[ONE PIECE] The daily life of Shura field in four eyes

Chapter51

Reason x indifferent x excuse

——I miss the passing clouds and withered flowers

irreparable love

And your back gradually disappears from sight

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Porusalino sent Seleustine home and returned to the cell on the warship alone.

Before his cronies came to dispose of Van Oka's body, he walked into the prison and removed something from a crack in the wall.

It was a video phone bug used to monitor prisoners, but for the sake of concealment design, it was small and the monitoring and surveillance effects were not very good, so he chose to put a monitoring device on Seleustin at that time. cloak

It's a pity that she discovered it. Now I can only hope that this phone bug can be put to some use.

Porusalino held the phone bug and passed by the naval soldier carrying Van Oka's body.

I just don’t know if I can see anything surprising.

He vaguely felt that the phone bug in his hand hid a shocking secret

Seleustin is not a murderous person. Van Oka must have said something crucial.

Something you can't let yourself hear at all

The answer may lie in this phone bug

He didn't seem to intend to check the phone bug in the crowded naval headquarters building, so he slowly walked back home.

At the door of his home, he met an unexpected person

"What a coincidence."

He looked at Sakaski, who was standing in front of him with his arms folded, and said this in a joking way.

Sakaski did not greet him and directly explained the purpose of his visit.

"What did they say?"

Porusalino was not confused by his words at all, but still looked at him with a gradually cooling smile.

Sakaski also has the patience to wait for Porusalino to make a decision and decide whether to tell him the truth or not.

He knew very well that the man in front of him always kept a secret in everything. It was absolutely impossible to say that he had no idea what Seleustin and Van Oka had talked about.

Seeing that Porusalino immediately returned to the warship as soon as he sent Seleustin back, Sakaski strengthened his guess.

"What did that man say before he died?"

Sakaski questioned him again, thinking of the dead Van Oka and Seleustin's pale and weak face just now.

Porusalino was no longer silent this time, and he did not respond to Sakaski's question. He just put his pockets in his pocket and walked into the house without stopping Sakaski from following behind.

This is tacit consent

He actually didn't know what Van Oka said. He and Sakaski had the same question.

The surveillance phone bug you hold in your hand is sometimes very inefficient, perhaps because you can't see the picture or lack sound.

But this is the only tool he has in his hand at this stage to know the content of the conversation between the two people.

I just hope I can hear it

What kind of secret did that man hold when he died?

Reiju quietly exited her sister's room and closed the door for her who was sleeping.

She looked down at her empty palm, as if she could still feel the touch of her sister's thin and pale knuckles holding her palm.

"I want to go back to my friends"

This is what my sister has said to me most often since that day

Reijiu had been trying to stay with her and chat with her, hoping to distract her from thinking about the wound that was almost impossible to heal.

But these conversations with my sister these days seem to have had the opposite effect unknowingly.

Because the weak blonde girl won't talk to her sister about anything other than her companions.

She talked about many people intermittently, all of them were big figures at sea. She described them all as if they were the most ordinary friends she knew next door.

For example, Marco and Ace who learned about her past, and Shanks who always accepted her and protected her

The happy smile on her sister's face when she mentioned these people made Reiju clearly realize that

They are irreplaceable to her

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that even in the current situation

Her only wish is to return to them

Reiju didn't know what she should do now. The man named Van Oka was undoubtedly the person Sakaski had placed his hope on before. If he could tell the way to heal the wound, he could end the sadness and gradually heal it. She pushed towards the reality of death

But the result was nothing

The clue is gone, there's nothing they can do

So Reiju just asked that question to her pale sister who was huddled on the bed because she used her ability again.

"Renee, will you go back to Germa with me?"

She didn't want to say this, she swore

But there is really no other way. If there are conspiracies and tricks waiting for her, she has nothing to fear, because at this moment, nothing is more important than her beloved sister, and her life is numbered at that time.

Unexpectedly, the little blond girl smiled and reached out to hold her

Reijiu could only stare blankly at the face that looked more and more like her mother in her memory, watching her give up the chance to try again.

"My sister can't guarantee that my father will be able to save me, right?"

She smiled brightly, with a hint of relief

"I have no time to waste"

Reijiu would rather she cried in front of him, would rather have her smash all the furnishings in the room, would rather have her curse her unfair fate, and even complain that she was unable to save her.

The only thing I'm afraid of is that she's going to die indifferently.

Her sister is not like this. Renee has been a child who loves to laugh since she was a child. No matter what setbacks she suffered, the bright smile will always reappear on her beautiful face the next day.

