[One Piece] Lava and Red Rose

When all the dust settled, the invading pirates ended up with a tragic ending of annihilation.The vanguard force that faced the Four Emperors and the escorting naval fleet also paid a high price for it. The two warships that were gradually sinking were the victims of the battle between the two sides.

In the billowing smoke, Valentin cleverly stepped on moon steps, and dropped from midair with the handcuff key he got from Fujitora, and approached the blond mother who was helping the wounded with a playful smile, laughing so hard that his two eyes were exposed. A small tiger tooth:

"Kassan! Mr. Smile gave me this~"

"Oh, it's really timely..." Inesis smiled, and handed out her hands that were still bound by Hailoushi's handcuffs. Her youngest son hadn't eaten the devil fruit and was completely unaffected by Hailoushi , opened the handcuffs for her neatly.

free at last...

Although it doesn't have much impact on the action, wearing handcuffs will always get in the way and make it impossible to use it.

"Hmm..." The clothes on the black-haired boy with pigtails were already dry, but the wet hair was sticking to his cheeks in bits and pieces. When he innocently opened his eyes and tilted his head slightly , the outline of the face and the delicate features are almost exactly the same as the blonde mother.Valentin blinked and blinked, and suddenly said:

"Hey, Kassang, don't you want to see Dosang?" Still working as a temporary nurse here... Their father has been completely left behind.

The blond-haired mother froze when she was bandaging the wound of a wounded sailor, her whole body darkened visibly to the naked eye, and a cloud suddenly covered her: "...Uh, let's wait a while."

Going now...it always feels super embarrassing...

Memories are chaotic and intertwined, and the pictures about that person are also fragmented, plus the little misunderstanding that happened unintentionally before... The thought of having a face-to-face conversation with that person makes her feel like she is about to suffer from embarrassment.

Her good son even asked innocently: "Why? Dosang is waiting for you. Besides, there are so many nurses in the medical class here, and you are not bad, Kasang."

Innissius looked embarrassed: "...I, I'm busy right now, why don't I just leave the stall and leave all of a sudden." Brat, you don't want your mother when you see your father, right?How many benefits your father has given you, you must have turned back too quickly!

Valentin: "Oh——then you'll go when you're done, right? I'll just go and answer like this." Then he turned and ran away.

"!!! Wait!!!" Sure enough, it was the little spy who came to spy on their father! !

Inesis was shocked, and hurriedly grabbed the youngest son who ran away, with a sad expression on his face: "Okay, okay, I admit defeat, and I will go to see Sarkas after I finish bandaging the wounded man on hand." Mr. Kee, I beg you not to make a fuss."

The spy sent by the father, innocent and innocent, with a bad stomach, Don Quixote Valentin smiled triumphantly, with a plan on his face: "Okay - I'll wait here, we will go together later~ "

"..." Are you still in charge of squatting? !How can you be so patient!

Seeing her son so inclined towards the man who had jumped from an idol to his biological father, the blond mother couldn't be more distressed.

While their mother and son were chattering, a tall figure secretly held his breath, standing in the shadows not far away and watching them silently.Wearing a navy cap and carrying a long knife with a white scabbard, the young boy stood beside him slightly cautiously, holding his sleeves with his small hands, looking a little uneasy.

The young boy opened his mouth, struggled for a while, and then whispered: "Saka, uh, Dosang..."

The tall man who was looking at the blond woman's figure was suffocated, and turned his head to look at him: "...?"

Even after several days of mental preparation and ideological work, when he really called out the title of 'Father' to this majestic and majestic man, Vladimir, who admired Sakalsky since childhood, was still a little emotional, His voice was trembling with excitement.The black-haired boy opened his light gray eyes, which were almost identical to his father's, and said cautiously, "What if Kassan can't remember? You..." Would you dislike her?

Vladimir, who was worried about his mother with amnesia, thought timidly, for fear that his father who suddenly came to power would abandon their blond mother with confused memories.

No... Please let the unreal feeling that his father is the admiral of the navy last longer, he is super handsome!

This question made Sakaski startled, and he didn't know what expression to make.

The tall Admiral of the Navy pressed the brim of his hat and sighed indiscernibly. Like a few years ago, he bent down and reached out to fish, and easily picked up the little black-haired boy.

Sakaski weighed it slightly, and whispered in a daze: "I haven't seen you in two years, but you have grown a lot taller and heavier..." Four years ago, when he was in Malinfort for the first time, When I met this little boy with the eyes of a wolf cub in a dark alley, the boy was still soft and small, and the little fat on his chin hadn't faded away... In a blink of an eye, he had already started to grow taller and show his eyebrows The edges and corners are gone.

... He almost missed the children's entire childhood.

Thinking of this, Sakaski's throat tightened a little. He looked at the boy's light gray eyes that were very similar to his own, and sighed secretly how he hadn't noticed any clues from the child's identity and appearance four years ago...

Now it seems that whether it is Valia or Valoja, they have completely integrated all the characteristics of him and Inesis, standing next to him is like him, and standing next to Inesis is like their mother's child .

"...Fortunately, it's still too late..." It's not too late.

