Chapter 460: Pure Gold Obtained
"Olga!!"
Wearing a ridiculous dinosaur costume, his entire body filthy from who knows how many years unwashed, the middle-aged man cried with tears streaming down his face. Like a child, he stumbled toward the little girl beside Brett.
If normal people elsewhere saw this scene, their first reaction would probably be to quickly restrain this man and notify the Navy.
No matter how you looked at it, this guy seemed like a suspicious kidnapper.
However, the two adults here besides him showed no particular reaction.
Brett already knew. While Tesoro found it interesting.
Father and daughter? Quite the coincidence.
"Don't come near me, bastard dad!"
The little girl reacted extremely violently. Nearly shrieking, she leaped up and then stomped one foot on the approaching middle-aged man's face, directly kicking him so he fell backward onto his rear.
"Oh, agile child."
Tesoro lightly applauded. "So Olga, what's with this guy? Is he truly your father?"
"He is not!"
Olga crossed her arms before her chest, face twisted aside. She viciously spat toward the ground and said harshly, "He's just a mere bastard dad!"
"No, isn't that exactly confirming it?"
Tesoro's mouth twitched. Bastard dad and such... though a bastard, he's still a dad, right?
Similar relationship to Kaido and Yamato?
"Ungh..."
The man sitting on the ground was currently sobbing.
His shoulders constantly shook as tears already flowed from both eyes. "Olga, you're alive... that's truly wonderful..."
"Dad is truly happy."
"Shut up!!"
The little girl loudly berated him. "Bastard dad! I don't need your concern!"
"Oh?"
Tesoro raised an eyebrow.
It didn't seem like Kaido and Yamato's father-loving-daughter-filial type relationship.
Brett timely smiled and spoke. "Then exactly why do you hate this gentleman?"
He asked Olga.
"It's all because of this bastard dad!!"
The little girl furiously pointed at her old father. "All because he created Pure Gold, that's why Mom got killed by pirates! That's why we got swallowed into Lantern-sama's belly!!"
"Idiot! Olga!! That cannot be said!!"
Her old father's expression had already become extremely anxious.
"Wait! Pure Gold!"
Tesoro's eyes widened. He looked at Olga, then at that disheveled man sitting on the ground. "Olga, you're saying your father created Pure Gold?!"
"Anyway it's all his fault!"
The little girl was already over two hundred years old.
In this world, besides giants, you probably couldn't find many people older.
But having spent two hundred years inside a fish belly, never communicating with the outside world, her mentality might not be much more mature than her appearance.
She completely didn't realize what exposing this information meant.
"Oooh! Brett!"
Tesoro excitedly grinned. "Seems like an unexpectedly huge harvest!"
Brett couldn't help glancing at this guy. Why act like some great villain?
"If you want something, just come at me!"
Olga's father stood up. He wiped the tears from his face and said gravely, "Just please don't harm my daughter!"
"Who needs your protection, bastard dad!"
The little girl was very annoyed. "Brett and them are my friends! They'll take me out of Lantern-sama's body later!"
The old father looked helpless.
Even after so many years, this child was unchanged from childhood.
"No need to worry, sir."
Brett smiled. "We indeed came searching for Pure Gold, but we have no intention of harming anyone."
"Hahaha! That's wonderful then."
The old father scratched his head while laughing.
However, his shifting eyes and profuse sweat already exposed that he truly wasn't good at acting.
Brett couldn't help smiling while shaking his head.
"Then let's continue forward. One final stretch remains."
Brett transformed into dragon-human form and released clouds, wrapping all three.
"Trans—transformed!!"
The little girl wrapped in clouds had eyes nearly shooting stars. "So cool!!"
"This Brett-san is a Devil Fruit user?"
The old father touched the clouds wrapping him and was equally surprised. "Looking at this, could it be Mythical Zoan?"
"Indeed so."
Brett brought the three directly flying skyward, heading toward the lanternfish's final stomach.
"My name is Brett. That other guy is Tesoro. How should I address this gentleman?"
"Ashier."
The man quickly reported his name. "Misschina Ashier!"
"Ashier-san, so you truly extracted Pure Gold?"
Tesoro almost impatiently questioned.
Ashier-san's face showed bitterness. Then he looked at his daughter excitedly twisting on the clouds and finally still lightly sighed.
"Indeed correct."
"Truly remarkable."
Brett sincerely praised. "This is the dream creation that countless alchemists pursued for centuries."
"Pure Gold only brings disaster."
Ashier-san attempted to persuade Brett. "Lantern-sama continuously hunts Pure Gold. All Pure Gold possessors get swallowed into its belly."
"No need to worry about that. Actually the lanternfish let us enter to retrieve Pure Gold."
Tesoro grinned.
"Eh?"
Ashier-san slightly froze.
"We're right here."
Brett suddenly spoke.
Everyone raised their heads together, only then discovering they'd already arrived before a passage.
Brilliant golden light was penetrating from within the passage.
"Brett! Pure Gold's inside there, right?!" Tesoro was already completely excited.
"Look and we'll find out."
Brett brought the three forward, directly rushing into this passage. Following the winding passage onward, it didn't take too long before they'd already arrived in another spacious area.
Just arriving in this space, what met their eyes was an incomparably brilliant golden expanse. Their vision was completely occupied by golden light. They could barely see anything else.
After brief adaptation, everyone finally saw clearly. This was a massive golden mountain.
"All...all of it?"
Tesoro himself didn't notice that his voice was currently very hoarse.
Even his stored gold might not equal this much!
Then the question came: could Pure Gold like gold respond to his ability?
Tesoro very much wanted to verify this.
"Pure Gold hunting has continued for who knows how many years. Having this scale, there's no need for surprise."
Brett released clouds and broke off a Pure Gold piece from atop this golden mountain.
"Just this much is enough?"
Tesoro looked toward Brett.
"It's completely sufficient."
Brett retracted the clouds. The clouds carried a Pure Gold block approximately basketball-sized.
Pure Gold... just extremely tiny particles emitting light was already enough to grant people longevity.
Such a large piece was already enough for who knows how many people to use.
"True."
Tesoro nodded lightly.
He glanced at Ashier.
Someone capable of extracting Pure Gold was already obtained. Indeed, no need for excessive worry.
"However..."
Tesoro grinned. He broke free from Brett's carrying clouds and jumped onto that golden mountain.
He pressed his hand atop the golden mountain.
Brett couldn't help shaking his head.
"Hahaha! It truly works!"
Tesoro laughed heartily.
"Alright, let's leave."
Brett said.
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