[comprehensive] red tide

He woke up very early that day unexpectedly.

Staring at the ceiling in a daze for a long time, he lifted the quilt and got out of bed. He walked to the window barefoot. He forgot to close the curtains before going to bed last night, and the glass was covered with mist by the indoor heating.

It was still dimly bright outside, but there were many voices coming from within the range of perception.

The tide rolling in from the far end, the wind whistling and circling on the top of the waves, the military boots creaking when they stepped on the ground, the snowflakes falling from the sky silently piled up, and the ice cones hanging on the eaves grew stronger little by little.

He subconsciously pushed open the window, and his vision was higher. The sky was leaden gray, and the snow that seemed to never stop falling in the distant sky, and his eyes saw a vast expanse of whiteness.

In the far distance, where the snow has fallen the thinnest, there is a sudden scorched black spot, in Huang Yuan's eyes, it looks like an old scar, every time he looks at it, the memory is cut by Ling Chi, and the moment he touches it, it hurts to the bone.

Marineford rested after the war, and the disappeared town buildings and military fortresses were rebuilt one by one. Although they could not really recover, after two years of recuperation, the island gradually became prosperous again.

Only that area has been left unattended to this day. Two years ago, on the day of the top war, Admiral Akainu Sakalski was killed in action, and it still maintains its old appearance until now.

How long has passed since that day?It has been two years until today, right?

But no matter how long it has passed, no matter how many times he has done psychological training, there is still no effect. Whenever his eyes touch the place where the person disappeared last, he would bleed with hatred.

And that kind of hatred is accompanied by deep pain, and at the same time it is extremely crazy. Before she appears again, until they stop breathing, it will never subside.

How could Huang Yuan not hate?

They even offered her everything, but she just abandoned it like a cover.

She obviously can have a future, but in the end she voluntarily stepped into the darkness.

The first to be tempted must be the losers, and the last to stay must be the most painful. Huang Yuan doesn't believe that she doesn't know these reasons. She is just willful and doesn't care about their life or death.

And why, they didn't go crazy?

Huang Yuan thought to himself, probably because of her last promise.

She said, 'If we survive, we'll be together~'

What she held in her hand before disappearing was the letter he and Aokiji left her, and that promise should naturally be for him and Aokiji, even if they were deceiving themselves, they told themselves so, and believed it.

Since that day, they have been intoxicated in the fantasy dream she promised, and they were in a trance, knowing that the hope might eventually quench their thirst with poison, but they still refused to wake up.

Sometimes Huang Yuan even suspected that the reason why the man made a fragile confession was actually just a kind of comfort from her to them, and she just lied because she didn't want them to go crazy.

She knew that they would take it seriously, like a drowning man clutching at the straw in his hand, even if they could not escape the end of sinking in the end, before the illusion was smashed to pieces, they would still pretend that it was true.

Therefore, she gave a long-term promise, telling them to wait with hope.

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After a hasty grooming, he hurried out of the private residence and headed for the office.

In order to save time, the yellow ape even jumped into the air, stepping on the air and moving forward rapidly.

Bathed in the stunned sight of the patrol team that happened to meet, he passed countless buildings and houses. After a few minutes, he stepped on the office building of the headquarters, the corridor outside his office.

First dust off the snowflakes that were contaminated by running all the way, and then open the wooden door.

There was someone waiting in the corner of the indoor sofa, but he didn't move or speak when he heard the sound. He kept facing the window on the other side, sitting quietly like a sculpture.

Slowly walking over, lowering his eyes to glance at the cups and dishes placed randomly on the coffee table, Huang Yuan sighed, didn't say anything, just sat in the opposite seat, and also looked at the window.

He knew the reason why his colleagues had waited here, because he was looking forward to it too.

The silence lasted for a long, long time, until the sky gradually brightened. Outside the open window, the golden-red sun smeared the sky, and the snow stopped unknowingly. Today was actually a rare sunny day.

Through the corner of his eyes, Huang Yuan saw a slight joy on the face of his colleague on the opposite sofa. It was almost two years, and this was the first time that Kuzan showed a look close to a smile.

Since that person disappeared, Aokiji has also been frozen by his own natural-type devil fruit ability. The whole person has become like a sculpture, except for maintaining life, he even rarely speaks.

Melting the ice like this is just for nothing. Today may be a rather special day.

