[One Piece] To be

Na sat down to re-light a cigarette, took a puff and let it out slowly, as if it relieved her fatigue, "See, that guy is at the bottom of the underworld, and he is very easy to deal with. You don't have to be polite, just beat him up and make him honest. But Ah, there are not many such people, and they are not bad-hearted, so it doesn't matter if you bully him—are you listening, kid?"

"Ah... yes." Lamy hurriedly withdrew her wandering thoughts.

With a look of resentment on the face of Juana, she raised her hand holding the cigarette, and Rami quickly put her head in her hands.

"Are you trying to piss me off?" Juana finally put her hand down, "If it weren't for the fact that you are a capable person, and you are skinny and unpleasant, you would have been sent to a dark alley brothel to make money. Children your age are very popular, if you can find a regular lover who is willing to take you to sea, then life will be easy."

Lamy turned his head and couldn't help showing a disgusted expression.

"Hey, what's your attitude? Look down on me?" The head was hit suddenly——Juana still threw the cigarette butt over.Afterwards, the curses continued, and Lamy kept his head down and stared at the cigarette butt on the ground without saying a word, watching it change from red and hot to cold and change color.

Tired of scolding, Juana sighed, "Am I spoiling you too much? Tomorrow, I will follow Buck to collect rent. If I don't bring back the money, I will have nothing to eat. Clean up the floor." Buck was beaten out by her just now man.

"Yes..." Lamy bit her lip and silently picked up the broom.

Juana was not a nice person, and Rami knew that the day after she took her in.This woman is not only a boss, but also the landlord of several nearby houses. She has raised a group of useless subordinates to collect rent for a living, but because the subordinates are too useless, they often fail to collect rent.Occasionally, she would pick up orphans like Lamy and train them to be sold to work in other underground brothels in dark alleys. Therefore, this was the reason why this woman took in Lamy in the first place, but after she found out that Lamy was a capable person Changed my mind.She kept Lamy by her side for the time being, not knowing what her plan was.But Lamy guessed, probably to find a better opportunity to sell at a higher price... She has long been used to it.

In the silent night, Lamy closed her eyes, the appearance of her hometown finally gradually began to blur, and even the appearance of her family members rarely appeared in her dreams again.

"Cage slit, cage slit,

A bird in a cage..."

The little girl hugged her knees and hummed softly.In the next room, Juana sees off the guests. The aged and decrepit woman lit a cigarette deftly but didn't smoke it. Her fingers tapped on the edge of the bed in time with the melody of the song.

"Trafalgar..." she murmured.After a while, pick up the phone bug and dial a number.The phone bug immediately concretized a big sleepy face full of stubble and missing front teeth, and said in a hoarse voice, "Madam, I beg you, please let me go in the middle of the night!"

"Barry, bring Lamy to work with her tomorrow. Be careful of her, don't let anyone with bad intentions think about her, if you lose it, commit suicide and apologize."

The man on the phone seemed to wake up suddenly, "Madam, are you serious?"

"When is my mother not serious?" Juana changed her position and lay down, flicking the ash on the floor, "Don't you all call me crazy Juana? This time, I will show you how efficient the crazy woman is."

"Hey, ma'am, if you go to sea, you will definitely be a female bully."

Juana chuckled, "Come on, the sea speaks with fists, and the bottom of a skirt is suitable for my mother. Don't talk nonsense, just do as I say."

After hanging up the phone, Juana was already in a daze and was about to fall asleep, when suddenly there was a sound of thumping and falling outside.The woman jumped up in fright and rushed out the door. As expected, Lamy fell from the bed and fell to the ground, curled up into a shrimp and twitched in pain.

Juana stood at the door without moving, quietly watching Rami struggle to get up without saying a word, took out the syringe skillfully with trembling hands, and injected a sedative into the wrist full of needle holes.Under the moonlight, the red blood vessel lines on her neck and shoulders gradually faded away.The little girl was covered in cold sweat, leaning against the wall weakly, breathing with difficulty with her eyes closed.But his expression was calm, as if he had long been used to this situation.

Poor little thing.Thinking this way, Juana hesitated to do something.I also felt that doing something might damage the child's dignity.□□, who has no culture and no understanding of comforting others, struggled silently for a long time, and finally chose to get up and go back to the room.

After coming back, she suffered from insomnia completely. Juana sat on the bed and smoked a cigarette all night, staring at the decorative dagger hanging on the wall all night, watching the ruby ​​inlaid on the handle of the dagger glowing under the moonlight.Until the sky turned pale, the door was knocked, and the subordinates entered the room surrounded by smoke and were forced to retreat three feet away, yelling madam, are you going to fuck!He was hit on the head by Juana with another slipper, causing secondary damage.

