[One Piece] Courage to Dream

Chapter [-]·Because it's a dream

Gazing at the pine belt rain, Bill felt a sense of curiosity. He gently pushed open the half-open door and walked slowly into this strange-looking tea shop.

Inside the house, the girl with sea-blue long hair saw someone coming in, she hurriedly got up, and shouted to the back room: "Brother, a guest is here."

After finishing speaking, she smiled and bowed to Bill: "Welcome, Jiisan."

Bill's eyelids twitched, hurt again.

Am I that old? !he thought sadly.

Although in fact, he does look older than he actually is, and much older.

"It's jisan!" Bill corrected Lulu.

"Uh, jisan...?" Lulu said forcedly, looking at Bill in confusion, no matter how you look at it, there is nothing wrong with being a jisan.

Seeing that Lulu accepted this title, Bill nodded in satisfaction. This girl doll is much better than that annoying straw hat kid!As everyone knows, Lulu hasn't figured out the situation yet.

Well, but having said that, Luffy didn't understand the situation for a while.

Unceremoniously looking for a place to sit down, Bill began to look at the tea shop with a pair of thief eyes [not really].

There are no other guests, and the layout of the tea shop is also very simple, which can be said to be quite different from the tea fragrance house that I run.

There was a patter of rain in the sky outside the house, just as Nami said, Qianquan Island ushered in a rain, the rain was like fog and dust, falling on the leaves, swaying and rustling.

It is completely different from the tea fragrance building full of people. Amid the light rain, Songdaiyu is quiet and ethereal.

Bill's heart skipped a beat, as if he had caught something.

what he lacks...

"My guest, would you like some tea?" A young man in a white kimono came out of the inner room. When he saw the person coming, he was slightly taken aback, "...Mr. Bill?"

"Huh?" Lulu was stunned.

"Have you forgotten?" the boy smiled, "Mr. Bill was the winner of the last tea festival."

After being reminded by the young man, Lulu remembered that there was such a person, hurriedly bowed to Bill, and respectfully called "Mr. Bill".

Bill was very satisfied to pull out random people in the small corner, and asked, "There is very little business here, right?"

"Indeed." The boy nodded.

"Then..." Bill didn't understand, "Why do you still open a tea shop?"

"because……"

The boy and the girl looked at each other, smiled slightly and said:

"—It's a dream."

"Dream?" The answer was unexpected to Bill, and he chewed the word carefully, thoughtfully.

dream……

It seems... It's been a long time since anyone mentioned this word.

The drizzle on the eaves dripped down one by one, as if through time.

From those two young faces, Bill suddenly remembered himself back then. It was the most dazzling period of his life, when he was in full bloom and full of vigor... But, was the dream at that time really fulfilled?

Bill closed his eyes slightly.

So Karma, dreams...

Then, let him see what kind of results the so-called dream can bring!

"Boy, use your best tea!" Bill said, with vague expectations in his eyes.

Hearing the words, the young man smiled lightly, nodded at Bill, and picked up the tea set beside him...

Immediately, a look of surprise climbed up Bill's cheek little by little following the boy's movements.