[comprehensive] red tide

Consciousness was ups and downs in the boundless darkness, Aokiji felt that he had had a long dream, and after waking up, he tried hard to recall but still couldn't remember what the dream was, which made him drenched in cold sweat.

He got up and went to the window and opened the closed curtains. The light of the sunrise filled the room in an instant, driving away the cool humidity.

On a beautiful morning, facing the downstairs of the office window, the soldiers who got up for morning training lined up neatly, shouting slogans and running at the same pace, full of energy.

Not long after, the door behind him was knocked lightly, with a familiar rhythm, and his adjutant stood behind the opened door.

Thanks to the adjutant's fuss, Aokiji knew that three days and nights had passed.

However, in addition to the long-awaited anger in the Marshal's office, there will probably be an astonishing amount of work, folders and ink bottles that are thrown, plus inquisition that will make people peel.

Stretching out his hand to caress his face, Aokiji reluctantly went to appreciate it under the gloating gaze of the adjutant.

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The expected roar, and various sundries that arrived as expected, accompanied by the unexpected iron fist that Lieutenant General Garp loved, made people dizzy and overwhelmed, waiting for the green pheasant to escape from the sky hungry , is already a long time later.

Taking advantage of the fact that His Majesty the Marshal transferred the artillery fire to Lieutenant General Garp, his recently budding grandson, the pirate 'Straw Hat Luffy', and took advantage of the situation to extend to a certain figure in Lieutenant General Garp's family, all kinds of anger During the interval, Aokiji sneaked out of the Supreme Commander's Office.

Walking in the corridor of the Navy Headquarters, looking out along the floor-to-ceiling windows, the sky was filled with orange-red rays of light, and the ground was flooded like gilded water, and the pace of Aokiji also slowed down.

After being dazed for a long time, he turned back to the window with the widest view, and slowly narrowed his eyes staring at the sky as if being stung. He remembered that she said that the sunset on the day we met was beautiful, and he was referring to the current color, right?

Even the sea water is reflected through, with a fire-like brilliance.

The same twilight, 20 years ago and 20 years later, there is not much difference, but Nicole Robin who remembered all that... smiled and called him a 'disaster'.

If he had known this earlier, he would rather she had forgotten it.

At least... at least... don't remember everything from that year.

In a trance, Aokiji once again blurred his reflection through the glass window, saw her laughing ironically in the bloody sky, and stretched out his hand hesitantly, trying to freeze the setting sun outside, his wrist sticking out of his sleeve, revealing the wound that hadn't completely condensed, With his movements, the skin and flesh burst open, and strands of blood spurted/shot out.

Such a shallow wound is nothing to Aokiji, what is unbearable is the residual temperature of his fingertips, and the few drops of blood splashed out from her twisted wrist, like hot oil.

After such a long time, Aokiji still shivered slightly from the heat.

He withdrew his wrist and lowered his head. In the empty corridor, he suddenly started to feel uncontrollable pain.

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He was not young when we first met.

The little group of children in the forest were weird and weird, and when she intercepted the traitor, she raised her face with resentment in her calmness.

She said, 'When disaster strikes, it is common sense to ensure the safety of women and children. 'The child who said this never thought that he should also be a group of people who need to be protected.

She said, 'I will not give you an excuse to shell civilians. '

Unfortunately, and ironically enough, her sense of self-sacrifice doesn't make any sense.

The ship carrying O'Hara's civilians really sank into the seabed as she said, and the blood of countless civilians evaporated in the fire, dyeing the entire night red.

In the end, she disappeared into the vast sea, and the amazing thing is that he couldn't let go of her from then on. In a corner deep in his heart, he firmly remembered that the little girl was half covered by the shadow, and half reflected the pupils of the sky.

For a moment, Kuzan thought he saw love and hate, life and death in those eyes, but when he calmed down, there was nothing, just like an illusion.

The eyes of the little girl are wet, the irises are deep blue, like the sea, all-encompassing and empty at the same time.

After finishing Salong, he looked at the direction in which she was running away in a hurry, raised his hand full of killing intent, and put it down again, he suddenly couldn't freeze that figure.

With one thought, all evils will arise.

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She's just a child, he told himself with far-fetched reasons.

She was still a child, he told himself, paying attention to her was for the deathbed entrustment of his deceased friend, and he had to watch how the seed that Saron risked his life to protect would grow into.

But she disappeared on the surface of the sea like morning dew, no matter how much he tried to search, her whereabouts were still unknown.

He has been looking for her all the time, hoping to find her face among countless fleeting figures in the long years, but he is disappointed again and again.

