After Eust encounters Coby and gets to know him, he receives a new mission from Mission Fruit the following day.
This new mission was the hunting mission that Eust and Sunny had discussed. Sunny provided the details.
“Meow, Eust, the new mission has been issued according to your request. The specifics are as follows: It’s a selectable hunting mission. You need to catch at least 200 fish within 12 hours, with at least 20 different species, and you must catch them all yourself. The mission reward is a slight increase in physical attributes, and the penalty for failure is 24 hours of blindness. Meow!”
“Hmm, this hunting mission sounds doable for me. I’m quite good at fishing, so the quantity shouldn’t be an issue. I just need to move around a bit to find different species. The mission penalty is pretty severe, but as long as I complete the task on time, it’ll be fine.”
“Meow, Eust, don’t underestimate the missions issued by the Mission Fruit. These missions always have a certain level of difficulty and usually require some effort to complete. Meow!”
At first, Eust didn’t take Sunny’s warning seriously. Only after he had changed fishing spots several times and still hadn’t found enough species did he start to remember Sunny’s advice.
“Sunny, I can’t find enough different types of fish. How are we going to complete this mission?” Eust was stumped and turned to his clever companion for help.
“Meow, haha, I knew you’d mess up and come asking for help. You’ve been searching only in shallow waters. Have you thought about going to deeper waters to fish? Around islands, the variety of fish in shallow areas is usually limited. Only special currents in shallow areas around certain islands have a rich variety. You need to get a boat and head to deeper waters to find more species. Meow!”
“Of course, Sunny. How could I be so foolish not to think of that? Thanks, Sunny,” Eust said, knowing that praising Sunny would prevent her from teasing him.
Realizing his mistake, Eust promptly got a small boat and rowed out to deeper waters. There, he quickly found and caught the required 20 species of fish. The variety of fish in this world was indeed vast. Eust suspected that if he had kept changing locations along the shore, he might have eventually found enough species anyway.
Completing the mission also served as physical training, and the mission rewards directly enhanced his physical attributes. Despite the fatigue of catching and killing fish, Eust didn’t feel as worn out as he expected.
Catching 200 fish was no easy task. Even if the fish were just lying there, killing them all would leave one’s hands sore. Not to mention Eust had to catch the fish himself, row the boat, and handle other tasks. This hunting mission wasn’t much easier than the training missions and sometimes proved to be more rigorous.
Eust thought back to the welfare mission of dealing with the Fish Fish. That mission was easy since the fish were stranded and couldn’t move. It could only shoot powerful water jets but couldn’t hit Eust, so it just waited to be defeated.
Inspired by this, Eust realized that missions with a single target must involve a difficult adversary, and once off the deserted island, there wouldn’t be any more welfare missions.
Sunny was right. The missions issued by the Mission Fruit weren’t easy, and they all had a certain level of difficulty.
The previous training missions required him to push beyond his limits, leaving him extremely fatigued. Fortunately, his recovery rate had improved, allowing him to wake up refreshed the next morning. Otherwise, he would have been bedridden for recovery after completing the tasks.
Once he finished reminiscing, Eust began to process the fish he had caught. He discarded the low-value ones back into the sea and kept only the valuable fish.
However, Sunny’s Mission Space was already quite full, holding many items. They could only store the most delicious fish, and the excess fish with some value had to be sold.
The simplest way to deal with them was to sell them to fishmongers for cash. Straightforward and efficient, Eust handled it this way.
As a result, Eust made quite a bit of money. One fishing trip provided enough for him and Sunny to live on for a long time. Was Eust destined to become a fishing king?
Of course not. Eust’s goal was the Grand Line and the New World, not to slow down for fishing.
Back at the inn, Eust brought a gift for the little girl Rika—a beautiful shell he had found by chance. Hearing that she was making a shell necklace, he decided to give it to her.
Over the past few days, Eust had gotten to know Rika. Although he often left the inn early and returned late, sometimes they met in the lobby. Rika was always polite, and Eust appreciated well-mannered children.
Giving her a pretty shell was just his way of being kind. Eust was destined to sail the seas, and making children happy now and then had no harm.
In his room, Eust asked Sunny about the next mission release time from the Mission Fruit.
Sunny’s answer matched his guess—the next mission could be issued in about two days.
Sunny’s description of the mission release intervals was too vague, so Eust was curious about the specifics.
He speculated that the interval between missions was related to the specific requirements of the previous mission. More data would be needed to make more accurate deductions.
Eust planned to gather information on this, supporting Sunny’s efforts to develop the fruit’s capabilities.
Eust was still upset about his previous brainstorming failure. He vowed to come up with an idea to develop special abilities for the Mission Fruit.
Sunny didn’t put much effort into developing new fruit abilities, focusing instead on training mission reward enhancements, which frustrated Eust.
While other Devil Fruit users had all sorts of creative abilities, Sunny had eaten the Mission Fruit without much concern from Eust. But the lack of creativity in developing its abilities bothered him.
Currently, the only ability related to him was the mission space. All other abilities were inherent to the Mission Fruit.
Eust was pressingly concerned about how to develop new abilities for the Mission Fruit. After completing the fishing mission, he got lost in thought about it, once again forgetting about his navigation books.
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