[One Piece] Isano's Rebel

The wall paint on the ceiling is so old and discolored that some parts are even caked and peeled off.The hanging chandelier is crumbling with only a few old bulbs left.A throne decorated with ancient carvings stands quietly above the dim hall.

Adelina quickly walked to the center of the hall.The man fell into the comfort given by the red velvet seat, closed his eyes and rested his mind, looking leisurely.

He was playing with the dagger that symbolized the glory of the Isano family in his hand, as casually as an ordinary weapon.

Adelina resisted the urge to draw the gun to let the man eat a few bullets, clenched her fists tightly, and let her breathing calm down.

"Miss Isano, you look very anxious."

His deep and charming voice came.

Adelina wished she could cut the neck of the prince of thieves, and block all his nonsense in her throat by the way.

"Before returning it to its original owner, I hope you can listen to me tell a story."

He stared at her with those dangerous and deep eyes, this time she was not afraid, and there was a coldness in her eyes, "Long story short."

The man smiled, dismissing her hostility.

"Once upon a time, there was a rich kingdom—of course, not as rich as its neighbor Minos and doing some great business with the outside world—the people here admired force and respected it. Even the youngest Young children can play with toy knives. The king is brave and resourceful. But it's a pity that his subordinates are a bunch of idiots who have all their strength but don't know how to use their brains."

"A ship of pirates came to this country. They used their brains a little bit, and separated the stupid generals. The country was torn apart."

"The pirates killed the king and robbed the young prince. They used this to coerce the people to do things for them—from then on, the people of this country embarked on the road of burning, killing, and looting."

"The prince inherited the king's wisdom and survived on the pirate ship. As a humble handyman, he cleaned the ship for the pirates. During his life on the pirate ship, he discovered that the captain of the pirate was uniting Minos Island. , making some ulterior transactions."

Bradley slowly stood up from the throne, his tall, thin and straight body exuded the majesty of a king.

"What makes him feel resentful and desperate is that his own people acted as slaves in this transaction."

"He wanted to kill, but he knew there was nothing he could do. So he was waiting for an opportunity to escape."

"One day, the captain of the pirate went to an unknown small island to conduct a part of the secret transaction. The prince, as a handyman, could only stay and watch the ship. The pirates all landed with the captain. After guarding the ship for a few hours, The bloody pirate captain rushed towards the pirate ship docked on the shore in a panic. This was the first time the prince saw the big pirate fleeing wounded in such a state of embarrassment—he had never been in a panic. The captain learned from his mouth that the crew had been killed by two government assassins, and their secret deal had been exposed—he thought, here's the opportunity."

"Yes, he betrayed the captain. As the captain ran towards the shore, he used his thin arms to turn the rudder with all his strength-his heart was beating like ecstasy."

The corners of Bradley's mouth curled up slightly, as if he was recalling something interesting.But Adelina didn't see the sarcasm or complacency that he should have shown in those deep black eyes.

On the contrary, Bradley's eyes are very calm.

"The pirate was like a mad dog, yelling at the prince who snatched the ship and escaped, but it was useless. Soon, the captain of the pirate was killed by the government killer-all of which were driven away from the island. The prince saw it. He also saw that two killers snatched a glass test tube from the big pirate. The prince didn't know what it was."

"It was not an easy task to return home from that island. However, the sailing knowledge he learned sneakily on weekdays quickly came in handy. After experiencing storms at sea and being chased and intercepted by the navy, he became much more mature and courageous. On board His money and supplies were quickly exhausted. It was winter, and he was suffering from hunger and cold—so he thought of the innermost part of the cabin, the secret room that he was never allowed to enter."

"His Royal Highness, who inherited the king's wisdom, cracked the code in a short period of time. At this time, he was about to go crazy. There were only a dozen wooden boxes in the secret room, and there were only sealed glass test tubes in the boxes, and some unknown liquids."

"He wanted to live, so he drank the stuff like a drink."

When he said this, Adelina had already fully understood the ins and outs of the whole matter.

But Bradley didn't stop, he sighed slightly, then raised his foot, and slowly stepped down the steps in front of the throne.

"A miraculous thing happened. He felt that something in his body was quietly changing, and an unknown liquid gave him extraordinary power. He returned to his hometown, but found that the originally rich and united country had been torn apart, and even divided by neighboring islands. He suppressed it by force and established his own kingdom - but a barren one."

