Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 138 The Beautiful City of Water
After receiving the pocket money, Usopp suddenly stuck his whole body to the mainmast of the Golden Merry, which was covered with iron patches, and kept rubbing his face against the iron sheet, with a look of reluctance.

Luffy was stuffing pocket money in his trouser pocket but couldn't put it well. When he was dissatisfied and wanted to ask Encore for help, he happened to see Usopp's strange appearance and asked suspiciously: "What's the matter, Usopp?" ?”

"This piece of iron sheet has been repaired by us again and again, isn't it just the best memory of our battles and adventures?" Usopp, who was still stuck on it, couldn't suppress his excitement, "When I think of it, I will immediately Being repaired beautifully makes me feel a lot of emotion~~”

"I also feel the same, but after entering the great route, the burden on the Merry is quite heavy." Sanji lowered his head and stepped on the wooden board under his feet, and found that it was already creaking loosely. "The deck and There are quite a few leaks at the bottom of the boat, even if Cutie covered the bottom of the boat with thin crystals to prevent water from leaking in, if we just leave it alone, we and the Merry will be very dangerous..."

"Ah, but we have a lot of money now, not only can it be repaired to a new look, but it can also increase its power~~", Lu Fei smiled triumphantly with his hands on his hips, while Encore on the other side was silently helping him with his pocket money. The money was carefully put into his trouser pocket so that he would not lose it carelessly.

Usopp, who was still glued to the mainmast, suggested excitedly: "Okay! Then add a few more cannons!"

"There must also be a bronze statue~~~", Luffy still misses the bronze statue so far.

Sauron's words suddenly came from the bow: "Hey, is that the one?"

Hearing the sound, everyone rushed to the bow excitedly.I saw a small island erected like a cake in the sky. To be precise, it was a city, because there was no trace of green at all from a distance.The Golden Merry approached slowly, and the real face of the island came into view. Rather than a city, it should be a huge fountain.The island is simply divided into four floors, with a steel fence on the outside and a giant exit marked with numbers. There are densely packed houses on both sides of the fence. Inside the fence is the second floor, all of which are buildings. The huge three-story fountain, the first floor of the fountain also has an outlet slightly smaller than the wall. The clear and beautiful spring water flows down from the highest water column at the top, divides the town below into several parts, and then flows into the sea continuously through the outlet of the outer wall. The blue fountain and flowing water reflect the blue sky and white clouds, which is extremely beautiful. It seems that there is a city born from the sea, which is unbelievably beautiful.The Golden Merry is facing a station, which should be the place where the Sea Train stops.

Everyone on the Golden Merry had different expressions, including admiration and surprise, but they were all shocked by the scene in front of them.

Facing the sea breeze, Robin smiled lightly and said, "It's so beautiful..."

"It's like a fountain..." Anke paused, then smiled and said, "It should be called a fountain."

Usopp, who opened his mouth wide, still hasn't retracted his chin, "Wow, this is really great, it's worthy of being an industrial city!!"

"It's no wonder that the sea train will pass by here," Sanji said with disbelief on his face.

"It's great, there's a lot of water~~~", Chopper sticks his whole deer to the side of the boat and sticks his head out, excitedly watching the beautiful scenery gradually approaching ahead, but then looks suspiciously at the water flowing from the city into the ocean Huge water flow, "but where did that water come from?"

"You seem to be curious," he said.Robin, who came behind it, explained with a smile: "I heard that it came out of the fountain, passed through the tank, and then flowed into the sea..."

Luffy excitedly pointed at those channels that seemed to run smoothly across the entire city: "Do you want to use that to have a water slide competition??"

"Competition??" Looking at those waterways, thinking of himself screaming and being washed down by the water, Chopper turned pale in fright and shook his head desperately: "Don't! I don't!!"

"Idiot, stop talking nonsense..." Zoro looked with contempt at Chopper, who was streaming tears and stuck to the strings of the boat, and Luffy, who was still excited, "What are you landlubbers doing?" Maybe a waterslide?"

