Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 140 The Miraculous Swordfish and the Mysterious Granny

"Is this the only entrance to the city?" Standing in front of the only stone bridge leading to the town, the three of Luffy looked at the shops across the bridge in doubt.

"BULL rental shop??" Nami looked at the name of the shop across the bridge, wondering why the bridge led directly to the interior of a shop instead of the street.

"What?" Luffy also looked at the front in doubt, and suddenly turned his head to look at the empty back, only a little shadow of the Golden Merry docked on the coast could be seen.

"Maybe I want to rent something..." Nami didn't care about Luffy's strange movements, just looked at the name of the shop and guessed.

"What's BULL?" Luffy asked suspiciously, then looked back at the back where there was nothing, smiled and continued to turn his head to look at the signboard.

"I don't know, is it a bulldog??" Usopp didn't understand, he could only guess that it was a Shar-Pei-like animal, but he shook his head and denied it within a second, "How is that possible? ??"

"Excuse me~~Please lend us a BULL~~~" Before Nami and Usopp could reach a conclusion from the discussion, Luffy swaggered and pulled the small wooden cart towards the opened door.

"Ask what that is before we talk about it!!!" Nami and Usopp roared in tacit understanding, but Luffy had already entered the door, and they had no choice but to take one step at a time.

The uncle with small glasses and a goatee was reading a newspaper. When he heard Luffy's voice, he raised his head from the newspaper and warmly welcomed him: "Welcome, do you want to borrow BULL? How many people do you have?"

"Four people~~", Luffy held up four fingers, suddenly stopped for a while and then withdrew one finger, "Ah, no, it's three people~~~"

"What kind of BULL do you want? There are swordfish, rubber eel and kingfish." After putting the newspaper away, the boss led them to the back, "but two swordfish are enough for three people. ~~”

"Okay, please bake it deliciously for us~~~" Luffy, who obviously misunderstood something, replied.

"Strange, your conversation is so weird!!!", Usopp, who couldn't understand at all, replied.

"..." Nami, who couldn't understand at all, couldn't say anything.

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"It turns out that you came here according to the pointer of the record." By the waterway, the boss was pulling out two boat-like tools with two seats each, while chatting with Luffy and the others, "That's really true. It’s amazing, then you must not know what BULL is, swordfish BULL is everywhere on the street.” Putting down the tools, the boss pointed to the waterway between the houses not far away, on which there were many tools that the boss just pulled , colorful fish with heads resembling horses, and townspeople sit on those tools like boats.Those BULLs were all grinning and bridle like horses. "There are many swordfish BULL with their heads sticking out of the water and swimming here. This is the capital of water. Compared with roads, there are more waterways. For the residents here, BULL is a must in the daily flood. For those who want to It’s the same for people visiting the city.”

"Are those fish pulling the boat?" Nami asked curiously.

"It's not so much pulling as they are carrying the boat, anyway, it's like driving a carriage on land," the boss put the boat into the water, turned back and said to Luffy and the others: "There is a fish pond over there, try Try it, it’s very comfortable~ Rent two swordfish BULLs for two people, a total of [-] Baileys.”

Beside a pool surrounded by an iron fence, Luffy looked curiously at a green BULL swimming towards him, "It's like a horse, these fish...", but before he finished speaking, he was caught by the Only BULL's face was covered with saliva, and Luffy, who was instantly angry, raised his hands and shouted: "You bastard!! What do you mean?? Damn it!!!?" Nami and Usopp immediately laughed Get up, while the other BULL including that BULL dived into the water shaking its head and laughing.

"It seems to like you very much, so let's choose this one," the boss who put the two boats on the waterway came and opened the iron gate, and the green BULL and the yellow BULL just swam out with grinning teeth. I obediently dived under the boat and picked up the boat.

"Are these guys strong??" Luffy, who was holding the big bag of gold, looked suspiciously at BULL, which seemed to be the size of a donkey.

The boss who was fixing the boat turned around and said proudly: "They are so strong, they can even be used for moving! Do you want to transport this luggage? What's inside?"

"Gold~~"

"Hahahaha," the boss who has completed the installation just smiled, "You are really interesting, but it doesn't matter..."

"Look," Luffy, who opened the cloth bag without saying a word, didn't feel anything at all. On the contrary, Nami and Usopp, who hadn't reacted yet, dropped their jaws to the ground, and the boss' eyes saw the golden one. When it was piled up, it protruded exaggeratedly: "Wow!! Give it to me???"

