One Piece: Surrounded at Marineford? Just kidding!

Chapter 215: I come from the future!

Chen Ye's reminder had no effect whatsoever.

Those solemn words only piqued their curiosity.

This feeling of being deliberately kept in suspense makes them feel looked down upon.

Rocks slapped his thigh.

The pile of gold coins beneath him clattered loudly.

He grinned, his voice booming like thunder.

"Don't worry! What haven't I seen? Speak up!"

"I've already chopped down Im and beaten up the Five Elders, what else can scare me? Tell me!"

His voice was filled with an undeniable air of dominance, as if to say that there was no secret in the world that could move him, Rocks D. Giebeck.

That's right!

Roger, standing next to him, confidently echoed his sentiment.

Roger wasn't as domineering as Rocks, but he had just as much of that free spirit in his bones.

He crossed his arms, and his hearty laughter echoed through the secret room.

"Speak up, bro! We're listening! I want to see what secret is even more explosive than what we were just talking about!"

Two people, one on the left and one on the right.

He adopted an attitude of not caring even if the Heavenly King himself came, and just stared straight at Chen Ye.

Seeing their antics, Chen Ye's lips curled into a playful smile.

The two men's fearless attitude made him laugh.

The smile was faint.

The tense atmosphere in the sealed room relaxed.

He stopped beating around the bush.

Chen Ye spoke calmly, his voice not loud.

But every single word was thrown at them.

"You two have always been curious about where I came from and where my power comes from."

He paused.

His gaze shifted from Rocks' arrogant face to Roger's curious face.

I saw their expressions clearly.

Then he gave them a break to digest.

Only then did Chen Ye deliver the answer, word by word, one that was enough to overturn everything.

"Now, I can tell you."

He spoke very slowly.

Each syllable carried weight, striking the hearts of the two men.

"I am not from this time and space."

The smiles on their faces froze.

Chen Ye didn't give them any time to react.

Just as their expressions began to change drastically, he uttered the second half of his sentence, a sentence that was enough to completely shatter their worldview.

That's the most crucial sentence.

"I'm someone who traveled back from the future!"

The words fell.

Dead silence.

The room fell completely silent.

The air, which had been filled with Lox's hearty laughter, was now filled only with the crackling of burning torches.

It was extremely jarring.

Rocks's wild laughter froze on his face.

His eyes, which always burned with ambition, were now empty.

Roger's arms, which he had been holding across his chest, fell to his sides.

His mouth was agape, and his eyes were fixed blankly.

The smiles on Rocks and Roger's faces, along with all their confidence, vanished completely in that instant.

future?

cross?

Chen Ye just watched them.

He had considered that they would be surprised, doubtful, or that they would think he was crazy.

But what happened next was something he hadn't anticipated.

The petrification didn't last ten seconds.

The astonishment on their faces was still there.

But that feeling of my worldview collapsing faded very quickly.

Instead, there was surprise, sudden realization, and a sense of understanding.

Their minds are processing this impossible thing with a peculiar logic.

Chen Ye was somewhat dissatisfied with this reaction.

"Hey, you two, isn't your reaction a bit off?"

He leaned forward, breaking the eerie silence.

"Shouldn't you be even more shocked? Like clutching your heads and yelling 'This can't be!' or thinking I'm crazy? The expressions you're making right now, like 'Oh, I see,' make me feel very unfulfilled."

Rocks was the first to come to his senses.

He let out a heavy sigh.

It was as if she had expelled all the shock she had just felt.

His sharp eyes regained focus, and his gaze held a complex understanding.

He didn't refute, but instead spoke in an explanatory tone in a deep voice.

"That old monster Im, hiding behind the scenes, can live for eight hundred years without dying, ruling the world like a ghost."

He paused for a moment, as if organizing his thoughts.

"Compared to that, brother, your time travel doesn't seem like such a big deal after all."

His logic is simple and straightforward.

But it worked remarkably well.

Since there are already immortal monsters in the world, it seems that adding another miracle of time travel is also within the acceptable range.

"That's right!"

Roger nodded vigorously; his chaotic thoughts had finally found an anchor.

He clapped his hands, adding his own perspective, his voice still carrying a hint of excitement from surviving a close call.

"This ocean has all sorts of strange Devil Fruits! Some can turn people into light, some can control souls, and some can shatter space! I heard our ship's scholar mention that among all the theories about Devil Fruit abilities, there is actually one that can interfere with time!"

Roger's eyes grew brighter as he spoke.

He seemed to have found the perfect scientific basis for Chen Ye's heaven-defying ability.

"Even though it's just a legend, or even considered fantasy, the existence of fantasy means it has the potential to become reality! Brother, you must have eaten that legendary, one-of-a-kind Devil Fruit that can travel through time, right?!"

The two of them took turns talking.

Within seconds, he had come up with a complete explanation in his mind.

The conclusion is: Chen Ye must have eaten an extremely rare, even theoretical, legendary Devil Fruit related to space and time!

This is a form of self-protection.

It is also a kind of mindset inertia of the strong.

They are accustomed to understanding everything unknown by incorporating it into the two major systems of Haki and Devil Fruits.

Seeing the two of them with such confident expressions that they thought they had seen through the truth, Chen Ye almost burst out laughing.

This is really true.

so perfect.

He was still thinking about how to explain his power, which didn't belong to this world, and how to obscure the secrets of the system.

Unexpectedly, these two guys offered him the perfect way out.

Attributing everything to a time-space fruit is the best pretense right now.

Chen Ye decided to go with the flow.

He neither admitted nor denied it, but simply followed their train of thought, and that unfathomable, mysterious smile reappeared on his face.

To Rocks and Roger, that smile was an admission of consent.

Seeing the excitement and realization on their faces as they guessed the truth, Chen Ye picked up the wine glass on the table and swirled the liquid inside.

His voice was soft, yet it carried an echo that seemed out of place in this era.

"It's what I can do."

"It's not just about time travel."