Walking the Fox

What is care?What is being cared for?Qianye took the rag and cleaned the bar for Aunt Shao, the proprietress of the bar, a woman who looked very young on the outside, but her actual age was estimated to be in her sixties.The Straw Hat Pirates gathered together to listen to Rayleigh's story of the year, and they left after listening.In order not to implicate Aunt Shao and Rayleigh, they walked cleanly without leaving any clues, and Chiba, who was cleaning the bar, didn't even raise her head before Luffy and the others left.

For Chiba, it is not a good thing to have too much contact with people in this beginning world, and these people are still the protagonists.

She will leave this world, soon, she knows, even without the silver chain on her wrist, she knows, soon, she will leave this world, and go to the next... After that, she will be aimless Wander around one world after another until she really finds a world that can accept her own existence.

After wiping the bar counter, she picked up the cups on the counter and wiped them down one by one.Lei Li and Aunt Shao stayed nearby to talk, their voices were not soft, if she wanted to listen, she could hear her, but Qianye was not interested in listening, she just needed to finish her work and go to sleep, her body really Only I know that she will probably have to exercise a little every day in the future, in order to prevent that powerful magic power from exploding vigorously, bursting her body that is gradually overwhelmed without the protection of magic power.

Aunt Shao was sitting on a high stool with a cigarette in one hand. She had no objection to Rayleigh's stuffing people into the bar, but... the child he brought back was a little weird.Ever since he appeared in front of her, he hadn't said a word. Asking her to do something was originally a joke, but he didn't expect the child to take it seriously. He picked up a rag and started cleaning the bar for her.She's obviously pretty cute, but why does she look so lifeless?Tapping her fingers on the table, she glanced at Lei Li and said, "Where did you pick up the child?"

"Didn't you tell me? Someone entrusted me to take care of it, I didn't pick it up." Raleigh shook the glass filled with beer with two or three ice cubes in his hand and smiled. "This child's situation is quite special. She doesn't belong to our world."

Raising her eyebrows, Aunt Shao thought that what Lei Li was talking about was just an ordinary kid, different from the world of pirates where they fight and kill and take risks everywhere, so she put the cigarette in her hand to her mouth and smoked it hard. He took a sip and said: "Little friend, let her go home, don't drag anyone into our circle casually, although you and I have washed our hands for a long time, and now we are living in seclusion, it doesn't mean that the navy will let us go, keep this Child, aren't you afraid that she will be implicated by us?"

"Don't worry, she will leave soon."

Glancing at Lei Li, Aunt Shao only thought his words were farting.leaving soon?Now this island is full of navy inside and out, want to leave?Just dreaming.Even if this girl is an ordinary person, it would be very difficult to leave and go to other places. The possibility of someone wanting to leave the island is zero.

There are two worlds inside and outside the bar, one is quiet and leisurely, and the other is full of gunpowder.The sound of rumbling shells filled her ears, and Chiba would occasionally turn her head to look out of the transparent glass window, but she just looked, her eyesight was no longer as good as before, she could only see a few black shadows, Flying out of mid-air, and falling back to the ground again, as for who they are, she doesn't know.

Withdrawing her gaze, after cleaning, she walked to the innermost sofa, sat on it, and lay back to sleep.She is tired and needs a good rest.Her body was exhausted, and her mind was even more exhausted. The thought that she would never see the silver-haired boy after this made her heart ache.

She was lying on the sofa on her side, her eyes closed tightly, and tears fell down unconsciously.

Qianye didn't know where to start crying weakly again.

Tears flowed from the eye sockets drop by drop, across the cheeks, and fell into the neck.

Maybe the tears really accumulated too much in my heart, and I couldn't help gushing out at this moment.

She had many dreams, and each dream was about her and the silver-haired boy.

[Chiba, you love steamed stuffed buns so much?In fact, sweet natto is also delicious. ]

[There are many people I want to protect, but there are only two people who are the most important, one is you Chiba, and the other is Hina Mori.You are my favorite person, and Chisen is my closest family member. ]

[No matter what happens, I believe in you. ]

[Life cannot be changed, but the future can be changed. ]

[I will protect you. ]

[Grass Crown is my sin...he was my best friend ever. ]

[Carrying everything on my back, making the people around me so painful... I seem to be wrong. ]

[Chiba, you said that everyone has his own meaning in this world, so what is your meaning?Just to see me? ]

Scenes and fragments flashed through her mind, engraving inch after inch of time in her life.

When he woke up again, his eyes were swollen and his collar was wet, which was soaked from tears.She got up and looked back, the bright moonlight refracted in from the glass window, casting a hazy yellow light.After getting off the sofa, I looked around the dark room, and found that Lei Li and Aunt Shao were not there. I guess they went to the back room to rest.Not paying much attention, she walked to the bed, pulled a chair beside her and sat down, with her legs resting on the chair, bent up, her arms wrapped around her bent legs, and she rested half of her face on the chair. On the lap, under the moonlight, looking at the scenery outside the window.

Under the dark night sky, the Chambord Islands are particularly quiet. The daytime wars and gunpowder smoke have eroded the small island into dilapidated condition. The big trees here are fine. They stand tenaciously, but the ground is not as lucky as the big trees. Now, piece by piece, piece by piece with pits and hollows, just like the surface of the moon.

Chiba sat there, seriously thinking about the past.

She has been thinking very seriously about the bits and pieces related to the silver-haired boy in the past.