"Who will give it to you!!!" Nami reacted and punched the boss, and quickly walked over to tie the bag tightly and shouted at Luffy with an innocent face: "Don't be so honest and give it to me so easily!" People look!!".Usopp, on the other hand, stared blankly at the boss whose eyes hadn't retracted.Then he said something inexplicably: "What an honest boss..."

"What are you doing, it's not less for others to see..." Luffy, who still didn't understand, looked at Nami who was still furious.

"Hahahaha, I was shocked..." The boss who laughed and walked back to the table turned around and stretched out his hand towards Nami and the others: "Then, the two BULLs total 200 million Baileys~~"

"Why is the price so high? Uncle!!!!" Usopp, who was not calm all of a sudden, yelled at the boss's fangs.

"Sorry, it should be 500 million Baileys~~"

"Isn't that higher?????"

Laughing and touching the back of his head, the uncle didn't find it strange at all and said, "Hahahaha, have you been seen through?"

"Here, two thousand Baileys." Nami handed the two banknotes to the uncle, and then asked, "By the way, is there a gold shop near here?"

"Yes, there is, but there is not enough money to exchange such a large amount of gold in the nearby shops. It is better to go to the center of Shipbuilding Island...", the boss explained kindly.

"The center of Shipbuilding Island..." Nami, who was confused, looked at the boss suspiciously, "Where is that?"

"That's right there," the boss pointed to the huge fountain, and threw a map to Nami who just arrived, "Here are the maps."

"It was really helpful, thank you~~", Nami and Usopp jumped on the yellow BULL, while Luffy took the big bag of gold and got on the bull. The blue BULL that drools.

"Uncle, is the shipyard also in that direction?" Luffy pointed to the fountain and asked the boss.

"Yeah, the number one shipyard in the world..."

"That's really just right, I can go to the shipyard immediately after exchanging the money~~", Luffy smiled and turned his head to look at the fountain, "The ship repairer can also find one~~"

"The Golden Merry can also be repaired~~~".Usopp is also full of expectations.

"Then, let's go first~~~~~", Luffy turned his head and waved vigorously at the uncle, smiled at a certain corner, and then urged BULL to move forward: "Okay!! Go!! Swordfish!!! Head to the shipyard~~~"

"Thank you for your patronage~~", the boss also waved his hands vigorously, and turned back to sit in front of the chair when they were no longer in sight, ready to continue reading the newspaper.

"Excuse me, can you please give me a BULL..." A ethereal female voice suddenly sounded from the slightly shabby BULL rental shop. The clear voice had the mellow sweetness unique to girls.

"Hmm..." The boss looked up suspiciously, but saw a girl holding a white umbrella standing in the room at some point. The white umbrella, white dress, white sandals, and fair skin had reached the length of her body. The black hair on the thighs, unfortunately the umbrella is too low, completely covering the face, and the real face cannot be seen, but judging from the figure and dress, she is considered a beauty.

"Ah, miss, what kind of swordfish do you want? There are swordfish, rubber eel and kingfish. If you are alone, you should have a swordfish BULL. It looks like you are going shopping. Just take two people together. Yes, you can put some shopping bags in the back seat..." The self-talking boss took out a pink seat for two people, put a map on the seat, and put down the waterway while He said to the girl who suddenly appeared: "There is a fish pond over there, you can go and pick it."

"I see, just the pink BULL..." The girl didn't make any movements, and only simple words came from under the umbrella.

"Haha, I see," the boss went to open the fence to let the pink swordfish out, and when everything was done, he said with a smile: "A swordfish is a million berry... oh no, a thousand berry. Ah ha ha, I'm sorry, I was affected by the little brother just now..."

"I see..." After the girl handed a banknote to the boss, she lightly jumped onto the seat on the BULL, and the BULL, who understands human nature, immediately drove her obediently towards the center of the town.

"Thank you for your patronage~~~" After watching the pink swordfish go away, the boss smiled and turned back to continue reading the newspaper, "It should be a beauty, but it's a pity that I can't see her face, hahaha~~"

In the distance, the girl slowly raised the umbrella up, with a morbidly pale and peerless face that was unforgettable at first sight. The charming different pupil was quickly covered by the umbrella as soon as it was exposed, but no matter how fast the speed was, the pupil of the left eye The black number 'one' is still popular.In addition, it is the pure white umbrella, the purest white is full of chills in the sun, icy cold.