And Huang Yuan also looked forward to it, they stayed up all night and waited eagerly in the office before dawn, just because or... Her promise could be fulfilled, two full years after the end of the major event recorded in the history of the world as the "Top War" today.

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The Dingshang war ended two years ago. In less than ten days, Monkey D. Luffy broke into Marineford again, accompanied by one of the supernovas of the year, the North Sea pirate Trafalgar Luo, Haixia Jinbei, who voluntarily gave up the title of Shichibukai under the king, and Shibazz Raleigh, the king of the underworld.

Unfortunately, Marineford's defenses were empty that day, and the top navy generals were there. When Huang Yuan received the news, he also saw overwhelming reports in the newspapers about the speculation about the alternation of the old and new eras of "Sixteen Bells".

It's just that for the yellow ape, the prelude or the sacrifice is not within his scope of concern. He only grasps one important point, the reason why the king of the underworld, Sirbazz Raleigh, set foot in Marineford.

The public opinion media made speculations one after another, but Huang Yuan thought that those speculations seemed to be incorrect. Instead, he believed in the answers given by the soldiers who stayed behind at that time. The right-hand man of the One Piece back then, Sirbazz Raleigh, the king of the underworld, came to Malaysia for that person. Linford.

It's a pity that the yellow ape was far away at that time, and couldn't make it back in time. When the task in hand was finally completed and returned, the Hades Sirbazz Raleigh had disappeared.

Supernovas entered the new world one after another, some pirates gradually faded out of people's sight, and some went further and began to set foot on the big stage of the new world.

The head of the Red Heart Pirates, the death surgeon, Trafalgar Law, unexpectedly donated a hundred pirate hearts to the government in exchange for the title of Shichibukai.

Haixia Jinbe also returned to Murloc Island. After giving up the title of King Shichibukai, he lost the authority given by the World Government. The Sun Pirates refrained from their activities, and the scope of action was only distributed around Murloc Island.

The young pirate in the East China Sea, who had been in constant news since the beginning of his voyage, disappeared. Together with other members of his pirate group, it seemed that he was really defeated, and there was no news at all.

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Counting that day for a full year and a half, the navy and the world government could not find any clues about the underworld king Sirbaz Raleigh. Only his wife Xia Qi stayed behind in the Chambord Islands underworld king's residence.

Another person is also missing, Straw Hat Boy Monkey. D. Luffy.

Until a year and a half later, an uninvited guest came to Marineford late at night. That night, the yellow monkey and the blue pheasant saw Hades who was quietly brought by Karp to meet them.

Pluto left after dawn, and from that day on, the two admirals of the yellow monkey and the blue pheasant never left Marineford, and all they were waiting for was today.

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Two years can pass in the blink of an eye, and many things can happen.

At the end of the big event that day, Marshal Warring States announced the answer to the whole world: naval victory.

It's just that the victory was a bit bleak.

Strictly speaking, it is basically a draw.

Whitebeard Edward Newgate died, and Moby Dick, the white whale, was hit hard.

However, the Navy also lost nearly one-third of its elite soldiers and generals who participated in the battle.

One of the highest combat powers, Admiral Akainu Sakaski was killed.

One of the Shichibukai under the king, Blackbeard Marshall D. Teach, died.

The camp of the three major forces maintaining the situation is on the verge of collapse.

A few days later, the Warring States Marshal went to the holy land of Mariejoa, preparing to submit his resignation to the World Government to show his responsibility for the war.

Lieutenant General Garp is equivalent to being suspended because he secretly adopted Portgas D. Ace, the son of One Piece, and his grandson Straw Hat Monkey D. Luffy.

From the day the war ended, the world was in turmoil.

Just as the high-level navy had predicted before the war, the pirate camp was chaotic, and all the conflicts were concentrated on the vacancy of one of the Four Emperors, but there were also unexpected situations.

Another kind of dispute, the source is more or less related to that person, Nicole Robin.

Her ability, her past with One Piece, and all the things she caused in the first half of the great channel, all made waves after the Marshal of the Warring States informed the whole world about her identity that day.

From the four seas to the great waterway, untold numbers of fellows have stirred up riots.

Soon the situation became chaotic, and the order that had lost its absolute suppression once hovered on the verge of complete collapse.

To make matters worse, the Warring States Marshal resigned, Lieutenant General Garp was dismissed and returned to the field, and the naval camp, which lacked two rock-solid pillars in a short period of time, began to crumble.

