The red cherry tree of Sope

?Eowyn endured the severe pain, and brought Perona into a room full of classics, and walked to the innermost wall.

"Perona, this is the underground palace that stores the secrets of the Osseton Kingdom for thousands of years. Only your blood can open it. If it is accidentally opened, this country and even the whole world will be destroyed. , so no matter when the outside world can’t know the existence of this place, it can’t be opened unless it’s absolutely necessary, you know?”

"Yes, Queen Mother!" Perona nodded with tears in her eyes.

"Good boy!" Éowyn touched his daughter's head, then tapped Perona's hand on the wall a few times.The mechanism seemed to be activated, the wall was opened, and a long ladder winding into the ground appeared in front of it.

Éowyn put Perona on the long ladder and handed her a knife. "Keep going when the long ladder disappears, and there will be a door there, then you cut your finger with a knife, dip the blood on the dragon's mouth on the door, and the door will open. Keep going, don't come back..."

"Queen! Perona wants to go with you!" Perona ran up and hugged Éowyn.

"No, the queen mother can only go here with the little princess. Keep going, don't come back... After going out, go east, go to the sea, don't come back..." loosen back Hold Perona's hands, hold Perona's small face, and look at her seriously: "Don't think about revenge, live beautifully, and be freer than anyone else! The father and mother only hope that our little princess can Live beautifully, as long as you live, we can live, and one day something good will happen, you know?"

Perona nodded.

Eowyn stuffed a doll into Perona's arms: "When you are scared, when you are lonely, Kumasi will be by your side instead of us!" After speaking, she closed the mechanism.

"Mother!" Perona cried from below.

"My little princess, don't come back, don't think about revenge, you must live a beautiful life!" Eowyn watched the organ close, and shouted hard inside.

After sending Perona away, Éowyn wrapped a vase with a black cloth in order to take advantage of the dark and muddy waters before dawn to act as Perona.rushed out.She's going to cover it all up!

"I haven't wielded a sword for many years, now I will play with you insidious villains!"

On the White Jade Bridge, Éowyn tried his best to break out of the encirclement, but he soon lost his strength and was seriously injured. He never left the vase in his hand.A poisoned back arrow hit her in the chest at this moment, and Éowyn smiled, as if she had never intended to cross the bridge alive in the first place.Pull out the bow and arrow, take a few steps back, and fall into the abyss.

After Éowyn left, Perona didn't leave immediately according to her words, but crawled out from the secret passage - she wanted to go with the Queen Mother!

The darkness outside was dissipating, and the rain washed over her world.Little Perona ran hard on the world, splashing mud all over her body.When she walked to the corridor, she happened to see Éowyn holding her double and jumping into the abyss.

"Mother..." Little Perona curled up under the marble pillar, covering her mouth to keep herself from making a sound. The rain hit her face, and she couldn't tell which ones were tears and which were rainwater.

"Go over there to see if there is anyone else. We will kill everyone related to Clifford, regardless of gender, and leave no one behind!" A cold voice said.

As long as you live, we can live....you must live beautifully...freer than anyone...someday something good will happen... ...Eowyn's words kept echoing in Perona's mind.

Dodging the searching soldiers, Perona returned to the wall, skillfully opened the secret passage, and got in.In the darkness, Perona curled up and sat at the entrance with Kumasi in her arms, tears streaming down her face, but she didn't dare to utter a word.She didn't know how many times she cried, but she fell asleep with her arms around Kumasi when she was tired from crying, and continued to cry after waking up.Following what the queen mother said, she kept walking and walking, and finally walked out of the castle.

The white castle has gone, and Perona is in the mountains at this time.After randomly looking for some fruits to eat, Perona took a short rest, then walked eastward according to the mother's instructions, found a small boat, and drifted on the sea with the waves.

Sunrise and sunset, talk to Kumasi when I am lonely, hug Kumasi and cry when I am sad, hold Kumasi to give myself courage when I am afraid... I have been drifting on the sea without eating , did not drink a drop of water. "Father... Mother Queen... Brother Kurvis... Tim Holt..." On the seventh day, Perona put her arms around Ku Marcy yelled the names of these people inarticulately and passed out.

When she woke up, she found herself lying on a soft bed, and beside her were two strange Shuli—a man in his early 30s with a big round belly and a pointed head, who looked like a tumbler, and another A pervert named Abu Salom.