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"Sure enough, it's the city of water, and all you see are basically waterways..." Sitting on the swordfish that was slowly advancing, the girl and Anke opened the map given by the boss on their legs together, and carefully examined it. The blue parts are water, and the green blocks are land.The white circle is the outermost huge wall, and inside the circle are seven fan-shaped lands, all of which are interspersed with blue waterways, and the center of the circle is a circle with a lighter color, representing the huge three-tiered fountain.Outside the huge circle are scattered green patches, representing residential areas and scattered small capes.

"It seems that I'm still in the outer residential area. I need to go to the shopping street and talk about it. If there is Luffy on the gold side, there should be no problem. Let's collect some information first and then find him..." Slowly Raise the umbrella a little higher, put down the encore, and you can already see some people sitting on the promenade, drinking tea or playing chess, and some women are drying clothes in the houses, and there are iron wires hanging between the houses , so convenient for the residents to dry all kinds of clothes.On the two-meter-wide corridor, children gather to play football from time to time.

"Hey, miss, are you here to play?" An uncle who was playing chess on the shore saw the boat carrying Encore, and immediately greeted enthusiastically.

"I guess..." Anke replied flatly, still covering his face with an umbrella.

"There's nothing interesting around here. If you want to go, go to the shopping street first. There, you can also take the watergate elevator to Shipbuilding Island and Central Street~~", the uncle continued to explain enthusiastically, but he didn't know what happened behind him. The chess player has already defeated him...

"Thank you..." Anke just thanked softly, as if unable to adapt to the enthusiasm of the people here.And at this moment, a gentleman-like person poked his head out of the window on the second floor and said with a big smile, "Hahaha, if you're worried about getting lost, I can take you there, my lovely lady~~~"

"Hahaha, don't scare the little girl..." A middle-aged woman's cheerful laughter came from the second floor opposite, and a chubby lady poked her head out of the window and said with a smile: "Little girl, go to the store If you are on the street, just turn right in the alley in front of you, and the way men here greet each other is like this..."

"Hmm..." Anke just responded, her face never showing from under the open umbrella.Swordfish kindly speeded up and moved away from here, and the enthusiastic farewell of the residents came from behind.

'"Are all the people here like this? They don't seem to be wary at all..." He raised his umbrella a little higher, Anke frowned suspiciously and looked at the surrounding houses, then put the umbrella on his shoulder lightly, not Then hide the transformed face, and look at the surrounding scenery leisurely.

"Wow!!! Beautiful girl~~~~", However, before Encore leisurely, a disturbing voice sounded, followed by a whistle, "Hey! My big beauty~~~~~~~"

"Really???", the sound of running approaching in the distance.

"Hey! Take a look here~~~~" Seeing the crowd standing on the shore whistling towards her with heart-shaped eyes, Anke just pursed her lips tightly, a little unaccustomed to the crowd watching The state, not used to it... made her want to completely seal their mouths.The white umbrella that was lightly placed on the shoulders slowly straightened up. The untimely umbrella was a bit out of place in the slightly dark river. The dense buildings block the sun, but the white umbrella flashed a strange light.

In the small river channel, the temperature suddenly dropped a few degrees, and the whistle and booing of the crowd gradually decreased, gradually turning into a strange silence.Couldn't help being quiet, a young man with red hair whispered to the person next door: "Hey, don't you feel a little cold?"

"It's a bit..." Nodding in the same way, the man looked up and saw the bright blue sky from the gap between the houses, "But the sun is pretty good today..."

"What the hell is going on..." The young man who was still wondering turned his eyes back to the waterway, but found that there was no one on it, only the occasional ripples on the water surface, blinking his eyes strangely, looking left and right Still can't see where the beauty went just now, "Strange, who of you saw where the beauty went???"

The crowd who woke up suddenly looked around suspiciously, but only saw the river without people.Suddenly, a person pointed to the alley in front of him: "Would you turn a corner there and leave?"

"Hurry up and catch up, I want to see that beauty again~~~"

"Me too, me too~~~~"

The crowd quickly moved away from the street just now. On the quiet street, when no one noticed, a pink BULL carrying a pink boat slowly appeared. The girl in white sitting on it held a white umbrella and smiled, but With a lingering chill, "a very powerful aura suddenly appeared, I'm a little interested..."