******

Qianye left this world very quickly. She stayed in Aunt Shao's bar for less than three days before she was forcibly taken away from this world.Before leaving, Aunt Shao had a strange expression on her face, or it could be said that she was very surprised. At this moment, she finally understood the meaning of what Lei Li said earlier.

The black-haired girl really doesn't belong to this world, her situation is too special, and I can't find anyone in the whole world who is in such a special situation as Qianye.

Without saying a word, she took a puff of her cigarette, and Aunt Shao waved her hand as a farewell.Bowing to her, thanking her for taking care of her these days, Qianye completely disappeared from Aunt Shao's presence and from her bar.

After she disappeared, Aunt Shao took out a glass from behind the bar and poured herself a glass of wine.

"The world is really big."

The world is indeed very big, because of its boundlessness, there are many strange people and things.

Aunt Shao is a person who has experienced great storms. Qianye, a person from another world, did not bring her too much impact. In Aunt Shao’s heart, Qianye is just a passerby, an ordinary passerby in her life. up.

"The weather is really nice today."

******

Surrounded by mountains and mountains, there are ancient arenas, amphitheatres, clock towers, colonnades and other facilities and buildings with a sense of age.Outside the tallest palace, there is a girl in a white cherry yukata with a powder background. The wind on the mountain is very strong, blowing and blowing, blowing her red fox mask on her girdle and her black waist-length hair like a madman. Yes, she raised her hand to grab a few strands of hair that blocked her face, but because of the gap between her fingers, the hair slipped from her fingers and returned to the air to dance with the wind.

Blinking, Chiba turned to face the palace.Whose palace is this, and who lives in it?She didn't know, and she didn't want to know, she only knew that the person she was looking for was inside.Walking into the palace, walking through the long corridor, and stopping in front of two doors, she stretched out her hand without much hesitation, and pushed the two doors open with force.The world inside the door was shining brightly, Qianye half-closed her eyes, and couldn't see the people inside clearly for a while.At this moment, a majestic voice sounded in the quiet palace. "Who is so daring to break into the sacred place?"

There was no answer, Qianye couldn't confirm whether the words were addressed to her, and she raised her head to look in front of the center when her eyes got used to the glittering gold.There sat a man, whose face could not be seen clearly, wearing a robe and a strange helmet.In addition to him, there were twelve other people in the hall. They stood on either side of them, dressed in golden armor, and each of them turned their heads towards her.

"Say! Who are you!" Seeing that Qianye didn't speak, the person sitting in the upper seat asked again, this time the voice was three points more severe than before, and there was vague anger.

"I want to see Sasha," she said, naming names, direct, direct.

She doesn't know this world, and she doesn't even know who these people in front of her are, but her purpose of coming to this world is very simple, to meet the girl named Sasha in her dream.

Since leaving the world of "One Piece", Chiba has gone to several worlds, and the journeys in each world are so wonderful and happy. It was the first time for her to experience their culture and customs in different worlds. She will meet those beings who have the same roots as the ones she has bonded with in her past memories, and those familiar faces, no matter what their identities are in other worlds, she still misses them very much.

Before arriving in this world, she had a dream, a dream about gods.

The dream she had was a cruel battle that spread to the human world. They fought for the goddess who guarded the earth and the god who was in charge of death. They fought for thousands of years, but they refused to end. The ambitious Pluto will crawl out of hell and stretch out his claws to the earth guarded by the goddess. This time, it is the same.

In the dream, she met the girl named Sasha, talked a lot, and relatively agreed on a condition.

It has been more than four months since she was separated from the silver-haired boy, and she misses him every minute and every second. She has no way of knowing what the current situation in the world of corpses and souls is like.After knowing in a dream that Sasha had the ability to make her meet the silver-haired boy, she agreed to his request to re-strengthen the ten-fold barrier for this place called Sanctuary.

"I don't have anyone named Sasha here." Unexpectedly, the black-haired girl in front of her pointed out that she wanted to see their goddess, and the person who had never left the seat and got up from the seat became vigilant, let alone him?The twelve people in golden armor also stared at Qianye with alert expressions.

They will not allow any suspicious person to approach Lady Athena.

"Even if you don't let me see, she will come to see me."

"She's absolutely right." At this moment, a familiar voice came from the inner hall, and the girl whom she had only seen in dreams before appeared alive in front of Qianye, holding a scepter and wearing a white skirt , slowly walked out from inside. "We're meeting for the first time, Chiba."

"You are a little different from the image in the dream." Blinking, Qianye gave Sasha a playful smile.

"Lord Athena!?" I didn't expect Sasha to come out from the inner hall. The people in the upper seat got up without haste and knelt down to her together with the 12 people standing below, which was respectful to her.

I didn't think much of it at ordinary times, but now that there was an outsider like Qianye, surrounded by so many people and knelt down, Sasha's lovely face unconsciously showed a hint of embarrassment.

There was a trace of blush on her fair cheeks, she hurriedly waved her hands, and said, "Get up quickly, there are outsiders here, how embarrassing it is."

At this time, Sasha has lost the childishness she had when she first entered the sanctuary. In recent years, she has grown up vigorously after learning all kinds of things, and has become a responsible goddess, guarding the land with all her responsibilities.From the day she was brought back to the sanctuary, she lost the childhood and joy that a child should have. She was depressed, but she never regretted it.

At this moment, at this moment, in this sacred hall, in front of people from another world in Chiba, Sasha, the noble goddess Athena, felt embarrassed for the first time.

--to be continued--

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