[One Piece] Pirate Life of Port Officers

"Well, may I ask—"

Nancy, who had been following behind the two of them honestly and never daring to take a wrong step, finally changed her face when she saw the magnificent building in front of her.

Although rationality was telling her that the two of them could not possibly know what was hidden in her heart, the beating heart was conveying to her a very bad premonition.

"Nancy, you can just call us by our name, uh~, I haven't introduced myself yet." The black-haired girl standing on the steps smiled at Nancy against the light, "My name is Weaving Tian Xilai, you can just call me Xilai. Ah, Shanks over there doesn’t need my introduction~”

The lively and intimate tone made Nancy even more vigilant.

Judging from the girl's performance last night, she is not a simple-minded vase.She can pretend to be Jenny and sneak into Neverland without anyone noticing, and she can also spend several rounds under Jiang Xing's subordinates. The reason why she is still an unknown pawn is probably because she did it on purpose.

"That's right, Nancy, you're so smart, you deserve to be the top card in NEVERLAND." Applauded symbolically, Sha Lai tilted her head, and said slowly under Nancy's horrified eyes, "I'm the owner of a high-level knowledgeable person." Or, so you'd better give up those escape plans you just thought about. With me around, they can't possibly come in handy at the moment."

Looking at the eyes of the brunette girl in front of her who were all kinds of charms gradually turned cold, a hint of playfulness flashed in Xilai's eyes, and she wanted to continue to say something to break through her defense.

however--

"Xialai——, the people in this arena promised to take us to see the contestants, won't you go?"

Sha Lai: "..."

She just said that something was wrong today. Just now Shanks performed well in NEVERLAND and didn't make trouble for her, making things go very smoothly.

Oh, sure enough, Shanks is Shanks, you can never predict when he will send you a 'surprise'.

Alas, at this time, she especially misses Beckman who will discuss the careful plan with you, adapt to the situation in the process of completing the task, and perfectly cooperate with you.

Shanks must have burned incense in his previous life and accumulated 180 generations of virtue to meet such a good deputy captain.

"I'll be right there." Without turning her head, she replied coldly to Shanks, and in his gaze, Xilai led Nancy past expressionlessly, stepping on her high-heeled shoes. There was a 'da da' sound on the slate.

But Shanks is not a person who will get entangled in trivial matters. Under the frightened eyes of the guards, he frowned and thought for a second, then happily put this matter behind him as if nothing had happened, and looked up. Heels followed the steps of the two in front.

"Xialai, don't go so fast, huh? How do you know which way to go?"

"...There is a map at the door."

"Haha~, as expected of Sarai. Speaking of which, are there any interesting gladiators here?"

"No, you are not allowed to recruit people indiscriminately these days, otherwise I will quit the group."

"Hey, hey, there's no need to threaten me for such a trivial matter, right?"

"Considering your various previous convictions, I think it is necessary."

......

Nancy, who was a step behind, looked at the two people who kept bickering in front of her. Her expression changed from surprise and alertness at the beginning to helplessness and amusedness, and there was also a hint of envy in it that she didn't realize.

***

"Gladiators! Can you hear me?"

Standing on the high platform of the gladiator lounge, Shalai held a loudspeaker in her hand and shouted to the fighters who were wiping their weapons, taking a nap, or chatting.

"I'm here to ask everyone present, does anyone know the 'Ghost Swordsman' Carter on this arrest warrant?"

As soon as the words came out, not only the soldiers below, but even Shanks and Nancy turned to look at her.

The difference was that the former was simply curious about where she hid the arrest warrant, while the latter tried her best to conceal it, but she could still find a trace of panic in her eyes.

"Oh, by the way, as a reward, the person who provides the most information can get the company of Miss Nancy, the chief of NEVERLAND by my side, for an afternoon. Is anyone tempted?"

If the first two sentences just made these gladiators start whispering, the latter words were like throwing aluminum blocks into hot water, causing the huge lounge to boil instantly.

"Hey! Didn't you get close to Carter? Aren't you going up to receive the award?"

"But Carter and Nancy weren't—"

"Tsk, you've lived as a monk for so long, do you want to give up the chance to get close to such a beautiful woman just because of the little affection?"

"Heh, you are so bold, and you know a lot, why don't you go?"

"I...I'm not..."

......

Similar conversations kept happening below, and Sha Lai used both her ears and knowledge, and she listened with gusto from above.

After a long time, the discussion gradually died down, but still no one stood up.Instead, the crowd gradually dispersed, and the gladiators continued to do their own thing, as if the three on the high platform never existed.

