Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 236 The Mysterious Partner Existing Deep in Consciousness
It was already approaching noon, and the bright sun was shining on the Thousand Suns parked on the blue sea. The always bustling Straw Hat Pirates fell into an eerie silence, and only the sound of the waves could be heard on board.They stopped at the outer sea of ​​Huaxian Island, from which they could vaguely see the outline of Huaxian Island.

Luffy is sleeping on the lawn deck, with his hands behind his head and his face covered by a straw hat; in one corner, Zoro is also resting with his three knives, and the wooden box containing the demon knives is on the side; in the aquarium , Robin and Nami are taking a nap, and on the small table on one side are two open photo albums and a lot of messy books;

Chopper is in the medical room, also lying there with blank eyes, with several test tubes of different colors in front of him; Sanji is sitting on the sofa in the kitchen, biting an unlit cigarette with his head bowed , also drowsy; Usopp near the mouth of the fish tank was fishing, strangely his expression was also full of sleepiness; in contrast to them, Franky, who was super awake, was bored in Qianyang Wandering around on the board at will, but still kept quiet so as not to disturb the rest of the partners.

'Since seeing that cute little doll, everyone has become weird.Does that child really have something to do with them? ’, Frankie, who was bored, began to sit on the grass in a daze, trying to think about the reasons for today’s unreasonable things, “The Straw Hat Boy has been saying that he has disappeared a very important person these days, and no one else refuted it.Then after seeing this little doll today, it became even more strange, and now they are all asleep? ? '

Frankie, who couldn't figure it out at all, curled his lips. After looking at Luffy and Zoro on the lawn, he stood up bored, and decided to go to the bow to study the soldier system and check the enemy's situation.

Lying there, Luffy was falling into a dazed state, with fragments of broken memories in his chaotic mind, flying around indiscriminately, he clearly saw the pictures he cared about, but none of them could see clearly.

Inexplicably finding himself standing in the darkness, he stretched out his hand and tapped his head in a daze, watching the fragments being pulled away from him by invisible threads with his lifeless eyes, and finally escaped into the darkness.

In the silent and heavy black environment, only the place where he was standing was illuminated by a beam of light, allowing him to occupy his own place in a corner of the world without being swallowed up.

"Here... where is it..." He looked at the endless darkness around him with confused eyes, he opened his mouth and gasped for breath feeling the endless oppression, his messy head made him unable to think properly, Although he rarely used his brain cells to think.

Suddenly, a pair of cold little hands wrapped around his neck from behind, and then a small body leaned against it, as if he was carrying a child on his back.The icy and cool long hair hangs down, and the jet black color almost blends with the surrounding darkness.

Luffy's initial astonishment has disappeared, and the expression on his face is full of nostalgia.The little face attached to the back of his neck was also icy cold, but the weird thing was that he didn't feel her breathing, except for the familiar weight behind her that proved her existence, there was no trace of a living breath.

The child stuck to his back sighed softly, and the indifferent childish voice sounded, "You have found this place after all, Luffy..."

Stretching his hands behind her to support her, Lu Fei was silent for a while before saying, "I really know you?"

'No...', the girl shook her head, her long hair slid down his shoulders, 'From that day on, you and I are just strangers.And your current memory confusion is just the influence of Xue Lian, it simply doesn't want you to return to a normal life. '

"What is a normal life??"

'Luffy, my existence was just an accident.In fact, I have been thinking that without my presence, your sailing life might be more smooth sailing, and it would not be so rough.Moreover, the longer I sail with you, seeing you encounter more and more enemies because of my problems, and seeing your injuries getting worse and worse, I start to reflect...reflect on the fact that I followed you Is it a mistake to go to sea...'

"I don't know what you're talking about at all! I can't remember anything now!!" Luffy growled, with distress, "According to what you said, you are my partner, but I don't have any memory?! "

"Luffy, don't think of me..." The hands around his neck tightened, and the little girl's voice was filled with pain, "This matter is over, okay? '

Luffy lowered his head silently, and after a long time, he whispered, "Then, why are you here?"

'I'm just a consciousness, put here waiting for the day when the seal is released, and then continue to strengthen the seal when you come here, so that you continue to forget the past fragments, that's all...', girl The voice paused for a moment, and then continued: "It's just that I didn't expect that you would remember it so quickly..."

