To the end of the sea [One Piece]

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"Who are you?" Among the tallest children, the little girl with short black hair asked timidly.

"Why is this child so big?" Frankie adjusted his sunglasses, "Is he a child of the giant tribe?"

"Is this the island's nursery?" Sanji asked.

"But there are also children who are not that big..." Nami tilted her head and looked at the smaller child hiding behind the older child. When the child saw Nami looking over, she immediately shrank back like a frightened little animal.

"It's so strange." Eina's mood was not that relaxed at all. "It's enough to make me feel strange that there are people on this island, but now there is such a young child."

"Ah, are you the ones who were frozen!" The little black-haired girl suddenly seemed to have thought of something and shouted happily, "Have you escaped? Great!"

Tong Yanwuji, they were all confused. Ena is the only one with unknown doubts lingering in her mind.

Frozen person?

+ + +

I don’t know which child was the first to notice Frankie’s outfit.

Then, more than a dozen boys became starry-eyed at the same time.

"Machine, robot!!"

They instantly forgot their fear and surrounded Franky in the middle.

Franky scratched his head proudly: "Ouch! You brats! Do you really like my armor so much!"

Amid the enthusiastic cheers of the children, he began to continuously show off the hairstyle and arms he could change.

Another group of girls discovered Chopper and held Chopper in their hands in surprise: "It's a rag doll!"

"Raccoon cat doll! So cute!!"

"I'm a reindeer!" Chopper's excuse was drowned in the children's laughter.

Sanji held the samurai's head in his hands and got out from between the huge children's legs, exhaling a breath.

He raised his head and saw the eyes of another group of children facing him.

"Curly your eyebrows, gulu gulu."

The blond man was surrounded by them with cold sweat on his head.

Eina and Nami stood in the open space and looked at the chaotic scene speechlessly, holding their foreheads.

"I said-" The samurai head in Sanji's arms suddenly roared loudly.

"Have you ever seen a child named Momonosuke!! It's a boy!!"

The children who were noisy just now were silent for a moment.

And then... they cried loudly.

"The heads have spoken!!"

"very scary!!"

"I'm talking about you!" Eina said to him angrily, "Do you have any awareness of your current situation? You will scare the children if you speak suddenly, okay?!"

"I just want to find Momonosuke!" the samurai man said regardless.

They were not idle for long, and the sound of gas-filled footsteps soon came from the corridor.

"It's those people wearing protective clothing." Eina said, "Nami, it's time for us to go!"

Franky and Chopper left the children, and Sanji ran deeper into the children's room with them.

The children also saw those people wearing protective clothing and started running forward with them.

Ena saw from the corner of her eye that one of them had raised the gun in his hand, but was held down by the person next to him.

She squinted.

Why, because you are afraid of hurting the children?

"Sister, are you from outside?" a little boy asked Nami.

"Yes." Nami answered him.

"Do you have a boat?" asked the little girl with black hair.

Franky nodded as he ran: "Our Wanli Sunshine is the most -" in the world.

"Please save us!"

Eina paused slightly and turned to look at the boy who said this.

"Our illness has been cured! We want to go home..." The other children looked longingly.

"Sickness? What disease?" Chopper was always very sensitive to such topics.

"Please! Help us!" the children shouted together.

Ena and Nami looked at each other and saw the embarrassment in each other's eyes.

They arrived in a hurry and panic. They didn't even know where this place was. They were being chased by a group of people. They simply couldn't take care of themselves.

Even if they were the only ones, they still didn't know if they could escape smoothly, so how could they bring these children with them who they had never met before.

But the prayer and trust in their eyes couldn't help but make the two girls feel heartbroken.

What exactly have they gone through that makes a child willing to trust strangers they meet for the first time, place their hope of leaving here on them, and make a request?

"Miss Nami, Ena!" Sanji called them from the front, "If you don't leave, we will be overtaken!"

Eina gritted her teeth, after all, she didn't have the ability to meddle in this matter.

She and Nami continued to run forward, while the children stood there disappointed.

They didn't even dare to look back and could only keep running forward.

The crowd in protective clothing behind them slowly approached: "Okay, okay, kids~Those people are terrible bad guys. We will protect you and protect you who are sick~"

"Are they bad people?" A child asked blankly.

"Yes, it is."

They stood there, watching the backs of Ena and the others walking away.

The little girl with black hair bit her lower lip and suddenly started running again with tears in her eyes.

"Wait! Wait! Big sisters...there are also little tanukis and robots..."

"Gurgling eyebrows..."

Their tall bodies made them approach them again without taking two steps: "Take us away..."

"I think...I want to go home!!"

Eina stopped.

She raised her head in a daze and looked at the child who said this.

The little black-haired girl was choking on tears and looking at her with all hope.

"Sorry...but we are still running away..." She heard Nami say this, then she gritted her teeth and took her hand and ran forward.

