Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 217 The Man Who Disappeared
The moment Encore used that ability, except for the people around the trident who noticed the blackened field of vision, no one noticed that even the people in the daytime area were doing what they should do. The extraordinary change was not found at all.And after that moment, any trace of the witch's existence disappeared, and memories, photos, and related materials became blank.No one found anything abnormal, just curious why some materials turned into a blank sheet of paper, and after the simple curiosity was over, they were burned or thrown away. After all, it is useless to keep a blank sheet of paper with nothing...

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Luffy here.

It has been more than an hour since Encore and the others left, and everything has been completed.The people on the sailboat and the sea train couldn't stay still anymore, and they all hurriedly came to the fragmented crystal continent to find the Straw Hat Pirates, of course, the huge giant and the emperor BULL.For them, the current situation is that when everyone finally met, just after holding the funeral for the ship Lingmeili, a strange pirate ship appeared. There was a crystal fruit capable person on it, which crystallized the sea Transformation makes it impossible for everyone to leave.Many ship repairers were killed. In order to protect them, all 7 members of the Straw Hat Pirates challenged each other, and they were taken outside the crystal, where they could not see anything.After anxiously waiting for a few people to disappear, they announced that their patience was exhausted, and all the copycats came to the crystal to find someone. Anyway, even the gang of thieves could not be intact after such a long time.Everything was so reasonable, to the point where it was impossible to have one more person.And Encore, for them, is a person or name that has never appeared in their minds, and there is no trace of its existence at all.

A slender figure on the sailboat appeared from the corner, flicked the tied long fiery red hair, looked into the distance quietly, and then continued to find a place to hide.Anyway, the order from above was just to let her see if Bingshan went to sea to abscond, and she didn't want to do anything to the Straw Hat Pirates, so she might as well be happy and relax and do nothing?Anyway, in case the Straw Hat Pirates attack, there will definitely be rumors, and the iceberg is also present. If there is any accident with this talented ship designer at that time, it will be troublesome~
"Hey!! Straw Hat Boys! Are you still alive??" Franky, whose energy exploded after filling three bottles of Coke in his belly, yelled loudly, raising the torch in his hand and shaking it constantly.

"But it was a fierce battle, such a large crystal was cracked so badly," Barry, biting his cigar, frowned and looked at the unfathomable cracks, worried that the Straw Hat Pirates would be in danger this time. .

Seeing the potholed crystal floor that made it difficult to walk on, Zhan Bai said carefully: "Brother, Big Brother Straw Hat Boy, did they fall into the pit?"

"How is that possible? That group managed to escape from Judiciary Island, and even the army of the Demon Slaughter Order couldn't stop them!" Moz and Kiwi retorted in unison, but the forehead The cold sweat showed that they were also worried.

"Stop arguing for now, let's go find them separately now! The Straw Hat Boys and the others are seriously injured, and the best way is to find them as soon as possible!" Bingshan said calmly, and then directed all the scarred boat repairmen behind him, "Now everyone Divide into several groups and expand the search area! And I don’t know if those pirates are still there, everyone needs to pay attention to safety!”

"Oh!!"

The moonlight that had penetrated into the clouds dimmed the brilliance, and dozens of burning torches were shining on the crystal clear ground.The people who were carrying out the carpet search and rescue did not spare a corner, even the collapsed crystals were opened to see if anyone was there, and the searchlights were lowered and shaken a few times in the bottomless cracks, and the shouts of anxiety spread throughout up the night sky:

"Hey!! Straw Hat Boy!! Where are you guys??"

"Hey, if you're still alive, please respond!!"

"Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Robin, Chopper, Usopp (whispering), where are you?"

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After searching for a minute, a sharp-eyed boat repairman yelled: "Found it!! Here! It's all here!"

"Really? Are they still alive?"

"Where are those pirates?? Why are there no shadows??"

"It should have been beaten away!"

Everyone who heard the shouts gradually walked over to surround the seven people lying on the ground, holding up torches and looking worriedly at the people lying there in disorder but whose wounds had been bandaged.

"Hey, wake up, Straw Hat Boy!" Franky squatted aside and patted Luffy lightly, but did not get any response.Barry and Bingshan stood at the front, and Motz and Kiwe, who were thoughtful, quickly checked Luffy and the others, Motz breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Although everyone is seriously injured, so far there is no life-threatening. But, who bandaged them?"

Barry guessed: "Since we can't see the appearance of those pirates, then the Straw Hat Boys should have completely defeated those guys, and then snatched the opponent's medical kit and bandaged them before fainting..."

"Let's talk about taking them back to Water City beforehand," Bingshan said in a deep voice, "They just made a big fuss on Judiciary Island. Although they haven't seen any pursuers until now, it's not suitable to stay here for a long time."

"Stupid Mountain is right. After returning to the Water City, wait for them to wake up before asking about the pirates." After nodding, Frankie took the lead in carrying Luffy who was in a coma on his back, and then greeted the people around him. , "Pick them up, and off we go!"

"Oh!!!"

