Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 221 City of Water: Strange White Demon Sword
"By the way, what are we going to find?" Sitting on a two-seater swordfish, Luffy looked puzzled.

Chopper and Happy sitting in the back were directly defeated by his thick lines. In desperation, Happy stood up and held the photo in front of Luffy, pointing to the smiling old swordfish and said: "This is the blue fin! We Go find it!!"

"So that's how it is..." After nodding, Luffy continued to look forward, with a slightly melancholy expression on his face, and the feeling that there was no one around him began to appear again.Suddenly he reached out and knocked on his head violently, and after shaking the strange feeling aside, he clenched the rein in his hand and laughed triumphantly, "Suddenly I have a good idea~~~"

"What a good idea..." The two people sitting in the back watched curiously as Luffy flicked the rein in front, and then the swordfish, which was still swimming slowly, suddenly rushed forward like a wild horse running free. Soaring, carrying three people seriously speeding around and turning around, like a roller coaster.

As a result, the people in the entire water city only saw a runaway swordfish passing by at the speed of light, splashing countless water splashes, and the thrilling screams left behind on the way

"what!!!!!!!!"

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At the fountain on the highest floor of the City of Water, the runaway swordfish followed the flow of the waterfall to the highest point and stopped there with the power of an explosion from nowhere.Luffy stood up and looked at the distant scenery, very satisfied with the unobstructed scenery.Chopper and Happy, who had been frightened for a long time, hugged their chairs tremblingly, and shivered violently every time the water spray from the surging water column behind them splashed on their bodies.

"Why... why... did you come here...", Hubby asked tremblingly, not daring to look down.Chopper on the side also said with tears in the corner of his eyes: "Yeah... so scared..."

"What, you can see everything here~~~", after Luffy answered with a smile, he continued to look at the scenery leisurely, not worrying about the two behind who were almost frightened. people.

As if disturbed by the voice above, the monster that had been waiting for a long time below gradually woke up.In the sunny weather, the top of the huge fountain began to emit a slight chill, and the gradually cooling water temperature made the swordfish floating on it twitch uncomfortably.Habi and Chopper immediately screamed: "Ah!! What happened???"

"What's wrong?" Luffy looked back at the swordfish, looked carefully at the chilly water surface, then jumped to the edge of the concrete, bent down and put his hand into the water, as if frightened by the freezing water temperature A look of astonishment appeared on his face.Slowly squatting down, continuing to put his right hand into the water, and then said to Chopper and the others: "You guys leave here first, and then Chopper, go and get Sauron here."

"Did something happen?" Hubby asked with a trembling voice, because the surrounding temperature was already unacceptably cold.The hairy Chopper didn't feel cold, but felt that the surrounding temperature became more and more pleasant in the hot summer, and the chill was very comfortable.

Luffy was still squatting there, looking seriously at the surface of the water where icy scum began to emerge: "Anyway, get out of here first!"

"Why is there ice??" Chopper, who only now realized that something was wrong, immediately understood that this place should not stay for a long time. He climbed onto the chair in front and grabbed the rein tightly and said, "I see, I will let Sauron come here as soon as possible."

"What's the matter..." Hobby, who was still confused, looked at the fountain that produced ice in summer with a little fear, and then found Chopper in front of him flicking the rein.The swordfish, who couldn't stand it for a long time, seemed to be relieved, and quickly left the fountain along the water flow, several times faster than when it ran away before.Then the shrill screams spread throughout the water capital.

After seeing them leave, Luffy slowly pulled his hand out of the water, his fingers were already covered with clear white ice.Slightly frowning, he looked at the abnormal ice on his hand for a long time before he clenched his right hand and shattered it.Suddenly, the cold air that emerged from the water surface disappeared, but it was like a signal. The next second, the fountain where Luffy was located immediately turned into white ice, and the surging water column also condensed instantly.Not only that, the fountain is just the beginning, just like the earthquake center, all the water column channels connected to the fountain gradually turned into ice.The white and crystal-clear color has an unreal purity in the hot summer, but the sudden drop in temperature to a few degrees below zero makes people know that this is not a dream, and the water splashed near the waterway has also turned into pieces of ice The broken ground fell down, reflecting the sunlight, full of small rainbows.Within a few minutes, the water in the entire water capital and the nearby sea area of ​​nearly [-] meters was frozen.The whiteness is a bit scary.

