Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 131 Encore's Decision

Opening his eyes, Anke couldn't adapt to the bright sunshine outside, so he covered the sun with his hands a little bit, squinted and looked at the still green forest around him, and then fell back in relaxation.Anke, who thought he would fall directly into the soft cushion he made, was a little surprised behind him, holding his own warm body temperature and the blue hair that fell on his head, and looked up helplessly. A certain blue hair, Enke, who has become accustomed to Raphael's elusiveness, instantly withdrew his little surprise.

"Let me go, brat." Thumping her hands, Anke found that it was difficult for her to move flexibly in this position, so she could only look at Raphael's beautiful chin with contempt, forgiving that she could only see it from this angle. at this point.

With a chuckle in a good mood, Raphael pushed Anke upright in front of him with all his strength, and looked at Lian who was lying there undisturbed and sleeping soundly. Raphael just smiled and didn't poke, "Lian-kun slept really well~~ But such a fine weather is really suitable for taking a nap~~"

"Really," Anke just shrugged, she didn't think that Raphael would fail to see that Lian's deep sleep was her manipulation.Glancing thoughtfully at Lian who was in a deep sleep, Anke sighed helplessly, "Raphael, can I do you a favor?"

"What? My dear~~" The words were still gentle but still a little foolish.

Anke slowly squatted down, and poked the scar on Lian's face with her hand, "Tonight, help me send Lian to another place, it's best not to find such a place near here for a year or so."

Raphael didn't speak, just looked at Lian with closed eyes and then at Anke, nodded, but after thinking that Anke couldn't see it, he replied softly: "Okay, can you tell me the reason?"

"Lian said that he escaped from the navy and blew up the Naval Research Center. This should not be a lie. In addition, the situation is a bit urgent and complicated now, and he knows the strength of the next enemy and he doesn't believe Luffy and theirs. Strength, he will definitely not leave my side easily. He is still very young and shouldn't bet his life on me."

"Are you worried about that force in the navy?"

"It doesn't matter what I say, but I just don't want to end other people's journeys because of my problems." Narrowing his left eye, An Ke wanted to switch his ability to the fifth way-the human way, but still failed inexplicably, so he had to use It changes to the sixth way - the way of heaven.The circulating scarlet was cruel but tender at the moment, "I should be able to escape this disaster by myself, but there is no need for Luffy and the others to take this risk with me, and so does Lian."

Reaching out to pick up the white jade flute placed on the orchid stand, Anke turned around and handed it to Raphael, with a faint request on his smiling face, "Please, Mr. Rafael~~"

After bending down to pick up the jade flute, Raphael twirled it around his fingertips smartly and then pinned it back to his waist. Suddenly, he brought his face close to Encore. A few eyelashes, "My dear~~What about my reward~~"

"Get out!" Slapping it mercilessly, Anke despised himself who was a little envious of his long eyelashes just now, "Sure enough, even if the ruffian looks like a fairy, he can't change his annoying personality. This little brat Sure enough, there are pedophiles! '

"Hehe~~" Raphael, who quickly dodged the punch, quickly kissed Anke when she was not paying attention, and then stepped back a few meters and shook the jade flute in her hand, facing her whose face darkened in an instant, " My dear, I have received the reward~~Then I will go back first~I will definitely come back to find you on a date tonight~~And also," after a pretentious pause, Raphael said something that made Encore furious, "It's a bit tiring to bend over to kiss you, next time, be obedient and cooperate, my dear~~~"

"Get out of here!!" Accompanied by a voice that implied anger, the stormy black crystal needles pierced Raphael, who was smiling like a stealing cat, Enke was not worried at all about the domineering needle rain with armed colors Hurt him, but get annoyed because he can't stab him.

"Hehe~~ dear, you don't have to be so reluctant to miss me~ see you at night~~~", after standing motionless in the needle rain but unscathed, Raphael smiled smugly, blew a kiss to Encore and disappeared without a trace.

"What a troublesome ability..." After taking back the crystal needle rain, An Ke frowned and wiped the place where Raphael kissed, ignoring the matter again.

Lian, who was still sleeping on the ground, was not disturbed by them, she just turned over and continued to sleep, sleeping peacefully as if she had never had such a good sleep before.After An Ke took a look at him, he stretched out his hand to form a barrier around him, so that the outside world would not disturb him again.

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On the opposite coast of the Golden Merry, where Luffy and Qing Zhi fought, a simple white medium-sized passenger ship is docked, and the occasional white waves blooming beside the ship add a little decoration to the simple ship.The rays of the sun at noon were dazzling, and the occasional seabirds who passed by seemed unable to withstand the heat of the sun, and disappeared into the forest after circling a few times on the blue sea.