"He has no choice. After staying on the pirate ship for so many years, his thinking mode has long been assimilated by the pirates, so he told his people to rob. Take back all the things that originally belonged to this country. .”

"Gradually, as long as the things that originally belonged to this kingdom, or those that really belonged to others, were valuable, they were all stolen or snatched back to their own territory."

"Thus, the kingdom of thieves, which only existed in the rumors of others but has never been caught, appeared."

Minos Island, this tower-shaped island, and the island where Adelina and Ace are about to go to the E6 East District all belong to the same sea area.This sea area is desolate and remote, and it is inconvenient to communicate with the outside world, and the navy rarely interferes.This is also the reason why the navy has not shown up after so many turmoil-this is also the reason why E6 was established in this sea area.It is not difficult for Adelina to guess that if Doug hadn’t been arrested when he went to Minos to investigate – leading to Isano Jack’s visit to Minos Island, I am afraid that in a few years, no one would have thought of the closed kingdom .

"After a while, the prince discovered that while the unknown liquid gave him great power, it also shortened his lifespan. So he began to study the source of this reagent."

Bradley walked towards Adeline with strides.Every time he took a step, he got closer to her.

The feeling of being watched by those dangerous eyes also deepened.

"This reagent is called Reagent No. [-]. I don't need to explain more about it, because...Miss Isano must be more familiar with this secret technology than I am."

Her eyes suddenly sank.

After he finished speaking, he stood still in front of her.

Bradley was tall and tall, somewhat taller than Adeline.Even though there was only half an arm's distance between the two of them, Adelina remained unwavering.

Being watched so intently by the thieves prince who is so adored by the people, she still maintained her rationality and calmness firmly, "You didn't make a long story short."

This remark caused Bradley to curl his mouth in a funny way, and he returned to his usual unruly appearance.

He bent down slightly, and leaned forward to look Adelina at the same level.

There was only a few centimeters between the tip of their noses. Adelina had no interest in his teasing gesture. She looked indifferent and did not back away.

Seeing her motionless and indifferent appearance, Bradley couldn't help laughing. While saying "What a lovely girl", he stretched out his hand and spread the sapphire dagger in his palm.

"I'm telling you this now. First, to thank you for relieving my spies from Minos. Second, I want to make a deal with you."

Adelina frowned slightly and thought for a few seconds.

Spy?

She really never thought that the family that Ace saved in Minos No. [-] slum was Bradley's.

"It was my... companion who saved it, not me."

Adelina, who has always been concise and succinct during negotiations, but who talked too much nonsense, blurted out such an unintentional remark.

Bradley didn't care about these things. He cleared his throat and set out the terms of the deal, "I need you to provide more information on reagent No. [-]. In exchange, I can give you the information you really want to know."

The sudden sound of fighting outside the castle interrupted their conversation.Bradley glanced casually toward the door. "Looks like your little friend is losing his temper. But we'd better get this business out of the way."

"I am very sincere about this deal." Bradley held the sapphire dagger and handed it to her. "Then, Miss Isano, do you agree to this deal?"

"Ace and I have already grasped the news about Qiqila. I don't think you will have information that is more attractive to me than rescuing Qiqila."

The fighting outside the door became more and more intense. Just as Bradley opened his mouth, a beam of hot flames pierced through the thick gate of the castle, passed through the long corridor, and approached the person standing in front of Adelina. bradley.

"Shenhuo Shiranui." Bradley whispered the name of the flame.

Followed by another blazing huge flame.Two beams of flames passed Adeline's side precisely - she could feel the heat of the flames, but she was not burned - and directly attacked Bradley.But Bradley was very agile, and he immediately dodged sideways, so two beams of flames hit the crimson red wall behind the throne straight, and with a bang, two circles of black holes were burned out in the wall.

What Ace saw after breaking through the gate was that Bradley leaned over and said something in Adeline's ear. Such an intimate gesture made him instantly angry.

The previous vigilance about this person was mixed with the negative emotions surging in his heart at this time, and Ace quickly ran towards Adelina.

Ace's shout and hurried footsteps could be heard in her ear, but Adelina froze in place. What Bradley said just now—the information she must not miss from his mouth—caused her brain almost stopped working.

—Your partner is still alive.

Her pupils trembled slightly, and the intricate emotions turned into thousands of words, which were blocked in her throat.

"he……"

"Briton... still alive?"