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There are bustling shops on both sides of the waterway. People come and go in the spacious promenade outside the shops. Various BULLs swim back and forth on the clear waterway. There are also shops that move small shops to small passenger ships. Many tourists park BULLs in You can choose your favorite products on the side of the passenger boat. Fortunately, the river is wide and the shops are arranged in an orderly manner on both sides. Even if you pass by the bustling shopping street in a BULL, you will not feel crowded, and the sounds of all kinds of selling and bargaining are full of ears.The main access waterways criss-cross among the uneven houses, some are as high as the roofs, some are interspersed in the middle of the houses, and more are lower than the flagstone streets.

"It's a very lively street, let's find the nearest person first, it's a bit suspicious not to hide your existence suddenly..." Holding an umbrella and looking around, Encore seemed to be integrated into this lively atmosphere.It would be nice to ignore her occasional wary glances into dark corners of the room.Suddenly, a huge BULL with a head as big as the Golden Merry came swimming in front of it. An old man with an umbrella was sitting on it. Unfortunately, due to the height difference, Encore could only vaguely see a figure, while the huge BULL It carried a huge boat, which was filled with all kinds of gorgeous people wearing exquisite masks, as if they were going to attend some banquet.And the closer you get to the shopping street, the more people you see wearing masks and gorgeous costumes, some are sitting on bulls of various sizes and colors, and some are walking on the street with exquisite designs and exquisite paintings. From time to time, masks appear in the crowd with warm smiles. Although they are pleasing to the eye, they are also isolated from contact. They are inexplicably cold and unhuman.

Anke casually looked around, and didn't know when the veil covered half of his face, and slowly drove the swordfish BULL to a corner with no customers in the busy river, and stopped in front of a small stall selling decorations , casually looking at the simple ornaments above.The jewelry seller was a skinny old woman in rough linen clothes. Seeing a customer coming, the old woman immediately greeted kindly: "Little girl, choose it. I made these by myself. Although it is a little simple, it is this Unique in town...'.The old lady's face was wrinkled and vicissitudes were written, but the only difference from the other shopkeepers was that she was wearing a pair of gloves made of coarse linen.

The slender hands moved back and forth on the simple ornaments, and finally stopped on a white lotus hair clip the size of a marble, and then picked it up and looked at it carefully. The blooming lotus opened its petals wantonly, and opened on the pure black clip On the surface, it is simple but charming, inexplicably pleasing.An Ke played with the little hairpin in his palm, his eyes looked like an old woman, and then moved to other accessories, "It looks very good, how much are these..."

"Little girl, your voice is very nice~~hehehe," the old lady who didn't rush to answer just smiled kindly, groped for a while under the table with ornaments, and then stretched out her gloved palm There is a blood-red Bana flower hairpin lying on it. The bright red color is as vivid as fresh blood. "However, pure white doesn't seem to suit you. Would you like to try the sinful red?"

"Hehe~", Anke, who was not surprised at all, was still smiling, her lips under the tulle curled up in a sarcastic arc, and she was still playing with the pure lotus in her hand, watching it transform into a pure white Bana flower like magic, "But, don't forget~~ the beautiful lotus will also become a sinful existence, just like an angel will fall, and who said that the other side flower has only one color~~"

The old lady still smiled kindly, her half-closed eyes fluttering between the scarlet Bana flower in her hand and the pure white Bana flower in Anke's hand. After a few seconds, she continued smiling, "Little girl, but don't forget , even if it is a pure white Bana flower, the world will firmly believe that it will one day become bloodthirsty and turn back to the blood-red guide of hell. But the lotus is different, even if it is a red lotus that blooms from the rotten mud, people will believe It is pure, even though it is red."

"Hehehe~~You really know how to joke~~~" With unexplainable bright red in his left eye, Anke just gently put the transfigured Bana flower in his hand slowly on the booth Looking at the illusory flowers showing their true bodies in the light mist, "I don't care what the world thinks... As long as there are people who believe in the existence of pure white Bana flowers in the world, then there must be such a flower, even if it is deep. Even if you fall into sin, you won't lose your white flowers...I believe so too..."

"Oh~~", the old lady blinked her eyes mischievously, her smiling face was still full of kindness, "It seems that you have found such a person who does not go with the world?"