In a room in the passenger ship, Lian was lying on it sleeping, breathing lightly, with a slightly heaving chest.The quilt that was carefully placed on him was still as neat as if it had just been put on.Suddenly, Lian frowned slightly, and whispered a few words.

In the pure white space, a few pink cherry blossoms suddenly blew, and the fragile petals seemed to be unable to withstand a little wind and rain. The sudden strong wind brought overwhelming pink cherry blossoms randomly covering the whole world.All the pictures suddenly seemed to be frozen, and the petals of the cherry blossoms receded automatically to form a blank circle, and began to rotate rapidly around that circle.The mist began to dance in the circle, and a faint portrait of a ten-year-old girl began to emerge: a white and pure half-sleeved kimono, a kneeling posture, and hands lightly placed on the closed legs, so that the long sleeves dragged on the pavement. On the ground of pink cherry blossoms, the slightly sickly pale face is exquisite and cute, the corners of the lips are slightly upturned with tenderness, and the eyebrows and eyes are curved, which cannot conceal the softness between the eyebrows.The long black hair was draped softly behind her, and the ends of her hair curled up on the ground, giving off a sinful dark radiance.

The portrait attracts all the focus, the gorgeous cherry blossoms gradually fascinate people, so that it is hard to see when the little bit of blood red fills the whole field of vision, the small cherry blossom petals transform into scarlet blossoms, charming as if guiding people Messenger of hell.The blood color began to surround the girl sitting there, and slowly swallowed her up. The gentle smiling face and the watery pupils finally disappeared into the bloody sea of ​​flowers on the other side, as if being dragged into the infinite darkness and bloody world. Deep in hell.

Opening her eyes suddenly, Lian sat up covered in cold sweat, her chest heaved and her breathing was heavy, and the feeling of powerlessness in the dream still remained in her slightly trembling fingertips.It seemed that the girl's gentle smiling face could still be seen in front of her eyes, and Lian immediately shook her head quickly to get rid of the scene.However, the girl's unusually familiar face made Lian panic. After looking anxiously at her surroundings, she realized that she was on the passenger ship when she came.The image of the girl in the dream being buried by the bloody Bianhua flower appeared before her eyes again. While panicking, she still couldn't distinguish between reality and dream, yesterday and today, Lian quickly got up from the bed, seeing the empty room even more impatient.

"Elder sister? Elder sister?!" Lian ran out in a hurry, forgetting to put on her shoes, and kept opening all kinds of doors, but the empty room without anyone made Lian's heart sink to the bottom of the valley, turning the whole ship on its head. I searched all over the world and didn't see anyone other than myself.As if all her strength had been sucked out, Lian fell limply to the ground, then bent her knees and huddled together like a wounded child, muttering in a slightly choked voice, "Sister...sister...why? I obviously..." Obviously already...

"Lian? What's the matter?" The soft child's voice was puzzled and slightly concerned, but Lian, who thought it was an auditory hallucination, still didn't raise her head.Lian didn't hear any footsteps, but heard the sound of porcelain being placed on the floor, and the touch of smooth long hair sliding over her wrist.

After putting away the porcelain bowl containing the food, Anke patted Lian's furry head with his hands in some doubts, and found that he was still keeping his head buried in his arms, "Lian? What's the matter? What happened? ?"

Raising her head in a daze, Lian saw Anke standing in front of her in doubt, her slightly worried eyes made her look harmless at the moment, the real harmless is like a very pure little sister next door.

"Sister!!" She stretched out her arms and hugged Anke who was close in front of her eyes. Lian couldn't help shaking her whole body, and said intermittently with a slight crying sound: "It's great, sister is still here... just now I was still worried about yesterday. Everything at night is just a dream, and when I wake up my sister... my sister is gone. Everything is my dream..."

'It seems that reading all the memories has caused him to be a little confused about reality. However, even if the entire memory is read or the memory is modified, this result should not occur.It seems that the reincarnation eye has been used a bit too much in the past two days, so he has a sequela similar to memory disorder...' Hearing Lian's incoherent words now, Enke tried to ignore him and hugged herself tightly patted him on the back to comfort him, and said softly, "It's okay, Lian, I'm right here..."

After a long time, feeling that Lian had calmed down, Anke knocked on his head jokingly, "If you've had enough of being coquettish, let me go. Your sister is about to be strangled to death by you..."

"Hmm..." Replied in a low voice, Lian let go of her after a while, and continued to sit on the ground with her chin on her lap and stared at Anke.Anke, who was stared at by him a little hairy, knocked his head hard, and pretended to say viciously: "What? Are you sleepy? Or don't you want to see me here?"

