[One Piece] Uncrowned King

After midnight, the carnival subsided completely. When Teresa and Newgate went back to the house, it was already past 2 o'clock in the morning.Stretching her body exhausted, Teresa took out the medicine, poured hot water on the two of them, and then turned around and said, "Newgate, take the medicine first...hey..." Before she could speak, she saw the man behind her. The man kicked off his boots, threw away his cloak, turned over on the bed and fell asleep, and in the blink of an eye, he heard thunderous snoring.

"Stinky old man..." Teresa muttered, stuffing her share of medicine into her mouth.Then he bent over to help Newgate take off his socks, put away his clothes and shoes, and walked out of the door again.

After a while, Teresa fetched a basin of water and returned to the house with some difficulty and placed it by the bed. She patted her numb back, then heated the towel, and stretched out her hand to help the sleeping old man wipe the stains. It is a body that smells of sweat.While wiping, she muttered in a low voice: "I sweat so much, and it's uncomfortable to fall asleep with my whole body sticky." After wiping his body aside, Teresa finally finished her mind, and dragged Dirty water went outside.When she came back again, she had already changed into a bathrobe, her hair was wet, and when she lowered her head, a tick-tock water polo would fall down.

It's just that after finishing all this, she no longer had the extra energy to brush her hair. Sitting on the edge of the bed, Teresa panted slowly, calming down her somewhat rapid breathing.The arms that had just carried heavy objects trembled slightly, and Teresa regained some strength after resting for a while.Just when she was about to stand up to reach for the towel, the bed board trembled suddenly. Newgate, who was sleeping soundly with her on his back, sat up, pulled the towel off, and wiped her graying hair.

"Newgate..." Didn't he fall asleep?Teresa wanted to turn around, but her hair hurt from being pulled, and she let out a hiss.

"Don't move, it will be fine later." Newgate whispered.

"Yes." Teresa stopped talking after hearing this, and sat up straight, enjoying her husband's care.

The two of them didn't speak for a while, and only a touch of warmth filled the room.The man's hands were not gentle, because they were jerky and clumsy and accidentally pulled her hair several times.After rubbing back and forth like this for a long time, the long hair finally dried up. Newgate withdrew his arm, turned his sore wrist, and said, "Okay, let's rest."

Teresa reached out to touch her dry and soft hair, and when she reached out, the towel in Newgate's hand was hung up again, then she crawled to his side, put both hands on his arm and said: "Newgate, I always feel that A little uneasy."

"I know." Newgate didn't hide it from Teresa, and directly told her his thoughts, saying: "That fruit...I seem to have seen it somewhere, but I can't remember it for a while. After all...it's not a good thing. "

"Let's talk to Saqi tomorrow. If no one eats it, sell it. The hidden danger here will be solved as soon as possible." Teresa said decisively.

Newgate nodded in agreement, yawned and closed his eyes again.

Unexpectedly, one hour after the conversation between the two, a burly figure came to Saqi's room in the dead of night, and it happened that Saqi had not fallen asleep at that time, and was holding the fruit and staring at the fruit Looking for the name of this fruit in the illustrated book, he relaxed and defenseless, and thus exposed his weakness to the eyes of the enemy.The black shadow seemed to hesitate for a few seconds, then ran over suddenly, and swung the knife at the partner's body...

"!!" Sachi, who was suffering from pain on his back, widened his eyes and fell heavily on the ground. He watched helplessly as his former best partner took the fruit on the table and left the room quickly.

Tiki...

Why……

……

The night watchman outside heard the noise and looked down, only to see Tiqi hurriedly start the boat and leave alone. He rubbed his eyes and asked without any doubt: "Tiqi, it's so late, where are you going?" ?”

"Chai, Zeni! I, I suddenly remembered that I forgot something on the previous island! Now go get it back!" Tiqi pretended to be honest and smiled at the people above, and quickly stepped on the accelerator on his foot and walked away. go.

The vigilant pirate Zeni wrinkled his nose and said with a smile, "This guy is really reckless..." Suddenly, a faint smell of blood emerged in the air, and this kind of slightly fishy smell is familiar to pirates. but.Zeni frowned suspiciously, and said to his partner who was also on night duty behind him, "Lido, wake up, I'll go down, and watch."

"Oh..." The person who called Lido nodded, yawned and walked forward. As soon as he woke up, he smelled the bloody smell that was getting stronger and stronger, and his face became serious.

Zeni got off the watchtower and followed the smell to Sage's room. He quickly opened the door, and what he saw was blood all over the floor, and Sage's figure lying in a pool of blood.The brain stopped spinning with a bang, and there was only scarlet in front of Zeni's eyes. When the blood flowed to his feet, he suddenly woke up and shouted loudly:

"Come here!! Mom and Dad! Marco!! Help——!! Help! Help Sage! Come here!!"

In the middle of the night, the heart-piercing shouts were particularly obvious, and soon the pirates gathered.Teresa also followed Newgate to feel that a group of people surrounded Sage in a circle, and several ship doctors were trying to rescue him.Seeing the child's bloodless face from a distance, Newgate's body shook suddenly, while Teresa walked forward quickly, knelt in front of Sage, and said, "Sage...!"

"...Old... Mom..." The man whose wound was bleeding continuously spit out two words with difficulty. Although he clearly saw the disapproval in Teresa's eyes, he still said with difficulty: "Tichi... I have a problem... don't... want to... Revenge... Let him go..." In fact, he never lost consciousness, he just patiently didn't make a sound, and didn't even cry out in pain.

Even if that person ruthlessly wanted to take his life away, he still let him go...

"Is it Tiki..."

Never thought that the honest big man would do such a thing, Teresa's heart trembled, she reached out to grab Sage's hand, tried to pull a comforting smile, and said: "What are you talking about Sage... Mom will cure you, and when the time comes, let's talk to Tiqi together, okay, you have to hold on, do you want to make Dad and Mom sad!"

"Right...no..." Sage smiled helplessly, and Teresa's hand moved in her hand, and then slid down feebly.

This kind and kind young man is finally saying goodbye to this world.

I will never see that gentle laughter again...

.........

Teresa's hand covered the young man's fresh face just now, and the house was full of suppressed cries from the pirates.

Newgate clenched his hands tightly, his knuckles creaking, his face was solemn, his muscles tensed, and his sturdy body trembled.Looking at Sach's eyes that were always closed, the eyes of this man called a monster were stained with water. He closed his eyes and let the warm tears fall.

Then, he took a step forward, suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and fell to the ground.

Whitebeard, fell down.