Chapter 182

[1 week later]

"Welcome back, CP-0 agent Lucas."

Agent Lucas ignored the guards and walked through the gate into Mary Geoise. He started walking towards a massive villa but did some sightseeing along the way. When he arrived at the villa, he just walked in without the guards checking on him. Lucas is the personal CP-0 agent of the Marfont family, so security won't stop him.

He entered the vila, which is filled with maids and butlers. All the families here like to have as many servants as they can. Lucas walked through the vila, and no one dared to look at him, fearing that they'll anger him and end up dead. He turned around a corner and suddenly disappeared without anyone noticing it.

He reappeared in a pink room filled with cute stuff. The 11-year-old Louise Marfont looked at him with a frown.

"What are you doing in my room, Lucas? Go away, or I'll call brother!"

"There's no need for that, miss Louise. I just came here to show you something cool."

"I don't care, just get out!"

"Look closely, miss Louise." Lucas pulled out a watch from his pocket and swung it in front of her face. Within a second, she fell asleep. Lucas caught her before she hit her head on the ground. "Come out; it's safe." Out of Lucas Jacket, a tiny version of Devon jumped out. She looked at Louise, and the next moment she grew just as tall as Louise and turned into a perfect copy of her.

"Damn, it. I swear that I'll pay Sabo back for humiliating me like this."

"I wouldn't advise it, but I won't stop you either. Just get this done quickly."

"Tsk, you might be the most annoying out of everyone, Laffitte." She crouched down and touched Louise. Louise suddenly started shrinking till she was small enough to fit in Laffitte's pocket. Laffitte carefully picked her up and put her in his pocket. "Both of you will turn back to normal in 12 hours. But if she wakes up before that, it will automatically cancel my powers. So you better hurry up."

"Thank you, and good luck, miss Louise." Laffitte disappeared before Devon could lash out at him. However, instead of getting angry about having to do this, she started smiling creepily. 'I'll make full use of this opportunity, to pay you back for everything, Deuce! Murunfuffuffu!'

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Laffitte had quickly escaped with Louise, and with a few hours of running at max speed, he had made it back safely to the palace. He immediately met up with Ace, Sabo, and Perona in Sabo's room like always. He placed the tiny Louise on Sabo's bed and sat down on the table with the rest.

"So that's Deuce's little sister. They really do look alike, especially with that blue hair," said Ace.

"But what will we tell her when she wakes up? We did just kidnap her, so I doubt that she'll listen to us. And what if she is like the other Celestial Dragons?" asked Perona.

"Those are problems for tomorrow. She won't wake up from this even after seven days, so let's go to sleep first. It's already really late, and people will start questioning us if they see us together so late," said Laffitte.

"Yeah, I'm not feeling like dealing with a spoiled brat this late. I'll go and sleep in one of the empty bedrooms. No one enters my room without knocking, even Ken, so she should be fine here," said Sabo.

"Yawn. Goodnight, guys."

"Goodnight."

Everyone left Sabo's room and went to bed, not thinking that anything would happen.

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It's currently 2 am, an hour after Laffitte came back, and something started moving around under the bedsheets in Sabo's room. It suddenly started expanding till it was just as big as a child. The thing underneath the sheets suddenly took them off of itself and stood up out of bed. What appeared was a little girl with a drowsy face.

"Toilet."

She started walking towards the door and opened it. She immediately walked out of the room and turned right. She started walking through the spacious corridors while looking for the bathroom.

"Yawn. Sara, Sara, where are you? Yawn. Did you guys renovate this place while I was sleeping? It looks completely different. Sara, hurry up and show me the way to the bathroom." No one responded to the girl's calls, so she kept walking while searching for the bathroom.

"Thud!" While she was walking, she suddenly bumped into someone and fell down.

"You idiot! Can't you see that I'm walking here! How dare you block my path and push me down! State your name right now! I'll have my parents take care of you!"

But the person didn't say anything and just stared at her.

"You! Get your vile eyes away from me!"

"You have quite the bad vocabulary for a brat."

"How dare you call me a brat! Do you even know who I am!"

"Nope."

"Then what are you doing in my house!"

"Your house? I think you're at the wrong address, little missy. This is my home in Jiyū Island, and I don't remember selling it to anyone."

"Jiyū Island? Are you saying that I'm not in Mary Geoise anymore! Wait, now I remember! You kidnapped me, didn't you! How dare you kidnap the princess of the Marfont family!"

"Mary Geoise, Marfont Family, kidnapping? I don't know what you mean by me kidnapping you, but if you really are who you say you are, you'd better leave immediately. People here don't really like Celestial Dragons." The person passed by the fallen girl, intending to ignore her and let someone else handle this.

