Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 229 Strange young man, his name is Tiger Shark?
Roaming on the Qianyang in the calm waters, the mist shrouded in the morning.Usopp is fishing with Chopper, Robin is tending her garden in the back, Nami is drawing nautical charts in the survey room, Sanji is busy in the kitchen, Franky is tapping away in his secret workshop .Luffy was sitting on the round platform of the mainmast, continuing the same movements for the past few days --- holding the knife upright in front of him and staring silently.

Quietly staring at the faint patterns on the pure white sword of the demon sword, Luffy frowned and tried to find out the information of this sword from his memory.

"Why don't you let go of this knife?" Nami, who came out of the measurement room, was a little helpless. Luffy said, "Really, you are not a swordsman, why do you keep holding this knife? So Didn't Ron have a broken knife? Wouldn't it be okay to give it to him?"

"This sword doesn't belong to Sauron, and he knows it..." Luffy stared at the demon sword intently, then slowly closed his eyes and put the sword on his forehead.

Nami helplessly looked at Luffy as if he had changed his appearance, and when he was about to turn around, he suddenly heard him say in a low voice: "Snow Love..."

"Snow Love??" Nami looked back at Luffy who was still maintaining that movement in a strange way, and repeated what she had heard, "Luffy, what you just said was..."

"The name of this sword." After answering lightly, Luffy opened his eyes and looked at the demon sword on his forehead. He sighed and put it aside, resting his hands on the back of his head. The mast quietly looked at the blue sky above.

"How on earth do you know what this strange knife is called?" Nami frowned and looked at Luffy's pensive look. After she couldn't figure it out, she walked to Luffy's side and reached out to pick up the knife.

"what!!!!"

Nami's sudden screams spread throughout the entire Qianyang, scaring everyone to put down what they were doing and run over.

"What's wrong with Miss Nami?" Sanji, who came out of the kitchen, jumped directly from the second floor.

Usopp and Chopper who were near the mouth of the fish pond also ran over, and there was still a freshly caught octopus hanging on the fishing rod.

"Are there any enemies?" Sauron also quickly climbed down from the watchtower, and then Franky below the deck and Robin in the garden also ran over.

Nami sat slumped on the ground, sweating all over her face, and a thin layer of ice formed on the hand that was touching the handle of the knife.And the snow-white demon knife was thrown aside, and a faint chill appeared on the sharp blade.

"What's going on?" Sanji walked up to Nami worriedly, and carefully helped her, who was still in shock, to sit on the mainmast.And Chopper quickly took out the medical kit from the medical room and began to help her defrost.

Zoro looked at the current situation and roughly thought of the reason, "Is that knife refusing Nami's contact?"

Seeing Nami's frightened expression, Usopp couldn't help but suggest, "Throw away such a dangerous knife earlier..."

"No!" Nami's unexpected refusal came from Nami's mouth. After taking a deep breath, she said calmly, "You can't throw this knife. I don't know why. When I first came into contact with it, I seemed to see something very familiar... "

"Nami..." Chopper stared blankly at Nami's terrified but determined look, then turned his eyes to the knife.

"Nami, are you alright?" Luffy looked at the pale navigator worriedly, saw her shake her head, got up and picked up the knife on the ground, and then said lightly: "Actually, I have been thinking about it for the past few days. I also believe that some of you have also begun to realize that our current life is not right."

Zoro was silent for a while, then looked up at the flying pirate flag above, and took over Luffy's topic, "It seems that something very important is missing, and I have always had this thought since I saw this knife in the city of water. And it’s getting stronger and stronger recently.”

Sanji, who felt the same way, just clenched the cigarette in his mouth, and then expressed his thoughts, "It's an uncomfortable feeling, as if the person I wanted to protect has disappeared and we have completely forgotten about it."

Lu Fei waved the demon sword in his hand in a dignified manner, silently watching several pure white snowflakes float out of thin air, and then slowly fall down.

Robin reached out to take it, and the cold temperature in her palm was a little familiar. She said lightly: "Perhaps, the battle on Judicial Island or the 'pirates' we encountered afterwards were not as simple as we imagined. Because since the judicial After the island, all of us have become a little weird, although it can be explained by the influence of the demon sword, but the behavior of everyone recently does not seem to be the same thing."

"That's right, rather than being hypnotized, it's better to say that we unconsciously made actions or actions that we were used to but we forgot." Nami analyzed calmly, "Frankie I just joined it recently, and there seems to be nothing strange about the action. Usopp may not have gone to the fountain with us that day, and he was not triggered when the Demon Sword was at its strongest. The recent actions of others have begun to change. Suddenly it came up."

"For example, I made a cake dessert but I don't know who to give it to..." Sanji said thoughtfully, holding a cigarette in his hand, "I thought it was for Miss Robin and Miss Nami, because the cake The ingredients used are carefully set and the taste seems to have been researched for a long time."

"It's a pity that Robin and I don't like too sweet things. Moreover, Chopper has rarely eaten such sweet things." Nami continued to analyze, "What's more, Sanji-kun is a very good Theoretically speaking, a good chef should not make a cake with a sweetness that is a bit higher than normal people can accept."

