Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 235 Clues: Partners Existing and Outside Memory

The Thousand Sun stopped when it sailed to the outer sea of ​​Huaxian Island, and all the partners gathered on the lawn deck, forming a circle and staring at the basket placed in the middle by Luffy.

"Okay, I'm going to open it." Taking a deep breath, Luffy bent down and removed the cloth covering the basket, only to find that there were only three or four exquisite snacks, a cup of tea and a bottle of medicine in the basket.

"It looks delicious~~", Luffy, who was instantly attracted by the delicious food, picked up a snack with one hand, and was just about to throw it into his mouth when Nami stopped it in time.

"Wait a minute! Who knows if there is any poison here?!" After quickly snatching two snacks from a foodie, Nami glared at the aggrieved Luffy.Then he bent down to put the snacks on the ground and began to search for the things in the basket, and finally copied the two photos hidden there at the bottom.

"Photo?" Nami stood up suspiciously and turned the photo to the front. When she saw the content on it, her pupils shrank, her face full of disbelief.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Nami's face was not right, Luffy reached out and took one of them, and after looking at it, his expression became the same as Nami's.

People who were puzzled by their expressions also gathered around and looked at the photo they held in their hands. The shortest Chopper was bouncing around, but no one noticed it.

"Who is this kid? It looks like you know each other and are still very familiar." Frankie, who was completely confused, pushed up his sunglasses and carefully looked at the photo held by Luffy.

It was a group photo of the Straw Hat Pirates. Judging from the Water City in the background, it should have been taken before entering the Water City, and the place where they were standing was obviously the bow of the Golden Merry.There was nothing strange about everyone's smiles, except for Zoro who was still yawning with a sleepy face and Sanji who was showing his heart to the two beauties, everyone else had smiling expressions on their faces.

This is normal, but what is very weird is that the Straw Hat Pirates, which only had 7 people at that time, had an extra child, a cute girl who had never met and was about ten years old.The girl with jet black long hair was wearing a simple pure white kimono, as delicate as a doll.There are also two knives sealed with pink crystals on his back, and the scabbards are not visible.

In the photo, the girl is turning her head to the side and talking to Luffy, who is bending over with a silly face, and she looks a little helpless with a smile on her face.The girl is facing to the left, and the complete left eye is a bit invisible from the sideways face, but people with discerning eyes can tell that her eyes are of different colors.One is crimson purple, the other is scarlet, and there are other symbols in the blood-red left pupil.

The familiar appearance completely overlaps with the child who appeared in the memory before, and the unfamiliar voice has a familiarity that even shocks the soul.

Even now, the atmosphere in the photo can be seen in that kind of harmony. At that time, there was no hypocrisy in the expressions on everyone's faces, only the relaxation of being with someone you could trust.Anyone who sees this photo will definitely think that the people on it are partners who have experienced ups and downs together and can talk to each other.

It's a pity that people who see this photo now have disbelief and confusion on their faces.Obviously the one above is me, but I don't have the slightest impression of the child who took the photo together.

On one side, Zoro stared closely at the two knives hidden in the girl's black hair, quite sure that the one that was wrapped in a white ribbon and sealed with pink crystal was the one they got now.

Luffy pursed his lips and stared at the photo in his hand for a long time, then reached out to take the photo in Nami's hand.It was a half-length photo of the girl just now. The person who took the photo was obviously not very skilled. The photo was a little blurry and tilted, but it still didn't hinder the panoramic view of the photo.The background is a piece of white clouds illuminated ruddy by the setting sun, and the layers are layered with a fairyland-like feeling.The girl was turning her head and smiling at someone, her slightly curved eyebrows were full of smiles, her pale face was flushed by the setting sun and looked healthy.In this photo, the girl's eyes can be seen completely. The right eye is violet, but the left eye is full of blood red. The dark number 'one' is horizontal on the blood red background, which is inexplicably gloomy.

After trying to calm down enough to think calmly, Zoro looked over at the two photos Luffy was holding in his hand, and broke the silence with a stern expression: "This child, is it the one that appeared in my memory not long ago? There is absolutely nothing wrong with these eyes!"

After lighting the cigarette and taking a deep breath, Sanji looked at the smoke drifting in the wind and said lightly: "What's going on here? Who is this cute little LADY?"

"From the photo, it seems to be a member of our pirate group. But why did we collectively forget?" Robin propped his chin and thought, "Could there be another sea monster that can steal memories? But it seems that apart from us Other than that, there are no strange changes in other people. The people on the island seem to be quite normal."

"No, when he handed us the basket, the boy named 'Blue Whale' said something that caught my attention and I still don't know what it means." Nami paused, without missing a word Repeated his words carefully, "He said, 'Master Tiger Shark is very strong, you are far from being rivals, if there is a conflict, it is best not to fight head-on, she does not want you to get hurt.', I am very concerned, why did he warn Our tiger sharks are very strong, why don't we let us go head-to-head. And, who is the 'she' here? Could it be the child in the photo?"