"I just want to know who you are, that's all."

"Lu Fei..." The girl's voice was full of unspeakable emotions, but after whispering his name, the voice returned to indifference, "I am a person you will eventually forget.Luffy, you don't have to remember my existence.I will continue to seal your memory later, and Sauron's seal will also be deepened, so don't worry about any strange things~'

Squinting his eyes slightly, Lu Fei asked in a deep voice: "In this case, you don't have to wait for me to break in here, you can modify our memory at any time, right?"

The girl was silent, and after a long time, she rubbed her face against his neck and said with a little nostalgia: "I want to see you again..."

Now it's Luffy's turn not knowing what to say.

'It's impossible for those guys in the navy to be so trustworthy, so I don't know what's wrong with my body now, but I will definitely be imprisoned or placed under house arrest in a very troublesome place.So instead of letting you take another risk, why don't you just forget about it? '

"Why do you make a decision for me?!" Luffy, who couldn't listen any more, yelled angrily, grabbing her with both hands and intending to bring her to the front, but unfortunately, as soon as his hands were hard, the child on his back was like a mist The same disappeared.

Turning eagerly, it's a pity that I can't see anything but darkness.The child who appeared just now disappeared like a hallucination.

He held his breath and focused on the changes in the surrounding atmosphere, and then turned around suddenly, but he only had time to see the strands of long hair floating away being swallowed up by the darkness.

After repeating it several times like hide and seek, Luffy suddenly sat down on the spot as if he was discouraged, stared at the front with his mouth flattened for a while, and then he closed his eyes and put the straw hat on his face and lay back, "I going to sleep……"

Only his faint grunting could be heard in the dead space, and the young man lying in the center of the beam of light was a little strange against the surrounding darkness.

The girl's figure appeared in midair out of thin air. The pure white dress was very conspicuous in the pitch black color. Unfortunately, her long black hair completely blocked her face, making it impossible to see what she looked like.

Sighing helplessly, the girl said softly, 'Stop making trouble, Luffy.It's not suitable for you to stay here for too long, hurry up and get out? '

"Don't!" The captain who pretended to be sleeping like a rogue directly refused, "Anyway, if I go out, you will definitely mess up my memory, anyway, if you don't remind me of the past, I won't go out..."

'Luffy, you really can't stay here for too long. '.The girl's voice was a little anxious, 'Go out obediently, okay? '

"No, anyway, if you don't let me see what you look like, and who you really are, I won't go out~~" The captain, who had completely started to play a childish temper, rolled around on the ground for a few times and continued to pretend to be asleep , it's rare that he was smart enough not to say that he didn't know how to get out.

The girl who didn't care about his appearance still couldn't think of a good way after floating around him a few times. Although she could force him out, it would definitely hurt him. This was the result she absolutely didn't want to see.

As if knowing that the girl would not refuse his request, Luffy quickly got up and sat down, then turned around and stared at the flying figure of the girl above, with a grinning expression on his face full of trepidation.

Looking at the guy below, the girl gritted her teeth and disappeared.Anyway, she knew his character very well, and she didn't believe that he would stay in such a boring place for too long.

Seeing her melt into the darkness again, Lu Fei's smiling face was gradually replaced by disappointment, and he sat there silently with his head lowered and waited for a long time, but he still didn't wait for her to appear again.Clenching his hands into fists and then loosening them weakly, Luffy stared at the darkness in front of him and said slowly, with an overly calm voice without any emotional ups and downs, "Hey, come out, okay? I want to see you..."

There was still silence in the environment, only the sound of his breathing.

"I really don't want to forget you, you are obviously very important to me, aren't you?" He muttered to himself, his suppressed voice made people feel like crying, "Why, what are you going to do to me? Why do you want to separate all the partners from you? Why..."

There was a sigh in the darkness, and the girl who quietly appeared behind him just stood there silently without saying anything.

Luffy knew there was someone behind him, but he didn't look back, still looking at the darkness of nothingness, "It's a rare opportunity to think of you, why did you set up obstacles here again? Don't you want us to remember the past so much?"

