It's important to know that if a Devil Fruit user loses the power of their fruit, their combat strength will basically decrease by more than 80%.
"Me too." Caesar, who was originally in a smoke state, turned into a solid form.
"You two stay put, let's go." Lin Qing grabbed the two of them and flew up, heading towards Luffy and the others.
"Wait, I remember now, there's also that lecherous Momonosuke! Oh my god! Momonosuke must die!" Lin Qing immediately released his divine sense to search for him.
Sure enough, after flying for a short while, Lin Qing found a very small and extremely ugly dragon in a waste disposal site underground.
Lin Qing immediately broke through a passage and flew in, grabbing Momonosuke's body in one swift motion.
"Who...who are you? Why have you captured me?" Momonosuke said weakly.
"Hehe, Momonosuke, you've finally fallen into my hands." Lin Qing smiled maliciously.
When Lin Qing was watching One Piece, he noticed how much Momonosuke had taken advantage of Nami and Robin. Now, he could finally get his revenge.
"Who are you? Why do you know me?" Momonosuke became nervous, afraid that his identity would be exposed.
Lin Qing didn't answer, looking at Momonosuke in his hand. With just a little force, Momonosuke would die here.
However, Lin Qing still couldn't bring himself to do it, after all, he was just a child. "Forget it, out of sight, out of mind. I'll just hand you over to the Navy and see how you manage to infiltrate the Straw Hat crew."
"Let me go! Damn it, what Straw Hat crew? I don't know them! Let me go!" Momonosuke struggled incessantly.
"You lecherous brat, behave yourself, or I'll roast you and eat you," Lin Qing said viciously.
Momonosuke immediately shut up upon hearing this. Looking at the ferocious Lin Qing was truly terrifying. Then he saw Caesar and Law behind Lin Qing.
"Ah, you, he, he is—"
"Let's go, the Navy should be very interested in you."
Lin Qing led the three of them outside, just as Smoker and his group arrived on Iceland.
Smoker and his troops had just landed and were preparing to find the Straw Hat crew when Smoker suddenly seemed to notice something and looked up.
Lin Qing floated above the G5 force led by Smoker and said, "This lecherous brat is yours to handle."
"This kid's name is Kozuki Momonosuke. He is the young master of the Kozuki family in Wano Country. He is a user of the artificial Devil Fruit developed by Caesar, the Mythical Zoan type, the Dragon Fruit."
"Twenty years ago, Kaido, one of the Four Emperors, occupied Wano Country and killed his parents. His mother used the power of the Time-Time Fruit to send Momonosuke through time to twenty years in the future."
Lin Qing threw Momonosuke directly onto the deck of a naval warship and explained Momonosuke's identity in detail.
"You two keep studying it. I'll see you off. Tashigi is still so cute, haha!"
With a wave of his hand, Lin Qing sent all the sailors on shore to the warship.
"Damn it, who are you? Why? Why do you know my identity so clearly?" Momonosuke, who had landed on the deck, was immediately shocked.
"Damn it, you, you're Lin Qing from the Straw Hat Pirates! Damn it, why can't I move?" Smoker said gravely, a cigar dangling from his lips.
"Mr. Smoker, I can't move either. And don't call me that, you pirate!" Tashigi shouted angrily.
"Tashigi is even cuter when she's angry," Lin Qing said with a smile.
"Damn it, you damned pirate, don't you dare harass our colonel's sister!" the group of rogue marines shouted indignantly.
Lin Qing ignored them and released a powerful burst of spiritual energy, pushing the warship back into the river they had come from. They soon left Icefire Island.
Lin Qing was worried that Smoker, the heavy smoker, might come back, so he went straight to the stern of the ship.
He released a burst of spiritual energy to protect the warship, then pushed it with all his might—"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
The warship immediately sped towards the sea at an extremely fast speed, and it was unknown how far Lin Qing's push would take it.
In any case, Smoker can forget about seeing the Straw Hat crew on Punk Hazard.
Then Lin Qing led Caesar and Law to the main gate of Luffy's base, where Lin Qing waited for Luffy and the others.
Luffy and his crew are currently fighting the orcs inside the base, but they're just small fry and were taken down in no time.
A dozen minutes later, Luffy and his crew ran out of the gate with dozens of children, including some children who were as big as giants.
"Ah, it's Caesar, it's Caesar."
"Help! Big sister! Big brother! Help us! I want to go home!"
When the children saw Caesar at the gate, they all burst into tears; they were truly terrified of him.
"Children, don't be afraid. Look, I've caught Caesar. It's alright now. We'll take you home." Lin Qing held up the white silk thread in her hand for the children to see.
Is this... real?
"have no idea."
"Could it be that they deliberately let us pass through so they could catch us?"
The group of children stood there sobbing as they spoke.