"No!" After quickly shaking her head in denial, Lian continued to look at Enke with a calm expression for a while, and the face that had recovered from dazed to expressionless suddenly smiled innocently like a child, "Sister, little..."' It's very comfortable to hold~~'

He knew what Lian was going to say when he heard "little", and after punching him again to make him shut up obediently, Anke patted his head with satisfaction, satisfied that the current height difference was just enough for her to relax easily. Touching Ren's head, if ignoring Ren's sitting posture trying to huddle up, it is indeed a good height difference.

After easily guessing the reason why Lian was so abnormal, Anke didn't ask him any more, but frowned when he looked down at his bare feet and said, "Now go put on your shoes first, then wash your hands and get ready. Let's eat, really, are you still a child..."

"Yes..." A certain sister-in-law stood up obediently and ran into the room when she heard the order, without asking herself why she fell asleep and why she came back to the navy's passenger ship.And after seeing him standing up, Enke's face was inexplicably black, "Why is a 14-year-old child so tall... It's completely taller than me, it's not scientific at all..."

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In the dining room of the passenger ship, Lian, who had completely calmed down, was slowly eating the lunch brought by Encore, still looking at her from time to time, worried that she would disappear like in a dream.The black uniform jacket is placed on the back of the chair. The simple white shirt and slightly tight black leather pants make Lian look a bit thin, but its hidden strength cannot be ignored.

Anke, who was sitting across from him, was leisurely drinking the drink he found from the passenger ship, and he just sighed with emotion at Lian's gaze, "Lian is just a child who hasn't grown up~~" and there was no more to say, not at all. I think it's strange that Lian, who is so much older than me, calls herself an older sister.

It didn't take long for Lian to finish her lunch, and she obediently washed the dishes before coming back to sit down.Seeing this, Enke was even more relieved, don't ask her why she was relieved, because the feeling of having a young girl in my family is still understandable. "Sure enough, Lian is still very good, and it's not bad that he called my sister~~~ Compared with this, if it's Luffy..." A straw hat foodie with a round belly appeared in his mind, patting his belly in satisfaction and shouting, "Come again A bowl of 'scene, Encore instantly ashamed.In the distance, a foodie on the Golden Merry sneezed inexplicably, rubbed his nose in doubt, and then continued to steal food. Note that they had just finished their lunch...

"Well, sister..." interrupted Anke's wandering thoughts in a low voice, and after a pause, Lian said, "I... can I stay by your side? I have become very strong now! I can protect you, sister. Already!!"

Knowing that this question will be asked sooner or later, Enke, who already has the answer, just bit his straw and tilted his head to wink his eyes, but did not answer Lian's question directly, "Sister, I am also very strong~~ Besides, As a big sister, shouldn't I protect you?"

"I know my sister has been very good, but I'm afraid... my sister will be injured in the next time, and..."

"Lian, if it's the person I want to protect, no one can touch them. I know that the navy will make a big move soon, but escaping is not my style. This is my demon-slaying order five years ago Inside, the reason why I didn't leave even though I had the opportunity to escape beforehand. In the face of those so-called tests of fate, I don't even bother to hide." The slightly pale lips slowly raised a touch of confidence but also slightly cruel The smile, the slightly squinted eyes are like the emissary in hell, "The worst result is to let them all be buried with me~"

"No!! I won't let those people hurt you, sister!" Excitedly, she slapped the table and stood up, Lian Man panicked, "Although I may not be their opponent, I will try my best!"

"Calm down, Lian, as I said, this is my so-called fate, and I can do it alone. And it remains to be verified whether those people are as powerful as they are in the legend, so don't be so nervous." Enke Still calm and composed, he shook the drink cup in his hand and watched the faint bubbles rise and burst with a smile.

Sitting down slowly, Lian frowned and said, "Then, what about your...partners? They must be injured..."

"I said it, if it's the person I want to protect, no one can touch them. Although a little injury may be inevitable~~~" After finishing speaking, Encore bit the straw and watched Lian blink. Eyes, face full of innocence.There is no way, she has been acting like a child for too long, and now she is used to playing the role of a child before she realizes it.

Lian just lowered her head and said nothing. Although Enke looked indifferent a long time ago, she took good care of them in the same room. Because of this care, they were able to avoid many human experiments in the laboratory. survived.The day Encore burned the laboratory, they thought she would take them with them, but when they opened their eyes, they faced the enemy navy, and Encore... disappeared.Noah and Xiang, who had been on missions, were responsible for leading them to escape, but they had to take care of him and An Qi who had never been out of the laboratory. They took it to heart, thinking that this kind of thinking would gradually disappear, but they did not expect that it would appear more and more frequently as time went by. In the end, when An Qi died, Noah and Xiang were just silent, and only he was there. Crying, I don't know if it's because of An Qi's death or because of something.

