[One Piece] Uncrowned King

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Because today is Nissan's birthday, I specially updated the short story of the spade cook.

The Spade Cook 2015 New Year's Day Special Short Story

After Ace left, Moby Dick became much quieter, he could no longer hear the cheerful voice of the boy yelling loudly, and the gag of someone's playful and smiling face was missing. For several months, the atmosphere of the whole ship was a bit depressed. Everyone was worried about Ace, who was nowhere.Many people disregarded Newgate's order and went off the ship privately to find all the places where Tiki news appeared, even the pirates under the Whitebeard Pirates did the same.

The death of Sage caused Newgate's already ailing body to deteriorate rapidly. Now he can hardly leave the sight of the ship's doctors. Most of the time, he is covered with infusion tubes and quietly closes his eyes. repose.He didn't resist the treatment, quietly asked Teresa to help him take care of his body, and he no longer drank as much as usual, but this obedience gave Teresa a very bad premonition, always feeling that Newgate was preparing , In the calm before the storm, prepare for the coming storm.

During this period of time, the new world was too peaceful, and there were no major incidents from the major forces. On the contrary, the newcomers in the first half of the period set off huge waves.Or it could feel the advent of the worst era, and the forces of the New World are subtly gathering to the Navy headquarters. On the contrary, the main ship and sphere of influence of the Four Emperors are gradually gaining more eyeliner, and there is a faint state of coercion.Especially the Whitebeard Pirates, who can be said to have dominated an era, are being watched closely all the time. The news that the monster [Whitebeard] is unwell has already reached the Navy headquarters, and they have already planned For a long time, just waiting for the opportunity to bring down the father of the pirates.

How could Newgate fail to guess what the navy thought, but he never cared about the thoughts of those people. He still enjoyed a rare and peaceful life, and he didn't pay attention to the navy at all.

Looking at the blue water outside through the glass, the white beard's eyes are a little nostalgic. Since his body collapsed, the waterway chosen by Marco and others is the safest and calmest in the new world. These young people are suppressed. The turmoil in his heart for adventure is only for the sake of his father's weakening body.Staring at the sky and the sea outside, Newgate closed his eyes and sighed heavily...

This piece of sea is his home for half his life.

It was in this sea that he got everything, dreams, family...

He is already very old and should not continue to delay the children's future.Even if the navy does not take action in the future, he will have to retire before letting his sons fly.But when it came time to make a decision, it was so reluctant.If possible, rather than find a random place to accept death quietly, he hopes to be able to do something for the children in the battlefield, as a pirate and a father, and die with no regrets.

It's just that if that's the case, Teresa is what he's most worried about.

Thinking of this, Newgate struggled again, reached out and pressed his forehead, he stood up from the sofa, found several boxes under the pillow, took out one of them, and sat back on the sofa.

Those were several very old wooden boxes, the paint on them had fallen off due to long-term friction, and the edges were also shiny and slippery due to friction.Newgate skillfully stretched out his hand to open the box. On the special book inside, there were hundreds of life cards neatly sandwiched, and the names were carefully marked on the bottom.

These notebooks and wooden boxes were specially customized by Teresa at the beginning, because their home is expanding a little bit, and the number of family members is also increasing. In order to keep everyone's life card, she spent a few days, one by one. It is easy to find and don't worry about losing it.So far, there are thousands of life cards in his hand.There are many people who know about this matter, and Tiqi is no exception. Before he fled the ship, he had already exchanged the real life card while flipping through it, so that they could not find him according to this.

When he opened the book, he could turn to a certain page almost without looking for it. Newgate's eyes were fixed on the space that originally belonged to Sage. There is nothing left, and it hangs empty in everyone's name.

"Sage..."

Newgate stretched out his hand, rubbed the empty grid, then closed his eyes and raised his head, digesting the sadness that hadn't faded over the past few months.

When Teresa came in with the infusion bag, she saw the man holding the life card and closing his eyes to endure.Her hands trembled, Teresa paused for a moment, and then tentatively called out: "Newgate."

Opening his eyes, Newgate instantly returned to his original state, and there was no abnormality except that his eyes were slightly red.He put the notebook on the table, rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'm fine, need an infusion, come on."

"Yeah." Knowing that he didn't want to talk about it, Teresa also didn't want to mention it. At their age, sending a white-haired person to a black-haired person is the most unbearable pain.Hanging up the infusion bag, Teresa skillfully inserted the needle into his blood vessel.Seeing that he frowned, he quickly asked, "Does it hurt?" Speaking of it, although Teresa had undergone countless operations, she rarely had infusions, and she was old and her hands trembled too much. Probably.

"It's okay." It's just that he couldn't get used to the painless but strange feeling after the infusion needle was inserted, no matter how long it took.

Teresa breathed a sigh of relief, looked down at the place where it had been inserted, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, she put on the tape with confidence.Putting away the sterile isolation bag, Teresa glanced at the life card, then sat on the edge of the bed and took it, turned it over, and said, "I don't know what happened to Ace."

Hearing what she said, Newgate also looked over, and the two of them stared at Life Carbon together.

When I turned to the page with Ace, I saw that the card on it had shrunk a lot, which meant that Ace's vitality had been reduced by half, or he was in danger.Seeing this, Teresa turned pale, and looked at Newgate helplessly, while the latter clenched his fists, and his pupils shrank suddenly.

Ace didn't know anything about Tiki's abilities, but Tiki was too familiar with everything about Ace, and the more he thought about it, the more worried he became. Teresa hurried out and said, "I, I'll go find Zhuangzhuang..."

"Teresa..." Seeing Teresa hurriedly got up and left, Newgate quickly reached out to hold her.

At this moment, a warning horn sounded from the watchtower, and the two stopped arguing.Newgate pressed Teresa's shoulder to signal her to calm down, and then walked out of the room.

Seeing his father coming out, Marco hurriedly said: "There is an unknown ship approaching us now. For some reason, the navy is on alert."

"Do you know who it is?" Newgate sat on the sofa in the middle of the boat and asked in a deep voice.

"I don't know yet, the distance is too far." Marco shook his head.

"Then just wait." Newgate raised his hand, picked up the glass and drank it down.

Marco frowned slightly when he saw this, and he was a little unclear why his father, who hadn't had a drink for a long time, suddenly drank.

After waiting for a while, the people in the watchtower received the message and hurried down and said, "Daddy! Daddy! The redhead wants to see you!"

"Ah... let him come in." Newgate put down the wine glass and said with a tense forehead, "That boy, bring me good wine."