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In a small rock pile in a certain desert, it was noon, the scorching sun shone on the golden desert, and the faint heat wave blurred the vision.In the shaded place of the rock pile, a shirtless young man was sleeping soundly with his hands behind his head, his face was covered by an orange hat, and the faint snoring sound from under the hat indicated that his dreams were sweet.The young man knocked on Erlang's leg, and the letter tattooed on his right arm explained who he was.The whole world was plunged into pure darkness in an instant, and then returned to normal. The changes almost at the speed of light did not make anyone notice the weirdness.

"Ace, if one day you feel that I am gone, just throw a bouquet of flowers on the sea, and take it as proof that I have come to this world..."

In the drowsiness, it seemed that someone was talking, and the soft voice belonged to the immatureness of a child.The young man vaguely took off the hat on his face, and blankly glanced in front of him, but he didn't see anyone.

"Aha~~~", yawned lazily, the young man scratched his freckled face in a daze, and asked lazily, "Who is calling me? Come out..."

There was a complete silence, the distorted arc of the desert under the venomous sun was so silent that there was no sound, only the echo of the young man's voice echoed, and then disappeared without a trace.

"Strange, it seems that someone is calling me, who is it..." Putting his hat back on his head in doubt, the young man tried hard to recall the dreamlike subtle voice just now, but found that the tender voice was not someone he was familiar with.

The young man wrinkled his face and forcibly awakened his brain cells to recall what the voice said just now. He racked his brains in the sultry desert and finally managed to make up a few fragmented keywords until his face turned red.

'Ace...absent...sea...flowers...'

The young man who had tried his best finally let go of his poor, smoldering head, propped his chin and asked himself in doubt: "Who is it? What is that? Not here? Sea? Flower??"

The young man who was still confused looked at the hot desert in front of him, and he was so disturbed that he couldn't sleep at all. He reluctantly put on his fire-patterned cloak and put on his small backpack, "Forget it, since I forgot that I should It's not a big deal. Besides, Luffy is not a child anymore, so what I said just now was definitely not about agreeing to Luffy~~"

The young man who walked out of the rock pile saw his goal firmly ahead, and then he stopped suddenly, turned around strangely and looked at the rock pile that he had just rested on, which looked unusually small under the scorching sun.

With an inexplicable movement in his heart, the young man suddenly clenched his right fist tightly, and then a blazing flame wrapped around his fist. The hot flames burned hotter than the sun, and then the young man swung his right fist upwards forcefully, "Fire fist!!" .The huge fist made of flames rushed up and exploded, blooming a bright firework that shouldn't exist under the bright sun.

"Unfamiliar voice, although this is not the sea and I haven't found any flowers, but this should be about the same..." With a casual smile, the young man turned around and continued his journey. After walking a few steps steadily, he suddenly panicked He ran away, as if there was a boss who caught up with him because he ate the overlord meal, and there were crazy shouts along the road:

"What if Blackbeard sees him running away?? Why am I so nervous????"

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The first half of the great route, a hotel in the Alabasta rainy land, the time is ten o'clock in the evening.

The boy half lying on the bed was looking at a map, the soft light shone on his childish face, and there was a slight smile on his lips, which looked like a book, but it was a pity that the eyebrows on the left face The long scar from the tail to the jaw spoils a lot of beauty.

After studying the map, the boy put the map aside, took out the package he carried with him, opened it, and prepared to take out the photos he would look at every day, "I don't know now, sister..."

The whole world was plunged into pure darkness in an instant, and then returned to normal. The changes almost at the speed of light did not make anyone notice the weirdness.

The young man paused for a while when he opened the package, then tilted his head strangely as if he didn't know what he was going to do. After a pause for a few seconds, he continued to spread the package, groped aimlessly inside with his right hand, and then took the hard Take it out.

It was a very beautiful crystal photo frame, which was so beautifully illuminated by the warm light.In the photo, there is only a piece of grass and a teenager sleeping on it. The whirling tree shadow falling on him shows that he was lying under the shade of a big tree at that time.But the strange thing is that there is nothing on it except him.

'Why am I carrying a picture of myself?What's the point? ', the young man holding the photo and thinking unsuccessfully put the photo back into the package, and after tidying up, he turned off the lights and went to bed.Tomorrow he will continue to look for the base of the Revolutionary Army, but what is he looking for the Revolutionary Army for...

"Forget it, there must be a reason..." He whispered to himself, the boy slowly closed his eyes and fell into a light sleep, the pale moonlight from the open window gently climbed onto his face, shining on the corner of his lips On a faint but true smile.

"Lian, promise my sister, the world is big, you have to find partners who can be your destination, and then go on an adventure together..."

As if he heard something, the boy opened his eyes suddenly, took out a black glove from under the pillow with his right hand and put it on, his cold eyes were colder than the moonlight outside the window.Lying quietly on the bed without moving his body, the boy tensed his nerves and listened to the sounds around him. He didn't hear any strange sounds except for the hawkers who came home late outside the window, and he didn't perceive any strangeness in his knowledgeable expression. characters.

