[One Piece] Pirate Life of Port Officers

After receiving Shanks' reassurance, Sarai reluctantly let him go and turned her attention to the crowd around her.After all, for her, Mia, who doesn't know when and what kind of dress she will appear in, is the top priority of today's action.

"This queen is truly special." A few minutes later, Beckman's words broke the silence among the three.

He threw the unburned cigarette on the ground and stomped it out. The friction of leather boots against the ground was almost instantly overshadowed in the noisy morning market, but Sha Lai seemed to have heard some signal, and quickly turned her head towards the palace. look in the direction.

On the winding stone path, a person wearing a large beige cloak is behind the shopping team going out of the palace. It can be seen from the figure exposed from the cloak while walking that this is a young woman.She covered her head with blue and white gingham, leaving only her eyes exposed.It was in stark contrast to the beautiful maid next to her who was dressed coolly and tied her hair up with pearl hairpins.

"It's really, it's a little surprising." Seeing this queen who dressed herself like a middle-aged woman in the morning market, Sha Lai raised her eyebrows. No wonder when we parted yesterday, Mia said that she Definitely spot her disguise.Dressing up like this among a group of maids is really conspicuous and cannot be ignored.

"Good morning, Mia. I was really surprised by your outfit today." Because Mia is a common name in this country, Sha Lai didn't change her name, just left the team with a smile and secretly, and walked to Mia from their side said hello.

"Good morning, Diamond, Mr. Shanks and Mr. Beckman. How is my disguise?" Mia greeted the three with a smile and then turned sideways, revealing a stiff face in brown clothes Men in long-sleeved shirts.

"This is my chief guard, Barron. Although you have met yesterday, I think it's better to give you a formal introduction. Barron grew up with me, and it's thanks to him that I can come from Slip out of the palace."

Childhood sweetheart?That is really a confidant among confidants.

Glancing at the tall man who simply nodded and saluted to them, then retreated silently behind Mia, there was a hint of amusement in Shalai's eyes.

Although she hasn't tried this person's level specifically, it is definitely not as good as any of the two behind her.And this gap in force value, he himself must be very clear.In this way, he still insisted on following, and the reason for this is worth pondering.

After all, there is still a big difference between protecting the king and protecting her own Ome.

"Baron is really young and promising to become the chief guard of the king's army at such a young age."

On the surface, Sha Lai politely praised the other party, but in her heart she had quietly put a number on the head of the guard, and planned to list him as a key observation object in the next trip.

After dealing with the extra variables, Sha Lai took two steps towards Mia, deliberately leaving a distance that would not make people feel uncomfortable, and asked with a smile: "So Mia, where are you going to go next?" What about playing?"

"I don't have a clear goal, how about playing wherever I go?" Mia's voice came through the plaid cloth, which seemed a bit dull, but it still couldn't conceal the meaning of expectation.

Sha Lai, who keenly grasped this point, immediately replied: "Of course, then, how about we start by visiting the morning market?"

Then, Sha Lai's words kicked off a painful and long morning for the other three men.

Although Mia is a princess, she has enjoyed the top items in this country since she was a child, but she knows very little about the things commonly used by ordinary people in the market.And, for some reason, she seemed interested in it.

For example, those gingham cloths with rough materials and simple patterns are actually not as good as the quality of the objects worn by the lowest maids in the palace around her head.These plaid cloths do not pursue the appearance and texture at all. They can only block the direct sunlight and bring a little shade to the working people.

But Mia didn't seem to care about it. She spent a lot of money at the small stalls in the morning market, almost buying five or six things at every stall she visited.Not to mention gingham, she even bought a lot of those wood carvings that even a three-year-old would dislike.

In the beginning, Shalai would still follow her, giving some advice from time to time, and helping with the payment by the way.But after visiting one or two stalls, I realized that Her Majesty the Queen didn't know how to identify good or bad things, but she simply wanted to buy these things that were very novel to her to play with, so she gradually closed her eyes. Mouth, only echoed when Mia asked, expressing support for her choice.

Now she can only have fun thinking that these things are not expensive anyway, even if Her Majesty the Queen wants to buy them all back and throw them away, the money she has with her is enough.

So, after walking around in this way, Barron, who came out to protect Mia's safety, was full of packages of all sizes. It can be seen that if he hadn't considered the identity of the young master that Sha Lai pretended to be, and her The two pirates behind her looked very difficult to mess with. Mia really wanted to buy more until the hands of the three of them were also full.

"Mia, it's almost lunch time, should we choose a restaurant to eat and have a rest?"

