One Piece: Mandala Swordsman

Chapter 196 Always Need to Find Some Fun

Veins bulged, fingers trembled, and Doflamingo stared intently as the white paper burned until it turned to ashes and drifted away in the wind.

His fist remained clenched for a long time before finally slamming heavily to the ground.

……

Vergo is dead.

This future vice admiral had caused Law and Sanji a lot of trouble.

But that's no longer possible.

This time, he died very easily.

Sakazuki's methods were indeed extraordinary. Roman didn't get much involved in the matter, but the result was cruel.

Although Sakazuki is ruthless and cold-blooded, loyal guys like Vergo are also incredibly stubborn and didn't utter a single word.

He pierced his own throat with his own ghost bamboo.

This way of dying is heroic and resolute.

But it hasn't actually come to that point yet.

His identity is only flawed.

But Vergo remained resolute.

He probably knew that if he didn't die, Flamenco would be in big trouble.

However, Roman had no sentimentality towards this friendship.

This outcome seems to be a warning of what will happen if her identity is discovered.

To be honest, Roman felt she wasn't that bothered anymore. The cruelest outcome, she thought, was simply being beheaded like Ace.

Even if she is discovered now, there's no doubt that someone might be willing to protect her.

The reason for concealing it was simply because they felt it would be troublesome if they were discovered.

She had witnessed so much death over the years that she had become somewhat numb to it.

To die a swift and painless death with a single, decisive blow seems like a stroke of luck.

However, when this thought arose, Roman felt a little surprised; she seemed to be slowly assimilated by this world.

Life is precious.

This is a principle I've upheld throughout my past life.

However, this is mainly because her world is generally peaceful, but in this chaotic world full of war, the line between life and death is becoming increasingly blurred.

This has led to her standards continuously decreasing.

Judging by the standards of her past life, her actions could not be simply described as moral depravity.

Her experience living on Cake Island, the island of the Queen Mother, had already corrupted her spirit. Although her living environment was relatively normal afterward, blood and corpses were always with her.

Gradually, Roman got used to it.

But everyone needs to find some enjoyment or have a goal in life, otherwise it's just too empty.

So she tried to do things that would benefit her based on the plot. Of course, she would also sometimes play pranks on others for a bit of fun.

Only in this way could she slightly regain a sense of freshness from the numbness.

I'm not young anymore.

However, it's better to live a miserable life than to die, and she wouldn't give up her hard-won second life until the very last moment.

With that in mind, she calmly arranged the 15 candles on the cake.

"Starting today, I'm officially an adult. Don't you have any gifts for me? Sly, Glen, Patch, Raven?"

"You said there was something extremely urgent, and this is what I'm concerned about?"

"We still have work to do."

"I'm sleepy."

"Ugh, I really want to swear."

……

"Can you bless me now?"

"Okay," the four men replied loudly, their faces bruised and swollen.

"But is 15 considered an adult? That's completely different from where we're from. We're 17 there," Patch said slowly.

LaVine: "We're 17 too!"

Glenn: "Really? In the village where I was born, children are considered adults at 16."

Sly: "Where we're from, 15 is considered an adult."

This is when regional differences come into play, and the conversation quickly veers to all sorts of topics.

Although they often bickered, under Roman's guidance, they eventually built a friendship.

Mahjong really does bring you friends.

When there are only one player left in a group, you become the one they always long for.

But Roman had other ideas.

She has already revealed her age and birthday, which means she has helped Borsalino a lot, so she will no longer be responsible for him after that.

……

Haiyuan Calendar 1506.

The quadrennial world conference has begun.

The Flevans royal family has withdrawn from the World Conference, and Flevans has become a non-member state, no longer enjoying its former glory.

From the moment it withdrew from the membership, Frefans' international standing plummeted.

This country would be regarded as an uncivilized and barbaric nation.

No matter how magnificent the past was, it can only be zero at this moment.

Becoming a non-member state from a member state is tantamount to sentencing that country to death, meaning that its residents will no longer enjoy the jurisdiction of the world government and the protection of the navy.

This means that from this moment on, this place will be plagued by poverty, invaded by pirates, and may even be subject to cleansing by the World Government.

However, the World Government was fully aware of the tragedy of Flevance. Since it was an abandoned country filled with platinum and lead poison, there was no need to clean it up; it could simply be left to its own devices.

The general public, however, believed that the pirates were the cause of the disaster and felt deep sympathy for the residents of Flevans. The outcry against the pirates never stopped.

Under these circumstances, Frevans managed to maintain basic order.

However, the lives of the kingdom's people are in grave danger.

Because in the original work, apart from the Ope Ope no Mi method, there is no other way to cure platinum lead syndrome, so Roman can be said to be helpless.

For ordinary people, knowing that there is a Devil Fruit is already quite good; knowing that there is an Ope Ope Devil Fruit is simply a pipe dream.

Therefore, they felt desperate.

But in the North Sea, there was a child who vowed to find the Devil Fruit.

This is something he has to do.