[ONE PIECE] Shanks' Notes on How to Train Your Dragon

Beside her, she has always been accompanied by a star not inferior to it, she sighed melancholy.

Her heart is complicated at the moment, her purpose of coming to Wano Country is to avenge her uncle, but when she saw this scene like a hell on earth, she unexpectedly couldn't do it.

She thinks she is cruel and ruthless, and killing and aggression are instincts engraved in the dragon's genes, but she has never been able to do what her uncle made at the beginning.

——The giant dragon fled across the streets, death everywhere it went, the air was scorched and sizzling, the sky was full of fire accompanied by the screams of people's horror, and the Wano country on that day was like an abyss of hell.

All the crimes until a warrior named Ryoma appeared, the sharp blade came out of the sheath, the dragon was beheaded, and An'an's only dragon died.

His bones were placed on a high mountain.

"You can't do it." Shanks said lightly the reason for An An's hesitation.

An An sneered subconsciously, but the corners of her raised mouth soon became stiff and solidified, and slowly sank.Although she is headstrong, she still knows in her heart that what her uncle did in Wano Country is enough to kill him a hundred times.

But she also really hates the people of Wano Country, and also hates the samurai named Ryoma.

She almost sighed and said: "Forget it, let it be." She turned her head and took a deep look at the village shrouded in the shadow of death, "I decided to let them live."

"It's not that I'm merciful, maybe killing them is a kind of relief." She closed her eyes, but said chilling words in a calm tone.

"The world...is the hell I left for them."

An An is very entangled. Her entanglement stems from her hatred for Wano Country, and even more from her inability to kill innocent people.She understood that they were just victims of the disaster, but they couldn't erase their crime of killing uncle.

When you can't make a decision, leave it to fate.

Isn't the pain they are suffering at this moment the retribution caused by killing their uncle?

The evening breeze is slightly cool, blowing away a little of the summer heat.

An'an walked in front, and Shanks stepped on her shadow step by step, like the eagle-catch-chicken game he played with Bucky when he was a child.

It wasn't until An An saw the tall skeleton in front of him that he stopped. Shanks looked at the skeleton of the giant dragon through the top of An An's head. The tall nettles half covered its white skeleton, which looked as tall as a hill. .

An An's tears rolled in her eyes, and the turbulent sadness in her heart made her step back involuntarily. She didn't want to see this, she wanted to go home, she wanted to go back to the island full of warm memories with her uncle.

Shanks gently pulled Laan'an's kimono sleeves, and held her in his arms comfortingly, feeling her cuddling against him like a kitten and weeping softly.

Hot tears soaked the cloth on his chest, and after she covered her face and cried for nearly a few minutes, her tense emotions relaxed a little.

Her eyes were red, she sniffed, and she looked so pitiful that people felt sorry for her.

Shanks reached out to help her dry the tears hanging from the end of her eyes, An An realized what she had done in front of him, her face flushed red, and she ordered in a fierce tone:

"Forget about that scene just now, you know?!"

Shanks has always pampered An An, even in the face of her ferocious and unreasonable demands, he could smile easily and agree to any of her requests.

"Okay." He said softly, then pointed to the edge of the cliff, "You and your uncle must have a lot to talk about, then I'll wait for you over there."

After finishing speaking, he paused for a while, and added: "Don't be afraid, just call me if you need anything."

afraid?

An An seemed to have heard some big joke, with a sneer full of yin and yang, "How could I be afraid, it's not like you didn't see my mighty and brave appearance yesterday, one foot and one foot, that can be said to be full of mourning, blood flow like a river."

She straightened her back proudly, and the roundness of her chest swayed a few times, "I, Antoinette, when did the noble queen of dragons ever fall in love!"

Shanks didn't fluctuate in his heart, and even wanted to touch a few.

An An keenly felt Shanks' bright gaze staring at her chest, the corners of her eyes twitched, and she slapped Shanks on the head unceremoniously, with a look of hatred:

"Join the gangster, can you have something serious in your mind all day long?!"

Shanks was stunned by the photo, his expression was blank for a while, and he started to feel aggrieved, "I think about you all day long."

Hearing this, An An's heart was as sweet as eating sugar, and the corners of her mouth raised uncontrollably. She was so happy that even her tone became lighter.

She pointed at the edge of the cliff, pretending to be impatient, "Go, you go and stay there, my lord wants to catch up with my uncle, you are not allowed to eavesdrop, if I find out, I will cut off your ears!"