"But I don't seem to have any big strange movements," said Chopper holding the medical box, "Although it seems that there are several strange medical books."

"I seem to have published a few more books on metaphysics or secret recipes," said Robin who thought of something, "I didn't have the habit of reading these books before."

Zoro just clenched his knife silently, glanced at Luffy and the knife quietly, lowered his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking.

"I seem to have lost someone very important. But I can't remember her no matter what..." Luffy frowned distressedly and clenched the sheathless demon knife in his hand, "This knife is the only clues, but I still don't have a clue..."

"Luffy..." Everyone looked at the panicked captain worriedly, knowing that the person who might not exist had a great influence on him, but they were helpless and had no idea where to find her.

"I feel like I'm running out of time..." Luffy pursed his lips slightly, looking at his companions around him in a panic, "I always feel that if I don't find her soon, she will disappear forever..."

"Calm down, Luffy!", Zoro patted him on the shoulder suddenly, and said in a deep voice: "We will find her! I believe that if she really exists, then we will definitely find her!"

The hand holding the handle of the knife was hardened, and then unconsciously let go. Luffy just turned around silently and put the Demon Sword back in the wooden box, and then continued to sit there and started to be dazed.

'Why do you always feel that the Straw Hat Boy has become a bit strange recently?Where did that carefree and heartless look go? ’, Frankie stared at Luffy inquiringly, ‘or is there really a character who can affect his mood and completely change him?But since everyone doesn't remember anything, it shouldn't be something important. Why is he so persistent? '

"Wow, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh, huh!" Suddenly, there was an abnormal sound of water splashing in the sea in front of the Qianyang, and it was constantly surging as if something was about to rush out from below.

The people on the boat immediately raised their vigilance, and temporarily stopped the boat, and then all gathered at the bow.Franky was ready to sail at any time, while Luffy gave Sauron the wooden box of the Demon Sword, letting the knife temporarily replace his broken Qiushui.

The surging sea water in front of it slowly floated up from below, a huge red Neptune with rolling eyes and a bit of blood in its mouth full of fangs.Then there was another slight sound of 'crashing', and a black shadow rushed up and stood on top of the sea kings.

"Who?" Chopper hid behind Sauron, tremblingly looking at the huge Neptune standing in front of him.

"No matter who it is, it can only be said that there is a strong sense of oppression." Sauron clenched the wooden box in his hand, with a vigilant expression on his face, "I feel a strong sense of oppression even here."

After staring at that person for a long time, Lu Fei suddenly said with a serious face, "I suddenly want to beat him up."

"Calm down, Luffy." Sanji said lightly, "Although I don't know why you suddenly feel that way, I can guess that this is another clue."

"??", Luffy looked back at him strangely, expressing that he didn't understand.

"The idiot cook is right. At first you felt that something was wrong, and then we all began to feel that something is wrong with our current life. Now that you say that the guy you haven't seen deserves a beating, no matter what the reason is, he must be with you. We have something to do with each other." Sauron said in a deep voice, his eyes fixed on the people on the sea kings who remained motionless.

The Neptune is a young man in his 20s, probably because of diving, he only wears a pair of black leggings, he has a healthy wheat-colored complexion, and has a good-looking muscular chest.And he was holding a fish basket in one hand, and with the other hand he straightened his short hair that was still dripping with water before looking at the pirate ship parked there.

"Oh, what a coincidence~~", the young man evoked a gentle smile, the seemingly non-hostile smile was like the warmth of summer.

"Hey, who are you??", Luffy yelled at the man.

"Hehe~~", the young man just chuckled a few times, looked thoughtfully at the pirate flag on it, and then appeared on the railing at the bow of the ship as soon as he dispersed.

"So fast!", Sanji found himself unable to catch the movement of the young man coming here, sanji's heart sank, and he became more vigilant.

"I'm sorry, everyone of the Straw Hat Pirates~~" After bowing gracefully and saluting, the young man said with a light smile, "I'm a mercenary on vacation. I just came here today to catch some fish. I see everyone. Please forgive me if I was abrupt~~"

"What, so it is like this." After hearing this explanation, Luffy, who was completely unsuspecting, nodded, and then looked curiously at the fish basket he was holding, "What kind of fish did you catch?? It's so big Aren't the sea kings enough to eat?"

"Hehe, the meat of sea kings is too rough, not suitable for my sister's body~~", the young man threw the fish basket in his hand to Lu Fei, and said with a smile: "I caught Yubei, treat her as a breakfast."

"Rain shell?!", Sanji was surprised to hear this name, because it is considered the best in seafood.Not to mention its excellent nutritional value and taste, and the way it is caught alone makes it difficult for many fishermen.Because rain shells live thousands of meters below the seabed, the value of shellfish is higher the lower you go, and the danger is also greater, because there are many sea kings entrenched around them.Also, they only live near islands that are warm all year round.After studying cooking for so many years, Sanji has never seen rain shells on the market.