Sakalski's whispers reached his ears, and Vladimir subconsciously tightened his father's collar.Of course he understood what his father was talking about. How much emotion, hardship, guilt, bitterness and happiness are contained in this whispered sentence, the young black-haired boy can't estimate it, but he can roughly perceive it.

Vladimir pressed down on the brim of his hat like his father did, didn't speak, just grabbed Sakalsky's neckline and didn't let go, just like when he was a child, with the same light gray eyes as his father, full of longing looked at him, eyes sparkling.

"…………"

Inexplicably, Sakaski's heart softened.

What is in his arms is his blood...

It's his and Inesis' child...

It's a treasure he's thought was completely lost for the past ten years...

The long night will eventually pass, after a whole night of high-intensity combat, when seeing a ray of dawn slowly rising on the sea level, whether it is the blond Tianlongren and little Valentin who are busy among the wounded soldiers, or standing The Grand Marshal and the young Vladimir in the shadows not far away, together with many soldiers, looked up at the huge ball of light that broke through the dark night and gradually illuminated the deep night sky.

At sea, sunrise.

Ten years in the blink of an eye, the entangled thread of fate between their family, which was once torn apart, is also like the warm sun that illuminates the night sky... through hardships, bitterness, and finally reconnected.

In the depths of my memory, there was a man running past his dark heart with a smile on his white high-heeled shoes studded with diamonds. His golden hair gave off soft halos, lighting up his heart. The deepest dark corners.The red silk thread endowed with the meaning of marriage intertwined, entangled, and extended from the man's little finger until he was tightly grasped between his fingers...

All this time, he has been standing awkwardly in place, waiting for the blond woman who broke through the crowd in the vast crowd and chased the red line connecting her fingertips to approach him. The light turned into a delicate flower, quietly blooming in his palm...

Gentle, delicate, soft...

Red rose flower.

How many times he raised his eyes, what he saw was the man's gentle and playful smile; how many times he turned his back, the man's breath passed by his ears silently; Delicate lips will be captured by myself...

Looking back now, I realized that it was so easy for him to get everything from her.

Although there were occasional quarrels between the two, there was no conflict. From dating to marriage to pregnancy, they all got along harmoniously, which can be said to be happy.

Until that shipwreck incident whose cause could not be fully ascertained so far happened...

He never took the initiative to pursue anyone, nor did he take the initiative to ask for anything.Time flies, feng shui takes turns, although the blonde wife is close in front of her eyes, she has already lost those beautiful times they used to have...

When Inesis faced him at this time, there was a strangeness in her voice... even hesitation.

The tall admiral tightly pursed the corners of his mouth, and the warm sun shone on his strong and weather-beaten facial contours, revealing the deep traces that time had carved in the corners of the man's eyes and between his brows. The nasolabial folds that would never appear also appeared on both sides of his nose.

...he is not young anymore.

At his age, what else is there that he can't let go of his face and can't take the initiative to take steps?

His deep eyes full of complicated emotions fell on the smiling blonde woman not far away. The man finally just wiped his face, but the tight corners of his mouth slowly relaxed.

Facing such a 'strange' me, does it still make you feel uneasy...

I'm so sorry...

Ten years is too long, and the timing of our meeting is too hasty. Is it because I am pressing you so hard that you are scared...

"...Varoja." Bathed in the halo of the morning sun, the tall man spoke hoarsely, with a hint of relief in his voice.Sakaski turned his face to the side, gently straightened the crooked hat of the eldest son in his arms, and said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry...it took me so long to find you." After that, In the eyes of the eldest son who was eager to say something, he continued: "Even if your mother's memory can't be recovered for a lifetime, I will never give up on her, let alone you."

If his wife loses his memory, let him lose his memory. At worst, he will risk his old face and chase his wife again.

Anyway, when she comes back, don't even try to run away.

Thinking about it this way, the burden on my heart seemed to disappear in an instant.Sakaski softened the corners of his mouth, walked out with his eldest son who seemed to have noticed his slight thoughts, and walked straight to the blond woman who was leading the younger son to bandage the patient.

One step, two steps.

During the short walk towards the blond woman who occupied an important position in his life, Sakalski looked a little dazed——

Once upon a time, Inesis was like him now, with uncertainty and vague expectations, and took the initiative to approach the taciturn, clumsy, not good at expressing emotions, and still young and vigorous self.

However, this time it was him who walked the road.

An invisible red silk thread stretches out from the little finger, looking for the other end of the thread in the vast crowd...

The blond woman obviously sensed his aura, her gentle side face froze for an instant, and she froze in place, quite at a loss.

The red thread that symbolizes marriage intertwine in the vast world. In this life, it is extremely difficult to find the person who is connected to the red thread of her little finger, but she still found him.

Sakaski stopped when he was three steps away from the blonde woman.

Three steps is the most comfortable and safe distance between strangers, beyond this distance, it has a different meaning.

The little boy with pigtails grabbed his mother's clothes and looked at him curiously. His dark blue eyes were almost exactly the same as his wife's star-shattered eyes in his memory.

Then this time, let him step out...

The author has something to say:

The ending is a two-shot...

I can't bear it, it's over_(:з」∠)_