[One Piece] Isano's Rebel

That was the face that Adelina would never forget in her life.

He used to be a little pirate under his mother's banner, and the only survivor of the explosion in the first area of ​​the laboratory; in order to protect the armband of Isano Orton, he was beaten by the elders of E6 with a muffled sound, and many bones were dislocated and broken.

In order to intercede for her, he once knelt down to Isano Jack, whom he was least willing to ask for—the tough old navy who stood by and indifferent to the bombing of District [-] and the death of both his son and daughter-in-law—and knelt down for a few days several nights.

—Dinah, I found you a brother.It's a pretty little boy on our ship, let him come and say happy birthday to you.

—Berryton, come here...

Holding the phone bug receiver in her small hand, she waited curiously.

But there was only the sound of unsteady breathing from the other end of the receiver, and in the end only the sound of bangs and chaotic footsteps were left behind.

Boridon often said that she was not old or young, he was five years older than her, and they lived together for many years, but she never called him brother.

At that time, Adelina didn't want to be a little girl who was protected under his wings. What she hoped was that they could become partners fighting side by side.

—Before I met Geraldine, no matter what I did, I could only think about surviving.

——At that time... I only wanted to survive.

The teenager who only wanted to survive in so many difficult times chose to give up at the last moment of the E6 explosion, leaving her the only chance of survival.

At that time, she watched his left leg being tightly pressed by a high-temperature steel bar, but he exhausted his last, all his strength, and pushed her into the only one-person escape pod that could be activated.

——If you can't survive, you can't protect Dinah for Mr. Orton and the captain.

In this land where they have lived for ten years, the girl who once thought she could only be alone, finally met the boy she thought could only live in her memories.

The guy is skinny.

The original soft facial contour lines have become as sharp and stern as a knife.

In addition to being full of doubts and the joy of regaining what was lost, she still felt a little empty in her heart.

Adelina still doubted her eyes.

He didn't cry with joy, he just looked into the purple eyes of that person, and then grasped the knuckles of the person next to him, which turned white.

Adelina felt guilty for her damn rationality at this moment.

A blunt syllable popped out of her throat.

"you……"

"Dinah."

The man immediately spoke up, smiling and calling her nickname with a gentle voice.

Just like that year when both his legs were splinted and he lived in a wheelchair, but still enduring the pain all over his body, he gently held her in his arms and told her that he protected her father's armband.

Ace felt that she was holding his hand, trembling, and it was getting tighter and tighter.

I really want to cover that cold hand with my backhand.

but……

Ace thought, he should just stay so quiet.

After all, her attention is not actually on herself now.

He is still clear about this.

"The father of the navy abandoned his wife and son. The waif asked the navy for help many times but failed."

"And Mr. Orton and the captain died in an accident because Lieutenant Isano stood by and watched."

The man kept smiling, calmly, and briefly mentioned those things——

"Do you want to ask me, the navy treats me like this, why do I still become a navy?"

His voice melted into the cold wind blowing along the coastline.

Boridon looked calm, but Adeline's face paled a little because of his next sentence.

"Dinah, do you...remember Reagent No. [-]?"

"remember."

A very soft voice floated out of her mouth.

"I was rescued by other navies who rushed to E6 that year."

"The research on No. 6 reagent has been permanently stopped after the explosion of E[-], and my task is to obliterate everything related to No. [-] reagent after that—as Secret Navy K."

"And the price for my survival is to be loyal to the World Government."

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge explosion sounded loudly on the west coast of the island.

The ground under their feet trembled, and Adelina and Ace immediately turned their heads, looking for the source of the explosion.

Standing on the wasteland on the east bank, they could see the grayish-yellow smoke billowing over the west bank from a distance, as well as the blood-red sky reflected by the fire.

"Remember what I said just now, Dinah."

"Eradicate everything related to Reagent No. [-]."

The curvature of the corners of Buridon's mouth gradually faded away.

Adelina's pupils trembled, and every scene of this deserted island, which she was so familiar with that she could draw its shape with her eyes closed, flashed back quickly in her mind.

She realized almost immediately that the location of the explosion was the laboratory database on the West Bank - an abandoned building that was not destroyed but closed back then.

Bradley was there—even Chikira, who had disappeared since arriving on the island, might have been there.

Her usually calm heart was flustered by this series of unexpected events.

The moment her palm left her wrist, Ace turned around and walked towards the west bank.

Adelina and Ace rushed west almost at the same time.

She felt her feet move uncontrollably and run wildly.

"It seems that people who care have been found."

A calm voice came from behind, and the voice was a bit clearer.

She turned her head, only to see that handsome and delicate face, without any special emotion.

Adelina controlled the uneasiness and disbelief that surged in her heart, she couldn't tell what this feeling of being blocked in her heart was.The cold wind whizzed past her ears. It was unknown whether it was caused by the environment or her emotions. The cold temperature at the earlobe gradually spread to her whole body. She suddenly felt cold and shivered.

Her foot suddenly stepped on the air, and she almost staggered and fell.

And the man who had been running in front of her held her hand almost at the same moment, and the temperature she was familiar with came from the skin where the two touched.

She suppressed the sourness in her eyes and forced herself not to look back at the silver-haired boy.

It was as if I had just hesitated for a long time to take back that absurd question in my heart.

Are you... really Buridon?

……

The silver-haired boy stood expressionlessly in the cold wind that slapped his skin fiercely, watching the black-haired man rush away with the girl he had guarded for many years.

Just like that, motionless, not chasing or staying.

After a long time, he sighed softly, raised his hand and took out a soft cloth strip from his chest pocket.

It was the armband given to him by Isano Orton when he was ten years old.

——Please protect my daughter.

The man's benign smile was swallowed by the flames and smoke.

Reagent No. [-] was the beginning of all this for him and her.

So even if he lingers on, living like a ghost, even with a body made of metal bones and the power he hates, he must survive, fulfill his promise to Mr. Orton and the captain, and fulfill his promise to himself. Promise of.

——Doctor, this guy has the original factor of No. [-] reagent in his body... It seems that it has been cultivated for a long time, and it has been integrated with the blood.

——Is that why this child can have such tenacious vitality?

——Then if the remaining No. [-] reagent is injected and preserved into this metal body...it can be regarded as waste utilization.

——There is no doubt that K will be the strongest weapon loyal to the World Government.

He put the armband back in his coat pocket.

The sound of the metal buckles being closed was drowned out by the roar of the cold wind.

——K, there is an explosive switch in your metal skeleton, if you do something against the world government and navy, you know the consequences.

—Doctor, please set a program for me.

——Please allow me to have absolute autonomy in matters concerning Isano Adelina.This is my only request.

Use absolute loyalty to the world government in exchange for the qualification to protect her.

The author has something to say:

emmmmm Buridon has changed after all

The gentleness of the past has been replaced by the coldness of weapons

The simple summary of his deal with the doctor is that Adeline is the first, the government is second, and the life and death of other people has nothing to do with him.

That's probably what it means.

So he saved Qiqila before, but now he put Qiqila in the West Bank database to die.

Adelina's question stems from the change in the aura on Boridon's body.

After all, people who were so familiar with him before can certainly see any changes in him.

Of course, there are still a lot of foreshadowing, which will be explained later

[As well as the power gap between Bradley and Boliton, one is the strength bonus of Boliton itself; the other is the difference in the purity of No. [-] reagent, one is genuine and the other is fake; The effect is different