The girl reached out and pulled her long hair that covered her face aside, revealing a pale and delicate face, and her coquettish eyes of different colors were full of indescribable complexity.The young man in front of her is the person she least wants to hurt and also wants to protect the most. She simply thinks that modifying their memories to make them forget about herself is the best way to protect them.She made up her mind to do it herself, but she forgot that the person in front of her had a strong attachment and conviction, which even she couldn't stop.

"I, I don't know what you did. All of us have completely forgotten about you. If it weren't for the appearance of that knife, we might have left you in such a daze, and then we were still on the sidelines Have fun.” Luffy was still looking at the front, talking to himself, “I still can’t remember who you are, what your name is, and what you look like. Before seeing you again, I just Knowing that I've lost someone important to me, and then only having vague notions in my head. It's really painful...”

Hearing this, the girl took a few steps forward, then stretched out her hand to stroke his hair, "I'm sorry, Luffy..., I have been trying to avoid making you sad, but judging from the situation in front of me, it seems to have failed again~~"

He just lowered his head, letting that little hand rest on his head, quietly feeling the familiar scene.

'I have never been able to refuse your request, and I have no way to let myself see you hurt and sad.It was like this in the past, and it's like this now...', the girl's voice was helpless, but she had no regrets, 'You are the person I value the most, and the last thing I want to see you get hurt because of me, and I don't want you to deal with the original belong to my enemies.I just want to stay by your side quietly, but unfortunately, I still can't do it...

I never want you guys to see my world because I'm worried that the dirty colors will tarnish you.Unfortunately, at the last moment, you still saw it.The darkness that would destroy your adventurous lives is something you cannot fight right now, and it is.

I am very happy that you really gave me an ordinary and exciting adventure life as promised, and I am also very grateful that you took me to the sea and made me meet many people.I am really happy living with everyone, that is an existence that I didn't dare to expect before, and all of this is given to me by you...

I originally thought that if you hide it well, maybe I will see you become the One Piece King one day, but I too underestimated those people's coveting of this eye, and I also overestimated my ability.I thought I could protect you from harm, but unfortunately in the end, it was just a fantasy.

No matter what compromises I made, no matter how well I hid it, those people would never let me go.Rather than letting those injuries repeat themselves, it's better to stop them all at once so as not to be muddled.I have never believed in the so-called fate, but it seems that even if I don't believe it, it still exists, and I seem to have been doomed to wander alone, and I am doomed not to be close to my warm partner. '

The girl spoke quietly, her plain voice had the clarity to see through life and death.Maybe she didn't care about what would happen to her for a long time, but the people she met made her desire to survive a little bit, and then she returned to the dead silence under the cover of darkness.She is someone who should have died a long time ago, but was lucky to have a few extra years of probation.

Slowly reaching out to wrap her arms around the neck of the person in front of her, the girl leaned directly on his back, a little missing this seemingly thin but powerful hug, although she is just an illusory existence now.

Luffy just sat there motionless, silently letting the people behind him hang on him.

'Luffy, I'm really happy to see you again~, although your memories have been deleted without your consent, but this is the only way to protect you, only in this way, those people will not stare at you. ’, the girl bumped her head against his straw hat coquettishly, her tone was full of determination, ‘It doesn’t matter even if my existence is eliminated, as long as you are well.Luffy is the most important sun in my life, although it is as dark as I can't stay by your side, but I will do whatever it takes to destroy the obstacles in front of you~~'

After taking a breath, Lu Fei spoke lightly, without any thoughts on the girl's big phone call just now: "You said that as long as it is what I ask, you will not refuse, right?"

"Well~" Nodding without hesitation, the girl blinked her blood-red left eye playfully, although the person holding her couldn't see it, "Although you will completely forget me again soon, but, No matter when and where my promise will always be there.Before you say goodbye, do you have any wish? '

"Give me back my memory completely, and then!", stretching out his hand to grab the cold little hand around his neck, Lu Fei said in a low voice, "obediently wait for me to find you out!"

Hearing this expected request, the girl just remained silent, and her quiet pupils showed no emotional change.

"You! You are my vice-captain! You are also the person I want to protect!" After speaking firmly, Luffy scratched his head with the other hand and smiled embarrassedly, "Although I have not yet I can't remember your name, but it doesn't matter, I will never give up."

Hearing this, the corners of the girl's lips slowly curled into a treacherous smile, and her body turned into mist again and disappeared.

