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How can an ordinary person in the One Piece World abduct the Empress?
The answer is: Impossible.
Just find a quiet and peaceful corner to barely survive in; the One Piece World is not suited for ordinary people.
Although theoretically the Empress's favor does not rely on strength, every step closer to the Empress requires strength to support it, otherwise you would turn into stone in a matter of minutes.
Empress: Boa Hancock
Identity: Captain of the Kuja Pirates, Queen of Amazon Lily, and one of the Seven Warlords of the Sea.
Strength: Estimated hard strength is above a Yonko Commander, capable of going head-to-head with Admiral-level combat power during bursts, proficient in Three Types of Haki, and possessing a Devil Fruit ability with a special mechanism.
At the same time, she is evaluated by the world as the world's number one beauty.
With so many halos gathered on one person, without some special encounters, winning her over is simply impossible.
For instance, a certain Tieba brother once said, directly saying to the Empress, "You wouldn't want your past experiences to be known by the world, would you?"
Damn it, what reaction the Empress would have if one did that is truly curious.
But if that's the case, unless the Empress is an M, or likes playing roleplay, otherwise one should never even think about activating the illustrated book and gaining buffs.
Fortunately, he has the complete intelligence on the Empress, understanding her inner trauma and needs.
First of all, one thing can be made clear: despite being bestowed with numerous halos and titles, the Empress is not entirely detached from worldly affairs.
On the surface, she is an arrogant and willful empress, yet she is also a pure-hearted maiden yearning to be treated with sincerity, as well as a complete romantic brain.
But because of her tragic childhood experiences, she has developed an extreme aversion and distrust towards men.
Therefore, the Empress herself is a contrastive individual full of contradictions.
Extreme environments, adulation or humiliation have shaped her into being arrogant and sensitive.
Therefore, approaching her must neither be high and mighty, which would evoke the other party's painful memories, nor can it be fawning and flattering, otherwise the Empress will directly treat you like a stray dog by the roadside.
She must always be regarded as an ordinary, equal person. Only through this pure, personality-level equality can the Empress possibly let down her guard.
And this is just the beginning.
If one wants to take a step further, they also need to be able to give her a sense of security and trust.
For instance, after understanding her secrets and past, accepting her past, just like accepting a maiden who once strayed.
This requires an opportunity, depending on the timing.
Finally, there is one most crucial matter, and that is displaying sufficiently formidable strength and the aura of a king.
Amazon Lily advocates martial force. Influenced by such an environment, the Empress's thoughts naturally will be no exception, still advocating violence and power.
Only a person whose personality and status are simultaneously equal, accepting the other party's unseemly past, can be called tolerance; otherwise, even if the preconditions are met, they would only end up as a good guy.
Not to mention Luffy is the protagonist; this step-by-step problem-solving method was somehow managed by him through sheer coincidence.
The contingency in this is no less than a little brat casually scribbling on a drawing paper and then perfectly replicating US dollars.
Leiyi's brain was running frantically. Unknowingly, the newly learned Ghost Brain skill had already begun to run automatically.
"Hey Leiyi, what's wrong with your head?"
Yamato's exclamatory voice rang out.
Seeing the other party's reaction, Leiyi's heart tightened, thinking to himself that it was bad.
No way, this skill wouldn't have any side effects, would it?
The local natives look extremely willful, with all sorts of weird shapes.
But he couldn't do that. If he trained and trained until his head ended up like Vegapunk's, wouldn't he be finished?
His handsome appearance must be preserved; this is the bottom line that can never be touched.
He hurriedly took out a mirror and checked carefully. After a long while, he breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, no changes were found; he was still as handsome as ever.
Then he spoke impatiently to Yamato.
"Day in and day out, you only know how to make a fuss and act all surprised. What's wrong with my head?"
"Just now it was glowing, hey. How did you pull that off?"
"It's just a bit of light. I was developing my Devil Fruit ability just now."
"Eh, can you even cultivate by lying down and reading? No wonder you became so strong at such a young age. Can you help me? Let's continue trying the cultivation method you mentioned, okay?"
As she spoke, Yamato's hand had already reached her neckline, preparing to get rid of the extra burdens during cultivation.
Without looking, Leiyi could already feel Lilith's disdainful gaze.
Just now he used Ghost Brain for the first time. As a clone of Vegapunk, Lilith could not possibly ignore this.
Although Leiyi didn't care about the opinion of a high-end AI robot, they were currently on the deck of a warship.
The site conditions really didn't match, and it was even somewhat unseemly.
Therefore, he promptly stopped Yamato's bold behavior.
"We are currently executing a mission; I can't spare the distraction to help you. We'll talk when things settle down."
Saying this, Leiyi quietly coughed.
"Also, you are no longer a willful and do-as-you-please pirate. You need to mind your influence in public places, and your attire cannot be too casual."
Yamato: "Understood. You mean I can't casually show others and can only show you, right?"
Hahaha.
Hearing Yamato's straightforward reply, before Leiyi could react, Lilith not far away laughed out loud first.
"Ahem ahem, that's not what I meant, but it can also be understood that way. Since you are my person now, you naturally also represent my face. Therefore, even though you are not yet a Marines, you can't be too... flagrant and flamboyant."
"Of course, as an enlightened leader, I cannot suppress subordinates' rare and precious nature. So in private, you can do whatever you want according to your thoughts."
"Understood. I'll show you again when we cultivate in private."
Looking at Yamato's bold yet slightly teasing demeanor before him, Leiyi felt that Yamato had turned bad.
How could she scheme against a kind-hearted young man in broad daylight?
But he also felt quite gratified.
Of course, it wasn't because the other party mistakenly comprehended his wisdom, but because Yamato had clearly opened up a lot when facing him, which was a sign of closeness.
This new skill was indeed useful. If it were before, he definitely wouldn't have thought of such detailed things.
Nor would it have been possible to analyze the Empress so deeply.
However, analysis is analysis. After analyzing, Leiyi did not plan to execute it.
Especially after Yamato spoke up, it made Leiyi even more firm on this point.
Although adjusting strategies according to the analyzed route and preparing to capture the Empress step by step had a very high probability of success.
But why should he? The Empress is beautiful and all, but what was he lacking?
As a rare handsome young man in the One Piece World, the number one person of the younger generation in the Marines, and a strong player already rivaling the Four Emperors, his conditions compared to the Empress were only higher, not lower.
He wasn't some warm-hearted simp who loved her to death; why bother going through all kinds of schemes to capture her? Wouldn't all his efforts to become so strong be in vain?
Besides, where was Yamato any worse than her? Leaving stats aside...
No, there's no need to leave them aside at all. Just talking about stats alone, Yamato was not weaker than anyone, not to mention her generosity.
But having said that, although there were plenty of qualified partners and his demand for buffs wasn't urgent, the buff given by the system shouldn't be refused for free.
Therefore, he would still try to intercept and win over the Empress, but he would only use his own way—a more direct way—rather than this seemingly reasonable yet troublesome and inefficient method.
As for what a more direct way is, naturally it is displaying oneself.
The way to retain a butterfly is not to chase it, but to release the fragrance of flowers.
Turning initiative into passivity, as long as the purpose of equal communication can be achieved, that's enough.
As for what the flower fragrance is? Needless to say.
Doesn't Amazon Lily worship the strong? He'll show his strength first upon meeting.
The Empress will probably be unwilling to respond to the summon when they meet. He will use this as a reason to reasonably beat her up fiercely first. Afterwards, she will naturally take the initiative to seek equal communication with him. Won't this first step be accomplished just like that?
As for what happens after... we'll talk about it later.