"I just feel like I know something now but I can't say it. A bunch of incomprehensible things suddenly popped up." Sanji said lightly, looking solemnly in the direction of Huaxian Island, "That island, It seems to have all the answers."

"No, have you thought of a possibility?" Usopp suddenly pointed to the photo that Luffy was holding in his hand, "Those two photos were fake, and then made us mistakenly think that child is our partner, Then rush to Huaxian Island recklessly, and wipe us out in one fell swoop?"

"I don't think these two photos are fake. I don't want to admit it, but that stinky shark is much more capable than us at first glance. If you want to catch us, you don't need to make so many messy things, just do it directly." ", Sanji clenched the cigarette in his mouth unwillingly, and then continued: "Based on my personal intuition, the guy who gave us the basket should be very familiar with this cute little LADY, and he didn't want to confuse us That's why I left her behind and gave us this clue."

"'She doesn't want you to get hurt.'" Robin muttered to himself suddenly, and then looked at Luffy who had been silent. "I suddenly have a guess, which should explain the current situation."

Luffy, who reacted a little to this sentence, moved his eyes from the photo to Robin's face, silently waiting for her to give an explanation.

"Let's put aside the girl named 'Lisa' on Huaxian Island first, and let's clear up our thinking first. Then let's assume that the child in the photo is one of us.", Pause to sort out the logic After the order, Robin closed his eyes and continued: "The eyes of this child in the photo are completely different from those of ordinary people. If her eyes have abilities that ordinary people cannot possess but are coveted by the world, then there may be a lot of enemies." Come to trouble her, and we will encounter a lot of trouble with her.

Then, one day, some enemies appeared that were too powerful for all of us.In order to protect us, she chose to leave our group.But it may be because of those eyes that those people asked her to change our memory, or those people have the ability to rewrite memory.So we all forgot about her until the other day we found the knife she left behind for some reason, which triggered the rewritten memory.In the next few days, we began to recall a little bit of her memory one after another, but it was not complete.Then, we came to Huaxian Island.Saw the blue whale that was probably related to her, and he gave us these pictures.

"If you think about it this way, the child on Huaxian Island is very likely to be the same person as the child in the photo. The reason may be that she was put under house arrest by those people, and at the same time, she also disclosed everything about us and herself. I forgot. That’s probably how it is.” After finishing his guess, Robin looked at the contemplative crowd.

"It sounds very convincing, and it is also very consistent with our current situation." Sauron nodded, but still frowned, "Didn't we all of a sudden be in Huaxian Island ten minutes ago? Did you get a headache? At that time, I not only saw the kid in the photo, but also heard a sentence, which sounded incredible."

"'Starting today, I will leave you, the Straw Hat Pirates...'", Nami whispered, "I heard this sentence, but I didn't want to believe it, so I forced myself to forget it. I will never forget..."

"I heard it too. I thought it was a headache." Usopp became a little emotional, and then fell silent.

"Since everyone has seen the same picture and heard the same words, there is a high possibility that we will lose our memory collectively." Sauron calmly analyzed, his wise appearance seemed to be a different person, "Also, everyone seems to be It was only after seeing the face of the girl on the island that the headache suddenly appeared. Therefore, the girl has an indelible connection with our memory. Although her eyes and hair are different from the photo, the outline of the face is different from other places. They are all exactly the same. There can be no such coincidence in the world. What's more, didn't the person named Tiger Shark say that the child forgot the past, and the current memory was told by Tiger Shark? This is a bit suspicious .”

"Have we forgotten our partner? Luffy?" Chopper stretched out his hoof and grabbed Luffy's trouser leg, tearfully looking up at him who had been silent all this time, "What should we do? Luffy??"

Luffy, who started staring at the two photos again, was expressionless and couldn't tell what he was thinking.The hands holding the photos were hard and then released immediately, as if they didn't want to crease the two photos.

Afterwards, he slowly closed his eyes, feeling some inexplicable images began to appear in his chaotic head.Opening his eyes suddenly, he said to the people around him in a deep voice, "Wait a minute, I want to sleep."

After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes and lay back. After covering his face with the straw hat, he held the photo in both hands and put it behind his head, looking completely ready to sleep.

Zoro looked at him for a while, thought for a while, took the wooden box, walked to the corner of the ship and sat down, put the wooden box aside, took off his knife and began to doze off, as if he didn't care about it.

"Hey, what's going on with you two?!" Nami, who started to worry, yelled with her hands on her hips, "Don't you suspect that the child is our partner now? If this is the case, wouldn't it be good to confront him directly?!"

"That's wrong, Ms. Nami." After flicking the cigarette ash, Sanji calmly analyzed: "Assuming that little LADY is our partner, but we just met that child just now. The next smelly shark must be If we go over immediately, not only will there be no chance of winning, but even the child will be in danger. What's more, we are still not sure whether the child is the person in the photo. If we act rashly, we may It will fail, and it will bring her danger."