That's my favorite smile

It's not like this now. Although she is smiling, she can't hide the look of loss and despair in her eyes.

Her sister, the exquisite and beautiful sister who was lost and found.

Reijiu just wants her to live a carefree life, wanton and happy.

Now I can only accept this cruel fact

Compared with the chance of healing without knowing the outcome, she chose to return to her friends and face death calmly.

So she leaned down and took Renee's thin body into her arms

"it is good"

She heard herself answering with a cry in her voice.

"Sister, take you back to them."

This was a compromise, but it was something Reiju acquiesced to, the end of her sister's life.

She didn't want this, but Renee was looking forward to it so much

She really couldn't refuse those blue eyes that were the same as her mother's

In the evening, Seleustin woke up in silence. The pain in her right arm where she had used her ability before was so painful that it was impossible to even lift her arm.

Noticing her movements, the person beside the bed stretched out a hand and held down the arm she was still trying to move.

"do not move"

It's Sakaski's voice

Seleustin was obedient and stopped moving, looking at him with a softened expression.

Sakaski looked more serious than usual. He stopped talking and just stared at her silently. However, Selustine felt that the emotions in those eyes were too complicated, which made her slightly dazed.

She thought Sakaski would ask her why she killed Van Oka and why she continued to use abilities that now only put a greater strain on her body.

But he didn't, the two just kept looking at each other in silence, neither one said anything more.

After a long time, Sakaski moved

He stretched out his hand and blocked Seleustin's eyes

His mood at this time was so complicated that it actually made him shake a little bit.

Sakaski and Porusalino watched the footage stored in the surveillance phone bug, but the sound was very blurry.

So they can only hear little, useful information

Until that name appears

Portcas D. Ace, the pirate who rejected the government's invitation to the Shichibukai and instead joined Whitebeard's banner

That's not his real name, his real name is-

The voice was intermittent, and when Van Oka said those words, his voice was too soft to be caught by the phone bug, so they could only see the man chained to the ground opening and closing his mouth a few times, and then stuffing it. Lustin couldn't hide her shocked expression

Needless to say, Sakaski and Porusalino both understood that it was this secret that made Seleustin murderous.

What are those words?What did Van Oka say?

They have no way of knowing, but there is only one piece of information that is very certain

That Ace has a big secret hidden in him, and he himself is a being that Seleustin is willing to risk his life to protect.

This is the last thing Sakaski wants to see

Selustine is a little girl who has been growing up according to his ideals. She is a delicate flower that he carefully protects and does not want to get involved in this chaotic era.

At this moment, no one knew better than him. The moment Seleustin decided to protect Ace, it already represented an unbreakable bond between them.

Seleustin's bond belongs to the world of pirates, and they will eventually go against each other.

Maybe it was too late, he found her too late, and now everything has gradually begun to develop an irreversible trend.

The time he can keep Seleustin by his side has come to an end.

The undercurrent surging beneath the peaceful surface of Malinfando will come to her sooner or later, and her injuries even make Sakaski doubt whether she can wait until the moment of danger.

She is withering beside him, heading towards death

Is she willing to stay with him at this time? He knows the answer

Seleustin wants to go back to those pirates

This gave him an unspeakable sense of absurdity. To her, it turned out to be a vicious pirate who was even more trustworthy.

And I was probably just an ordinary friend who gave her a sense of familiarity and security.

She will never chase herself with such admiring eyes again

Maybe he should give up. After all, his heart only belongs to the blond figure in the dream, smiling and kissing him.

We should no longer have any expectations for reality

He was filled with unspeakable sadness, but suddenly he felt a petite hand covering his big hand.

The cold feeling seemed to instantly dispel his pain and entanglement.

"Sakaski"

The little girl seemed to blink, and her long eyelashes swept across his palm, bringing up an itchy, indescribable emotion in her heart.

She rubbed her broad palms and suddenly smiled

The lips lacked blood and were actually a little pale and fragile. However, Sakaski felt that the smile was as beautiful as ever. It was exactly the same as the smile he saw under the tree when he went home every day.

With a passionate fire that can burn everything

"I'll be fine"

Somehow, he hugged her gently

"So don't feel bad"

I'm not sad;

Foreseeing the separation that will eventually come between you and me

life, bond, belief

Those are all things I use to protect you, and those are all things I can't give up.

So don't go to that point, the day we go in opposite directions

"I'll just be here and nothing will happen."

Seleustin continued, her gentle words breaking Sakaski's self-deception.

What to give up, what to no longer have expectations for reality

All wrong

It's because he can't accept her departure

Just an excuse made up for myself