【One Piece】Dawn in the Darkness

Nami was about to look at the picture book in her hand seriously, when she suddenly noticed Chopper digging a hole beside her. She shouted in dissatisfaction, "Chopper! You're so noisy! What are you doing?"

"Huh!?" Chopper opened his mouth in shock. Didn't Nami ask him to dig for gold?

Qi touched Chopper's head comfortingly, and looked around. Zoro was sleeping soundly under the mast, while Robin was in the cabin and did not come out. Then he noticed that Luffy, who had been walking around here, was gone.

Sanji, Nami and Usopp briefly explained the story of Nolando, while Qi walked towards the shore. Luffy was squatting on the shore, looking at something.

"What are you doing, Luffy?" Qi walked to Luffy and looked at the sea with him. It seemed that someone was diving under the sea.

"Huh? Weird, there was a big chestnut in the water just now!" Luffy said excitedly, but he also felt human presence deeper in the sea.

"The person in the water should be the one we are looking for." Qi said with a smile.

"Ah, is he drowning?!" Luffy shouted in shock.

As soon as Luffy finished his words, bubbles began to appear in the water, and then an uncle with a chestnut on his head jumped out of the water.

"Damn it!" the uncle cursed, then turned around and stared at the two boys in front of him, posing a snake-like fighting posture and shouted angrily, "Who are you!? How dare you break into someone else's house! This area of ​​the sea is my territory!!"

Before Qi could explain, the ape who had been reminiscing and playing with his brothers spoke first.

"Grandpa, they are my friends, and they are planning to go to Sky Island!"

"Sky Island?" Kulikate repeated with a frown. Just when he was about to say something, his old illness suddenly flared up and he lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

The apes and gorillas looked at Kulikate who suddenly fell to the ground and immediately shouted anxiously, "Old man!!"

"Uncle Kuriko!" Luffy exclaimed.

"Chopper, someone fainted!" Qi shouted to Chopper who was on the other side and didn't know what was going on.

"What!? I'm coming, I'm coming!" Chopper said as he ran towards the fainted uncle. Looking at Kulikate lying on the ground, Chopper ran around in panic, "Doctor, doctor! He needs a doctor!?"

"Chopper, you are the doctor!" Qi covered his face helplessly.

"Wait, yes, I'm the doctor!" Chopper reacted and immediately squatted down to check the man lying on the ground, then commanded, "We need to move him to the bed."

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Half an hour later, after Chopper's treatment, Uncle Kulikate's condition has stabilized and he will wake up after resting for a while. Everyone gathered in Uncle Kulikate's house waiting for Uncle Kulikate to wake up. They need to wait until he wakes up before they can ask him about Sky Island.

"What disease does this uncle have?" Qi asked.

"It's decompression sickness, which divers occasionally get, but rarely becomes a chronic disease like his..." Chopper put a wet towel on Uncle Kulikate's head and explained, "When you rise from the bottom of the sea to the surface, the decompression causes certain elements dissolved in the blood to become insoluble, and bubbles are generated in the body. The bubbles will expand in the body and damage blood vessels, muscles and joints."

"In short, it's a strange disease." Luffy turned around and leaned against the window and concluded seriously.

"This uncle must not have waited for the bubbles to disappear from his body, and he kept diving into the sea every day, which led to the illness!" Chopper said worriedly, "It will be very dangerous if he continues like this. If he keeps doing this, his life may be in danger."

"Grandpa, are you okay?" The ape and the gorilla squeezed their heads in from the door and asked worriedly.

"It's okay now!" Chopper replied with a smile.

"Thank you so much, Dr. Chopper!" The ape expressed gratitude to Chopper with tears in his eyes.

"Ah~ Don't praise me, I won't be happy about it~" Chopper said with a red face while twisting his body happily, and then he noticed that the uncle on the bed opened his eyes, and immediately said in surprise, "Luffy, the uncle is awake!"

Kulikate sat up from the bed and looked at the people surrounding him. He remembered what the ape had said to him, lit a cigarette and grinned, "Do you believe in the existence of Sky Island?!"

"Of course, we all believe it!" Luffy asked, "Don't you believe in the Sky Island?"

Kulikate laughed, and then said, "I believe it too, just like a certain person, but as we all know, this person is the biggest liar in history, and even his descendants are laughed at by the world because of him!!"

When Luffy heard what Uncle Kuriko said about the big liar, he immediately turned around and looked at Usopp in shock.

Usopp saw Luffy's expression and instantly understood what he meant. He was immediately shocked and loudly retorted "What the hell! That's not me!!"

"There is an old story called... the great liar Nolando. Nolando is an explorer from a country in the North Sea. He often tells his adventure stories in a way that makes people wonder whether they are true or not."

"Once, Norlando returned from an expedition and immediately reported to the king that he had seen mountains of gold on an island on the Grand Route. So the king sent troops and Norlando to the island he had mentioned with a lot of gold. But when they arrived, all they saw was a dense forest."

"Therefore, Nolando was convicted of deceiving the king and sentenced to death. Before his death, he explained himself by saying, 'I know! Those mountains of gold must have sunk to the bottom of the sea!' Although the Montblanc family was expelled because of him and is even being pointed at by others until now, no one in our family hates him for this!" said Uncle Kulikate.

"You are his descendant!?" Nami asked in surprise.

"Yes, he is my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather..." Kulikate explained, "In short, he is my troublesome ancestor from hundreds of years ago. In fact, our blood relationship is so weak that it is almost like a mosquito sucking blood."

"Your family was expelled because of him, but you don't hate him at all?" Qi asked. "The Nolando described in the album was deliberately uglier, right?"

Kulikate glanced at Qi and laughed, "You know a lot." Then he continued, "Nolando is an extremely honest man."

"In fact, Nolando was in tears when he explained himself before his death. He died with hatred because he still firmly believed until his death that the island he took the king to... was the site of the golden city he had visited before - Gaya Island." Kulikate said.

"He believed that the site sank to the bottom of the sea due to crustal movement...but at the time everyone thought that was just an excuse for him to exonerate himself, and in the end he was beheaded amid everyone's scolding."

"I get it! Uncle, you're working so hard to search for the gold on the seabed just to clear the stigma of the Montblanc family!" Usopp said excitedly. The next second, Kulikate shot directly at Usopp. Although he didn't hit him, it all happened so quickly that no one expected that the uncle who was just talking would suddenly shoot.