To be honest, Fang Yi really couldn't bring himself to kill the little girl even if he was asked to.
Although sometimes what she said was a bit spoiled, considering the environment she grew up in, she was actually not that bad.
"Sorry, actually I don't want to kill you either! After all, after killing a Celestial Dragon, we'll face endless pursuit! But there's no other way. If we let you go, you'll still arrest us! So... you have to rest in peace here!" Fang Yi pretended to say helplessly.
"No... don't kill me! I promise! If you let me go, I know nothing. I've been sleeping at home and I haven't seen anyone!" Tears immediately welled up in Tiffany Cho's eyes because she knew Fang Yi was telling the truth. If it were her, she'd probably do the same.
"You know that's impossible!" Fang Yi shook his head and winked at Shanks.
Among the people present, apart from Fang Yi, Shanks was the one with the quickest thinking. Although he was sometimes stupid, most of the time he was quite reliable.
"Um... Brother Yi! Isn't it a bit too cruel to kill such a little girl!? After all, we're not bad guys!" Shanks stepped forward after seeing Fang Yi's look and thinking for a while.
"Humph! What little girl or not, Celestial Dragons are all bad guys. It's better to just kill her and be done with it!" Barrett, who was standing beside them, couldn't help but say.
Hearing Barrett's words, Fang Yi couldn't help but want to clap his hands. This guy might look simple and honest, but he could still perform well occasionally.
He really played the role of the bad guy well.
Tiffany Cho had some hope after hearing Shanks' words, but Barrett's words immediately plunged her into despair.
"You... how can you believe me? I really won't betray you! Didn't you say before that we're partners now? Why do you want to kill me now!?" Tiffany Cho cried and said to Fang Yi.
Hearing the little girl's words, Shanks and the other two looked at Fang Yi with strange looks. This made Fang Yi terribly embarrassed.
"Okay! Actually, it's okay for us to believe you! You should know our purpose, right? Call that doctor over to meet us! Our only purpose is to ask for his help! How about it? Do you agree?" Fang Yi pretended to think for a while and then said.
"Yes, yes, yes! I'll call him over right away! Don't worry, I won't play any tricks!" Seeing the hope of survival, Tiffany Cho quickly agreed.
"Good. I hope you can really do what you say!" Fang Yi nodded and said, "Untie her!"
"Are you serious? You just believe her like this? If she goes out and shouts, we'll be riddled with bullets immediately!" Buggy was the first to object. After all, it wasn't very safe to entrust their lives to such a little girl.
Especially since she was a Celestial Dragon and had been captured and threatened by them.
"This..." Hearing Buggy's words, Fang Yi quietly gave him an appreciative look. Then he took out a small pill and said to Tiffany Cho, "Buggy's right! Well, eat this! If you fulfill the agreement as we said, I'll give you the antidote!"
"What... what's this?" Tiffany Cho looked at the small pill in Fang Yi's hand and felt it wasn't something good.
"This isn't poison. You can rest assured. It's not Lethal!" Fang Yi smiled, pinched Tiffany Cho's little face, and directly threw the small pill into her mouth before continuing, "But in some aspects, it's more powerful than poison! Because it's addictive!"
"Ugh~~~ Ugh~~ Ad... addictive? What... what does it mean?" Tiffany Cho retched a few times, trying to spit out the small pill, but found it was useless because she had already swallowed it completely.
"Hehe... This thing isn't poison, so ordinary medical methods are useless! Its only effect is to make you really want to keep eating it!" Fang Yi said as he took out another one and held it in his hand.
Sure enough, after seeing the small pill, Tiffany Cho felt that impulse deep in her heart, the impulse to take it and gobble it up. Even though she knew it was poison, she still wanted to eat it. This discovery shocked her greatly.
"But don't underestimate it! Although you can resist it now, as time passes, you'll gradually be unable to resist and will try every means to get this pill! If you can't eat it, you'll feel itchy all over and keep scratching yourself until your skin gets raw all over and you finally die of festering!" Fang Yi said with a faint smile.
Hearing Fang Yi's words and seeing his smiling face, Tiffany Cho's fear reached its peak. With a scream, she fainted directly.
"Ahem... Well... I was just scaring her. You know, this is just a magical fishing bait!" Seeing the strange looks from the other three, Fang Yi touched his nose and quickly explained.
Once someone eats this magical fishing bait, there won't be any problems, but they'll really want to keep eating it in the following period.