"That's right, the most important thing now is to understand the current situation before making a decision. After all, it's just my guess now. If we can't really remember the past, we have no reason to go to Huaxian Island again. There." After Robin finished speaking lightly, he turned and entered the aquarium, "I'll go to our photo album and the books I collected before, maybe I can find some clues."

After looking at Luffy who was lying there, Chopper ran to the medical room on the second floor with a jog, "Then I'll go to the medical room to have a look, and I feel that there will be something there..."

"Why don't you believe that the photo is fake? Although I am beginning to wonder if there is one person missing..." Usopp, who was a little confused by them, walked into the aquarium in a daze, took out After the fishing rod, he swayed to the mouth of the fish pond and sat down, and started fishing, but his frowning eyebrows did not seem to relax.

"I'll go to the kitchen..." Sanji walked towards the kitchen with his head down, looking preoccupied, while biting a cigarette that was about to burn out.

A little at a loss, Nami decided to continue looking through everyone's luggage, and then went to Robin's place to look at the photos to see if she could find any new clues.

"...", Frankie looked at their inexplicable performance with a twitching face, his head was completely blank and he didn't know what to say.Then he shrugged his shoulders and planned to stare at Huaxian Island. Since they said that they lost a partner, then he will wait until they think about it.Looking at it like that, that child should have been lost before coming to the water capital, no wonder he didn't remember it.

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Near noon, Huaxian Island.

Opening her eyes in a daze, Lisa turned her head to look at the empty bedroom in a daze, and after staying for a while, she slowly got up and sat down.After staying for a while, he turned his head and looked out of the colorful Luoying window, his face full of confusion.

Staring blankly at the falling cherry blossoms outside for a while, she slowly turned her head back and looked down at the pink petals on the bed, her face without a smile looked a bit sad, "It seems that those guys are very interesting The pirates are back..., what a pity, I didn't even say goodbye to them properly...'

"Dong dong" came a light knocking sound outside the door, and then the door was opened.The purple-clothed woman who walked in saw her awake, and raised the corners of her lips with a little joy, "It's great, miss, you finally woke up. I thought I was going to say goodbye to you who was sleeping."

"Farewell?", repeating a little confused, Lisa stared blankly at her and walked to the bed before continuing to ask, "Sister Angelia, are you leaving?"

"Yes, because there is something urgent." Nodding helplessly, Angelia put the crystal ball aside and sat on the edge of the bed. She straightened the girl's short hair with a smile and said with a little reluctance: "Miss, you You must cultivate yourself obediently~~"

"...", although she wanted to ask her to stay, Lisa still held back, nodded with her mouth flattened, and then turned her head away from looking at her, just like a child who is sulking.

Seeing her like this, Angelia shook her head helplessly, then hooked her right hand around her neck, and took out the pendant she had been carrying all along.

Feeling itchy on her neck, Lisa turned her head to look at the drop pendant that Angelia took out.The expression on her face became a little puzzled. After waking up for three days, she didn't seem to pay attention to this thing hanging around her neck.

"What is this? Sister Angelia?", momentarily forgetting that the woman in front of her was about to leave, Lisa poked the beautiful blue drop of water curiously, "Is this jade? It's so beautiful~"

"No..." Putting the drop pendant on her outstretched hand, Angelia smiled softly, "This is the blessing of the elves."

"The blessing of the elves?"

"Yes, this is the tear of the ocean." Nodding affirmatively, Angelia reached out and stroked her hair, smiling with respect and admiration, "This is the blessing given to you by the greatest elf, which can make you free from the curse of the sea."

"The curse of the sea?" Lisa, who couldn't understand at all, looked down at the blue pendant in her hand, her eyes still confused.

"You'll know later~" Angelia stood up and took her own crystal ball after reaching out her hand reluctantly to touch her left eyebrow, "We won't appear in the outside world again, take care, (Ann) Can) Miss. I wish you a pleasant and successful adventure."

"Sister Angelia?" Lisa, who was completely dazed, looked up at her in a daze. She didn't understand why her eyes were clearly looking at her, but it was more like looking at someone else.

Gently closing her eyes and hugging her own crystal ball tightly, Angelia sang an ancient ballad softly, and the tactful and mysterious notes seemed to carry magical power.

Looking at her, Lisa began to feel unconcealable drowsiness on her face, and finally fell asleep on the bed under the unfamiliar song, with a soft expression as if she was dreaming a beautiful dream.

As the singing faded away and died away, Angelia reached out to tuck the child in the bed and put the necklace back under her dress.After tidying up her somewhat messy forehead hair reluctantly, Angelia turned around and left without any regrets.

'Farewell, Miss Encore...'

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(End of this chapter)