Pirates, Start with the vampire fruit and rescue the empress

Haiyuan calendar year 1322.

The second half of the Great Waterway, Torrance Island, and the ancient town of Sleep.

Wearing a black suit, with two long knives on his waist, Sephiroth, who had long silver shawl hair and a handsome and enchanting face, slowly fell from the sky, retracted the black wings behind his back, and stood At the door of an old white church.

Pedestrians on the road only looked at the silver-haired young man who fell from the sky for a few times, then stopped looking and continued busy with what they were doing.

People with devil fruit abilities are not uncommon on the Grand Line, so ordinary people here have a very high ability to accept certain strange phenomena and things, and it can even be said that they are not surprised.

Torrance Island is not one of the three routes in the second half of the Great Channel.

Since this island has poor resources and no special products, the residents of Suigu Town who live on this island are not rich, and can even be said to be poor. Even pirates don’t like to visit here very much.

However, on this island, there are ancient historical ruins, with some characters inscribed on them that ordinary people cannot understand, giving this island a somewhat mysterious color.

Sephiroth stood at the door of the ancient white church, a thoughtful expression on his face.

After a while, he stepped into the church, whose door opened inward, and passed through rows of wooden seats.

Ta da-! Ta da-! Ta da-!

Sephiroth’s feet in black leather shoes stepped on the stone floor of the church, causing a slight echo to echo in the empty church.

At the end of the church hall, under a huge wooden cross, stood a middle-aged priest wearing black robes and with short silver hair. After hearing the footsteps, he turned to look at Sephiroth.

The silver-haired priest smiled and said in a very gentle tone:

“Young man, you look strange!

Are you a foreigner? ”

“That’s right…I came here from a very far away place.”

Sephiroth nodded, sat down on the wooden seat in the front row, and stared at the cross in front of him.

“Then did you pass by here by chance, or did you come to explore and hunt for treasure…?” the priest asked casually.

“Adventure and treasure hunt?

Is there any legendary treasure here? ”

“Hahaha! Actually, I don’t know much about this either!

However, there are many ancient ruins on our island, so occasionally some pirates or adventurers come here, seemingly wanting to find out the whereabouts of any treasures. ”

“Oh! Is that so?”

Sephiroth nodded first, and then asked another question:

“This church looks very old!

How long has it been around…? ”

Hearing this, the silver-haired priest thought for a while before speaking:

“About six hundred years ago!”

“Well! It’s been such a long time…

However, I am a little curious as to why this church was built here?

After all, this island does not cover a large area and does not seem to have a large population. It does not seem to be a good place to spread faith! ”

“Hahaha! It’s true, you hit the nail on the head.”

The silver-haired priest smiled nonchalantly at first, and then he said in a slightly ethereal tone:

“Well! I heard that a long time ago, a long time ago…

A very powerful demon once appeared in this world. He was bloodthirsty and cruel. He relied on his own strength and power to rule many islands…

He was so ambitious that he tried to rule the entire world, and set off a bloody storm on this sea, bringing endless disasters and wars to the world.

So, those who wanted to resist him gathered together, worked together to kill him, and buried him on the island.

However……

Although the devil has been killed by everyone, his will still exists in the world.

Therefore, in order to prevent the devil from resurrecting and bringing disaster and war to the world, people built a church on this island to suppress the devil’s will. ”

“I see, this is really a story with profound implications!” Sephiroth suddenly realized.

The silver-haired priest said in a slightly teasing tone with a smile:

“Hahaha! Legends are just legends after all!

Whether it is true or not has long been impossible to ascertain…”

While the two were talking, a black mist that was so thin that it could not be detected penetrated into the tip of the silver-haired priest’s nose.

His consciousness was in a trance for a while,

“Legend!

Sometimes, it’s more than just a legend! ”

Sephiroth chuckled and shook his head, stood up, and pulled out the butcher knife from his waist.

He walked in front of the huge cross, gently waved the black butcher knife towards the ground, and opened a space door on the ground.

Click!

As Sephiroth gently raised his foot, the space door opened, and a dark secret room appeared in front of him.

Zhizhizhi-!

A group of black bats split from his body, condensed into a bat clone that was exactly the same as his own body, and stepped into the dark secret room…

After a while, the bat clone came out holding a small locked bronze box with both hands and handed it into his hands.

After taking back the bat clone, Sephiroth used the butcher knife in his hand to directly split open the already rusty bronze lock on the bronze box.

Immediately, a round Devil Fruit with purple-red skin and spiral patterns all over it came into view.

This devil fruit can be said to be extremely familiar to Sephiroth!

Its name:

Animal type·Phantom beast type·Bat fruit·Vampire form!

“…”

Sephiroth looked at the vampire fruit in front of him, and he couldn’t help falling into a long silence.

After repeatedly confirming that it was this thing that had been calling him, he sighed slightly helplessly, opened the portable space, and put the devil fruit in.

Then, he turned around and left the old white church and stood on the street.

Sephiroth raised his head slightly, looking at the clear sky, and murmured softly:

“Is this fate…or something?”

After a while, he chuckled and said:

“No! It’s just a lame story!”

After saying that, his black wings spread out on his back, and as he flapped his wings twice, he shot straight into the sky like an arrow from a string…