【One Piece】Red-haired Lysia

「026」Mallow squid

"Hey, where is Lysia?" Zhan Momowan asked Helena who was standing on the deck looking into the distance, "You've been standing here looking at it for four or five hours."

Helena did not reply. In the quiet night, there was only the sound of warships moving on the sea.

Zhan Momomaru looked unkind. Helena had not said a word since she left the Navy Headquarters. Now the warship is only traveling in the direction Helena said before.

Zhan Taomaru looked at Helena as motionless as a piece of wood, and finally turned around and returned to the room.

Helena stood under the night sky. The stars gathered together to form a Milky Way extending into the invisible distance. The bright moonlight shone on her face, and her sky-blue hair seemed to be glowing.

Helena took out a red phone bug, her eyes filled with confusion.

After a long time, she returned her gaze to the endless sea and murmured, "Lady Lysia... run quickly..."

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"Lan feet!"

"boom--"

Lysia fell from the air and sighed as she looked at the huge tentacle that was struggling to be stretched out after being kicked away by her own kick.

It's really difficult to deal with. I've been walking for an hour and I still haven't found where the big octopus's head is. On the contrary, the tentacles are always coming up from all directions without giving up.

After stroking her hair, Lysia walked towards Kira and Kidd. The fog was already very thick, and Lysia could hardly breathe due to the overwhelming dust. Mixed with it was the increasingly intense fragrance of flowers.

Relying on what she heard and the sound of the two fighting, she could barely find the location. Lesiya suddenly heard a breathy cry for help.

"Who?"

Lysia stopped, then squinted her eyes and walked to the ruins of a house. She could only hear that there seemed to be living people calling for help under the ruins. Could it be someone on the boat?

Relying on the sense of sight and color, Lesiya searched for a long time and finally found a person under a collapsed beam.

"Is...is she a navy sister?"

"Oh, you are here." Lesiya recognized at a glance that it was one of the four crew members who disappeared after following Kidd. He was a sixteen-year-old boy named Soles, "Why are you here? What about the rest?"

Sols took Lysia's hand and crawled out of the ruins, patted the dirt on his body and said, "We were swept away by the tentacles of the mallow squid. There were three people with me, because I am relatively small. So I slipped out of the gap and prepared to go find the boss."

"As soon as I ran two steps, another tentacle came to grab me. I had no choice but to hide in the house. Unexpectedly, the tentacle directly destroyed the house where I was hiding..." Thor Si rubbed his head, seemingly still in shock, "It was such a close call, I almost died."

"Ah, by the way, Sister Navy, why are you here? Where is the boss? Where are the other people who have not been captured?" Sowers said a lot of words in a hurry, looking very worried.

Mallow squid? what is that? Ah, forget it for now...

Lysia patted his head to reassure him, "They are all fine. The captain and Kira are looking for you. I will take you to their place first."

"Yeah, sure enough, the sound of fighting I heard was you!" Soles smiled, "Thank you, Sister Navy, for saving me!"

Lysia looked at Sols, whose little face was full of gratitude, and reached out to touch his head again. After all, her impression of Sols was quite good.

"Let's go."

Soles is a boy no more than 1.8 meters tall. He has fair skin and short, naturally curly brown hair on his head. He looks very well-behaved and has a very soft and gentle personality. He is not at all like Kidd on the ship. crew.

In addition, he is also a very polite child. For example, many people on this ship do not like her as a naval presence, but Soles does not seem to be disgusted by this, and he always calls her very obediently. "Navy Sister".

Who doesn’t like a good, obedient child?

"Ah! It's the boss!"

Kidd turned around after hearing the sound, and saw two figures gradually becoming clearer in his sight, "Sauls? Why are you here? Where are the others?"

"The others were taken by the giant mallow squid."

"Mallow squid? What the hell?"

Lysia also asked aloud, "Actually, I wanted to ask just now, Soles, do you know that big octopus?"

"Well!" Sols said, "The mallow squid is a giant octopus unique to our North Sea. Its characteristic is that it likes to stay on land and emit a lot of smoke to cover its position. When I first arrived on this island, I also I didn’t expect it to be the cause of the fog here.”

"The whole body of the mallow squid is purple, and it turns lavender after releasing smoke, which is very similar to the color of the mallow. Moreover, the mucus on the tentacles also emits a mallow scent, so it is called the mallow squid. It Their lifespan can reach hundreds of years, and the older they get, the bigger they become. The most annoying thing is when someone intrudes into their territory."

"It should be that this island has been designated as its territory, and we accidentally disturbed it, so it went crazy and released more smoke to confuse us."

