Chapter 50: New Bounty Posters
Affinity of the Sea!
The moment Luo Lin saw the name, a guess popped into his head. After the system's explanation, he just went "yep, called it."
[Affinity of the Sea] Effect: Grants complete affinity with the ocean. Completely nullifies the Devil Fruit curse. You become a Devil Fruit user who can swim.
In any other world, or for normal people, this would be useless trash. In One Piece? This is a literal god-tier item. A fruit user who keeps full power in the sea? That's game-breaking.
Only problem: the price tag. 100 million Cultivation Points.
Are you trying to kill me?!
These past two days, Luo Lin had trained non-stop except for eating and sleeping. With what he'd saved before, he barely hit 300,000.
At this rate, 100 million would take at least two years of pure grinding.
Two years of nothing but swinging a sword like a robot? He'd rather die.
And that was just for himself. He obviously needed one for Robin-baby too → four years total, zero spending allowed.
But how is that possible when the mall is full of shiny toys?!
So…
"System! System! SYSTEM, YOU THERE?!"
"Yes yes yes! What's up, Host? I'm super busy!"
Busy my ass. "Can we talk about these insane prices? Give me a discount! A sale! Anything!"
System: (๑◔3◔ิ๑) "No can do. Prices are fixed~"
"Then I'm never getting this thing! I quit!"
Luo Lin yeeted his sword and flopped onto the couch like a dead fish. Classic Ge You slouch.
"Hey! Nooo! Host, you need ambition! Training is good for you! You're already strong, but compared to the absolute monsters at the top, you can only protect yourself right now!"
"Then give me a discount! These prices feel personal!"
System: … You're making this very hard for me. Yeah, the prices are a tiny bit high, but a system's gotta eat too! I have KPIs!
And so the standoff began.
Luo Lin stopped training entirely—just ate, slept, occasionally watched Luffy's duel, face-palmed, then went to annoy Robin.
This lasted until the next morning, when the system finally caved—not on price, but on a loophole.
"Host?"
"Can you discount now?"
"Of course not. Discounts are impossible in this lifetime."
"Then buzz off!"
"BUT—different training methods give different Cultivation Points. Swinging your sword normally only gives 1 point. But if you use Haki, your fruit, or advanced techniques… the rewards are much higher!"
"For real?"
"Have I ever lied to you?"
(๑◔3◔ิ๑) Except about the prices.
"YOU COULD'VE SAID THAT EARLIER, YOU DUMB SYSTEM!"
Luo Lin instantly coated Gosoul in Armament Haki and slashed.
Panel: +100 Cultivation Points.
"HOLY—"
That wasn't Luo Lin. That was the system.
One slash = 100 points?! Suddenly the system felt like maybe the prices were too low.
Luo Lin's eyes lit up.
Observation Haki: ON! Conqueror's Haki: ON! Lightning form: ON!
He activated everything at once. Even standing still, points rolled in at 300+ per second.
System: ∑(°口°๑)!! We are SO losing money right now!
"WOOHOO! LET'S GOOO!"
He started spamming flying slashes and Conqueror's coating slashes into the distance.
Points skyrocketed past 1,000 per attack.
Far away, Luffy was dueling Foxy.
Suddenly a random flying slash came out of nowhere and yeeted Foxy into the stratosphere.
He face-planted unconscious.
Luffy: "WHO STOLE MY KILL?!"
He turned to charge at Luo Lin.
Nami and the others desperately held him back.
"No no no! That slash was insanely strong—there might be a terrifying enemy nearby! You'll die!"
"A terrifying enemy?"
Usopp peeked through his goggles.
"Nope. He's just… slashing randomly."
Everyone: …
He caused that much destruction… for fun?
Unforgivable!
The whole crew stormed toward the ships.
Thanks to Luo Lin's perfect control, not a single slash hit them—only Foxy got "accidentally" sniped.
They arrived unharmed, only to see Luo Lin still happily slashing the horizon.
Nami exploded.
"LUO LIN! STOP IT DOWN!"
"Hm? What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?! You ruined our match! There's no enemy—what are you even doing?!"
"Oh, sorry, just training~"
Everyone: …
Who trains like a natural disaster?!
Luo Lin didn't explain. Perfect timing—the crew was back.
Let's test something.
If I hit actual people, does it count?
BONK BONK BONK
Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji all face-planted simultaneously, huge lumps on their heads.
"IT HURTS!!!"
The three rubbed their bumps, grinding their teeth, ready to dogpile him—but they knew they'd lose.
Luo Lin stared at the panel.
+3,200 Cultivation Points.
His smile gradually turned demonic.
(΄◞ิ﹃◟ิ‵) Beautiful training dummies ♡ 3k per hit, 10 hits = 30k, 10,000 hits = 30 million!
A few thousand hits per day → one Affinity of the Sea in a week!
If they can't take it, I'll just train Nami and the others too!
The three rubbing their heads suddenly felt an overwhelming wave of malice.
Goosebumps everywhere.
Even Nami and Usopp shivered, unsure why.
Luo Lin cleared his throat.
"Ahem! Perfect timing, everyone. Forget the match—that Foxy guy was cheating the whole time anyway.
