspicions and made the rest understand what had just happened.

"That son of a bitch...

He has been spying on us with that bird the whole time!?" Lerna yelled, finally understanding why it was impossible for them to find Fred no matter how much he cleared the forest.

It was thanks to that hawk that Fred was able to run this entire operation without following them personally!

And that scream also made Fred understand what had happened to his loyal friend, even though he still hoped he in the wrong "You!

What happened to my hawk!?"

"The same thing that will happen to you when I sink my fangs into your head!" Mr. Lerna said with excessive fury and coldness as he transformed into his hybrid form out of pure killing intent.

Finally, after accumulating so much hatred and killing intent, Lerna was able to discharge all those negative emotions precisely with the person who had generated them in the first place, even if it was only by Den Den Mushi

Such great killing intent that even Rolondo and Staksy, who shared the same hatred and motivations, felt even fear only by staying near him.

However...

"...

...

You are dead"

That oppression caused by Lerna's bloodlust paled before Fred's telephonic sentence, which left Staksy and Rolondo shivering, even before realizing something very scary

'If that guy has managed to leave us in this situation without having to intervene directly…

What the hell is he capable to do when he gets totally serious with us?'

A terrifying revelation that added to his extreme exhaustion and emotional stress almost broke his fighting spirit and he lost his hopes of surviving tonight.

"Good, good, GOOOOD!

Now that the son of a bitch is blind he has no choice but to come to us personally.

FINALLY!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Lerna screamed with bloodshot eyes as if he was possessed by an evil entity whose sole purpose in life was slaughter.

A scream that made the two pirates remember something...

Fred may be a monster in human skin, but he was injured and Lerna was a true monster who had more than demonstrated his infamy in a the most dangerous sea in the world

They weren't totally lost yet, though their chances of survival... at least theirs... seemed dwindling.

"Yeah... we've provoked him too well

He seemed to love this bird...

He ha ha... ha..." Staksy said, trying to appear optimistic just like Lerna... but it was extremely difficult lie to himself so much...

"Lerna

Could you use some of your many heads to help me move these logs?

I'll improvise some shields to avoid his ranged attacks.

They…will be useful…for everyone…" Said Rolondo, that due to being low on ammunition began to use all his neurons to find ways to survive every possible second

"Good idea, but don't take too long, we don't know when he will be able to arrive..." Lerna responded, ripping off his head again to multiply them and thus help Rolondo prepare for battle

And while he was carrying out construction and surveillance work, one of its many elongated heads happened to look at the horizon and realized that the sky was taking on certain warm tones.

Something that surprised the pirate captain a lot...

He didn't know exactly how long he had been fighting to the death in that forest, but he believed that not enough to see the sunrise now

Therefore, after abandoning that extremely improbable possibility, the only feasible possibility to explain the phenomenon he was witnessing appeared in his mind "Wait a minute…

That's fire..."

"It just can't be...

That son of a bitch started a large-scale fire!?

Is he not afraid of burning himself to death along with us?" Rolondo shouted, who still didn't see the flames, but seeing the state of the sky he could only come to the same conclusion as Lerna

However, the conclusion Stasky had come to was even more disturbing. "Have you thought for a moment…

What if... that son of a bitch isn't in the woods with us?

Maybe he hasn't been in a while..."

A disturbing conclusion that everyone immediately believed to be true.

"Shit..."

However, they couldn't just listen to their intuition, which had failed them badly today.

They had to check it out!

For this reason, Lerna took a Den Den Mushi from one of his pockets to contact the men who had been watching the base "GUYS! IT'S FRED! IT MAY BE IN THERE! BE..."

"Too late...

I've already taken care of them, since a long time ago...

Now it's your turn" Fred replied with the same coldness and cruelty as before while he destroyed the Den Den Mushi that he stole

And with this call the trio of pirates confirmed their worst suspicions...

They had been dancing on the palm of the enemy's hand from the beginning!

Fred hadn't been directing the operation inside the woods, but at a safe distance to avoid been detected

HE HAD BEEN CONTROLLING EVERYTHING BEING OUTSIDE THE WOODS!

Nothing...

Everything they had done since they entered that forest of death had been for nothing!

"FUCK! HE HAS PLAYED US!

WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO BASE BEFORE THE FIRE GETS HERE!" Lerna yelled, quickly transforming into full animal form to flee like some minutes ago

Following the captain's instructions, the two collaborators climbed on his dragonic back as they did before to flee from the beasts and in the same way they tried to see what could be the best route to reach their destination in the shortest time possible taking minimal risks

However, when looking around to find that route to escape from the fire that sooner or later would reach them, they noticed an unusual fact...

"Hang on a minute...

Where are all the animals we have killed?"

