Chapter 83: Another Farewell, a Passing Encounter with Aokiji
[After carefully observing Crocodile's Armament Haki, I have an idea of how to awaken and master Armament Haki!]
[Based on this, I conducted three hundred and eighty-eight experiments over two days and finally succeeded in awakening Armament Haki.]
[After another day, I completely mastered Armament Haki!]
"Armament: Hardening!"
Lister drew the famous sword Hanashu and imbued it with Armament Haki.
A black film quickly appeared on the blade of Hanashu, which was Armament Haki.
Then, Lister casually swung a blow.
With a whoosh, a huge flying slash of several tens of meters shot out, heading straight for a thousand meters away, and did not dissipate for a long time.
"Although my Armament Haki has just been awakened, in terms of quality and quantity, it is stronger than Crocodile's," Lister said with a satisfied expression as he watched the slash wave fly out of his sight.
Hanashu was originally the weapon of a minor officer in Baroque Works, but Lister took a liking to it, so the sword became his.
"I've been in Alabasta for three days. It's time to leave!"
Lister looked at the sky and sighed.
That night, in the great palace of Alabasta, Cobra held a banquet for Lister and the others.
At the banquet, besides Lister, Nami and the other women, as well as Zoro, Johnny, Yosaku, and half of the captains and officers were present.
Everyone ate and played with great joy.
It wasn't until late at night that the party gradually broke up.
That night, Nami, Robin, and the others all tacitly left the space for Vivi and Lister.
That night, in Vivi's room, the two were entangled in a deadly embrace, not wasting a single moment.
The two fought until dawn before they stopped.
Vivi lay on Lister's body and suddenly cried.
"Lister, I can't bear to leave you!"
"Be good! When I have time, I'll come back to see you!" Lister stroked Vivi's blue hair and comforted her.
"That's a promise! You must come back to see me in the future!" Vivi cried.
"I will!" Lister promised Vivi.
Although the two had fought fiercely all night, at this moment, neither of them was sleepy.
Perhaps it was because they were about to part.
Neither of them felt sleepy, so they both got up, washed up, and went out to have breakfast with everyone.
After breakfast, everyone returned to where the fleet was.
At this time, the Money Pirates had nineteen pirate ships.
Besides the initial nine, the ten new pirate ships were all plundered from Baroque Works.
As a Warlord of the Sea organization, its power was vast and its foundation was deep, which the current Money Pirates could not compare to.
At this time, Lister and the others boarded the ship and were busy preparing for the voyage.
Vivi and Igaram stood on the riverbank, seeing Lister and the others off.
"Vivi, take care!" Lister stood on the bow of the ship and said to Vivi.
"I will take care of myself. Lister, you must also take care of yourself, and you must remember to come back and see me!" Vivi repeated this matter again.
"I will!" Lister said.
"Vivi, goodbye!"
"Vivi, take care!"
"Vivi, we'll meet again!"
""
Nami, Robin, Nojiko, and the others all said goodbye to Vivi.
Vivi, watching her lover and sisters about to set sail and leave, finally couldn't help but cry.
"Everyone, take care, and you must also remember me!"
"Vivi, don't worry! No matter where we are, no matter how far apart we are, you will always be one of us! We will always remember you!"
"Set sail!"
Lister finally announced their departure.
All the pirate ships of the Money Pirates set sail at the same time, heading for their next destination.
Vivi watched the departing Money Pirates, her heart feeling empty, and she did not come back to her senses for a long time!
Igaram, beside her, saw this and felt a pain in his heart.
"Sigh, it's all that Lister kid's fault for being too charming and harming our Princess Vivi like this!"
After the Money Pirates set sail, they did not immediately leave Alabasta.
They stopped for a while at the port city of Nanohana.
This was a port city with a developed economy, and major companies and banks all had branches here.
So, Lister exchanged all the gold for cash here.
Then, he had Johnson and the others replenish a large amount of supplies before leaving Alabasta.
Lister did not know that less than five hours after the Money Pirates left Alabasta, Aokiji arrived in Alabasta on a women's bicycle.
Before he could find Lister and the others, the Marines from the Nanohana naval base took the initiative to find him and report: The Money Pirates had left several hours ago!
"Just a five-hour difference. How lucky," Aokiji could only sigh helplessly.
If it had been only one or two hours, he might have given chase.
But five hours, who knew how far they had gone, and he didn't know which direction the Money Pirates had taken.
So he gave up the pursuit.
At the same time, he did not blame the Marines at the Nanohana port for their inaction.
After all, with the ferocity of the Money Pirates, it was better not to provoke them.
If they had provoked them, they would have been wiped out in minutes.
The Marines at the Nanohana port had also chosen to play it safe.
What reason did he have to blame them?
In the end, Aokiji chose to spend a few days on vacation in Alabasta before leaving.
On the vast sea, "Nami, where is our next island?" Lister asked.
"According to the route I've planned, our next island is Jaya!" Nami said.
"Jaya, I've heard that it's a lawless zone where pirates, mafias, and various forces coexist. It's said to be very chaotic," Robin suddenly said.
"`Well!" Lister nodded.
Indeed, he was following the route that the Straw Hat Pirates had taken in the original story.
However, he did not intend to forcibly change it.
Everything would follow its natural course.
However, Lister also had some ideas about Skypiea and Enel's Rumble-Rumble Fruit.
In that case, let's go and meet them.
With that, Lister sat down.
"Koala, give me a massage. I didn't sleep all night yesterday, and I'm almost dead tired!"
As soon as Lister finished speaking, he immediately drew the glares of Nami and the others.
"Yes!" Koala responded and happily walked behind Lister to give him a massage.
Under Koala's careful care, the fatigue from Lister's all-night battle was finally relieved.
He gradually fell asleep.
"Ah, Lister, something's happened!"
After an unknown amount of time, a sudden scream woke Lister up.
"What happened?"
Lister looked at everyone and finally fixed his gaze on Nami, asking.
"Look, our bounties have been raised!" Nami said.
"Oh? Let me see!"
Hearing this, Lister immediately became energetic.
He took the bounty posters from Nami's hand and flipped through them one by one.
[Supersonic Lister]
[Bounty: 200,000,000!]
[Dead or Alive!]
Lister's first glance was at the epithet, and he was very satisfied to see that it had finally been changed.
Although it wasn't "Handsome," he was very satisfied with this epithet.
"Finally got rid of the epithet 'Butcher.' It wasn't easy!" Lister sighed with emotion.
The bounty amount was only a temporary thing; only the epithet was related to one's lifelong reputation.
Originally, he had planned to cause a big scene at a naval base and force them to change his epithet if the Marines continued to call him "Butcher."
He didn't expect that before he could act, the Marines had already changed his epithet on their own.
They were quite considerate.
"A bounty of 200 million? That's fine!" Lister was satisfied with this bounty.
After all, he had defeated Crocodile.
Luffy only had a bounty of 100 million, while he had 200 million. He had no complaints.
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