[One Piece] To be

, and nothing else, isn't it surprising? "

"Because this is..." Lamy stopped abruptly and swallowed the words "End of the World".

They have always accepted this kind of setting, living in the small town at the end of the world, never wanting to leave, living a peaceful and contented life, getting old, sick and dying...

Thinking about it carefully, this world view is full of bugs, but she has been selectively ignoring these.

Liszt saw Lamy's hesitation, he thought for a while, took the girl's hand, and said seriously, "It's okay, at least I have escaped from the town now."

Lamy looked back at the town where he had lived since he was a child, and then at Liszt who had changed a lot, and burst out laughing, "It's so cool, it's just like the Great Escape in a fairy tale."

"..."

"Ann, don't look like that. After you said it, I felt something was wrong." Lamy tugged at the backpack strap, "Let's go, whether it's a graduation trip or a big escape, anyway, the two of us are together now. "

"Ah."

(73) The End of the World ([-])

This Lamy's long-planned graduation trip turned into a big escape in search of the truth. Fortunately, the protagonists are still the two of them.

Liszt put down his heavy luggage under the tallest old tree in the wilderness, and after clearing out a clean place to rest, he started to work on the picnic. Lamy sat aside, holding a notebook and writing something.

"This is a travel diary. It seems that the style will be changed. Maybe it will be a wonderful fairy tale." Lamy turned his pen to think, "Just like the fairy tale about finding the great treasure of Roughdale, we will be in this wasteland. Find the treasure in it and unravel the truth of the world..."

Liszt set up the pot and started to cook instant food. When he raised his head and saw the familiar town not far away shrouded in the sunset light, he felt a sense of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart.

Hiking was not too hard. There was nothing in the wilderness that could tell the direction. Even if they kept walking according to the compass, they finally returned to the town.

Is this really the end of the world?There is only this small town in the whole world.

Liszt held his head and thought hard. He only remembered some vague fragments. He vaguely felt that this world was not theirs. He should leave with Lamy, but he couldn't think of how to leave, as if there was something critical. things are forgotten.

When he was distracted, the food in the pot was already boiling. He hurriedly poured it into a bowl, and then put out the fire with sand.

"Sure enough, I still haven't left here," Lamy said to himself while eating a canned convenience food that he didn't know what it was. , because I have to take care of the lives of two people, and I also have to take care of my work...My father and mother passed away early, I don’t want to use the poor word [depending on each other] to describe my family, but I can’t find a better one.”

"Mr Trafalgar is a wonderful man."

"You have always been afraid of him. All future uncles will treat future brother-in-laws in this way, just like someone snatching their own treasure."

"..."

"If we got married, would you fight him? The battle between the police//the doctor and the doctor is terrible. Even if the Smoker Police//Superintendent and Mr. Corazon go together, it may not be able to stop you." Rami couldn't help imagining such a scene, and then amused himself.

"...Are you camping here tonight?" Liszt decided to change the subject.

"No, I feel very uneasy when I see the town. Let's continue walking, the farther away from here the better."

"it is good."

The setting sun gradually sank into the horizon, and the gentle halo dimmed.Night came, and the open wilderness looked a little eerie.

"The sixth time." Liszt stopped and simply threw the compass on the ground. This kind of thing is useless here. No matter how they go, they will still return to the town.

"Don't worry, this is the end of the world after all." Lamy couldn't help laughing at himself as he looked at the city flickering with thousands of lights in the distance.

"Do you want to continue walking?"

"Just camp here." Lamy threw down her luggage and moved her sore shoulders. After a day of running around, she temporarily gave up thinking.

The last place they chose was under an old tree that was about to wither, where a thick layer of fallen leaves had accumulated, and there was a damp aroma.

Liszt skillfully set up the tent and fixed the four corners firmly.Lamy stood aside and tried to help but couldn't help but couldn't help asking, "Do you teach this when you go to school?"

"No, I've played with Essabo and the others before, it's very simple." The kung fu tent has already been set up, and the lemon yellow canvas has a small space. It's warm inside, so you don't have to worry about it cooling down at night.