Lysia nodded and couldn't help but sigh that the world is so vast and full of wonders, "The smoke is equivalent to its... ink?"

Lysia recalled that the color of the tentacle she just kicked away was indeed lighter than the tentacle she saw in the center of the town.

"That's more or less it. At least this fog is not harmful to people, otherwise we would be in misery."

"Then what does it eat, humans?" Kira asked, "Is it possible for the captured people to survive?"

"It eats shrimps or crabs like other octopuses, but that doesn't mean it doesn't eat humans..." Soles scratched his head awkwardly and continued: "Although the mallow squid is a famous monster in the North Sea, But almost no one has seen it, and everyone who has seen it is probably dead..."

"I happened to see one once when I went hunting with a hunter from the village to the next island. It was just not that big and smaller than our boat. He said that one was only six years old."

Lysia nodded, "Then this one must be quite old, right? It might be a hundred years old, right?"

Speaking of squid, Lysia suddenly remembered the ink noodles she had eaten in Dressrosa, and suddenly felt a little hungry. He rubbed his flat belly and continued to ask: "Then it doesn't have any weak points? It's so soft that it won't hurt or itch if I hit it."

"I don't know about this...but the malva squid's eyesight is very poor. Its tentacles help it find its way. If its tentacles are cut off, it should have an impact on it."

"It's a good idea, but it's inconvenient for us to be together now. Why not split up?" Kira suggested, "Xiaoya, it's okay for you to be alone, Kidd is okay, but..."

Although Kira was wearing a mask, Lysea could feel that his eyes must be turning on Soles.

"Then why don't Sols follow me?" Lesia asked. "The shore is still some distance away, and I don't know if he can get to the boat safely by himself. Why don't you follow me?"

"That's fine..."

"No need." Kidd interrupted Kira, took a step forward and pulled Soles behind him, "I will protect my crew by myself."

Seeing Kidd's protective look, some people who didn't know thought that Lesiya had stolen his woman.

"Okay, okay, you come, you come." Stingy, you want to rob this too. Lysia cursed Kidd for a while.

Soles didn't have any objections. After deciding where to go, the four of them divided into three waves and left.

Lysia asked Kira for a scythe in order to cut off the tentacles of the Malva Squid. However, she had never used a weapon like a scythe before, and it felt strange in her hand, not as handsome as Kira.

Walking alone to a large open space, Lesiya suddenly saw something poking out from the ground on the surface of the open space. When she looked closer, she discovered that it was a large area of ​​dead plants.

Lysia took a few more steps forward. The mist surrounded her, and the sound of "washing" kept coming under her feet. Only then did Lysia realize that this might be a huge field of withered flowers.

The fragrance of mallow lingered on the tip of her nose. As if remembering something, Lesiya knelt down and looked at these withered plants.

Malva squid… brocade… town…

Mallow Town! This town is called Mallow Town!

Could it be mallow grown here?

Before Lesiya could think any more, a huge roar echoed through the sky.

Lysia covered her ears and took a few steps back. The island surrounded by mist began to shake a little. Lysia bent her legs slightly to maintain balance. Just as she was about to leave, she keenly sensed something approaching her quickly.

"shave."

"boom--"

Jumping into the air, tentacles waving in the air in a disorderly manner, Lesiya simply closed her eyes and relied on what she saw and heard to avoid. With her beautiful red hair disappearing in the mist, Lesiya found the right moment, suddenly turned around to face the tentacle coming towards her, and raised the sickle in her hand...

The black weapon color was entangled, and Lesiya raised the knife in her hand.

Dark purple blood spattered, and Lysia raised her arm to wipe her face. Seeing that the tentacles she had cut off were still struggling and twisting on the ground, she finally couldn't bear to look at them anymore.

The blood of the mallow squid did not stink, but exuded a fragrance. It did not show color when it fell on Lysia's clothes in time. Instead, it slowly faded from the deep purple at the beginning until it disappeared.

After passing through an area of ​​low houses, Lesiya could hardly see anything anymore and could only avoid the obstacles under her feet by feeling.

She had just eliminated the three tentacles, and the "earthquake" that should have been caused by the mallow squid had also subsided. Because it had been silent for too long, she had nothing to do now.

Just when she was about to go a little deeper, the huge roars and roars came back, and the ground began to tremble. Lysia knew that it was beating the ground crazily with its tentacles.

"These idiots won't make it angry, right?"

Lesiya could barely hold onto a tree to steady herself, but suddenly she felt another tentacle coming towards her.

Just as she was about to hide away, she heard an extremely familiar voice.

"Let me go, you bastard——"