[One Piece]Nix likes idiots

This is a story that happened in the Shampoo Islands four months ago.

In the conference room inside the warship, a phone suddenly rang, stopping Garp from going out.

"Lieutenant General Garp!" A panicked voice came from the phone, "That child, Nyx, is missing."

"Huh?" Garp picked his ears, "Didn't you say you would take her shopping for clothes?"

"That's right." The young navy man on the other side of the phone was a little unsure, "She disappeared while trying on clothes."

"Huh, neither of them makes anyone worry." Garp complained to himself, "It's so annoying."

"Really?" The little navy thought that Vice Admiral Garp was complaining about him, and his voice trembled even more.

"What are you still doing? Go find someone quickly!"

"Yes!"

"Don't look for it in a big way." Capper paused, "If you really can't find it, forget it."

He has done everything he can to be kind and righteous.

"That's it, I'm going back to the headquarters first."

"Yes, the task must be completed!"

The protagonist at the center of the topic, Nyx, was running quickly on the path.

The wide black cloak rustled in the wind, twisting into a burst of black mist from time to time, and then turned back into reality at a certain moment.

Nyx was on the verge of collapse, not only mentally but physically, but she had no time to care.

She headed straight for the coating area from 50 to 59 of the Chambord Islands.

Nyx's goal is very clear. She wants to smuggle onto a pirate ship to the New World, or simply rob one.

Her reason and hunch both told her that Garp was telling the truth, but her emotions were still screaming that it was a lie.

You're lying, that's Captain Roger.

He must, must still be alive somewhere.

Nyx's speed became more and more crazy, and the black pupils under the hood began to turn strange white.

She floated in mid-air and stared at a newly coated ship.

The location of this ship is very secluded. There were two people left on the ship, who looked like the helmsman and navigator. They were perfectly equipped. There was only one coating craftsman outside the ship who had just completed his work.

Right time and place.

Maintaining a minimal amount of rationality, Nyx barely maintained her human form and landed on the deck of the ship.

"This ship belongs to me." The hoarse voice, which seemed to have passed through the thick fog, startled the two people staying on the ship. "If you don't want to die, just sail the ship."

The expressions of the two became solemn, and then quickly turned to joy.

Amid Nyx's confusion, a voice came from behind Nyx.

"Oh, this is the ship of someone I know. I can't watch it being taken away."

Nyx's body froze, then began to tremble.

Not only because she was locked by a terrifying aura, but also because it was a very familiar voice.

The two people on the boat breathed a sigh of relief after the disaster: "Great, Lao Lei, thank you for being here this time."

Old... Lei? thunder……

"Lei...Lee?" Nyx didn't dare to look back.

She hoped it was him, but she didn't hope it was him.

"Huh?" The voice behind him raised doubts, "Is this also an acquaintance?"

He acknowledged his name in a relaxed tone, but his aura was still locked onto her.

"Rayleigh...Vice Captain..."

Lei Li was stunned when he heard this.

Vice captain? But someone who would call him that...

Rayleigh's expression became serious, and he examined the figure in front of him.

The once young Shanks and Bucky had long since grown up, and it was impossible for the diminutive Bankuro to appear here. He couldn't remember any other member of the group who maintained such a, uh, petite figure.

"who are you?"

Nyx struggled to suppress the riot inside her body. She took a breath, pulled off her hood, and turned around slowly.

"Long time no see, Rayleigh."

Strange and familiar faces looked at each other, and Rayleigh's expression changed from disbelief to shock to overjoyment.

"Nix!"

Nyx lunged towards Rayleigh, who had his arms open to her, and buried her face into the first officer's reassuring chest.

Riley ruffled her hair lovingly and hugged the coquettish girl: "Long time no see, Nyx."

Although his still immature face told him that Nyx’s experience might be extraordinary, but——

"I'm so glad to see you again."

The child who had been accidentally lost due to their negligence was now back with him.

"I miss you so much, Rayleigh. Really, I miss you so much."

"Me too. Everyone is thinking of you."

"Rayley, Roger... Garp said that Roger -" Nicks' voice was choked with sobs, "It must be a lie, right? Roger, how could he..."

Nyx couldn't say anything no matter what.

But Reilly understood what she was trying to say.

"Nix," he stroked Nyx's back gently, "Roger is not going to die."

Reilly said softly: "He told me this personally."

Nyx tightened her grip on Riley's clothes.

Then burst into tears in his arms.

-

Reilly took Nyx back to his residence after she fell asleep after crying.

After taking off Nyx's large cloak, Rayleigh's eyes were fixed on the small section of her exposed arm.

Nyx was wearing a modified navy sailor uniform. Rayleigh could infer from Nyx's words that she should have met Garp, and Garp probably gave her this outfit.

But that's not the point. The point is that although the sleeves of the sailor suit are wide for her, they still can't cover her entire arm, only revealing the shocking scars on it.