It's almost like a wedding trip... Lamy poked his head out of the tent and saw that Liszt was busy cooking dinner, which was still a convenience food brought by cooking.Curls of white smoke rose in the desolate air, the little brother stirred the pot seriously, his eyelashes were also covered with water droplets, and the profile of his face was beautiful.Lamy sat on the side with his knees hugged, only felt that this scene seemed familiar, as if he had seen it in a dream.

What a blessing to have met this guy...

It was completely dark, and the temperature seemed to drop to freezing point all of a sudden. Lamy curled up wrapped in a blanket, and exhaled a breath of white air, feeling that the food he had just eaten was not enough to be converted into heat.Can't help but move a little closer to the fire.Looking up, the sky is as wide and boundless as ever, and there are dots of light in the black night sky, as if someone has sprinkled countless bright fragments into the dark river.

That was the first time Lamy looked up at the night sky with longing. She saw the white breath she exhaled melted into the darkness, and she was so small under the sky.

"Liszt, where should we go tomorrow?" Lamy heard herself asking.

"I don't know, whether you follow the compass or make a mark, you will eventually return to the direction of the town." Liszt was also wrapped in a blanket, trying to move his body closer to Lamy.The clumsy movements are like a big bug crawling forward desperately, which makes people laugh.

"Troublesome..." Lamy tugged at the blanket on his body, "Do you want to go back? The trip only lasted for one day, and I haven't found Ravdel's treasure yet, and I haven't figured out what's going on in this world."

The two looked at each other for a moment, then laughed at the same time, then looked away in embarrassment.

Sure enough, I was still not reconciled.

Since when did you realize that something was wrong with this world, or this small town?Lamy thought about it, maybe she didn't realize it until Liszt reminded her today, or it started after having a dream about another world, and the church that suddenly appeared and disturbed the tranquility of the town.Calm down, she seems to be able to easily find the bug in the town at the end of the world, but the comfortable life makes her too slack.

Lamy and Liszt do not belong to this city. They should have been in the blood and fire world in the dream. Although many details cannot be remembered, this is certain.

"Honey, do you still remember the legend of Roughdale?" Lamy adjusted to a more comfortable position, and then simply lay down on Liszt's shoulder.

"Remember. In a place where no one can find it, the treasure of One Piece is buried. Those who get the treasure will have the wealth and fame of the whole world, so people have embarked on a journey to find the treasure... probably like this Stories." Liszt turned his face slightly, and Rami's hair made his neck itchy, but he didn't want to avoid it at all.

"But when I was young, there was no ending to the story. It seemed that the author died before finishing writing... No one knew what Roughdale was, and whether anyone found it. This became the biggest unsolved mystery of our childhood." The night at the end of the world is getting colder and colder, and there is a damp breath in the air.Rami looked at the sky, the stars had disappeared, and the night had completely turned black like ink.

"When we were kids, we got together and continued to write this story... but we couldn't finish it."

"I don't know if this memory is real or fake. If it's true, we can only say that we can't guess what Roughdale is."

"Gold and silver treasures?"

"It's too old-fashioned, maybe it's a powerful weapon, enough to rule the world..." Lamy didn't know where his thoughts went.

The sky is getting darker and darker. Under the starless and moonless sky, the small town with thousands of lights in the distance has become the brightest light in the world.The fire in front of the tent gradually became smaller, and Liszt quickly threw some dry branches into it.

"My brother said, if you get lost at night and can't find your way, you should look up at the sky. There is the North Star in the sky. Follow the North Star and you will be able to find where we live... Haha, I wouldn't be so stupid as to get lost in a small town... And now I'm really lost, and there's no North Star in the sky..." Lamy felt that her eyelids were getting heavier and her consciousness gradually became chaotic, and she was talking nonsense about her childhood—this was her eccentricity.

In the dark night sky, snowflakes began to fall, and those tiny snowflakes scattered to the barren land, fell on the branches of dead trees, fell on the decaying grassland, and fell on the shoulders and hair tips of the people who cuddled together. Build up slowly.

"It's strange, is winter coming early?" The snowflakes are flying, and the desolate land seems to have turned into a romantic fairyland. Rami and Liszt are cuddling each other in front of the quietly burning bonfire, drowsy.

"It's so beautiful, it seems