"Well, there is one..." After a pause, Anke caressed the tulle on his face, and then took it away, and the peerless face transformed was completely exposed in front of the old woman, and a little pale lips slowly evoked a smile , a pure smile without any impurities, "or more than one..."

"It's a pity that people who don't fit in usually don't end well. After all, there are almost all people in the world who firmly believe in the red hell flower. Even if those few people want to go against the current, they will be swallowed or merged. ...the result is very simple, no one can be the same as always..."

"That's really a pity, but he, or they, may really create a miracle of going upstream. Besides, since he dares to maintain a pure whiteness in front of the world, and is fearless of the scarlet scenery around him, then that flower is called The flowers of the Hell Messenger are miracles. Moreover, what the world needs to know is that the pure white Bana flowers... are also highly poisonous~~~"

After quietly looking at the Encore for a few seconds, the old woman suddenly burst into a satisfied smile, and once again took out a delicate golden orchid hairpin from the drawer below. The blooming five-petal orchid seemed to be designed from pure real gold. .It is also a simulated flower, even the orchid stamens are made lifelike, and even the silver hairpin connected to the orchid is completely top-notch, everyone knows that the hairpin is abnormal, very abnormal.

Seeing the orchid and thinking of a sticky blue hair, Anke shivered violently, and hurriedly drove Swordfish to leave this place of right and wrong, "Well, I'm sorry, I left beforehand... ".Although she knew beforehand that this old woman was not an ordinary person, she always had a feeling that she had to go, but the moment she instructed the swordfish to go, she felt something was wrong. Something was pulling the swordfish under the water, preventing it from leaving. stall, while Swordfish, who was still trying to struggle, was sweating profusely, moving around but then froze there.Anke's expression froze, and then he smiled gently, holding the white umbrella that was getting colder with both hands.

"Hehehe, don't worry, little girl. Why do you care about it for a while?" The old woman, who already had a kind smile on her face, was holding a white handkerchief to wrap three accessories: a white lotus hairpin, and a red Bana flower The hair clip and the golden lotus hairpin that made Encore feel very bad, while packing it, he chatted with Encore about the homework, as if they knew each other well, "Little girl, you see that there are many people on this island now. Is there a person wearing a mask? Well, it’s because the island that the sea train passes by [St. Falter] has held a mask carnival for several days in a row, so there are only so many people wearing masks on the island now. But Ah~~", the old lady changed the subject, looked at Encore's exquisite face and the body of a girl who was nearly 17 years old, and continued: "They are not good enough, how can you pretend to be so like a little girl? It's just like the real thing~~"

"You really know how to joke. Is there anyone in this world who isn't real??" Anke, who was still smiling lightly, didn't make a statement, watching the old woman packing three accessories in slow motion.A cloud slightly covered the sun, and the occasional passing wind brought a touch of coolness.Anke just tugged on the shawl lightly, then slowly put away the umbrella and lightly placed it on the strings of the boat. The slanted angle made the top of the white umbrella touch a little bit of the water surface, and the movement was natural.

"Hehe, there are indeed some people in the world who don't live like real people. But in some people's world, she is real and has great significance, right, little girl~~", slowly looking at Encore Next, she put the folded handkerchief in a jewelry box next to her, closed the lid and tied a golden bow thoughtfully, then the old woman held the box in both hands and handed it to Encore: "Seeing that we are destined, these three The accessories are given to you, the only one in the world~~~”

"Really..." He raised the umbrella and opened it, the water on the top of the umbrella flew to the old woman's booth, the round water droplets were not obvious on the light-colored wooden board, but after being absorbed, they formed light brown Round, Swordfish BULL suddenly drove Encore away from the small booth, leaving only a faint sentence in the air, "But you will not get rewarded for your merits, so I will go first."

Watching the swordfish quickly carry the white figure holding the umbrella away, the old woman holding the box did not shout loudly to stop the away Encore, but slowly put down the box in her hand, and then took off the glove on her right hand , the exposed white right hand skin is young and smooth, completely incompatible with the wrinkled face, caressing the beautifully packaged box, the 'grandmother' suddenly chuckled, the voice is also young and not suitable for the old face, not like a girl His eyes are full of vitality, but with the stability of the past, and his eyes are not cloudy like the old man's, but a kind of clear eyes with a certain emotion,
You've got a great fiancé, Artus Dylan-D-Raphael...

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(End of this chapter)