He carefully stretched out his fingers to trace the scars, feeling cold warmth coming from his fingertips.

The murderous aura emerged uncontrollably from Rayleigh's body, waking up Nyx who had been sleeping restlessly.

"Rayleigh, do you know Shanks' whereabouts?" Nyx, who woke up, grabbed Rayleigh's arm and begged him, "I want to find Shanks, I want to see him."

"You need to recuperate." Rayleigh's tone left no room for doubt.

"I don't have time." Nyx stubbornly refused to give in.

Rayleigh was silent.

The last person to tell him that he was running out of time was their captain.

Riley's face darkened: "What happened?"

Nyx turned her face away, not daring to look at him.

"Nix." The former first officer called her name in a serious tone.

"I," Nyx closed her eyes, her heart pounding, "I don't know how long I can live, so I want to see him before I die."

The wooden table next to it was crushed to pieces.

Nyx didn't dare to look at Rayleigh's expression, so she secretly took out her wand and repaired the table.

"That's a lot of progress." The former vice-captain praised her with a smile, "Can you control that ability?"

Nyx shrank her neck and mumbled a few words: "Strictly speaking, no."

"You said before that you don't have much time and you don't live long. What's going on?" Reilly didn't intend to let go of this question.

"That's it." Nyx trembled under Rayleigh's aura, but still said stubbornly, "That's why I want to find him."

"No." Reilly rejected it for a second.

"Why!" Nyx became excited, and a strange black mist appeared on the surface of her body, "Why does even Rayleigh want to hinder me!"

Nyx covered her face in pain, her body's collapse began to accelerate due to the emotional turmoil. Black mist continued to pour out of her body, and finally there were faint signs that her body was deformed.

The next second, the overlord's domineering energy contained this change.

"Nix," Riley let out a long sigh, "Is this your 'reason'?"

He had seen Nyx's changes, twice.

The first time they met, she came to their ship in this posture. At that time, Roger regarded her as a novel creature and captured her with his domineering force. Then she transformed from a black mist into a human being.

Nyx's second mutation was due to Shanks' injury. After the mutation, Nyx will become violent and impulsive, wreaking havoc everywhere. They speculated that the longer the mutation lasted, the weaker Nyx's body would become. If he hadn't arrived in time to suppress the strange phenomenon with his domineering force, the consequences would have been disastrous.

There were several signs of changes later, but they were quickly controlled by Nyx herself. And all the strangeness came from her violently fluctuating emotions.

"Nix, is it really okay for you to go see him now?" Rayleigh sat on the bed and took Nyx into his arms without hesitation, "Even if you really see Shanks, he hasn't As long as you have time to be happy, you will die in front of his eyes."

Reilly stated the facts calmly: "He has already lost you once."

Reilly was hiding something. For example, Shanks never gave up looking for her. For another example, they once learned from the mermaid fortune teller Charlie that she would reappear twenty years later.

"Nix, if you want to find him, stay alive first."

"I...I don't know, Rayleigh." Nyx's voice was full of confusion, "My teachers said that people like me generally don't live past the age of ten."

She was like a child showing off her achievements to her parents: "I am eleven years old this year." But she quickly became frustrated, "But I feel that I have reached my limit."

She worked very, very hard to survive.

But can she really survive another year?

After returning to this world, I have been on the verge of collapse emotionally and physically several times in a row, all indicating the end of my life.

"Really, you are already eleven years old." Riley hid his surprise in his heart and encouraged her with a smile, "I want to see Nicks look beautiful when she grows up. Little Nicks can do that Will you fulfill the wish of an old man like me?"

"Besides," Rayleigh's tone suddenly became narrow, "Shanks has become an amazing man. If little Nyx can't grow up and become stronger, then Shanks will always be the older brother. "

Nyx's sadness paused, and then her face turned serious.

"No, I'm my sister."

-

In the evening, when Garp returned to the port, Nyx was standing there waiting for him.

Behind her stood nervous marines.

Garp didn't even look at the dissatisfied soldiers, and asked Nyx without a care in the world: "Have you thought about it?"

Nyx wrapped her cloak tightly: "I have thought about it, I will go back to the East China Sea with you."

"Don't run away?"

"No more escaping."

She heard a story from Raleigh. A story about Shanks and a child from the East China Sea.

Before she takes good care of herself and sets off to find Shanks, let her meet the child first.

The child who made her idiot brother willingly give up an arm, and who spoke the same heroic words as Captain Roger.

-

Then time goes back to the night when Nix left Dadan's house.

She used long-distance movement magic to teleport from Dadan's home to the Shampoo Islands.

"Rayleigh," Nyx untied her cloak, revealing her body between the virtual black mist and the solid body, "please lend me your power."

"I want to live."

She won't run away anymore.

She had already lost to fate once and didn't want to lose a second time.