“Don’t be afraid, that masked guy is one of our partners. He’s been captured by our partners,” Robin explained.
“Yes, you’ll be able to go home soon,” Nami comforted her.
"Yeah, yeah, Lin Qing can even fly us, it's so much fun!" Luffy chimed in from the side.
"Really? That's great! Thank you, big sisters and big brothers."
"Fly? I want to fly, I want to fly!" The children wiped away their tears and then beamed with joy.
Then, Luffy, Nami, and the others led the children out of the experimental base.
Chapter 151 Departure
A cold wind blew by, and all the children had runny noses and were shivering.
"It's so cold."
"Big sister, I'm so cold."
"We're all so cold."
They were fine wearing short sleeves inside the base, but once they came out, it was freezing cold, and the kids were shivering.
"You're all cold. What are we going to do? We don't have many clothes or any suitable clothes for you." Nami said helplessly, looking at the children who were much taller than her.
"Lin Qing, please think of something." Nami looked at Lin Qing pitifully.
"Yes, Miss Nami's request will definitely be fulfilled." Lin Qing nodded.
He reached out and snapped his fingers, and a cluster of golden flames appeared on Lin Qing's fingertips.
Lin Qing threw the flames upwards, controlling them to float above everyone, instantly warming the entire area within a hundred meters.
The icy wind turned warm and comfortable.
"Wow, it's fire! It's so warm, I'm not cold anymore."
"I'm not cold anymore."
"Big sister, we're not cold anymore. This big brother is amazing!"
The Straw Hat crew, who were shivering, suddenly felt the warmth, except for Chopper, of course.
"Lin Qing, you're amazing, haha!" Nami ran over with a big smile and patted Lin Qing on the shoulder.
"It's gotten warmer, thankfully it's not as hot as Fire Island," Chopper said happily.
"Haha, it's not cold anymore, and it's not hot anymore, that's great! By the way, Lin Qing, hurry up and release that cloud, I want to fly, I want to fly!" Luffy stretched his body and then said.
"Fly, I want to fly too, big brother, big brother, I want to fly."
The children were no longer cold, and were immediately drawn to what Luffy had said, so they ran over and surrounded Lin Qing.
"Alright, alright, don't rush, I'll make you fly right now." Lin Qing smiled and waved his hand, and white clouds began to appear beneath everyone's feet.
Before long, a white cloud, hundreds of meters in size, appeared beneath their feet, and they were all standing on it.
"Take off! Everyone hold on tight, don't fall!" Lin Qing said to the children.
"Big brother, we've got a firm footing, let's take off!"
"Yes, yes, big brother, we've all stood firm."
The children got excited. The taller children sat on the white clouds, while the smaller ones sat steadily beside them.
Then, the white clouds rose into the sky, flew to a certain height, and headed towards the sea.
Lin Qing used her spiritual power to cover the edges of the white clouds to prevent the children from accidentally falling down.
Nami, Robin, Franky, Chopper, and Usopp played with the children, while the rest of the group came to Lin Qing's side.
"Lin Qing, are these two the culprits who kidnapped these children and used them for experiments?" Sanji asked, exhaling a smoke ring.
Luffy remained silent, but his fierce gaze was fixed on Caesar and Law, and he was clenching his wrist as if he were about to beat them up at any moment.
"Oh ho ho ho, this guy looks kind of familiar," Brooke said, looking at Law.
"This is Law, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea. He let Luffy go during the Marineford War two years ago. As for this ugly guy, that's Caesar. He's the culprit," Lin Qing said, kicking Caesar.
"Nonsense! How am I ugly? I'm handsome! The girls at nightclubs all say I'm the most handsome man in the world!" Caesar said indignantly.
"You ugly bastard, and you call yourself handsome?" Sanji stomped Caesar's face on the ground and rubbed it hard.
"Straw Hat Master, I'm not with him. I'm here to gain Doflamingo's trust. I want to defeat Doflamingo and take my revenge."
Law, who hadn't spoken until now, suddenly spoke to Luffy.
"Doflamingo? Revenge, one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea, Law? Oh, I remember now, you're Law." Luffy slapped his forehead, remembering.
"Are you going to fight Doflamingo too? What a coincidence, we're going to fight him too." Luffy revealed his purpose.
"The Seven Warlords of the Sea, when did a new Warlord of the Sea appear?" Ace's voice rang out.
Then you see Ace in ghost form emerge from Luffy's hat and float above Luffy's head.
"Ah, Ace, you're awake."
“Luffy, I told you I wasn’t sleeping,” Ace retorted.
"Ah, you, you're Ace, Fire Fist Ace? Weren't you dead? What's this?" Law looked at Ace in shock.
"We went to the Land of the Dead, defeated the Lord of the Land of the Dead, and brought Ace out."