Although no one kept count, it wasn't an exaggeration to say that thousands of beasts had been killed since they entered the forest, and their corpses were scattered and piled everywhere.

In fact, in the area where they were now a few moments ago, they came to accumulate corpses in such quantity that they could barely see the trees in certain parts of the forest and practically couldn't walk without stepping on one...

However, now that they weren't there, they had vanished as if by magic!

Instead...

"What is..." Said Lerna, who raised one of his reptilian hands to better analyze the thick substance that had stained his extremity.

A strange, extremely viscous liquid was spread all over the floor, which he couldn't analyze in much detail, since...

FRRRJJJ!!!

In an instant the fire that a few moments ago seemed to be distant spread through it with great speed, burning his hands impregnated with that liquid in the process "AAAAHHGJJ!!!

FUCK!!!"

The fire that until now seemed to be relatively far from that area spread like the COVID-19 in its early days through that highly flammable liquid that seemed to have spread everywhere without anyone noticing how.

"HOW COULD THE FIRE SPREAD SO FAST!?

IT'S A HUGE FOREST AND THERE'S BARELY WIND! HOW MUCH FUEL HAVE HE USED!?" Lerna yelled completely confused and out of place as he advanced through the flames, the toxic smoke and endured the pain he felt when he stepped on something that looked like boiling oil.

Everything had become so surreal… too surreal and horrible for him!

They were completely surrounded by the flames and they barely found holes to escape without burning themselves towards the river, the safest place in their minds

It almost seemed that nothing could make this situation worse anymore...

"But what..." The three pirates sighed at the same time when they saw the umpteenth disconcerting fact of the day

Above their heads they saw a ginormous swarm moths, so huge that practically blotted out the moon above them. An unusual and even disgusting fact, but not terrifying for them considering that until recently they had faced swarms of bees as large or larger than this one

However, all that changed when the moths, following their suicidal instinct, flew towards the fire.

FRJJJJJJ!!! BOOMM!!! FRJJJJJJ!!! BOOMM!!!

When they made contact with the flames these flames became incredibly more violent, expanding faster and even generating explosions, making this flight towards the river much more tortuous and dangerous.

"FUCK! WHAT ARE THOSE MOTHS MADE OF!?" Stasky yelled as he covered his face with his precious arms, arms that kept accumulating burns with each moth that crashed into the flames near them.

"I DON'T KNOW, BUT DON'T TOUCH THEM DIRECTLY!

HIT THEM WITH A STICK OR SOMETHING IF THEY COME CLOSE!" Lerna yelled with total desperation, which with his heads tried to kill the moths near them, move the burning trees out of their way and generate enough wind to dissipate the flames even slightly

However, no matter how hard he tried, the fire was almost everywhere!

However, he also couldn't stand still in the few areas without fire and wait for them to end up being consumed as well.

He had to run with all his might, even if it meant running through the flames to get out of here! Accumulating hundreds of burns was much better than being burned to death or suffocated by the fumes produced by the fire!

Once they managed to dive into the river, even though he couldn't swim due to his Akuma No Mi and had to be carried by Stasky or Rolondo, his survival could be more than assured.

And almost... he could almost see the river on the other side of that sea of flames...

He only had to run a few more meters to...

CRASH!

PLOM!

Fall into another trap...

A huge trap that ran along the entire coastline of the river, with a depth of fifteen meters and a length of thirty meters that instead of containing sharp bamboo and poisonous animals inside like the previous one...

¡Was plagued with fire ants that began to bite them, inject acid inside their wounds and devour them as soon as they fell!

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" Rolondo yelled, unable to bear the pain he was feeling.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

HELP!!!" Stasky yelled before sinking into that sea of killer ants.

"THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

THIS CANNOT BE HAPPENING!

AAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Lerna screamed, screaming in pain and sinking just like their companions as thousands of ants entered his multiple mouths to eat him from the inside out.

Rolondo, Stasky and Lerna fled from the fire despite suffering severe burns only to fall into a river of fire ants, where they would meet an even more horrifying and agonizing end than the one they intended to escape from

PLASH! PLASH! PLASH!

Everyone except Mr. Lerna, who thanks to his absurd survival capacity granted by his Mythical Zoan, was able to swim to the bottom of that infernal river and return to the surface.

"YOUHHHHH!!

FUCK! FUCK! FUCKEEEEEEEEERRRRR!!!!

PUAJJJJJ!! PUAHHH!!!"

When he managed to get out much more injured than before, without looking back to see if he could rescue Stasky and Rolondo, the first thing he did was spit out the ants that were preventing him from breathing

And then, with a little more air in their brains…

SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!

He tore off the damaged heads where ants were still trying to climb down to devour his stomach from the inside out and...