But she moved mechanically in a daze, until the disappointed child shouted those words behind her as if he had exhausted his last strength.

"Then, come back and save us!"

Tears finally burst out of their eyes, and their young voices roared hoarsely: "Although they have never been out... there is nothing on this island..."

"No town, no flowers...no home for us..."

He is still such a young child, but he has already understood the meaning of despair prematurely.

"Besides you, no one will come to save us..."

There won't be anyone.

she knows.

If these children are being held here by the owner of the institute, the person who illegally settled in Punk Hassad cannot do any good deeds by asking these children to come.

It is precisely because he doesn’t understand anything that he makes willful requests to strangers who rarely appear.

Precisely because I understand everything, I am absolutely unwilling to give up this only possible and last chance.

She didn't bother to break away from Nami's hand, because Nami was just as stunned as she was.

She turned around and looked into those innocent eyes.

There is no hope ahead and an unknown future, the panic of no one to rely on and the determination to burn everything.

At that moment, she seemed to have spanned eighteen years, and overlapped with another pair of young but desperate green eyes.

She was looking at them and at her former self.

But at that time, she really had no hope of survival, because even the "home" she could pray to return to no longer existed.

I want to go home.

They... want to go home.

+ + +

"Miss Nami! Ena!" Sanji shouted anxiously, "Let's go! What are you doing!"

"Let's save them," Nami murmured.

"What?" Sanji usually obeyed Nami, but he still had to refute her in a situation involving everyone's life and death, "These children said something about being sick, maybe this is a hospital! We are not in the business of rescuing people, we are not in time yet..."

Nami turned her head and said loudly: "Although I say that, but...but the children are asking you for help! How can we just sit back and do nothing!!!"

He wanted to say something else, but was interrupted by a voice.

"Sanji, please." The other voice was more determined and unquestionable than Nami's.

"I'm going to take them with me."

Sanji was stunned and saw that Eina had already pulled out Yugiri.

The children's eyes were filled with tears, and they laughed with surprise and joy: "Big sisters..."

Eina didn't care about the situation behind her at all. Instead, she directly raised the sword and charged forward in the form of a sword light.

She is really not a willful person.

Rather, she should be considered one of the few sane and reliable people in the Straw Hat Pirates who are always online.

Except for getting used to Luffy, she was almost out of place.

But speaking of Luffy...

She smiled lightly.

After being a pirate for so long, I am still on a ship with a captain who is beyond the ordinary level...

Let me also be influenced by it.

She remembered what she once said to Qing Pheasant in her previous life.

[There is no way to sit back and do nothing... There is no way to watch, those children are just like me...]

Sure enough, there is a willfulness and rebellion deep in Ikegawa Ena's heart that is worthy of being a member of the Straw Hats.

Whether she is a navy or a pirate, she is not a peaceful person.

+ + +

She heard the sounds of Chopper, French and Sanji taking action behind her.

She and Nami looked at each other and exchanged a tacit smile.

"Fog Slash - Flowers Falling Ten Meters."

The slash with petals was swung softly, and the people in protective clothing fell to the ground silently.

Even with her moves, she chose the softest one.

Why do you think of Capone Becky at this time?

The differences between her and that man were too deep, but the bond was also too deep.

So much so that when they hurt each other, it was easier than others.

But she had forgotten for many years how she felt when the short young man reached out to her.

That year, the thought of death appeared in her young mind for the first time.

No one will come to save her, no one will care about her tears.

Perhaps her mood at that time was similar to the mood of these children when they saw them.

+ + +

Sanji performed a beautiful roundhouse kick and landed lightly.

"Tsk." He blew out a smoke ring and raised his head, outlining his beautiful jawline.

"Really, Miss Nami and Ena's joint request... can only do this." He said loudly to the children behind him: "Okay! Now you follow the beautiful big sisters and Kung Fu Tanuki and go first! Don't hold back. Oh!"

"Thank you! Grumpy eyebrows!" the children said happily.

"Don't you need me to stay with you?" Eina frowned and said.

"No need." The blond man said to her with gentle eyebrows, "Ena has to protect these little brats, right?"

She relaxed her brows and smiled: "Thank you, Sanji."

"I've always had a captain like that, so I've become accustomed to dealing with this kind of thing." Sanji shrugged indifferently, "It's better to say that it's rare to see Ena being able to be willful to me, so I'm actually very happy."

She tilted her head.

Sanji lowered his voice and quietly leaned towards her.

"Those brats are so lucky to be taken care of by Ena." He blinked, "But, I am the first."

"?" She didn't react for a moment.

"But it's because I've been taken care of so much that I just said it."

He whispered in her ear: "I also hope to be the person Eina relies on."

The blond man straightened up and raised the corners of his mouth.

"So just take them away and leave all the rest to me."