After finding Vander Decken IX's hiding place, Yami didn't teleport there immediately. He first went into the city on Fish-Man Island to buy an item that was a bestseller on the island, something almost all humans would buy—a Coral Bubble.
A Coral Bubble can be blown into a huge bubble, wrapping around a person just like the bubbles on Sabaody Archipelago, or it can be used like a bag to wrap other things.
Unlike the bubbles from Sabaody Archipelago, which cannot be used once they leave Sabaody or Fish-Man Island.
The Coral Bubbles produced on Fish-Man Island can be used as long as they are in the water.
The bubbles created by Coral Bubbles have astonishing toughness; even the deep-sea pressure at 10,000 meters cannot crush them.
In the original story, Luffy and the others fought in the deep sea while coated in Coral Bubbles.
After buying the Coral Bubble, Yami teleported back to the Sea Forest, blew a large bubble to envelop his entire body, and flew towards the deep-sea region.
Because he wasn't sure if the bubble would be torn apart by the air currents, Yami didn't dare to use the Momo Momo no Mi to accelerate his flight speed, nor did he dare to use his teleportation ability. He could only fly at a normal speed.
Along the way, Yami's figure was seen by many fish-men and merfolk.
A human flying in the "sky" wasn't actually strange on Fish-Man Island; after all, Coral Bubbles did have the ability to float.
At first, no fish-men or merfolk were surprised.
But soon, some fish-men and merfolk reacted.
That human... seemed to be completely enveloped by the bubble, not just using the bubble as a swim ring!
In other words, he was flying by his own power!
For a moment, there was an uproar on the ground below where Yami was flying.
It wouldn't be long, presumably, before this news reached the Ryugu Kingdom, and Yami's identity would quickly be investigated.
At this time, Yami had also flown out of Fish-Man Island, heading towards Vander Decken IX's hiding place.
Over an hour later, Yami was in a deep-sea region, and below him was a ghost ship blended into the darkness, completely undetectable without night vision.
If someone had X-ray vision, they would discover a light flickering in a certain room within the ghost ship's cabin.
It was this light that was guiding Yami.
Once above the ghost ship, Yami held the Coral Bubble in one hand, while his other hand gently extended out of the bubble enveloping him, touching the seawater outside.
In an instant, this entire region of the deep sea was covered by Yami's Fuwa Fuwa power.
Immediately, Yami made a grasping motion downwards with one hand.
Countless tons of seawater instantly churned, forming a waterspout, also invisible in the darkness, that swept towards the ghost ship.
With a dull, thunderous boom, the ghost ship, struck by the dark waterspout, immediately began to shake violently, and then its dilapidated hull was instantly torn apart.
Along with the ghost ship, the bubble on Vander Decken IX also shattered.
This tremor was extremely sudden. Vander Decken IX didn't even have time to take out the Coral Bubble he carried with him before he was submerged by the seawater.
In an instant, this fish-man, who could normally breathe in the sea, had his eyes roll back just like a drowning human, floating motionlessly in the deep sea.
If no one found him, this fish-man would definitely starve to death in the deep sea.
At this moment, the inexplicable tremor disappeared, and a hand suddenly grabbed Vander Decken IX's clothes.
The next second, the drowning Vander Decken IX found that the dark world had suddenly become bright as day.
The weak, drowning sensation also vanished instantly.
Kacha!
Before Vander Decken IX could become ecstatic and prepare to thank his savior, the hand gripping his clothes suddenly seized his neck, and a terrifyingly monstrous force directly crushed his throat.
As the black mist surged, Yami skillfully extracted the Paramecia-type Mato Mato no Mi.
After his Lineage Factor finished recombining, Yami didn't pause for a moment. He directly faced the direction of the Ryugu Kingdom and used his Clairvoyance and X-Ray Vision to find Shirahoshi's location.
A few seconds later, Yami's figure vanished into thin air.
"Kyaa!... Who are you?"
The scene changed to inside the Hard-Shell Tower in the Ryugu Kingdom. Princess Shirahoshi was sitting at a table, eating food much larger than a normal person's.
At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared out of thin air next to her dinner plate, frightening Shirahoshi so much that she fell to the ground. Her exquisitely beautiful and cute little face was pale, and she spoke timidly with tears in her beautiful eyes.
Yami didn't speak, sizing up Shirahoshi who was sitting on the floor.
Princess Shirahoshi, eleven years old this year, was a giant smelt-whiting mermaid, so her height was already over eight meters.
Her just-developing figure was already much larger than Yami's body. In a few more years, it would be at the trampoline level.
Perhaps because her figure hadn't fully developed, Shirahoshi was currently only wearing a white short shirt, with a pink tail of light and dark shades on her lower body.
Her cute and surpassingly beautiful face was adorned with two blushes, making this teary-eyed, pitiful mermaid princess even more lovely and moving, making one feel the urge to tease her.
After looking her over, Yami finally spoke with a smile: "You don't need to be afraid, I'm not a bad person. Princess Shirahoshi's ability should allow you to sense that I have no ill intentions towards you."
Hearing this, the timid look on Shirahoshi's face slowly faded, and the tears in her eyes also magically disappeared.
"...Mm."
After a moment, Shirahoshi nodded lightly, then mustered her courage to get back on the chair. She looked at Yami on the tabletop and asked in a small voice, "Th... that... are you a human from the surface?"
Her young voice was pleasant and moving, filled with curiosity and anticipation.
Like the "Red Count" Patrick Redfield and Otohime, Shirahoshi was also a natural-born user of Observation Haki.
Shirahoshi could tell if a person was good or bad with a single glance.
Even if someone appeared full of goodwill on the surface, with flawless acting, as long as they held even a trace of malice towards Shirahoshi in their heart, in her eyes, they were a bad person exuding a foul stench.
Similarly, if someone was full of goodwill towards Shirahoshi, even if they were an ugly person, and no matter how unpleasant their surface behavior was, in Shirahoshi's eyes, they were a good person radiating a golden light.
Vander Decken IX didn't know this. His marriage proposal to Shirahoshi was for the sake of obtaining [Poseidon], so he exuded malice from head to toe, making him a major villain in Shirahoshi's eyes.
Yami sought out Shirahoshi not for [Poseidon], but only to rewrite her destiny, make her a maid, and have her live on the surface with him.
In the world of One Piece, female mermaids' tails split into two legs when they turn thirty, just like real humans.
As long as they don't change their legs back into a fishtail, they can live normally on land, just like humans.
Yami had a way to make Shirahoshi's fishtail transform into legs early.
At that time, she wouldn't need to rely on bubbles and could live normally with him.
Therefore, in Shirahoshi's eyes, Yami was a good person filled with goodwill towards her, radiating a dazzling golden light.
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