Chapter 459: Pure Gold and Father-Daughter
Brett brought Tesoro landing on a certain coast of this broken island.
When they landed, the coast had several dinosaur-like strange creatures panicking and fleeing.
"Truly astonishing. It even formed a small ecosystem?"
Tesoro exclaimed. "Because of its excessively massive body and swallowing too many things, creatures are reproducing and surviving in its belly!"
"Haha! This guy's simply a mobile island!"
Brett nodded lightly. Though much smaller in size, it actually wasn't much different from Zunesha.
However, these weren't the point. The point was...
Brett and Tesoro simultaneously turned their heads, looking toward the jungle.
"You! Are you humans??"
An excited voice sounded from the jungle, carrying indescribable excitement.
A little girl wearing a gray dress burst from the jungle.
She had messy golden hair and a dirty little face that bore an extremely joyful smile.
Looking at her age, she was just six or seven years old.
"Ohhhhh!"
The little girl excitedly circled around Brett and Tesoro several times.
Timidly she extended her hand, touching Tesoro's leg. As if frightened, she immediately bounced backward far away.
Seeing Brett and Tesoro made no moves, she immediately approached again.
"You're truly humans! Hey, were you also swallowed by Lantern-sama?!"
The little girl asked impatiently.
Her voice, unlike same-age girls' tenderness, sounded somewhat hoarse. Plus her inexplicably high-pitched tone meant that just hearing the voice, one would easily misjudge her age.
Mm.
Naturally, judging her age from appearance alone was already completely wrong.
Tesoro cast Brett an inquiring gaze.
This gaze meant: has this girl always lived inside this fish's belly?
Brett nodded lightly.
"No. We entered ourselves." Brett answered.
The little girl's eyes widened. Then she pursed her lips. "What? Turns out you're two idiots."
"Hey, little lady, that's not the attitude for speaking with adults." Tesoro's mouth twitched. This brat seemed somewhat arrogant.
"How could anyone voluntarily run into Lantern-sama's belly?!"
The little girl pulled down her right lower eyelid, making a face at them. "Adults getting swallowed by Lantern-sama but still making excuses, aren't they just idiots?"
"My name is Brett. And you?" Brett asked smiling.
"Olga!"
The little girl stood with hands on hips, head raised. "Misschina Olga!"
"Then I'll call you Olga."
Then I'll call you Captain.
Shaking off strange thoughts appearing from nowhere, Brett smiled. "We came here searching for Pure Gold."
"After obtaining it, we'll leave. How about it? Want us to take you along?"
This child was truly remarkable.
When swallowed by the lanternfish, she was probably also six or seven years old, her current apparent age.
But that was already two hundred years ago.
She had lived alone here, in this sealed lanternfish belly, on this broken island, for two hundred years.
"Pure Gold?"
The little girl froze. Then Brett noticed her hiding both hands behind her back. She pursed her lips unhappily. "Where's that thing good?!"
"That's not your business, right?"
Tesoro rolled his eyes. "If you're unwilling, forget it."
He made as if to leave.
"Wait! I'm willing!"
Olga hurriedly blocked his path. Both hands waving, she tried jumping up, attempting to block Tesoro's sight. "Really, being impatient before a lady answers isn't gentlemanly behavior!"
"Sorry, I'm no gentleman."
Tesoro grinned. "Moreover, that's not the attitude for requesting others' help, right?"
Brett rolled his eyes. Truly quite mischievous.
"Guh..."
The little girl unwillingly bit her lips, her face flushing completely red.
Then she finally, while sniffling, bent down. Her face twisted aside as her eyes anxiously scanned everywhere.
"Please, please help me leave!"
"Isn't that better?"
Tesoro laughed heartily. "I agree."
The little girl immediately straightened up and disdainfully turned her head aside. "Actually threatening a child! You're truly an awful adult!"
"After achieving your goal, you immediately changed face. You're truly an awful brat!" Tesoro said displeased.
"Hmph!"
The little girl turned her head even harder.
"Alright, Olga, Tesoro, let's continue. Getting Pure Gold early means leaving early too."
Brett grabbed Tesoro with one hand and Olga with the other, then again soared skyward, heading in a certain direction.
The lanternfish had three stomachs. Each stomach was equivalent to an independent area.
Only by reaching the topmost stomach could they find the path toward the top Pure Gold storage location.
"Fly...flying!!"
Olga's mouth opened wide.
"Haha! What a truly ignorant brat."
Tesoro laughed heartily. "If you're surprised now, it's still too early!"
The little girl again made a face at him, then excitedly looked around everywhere.
She clasped her hands together.
If it's them, they might truly be able to bring me out of Lantern-sama's belly!
Soon Brett brought them through the esophagus from the lanternfish's first stomach to the second stomach.
"Eh?"
Tesoro, surprised, again turned looking toward a certain direction. "What's this? Could there actually be many people living in this fish's belly?"
"Eh? What?"
Olga, completely unaware, turned back. "What's wrong?"
"Brett?"
Tesoro turned looking at Brett.
"Let's go. We'll look over there."
Brett changed direction, flying swiftly toward there.
Even Tesoro had already sensed it. Brett naturally heard it more clearly.
In that direction, there was another human's voice.
While flying toward there, invisible Conqueror's Haki spread out.
Instantly, in the jungle, several giant dinosaurs panicked and fled in all directions.
Then Brett brought them landing.
This was the dinosaurs' nest, built beneath a cliff's natural cave.
They could still see giant unknown beast meat chunks scattered before the cave.
A red-colored guy was currently sprawled on the meat chunks, eagerly biting into them.
It looked like a small dinosaur.
However, looking carefully...
"A costume?"
Tesoro couldn't help laughing aloud. "What a truly clever fellow. Disguised as a dinosaur to infiltrate the dinosaur group and freeload?"
One glance revealed that crude workmanship. It was completely a disguised human.
"Eh!! Did I mishear? Speaking voices??"
Hearing sounds, the fellow who had been happily eating meat turned around.
His body was somewhat fat. His yellow beard and hair were nearly connected.
He looked quite rough.
"Yo."
Tesoro waved at him.
However, this man completely ignored Tesoro. He entirely froze, his eyes staring fixedly at Olga beside Brett.
"Olga??"
The man's body trembled.
The little girl also widened her eyes. "...Bastard dad..."
"Eh?"
Tesoro looked at Olga, then at that man.
Father and daughter?