To the end of the sea [One Piece]

I seemed to wake up from a long dream.

"Congratulations." This time, my time and space assistant was no longer the usual yin and yang, but said with some sincerity, "The mission is completed."

I sat there and looked at my hands.

It's like spending a whole life.

"Do you want to extract emotions?" Yuan asked me, and I shook my head.

"Wait a minute, I want to stay with them for a while longer."

It understood and sat down on the side, took out my potato chips and crunched them.

"Hey." I called it suddenly, "What kind of task does this system... want me to complete?"

"What did you understand in the last mission?" it asked me. "You were unwilling to escape until the last moment... What was it that supported you until the end?"

"Responsibility." I said, "I don't want to see anyone from the Demon Slayer Corps die... I have to take responsibility."

"Uh-huh." Yuan said, "What the pirate world teaches you is called dreams."

"Ena." It called my name for the first time like an old man. "Not everyone can come back to life after jumping off a building. There are many things you need to understand."

I shifted uncomfortably: "I have a question."

"Say."

I stared at it with an expression that said nothing, and asked a question that ruined the atmosphere.

"Does your system... have any objections to a 20-year-old fire-type man?"

There was a moment of garbled words on Yuan's expressionless face: "Huh??"

I counted them on my fingers: "Fire type, a man like a big brother... Oh, and they are all my first love. None of them have lived past the age of 20."

I looked at it with a very speechless expression and said, "Infernal Anjuro is like this, and Ace is like this... It only takes three things. If I meet a man who meets the above characteristics in the next mission, I'm afraid I will have to go around him."

It stared at me with the same speechless expression, took out a piece of paper in its hand and glanced down.

"Then you don't need to worry." It said coldly, "Your next mission doesn't have a fire element or a 20-year-old. Big brother may have one."

"But there's no need to worry for now." It said easily, "You can relax for a while and take some time to relax."

I lowered my head again.

"Is it true that Esta...can't be saved?"

"Didn't Charlie already answer you?" Yuan started eating potato chips again, "He can only save his own destiny by himself. There will be a price to pay for forcing him to change his destiny."

"What's the price?" I asked. "I just want to know, what's the price?"

Yuan stopped chewing and looked at me seriously.

"Charlie hid something from you." It sighed, "That was the ending you were supposed to experience after your rebirth."

"Ace is dead. He died trying to save you."

My face turned pale instantly.

"But because you lost your memory, this ending was overwritten by the ending three you created."

"Why…"

"Amnesia is a side effect of your rebirth; keeping the host alive is an unspoken rule of the system." At this moment, Yuan's seemingly considerate face showed an almost cold expression, " So if you want to talk about causal reincarnation, this matter is too complicated, so I suggest you leave it to philosophers."

The room fell silent for a moment.

"Okay, okay, let's extract emotions!" It suddenly clapped its hands, like a kindergarten teacher asking children to play games, and then stretched out its fingers towards my temples.

A burst of light faded, and I opened my eyes, feeling confused for a moment.

I blinked and quickly regained my clarity: "At least I didn't complete this pirate mission badly."

"You're saying that everyone's ending will be more like that of the earthly world, right?" Yuan smiled maliciously, "Don't worry, little girl. I believe the next mission won't be too easy for you."

I lowered my eyes: "Oh. It doesn't matter, you will extract my emotions in the end anyway."

Yuan Le laughed: "Pfft, the side effect of just retrieving the memory is really useful. It is the best time to tell you bad news during this interval. Anyway, you will be fine."

It held up a photo: "Come on, let's see who this is?"

I leaned over and looked at the boy wearing glasses in the photo and tilted his head: "Primary school student?"

"Yes, but not entirely." It retracted its hand, "Guess his real age?"

"I will dismantle you and return you to the factory." The emotional suppression caused by retrieving memories gradually faded away, and I regained my emotions and waved my fist at him impatiently, "Let's get to the point."

It blinked: "His real age is a 17-year-old high school student, and his name should be familiar to you."

"?" I frowned, "Why am I so familiar with a high school student? A 17-year-old kid, except for that-"

I suddenly stopped talking and felt like I had fallen into an ice cellar.

"Why-"

"Then it's all thanks to your A-jin." Yuan smiled sinisterly, "Hey Eina, just because he lied to you, you jumped off the building, but you didn't even do it with his blood. Wouldn’t it be a shame to die without fully understanding everything?”

It came close to me and tapped my chest.

"They originally wanted to make a medicine that could bring people back to life, but what happened was they didn't expect it? They made a drug that could rejuvenate people!" Yuan gloated, "So Kudo Shinichi has now become a primary school student."

I lowered my head and sat in the shadow of the corner, unable to see my expression clearly: "Resurrection from the dead...there really is someone like him."

"How long will it take for me to be separated from you?" I suddenly said to Yuan, "As you said, I can only appear in society again after I complete all the tasks, and I can also make a request."

"Almost." Yuan blinked, "How heartless~ After all, we are good partners through life and death, and I am still your savior."

"You are just a bunch of data." I was unmoved, "I would be a fool if I really regarded you as a friend."

Yuan nodded in agreement.

"You are indeed smarter than other hosts." It said, "But this is the best."

"Then let's start the next mission." I said, "I don't need to rest."

"Are you sure?" Yuan shrugged, "Okay. The next mission, as usual, you won't have any body memory. But... it's an environment you are super familiar with."

"It's not Japan during the Taisho period...nor is it a completely fictional world of pirates."

It slowly unfolded a familiar and huge picture to me, and opened its hands to me.

"Welcome to the world of magic, set in Tokyo."