Her mind was in a mess, and she asked in disbelief.

Ace, who had originally rushed to Adelina's side with complicated emotions, stopped suddenly when he heard these words.

At this moment, the expression on Adelina's face, who had always been calm and reserved, was shock mixed with ecstasy.

It was a strange expression that Ace had never seen during the time he spent with her.

Bradley nodded at Adelina, "He's still alive, and I've seen him."

"I agree with your deal." Before Bradley finished speaking, she spoke firmly——

"But... now my first task is to save Qiqila."

……

During the few days of being locked in the abandoned database, Qiqila recorded the time when the person came to deliver food to him—except for delivering food, that person would not appear in front of him at other times.

From being caught to the present, Qiqila's impression of this person is only that black peaked cap and a pair of sunglasses - an outfit that makes people almost invisible.

But even the dress that conceals the appearance cannot cover the sharp and cold line of sight behind the sunglasses.

As far as Qiqila was concerned, he could only believe half of that person's words.

In the bookshelves that occupy the entire wall, each shelf has a corresponding time number.It is not an easy task to rummage through the overcrowded shelves to find the corresponding information according to the time you want.

What's more troublesome is that the bookshelf in the wall will switch positions within a certain period of time.The position of each grid layer is not fixed.

Although this abandoned reference room is old, the sensitivity of the control mechanism behind the bookshelf has not decreased at all.

Qiqila spent a long time observing and analyzing the changing rules of the bookshelf numbers, and finally pinpointed the location of the materials she wanted.

When a new round of changes occurred in the shelves, Qiqila jumped off the chair, trotted to the corner of the bookshelf on the right and squatted.

For myself, who is limited by Hailoushi's handcuffs, this height within reach is really very convenient.

Chichila, who had exhausted her mind after a few days of overuse, regained her excited state when she took out a intact thread-bound book from the dusty booklet.

It was exactly what he wanted.

The little boy was too lazy to run back to the seat, and simply leaned against the front of the bookshelf, and began to flip through the booklet.

"Personnel allocation and daily training records in the E6 training camp." Qiqila tilted his head and thought for a while, "E6...so it turned out that the navy that came to the east coast to perform missions at that time belonged to this branch."

This thread-bound book is not thin, and it took Qiqila an afternoon to read a third of it.

Before the man delivered the dinner, he quickly stuffed the thread-bound book into the clothes behind him, and then sat on the chair with his back against the back of the chair to prevent the book from slipping off.

The clean white porcelain plate collided with the mahogany table top, and the man casually opened a plate of egg fried rice and a glass of warm white in front of him.

"Maybe it's not very tasty, just order it."

But compared to the dry bread and charred barbecue a few days ago, this is already a food that suits Qiqila's heart.

After the man said this, he didn't turn around and leave immediately as usual, but suddenly looked at Qiqila, "Why don't you eat?"

The air was silent for a moment.

It's over.

Qiqila's heart skipped a beat. After all, he had forgotten the keen insight of the man in front of him.

Normally, Qiqila would cheer and eat food when she saw the food.He enjoyed eating the dry white bread and charcoal-smelling barbecue a few days ago, not to mention the egg fried rice in front of him, which was more sophisticated than the previous few days.

Before Qiqila could make a move, the man had already walked around behind him, grabbed Qiqila's shoulder with one hand and leaned him forward.

A thread-bound book fell out of the back fabric that had come off the back of the chair.

The moment his eyes touched the cover of the thread-bound book, the man laughed.

The meaning of that man's smile, Chichila has never been able to fathom.But at this moment, his smile was so clear that Qiqila didn't even need to try to figure it out.

Not the kind of smile that makes people feel warm.

But just one serving, as calm as water, but with a sad smile.

Like the sea level after a sea storm swept away, it returned to tranquility, but it was also surprisingly cold.

"It's really difficult for you to find out the rules of the organization."

Qiqila could only watch as the man bent down to pick up the thread-bound book on the ground, and gently patted the dust off when it landed.He casually flipped through the book and didn't speak for a while.

The flipped pages carry the passing time of minutes and seconds.

In the huge room, a voice tinged with gentleness sounded, "You really want to know about E6 so much?"

It was rare for his voice to soften, and Qiqila naturally emboldened, "... After all, this is where Dinah stayed before. As a friend, you should take care of it no matter what."

That being said...

Chichira didn't know how much he could convince him with his excuse.