But this result did not make Nancy's pale face much better.

Having stayed in NEVERLAND for more than ten years, she has seen all kinds of pirates, of course she knows what high-level knowledge color represents.

So even though those people didn't say anything just now, the black-haired girl who was putting away the reward order and walking towards her now got the information she wanted.

"Don't be nervous Nancy, I just said casually, I won't really lend you to any gladiator."

Although the girl in front of her was smiling, it made Nancy feel as if she had fallen into an ice cellar.What happened from morning to now seems to be under her control, no matter what she does, it will not affect the result.

"You..." Nancy, who hadn't had a drop of water since she woke up, her voice was a little dry, and her voice was not as mellow as usual, "Why do you want to know about Carter?"

"Because he damaged my important things, I want to ask him for some interest." Saying that, Sha Lai tugged Shanks who was dozing off against the wall, signaling him to leave when he was done.

"Let's go...um...'Ghost Swordsman' Carter, I always feel that this name is a little familiar." The sleepy Shanks yawned, as if he was digesting the just half-hearted Something I heard while I was half asleep.

"...It was the black knight costume pirate who was looking for trouble at the Kate & Kevin Tavern in the Chambord Islands. I remember he challenged you after he entered the new world. Did you forget?"

"Hmm...ah! Two years ago, a guy with good sword skills came to fight with me, so it was him."

"You are really... Let me see what you will do when Beckman quits the group."

"What are you talking about, Xilai? Beckman is my partner, how could he leave the group?"

......

Looking at the two figures in front who started bickering again, Nancy bit her lip, and finally raised her heels to follow.

Not to mention that it was impossible for her to escape from these two men, just because they were looking for Carter, she had to follow them no matter what.

But why, in the new world, the pirate group, second only to the emperor, wanted to find Carter, the guy who offered a reward of more than [-] million King Kong...

"By the way, Nancy, these are the clothes and breakfast I just bought. Why don't you go to the bathroom to change first, and then talk to me about Carter?"

Ok?

Nancy, who had been immersed in her own thoughts all the way, looked up, only to realize that she was standing at the door of a bright room, and the two people who had been walking in front of her were already sitting on the sofa.There were two bags on the coffee table, one was still steaming.

The smell of food made Nancy's stomach churn after walking hungry for an hour.She thought about it, and considering that she had absolutely no value in letting these two people do it, she stopped being hypocritical. She picked up the bag of clothes, thanked her with a smile, and walked into the bathroom.

......

Three minutes later, seeing Nancy walking out in a low-cut suspender skirt, Sha Lai twitched the corners of her mouth stiffly, and immediately separated herself.

"I asked the guards here to buy this clothes, and it doesn't represent my taste."

If she were to go shopping, she would definitely choose neutral clothes.After all, for NEVERLAND's chief Nancy, this kind of revealing dress must have long been worn out and she doesn't want to wear it anymore.

"The guard has good eyesight and the size of the clothes is just right. I want to thank him later." Nancy didn't seem to be dissatisfied with the clothes. She sat down on the single sofa and ate breakfast.

"Although thinking while eating is not good for digestion, but I'm in a hurry, so I can only wrong Nancy to answer my question in your mind while eating."

Nancy, who planned to procrastinate by eating breakfast, choked at Xi's words.

After taking a big sip of the coffee that Sha Lai handed over, Nancy breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the smiling Sha Lai with a complicated look, and nodded silently.

"I don't really have any problems. I just need Nancy to help me with the information."

"Carter was bound to this island with you when you were five years old about 20 years ago."

"You train together, learn, support each other, and find a way to escape. However, when you were ten years old, Carter, who was in good physical condition, was taken away by people from the arena, and you were taken away by people from Neverland because of your appearance."

"After five years of training separately, you officially became a member of Arena and Neverland, and you all quickly emerged with your own abilities. It took only...well, three years to become members of South Carolina. The leaders of the second and third largest industries."

"But that's not your goal. You hate this kind of life, have kept in touch privately, and never gave up on running away."

"Three years later, Nancy, you helped Diamond and Carter connect, and then... oh, it turned out that Carter ate the teleportation fruit, and I said what happened to his attack... and then He used this ability to escape from this island and became a pirate, but unfortunately you were photographed by a big man at that time, and you failed to escape with him."

Combining the memories she saw in Carter's mind with "World History" three years ago, and the information she obtained today with her knowledge, Xi Lai finally completed the story with Nancy.

A story full of sadness and powerlessness that reminded her of some bad things in the past.