At the beginning, Perona thought she was on a piece of land with forests, cemeteries, and islands, but then she found that she was actually on a ship, but this ship was like a moving island. thrillbark.

By chance, they discovered that Perona was a spirit fruit capable user, and this ability was exactly what they wanted, so they kept her.She became a pirate!

She needed a place to live, and they needed her abilities, so they all lived together, using each other, without any emotion.

until I met him. ?

☆, nautical dream and encounter

? Memories are shattered, like glass ornaments falling on the ground, always hurting people.Tears flowed silently across the beautiful cheeks, and fell on the land that raised this ancient cherry blossom under my feet.

Perona once asked Paladin the age of this cherry blossom tree.

"Father, how did this cherry blossom tree grow so tall?"

"Because it's very old." Paladin hugged Perona and sat her on his lap.

"It's bigger than Perona?"

"of course!"

"So how old is it?"

"I don't know~~ Father's father's father's father's father's father said that this tree was already this tall when he was a child, and no one knows how old it is." Paladin was also very puzzled.

"That is, even if Perona dies of old age, this cherry blossom tree will always exist?"

"Uh... well... a tree also has its own lifespan. When its lifespan reaches the end, it will release all the essence saved in this life, and show it to the world in the most beautiful posture. , and then die like a human being." Paladin said, looking up at the brilliant cherry blossoms.

After a long time, Perona said: "Father, I also want to live beautifully like an old cherry tree, and then die beautifully!"

Seeing Perona's firm gaze, Paladin hugged Perona tightly, "Well! As expected of the little princess of the father and mother, she must live beautifully and freely, and good things will happen one day!"

"Father, queen mother, I am Perona..." Perona sat on a branch of an old cherry tree, hoping to have a wider view, searching for the shadow of her father and queen mother's life, "Have you seen it?" , your little princess has grown up...I have lived a good life and lived more freely than anyone else...but..."

Perona lowered her eyes and hugged Kumasi even tighter. Time passed by her side bit by bit, and a few flower petals were falling on her head, body, and skirt because of the tiredness of the journey. Is it true that if you fall in love with someone, your heart will no longer be free..."

"I......"

"real......"

"I really... want to..."

"that person......"

"...Zoro..."

Perona clenched her fists, her shoulders kept trembling, and her tears kept flowing, and she couldn't stop it anymore.

Has he ever seen himself in his eyes as he has been pursuing his dream?When the moon is full, when will we meet again, is it because there are already other people standing beside him when we meet again...

If possible, please sing my secret love into a song and float into his dream.

Tell him I love him.

Leaning quietly on the tree trunk, listening to the ravings of the old cherry tree, under the moonlight as a quilt, I fell asleep in a trance.

In the dream, Perona found herself standing at the gate of a manor.Weeds and shrubs grew wantonly in the manor, almost as tall as an adult man, covering the original wide and flat land, leaving only a trail for people to enter and exit.The entire manor is built with Gothic architecture: towering spires, pointed arches, long windows inlaid with stained glass, and slender beams create a light and slender sense of flying.Although the management is negligent, even under the cover of darkness, you can feel the ethereal and solemnity reflected in the whole building.There used to be many good memories for Perona here, so she still clearly remembers its name - Qiuluo Manor, and behind it is Qiuluo Forest - in the past, every autumn, her father would bring Perona with her. Come here to hunt, as a training for the prince of the country.

The young Perona's favorite thing is to play hide and seek in the manor. She is always the winning general in this game, because she always hides in the small attic of the manor tower.There are few people there, except for Perona, no one is willing to hide there, so no one knows where Perona hid.

The dream was so horribly real that even Perona didn't realize that she was dreaming, maybe she knew that she just didn't want to admit it.

"I don't know if that thing is still there..." Perona murmured, slowly climbing up the tower along the winding stone stairs.

The moment she gently opened the attic door, Perona was startled—a girl was kneeling and sitting under the open window, looking at a skull flag in the white moonlight.The author of that skull flag is herself!