The world government, which had already agreed to the resignation of Marshal of the Warring States Period, quickly rejected the resignation report after realizing that the increasingly chaotic situation was beyond control, and urgently recalled Lieutenant General Karp who was far away in the East China Sea as a last resort.

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It took a long time for the naval camp to calm down the situation, and the high-level generals worked hard to turn the tide.

When the world situation stabilized slightly, Marshal Sengoku submitted his resignation again, but he didn't expect that just after his report was submitted, his preferred successor, General Aokiji, left without saying goodbye.

Aokiji Kuzan left without warning, and even the yellow monkey didn't know where he went.

Until the man disappeared for a year, four months and thirteen days, and the long night was coming to an end, Aokiji quietly returned to Marineford.

Like the others, Huang Yuan didn't dare to ask where Aokiji had gone, and just used up all the vacations he had accumulated for decades as a colleague.

That person disappeared in front of them, and even the yellow monkey lived in a daze, only relying on half his life to persist and instinctively live, Aokiji's feelings for her have been carved into the bone marrow, and it is the navy's luck not to go crazy.

The reason for leaving and wandering, and finally returning, is probably just...she...here.

Men don’t have tear glands, and all the pain and unwillingness of Aokiji turned the high and refreshing autumn island of Marineford into a winter island. The never-ending snowflakes flying all over the sky are love and hate that cannot be expressed.

The man's smile suddenly appeared in Huang Yuan's mind, and the pain also broke out without warning. With the breathing, it penetrated into the veins and bones bit by bit, slowly invading consciousness.

Unable to resist raising his hand to press his heart, Huang Yuan took a deep breath and forced himself to put his memories back to the night when Pluto visited. Only in this way would he not be stuck in the abyss of despair.

Sirbaz Raleigh gave the yellow ape and the blue pheasant who were on the verge of madness a hopeless hope.

That late night... Huang Yuan closed his eyes and began to fall into the fragments that he had recalled countless times over and over again.

…………Dividing line…………

The man disappeared for a year and six months.

Even if she deceived herself again and again, the promise she made would be fulfilled one day. Hundreds of days and nights of waiting in vain made the despair in her heart deepen day by day.

On the surface he pretended nothing had happened, but in fact Huang Yuan knew very well that he might collapse soon.

The situation of Qingzhi, who has just returned, is not much better.

They are two sad men who haven't been able to sleep peacefully for a long time. During the day, they can use heavy work to numb their nerves. Every night when people are quiet, they are tortured by pain repeatedly. They can't close their eyes all night and keep them open until the next morning. .

That night, Huang Yuan suffered from insomnia again, and someone entered his residence near dawn.

Two thorns of breath stopped in the living room. One was Lieutenant General Karp, and the other was a stranger. It's just... even though he was a stranger, he felt a strange sense of oppression.

It will make the admiral of the navy feel the pressure, and there are only a handful of them in the world today.

He guessed the identity of the stranger in an instant, then put on his clothes indiscriminately and went downstairs.

Hearing the movement, the two people who were warming the fire in the corner of the living room turned their heads. Lieutenant General Garp still looked carefree, and he didn't have the slightest sense of leading such a big/troublesome person to the naval camp.

Huang Yuan only felt a headache, but his face remained calm. He knew that although Lieutenant General Garp was often out of tune, he was not a reckless man who would somehow bring his old opponent into his camp.

This rare visitor tonight, who disappeared for a year and a half, and who was almost mistaken for the underworld King Sirbazz Raleigh, must have come here because of something.

The only reason for coming to visit him, the admiral, was probably for the person they both cared about.

Not long after, a fourth night visitor appeared in the living room, presumably also aware of the existence of Hades, Aokiji Kuzan broke in without warning.

Then Lieutenant General Garp put on his usual attitude of having nothing to do with himself, and regardless of what the two generals talked about with Pluto, he requisitioned a room upstairs to catch up on sleep.

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In the living room, there were three people who belonged to two opposing camps, but had a strange intersection.

Pluto didn't talk nonsense, he just told Huang Yuan and Aokiji that he had only returned to the Chambord Islands a year and a half ago, but his wife Xia Qi told him one thing.

While speaking, Pluto took out a palm-sized box from his pocket, and when he opened it, there was a stack of paper pages like postcards inside.

Silbaz Raleigh told the two of them that the box and the postcard were left behind by that person at some point, and Xia Qi found it one day after cleaning the room after the big event.