"No, it's very easy to use illusion~~" Enke, who was tidying up the knife on his back and combing his long hair, said lightly: "Luffy used to play like this~"

"Really? Isn't he a Devil Fruit user?" Sanji looked suspiciously at Luffy, who was proudly comparing Scissorhands, "Even if it's an illusion..."

"Oh, it's just that you don't understand illusion~" Anke, who was still pulling his long hair, glanced at Chopper, and suddenly a square of water crimson fell from the sky, trapping a certain reindeer in.So Sauron and the others looked at a poor reindeer floating in the water block with distorted expressions, the number of bubbles spit out from its mouth changed from more to less, and finally rolled its eyes and continued to float.

Then a little guy who didn't care about it turned into another water polo for Luffy to play with, and then pointed to the existing living examples and began to explain: "In the illusion, all sensory perception will be controlled by me, and all your senses will be controlled by me. Conscious actions and physical actions are under my control. That is to say, in my illusion world, once you are controlled by me, then everything you feel, hear, see, and It is my arrangement, that is to say, whether it is the feeling of drowning or the feeling of dying, it is all given to you by me, just like Chopper, even if he knows that it is sea water made by illusion, but it still Will drown~~”

"It probably doesn't even know that it's the seawater created by the illusion..." Except for Luffy who was already chasing the water polo, everyone looked at Chopper who was about to drown sympathetically and said in unison.

"However, in my illusion, even people with devil fruit abilities can swim~~" An Ke just finished saying this with a smile, and Chopper, who was about to leave his body in the water, suddenly seemed to be returning to the light The same abnormal spirit, looking at the sea water around him, the water bubbles produced when he breathed in front of him, and whether his body has lost strength, he was instantly puzzled.

"Hey, guys, take a look here~~~", Luffy's voice came over happily, and everyone was stunned when they looked over, well, a certain chick who has turned the center of the boat into a swimming pool except.I saw a landlubber that has been proven to be a Devil Fruit user swimming happily, yes, swimming... swimming...

"Oh~~Luffy is great~~I'm coming too~~~", Chopper, who forgot that he was still drowning just a moment ago, immediately thumped his hands in the water block happily, "Ahahaha~~This Is it the feeling of swimming? Great~~”

"..." Seeing the incredible scene in front of them, Sauron and the others didn't know what to say.They can only change from green to white in unison, and when they see a certain landlubber swimming in various tricks around the mainmast, they already hear the sound of their own world view snapping and collapsing.

"Hahahaha~~ so comfortable~~~", Luffy, who was swimming leisurely on his back, laughed and looked at the blue sky above. The water block is also untied.Chopper, who was thrashing about, only felt his body lighten, and then fell straight down. Before he could realize what happened, he was caught by the hand called out by Robin. He looked at the blue nose away from him with wide eyes. The dilapidated planks that were still a centimeter away let out a sigh of relief.

"Okay~ After playing enough, get ready to enter that fountain~~I'm looking forward to it~~hahahaha", Luffy, who swaggered to Encore's side, looked suspiciously at Zoro and the others, whose expressions were still twitching in unison, " What happen to you guys?"

Barely recovering from the strong visual impact of 'landlubber swimming', Sauron and the others were stunned to see Luffy who easily unlocked the illusion. The usually carefree captain easily unraveled the illusion that they didn't understand at all, and he was still a little frightened.Zoro tried to think about the words and asked Luffy, "By the way, Luffy, can you use illusion now?"

"I have practiced, but I can't~~", Luffy smiled brightly: "But Encore has trained with me for five years, and now I can unlock her illusion without hurting Encore. Yo~~It’s amazing, hahahaha~~~”

"Without harming the Encore? What exactly do you mean?" Usopp asked suspiciously, "Will unlocking the illusion bring harm to the Encore?"

