One Piece: The Eternal Flame

It is extremely difficult to find someone in an avalanche. Even if Hebrew is good at knowledge, he dare not trust his own judgment easily.

Everyone shouted and searched, but the efficiency was extremely slow. Before they knew it, the sun finally appeared in the morning of the next day, and the sunlight was just right, reflecting the snow dazzlingly.

Gray was originally sitting at the entrance of the cave, but seeing that it was almost time, he stood up and stretched, his bones made a crunching sound, reminding him that he sat for too long last night.

Denise also woke up, hammering her body to stand up. Even with the cloak on, she still felt that the ground was hard, but fortunately, she didn't feel cold last night.

She finally asked her own question, "Are you a Devil Fruit user? Control fire?"

"Yeah, it's cool." Gray tilted his head towards the entrance of the cave with a smile, "Let's go back to town."

"Why did you come back to save me yesterday? Aren't you all angry?" Denise asked awkwardly.

Gray was straightforward, without thinking at all, "I can't leave you here alone, even if there is no avalanche, there are other beasts in this mountain."

"If I wasn't a princess, would you come back to save me?"

"It has nothing to do with whether you are a princess or not. I am a navy. I will save anyone who is in trouble."

"Hmph, do pirates count?"

"...Of course it is to catch it." Gray felt that Denise's thoughts were a little unreasonable, "As a princess, I don't think you should respect pirates so much."

"Pirates are not only bad guys, like Uncle Perry, they are all good guys."

"Maybe, I don't want to get entangled with you on this point." Gray temporarily compromised, he didn't want to argue with the other party on this point, and he didn't want to know whether there are really good or bad pirates.

Maybe there is, but to Gray, none of that matters.

It is an indisputable fact that his hometown was destroyed by pirates, and that he is the navy that stands on the opposite side of pirates.

The atmosphere between the two was not very good, and Gray walked in front with a dull head, and the speed was quite fast.

Denise trudged through the snow with difficulty. She was short and wore two thick cloaks, so she was quickly left behind.

Gray looked back at her, sighed, then turned back and squatted down again, "I'll carry you on my back."

"Oh" Denise pouted, and put her arms around Gray's neck. When she leaned on Gray's back completely, the latter's body trembled and his muscles tensed.

"I'm not sinking at all." Denise thought that Gray disliked her.

"Fortunately, it's not as heavy as my sword." Gray responded, his lips were white with pain, his forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he walked towards the town with Denise on his back.

As time passed, he gradually slowed down, and Denise felt a little warmth in the position in front of her. At first she thought it was Gray's slightly higher body temperature than ordinary people, but then she felt something was wrong.

Touching it with one hand, it was covered with sticky blood.

"Hey, your wound is open!" Denise felt a little bit in her heart. The only time she saw so much blood was from Gray. It was only now that she saw that something was wrong with Gray.

Denise immediately struggled to get down, "Put me down, I can walk by myself."

"Don't." Gray let go of his hand, his legs limp and fell to the ground, and made a silent gesture, "Listen, is someone calling my name?"

Denise had already started crying, and the tears were falling down like beads with a broken thread. When she heard Gray's words, she listened carefully to the voices in the air with tears on her eyes.

It's far away, so I can't really hear it, but there are indeed many people shouting, probably because they saw that the mountain has been exposed and there will be no second avalanche.

"It seems to be" Denise laughed with tears in her eyes, squatted beside Gray, sniffed and said, "You wait here for a while, I'll go find them to save you!"

"No need." Gray stopped her, and suddenly asked an irrelevant question, "What do you like to watch?"

"What?" Denise didn't understand.

"I asked what do you like to watch?"

"Is now the time to ask that?"

"I think so, what do you like to watch?" Gray asked again.

"I like watching fireworks!" Denise said: "The country of flowers is always prone to avalanches, so fireworks, which are loud, are forbidden to be set off. Uncle Perry brought me a fairy stick from outside the year before last, saying that there are things in the outside world that are more brilliant than fairy sticks. I want to go to see fireworks one day."

"Fireworks." Gray raised one arm and stretched it into the sky like a gun. "I also think fireworks are very suitable as signals."

As soon as his words fell, several clusters of silent flames rushed straight into the sky and exploded in mid-air.

Like fleeting fireworks, blooming silently in the air.

"It's so beautiful." Daniel looked up at the sky, his eyes sparkling.

"If it's at night, it will be more beautiful." Gray put down his hands, closed his eyes and waited for rescue. He was already thinking about how he would quibble if Hebrew taught him a lesson.

The navy saw the signal and rushed towards here quickly. Before the Hebrews arrived, the voice came first, "Little dog, you are really finished this time!"

He finished speaking angrily, but when he saw Gray's miserable appearance, he suddenly became hoarse, and then shouted to the navy behind: "Military doctor, come to a doctor first! Hurry up!"

The Eight Treasures Navy who came later also saw people who could not have appeared here at the same time.

Perry's cigarette fell directly into the snow, and he lost his composure and shouted: "Princess?? Why are you here?"

"Uncle!" Seeing Perry, Denise immediately stretched out her hand in tears, revealing a pool of blood in front of her body.

Perry immediately stepped forward, "Princess, are you injured? Is it serious? What's going on?"

"I'm fine." Denise cried and explained the matter.

Gray was directly wrapped into a rice dumpling with bandages, held on the shoulder by Muli, and pretended to be unconscious with his eyes closed.

He felt Hebrew's anger, and he didn't dare to open his eyes.

Muli whispered: "I know you are pretending, hey, why did you encounter this kind of thing when you were alone, good guy, I met the princess this time."

"Shut up." Gray opened one eye, and also whispered: "Do you think I want to? She said all the excuses I just thought, why is she so honest!"

"Tch, it's as if you can make a seamless excuse. The major didn't believe any of the things you quibbled about before. He just turned a blind eye and turned a blind eye. Now you're showing it. It's a big deal."

"Tsk, I didn't know she was a princess at first."

"Look at that appearance, can it be an ordinary person?" Muli murmured, "I know what a beauty is from childhood, tsk tsk tsk, you are so lucky."

"Tch, I will give it to you if you want it."