After a while, the man turned to the last page of the thread-bound book, and without looking at it, he spread the page in front of Qiqila.

"This is..." Qiqila's eyes fell on the title directly above the paper, "The death list in the second laboratory?"

"E6 branch eastern training camp, also known as the second laboratory area." The man woke him up softly.

Qiqila quickly browsed through the entire page, and asked with some doubts, "Is...Dinah the only survivor?"

The man pursed his lips and didn't deny it aloud, but he didn't mean to acquiesce either.

Qiqila always felt that he seemed to be hesitating for something—but the man in front of him had always given her the impression of being cold and decisive, Qiqila didn't think he would hesitate because of his question.

unless……

"Theoretically, yes."

The man's cold voice came.

He raised his hand slowly, stroked his five fingers along the brim of the hat lightly—finally, he gently lifted the brim of the hat.

The black peaked cap was taken off, revealing the dazzling silver-white hair.

——It doesn't make much sense to mention the name of the dead.

—You better not even think about it until I see her.

Always indifferent and hostile words.

But it can't hide the true gentle nature.

- The smell is not very good, and it has not been cleaned for a long time.

——Maybe it’s not very tasty, so let’s make up for it.

In the year when the Candy City East Coast incident occurred, the little boy unconsciously repelled the first wave of navy, but was soon surrounded by the elite navy troops who arrived later.

Under the flying navy flag, stood several young navy men with E6 embroidered on their armbands.

Their skills were more agile than the previous wave of navy, and they could easily dodge the shock wave of the airflow he shot indiscriminately, and then quietly formed an encirclement circle around him.

The bullets fired at high speed hit all parts of his body, but this was of no use to users with natural abilities, it could only create countless vortices of air flow on his body.

But the little boy was not familiar with the fruit ability after all, he was still young, and his combat effectiveness was quickly weakened.

When the first bullet specially made by Hailoushi hit his knee joint, he was so painful that he wept, and cried out in pain.

But this is a battlefield, and his crying will no longer attract the concern and care of his parents, and will only make the enemy's offensive more violent.

Bullets were constantly hitting all parts of his body.

The smell of blood is really bad.

- Everyone else has completed their assigned shooting parts.

——The last two shots, the precise shooting training of the heart and the head, have you all forgotten it? !

——No, instructor.

——Then he. Damn. Hurry up and shoot me?What are you still doing? !Want to go back to confinement again? !

The little boy thought that he would never forget that thin back.

The silver-haired boy had no expression on his face. He took off the well-equipped weapon in his hand, stepped on the uncooled blood, and walked in front of him. With his back turned to him, he opened his arms—in a protective way Posture, stand in front of yourself.

—Instructor, he is just a child.There is no need for extermination.

The tone is very light, the smile is very soft, but it is enough to shock the audience.

—You... Isano Adelina!See what stupid things your partner is up to!

—Sorry, instructor, I have agreed with him.

——Are you going to disobey the military order? !

The girl with blue eyes suddenly smiled, and twirled the pistol around her fingertips.

--yes.

——You... What are the others still doing in a daze? !

When the navy was confronting each other, the little boy had already lost consciousness due to excessive blood loss.

Before fainting, the girl's loud words drifted into his ears.

—Whoever dares to shoot Boridon, I will beat his head into a hornet's nest.

Vision gradually blurred.

The gentle aura of the silver-haired boy enveloped him.

--woke up?

——Your wound is really troublesome.Fortunately, Dinah's medical level is quite trustworthy.

The little boy was lying on the only comfortable and soft bed in the narrow cabin, watching the young boys and girls busy with him.

There was a bitter taste in my heart.

They couldn't stay with him for too long, so after he recovered from his injuries, the two quietly left the ship.

They left him a well-stocked boat, and a carefully marked chart.Before leaving, the silver-haired boy told him many things that need to be paid attention to when living alone at sea.

——Since you are a person with the power of the air current fruit, you should protect yourself well, you know?

He once said that he missed the taste of fire syrup in his hometown, and the boy promised to bring him a large box of fire syrup when they met again.

He once disliked the bad taste of the egg fried rice made by the boy. The girl smiled and said to him to practice for a few more years before evaluating it for you.

He had asked if they would meet again.

At that time, the boy with silver-white hair smiled softly and said, "It will definitely be possible."

The author has something to say:

I'm sorry that I didn't have time to update the article because of too many things in the past two days...

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