"If the caster does not untie it himself but is forcibly undone by others, it will cause a certain amount of damage to the caster's spiritual realm, but now few people can hurt me, unless it is the kind of super big one that can destroy me. The move of the illusion space. Because at that time, the battle of the Demon Slaying Order had not passed half a year, and the eyes of reincarnation were not fully recovered. At the beginning, Luffy knew that if I forcibly unlocked my illusion, my left eye would be a little uncomfortable. As a result That guy doesn't know what method he has researched, every time I undo my illusion, I don't feel at all, as if I untie it by myself..." He pressed his left eye suspiciously, and Anke glanced at it out of the corner of his eye. To the guy next to me who is proudly comparing the scissors, "But every time I ask him, he seems to be more confused than me, just saying 'I don't know at that time, I just want to not make Encore feel pain' Category……"

"Yeah~~~~~", Luffy, who didn't know where the point was at all, was still complacently comparing Scissorhands, regardless of Sauron's almost petrified state.

Lit the cigarette with trembling hands, Sanji took a puff of the cigarette with a slight trembling before he calmed down and said, "This is animal intuition, no wonder we can't understand it at all..."

"Hmmmm!!!" Zoro, Nami, Chopper, and Usopp nodded affirmatively, and Robin nodded slightly in agreement after recovering.

"Forget it, I will teach you illusions if I have a chance in the future. Even if you can't learn it, at least you don't have to panic when you meet an illusionist. But, let's discuss these things when we have time. Because, we have already We’ve arrived at the beautiful water city,” Anke smiled and pointed to [WaterSeven] in front, “Get ready to play there, everyone~~”

"Hahaha, the city of meat~~~", Luffy, who was already sitting on the head of the captain's special seat, waved his hands excitedly, imagining that he was eating and drinking in the city of water.

"Anke will teach us illusion in the future~~" After looking at each other excitedly, Nami, Usopp and Chopper cheered instantly, and Sanji also said with a look on his face, "If I will In terms of illusion, maybe there are a bunch of beauties accompanying me every day~~"

"That kind of thing is fine..." Sauron, who still had a serious expression, said lightly: "Let's not forget now that the mother-in-law at the station said that there are many world government officials in this city. If you go shopping or What is it, remember not to say anything about Encore, not even such sensitive words as illusion, reincarnation eyes..."

"Why?" Luffy looked back at Sauron with a serious face in doubt, and he didn't know why the expressions of other people who heard his words were also full of seriousness.

"Idiot, don't forget that the assassination captain or the lieutenant general came to Encore a few days ago, although Rafael got the leader of the assassination force somewhere, but who can guarantee that there will be no other enemies? ", Usopp looked at Luffy with contempt, and then looked at the water city suspiciously, "Maybe there are already a bunch of people ambushing in that beautiful fountain city..."

"I'm right, we need to keep our mouths shut about the cutie's information, and we also need to feel sorry for the cutie, try not to go shopping or use illusions to go out. Especially you, Luffy, don't be obedient when someone asks Answer, "Sanji also looked at the city cautiously, the excitement of seeing the city for the first time has quietly disappeared, and the rest is only cautious, "And, just in case, everyone should go together and compare good……"

Why is it so troublesome~~", the person involved, Enke, looked disapproving, pouted and looked at the slowly approaching Water City, "It's rare for everyone to find a good place to have a good rest and play, Zoro and Sanji don't Why are you so nervous~~ I do things in my own way, and I will never let anyone find me~~ Moreover, if you are so cautious, it will be easier to attract the attention of others, even if you hide it at that time. Oh, I used it~~ So just act a little more naturally~~”

"Yeah~" Facing everyone, Luffy folded his arms and nodded in agreement, then raised his index finger and announced loudly: "I will protect Encore!! So, everyone, go eat meat as much as you want, hahaha~~~ "

"Indeed, I have come to the Water City without knowing it..." Sauron came back to his senses and looked at the huge numbers on the steel wall with doubts, "What do those numbers mean?"

"I don't know," Usopp shook his head doubtfully.

