One Piece's Vice Captain 2

As a group of people headed towards Ayu's home, they happened to pass by a declining village after passing through a lush bamboo forest.Feeling something strange, Luffy stopped Baboonmaru and asked Ayu, who also asked Komaru to stop, "Ayu, what happened here?"

Looking at the village where he once lived, Ayu just smiled helplessly and said, "That's where I used to live, but now everyone has moved away, and now only me and the master are here."

It doesn't look like they moved away just because of poverty. , Brook looked at the village and decided to go down to see the situation, "Mr. Luffy, I'll go down and have a look, and I'll follow you later."

"Okay." Luffy nodded, watching him jump and walk towards the village.

Although Ayu didn't know what he was going there for, he still clarified their destination loudly, "I will walk through this bamboo forest to my house later, be careful not to be found."

"Okay." Brooke nodded, humming a song and walking towards the village.

"Then let's keep going~" Ayu said happily, letting Koma Inu continue to lead the way, while the buns that jumped out of her hands rolled around on Koma Inu's generous back.

Ayu blinked, suddenly remembering something, and turned back to look at Luffy, who was dressed strangely for people in Wano Country, "Speaking of, brother, what do you do? Your clothes look so weird."

"Me, I'm a pirate~" Luffy sat cross-legged on the baboon pill and replied with a smile, without even thinking about whether it would scare the little one.

"Pirate", Ayu looked back at him in shock, and said with a bright smile after a while, "But the eldest brother is strong and gentle, he must be a very good pirate~"

"Hahaha, is that so?" Luffy couldn't help laughing. He still rarely saw people who were not afraid of pirates after seeing them.

"Well, even if I am a pirate, I also have people I like and people I hate~" Ayu smiled wistfully, and a figure accompanied by warm flames flashed in his mind for a moment.

"It doesn't matter~"

"Hey~", Ah Yu thought of something and smirked, and then suddenly talked about another topic full of expectation, "When I grow up, I will become a coquettish female ninja~"

"Coquettish", Luffy, who didn't quite understand the word, tilted his head and looked at the little one.

"That's right, coquettish~", Ayu made a seal with his hands, and couldn't help but smile when he remembered the agreement a few years ago.

Not long after, they came to the small house where Ayu lived.Ayu's master was not there, so after Ayu told Lu Fei to wait, she took the small bag of rice and started cooking.

This wooden house is very narrow, and most of the furniture piled inside has been repaired many times, looking old and damaged.This wooden house was built in the gaps of a big tree. It may be because of the poor circulation of the air that there is an old musty smell in the house.

"Ouch," Baozi, who had a sensitive sense of smell, frowned and ran around the room, then spread his legs and ran out.

"Don't run too far, Baozi." Luffy casually reminded, and nodded in satisfaction after hearing the cry from afar.

After washing the rice, Ayu started cooking in a clay pot, and the faint fragrance of the rice began to permeate the small room.

Luffy sat boredly on the somewhat dirty wooden board, shaking his head and waiting for a while. Then he couldn't help but ask, "Are you okay? I'm so hungry."

"Brother, wait a little longer~", Ayu replied with a smile while fanning the wind with a cattail fan, and couldn't help smiling happily when she smelled the scent of rice that she hadn't seen for a long time in her nostrils.

It took a while before Ayu extinguished the firewood, took out a large bowl with a gap in it but cleaned it, and began to fill the white rice in the clay pot. The rice was scooped out, and even the rice grains that accidentally rubbed against the side of the pot were collected.

All the rice was piled up in the big bowl, and Ayu took some pickles before happily putting the bowl of rice and pickles in front of Luffy, "Please use it quickly, big brother~~"

"Wow, it looks good~ Let's get started~" A certain straw hat foodie didn't have much objection to this extremely simple rice and pickles. He picked up his chopsticks and started eating. After taking a few mouthfuls of rice, he noticed that Ayu was just smiling. Sitting there, I couldn't help but ask, "Aren't you going to eat?"

"I don't want to eat now~", Ayu smiled and shook his head, jumped up and made a few gestures of throwing shuriken with both hands, "A female ninja must be as light as a swallow~ hehehe~~"

And in just a few seconds, a certain big eater had already wiped out the big bowl of rice, and habitually handed the bowl forward, "One more bowl~"

"So fast." Ayu was startled by him. After regaining consciousness, he rubbed the corner of his clothes in embarrassment and said, "But I didn't cook so much, and there are no more pickles."

Luffy blinked blankly, then just took the bowl back and his eyes drifted for a moment, laughing dryly and saying, "Hahaha, I'm just joking, another bowl is a lie."

"I'm really bad at lying." Looking at Luffy who was obviously guilty, Ayu couldn't help being shocked, but after a while there was a slight growling sound in her stomach.After her body stiffened, she quickly ran out with a smile and said, "I'm going to the bathroom~"

"" Luffy looked at her running out with some confusion. Thinking that she just really wanted to go to the toilet, he put down the dishes and lay lazily on the wooden board. "Although it's not enough, this is also a special purpose. You did it for me, Ayu is such a good person.”

At this moment, there was a faint sound outside the door, and then a person suddenly pushed open the dilapidated wooden door. His huge wings, long nose, and long knife on his waist were obvious even against the light, "You are Who is "the swordsmith, Feizi, Ayu's master"

"Usopp", Luffy sat up in surprise when he saw the long nose, but after taking a closer look, he realized that it was not the case, "No."

"Why are you here?" The gray-haired Feizi standing at the door wore a red mask on his face, and his long nose was also red. When he saw the clean dishes and chopsticks next to Luffy, his pupils immediately brightened. He shrunk, gritted his teeth and asked, "Did you eat rice?"

"Eat it, who are you?" Luffy nodded confused, but as soon as he finished speaking, he found that Feizi was slashing towards him with a long knife.After quickly dodging it and jumping out of the window, Luffy let him run away while shouting confusedly to Feizi, who was chasing after him, "Wait a minute, who are you? I just asked Ayu to make rice for me." That’s all”

"Why do you want Ayu to cook for you?" Feizi didn't keep chasing. He jumped down and waved his sword angrily before roaring out the truth that Luffy didn't notice. "Do you know how many days that child hasn't eaten until today?" I work hard every day to weave a bamboo hat. Even if I sell the bamboo hat, I don’t know if it will be enough for one person to live on.”

"", Luffy's eyes widened in disbelief, and when he recalled the dilapidated village he passed before, he later realized that there was no food that looked edible around it.

Thinking of those extremely precious and expensive rice being inexplicably eaten by a stranger, Fei Zui couldn't help but tightly clenched the knife in his hand, "Although it's just a life where you can occasionally eat cold rice, but at least Twice a year, I want her to eat rice on her birthday and New Year. Today, I asked her to take money to the city to buy rice to celebrate her [-]th birthday, but you actually ate the rice."