Looking at the sun that has risen above the head, and the three boys behind him who are basically in a state of out-of-body state, they have already been trained by Koye Ozaki, and she kindly reminded Salai, who has no pressure to go shopping with girls Take a look at the happy Mia who is strolling in front.After all, if this continues, she will worry about the two big pirates behind her, and she will give up.

"Is it already noon? I still have a few shops that I haven't visited yet." Mia, who was stopped by Xi Lai, stopped, and looked back to see that except for Xi Lai, everyone else looked weak, so she reluctantly decided to temporarily end this shopping trip.

"Thank you for your hard work this morning. I know that the food of the family is authentic, so let me be the host and invite the three of you to have a meal."

Sha Lai didn't care about this decision, but she felt that after Mia said this, she clearly heard the gasps of relief from the three people behind her.

These people really don’t practice enough. At the beginning, she not only had to go shopping with Sister Hongye, but also contacted her subordinates by phone to clean up the mess left by Dazai. The troublesome boss bought a bunch of canned crab meat and went back.I always feel that her arm strength and endurance have been exercised through shopping again and again.

Thinking of those trivial pasts, Xilai's eyes became darker. In fact, looking back now, I was really happy at that time.

——I didn’t see the real despair in this world, and I still had expectations for the future.

Therefore, she didn't care about all kinds of unsatisfactory things in her life at that time, because she firmly believed that one day she would be able to overcome them and live a free life that she wanted.

"jingle--"

The familiar sound of the bell brought Xilai's thoughts back to reality.

Looking at the wooden door that made the sound, Sha Lai frowned indistinctly.

This is the hotel where she stayed, why did they come here?Wait, just now Mia said that she would take them to an authentic restaurant for dinner. What she said, could it be——

"Here we are, this is the place."

... I was really afraid of something, and following the direction of Mia's finger, after seeing the signboard of the restaurant opposite the hotel, Sha Lai paused, wanting to hit someone very much.

When she came to this restaurant as Jack, a pirate, to inquire about information, her clothes were almost exactly the same as now.Although when playing Jack, she had a scar on her left face, and stuffed stuffing inside her clothes to make herself look a lot stronger, plus she can play two completely different characters, even if ordinary people encounter it, Nor does it tie them together.

but!When she came to this restaurant the day before yesterday, she happened to come with Shanks, and that guy had a conflict with a group of pirates in order to buy wine.In this way, as long as the proprietress of this restaurant has a normal brain, she will definitely be impressed by her.If he appeared in front of him with Shanks again today, he would definitely be found wrong.

Faced with this deadlock, Sha Lai couldn't think of any solution for a while.

After Barron walked past her and walked to Mia, and opened the wooden door of the restaurant, she bit her lower lip, knowing that if she lingered any longer, Mia would find out that something was wrong, and by then, all previous efforts would have been wasted.Up to now, we can only go in first, if it doesn't work, then...

"It's okay, I'm just looking at it with knowledge, the proprietress is not here today, it's the boss who is looking after the shop."

Sha Lai, who had prepared for the worst and planned to walk towards the restaurant, froze when she felt a masculine breath coming out of her ear.

If Shanks hadn't considered the time constraints and spoke very fast, allowing her to quickly understand the reason why he did this, she might have really slashed through with a sword just now.

It was so risky, it was really a shot, and Mia didn't know how to explain it.

Yarn, who suppressed her self-defense reflex, cast a nonchalant glance at the red head next to her left ear.This guy, do you know that it is very impolite to suddenly appear next to someone else's neck, and you will be beaten?Forget it, this time, for the sake of the valuable information he provided, I won't bother with him.

"Understood, thank you." After responding softly, Sha Lai stepped quickly before Mia, who had already entered the restaurant's gate, turned her head, held the wooden door that was about to close, and turned her head to the two big pirates who were still under the steps. Lifting his chin, "Come in, it's not a good habit to keep a lady waiting for a long time."

Shanks had no choice but to whisper to Beckman while walking over, although his deputy captain didn't want to answer his questions at all.

"Beckman, she just glared at me, right? I was telling her useful information. Why did she do this? Did she already know? But she just had a look of hesitation?"

To be able to compress so many questions into three seconds of walking up the two steps from the door, I have to say that Shanks is also a talent. Unfortunately, none of his many questions came from his deputy captain. got the answer.

The silent Beckman didn't think these questions were too low-level and didn't bother to answer them.Instead, he felt that even if he didn't say it, Shanks could roughly guess the reason, and he just wanted to find someone to confirm it.

After all, for a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl to develop that kind of vigilance against strangers, she must have had an unpleasant past that they didn't want to imagine.