Together with the note written by the person in the box, which is similar to the instructions for use, these pages are called [Return Postcards to the Dead], and they are formed from a certain card she liberated.

She wrote on the note that she was about to go to war, life and death were unpredictable, and if there was any unfortunate news after the war, she hoped that the person who got the postcard could correspond with her.

She said that there may be concerns that cannot be let go even after death, borrowing [a round-trip postcard to the deceased], she wants to know things that cannot be known after death.

The method of use is very simple, but write a letter on the mailing postcard with the name of the deceased, and a reply will appear on the reply postcard the next day.

'Across the boundary between life and death, you can be a pen pal. ' are her exact words.

Xia Qi knew very early on that the person held many and mysterious cards. When she heard of her death, she immediately used those postcards. The strange thing was that they couldn't be sent at all.

To be precise, the postcard with the name 'Nicole Robin' couldn't be sent out. After trial and error, it was true that only the letter addressed to her had no effect.

Including the companion who passed away in the past, Sirbazz Raleigh even received a reply from their captain.

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The reason why Silbazz Raleigh came to Marineford today was to tell Yellow Ape and Aokiji that that person might still be alive, at least in their time and space, she was not included in the world of the dead.

However, no one can trace the truth.

That person has the ability to walk in different time and space. Even if they are alive in their time, it means nothing. Maybe she will never appear again, or...

Huang Yuan still remembered his mood at that time, a mixture of extreme hope and deep despair, and he even forgot to ask Pluto what kind of state of mind he was willing to tell them.

On the contrary, Silbazz Raleigh revealed the answer with a half-mocking half-sarcastic smile. He was seeking revenge, but he was also sympathetic.

Silbazz Raleigh is very clear about their two admirals' thoughts on her. Hades, who claims to be her protector, once hated them two extremely, but until now, he has nothing to worry about.

If she is still alive, if she can still appear, in today's situation where many forces in the world covet her, if two admirals join forces, the chances of her surviving safely will be even greater.

If it wasn't for the fear that one day his strength would be exhausted, Sirbazz Raleigh would even be willing to stand on the sidelines. I believe that the two of them will go crazy in a short time, and it is impossible for her to appear again.

"Don't think I can't find out, how did you two bastards bully her—"

After giving them a reason to continue to live soberly, Hades Lord Sirbazz Raleigh stood up suddenly, wrenching the joints of his hands while laughing viciously.

"Two old men with a combined age of more than a hundred years, actually coveted a little girl who is as beautiful as a flower—"

So, the result of the long talk that night was that Pluto Sirbazz Raleigh incarnated as an "angry and difficult parent" and beat up the "two unwanted girls" who tried to abduct the "flowery little girl who was raised so hard". face old man'.

That night was also the only time in Huang Yuan and Qingzhi's life that they were willing to be beaten by highly wanted criminals without fighting back.

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When Pluto, who had a lot of grievances, finally left with satisfaction, the house of Huang Yuan's house also needed to be completely rebuilt.

Just standing in the ruined walls, facing the admirals and soldiers who heard the movement and came to check, the yellow monkey and the green chicken looked at each other, and each saw extremely strong joy from the bottom of the other's eyes.

Later, Huang Yuan used the power of the admiral of the navy to ask Dr. Vegapunk to calculate and analyze the secrets of time and space. The best scientists in the world assumed that the direction of history was originally predetermined by the so-called [fate], but under certain special circumstances, Unexpected external forces can forcibly change the future.

In the changed future, the time and space it forms will experience short-term turmoil.

If she was still alive, if she could re-enter their time...

Most likely, it should be on the eve of a major turning point in history.

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And two years later, until now, the day that can be called a shock to the trend of history is the day when... Monkey D. Luffy set sail again.

That is today.

The yellow ape and the blue pheasant counted the days uneasy and unbearable, all their hopes piled up to an unprecedented height, and they waited with bated breath for the party and the sailing far away in the Chambord Islands.

Straw Hat Boy Monkey D. Luffy rang the Oaks Bell in Marineford two years ago, and newspapers published his photo. Later, the Navy Intelligence Department also solved the mystery of the intentional exposure of his arm.

3d2y is the day when the Straw Hat Pirates who were defeated and separated in the Chambord Islands two years ago reunited, and maybe... it will be an opportunity for that person to enter this time and space again.

Even if that inference was groundless delusion, Kizaru and Aokiji waited with hope.

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