"You will regret kidnapping me. Once I make it back home, I'll tell my brother Lewis Marfont, and he'll punish all of you!"

"You must think that your brother is really impressive, but I've never heard of him, so I doubt that he'd be all that strong."

"It's normal that you haven't heard of his name since he was going under an alias the whole time. He was on a Yonko crew till just recently. You probably know him as Masked Deuce, one of the strongest pirates alive."

"What did you just say?" The person's tone completely did a 180 from a peaceful individual to a threatening one. This tone made the princess freeze in fear. "You'll be answering my questions, and I dare you to lie, understood!"

"Y… yes!"

"Were you talking about Masked Deuce from the Azure Pirates?"

"Yes.

"Why did he go back to his family?"

"I don't know."

"Did he say anything to you that could be important?"

"I don't think so. He never talks about what he has done these last few years. Not even father could get him to say anything."

"You just said that you were kidnapped. Do you remember what the kidnapper looked like?"

"It was our personal CP-0 agent, Lucas. He suddenly entered my room, and after I told him to leave, he pulled out a watch, and I blacked out. After that, I woke up to go to the bathroom, but I had somehow completely forgotten about the kidnapping till I met you."

The person's eye suddenly glowed with azure color. When his eyes went back to normal, he sighed, and his tone turned back to the peaceful one.

"Let's go, I'll show you the way to the bathroom, and after that, I'll find a way to reunite you with your brother. I don't know who kidnapped you, but I promise that I won't let anyone hurt you till we find out what happened."

"How can I trust you?"

"Do you have any other choice but to believe me??"

"Tsk, you better behave yourself."

"Did I ever tell you that I hate spoiled brats like you the most? You better learn how to behave normally, or we'll have a problem, understood?"

"U...understood."

The person started walking, and the princess quickly followed behind him.

"Mr, can you perhaps tell me your name?"

"Ken."

"Really? Did anyone ever confuse you with Azure Ken when you told them your name? Because I might know his name, but I've never seen a picture of him."

"Oh yeah, all the time. It doesn't help that my nickname is also Azure Ken and that my bounty is also 5.255.000.000 berries."

"Haha, you're so funny, Mr. Ken."

"Hahaha, yeah I know."

Ken stopped in front of a bathroom.

"I hope it'll be to your liking, princess. I'll be waiting outside, so don't worry about someone bothering you."

"I'll trust that you aren't the kind of person to peep while I'm on the toilet."

"Why? It's not like there is something to look at."

"Hold it in, hold it in, Louise," she said under her breath as she walked into the bathroom. 15 minutes later, she came back out and looked surprised at Ken, who was sleeping while leaning on the wall. She immediately turned around and started running away, but she quickly stopped in her tracks when she heard the voice behind her.

"I still don't understand why girls take so long in the bathroom. Now, that you're done, let's go quickly." Ken grabbed Louise's hand, and before she could say anything, her vision blurred, and she suddenly appeared in a bedroom."

"Yawn. Did you find something to eat, babe?" asked Celine. She was facing away from Ken, so she didn't see Louise.

"No, but I did find a kid."

"Oh, okay. Just go to sleep, and I'll make you an extra big breakfast tomorrow." It took her a couple of seconds to realize what he just said, and when she did, she immediately turned around. She was surprised to see Ken actually holding on to a little girl's hand. "Who is she, and where did she come from?"

"She claims to be Deuce's little sister. But I need you to look after her so that I can find out how she got here."

"Deuce's little sister? Just make sure to fill me in on the details later. I'm too tired to hear about some family drama."

"Louise, stay here with Celine. If you behave like a normal girl, I'll make sure to bring you back home. But if you don't, I'll just put you on a small ship and leave you alone in the middle of the ocean."

"I'll try."

"That's good enough, I guess." Ken left Louise with Celine and walked out of his bedroom. 'Now, let's see who is behind all of this.'

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Profound Jokes:

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A boy and a man sit on a couch together. The boy says to the man, "Yeah, well, I didn't believe in reincarnation when I was your age either."

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A man is flying in a hot-air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man below. He lowers the balloon farther and shouts, "Excuse me! Can you tell me where I am?"

The man below says: "Yes, you're in a hot-air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field."

"You must be an engineer," says the balloonist.

"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"

"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone."

The man below says, "You must be in management."

"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."

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An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express a negative."

A voice from the back of the room said, "Yeah, right."

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I'll stop at nothing to avoid using negative numbers.

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Pessimist: Oh, this can't get any worse!

Optimist: Yes, it can!