The Water City, which relies on water for survival, has never experienced a winter full of ice, waterways that condensed into ice, and the sudden drop in temperature brought only disaster to the city.No matter what kind of bulls are swimming on the water, they all turn into ice cubes, making it a spectacle on the frozen waterway.People rushed home in a panic to look for coats and padded jackets. The icebergs repairing the ship at the shipyard were also amazed by these changes. Those who had no time to get the padded jackets hurriedly lit fires to keep warm so as not to freeze into ice cubes in the temperature of minus a few degrees.Frankie, whose body is mostly made of iron, is not affected much, and plans to go to the town to see what happened.

After taking Happy to a safe place, Chopper hurriedly searched for a certain green algae that was easy to get lost in the water capital, and the shouting along the way easily gathered the other members of the Straw Hat Pirates , including a certain Long Nose who has been hiding and has withdrawn, and of course he followed furtively at the end.But now, people all over the street were wrapped in padded jackets, discussing in groups of twos and threes with worried faces, not knowing what was going on with the sudden freezing.

"What's the matter, Chopper??" Nami, who was following closely behind, shouted, holding a lot of shopping bags in both hands.

"I don't know, the fountain suddenly turned into ice, and then Luffy called me to come and find Sauron!" Chopper replied loudly, trying to smell Sauron's scent.

"Does Lu Fei know why the entire city of water has turned into ice?" Sanji, who was also running behind, asked doubtfully, with a large bag of ingredients in his hand.Robin on the side looked at the frozen waterway, frowned and felt that it should be made by Qingzhi who owns the frozen fruit, because only he can easily turn water into ice, but she didn't know why Qingzhi would came here.

"If this is the case, the reason should be at the fountain. But why did you go to Sauron?" Nami asked another question.

"I don't know either!!" After continuing to answer loudly, Chopper moved his nose and immediately turned to the alley next to him, "I found it!!"

In a certain dead-end alley, a certain green algae was staring at a mouse protruding from the corner with a puzzled face, wondering why he came here when he heard the yelling behind him.Looking back strangely, he saw that all the members except Luffy ran towards him, and he couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you?"

"Lu... Luffy is looking for you..." Chopper who ran here replied out of breath.

"Looking for me?" After repeating Chopper's words strangely, Zoro realized that the temperature around him was so cold that it was piercing. After rubbing his arms, he said, "Why is it so cold all of a sudden?"

"I just realized now, are you an idiot?" Nami, who was also so cold that her nose was flushed, yelled loudly, and threw the bag in her hand towards Sauron's face, and said, "Dare to break it!" Ten times the money owed to me!"

Holding a pile of shopping bags with a black face, Sauron gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words, "You will go to hell sooner or later!!"

"Yes, yes," Nami just waved her hands indifferently, she doesn't believe in hell anyway.

"Anyway, go find Luffy now! The whole city is frozen, we need to find a way to untie the ice, otherwise the BULL that freezes in the water will die!" After speaking anxiously, Chopper immediately recovered the deer. Xing turned around and ran towards the fountain. Although he didn't know what was going on, other people who intuitively felt that the situation was urgent also caught up immediately.

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Luffy was standing quietly on the cement edge of the fountain pool, the clean and tidy cement floor had no man-made damage.For some reason, he didn't feel anything strange about the sudden freezing, but only felt that the surroundings were filled with a sad atmosphere.Under the cold ice layer, there seems to be a faint voice talking to him anxiously, but the feeling that it seems to be echoing in the heart but seems to be separated by the world is not clear at all, and one can only feel it. Therein urgent sorrow.

"What's going on... I suddenly feel so sad..." Luffy lowered his head and slowly stroked his left chest with his right hand, his steady heartbeat was active and powerful, but the feeling of emptiness that seemed to be missing something was getting worse and worse. Intense, so strong that it gave him the illusion of heartache.