Sanji also looked at those tall steel walls with doubts, "I said, are those walls? Or..."

"That must be for the five-meter-tall ship repairer to haunt!!" Luffy, who was sitting on the sheep's head, said with a serious face, and Encore, who was standing on the nearby railing, showed his hand-picked ship repairer cooperatively. portrait.The furious Usopp pointed at the portrait and yelled, "You can say whatever you want!!"

"The station is right in front..." Nami stared at the place directly in front of the Golden Merry. The simple design of the blue station is finely crafted. "It says 'blue station', but where is the pier?"

Usopp also carefully looked at the surrounding landscape, "Could it be on the other side?"

"Hey! You guys!!!" Just as the Golden Merry was about to find a place to enter the city from the front, an uncle on a small boat fishing there shouted loudly: "If the pirates are generous It’s not easy to enter the city from the front, so let’s go around to the back street!!”

"Understood, thank you!!" Nami also raised her voice to express her gratitude, and then the Golden Merry drove in along the dwelling that the uncle pointed out.The houses there are criss-crossed like ordinary towns, the only difference is that the ordinary towns are made of cement streets, but [Waterseven] are all replaced by waterways, and there are spacious corridors around the houses for people to walk. And occasionally see some small vendors on the aisle.The whole body is a dazzling array of light orange houses, giving people a warm feeling.There are also bridges between the houses separated by the river, some in the air, and some are arch bridges.When entering the residence, everyone saw a happy scene. Even if the residents saw a pirate ship coming in, they didn't panic like the people in other small towns, but expressed their friendliness .

"Great, sea city~~", Nami looked at the surrounding houses in admiration that seemed to be floating on the sea.

"It's great, it's great~~ What a beautiful city~~~", Luffy also praised excitedly, constantly looking at the beautifully designed houses around him.

"But the whole city is submerged in water, and the houses are all submerged in the sea..." Chopper looked at the houses curiously.

"No, this city was originally built on foundations sunk in the sea," Robin explained lightly, pointing to the parts of the houses that just emerged from the water, "Look at the foundation stones under the houses."

Seeing the pillar-like things just under the house, Chopper suddenly realized: "Really, the house is built on elevated pillars!"

Looking at the waterways that replaced the streets, Sanji suddenly realized: "So that's why it's called the City of Water..."

"Hahaha~~ let the boat dock!!!", Luffy laughed excitedly, raising his hands up.

At this time, a restaurant owner who was cleaning saw the Golden Merry leisurely and unimpeded on the waterway, and immediately stopped cleaning, and raised his voice and shouted: "I tell you, you can't dock pirate ships here. What are you doing here? To plunder??"

Luffy replied loudly: "No, we are here to repair the ship!!".Usopp said with shame: "Would a normal person ask if we came to snatch it?"

Hearing this sentence, the boss immediately pointed to a waterway enthusiastically, "In this case, there is a cape not far ahead, you can stop the boat there~~"

"Thank you~~", Luffy continued to thank loudly, and waved goodbye to the boss.The Golden Merry also drove in along the street pointed by the boss.

As for the hopelessness of stopping the ship again, Usopp complained a little troublesomely: "Ah...here again..."

"No way, who called us pirates?" Sauron didn't care. After finding that there was no one around, he whispered to Anke who was standing on the strings, "Anke, you are standing here so openly. no problem?"

"Why is there a problem?" Looking back suspiciously at Sauron, who couldn't hide his seriousness, Anke smiled lightly, with unclear meaning, "If someone is there, they will automatically find me, so why bother? , and now the people around me can’t see me~~”

"Anke used the illusion~~", Lu Fei also turned his head and said dissatisfiedly puffing his cheeks: "I've said it all, in fact, there is no need to be so sneaky..."

"Yes, I won't need it after the boat stops. Let's find a place to stop the boat now~" He softly spoke to appease Luffy, Anke just casually swept the quiet houses around him, and didn't make a sound.

(End of this chapter)