【One Piece】Painter

"Anyway, let's leave this island as soon as possible." Usopp said, and we gathered around the campfire and looked at him. "Otherwise, we will always be ordered around by this weird old man."

"I want to stay."

Luffy said, and we looked at him again, only to see him lying on the ground, "I want to eat, how can I eat enough with such a small amount."

When I saw it, all the food I collected was eaten by Luffy.

"Anyway, let's go back to the ship first." Sanji said. I looked at Chopper who came out of the old man's house and said, "Chopper, we are going back to the ship."

"I, I want to stay with Grandpa. I can't abandon the patient." Chopper said with his head lowered, and the brim of his hat covered his eyes. Usopp said dissatisfied: "He has recovered a long time ago. If you continue to sympathize with him, It’s endless.”

"No, grandpa's heart didn't stop beating because he was timid. He was sick. Grandpa only has three days left to live."

“Nani?!

We looked at Chopper in shock. Chopper's diagnosis would never be wrong. Could that old man just die on this isolated island?

……

The next day we prepared a sumptuous breakfast for the old man. Nami smiled and said: "Grandpa, if there is anything we can do for you, don't hesitate to ask."

Usopp's eyes were red, "Don't leave any regrets." Nami punched Usopp, "Don't talk nonsense!"

After dinner, we went to help the old man repair the boat. "Why did you build a boat on the mountain?"

"This is not a ship."

I looked up and down this ship, which looked like a ship with the pirate flag flying, and asked, "Then what is this?"

The old man smiled: "This is my coffin, which is also my grave."

Luffy clasped his hands together and said, "It turns out to be Uncle Sheep's grave." Usopp complained: "Don't worship! It's unlucky!"

"You don't need to be so surprised. What's the fuss about me living alone on this isolated island and making a grave for myself? I will die sooner or later." The old man said very calmly.

"Then why use a pirate ship as a tomb?" Sanji asked, holding a cigarette in his mouth. The old man lowered his head in silence for a long time.

"...Grandpa, whether it's a tomb or a pirate ship, we'll have it ready right away. Don't die!"

This frightened everyone, or Nami realized that the old man was just asleep.

……

"General!"

The old man was playing chess with Nami. Luffy and I discussed whether the old man's lifespan is really only three days, and we came to the conclusion that we planned to set sail immediately, but Nami said that we lost the ship to him when we played chess with the old man!

"If you want to get the ship back, work here to pay me back."

The old man on the crew said this in front of a crowd of people crying and howling.

Nami sat down and said, "I'm sorry, I wanted to take the opportunity to find out the location of grandpa's treasure."

The old man took out the abacus and crackled it, "I calculated, it will take about 10 years." After saying that, he looked at us with a wicked smile: "We made a lot of money~"

It was over, I drew circles on the ground with a small wooden stick and quietly cursed Nami.

"General."

Robin said suddenly, I turned around and Robin actually won the chess game with the old man! !

"It looks like we can get the boat back." Robin said with a smile. We approached the stiff old man, who lowered his head tremblingly, "I lost."

Luffy, Usopp and Sanji taunted the old man with evil smiles: "It's a big profit~"

……

At the party in the evening to celebrate the return of the Melly, Nami poured glass after glass of wine for her old man.

Usopp teased: "Nami, you don't want to get grandpa drunk so you can find out where the treasure is."

"Don't be so straightforward!"

"Uncle Sheep, do you really have a treasure?" Luffy asked while chewing on the meat. Nami was angry: "I told you not to be so straightforward! Everything has its own order."

"My treasures..." The old man took a sip of wine, and we all waited expectantly for him to continue, "They are the sheep who shared the joys and sorrows with me after I drifted to this uninhabited island."

After he said this, the sheep even made a "baa" sound in cooperation.

Luffy's eyes filled with tears, "It's so touching."

The old man laughed: "I'm just kidding, haha. I was once a great pirate who traversed the Grand Line - a loan shark businessman."

"usury?"

"Yes, loan shark Chaney is not a pirate." Uncle Chaney said, and Nami looked disappointed: "No..."

Sanji cut the meat with a knife, "But you dare to lend usury to pirates. You are very courageous, grandpa."

Chaney sighed: "Hey, it's common practice for each of them not to pay back the money they owe. They never keep their promises and never keep their words. They are all messy and hateful pirates."

"Grandpa really hates pirates." I said, and Chaney took a sip of wine. "If I just silently give in, I won't have to do business. I'll have a fight with pirates every time I go to collect debts. It's simply Just risking your life”

"Grandpa, you must be very strong if you dare to do this kind of business."

"No." Chaney shook his head, "I feel ashamed to say that I am very weak." He looked at the cup in his hand, "But I have a dream."

"dream?"

"Because I am weak and have a dream, I can fight the pirates with determination to die."

Seeing that he didn't get to the point, I asked again: "Grandpa, what is your dream?"

"I have wanted to be a pirate since I was a child, a real pirate, a pirate king. So I tried my best to save money, but then I was chased by stinky pirates who hated me, and I drifted to this island to survive."

"It's been like this for 20 years."

Sanji's focus was a little different, "You spent 20 years making the tomb."

"I originally planned to do it near the sea, but it was too difficult to transport the firewood down the mountain, but I didn't want to give up, so I started doing it in the mountains."

"A super dream that cannot even be measured by an abacus, a super dream...I woke up from my dream halfway through. When I came back to my senses, I was too old to set foot on the Grand Route again."

"What a dream, what a pirate." He thought irritably, "A dream is just a dream after all."

I looked at Luffy.

"Why should you give up, Uncle Sheep." Luffy slurred while chewing meat, "What does it matter if you are old? If you want to be a pirate, just go for it."

Usopp patted Luffy on the shoulder, "Hey, what if grandpa takes it seriously? Being a pirate requires a boat."

"I've seen him before." I looked at the old man and said, "A man who was still building ships and going to sea to find his former partners."

"We can help you move the boat down the mountain." I said that and ate in silence.

……

"Everyone is in trouble! The navy is coming!"

Chopper shouted in a hurry, and we hurried to the place where the Merry docked. A navy ship parked next to the Merry. Fortunately, there was only one ship.

"It doesn't look like it's going to attack." I looked at the ship moored quietly next to the Mellie and always felt that this scene was too inconsistent.

"Hey, Straw Hat Pirates." A man stood on the deck of the navy, "I am Captain Minqi of the navy, please give me your advice."

"Please give me some advice..." Nami looked at the man with a hint of disdain. The man smiled and said, "Oh, I'm really sorry for the past few days. If I had gotten to know you earlier, I wouldn't have chased after you."

"I'm here to apologize to you all."