"Roger that!"

Shanks was not afraid of her threats at all, and he had a playful smile on his face.

Seeing Shanks walking away, the temperature of An An's raised mouth suddenly disappeared, and the light in her eyes condensed into ice. She turned and walked towards the dragon's corpse, her wide sleeves drew a graceful arc.

After hundreds of years, she saw her uncle again, even though what she saw in front of her was a pile of white bones, and there was a bird's nest on its spine, and the chirping of chicks could be vaguely heard.

She said what mood she was in at the moment, nostalgia, resentment, sadness, these complex emotions mixed in her heart, so she couldn't help but sigh.An'an clenched her fist and wanted to smash the bone into powder with one punch, but she stopped when her fist was about to hit the bone.

Not long ago, she still hated her uncle's cruel attitude and cold eyes before he left, but now this hatred has disappeared when she saw his skeleton.

An An slumped down beside the dragon, leaning on her uncle as usual, from her angle, she could clearly see Shanks' tall back in the setting sun.

The afterglow of the setting sun pulled his figure long, a gust of wind blew his messy red hair, his well-defined profile softened a lot under the warm orange light, and when his deep eyes touched hers, Unbelievably soft.

"Uncle, do you still remember what you said before you left?" She murmured to herself, she could no longer hear her uncle's heartbeat, nor could she feel the warmth from his body, "You said the world is big and there are many Interesting islands and interesting people... I think..."

It was the first time An An smiled so softly, and she sighed: "I think... I found it." Shanks' figure was reflected in her golden pupils, "I found the one that can make me laugh, A man who can make me feel at ease."

"I also came out of that island, but..." An An closed her eyes full of pain, "I still don't understand, what is your so-called freedom... Is it really worth it? It's worth ending your life in this way life?"

Two lines of tears fell from the corners of her eyes, and she choked up: "I really don't understand... What is the difference between being a human or being a dragon? Isn't it good for us to be together all the time?"

She frowned, and the sadness surging in her heart almost made her unable to breathe, Dou Da's tears welled up in her eyes, "I have been waiting for you for hundreds of years... Do you know how I got here? I committed suicide countless times, and I also I've thought about it all, but every time I think that you might appear somewhere, I just... I just..."

At the end, she couldn't cry anymore. She lowered her head and covered her face and wept. Tears kept spilling from her fingers and dripping on the ground.

She recalled the day when her uncle left, it was also near evening, and the weather was exactly the same as this time, the clouds were burnt orange by the rays of the setting sun, and the evening wind blew past, like a burning sea of ​​fire.

An An bit his uncle's dragon wings lightly and said, "When I go out and find you later, I will return the dragon scales to you."

The uncle's eyes were complicated, and he opened his mouth to say something, but when the words came to his mouth, he said dryly: "No need to pay back."

"Yes!" An An replied stubbornly, "At least, I will give you my dragon scale!"

There was a look of struggle in the uncle's eyes. He turned his head away from An An's wet eyes, and his voice was hoarse after being extremely depressed: "You know, there is no possibility for us, An An, I am your uncle."

"Then if, I said if..." She was full of expectations, but hesitated to speak, "If you weren't my uncle, would it be possible for us?"

Looking back, the dragon's sharp eyes reflected her appearance, as if he wanted to take her deep into his soul, he moved his mouth and murmured:

"...if there is an afterlife."

"If there is an afterlife..." An An slowly opened her eyes, the clear eyes were full of Shanks' figure.

Uncle said that when Longlin met his master, he would react red and hot.At this moment, An An touched the dragon scale under the corner of his right eye with his fingers, and it was unbelievably hot.

Her hand slowly descended to her heart, with five fingers bent, she gritted her teeth and tore off the dragon scale on her chest.

It was a pain like the separation of flesh and blood, the pain made her face turn pale, her lips trembled, even breathing was a difficult thing, and another tear fell from the corner of her moist eyes.

Fortunately, Shanks didn't see her in such a mess.She looked at the blood-stained scales on her palms, and wiped them clean with her sleeves. After the pain eased a lot, she called for Shanks to come over.

"This is for you." An An pretended to be relaxed and handed him a scale.

Shanks widened his eyes. He knew exactly what this dragon scale meant to An An. Since then, she was not the invulnerable she aspired to. She had a weakness, and she was willing to let Shanks become her weakness.

This love is too heavy, Shanks shook his head like a rattle, "No, I can't have this