([-]) Gray everyday

Reinather's morning was not peaceful.

"Bang bang bang!"

Barry slammed his fist on the door, yelling, "It's time to pay the rent! Get up!"

After a long time, the door opened, but no one gave the money. Instead, a bucket of hot water poured out head-on. Barry quickly reacted out of proportion to his clumsy size—he picked up Lamy next to him and jumped back a big Step by step, successfully avoiding being drowned.This speed is definitely not something that can be cultivated overnight... How many times has he been splashed?Unwilling to be carried away again, Lamy complained silently in his heart.

"Ahahahaha, I see that there are no small ones. This situation is considered light, and the people living in it are not criminals offering rewards." Barry seemed to be completely out of the situation, and he taught people arrogantly, "Next, let's go to the next street. There are a few pirates who have just entered the great route, and it is said that they came here by killing people along the way..."

Lamy struggled, "Why should I go with you!"

"My wife asked you to collect rent with me, don't be lazy."

Lamy gave up resistance completely, and she didn't need to do anything anyway, she just followed behind Barry silently every day, watching this big man knocking on the door to collect rent and then being kicked out by the residents of the house, Lamy followed when he ran away in a hurry He runs together.Barry would still be injured when he met unreasonable people, so Lamy went up and used his ability to dispel the blood from the beating and simply heal the wound.At the end of a rough day, there would always be a bag or two of Baileys, and at dusk they would go back to the dark alley and give them to Juana.

The landlady counted the money with her legs crossed and a cigarette dangling, "That's all?"

"It's been more than a month. Since the world government's ship came to the port, the pirates have been hiding. There are no major customers and the rent has been reduced by more than half. And I have to watch little Lamy..." It can be seen that Barry is trying his best to transfer hate.

Juana gave Rami a sideways glance, and met the little girl's expressionless cold face as expected.

"Let Lamy collect the rent tomorrow."

"what?"

"Let the kid collect the rent, and you will watch from the back so that no one is killed."

Barry understood, and couldn't help but sigh that the landlady is really a smart person.Let children collect rent and they must not refuse.

Ramy felt sick.

……

Then her daily routine became: early in the morning, she began to knock on the door vigorously, screaming and collecting the rent in a thin voice!Then others opened the door impatiently, and immediately closed the door impatiently when they saw a little girl who was not as tall as her knees. How could Lamy be willing?Holding the door and not letting go, relying on his young age, he resorted to 72 methods including acting like a baby until the other party compromised.Barry, who was behind him, was overjoyed when he saw that this method worked, and then followed suit, and their income in one day was three times that of before.

When returning to the house at night, Juana happened to see off the "guest". Juana didn't seem to intend to avoid suspicion at all, so she counted the banknotes in disheveled clothes. She seemed very happy today, and even rewarded Barry with an extra sum of money .

Lamy stood where she was, watching Juana talking and laughing with her subordinates, she didn't know what expression she should make.

"What's the matter, little one, aren't you happy?" Juana pulled out a few large-denomination Belizes and handed them to Lamy, "If you're not happy, I'll deliver the goods to Galio tomorrow. Anyway, you're going to get tired of collecting rent... what?" You don’t know Galio? It’s okay to let Barry take you to the pier, why do you ask me what to deliver? It’s the goods you often use.”

Rami didn't understand at all.

The next day, Barry pushed the little girl to the pier, where a tall, thin man with a beard was supervising and directing the workers to move the boxes.

"Hello, little Lamy, my name is Galio. I'm in charge of delivering goods to the residents in the dark alley."

In this way, Lamy started to run around the alley behind Galio. This man was different from Barry. He didn't seem to need to smash the door to collect rent and be beaten. As long as he knocked on the door lightly, someone would eagerly open the door, and then Galio put a The bag of white powder was stuffed to the other party, and the other party paid the money gratefully, and then quickly closed the door.The whole working process is easy and pleasant.

Rami probably knew what the white powder was.That guy Juana... thinks he's poisonous?

"Little Lamy, do you see that this is the most respectable job in the dark alley." Galio smoothed his mustache proudly, "Those people will naturally humiliate if they want something from you, you are a girl, don't Like Barry, who is doomed to be worthless, after hanging out with uncle and me..." As soon as the words fell, a few patrolmen in navy uniforms came from the corner of the dark alley, "That's him! Drug dealer! Catch him!"

"Damn, run!" Galio yelled strangely and ran away regardless of Lamy's life or death. Lamy hurriedly followed, how could he run faster than a long-legged adult?Seeing that those marines are about to catch up, Lamy