It was the sixth year after the beginning of the Great Pirate Era, and the story of the Pirate King Gerod Roger was still being passed down on the great route.The story of the sweet princess and the prince in the fairy tale book can no longer meet Perona's interest. What the four-year-old Perona likes to do most is to serve a cup of hot cocoa and pester her eight years older than her all day long. Kurvis told her the story of One Piece.There was a time when Roger was here to heal his wounds, often helping the weak, and he chatted very well with King Clifford. The king admired his personality, conduct and knowledge, so Roger was allowed to enter and leave the palace freely , Therefore, Kurvis often saw Roger in the palace and admired him very much.From Kurvis, she knows that not all pirates are vicious, at least Roger is not, he will help the weak, he will do his best for his companions, to be precise, he is not a pirate but An adventurer who pursues his dreams.

"It would be great if I could gallop on the sea and take risks everywhere like Grod Roger." Every time after listening to the story, the four-year-old Perona would keep chanting this sentence.

"His Royal Highness is the future prince of the country, how can you take risks at sea?" Hearing Perona's chanting, Kurvis would carefully remind Perona to remember her identity.

"If only I wasn't a princess..." Perona pouted.

"Isn't Her Royal Highness the daughter of the king and queen?" Curvis looked at Perona jokingly.

"No! Then I'll be a princess!" Rather than being a pirate, she would rather be the little princess of her father and queen, because she loves them!

Reality doesn't allow her to become a pirate, but it doesn't prevent her dream of "being a pirate"!Perona herself drew a pirate flag that belonged to her princess Perona, and often played pirate games with Kumasi and her many dolls.Later, she hid the Pirate Flag in the attic of the high tower in Hillfall Manor—she was going to build her secret base there, and she would hide many of her lovely dolls here in the future, playing hide and seek like this She was not alone when she was young~ After that, she never came to Qiuluo Manor again, because her country was ruined and her family died.

Her thoughts were pulled back to reality, the woman turned her head leisurely, and said with a serious face: "You are finally here!"

"Ah!" Woke up from sleep, sweating coldly, "Fortunately, it's just a dream!" But why is it so real?

Who is that woman?Why do you say such strange things?You are finally back?finally?she is waiting for me?But why?Tens of thousands of questions were churning in Perona's head like wool, getting bigger and messier. "So dizzy, so dizzy! Forget it, I'll go back to sleep for beauty!"

In the early morning, I returned to the tavern where I was staying, ignored the boss's nagging and slept soundly until the sun was about to set.

"Ha~~It's so comfortable~~" Pushing open the window, breathing in the breath of early spring, "If you don't go out to play on such a beautiful day, I'm really sorry for my youth~~"

Strolling in the street swaggeringly, lingering in various supermarkets, so happy, until the sky is already full of stars.As if someone was manipulating her thoughts, when she woke up, she was already standing in front of the hilly forest, and the castle behind her was brightly lit.

"It's weird, how did I escape the guards and come here?" Perona stood on a narrow path in the forest with a question mark in her head.

There seemed to be something calling her at the end of the road, and Perona walked along the narrow path without thinking.Because it is early spring, both sides of the path are full of colorful flowers, and the moonlight occasionally casts milky white light from the gap above the head to illuminate Perona's way forward.Everything in the forest grows, and they all save energy at night, so that they can win the top spot when the sun rises tomorrow.When her feet were on the wet ground due to the fog, Perona seemed to feel that the roots under her feet were constantly deepening into the ground, and she was constantly absorbing the nutrients in the ground. The flowers, plants, shrubs and tall trees around her were constantly going up. sprout.This is the power of life!Perona walked forward while listening to the sound of the growth of all things. Even though the surroundings were dark, the fog was thick, and there were still a few strange birdsong, she didn't feel afraid.

Every time Perona took a step forward, the thick fog behind her covered her again.She didn't know how far she had walked, nor how long she had walked. When she realized it, she was already standing in front of the gate of Hillfall Manor.Everything in the Qiuluo Manor was neglected, and weeds regenerated, leaving only a trail for people to walk on. Everything was like a replica of a dream mirror, and there was no deviation in every scene or thing!

"Then..." Holding the inexplicable expectation in her heart, Perona floated into the manor and inspected the entire building for a week. There were obvious traces of people living there.Then it floated gently to the attic on the tower.The windows are ajar!This really scared Perona a lot.

With trembling hands, she carefully opened the concealed window, and the picture that appeared in front of her made Perona wonder whether it was a dream or reality.

The little girl who was kneeling on the ground admiring the Pirate Flag seemed to have been waiting there for a long time. When she realized Perona's arrival, she turned around leisurely and said calmly, "You are finally back!"?