One Piece Redemption

"Dong dong dong." The wooden door was knocked from the outside, and with the sound of knocking on the wooden door came a familiar voice: "Kong, can I come in?"

"..." The queen didn't reply, the irritability spreading deep in her heart made her unwilling to meet the culprit who made her feel restless now.

"...Empty?" Shanks, who got up early in the morning, waited outside the door for a long time and still didn't hear the queen's response to him. He called the queen's name again with some doubts, and knocked again subconsciously. He opened the wooden door in front of him: "What's the matter? Why didn't you talk all of a sudden?" Thinking of the Queen's weak body these past few days, Shanks frowned involuntarily, and a feeling of worry spread in his heart: ... Could it be that explain? !

The loud sound of "Boom!" made the Queen, who was not mentally prepared at all, froze. She saw a certain red hair kick the wooden door open from the outside, before she had time to see the Queen clearly. Where exactly is it, he yelled loudly: "Kong! How are you?!"

"...you stupid bug, what the hell are you doing?!" Seeing the extremely stupid scene in front of her, the queen couldn't help being irritable: "I just don't want to talk to you!! But how dare you You broke the door of my concubine's room!! What are you thinking about in your paramecium-like limited brain capacity?!"

"...Eh?" (*罒▽罒*)?A certain red-haired man was dumbfounded. He looked at the queen who was sitting angrily in front of the bed, and then looked at the piece of broken door lying under his feet, with a big hole in the middle, which was extremely desolate: ...it's over...

"Ah, no, Kong! Listen to my explanation! I'm just..." The red hair desperately waved his hands very awkwardly, trying to explain to the angry queen: "...that, actually... ...I called you outside for a long time, but you haven't responded to me, so I'm a little worried that something might be wrong with you... You know, your health hasn't been particularly good recently, so, I'm a little... ..."

"My concubine is fine, I have nothing wrong with me!" The queen looked at the silly red hair, and instantly remembered the bright yellow greeting card in her mind, her anger surged up uncontrollably one after another, but even her I didn't even know why I was angry, which made the queen even more anxious: "Hurry up and fix the concubine's door panel, and then you can leave."

"...empty?" The queen seemed a little abnormally irritable, but the red-haired man was keenly aware of it: "What's wrong with you? You're not in a good mood." The man thought about various things in the past two days, All the scenes appeared in one mind, wondering if there was something that made the queen anxious, so she asked, "Did something happen?"

"...the concubine is fine." Seeing the man staring at her intently, the queen sensed something was wrong with her, and felt a little apologetic for her blindly getting angry at the man, but her long-standing haughty personality made her feel uncomfortable. Fang Fang took the initiative to lower her head, so facing the man's tolerant and focused gaze, she could only shake her head as if nothing had happened, and tried her best to ease her emotions: "...I'm just a little tired."

"..."... Kong, why did you lie?Shanks was keenly aware of the dodging of the Queen's eyes, and seeing the Queen's unconsciously pursed lips, Shanks was silent for a while, and then showed a kind of inclusive and hearty smile at the Queen: "That's right. !"

"...Hmm." The queen didn't know what she was thinking at this time, ever since she saw the content written on the greeting card hidden in the bouquet of roses, the queen has been feeling restless.She clearly knew that something was wrong with her situation, but she still couldn't help feeling flustered, and she couldn't restrain her anger, and she even had a faint grievance: "...I just don't get used to such a weak body. That's all. You don't have to take it to heart."

"Haha, don't worry!" The red-haired man smiled heartily: "Compared to this, Kong, do you have anything to eat? I'll go downstairs and get it for you."

"... Whatever you want, I don't want anything in particular." The queen dodged the man's gaze, and quietly pinched the bed sheet with both hands, exerting force unconsciously.

The red-haired man keenly took all this into his eyes, but as if he hadn't noticed anything, he nodded at Kong and said, "Okay, then I'll go to the kitchen below to have a look. You wait for me here for a while."

"...The concubine knows." After saying this, the queen silently lowered her head, her whole body exuding an aura of refusal to talk.But the red-haired man didn't seem to see Kong's silence at this time, and said with a grinning smile: "By the way, Kong, you asked me to find you a nanny who can take care of your daily necessities, but I'm a bit uncomfortable. I want a stranger to come and take care of you, so I made a decision!"

"Decision... what decision?" The queen looked up at the red-haired man with a dazzling smile when she heard this.

"Let me take care of your basic necessities!" The man waved his hand boldly and said loudly.

The queen's expression finally cracked for the first time. Her sensitive ears keenly collected the pirates downstairs who had been quietly listening to the movement upstairs. Coughing sound when choking.

"..." For the first time, the queen didn't know what to say, and could only use a frightened expression to face the red-haired man who was grinning and didn't know it.

"...that...empty?" Seeing the red hair with that expression like looking at a scumbag and a scum, he finally felt a little uncomfortable: "...that...what's wrong?"