"Oh! It looks delicious~~~~", Luffy drooled directly at the fan-shaped white shellfish in the fish basket.

"If you like, you can take some away, but remember to leave some for me~~", the young man said with a smile, as if it was just caught by hand rather than through extremely dangerous sea areas.

Sanji narrowed his eyes and looked at the skin and pants on the young man's body, and found that there was no scar at all, so he couldn't help but frowned slightly, "It looks like he doesn't have any diving equipment, so he should just jump down and then dive down."Should he be said to be excellent in water, or to say that his ability is terrifying? '

"Wait a minute, Luffy!!" Nami grabbed Luffy who was drooling and rushed into the kitchen with a fish basket, calmly looked at the smiling young man standing there and said, "Who the hell are you? I I remember that you were not surprised when you saw the outside at first, and you even seemed to know what our pirate group looks like. But, you ran up directly, aren't you worried about the pirates?"

"Hehe, I have heard about the reputation of the Straw Hat Pirates. After all, they dared to go to Judiciary Island to make a big fuss and come back with all the members. This is unprecedented~~" The young man smiled sincerely, his eyes casually After looking at their extra partners, the smile was a little unpredictable.

"Hahahaha, it's all thanks to my uncle~~", Usopp said triumphantly with his long nose, while the innocent Chopper immediately looked at him with admiration: "Really ??"

"It would be great if that's the case~" Robin just looked at him with a smile, and the vigilance in his slightly narrowed eyes could not be concealed, "But I still don't know who you are, sir, I haven't seen it around here. There are islands, may I ask sir, where are you from?"

"I'm Tiger Shark, from Flower Fairy Island~~", the young man shrugged and smiled innocently, "Because I've been on the bottom of the sea all the time, I don't know how far I went, but I think it shouldn't be far away~ ~"

"That name doesn't look like a normal person's name." Nami still hasn't let down her vigilance, because there are too many vigilant factors in the young man who calls himself 'Tiger Shark'.

"Hehe, you worry too much~~", Tiger Shark just smiled and said: "I am just a good brother who helps my sister catch fish~~, it is fate to meet you occasionally, so don't be so vigilant~~"

"How dare you catch Yubei, what a good brother..." Franky was so moved that he pushed up his sunglasses and wiped away his tears, because he knew what a 'yubei' really was.That thing was sold at an unbelievable price on the black market.

"Flower Fairy Island? Where is that?", Nami asked lightly, with a kind of curiosity about strange islands.

"Just in front of your route, guessing from the time I started diving, I should see it in another hour."

"In this case, let's send you back, as a thank you for sending us such good food~~" Luffy, who was still unsuspecting at all, was holding the fish basket with a smile, writing all over his face. It's full of the words "New Islands I'm Going to Adventure".

"Then I will trouble you~~~", Tiger Shark smiled softly, then glanced at the wooden box in Sauron's hand, and then moved away seemingly unintentionally.

"It's easy to catch a cold if you're wet, I'll get you a towel." Chopper looked at the wet Tiger Shark, and he couldn't ignore it because of his kind heart.

"Then thank you, lovely reindeer doctor~~"

"Hehehe~~ Even if you say that, I won't be happy, you bastard~~ bastard~~~", Chopper, who was directly hit by this sentence, turned left and right to the bathroom direction.

"Chopper's way of expressing his feelings is a bit strange, don't worry about it." Nami smiled dignifiedly and ladylikely, and then made a 'please' gesture in the direction of the kitchen, "Why don't we go to the kitchen and sit down. There are hot drinks there, and Sanji should have made breakfast too."

"That's right, and you can also tell us about the island that sounds beautiful~~~", Robin also smiled softly.

Seeing the true intentions concealed by their beautiful faces, Tiger Shark just smiled gently, and obediently jumped into the trap they dug, "Then trouble the two beautiful ladies~~"

"Yeah, yeah~~ Sanji cooks the best food~~~", after Luffy introduced it with a smile, he began to laugh at the sea kings in front, "Barbecue~~~"

"Then let me help Luffy deal with the Neptune in front first, Miss Nami and Miss Robin help greet the guests~~", Sanji smiled very gentlemanly, although he didn't want the two beauties to chat with that person , but there is no other way now.

"Then I'll go clean up the fishing rods first~/I'll ​​go clean up the workshop~" Usopp and Frankie disappeared in a flash
Sauron just looked at the tiger shark's back thoughtfully, and didn't think that he was just a 'mercenary on vacation' with that sense of oppression.Moreover, they haven't introduced that Chopper's identity is a doctor. How did he know?
Sensing Sauron's gaze, Tiger Shark didn't stop but turned around and smiled, the unfathomable hidden meaning made Sauron tense his body reflexively.

'That rascal! ', Zoro looked at the man talking and laughing happily as he walked into the kitchen with gloomy eyes, and then moved slowly towards the kitchen.

Luffy, who had been staring at the sea king, suddenly withdrew his foodie expression, and clenched the fish basket in his hand with a deep expression.

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(End of this chapter)