The voice was still trying to say something, but it was too vague to tell whether it was true or not. The temperature around the fountain was getting lower and lower, as if the voice was full of anxiety but didn't know how to let others know What he was talking about, he could only use the lowered temperature to imply his own existence.

The white mist exhaled became more and more obvious. Luffy grasped his heart and knelt down slowly with a face full of pain. He could know that the voice was telling him important information, but he really listened to everything. I can't...

Luffy grabbed his right hand so hard that veins popped out of his clothes, but he still couldn't stop the expanding emptiness in his heart, the kind of emptiness that he had lost the most important thing but he didn't notice it at all.The highly concentrated energy wanted to grasp the information in his mind, but he worked so hard that his face was covered with cold sweat, but he still didn't know what it wanted to say.

"Damn it!" Luffy couldn't help but clenched his left hand and punched the ground hard, only to find that after he punched down, the edge of the circular cement on one side changed.In the cold temperature, there was a faint mist. After the mist dissipated, the originally neat concrete floor was covered with a layer of five centimeters thick pink crystals, and strange symbols were engraved under the crystals. Also some traces of dark brown.

Looking at the familiar pink crystal underneath but didn't know when he had seen it before, Luffy slowly released his left hand clenched into a fist and then pressed it. The cold touch is a bit unreal in the cold temperature, but even the body is Feeling the familiar touch makes him feel incredible, the sense of familiarity that seems to have been touched countless times cannot deceive the body's senses.

Suddenly, that voice became irritable, and the voice directly conveyed to the depths of my mind resonated sharply, but I still couldn't grasp every single word in it.Luffy, who only felt a stabbing pain in his head, fell forward in pain, holding his head with both hands as if there were thousands of thorns scurrying inside, curled up uncomfortable on the cold ice, it became loud but still couldn't hear it. The voice of what was said was even sharper, and Luffy, who couldn't stand it, closed his eyes tightly and his face was full of painful distortions, trying to squeeze out a few words from his clenched teeth, "What the hell are you talking about..."

As if he knew that no matter how hard he tried, Luffy would never hear his voice. The voice gradually became weaker, but it still existed faintly. After the increasingly intense sadness and pleading reached Luffy's heart It made him feel heartache like suffocation.After feeling the sharp voice in his head recede, Luffy slowly sat up on the ice, his hands on the ice didn't leave immediately, the coldness seemed to take away every bit of warmth from his body.Looking down at the pure white ice, Luffy frowned and continued trying to figure out what the voice was saying.Perhaps it was because of the direct contact with the ice surface, after listening for a while he finally heard fragmented words,

'...beg...find...the master...remember...'

As if hearing the news of being imprisoned, Luffy suddenly felt a sharp pain in his mind, followed by a blank.After staring blankly at his hands propped on the ice for a while, he slowly picked up his hands and stood up unsteadily.The mind that was still aching was still blank, and the information that was finally captured faded away bit by bit, as if being erased bit by bit.

"What on earth do you want to say..." Luffy asked in a low voice, but unfortunately the voice disappeared as if he had fulfilled his mission.There was already a lot of ice slag on his body, and his hands that were originally placed on the ice were already red with cold, but he still stood there stubbornly, staring straight at the ground, waiting for the voice that could never appear again.

"Luffy!!" Sauron suddenly yelled loudly from under the fountain, and then countless hands began to form a net on the edge of the fountain to connect the layers of the fountain, so that people below could come up.

Sauron, who was the first to climb up from the hand net, jumped to the side of Luffy, looked around and found nothing strange.

Afterwards, Sanji, Chopper, and Nami also climbed up, walked carefully to the ice surface and began to look at the place.Robin, who finally climbed up, first noticed the cement edge sealed by crystals, and the strange symbols below.

"What happened, Luffy?" Zoro asked in a low voice, but just after asking, one of his knives suddenly shook uncomfortably, as if he had been seriously frightened.Immediately grabbing the shaking demon sword Guiche, Sauron frowned and stared at the ice below like Luffy.Demon knives all have similar characteristics, and now almost all of Sauron's knives resonate, so there must be a similar demon knife under the ice, and perhaps that is the culprit that freezes the entire water capital.