FRRRRJJJJJJJJJJ

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

FRRRRJJJJJJJJJJ

He threw himself into the fire to get rid of the ants that were attached to his body and that continued to torture him even after leaving the pit.

"That's... absurd..." Lerna sighed, who half dead ran for his life towards the river

He ran in despair, tired, wounded, furious, disgusted and surrounded by flames and pursued by fire ants, which came out of the pit in which they had been contained to devour him.

And when Lerna finally managed to reach the river, which was a few meters from that ditch of hell...

"It just can't be...

Even here..."

What he saw was an army of crocodiles and huge anacondas waiting for him...

It was as if the entire ecosystem of the island where he established his base of operations was conspiring in the most surreal way possible to kill him!

Fire everywhere, fire ants getting closer to his back and crocodiles and anacondas guarding the only place free from the flames in which he also couldn't dive without help for being an Akuma No Mi user.

"NO! I WON'T DIE! HERE!!!

AAAHHHH!!!!" Lerna yelled furiously as he charged with his spear towards the army of beasts that blocked his way to the end of the river, the safest way out at that moment.

And after several minutes of fighting, cutting the bodies of the reptiles that were in his way, kill the killer ants that were climbing up his body throwing them the fire...

"FINALLY!!"

After several minutes in which Lerna almost fainted several times due to accumulated exhaustion, lacking oxygen and only having carbon dioxide in that infernal environment...

"FINALLY!!"

After several minutes in which he had to endure the pain of his incessant burns, the stings of ants in his growing wounds, the constrictions of anacondas and the tearing bites of crocodiles

"FINALLY!!

I'M OUT OF..."

BOOMMM!!! BOOMMM!!! BOOMMM!!!

Upon reaching the exit of the forest, he found a huge ditch that wasn't there before and on the other side of that ditch many of his men who began to shoot him with cannons and submachine guns as soon as he came out through the trees

"Come on guys!

Keep shooting!" Fred commanded the pirates whom he [convinced] with his Pact Magic, to fight to the death against their captain

BOOMMM!!! BOOMMM!!! BOOMMM!!!

An all-out attack in which the filler pirates were forced to empty all the remaining artillery on the island against their captain

The drop that filled the glass...

"YOU... YOU...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

YOU ARE DEAD!!!" Lerna yelled as he finally saw the face of his hated enemy, whom he hated exponentially more right now before leaving the forest

An excessive fury that motivated him to run towards his hated enemy and traitorous subordinates despite having to tank all the cannonballs and shots with his wounded body.

BOOMMM!!! BOOMMM!!! BOOMMM!!!

And once he got to the end of the pit, ignorant of how deep it might be or what might lie below, he jumped at Fred not caring if he could jump that far!

And above all...

BOOMMM!!! BOOMMM!!! BOOMMM!!!

Ignoring that Fred had prepared three cannons to shoot them at the precise moment Lerna tried to jump, to make him fall into the pit...

Crah! Crash!

Fortunately for Lerna, as he fell, one of his extensible heads was able to grab onto the wall and later to do so with the rest of his body.

"Fuck...

It's climbing!" Shouted one of the filler pirates when he saw that tireless pursuer who was coming for them, at whom they couldn't shoot with the cannons due to the bad angle

"Use the boiling oil, stupids!" Fred yelled, that despite not being able to prepare the cannons to fire down in the time he had, he did prepare a loooooot of burning oil to use it in this scenario

FRRRRRRRRRAJJJJJJJJJJ!!!

However, that boiling oil failed to stop that dangerous creature in berserker state!

He kept going up despite the pain he felt and without looking down to see how the bottom of that well was engulfed in flames after the fall of that oil

A pit that was previously filled with combustible material and into which Lerna refused to fall

PAM! PAM! PAM! PAM!

"SHIT!" The filler pirates shouted despair after realizing the nothing they did to stop Lerna worked.

Neither the oil, nor the shots, nor the rocks could stop him!

And for not being able to stop his advance, the serpentine heads of Lerna arrived before them, devastating everything they found in his way

"AAAAHHHH!!!

CAPTAIN NO!

WE HAVE NO CHOICE THAT…"

It didn't matter what he ran into, or whatever he had to tell him, he just wanted to slaughter those who had dared to make him angry in one of the two worst days of his life

PLASH! SLASH! CHOMP! CRACK! PLOM!

And only when his thirst for revenge had calmed a bit after bathing in the blood of all the traitors, Mr. Lerna was able to cool his mind to have a human conversation again, although for him the creature with whom he was about to strike up a conversation was the devil himself

"You...

You have eaten the Akuma No Mi, right?" Lerna said, asking the question whose answer would infuriate him even more.

An answer that Fred tried to make as pained as he could "Mmm...

Have I been too obvious?

Tsch… goodbye to my plan F to blackmail you with her..."

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