Seeing the inexplicably silent Lian, Anke suddenly put away her usual sweet smile, shook the drink cup in her hand, watched with a blank expression as the little drink struggled to burst out the last bubble, then fell into silence, slightly After squinting her scarlet left eye, Anke sighed and said lightly, "Lian, I'm sorry..."

Raising her head in astonishment, Lian looked at the expressionless Enke and was completely stunned.

"After I came out, I occasionally wanted to go back to you, but I rejected this idea as soon as I came out. When I saw you alive and well last night, I was very grateful for my original decision." Looking at Lianman With stunned eyes, Anke raised the drink cup in his hand, and the quilt of the glass immediately turned into pink crystals and shattered all over the floor, "If you follow me, how likely are you to survive until now? At that time, the purpose of the whole world was It's me, sometimes I can't protect myself, and all the people close to me will end badly. If it's someone close to me, what do you think will happen?"

Lian was still silent for a while, just as if she had figured it out, but her expression returned to her original expressionless face.

"You have to know, Lian, not being by your side is the best protection, sometimes staying away is the only way to be safe, especially when the person is me, I have always believed in this..." Fiddled with the broken crystals on the table , An Ke looked at the sharp crystals rolling on her fingertips with a calm face, but none of them could scratch her thin hands, "But, it's useless to worry about these things now, anyway, everything is in the past~ ~. Now the situation is a bit troublesome, you need to prepare, I have asked Raphael to send you away tonight. In this case, the only worries I have left are Luffy and the others, and I can carry out my plan.”

Lian, who thought she could stay by her side after seeing Encore, froze instantly. Encore's words were completely beyond his expectations, and he couldn't recover for a long time, so he could only listen to Encore's answer in a daze. down words.

"I know why you are so persistent, simply because I gave you names. But, Lian, you have to know that the sea is a very magical place, it will not leave you alone, it will let you meet like-minded people Partner. No matter how long you wander, you will meet someone who can change you. I believe that person, or those people, will be much more important than me who simply gave you a name."At this moment, Anke is really like a caring and gentle sister, telling her younger brother who is not yet fully independent in a low voice, "Lian, you must know, maybe you will find it ridiculous, but only when a person really wants to When he is struggling and working hard, he will feel that all the pain and tears are hard-won, precious wealth that makes people grow. You just haven't seen your dream yet, and you don't know what you want to do... ..."

"No, sister!" Lian finally came back to her senses and said a little excitedly: "I know what I want to do, and I don't want to leave! I have grown up!!"

"Hehe~~Yes~~" The tone was completely coaxing children, Anke just smiled and said: "Lian, promise sister, the world is big, you have to find partners who can be your destination, and then take risks together. "

The faint uneasiness in her heart gradually increased, and Lian ran to Anke in a panic, bewildered like a child, "Why... what my sister said now makes me hate..."

"Lian..." Anke just put away her smile, stretched out her hand to grab the broken crystal on the table, and then let go, the subtle sound of the crystals colliding together was extremely loud in the quiet room, "As I said, I have something with you." If you want to protect those who are related to you, the only way is to stay away without leaving a trace." A fleeting smile appeared on the delicate face, and then fell into a slight sadness, "I... ..."

Looking at Anke who fell silent with some doubts, Lian slowly knelt aside, took Anke's left hand and put it on his forehead, and said with a little pleading: "I will obediently listen to my sister, what you said Adventure in the sea. But, can you go later? I want to go through the next difficulties with my sister..."

Knowing that Lian would not leave easily, Anke didn't continue to persuade him, but just took out his left hand and knocked him on the head, and said with a smile: "Lian is really a good boy~~"

Lian, who thought that Encore had acquiesced, smiled like a child again, and his slightly smug smile made him look completely different from the boy who coldly said that he would kill everyone yesterday.

Looking at Lian with her chin in her right hand, Anke stretched out her left hand and pulled his face. She was very satisfied to see him obediently daring not to resist, "Lian, you should smile more, or you will become like Noah." The same facial paralysis..."

Tilting her head in doubt, Lian, who was used to listening to Encore's words despite being a little embarrassed, nodded obediently, and then tried to maintain a smile under Encore's clutches.

And seeing this scene, a certain chick was very satisfied but a little awkward, and it was really nice to accidentally pick up a very obedient brother, but the height of this little brother made her very upset, very upset!Patting Lian's face with a stiff smile, An Ke thought: "It seems that I will have to find a little confidence in Chopper later..."

A blue-nosed reindeer on the Golden Merry who was grinding medicine suddenly sneezed inexplicably, looked around suspiciously, and continued with his work.

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(End of this chapter)