"Everyone come and see here! Why do the fountains on this floor have crystals and strange symbols..." Robin, squatting on the ice and reaching out to touch the crystals, shouted loudly, interpreting the words that even her I don't even know a few ancient symbols, "However, I don't seem to have seen this kind of symbol..."

"That's right, it seems that there are no two floors below," Nami also walked to the side and bent down to stare at the crooked symbols, expressing that she couldn't understand them at all.

Chopper was staring at a circular symbol. After looking at it for a while, he looked up at Sanji's protruding eyebrow, continued to look down at the symbol, and continued to look at Sanji's eyebrow. Suddenly, the smiling face inexplicably smiled even more. cute.

"It's probably used for sealing. If I'm not mistaken, there's a demon knife under here, and all this is caused by it." With one hand tightly holding Gui Che, who was trembling slightly, Sauron knelt down and used it. Pressing the other hand on the ice, he closed his eyes and felt it, but there was nothing other than feeling the evil energy and darkness pouring deeper and deeper into his heart.

Zoro, whose face became more serious, stood up and looked at Luffy, who had kept his head down and kept silent, and asked in a low voice, "Luffy, you..."

"I heard a voice..." Luffy interrupted Zoro abruptly, then slowly stroked his heart, lowered his eyes and murmured in pain, "I don't know why...so sad... "

"Luffy...", seeing him like this, the members gathered around him worriedly, looking at him with a confused expression.

"It seems to be very sad, it has been telling me something very important, but I only heard a little..." Slowly squatting down and reaching out to press the ice, Luffy whispered, "It seems to let I found its owner... who is very important to it...".After a pause, Luffy still didn't say the following sentence, 'People who seem to be very important to me...'

There was a collective silence, and everyone still looked at Luffy squatting there worriedly.The sun moved slowly, the temperature began to rise gradually, and the ice in the city of water began to dissolve from the outermost part, slowly restoring the blue sea.The melted water channel freed the BULL that was frozen on it, but due to the long-term freezing, some unbearable faints floated on the water.The citizens began to spread the news, and a large number of newspapers were scattered on the ground, reporting the abnormal weather changes.Iceberg, Barry, Lulu, and Thalstone from the shipwreck also returned to Shipbuilding Island to deal with the panic that this anomaly brought to the citizens.The construction of the pirate ship has temporarily stopped, but just in case, the Franky family and the others are still guarding nearby.

Keenly aware of climate changes, Nami looked at the scene outside the fountain, and said with a little surprise after seeing the gradually shrinking ice cover: "The ice has begun to melt, and the temperature has also begun to recover."

"Let's stand on the shore first, so as not to fall into the water later," Sanji suggested, and said intimately, the target is of course the two beauties, "Miss Nami and Miss Robin be careful , the crystal is very slippery."

"That's right, let's get off the ice first..." After clapping her hands to attract everyone's attention, Nami pulled Robin to the edge, followed by Chopper and Sanji.The silent Robin kept staring at the symbols under the crystal. For some reason, she always felt that these symbols were not just seals, because from what she saw just now, if they were really seals, there would be no way for the knife under the ice to remain. Such a strong force.

Zoro wanted to walk to the concrete shore too, but after seeing Luffy squatting there, he lost the idea and continued to stand beside him, still holding the demon knife Guiche in his left hand.He didn't know whether his guess was right, because he had never seen a demon sword with the ability to freeze, but for some reason, his inexplicable intuition made him blurt out that the following was a demon sword with the ability to control ice and snow, and he I didn't even doubt whether my conclusions were wrong.

Not caring that the ice of the fountain had melted to the second floor, Luffy was still squatting there with his right hand pressed against the ice, and after a while he spoke in a low voice, with a somewhat depressing voice that sounded indistinct: "You can tell me What does your master look like? She... who the hell... who is mine..."

The melting of the ice surface paused for a moment, then resumed.The noise of the fountain gradually appeared, and the remaining icy temperature did not stop the fountain from surging enthusiastically.The ice surface where Luffy was on also began to melt, and the water column surging in the center was freed, surging wantonly in the bright sunlight, and the splashing water was extraordinary.But the ice stopped after most of it melted, and the place where Luffy and Zoro stood was safe.

