Pirate Traveling Merchant

On Corte Island, Nolan once again lived a normal life, although he still needed to train with Long Yi every day.However, he can also come into contact with normal human society and have normal social interactions with people.This long-lost feeling made him want to cry. During the five years on Si Color Island, he could only face Long Yi.During his year on Satan Island, he had to face all kinds of people living in the dark world.

He was finally able to walk around in the sunshine without any need to be wary again, and when chatting with others, he no longer had to figure out what others meant.

He was originally enthusiastic and sunny, but he quickly became popular in Cote Town.No matter where you go, there are people you know.Everyone also liked this enthusiastic young man from outside.Nolan now likes to stay in a grocery store in the town. Since he has decided to become a traveling merchant, he wants to make something that can be stored for a long time and is relatively unaffected by navigation.After much thought, it would be more feasible to sell some groceries or small items.

The grocery store in the town is called Zhejiang Store, and its owner is a middle-aged uncle named James.Why is the store called Zaza? Because the store opened by James sells everything. As long as he can find something, he will sell it in the store. Therefore, you can see many other places in the store. Things, useful or useless.

Because of this, Nolan is more willing to come here and learn a lot about other places.

"Uncle James, I'm here." Nolan ran to the grocery store immediately after training that day.

James, who was sitting in the store with his legs crossed and his chin propped up on one hand, said disgustedly: "What are you doing here? You don't want to buy anything."

"Hehe, let me increase the popularity of your store, otherwise no one will come to your store." Nolan said with a smile while looking at any new and interesting things.

Yes, although James's grocery store has a lot of products, it doesn't have many customers, because most of the products here are weird things, or things that are not used in daily life.For example, mirrors that turn black, water glasses that explode, and balloons that cannot float.

"Those people don't know how to appreciate my products, huh." After making some complaints, James picked up the newspaper and started reading.

Nolan looked at it and smiled, and continued to pick up this one and look at that one to see what was interesting.After staying at the grocery store for more than an hour, Nolan left.It's not that he doesn't want to stay, but if he stays too long, Uncle James will kick him out with a broom.

After Nolan came out, he went shopping leisurely. He didn't have any pocket money and just watched, unable to make any purchases.He asked Long Yi for pocket money, but Long Yi told him to earn it himself. He wanted to work, but Long Yi also said that he had to train and had no time for him to work.In the end, he resisted, but as expected, his resistance was ineffective.

As a penniless Nolan, if he wanted to improve his daily food, he could only go to the sea to catch some fish or something to improve it, otherwise he would have to wait for Long Yi to come back from buying meat or something, and he really didn't know how long it would take.

Although there is no pocket money, my life is very ordinary. There is no need for intrigues. I only need to complete the training tasks every day, and I can control the rest of my time by myself.In a way, Nolan also likes this kind of life.

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Spring turned to winter, and Nolan and Long Yi had been living here for almost a year without knowing it.

Because of the arrival of winter, Cote Island is also covered with a layer of silver.Under the morning sunshine, Nolan walked on the path in the forest, leaving a long trail of footprints behind him.After a year of training, Nolan has basically learned how to use the Haki of Armed Color, and now his training is basically done alone.He didn't go to training today. He walked towards the town, and his face didn't look very good.

Nolan has not been in a good mood these past two days.Perhaps because he was not used to the cold weather, Long Yi's wounds showed signs of deterioration.In order to suppress the deterioration, Nolan went to the town pharmacy to buy medicine.

Today's weather is the same as Nolan's mood. It's not very good. The sky is full of dark clouds and it's still snowing.Because of this, there weren't many people on the street.Nolan arrived at the drugstore with ease, opened the door and went in. He swept the snow off his body and said, "Boss Huang, please take the medicine above."

Boss Huang took the paper and looked at the medicinal materials needed on it.Frowning and looking at Nolan, "Mr. Long's wound has worsened." Nolan came to the stove in the store and stretched out his hand to warm it up. "Yes, there is no way. It has been like this over and over since the beginning of winter, and it has never been stable."

"Then you tell Mr. Long to go to a warmer place and heal your injuries first." Boss Huang suggested to Nolan as he began to get the medicine based on the medicinal materials written above.

"I've said it before, but old man Long Yi doesn't want to leave here. The old man has a very stubborn temper. As long as he decides, he won't change it. And I don't have the ability to take him away by force, so I can only I can just follow him like this." Nolan replied helplessly.

"Hahaha, there's really no other way." Boss Huang took the medicine, packed it together, and put the package on the counter.Nolan stepped forward to pay the money, said goodbye to Boss Huang, and returned to where they lived.

After returning home, Nolan boiled the medicine first, then opened the door and entered Long Yi's room.At this time, Long Yi was lying on the bed, holding a book and reading.After coming in, Nolan said: "The medicine is ready, you can drink it later."

"I never thought that I would be taken care of by you one day." Long Yi sighed as he put down the book in his hand.

"Yes, things are changing. You have to be nicer to me in the future, otherwise no one will care for you in old age." Nolan teased while packing up the things in the room.

"Oh hahahaha, I will pay attention." Long Yi smiled, picked up the book and continued reading.

After Nolan finished cleaning the room, he went out to see how the medicine was going.Not long after, Nolan walked away with a bowl of steaming medicinal soup.

"Here, drink it while it's hot." Nolan brought the medicinal soup in front of Long Yi.

"Yeah." Long Yi picked up the bowl and started to drink slowly.

Nolan sat next to him and looked at Long Yi's haggard face. He couldn't help but persuade him, "Why don't you go to a place more suitable for recuperation? The medicine you are drinking now doesn't have much effect."

After drinking the steaming medicinal soup, Long Yi answered Nolan, "I know my situation myself. My situation is hopeless. I just want to spend my last days in my hometown. You Don’t try to persuade me, if I knew there was a promising cure, I would have looked for it long ago, and I wouldn’t have waited until now.”

After taking the empty bowl handed over by Long Yi, Nolan pursed his lips and walked out without saying anything else.

Looking at the door closed by Nolan, Long Yi said softly: "People have joys and sorrows, and there is no banquet that never ends. One day we will face separation. Little Nolan, you have to slowly get used to this kind of thing."

Outside the room door, Nolan stood leaning against the door with his head bowed.What Long Yi said in the room, what Long Yi didn't know was that he heard clearly outside. In the past few years, Nolan has been hiding his strength. It's not that he doesn't believe Long Yi, but Long Yi That's how Yi taught him.

The first lesson Long Yi taught him was to learn to hide his own strength.Therefore, in the following training, no matter what situation he faces, unless it is a matter of life and death, Nolan will use his full strength. Otherwise, even Long Yi will not know what Nolan's true strength is.

Nolan, who had his head lowered, unconsciously exerted force on the hand holding the bowl, and cracks appeared in the bowl.Nolan said in a low voice: "I don't want to get used to this."

After packing up the things for brewing the medicine, Nolan walked out of the house and stood on the snow, looking at the falling snowflakes. The expression on his face slowly became sad.Although Long Yi didn't say anything, based on his judgment, he could still see that Long Yi's physical deterioration had not slowed down at all, but was getting worse.Judging from the current rate of deterioration, Long Yi can only live for about half a year at most.