"Ah? Why did it disappear again? I just caught it?!" Luffy stood up and looked around, only to find that it was still dark.I couldn't help but put my hands around my mouth like a trumpet and shouted: "Hey, come out!!"

"Hehe~~", the girl's voice floated from the deepest part of the darkness, ethereal as if far away, "Dear Captain~~, why don't we make a bet~~"

"Gambling?" Luffy's expression was a little surprised, and then he asked with starry eyes, "Is there anything to eat?"

'No oh~~'

Luffy slumped in disappointment.

The people in the dark watched him quietly for a while before slowly saying the bet, "The bet is very simple, Luffy.If you can call out my name, I will lift the seal on your memory; otherwise, I will completely deprive you of that memory, and let you go on adventures with your companions without any worries. '

Luffy's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe his ears.She knew that she hadn't fully recovered that memory, and it was impossible to say her name. This was an unfair condition at all.

'I know that you only vaguely realized that you lost a partner, and breaking in here may be a key stimulus from the outside world.I also know very well that you in front of me can't answer my question at all.But, Luffy, don't blame me.you really can't think of me
I've been watching your life, my life without me.Suddenly I found that it can also be very harmonious, I suddenly found that I can also become an insignificant existence.Your smiles have not changed, and you have even lived a rare and leisurely life because you have less to deal with my enemies.So, I have already decided: Demons and the like should just stay in the dark obediently. Existences that are too bloody are not suitable for appearing beside the sun, as they will only stain it.So, Luffy, stop clinging to my existence...'

"Did you make a mistake?" Luffy just put the straw hat on his head, the smile on the corner of his mouth was wanton arrogance, "As I said, your decision has nothing to do with me. No matter what my memory is, I will always remember it. The person who belongs to me will not let her go no matter what! I have just heard a lot from you, and I can only sum it up in one sentence. "

After a pause, he slightly raised the brim of his hat and calmly looked at the darkness in front of him, and said in a deep voice, "I'm very angry!"

The girl hiding in the darkness couldn't help being stunned, and looked at the boy with a completely new look in disbelief. How did he feel that he had changed so much?When is it mature enough to start to see the demeanor of a king?

Slowly stretching out his right hand towards Qianping, he looked at the darkness in front of him calmly, and said calmly: "Since you said that I can't say your name, let's try it! As long as we see your appearance , I can definitely say your name!"

After silently looking at the outstretched hand for a while, the hiding girl hesitated and slowly moved her hand forward.She knew that she had been pretending cruelly that she could leave them and let them forget herself, but she knew that the pain of being forgotten was so desperate.

She wants to protect them by leaving, but she wants to go back to them and follow their adventures.But she was already afraid that they would be hurt again because of her. The scarred appearance of them before the farewell made her feel hopeless, a kind of despair for the future.So she can only choose to use forgetting to protect, but unfortunately, her inner expectation is still increasing, so she acquiesced in Luffy's consciousness entering this area, just to see that familiar face again.

But the longer she stayed with him, the more her greed for warmth made her want to go back to him desperately, so she could only cruelly make an impossible bet to let him leave, and let herself cruelly seal their love again. memory.

The small hand stopped on the big hand and did not continue to lower it. The child floating in midair looked at the hand quietly for a long time, but still couldn't make up his mind.Putting it down, Luffy may recover his memory, and then he will break into the place where he is imprisoned, regardless of the strength of the enemy and is determined to rescue himself.She knew how powerful those people were, and with the current ability of Luffy, he was no match for those people, and would only be hurt and humiliated again.

Don't let it go, force him out of here and strengthen the weakened seal, then he will have a brighter life, at least he won't fall down here again, not even the pirate group he formed Once destroyed.

The fierce ideological struggle made her unable to make up her mind. After trembling for a while, she hesitated and slowly retracted her outstretched right hand.Sure enough, she still couldn't let his future go wrong, even if the chance was very low, she couldn't bear it.

As if knowing what the girl was thinking, Lu Fei stretched out his hand and grabbed it in front of her, and then pulled it in his direction. After feeling something light and fluffy crashing into his arms, he burst into a brilliant smile. With an incomparable smile, he stretched out his hands and hugged the little person in his arms tightly, preventing her who was still invisible from moving at all.
"I caught you~~~~"

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(End of this chapter)