More than ten years later, he changed from Kuzan to Aokiji, and her back turned into obsession, entrenched in his heart and burned into his blood.

He missed her for nearly 20 years, and when she appeared again, he was almost old.

The body can barely be called the prime of life, but the heart that has served the Navy headquarters for many years is very old. At this time, her message suddenly came, and the heart that was about to return to calm was beating violently.

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Until the two actually face to face, the well-planned reunion, and the unexpected trip to Wish Island, he suddenly realized that everything had long been off track.

The little girl who had been missing for 20 years was quietly staring at him with the eyes of a stranger.

'Strange uncle. '——Brows slightly raised, with a gentle smile.

She completely forgot that it was him who killed the person who protected her, burned her home, and wiped out the last trace of her family affection.

Losing deep-seated hatred, but showing thoughtful eyes to the kid who shouldn't have seen him, "From the South Sea, Eustace Captain Kidd?" '

Randomly handing over the treasures she got back from the risk to others, half of her body exposed several bones.

'You can refuse, as long as I reach my destination, what does it matter who I walk with and how many people die on the way? '

'If you don't even have the consciousness to die, don't come to this sea. '

Back then, the child who could only cry and run away grew into a woman who could stand shoulder to shoulder with most of the strong men in this world in a place unknown to everyone.

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'Forgive me for not being able to watch you go, Captain Roger. '

'I repeat, it's been great meeting you. '

'The next meeting will be before the sun falls. '

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It turned out that the girl who had been missing for 20 years had been walking in a time that he couldn't touch.

The gentle reluctance she forbears when she smiles, the collapse and despair that slowly overflows from the brows when she loses, and finally her heart is ashamed, and the last gleam of light disappears from her eyes, all for other men.

'If this life can be happy and stable, who would want to be displaced? '

'What remains behind me never happened. '

She clearly said so, but she did everything she could, chasing afterimages that had long since disappeared. She would rather forget the past or even abandon the truth than live in his few remaining lives.

Her tolerance in every possible way, and humiliation, is just to let go of the newcomer whose wings have not yet grown.

He had clearly made up his mind about the future, yet she abandoned it like nothing, and she did not hesitate to cut off her own hand in order to escape from him.

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At this moment, the blood splattered on his skin was so hot that he finally realized that countless pirates were terrified by the news, and the highest combat power of the navy with one man under [-], Admiral Aokiji, is actually a person who can feel pain.

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He always misses her.

That year, I saw the buried seeds for the first time, and they took root and sprouted in more than ten years, and grew like vines in the blood. From her eight years old to his 20 years, the dark delusion condensed evil results, withered and rotted, and went round and round, finally turning into a fruit. be part of him.

Nicole Robin is like dove wine to Aokiji Kuzan.

Knowing that the ending will be gut-piercing, I still can't resist wanting to drink it up.

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In a trance, Qingzhi heard hesitant footsteps slowly approaching, and suddenly raised his head, his eyes congealed with murderous intent.

Seeing the person coming, Aokiji's tensed expression slightly loosened, "It's you——"

His colleague stood not far away, hiding his sight under the brown sunglasses, as if showing some sympathy. The two looked at each other quietly for a long time, and Polusalino slowly came to him.

Inadvertently turned his face away, staring at the sunset outside, after a while, he retracted his gaze, lowered his eyes and quickly glanced at his wrist, raised the corners of his eyebrows, and said with a half-smile, "Kuzan, rather than being in a daze here, it's better to be active." .”

After brushing off his own cuffs, and deliberately waiting for a while, Polusalino seemed to be showing off, and laughed in a low voice, "I just got information that your girl hurt the captain of the Whitebeard No. [-] team."

"But she runs fast, and now people with white beards are looking for her all over the world, even the second captain has left the new world, and will come to seek revenge in the first half~"

Aokiji was taken aback, then narrowed his eyes suddenly, "Second Captain Whitebeard? That Fire Fist who refused the title of Shichibukai?"

"It's that Portgas D Ace." Polusalino put on a cynical smile, narrowed the corners of his eyes, and after a closer look, his eyes gleamed with brilliance and calculation.

"The information is vague. At present, we only know that there seems to be someone missing on the Whitebeard ship."

Patting him on the shoulder lightly, Polusalino couldn't hide the ruthless smile on the corner of his mouth, "I have a hunch that things will change soon, Kuzan, hurry up and find a way to get your girl to safety." place to go."

Aokiji slowly brushed off the breath left by his colleague who passed by, quietly watched the other party with a sly smile disappear into the corner of the corridor, and then turned around suddenly, clenched fists, with traces of blood oozing from between the fingers.