good brother

"Have you cried enough, Luffy?"

"...Woo...Sabo..."

Luffy raised his head, sobbing, and looked at his brother standing by the hole.

"... My chest hurts like I'm about to suffocate..."

"...If this is a dream... then you should have woken up long ago..."

Saying that, Luffy bent down to ask for it, pressing his forehead against the cold floor.

"...So... Angel... is he really... dead..."

"Ah, dead."

Sabo jumped down from the cave and stood in front of Luffy.

"Heart injury, death."

"...Ugh..."

Hearing the cause of Angor's death, Luffy trembled again.

"...I...too weak!"

Luffy banged his head hard on the floor.

"...too weak to protect anything!"

"...What One Piece...I...can't do it!"

"What nonsense!"

Sabo picked up Luffy and made him stand in the sun, shouting.

"Isn't One Piece your dream! Did you just give up like this!"

"But I'm too weak!"

Luffy waved Sabo's hand away, lowered his head and shouted.

"I can't protect anything!"

"My partners disappeared one by one, and there was nothing I could do! I was unconscious when Angel left!"

"What did you say to protect him! Didn't he still die for protecting me?"

"I like this...what qualifications do I have to be the Pirate King!"

"I feel exactly what you're feeling right now!"

Luffy raised his head and looked at Sabo with red eyes in surprise.

"Me too, and Ace too! Which one of our brothers doesn't regard protecting Angel as a dream!"

"Being defeated by the strongest combat power in the world is self-confidence! After all, you are just a supernova now! What qualifications do you have to belittle yourself in a war of this level!"

Having said that, Sabo calmed down a little.

"We are all too young and haven't experienced any big storms. This time is a lesson, a lesson that can't be more painful."

"However, I have already come out, and Ace has also come out!"

"How to get out of despair, you should have experience in this area, how did you get out when I left!"

"At that time..."

Luffy remembered.

"I...have Angel and Ace..."

"what about now?"

Sabo patted Luffy's head.

"What do you have now?"

now i...

Luffy raised his bandaged hands and counted them one by one.

Ace, Sabo, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, Sanji, Chopper, Robin, Franky, Brook...

Counting and counting, the smiles of my brothers and partners came to my mind.

Those beautiful and precious memories once again became the driving force for Luffy to move forward.

"I have you... I still have partners!"

Tears overflowed my eyes again, this time it was no longer regret and self-blame, but gratitude for everything I still had.

"We've already agreed on a location, so I have to go back..."

Luffy lowered his head and wiped away his tears.

"I miss them so much!"

"Really, buddy..."

Sabo patted Luffy's head in relief.

"One day I must thank them in person."

Jinbe, who was standing on the deck, heard Luffy's cry, and thought of the gratified smiles of Angel and Ace in the prison when they talked about Luffy's partners.

『Those are reliable people who I have followed all the way to verify. There is no need to worry about Luffy handing them over to those guys!』』

Now you don't have to worry, Angel.

At the same time, Donghai, Windmill Village.

With a bandage on his head to cover the injury caused by Sabo, Garp swaggered along the street with the navy and greeted the surrounding villagers.

But suddenly...

"Cap!"

A figure rushed out from the side bar, and hit the unsuspecting Garp on the head with a stick.

"Lieutenant General Garp!"

"It's okay."

Garp sat on the ground, looking at the gloomy woman in front of him.

"People you know."

"You still have the face to come back!"

Dadan roared angrily, pinched Karp by the neck and pushed him to the ground.

"You bastard! On that battlefield... right in front of their brothers!"

A hot tear fell on Karp's vicissitudes of face.

Dadan choked up and yelled.

"Why are you refusing to save Angel!"

""The older one is Angel, who is three years old this year.""

Dadan was even more angry when he remembered the little doll he brought to meet him once.

"Is the family not as important as the mission! What a naval hero! Go to hell!"

"Stop! Dadan-san!"

"Makino..."

"Clearly close at hand but can't make a move..."

Makino shouted under Dadan's fist.

"The most painful must be Kapusang!"

"wrong……"

Dadan shook his head and took two steps back.

"Ace, Sabo, Luffy... It's the most painful for them to be younger brothers!"

As soon as these three names were mentioned, the smiling faces of the four brothers from ten years ago came to Makino's eyes again.

The four little brothers, the kind of fetters that make them laugh as long as they are around each other...

now……

Thinking of this, Makino's eyes were wet with tears, and he ran away covering his mouth.

"How much they adore this brother Angel..."

Dadan looked at Karp who was sitting on the ground and said indifferently.

"I hear them almost every day, saying that they will protect Angel when they grow up, but now they see him die in front of them, for their sake, what kind of mood are they facing this reality now! "

With that said, Dadan turned around and looked at the blue sky with eyes full of tears.

""I'm not going! I'm too happy that you bastard is gone!""

""Really, then I'm leaving~""

If I went to see him off at that time, if I could have looked at that sensible and well-behaved child...

"From now on, no matter what kind of people those three younger brothers grow up to be, I will stand by their side..."

As she spoke, she took a deep breath and screamed to the sky.

"Ace! Sabo! Luffy! Don't lose!"

Don't lose to reality!Don't lose to yourself!Don't lose to this world!

To grow into a man who can make Angor happy!

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