"...The concubine was wrong." The Queen finally realized how wrong she was. She looked at her stiff red hair with a very regretful look, and bravely admitted that she had judged the wrong one a hundred years after she ascended the throne. The first mistake: "...my concubine will always call you a worm, which is simply an insult to worms... With your IQ, you can be regarded as a paramecium at most, no, maybe it's just a paramecium. Single-celled organisms born without a nucleus..."

"!! Wait!! Anyway, this is too miserable, right?!" The red hair was shocked, and he grabbed his hair vigorously: "Now in Kong's eyes, my IQ is not as good as that of a paramecium. Yet?!!"

The queen was so tired that she didn't want to say another word. The queen waved her hand sadly, causing a certain red hair with a shocked face to back out: "Oh...you can go."

A certain red-haired man who had been petrified by the blow, after hearing this sentence, drooped down the one that had miraculously materialized ever since he discovered his love for the Queen, and had been shaking desperately all this time. Big Tail: "...Why is this..." He left the queen's room with a disappointed face.

Looking at the undisguised and mocking expressions of the brothers downstairs, the disappointed expression of a certain red hair agreed, and after watching the brothers go out to have fun, he gradually became thoughtful: ... null……

Let's talk about emptying this side.

It is undeniable that after seeing Shanks' hard-working gag performance, the Queen's mood was indeed a little calmer. Although she was still very irritable, it was much better than the uncontrollable scene just now.

The Queen heard that the downstairs gradually became quieter. There was only a certain red hair humming an unknown song and making a "gurgling" sound when it was heating up the milk, and sighed invisibly.

The queen got off the bed and came to the wardrobe with only one piece on this ship. She gently opened the door of the wardrobe, and took out the bundle that was traced back by the queen with her ability, and it became exactly the same as before. The packaging is solid, like a bouquet of roses that no one has ever opened.

...later...when that bug comes over, give this to him...

The queen looked at this bouquet of beautifully blooming roses in a daze, and suddenly remembered the words she yelled to the true ancestor she had always revered when she gave up her eternal life a few days ago...

"... Even if... a concubine, he won't let him fall in love with a concubine..."

After saying this sentence, it does not lie in the body, but affects the heart. The unforgettable pain is still imprinted in the queen's brain like a brand. Until now, there is no way Disperse.

The queen lowered her eyes, obviously she didn't shed tears, but she seemed to be crying more sadly than anyone else.

At some point, the red-haired man who had warmed the milk came up, but the queen, who was in a state of trance, didn't notice his appearance at all.

Shanks stared blankly at the queen's expression, a sudden sense of fear as if he was suffocating, surrounded him firmly.

...that expression...

The girl in the dream walked into the castle silently. The gate of the castle was closed slowly but firmly. At the moment when the gate of the castle was about to be completely closed, the girl suddenly looked back, and the endless sea of ​​blood-red flowers Blooming in the girl's eyes, there was a fragile and lonely smile on the girl's face, her lips moved slightly, a little disappointed, and said in a low voice: "...that's great, it's so beautiful... "

Shanks widened his eyes suddenly, as if he had once again fallen into that dreamland full of fog and despair.It seemed to become so blank and powerless again, unable to even protect the person he liked, just like a ghost, he could only remain silent, watching the incident happen blankly.

With a sound of "snap!", the glass full of hot milk slipped from Shanks' hands, and fell to pieces on the wooden floor, with milky white liquid flowing all over the floor.

"!" The queen woke up suddenly by this sound, and before she had time to see what happened, she was hugged tightly by the red-haired man who rushed over in a panic. Can be suffocating.

"...worm..." The queen was hugged fiercely by the man, and after realizing it, she wanted to push it away in a panic, and shouted a little stammeringly: "Wait, wait! You...you are..." "...Empty?" The man's familiar voice rang out, but this time, the emotion that filled the voice was no longer so confident and high-spirited, but full of a kind of temptation and caution, this fragile Emotions made the queen think that she had almost turned into a doll made of glass, as if the man surrounding her was afraid that if she raised her voice a little, she would shatter herself.The fragility hidden in that voice made the queen, who was about to struggle, stiffen her body, and an emotion called "distressed" enveloped the whole of the queen.The previous irritated emotions were completely dispelled by this emotion, and only this last emotion remained, surrounding the Queen.

"...the concubine is here." The queen responded softly to the man, stretched out her hands unfamiliarly, and hugged the man back a little stiffly: "...the concubine is here, Shanks."

"The concubine is fine, nothing happened."

"You don't have to be afraid, the concubine is here."

The queen softly comforted the red-haired man who was afraid of something, imitating the action of the young mother she had seen when comforting her son who fell to the ground and crying loudly, and gently patted She patted the man's back and said softly, "...so, it's all right."

When Shanks came back to his senses, he found that he was being comforted by the petite queen in his arms. The queen in her arms was coaxing him gently, as if she was afraid of scaring him again. The hand was patting his back lightly with a moderate intensity. In such a situation, Shanks had a feeling... that he was being protected by the Queen.

"...Thank you, Sora." Shanks finally calmed down, and the suffocating force also relaxed, Shanks just like this, has never let go of his embrace, enjoying this rare , a moment full of warmth.

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