Suddenly, the place where Luffy was pressing trembled suddenly, and then slowly surged up, as if something was about to come out from below.He stood up slowly in amazement, watching a life-size ice puppet rise rapidly from where he was holding down.It was a little girl in a simple kimono, like an exquisite and perfect doll, and pure white ice was the only color on her body.The little girl stretched her right hand forward, as if she wanted to hand it to someone.The ice sculpture is like a real person, and even the long eyelashes are so delicate, the small lips and slightly curved eyebrows are piercingly familiar, and the hair that grows to the thigh cannot show its true color, only innocent paleness .

Seeing the ice sculpture, everyone present felt a twinge of pain in their hearts.He had never seen that face before, but he felt inexplicable heart palpitations, and even a strange dizziness began to appear in his mind.

The throbbing pain in his heart intensified, Lu Fei bent down slightly and touched the cold face with his trembling right hand forward, the unfamiliar touch could cause the trembling of the soul.Move your fingertips up slightly, across the delicate eyebrows and eyes, and for some reason, you are suddenly pierced by a sharp ice thorn, and the bright red blood drips down, leaving a colorful presence behind the doll's left pupil like a drama It slid down her pale face like tears.

The exquisite puppet with blood and tears stood in front of him, Lu Fei's eyes widened suddenly, his trembling right hand wanted to touch the left eye stained with his own blood, but before he could touch it, the ice puppet suddenly Cracks appeared all over the body, and the dense cracks cracked, disintegrating the ice sculpture that should not have existed under the bright sun.At the same time, huge cracks appeared on the remaining ice surface at the fountain, which would shatter within a few seconds.

Staring at the exquisite ice sculpture in front of his eyes, it cracked into pieces and quickly melted on the water surface. Luffy shouted in panic, "No!!" He immediately rushed forward to save the little bit of ice left, but But it's just meaningless action.And Luffy, who didn't see the situation clearly, fell directly into the water and sank without any struggle.The last piece of ice slipped between the outstretched right fingers, and then quickly dissolved without a trace, as if the ice sculpture just now was just a mirage and could not be touched by him.

"Luffy!!" After seeing Luffy fall into the water, Sauron on one side immediately gave up the strange feeling just now and jumped into the river. The demon sword has something to do with it.

"Luffy, Zoro!!" After watching them jump in, Sanji clenched the cigarette in his mouth and shouted to the people next to him, "Stay here!" and then followed them and jumped down. Although he didn't know what happened just now, he knew that the following things must not be simple, at least it can disturb their reason and make them feel strange is the evidence.

"Sanji!!", watching the blond cook jump into the fountain without knowing how deep it was, and the people on the shore were full of panic.Although they saw the rising crystal doll just now, since most of them were blocked by Luffy and Sauron in front, they basically couldn't see any important features, and only felt uncomfortable dizziness and tinnitus.

At the bottom of the water, the bright sunlight shining through the water surface is very brilliant. The deepest part of the fountain is a rotating upward flow of water to pump the seawater up from below to form such a spectacular fountain.However, there is a man-made crystal at the very end. There is a cross lying there. The center of the cross is a three-dimensional crystal, and a white knife is sealed in the upper half of the crystal.The white knife is so pure that it cannot be ignored in the dark sea water. It has a beautiful blade, and the white ribbon tied at the end of the handle gently wraps around the blade. The whole body is white without any color, like the creator's proud artwork.

Even though all his strength was taken away by the sea water, Luffy still tried his best to stretch out his right hand forward to touch the incomparably distant blade, but it was still in vain.The breath he was trying to hold back was confused by impatience, and the air bubbles escaped from his open mouth.Sauron, who followed closely behind, grabbed his back collar and threw him up, while he swam towards the crystal not far away holding the knife.Sanji then grabs the drowning Luffy and swims upstream.

Squinting his eyes and looking at the white knife there, Zoro quickly cut out the crystal wrapped with the white knife with the knife, and swam out of the water holding it before it was swept away by the current.

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(End of this chapter)