An unfair game means nothing! Your real goal is to get stronger for bigger adventures! Got it?"
A few minutes of smooth talking and the crew actually bought it.
Special Training Camp officially began.
Cultivation Points skyrocketed.
…
Meanwhile, far out at sea…
A tall figure rode a bicycle across the water, holding two fresh bounty posters.
Portgas D. Luo Lin — 500,000,000 Berries Nico Robin — 100,000,000 Berries
"500 million is still too low. Ten years ago he was already worth that much. Let's see just how far you've come, Luo Lin."
The man checked his direction and pedaled toward Long Ring Long Land.
Current Marine Admiral—Aokiji.
Ten years ago, when Luo Lin and Robin re-entered the Grand Line, Aokiji had gone looking for them.
He saw they weren't flying a pirate flag, weren't part of any major force—just traveling the seas like tourists.
Curious, he'd exchanged a few casual moves with Luo Lin and left stunned by how fast the man had grown.
…
Back to the present—Luo Lin was in paradise.
Every day: beat the monster trio unconscious for an hour → train solo for a few more hours → pocket tens of millions of points.
At this rate he'd have his Affinity of the Sea in ten days to half a month!
The system was grinding his teeth in Luo Lin's head: We messed up! Huge loss! Should've priced it higher!
Now the crew had docked at a nameless island and had to stay over seven days to log the island.
Perfect news for Luo Lin—he already had over 30 million points!
Once the seven days were up, he'd be the world's first Devil Fruit user who could swim.
He was so excited he laughed in his sleep.
Scared Robin half to death—she thought he was sick.
No matter how many times he said he was fine, she insisted Chopper give him a full check-up.
Right now he was getting poked and prodded by Dr. Chopper.
After triple-checking and finding nothing wrong, Robin finally relaxed—but was still confused why he was giggling like a maniac in his dreams.
To stop her worrying, Luo Lin reluctantly spent 1 million points on a [Merman's Tear]from the mall.
Description: Allows breathing underwater.
He secretly handed it to Robin like it was the rarest treasure in the world.
"It's one of a kind. Eat it—you'll get a nice surprise~"
Robin didn't understand, but "one of a kind" made her try to give it back—he said he'd already eaten his and this one was specially for her.
Trusting him completely, she swallowed it.
…Nothing happened. Tasted kinda meh.
She gave him the "you sure about this?" look.
Luo Lin just grinned and dragged her (and Nami) to the beach.
"Ahem! Robin-baby, you trust me, right?"
"Of course! Why?"
"If I said you can breathe underwater now, would you believe me?"
"…Huh?"
"Trust me! I'd never hurt you!"
Logically impossible, but this was the person she trusted most in the world.
Under his encouraging gaze, Robin slowly walked into the sea.
Nami freaked.
"WAIT! Luo Lin, what are you doing?! She's a fruit user!"
"Relax, Nami. Nothing will happen. You're here, aren't you?"
Nami: ???
Robin also remembered—why did you bring Nami? To fish me out? Didn't you eat one too?
"Ahem… she'll still go limp in water, but she can breathe!"
"Ohhh!"
Nami: Still confused!
"Hey! What are you two talking about?! Robin-sis, come back!"
Robin decided to test it—she had Nami anyway.
A few more steps—water reached her chest—she collapsed limp.
But no choking. No panic.
She could breathe perfectly. It actually felt nice.
Just like he said.
Nami on the shore saw Robin sink and lost her mind.
"YOU BASTARD! You trying to kill her?!"
She dove in, dragged Robin back to the surface.
Luo Lin smiled as they came up.
"See? Told you."
"Thank you, Luo Lin."
Nami, wringing out her shirt: ???
He tricked you into the sea, I saved you, and you thank him?!
She was about to explode—Robin turned and thanked her too, then explained.
Nami's eyes instantly turned into beri signs.
"My dearest big brother Luo Lin~♡ Do you have any more of those super rare treasures? You wouldn't forget your cute little sister, right?"
Luo Lin: … Fine. She did just save Robin. One for her too.
He pulled another Merman's Tear from his pocket with a pained expression and handed it over.
"YAY! Thank you, onii-chan!"
Nami swallowed it instantly and cannonballed into the sea.
Didn't come up for a long time.
"Let's go back and change, Robin-baby."
"What about Nami?"
"She'll come back when she's done playing."
"Okay!"
They left.
A long while later, Nami finally surfaced—followed by several bus-sized deep-sea fish.
"HEEEEEELP!"
Her scream pierced the heavens.
Everyone on the island: !!!
Luo Lin was there in a flash—single slash, all fish decapitated.
"Saved…"
Nami panted in relief.
The rest of the crew arrived, saw the giant fish corpses, and understood.
"Those are deep-sea fish… how??"
Nami scratched her head sheepishly and opened her shirt—revealing a huge pile of giant pearls…
Luo Lin: …
You went pearl hunting, you little money-grubber?!
Shouldn't have given you one!
He turned and stormed off in a huff.
Far out at sea, Aokiji heard the scream and turned his bicycle toward the island.
He was coming.
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