Thirty memory orbs had allowed Law to obtain precious information. The remaining one hundred and twenty memory orbs would be difficult to digest in a short time, at least until the headache's aftereffects disappeared.
However, Law wasn't in a hurry. They would have to stay here for at least a month anyway.
The reason was that Knov needed to erase the Hide-and-Seek Dimension's entrances established in the Forest of Medusa, including the one Law had made with the spare key. Conservatively, it would take about a month to complete, maybe even longer.
Enduring the severe pain, Law walked towards where Chucu and the others were.
At that moment, Chucu's eyes were spinning, her expression dazed.
During the time Law was receiving the memory orbs, Ging had teased Chucu, using language as a weapon to thoroughly confuse her.
Chucu had originally wanted to counterattack with her ten thousand whys, but she never expected that the human standing before her was an absolute master of language.
"Law."
Stargie watched Law approach.
Law nodded to Stargie and came before Chucu.
Ging stood up, tilted his head to look at Law, whose complexion was rather pale, and said curiously, "You look terrible."
"Yeah, aftereffects from exorcising Nen."
"Are you alright?"
"It's nothing serious. More to the point, what did you do to her?"
Law looked at the somewhat dazed Chucu and raised an eyebrow.
"Nothing much, just some friendly conversation." Ging shrugged, then said, "Anyway, did you gain anything from exorcising the Nen?"
"Yes, I extracted about one-fifth of the memories. Quite a bit of valuable information."
"Like?"
"The reason for the ancient humans' power."
"Oh?"
Ging's eyes lit up, showing great interest.
"Anything else?"
"The birth of the Mender."
Hearing this, Ging's heartbeat slowly quickened, but he glanced at Chucu and didn't press further on the spot.
This information would eventually be shared with everyone... there was no need to rush, especially with outsiders present.
However, when Law answered his questions, he didn't hide anything, so Chucu heard a few important sentences.
'Extracting memories...'
Chucu looked at Law with disbelief, involuntarily stepping back.
She had seen with her own eyes Law absorbing the Mender's corpse. At the time, she didn't understand Law's intention, but now she knew.
'This human could obtain a target's memories through devouring.'
Watching Chucu's panicked retreat, Law gave a helpless smile.
Shred.
The tape hastily stuck on Chucu suddenly fell off, causing her upper body to flip backward. With a thud, she tumbled to the ground, lying in opposite directions, looking quite embarrassed.
Law shook his head slightly, stepped forward, and helped Chucu's upper body flip back.
"Don't be afraid. I won't do anything to you. There's no need for that."
Chucu forced a smile, but thought to herself: 'You're the boss here. You say whatever you want. But I'd be a fool to believe you.'
"Because you are one of the quite precious relics."
"I..."
Chucu's expression changed.
After a moment, she fell into silence.
"Hmm?"
Law stared intently at Chucu.
After a moment, Chucu took a deep breath, met Law's highly aggressive gaze, and said solemnly, "I don't like being called a relic."
"You're right."
Law smiled, his gaze sweeping over Chucu's folded bamboo-like wings and the two tusk-like horns beneath her body.
"After all, you are a weapon."
"...!"
Chucu was startled.
Law then stood up, gently massaging his temples to alleviate the pain.
It was as if a heavy hammer was constantly pounding against his soul.
Even with pain tolerance training, given enough time, even an iron man probably couldn't bear it.
'I should ask Shiro to try treat it later.'
Law thought silently.
"How much do you actually know?"
Chucu looked up, staring directly at Law.
"Just a small part." Law's eyelids lowered slightly, and he said with emotion, "Ancient humans... really created a lot of things. Even a blade of grass, so small, might have been created by them and then left to the present day."
From the extracted memory information, Law had figured out Chucu's identity. She was a living weapon created by the ancient humans, but also just one of many types of weapons.
For example, plant weapons, liquid weapons...
Many things that could be called weapons were created by ancient humans for the purposes of killing and protection.
Meeting Chucu's wide-eyed stare, Law smiled and said, "Anyway, as long as you behave, we can coexist peacefully."
With that, Law turned and left.
Before leaving, he signaled to Ging.
Ging understood and followed.
The two left, leaving behind a dazed Chucu and the ice-cold Stargie.
Law's headache was very severe. It was only because of his strong pain tolerance that others couldn't tell easily.
"I'll have Bruna record the information first. After that, I might need to sleep for a few days."
"Okay."
Ging glanced at the fine beads of sweat on Law's forehead.
The two found Bruna and explained the situation.
Bruna immediately extended her tentacles to Law's head, silently and quickly extracting what Law had to say.
Her other tentacles then wrote in a blank diary.
It took about an hour to fully record the information.
Ging eagerly took the information and buried his head in reading it.
Law didn't disturb Ging. He went directly to find Shiro.
At that moment, Shiro was experimenting with making new tobacco. Seeing Law approach, he immediately stopped.
"I have a headache. Please treat me."
"No problem."
Although Shiro thought a headache was a minor ailment, he still agreed readily and used his Nen Ability… Fool's Methods.
A flash of white light passed, and sewing tools appeared on the ground, along with ten full spools of thread.
Looking at the tools on the ground, Shiro opened his mouth, looked at Law with a strange gaze, and said hesitantly, "Are you sure it's just a headache?"
"Yes."
Law nodded.
Shiro smiled bitterly, "Then why did such troublesome tools appear, ones I'm not even good at? It means your condition is very serious."
"Is that so..."
Law rubbed his chin, 'It seemed the Mender's massive amount of memory was placing considerable strain on my head.'
'Only thirty memory orbs, and there were still one hundred and twenty to go...'
Shiro rubbed his hands and said, "Lie down. I'll try to finish quickly."
"Wait. Somewhere else."
Law stopped Shiro.
A few minutes later, Law, Shiro, and Biscuit went to a private room.
Law lay on the bed, while Biscuit summoned Cookie, and Shiro prepared himself for the needle and thread.
The treatment officially began.
Cookie massaged Law, while Shiro picked up the needle and thread, his technique quite unskilled.
The room was immediately filled with the fluctuation of Nen.
Law kept his eyes tightly shut. With Cookie's massage, he fell asleep within ten minutes despite the headache.
Before falling asleep, he had a feeling he would be out for several days.
He just hoped the aftereffects would be gone by the time he woke up.
Meanwhile, Ging was rapidly reading the information recorded by Bruna.