Of course, if they can't eat it, they won't feel itchy all over. That was all made up by Fang Yi on purpose to scare Tiffany Cho.
As for how Fang Yi knew the state of a person after eating the magical fishing bait, it can only be said that there was no shortage of foodies in the Roger Pirates. Even a certain captain ate the magical fishing bait not because there was no food on the ship, but because he just wanted to know why it could attract Sea Kings, so he ate it out of curiosity.
"Now you've scared her into a faint. What should we do?" Barrett finally understood why Fang Yi could get information that he couldn't get from others. This guy was simply a devil!
"It's okay. Since she's willing to cooperate, it's the best news for us!"
When the time comes, you guys go straight to the place we've reserved and wait for me. I'll take her back and then have her bring out the user of the Ope Ope no Mi! After we meet up, I'll give her the antidote. Of course, if she tries to pull any tricks... Heh heh! I've got plenty of ways to deal with her!" Fang Yi glanced at Tiffany Cho lying there and whispered.
He had already noticed that Tiffany Cho had woken up, but he didn't expose her. Instead, he took this opportunity to reassure her, telling her that as long as she cooperated obediently, he'd give her the antidote.
Sure enough, upon hearing Fang Yi's words, Tiffany Cho, who was lying there, couldn't help but tremble again.
Seeing this, the other three couldn't help but secretly give Fang Yi a thumbs up. In terms of understanding human nature, they really had to admit defeat.
Soon, Tiffany Cho, who had been pretending to be unconscious, slowly woke up. Then Fang Yi took her to her residence, while Barrett, Shanks, and Buggy went directly to the reserved place to wait for news from Fang Yi.
"Don't I need to tell you what to do next, right?" After the two quietly entered the room, Fang Yi asked Tiffany Cho with a smile while putting on his armor.
"Humph!" Maybe because she was back on her own turf, Tiffany Cho finally gained some confidence. She snorted at Fang Yi and said, "I'll do as we agreed! If you dare not give me the antidote later, you're dead!"
"Don't worry. You're not my target!" Fang Yi smiled after getting fully dressed and then walked out of the room.
Not long after, Tiffany Cho, who pretended to have just woken up, started her act. Pretending to be sick, she demanded that the recently well - known doctor be brought to her immediately.
Since she was unwell, all the guards and slaves began to panic because if anything happened to this young miss, they might all lose their lives.
So the slaves acted very quickly. Before long, a middle - aged man in a white coat walked in with a medical kit.
"Alright, you all go out. Just leave him here with me!" When she saw the doctor coming, Tiffany Cho waved her hand at the other maids and guards, shooing them away like flies, leaving only Fang Yi and the doctor.
"Miss Tiffany Cho, where do you feel unwell?" The doctor didn't beat around the bush and asked Tiffany Cho directly.
Tiffany Cho rolled her eyes and pointed at Fang Yi beside her, saying, "Talk to him if you have anything to say!"
The doctor was taken aback and looked at Fang Yi in surprise. He knew very well what kind of personalities the Celestial Dragons had, but he had really never seen such a situation before.
"Excuse me... Are you the user of the Ope Ope no Mi?" Fang Yi also didn't waste any time and directly asked.
The doctor frowned and looked at Tiffany Cho helplessly, saying, "My Lady! It seems that you've also heard the rumors and want to see my Devil Fruit ability?"
"So, you really are the user of the Ope Ope no Mi?" Fang Yi was overjoyed and confirmed again.
The middle-aged doctor looked a bit helpless. As a doctor, his duty was to cure the sick and save the injured. But ever since the World Government made him eat a Devil Fruit, he felt like he wasn't a doctor anymore. Instead, he was a clown, a clown specifically for the Celestial Dragons' entertainment!
"Sorry, doctor! I know it's rude, but could you use your Devil Fruit ability?" Fang Yi took off his helmet and said with a smile.
"Sure!" The middle-aged doctor nodded expressionlessly. Then he stretched out his hand, and a transparent ball appeared in it.
Tiffany Cho also stepped forward curiously to take a look, but she quickly lost interest. After all, Devil Fruit users were nothing special to the Celestial Dragons.
"As expected, you're a Ope Ope no Mi user! I wonder if you could save someone with a terminal illness, doctor?" Fang Yi tried to hold back his excitement and asked.
Hearing Fang Yi's question, the middle-aged doctor said with a hint of pride, "If it were in the past, I really couldn't be sure! But now... it's absolutely no problem!"
"That's great!" Fang Yi grinned and said.