I formed the El Cat Investigation Team in Pirates.

With the appearance of Uta, the Red Hair Pirates...

The reduction in staff is happening faster.

The person to be protected is actually a traitor. Uta is like an actor in the ranking match. She is giving away kills like crazy under the protection of others. But she still pretends to be worried about Shanks and wants to live and die with him.

As for Gordon, as a destabilizing factor, he was sent out by Xie Wen to watch the show shortly after he appeared on the court with Uta.

"Stop it! She's not a pirate! Don't get her involved! Uta! Get out of here!!!"

Shanks watched with great pain as his companions "died" one by one, while Uta was still "ignorant" and wanted to run to his side, and he was almost driven crazy.

"Brother Xie Wen, are we going a little too far, meow?"

Klee, with a Sakaski face, looked at Shanks who was shouting at the top of his lungs in the distance, and approached Xie Wen with some softness in her heart, muttering softly.

"Yeah, Xie Wen, he actually still cares about Wuta, unlike my bastard dad."

Yamato, who was covered with a layer of Kuzan skin by Uta, also joined in.

"You, you guys?"

Jesus Bu, who was deliberately left to the last one, heard their conversation and looked at Xie Wen and the others who had changed their appearance with wide eyes.

After casually sending Jesus Bu out to watch the show with a single blow of his sword, Xie Wen glanced at the two guys speechlessly. He had such a great time "killing" the pirates just now, why didn't you say anything excessive?

But he could understand it, because Shanks had completely given up on defense and chose to withstand Kaido's attack and rush to Uta.

After all, Kaido Meow is not the real Kaido. After he hit Shanks with a stick without stopping, he immediately jumped out of the play. He continued to chase Shanks for a while, and found that the other party was really desperate, so he stopped the attack on his own initiative and turned to cast an inquiring look at Xie Wen.

In other words, Shanks's attention is now entirely on Uta, otherwise with so many flaws, he would have noticed something was wrong long ago.

Xie Wen thought about it and decided to pass the ball to Uta, letting her decide whether to continue the show. So, he took the rest of the "performers" to the side and posed, showing an attitude of "you can't escape anyway", and let Shanks rush to Uta's side.

then……

A CP0 wearing a one-eyed spiral mask suddenly appeared behind Uta, and in front of Shanks' desperate gaze, he "stabbed" Uta's chest with a palm.

Xie Wen: "..."

Obviously, Uta chose to continue, so when the Felynx Investigation Team stood by and watched, she temporarily created an "Obito" to advance the final scene of the play.

“Uta——!!!”

Shanks caught Uta's falling body with a wail. It seemed that the blow he suffered was too great. He looked a little dazed. He didn't even go to seek revenge on "Obito" immediately, and let him disappear after "killing" Uta.

By the way, they rehearsed the scene of Uta's "death" many times, from the reaction after being hit, to the posture after the body fell limp, to Uta's true "confession" before "death", Xie Wen racked his brains to teach Uta all the knowledge about acting that he had learned in his previous life.

In particular, the words she is saying to Shanks now were written by Xie Wen after combining the lines from the original theater version, drawing on the content of various healing and depressive works, adding Uta's own sincere confession, and then brainstorming with the cats.

During the first rehearsal, Uta even started crying while speaking.

Ok……

As expected, I'd better wait until this scene is over, and then I'll take the cats and leave.

As the "Mirror Flower and Water Moon Project" came to an end, Xie Wen, a man of fun, finally began to think about the aftermath.

……

real world.

The members of the Red Hair Pirates were not as sensitive as the cats. After they woke up, they quickly joined the group watching the show with loud shouting.

"Oh oh oh! He's crying! The captain is crying!" "This is the first time I see the boss cry!"

"You must give us a copy of this image! We'll use it to make fun of the boss in the future! Hahahaha!"

"It's a pity that I couldn't hear what Uta was saying to make the Captain cry so hard."

"We know, meow."

(=ΦwΦ=)つ

Huiyuan Meow took out a piece of paper with lines written on it and handed it to them, "This is what Uta wanted to tell you, and then we and Xie Wen helped polish it, Meow."

In addition to the lines that Uta is saying to Shanks, some of the lines above are prepared for other people. After all, plans are not as good as changes, so Xie Wen and the others have made multiple preparations.

Well, to reiterate, as long as it is related to pranks, Xie Wen and the little cats can always get some intelligence bonus.

"Alas... When we think about it carefully, we were too inconsiderate when we abandoned Uta..."

"Poor Wuta. I was a little angry with Xie Wen, but now... I feel like we deserved it."

"We deserve to die!"

Looking at the lines on the paper, even though they knew there was a deliberate element in them, the members of the Red Hair Pirates who abandoned Uta with Shanks still felt regretful. Several people mentioned in the lines were so guilty that they raised their hands and slapped themselves twice.

"... Shanks, I don't want to see you, but... I really want to see you... By the way, didn't you say before? My singing has the ability to make people happy..."

In the world of the Song-Song Fruit, Uta's lines are gradually coming to an end. Perhaps because she is facing Shanks directly, her performance is much more real than in rehearsal. She even changed some of her lines on her own, making them less deliberate and sensational, but more heartfelt.

Moreover, after finishing all the lines, Uta did not stroke Shanks' cheek with his hand and then suddenly fall down powerlessly as Xie Wen had designed, but continued to express himself and began to hum softly.

Tsk tsk tsk... There is a saying on earth: women are born actors.

Uta's "performance" that was out of the script was much more "destructive" than the bloody drama that Xie Wen, a mediocre screenwriter, put together.

Of course, the plot designed by Xie Wen was not in vain. As Uta's singing became lower and lower, she still performed according to the script, the classic scene of life and death that appears in many entertainment works.

"Xie Wen brother, Uncle Shanks is very angry now, meow."

Sakaski, who had a face full of "knife-cut noodles", reminded in a low voice in the tone of Klee.

Even without the little doll's reminder, Xie Wen could sense the rising domineering aura and murderous intent in Shanks.

"Are you guys... ready to die?"

Shanks gently put Uta down, then slowly stood up and looked at Xie Wen and the others with cold eyes.

"Ah……"

Xie Wen (Jin) chuckled, and under Shanks' slightly puzzled gaze, he stood at the front.

Then, he held the sword in his hand horizontally in front of him...

"Break it into pieces, Jing Hua Shui Yue!"

The next second, Shanks was surprised to see that everything in front of him was like a mirror with countless irregular cracks.

then……

Shattered.