'It seems that there was a sound just now, right?Could it be that I heard it wrong...', he continued to prick his ears but he could no longer hear the sound just now, and he also forgot what the soft sound just now was like...

"Forget it, it seems that there is no hostility...", the boy slowly relaxed, but he did not take off the glove on his right hand.Afraid of the cold, he moved the quilt up, the young man slowly closed his eyes, and fell into a light sleep again, but his lips were pursed into a straight line because of the vigilance he couldn't let go.

"Lian, you should smile more..."

The slowly relaxing body seems to have vaguely heard something again, but the invisible gentle power made the light-sleeping teenager let go of his vigilance, the tight lip line loosened, and then he raised a smile with a little bit of happiness , 'whose voice?listen well……'

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East China Sea, morning.Dadan family.

The morning sun is warm, piercing through the thick fog in the forest and refracting rainbows.Occasionally, the crisp chirping of early birds can be heard in the tranquil atmosphere. The Dadan family in a clearing in the mountains started their day with Dadan's earth-shattering roar as always.

"Wake up!! You lazy pigs!!"

A few seconds later, more than a dozen people rushed out of the house in a panic, and then brushed their teeth and washed their faces in sleepy groups of three or four.

Dadan, who was biting a cigarette, put his hands on his hips and cursed viciously, "Really, it happens every day!!"

"Well, calm down, boss." The gentle cockscomb slowly persuaded from the side.The short Doggula also said helplessly: "Yes, boss. What offended you?"

"It's so noisy! It's just that I suddenly feel annoyed by being suppressed by that old man's navy! My old lady is going to rebel!!"

"That, boss. You should say this in front of Mr. Garp to be useful." Dogula suggested reasonably.But in the next second, Dadan replied harshly: "Before he said anything, the old man would say that the food in the prison is delicious! Really, I helped him bring up two little bastards! A little hard work There is no fee!!”

"Aren't Ace and Luffy very well-behaved?" Cockscomb-head Magore said with a gentle smile. He liked those two children quite a bit, although they were a little bit naughty.

"I've never seen those two boys ever be 'good'! And what kind of pirates are they going to do? One ran away for three years, and the other ran away again!", the cursing Dadan walked to the wall, and then He slapped the two reward orders on the wall vigorously, "Look at it! Now even the reward orders are out!"

"Boss, you're just worried about Ace and Luffy!" Cockscomb Maggule understood Dadan's worry from her words, and gently comforted him: "Don't worry, they are both very strong. It will be absolutely safe."

"Who's worried about them?! It's best for them to die outside!!"

"Hahahaha!!!", as always, the words full of embarrassment and anger only caused a group of bandits to laugh out of good intentions. They knew very well how worried Dadan was about the two children she raised, although this kind of worry has never been there. There is no obvious expression, although both boys are free range...

And they all forgot.The Dadan House in the deep forest also raised a little girl who hadn't grown up for five years. Unfortunately, no one remembered it.Like a gust of wind, it blows away and leaves no trace in their memory...

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Naval Headquarters, Marshal's Office.

"Karp!!! Look at what your grandson has done???" At the desk full of documents, Admiral Sengoku angrily slapped the desk with the documents in his hand, questioning him sitting on the sofa in front Lieutenant General Garp is eating a large bag of senbei.

"Hahahaha, Luffy really has the old man's style, hahaha!!" Lieutenant General Garp, who didn't care, laughed, and didn't care at all that the admiral knew that his grandson was a pirate.

"Are you still laughing? Aren't you the one who taught him??" The Marshal, who was completely close to the state of explosion, looked viciously at the guy who laughed heartlessly, but he only got louder and louder laughter.Trying his best to ignore that guy, the marshal looked through the information in front of him helplessly, frowned and thought: "This time, the level of consumption of the army in the Battle of Judiciary Island is the first time in history. Luckily, everyone else has been inexplicably attacked and is still unconscious.It is surprising that the Straw Hat Pirates defeated CP9, but they have never received intelligence that they have a character who is good at illusion attacks. Moreover, the navy's illusion training has only been carried out in secret for a few years, even if someone outside knows the information, it is impossible Good at such advanced illusion attacks.what is going on……'

"Speaking of which, did those guys from the Five Old Stars say anything about the decision to deal with Luffy?" Lieutenant General Garp, who was slumped on the sofa, asked lazily, and then threw a senbei into his mouth .

Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted, and the marshal uttered a tic-tac-toe, but then he sighed and said, "No, it's enough to add rewards to a few of them, there is no need or need to do any unnecessary actions..."

"Huh??", Lieutenant General Garp couldn't calm down now, and almost choked on the senbei he was chewing.After quickly swallowing a few coughs, Lieutenant General Garp looked at the sky outside strangely, "Strange, were those guys kicked in the head by a donkey? How did they make such a decision that didn't fit their character?"

"Your reaction doesn't look like you gave them some strange little report," the Marshal, who was also strange but could only accept orders from his superiors, reluctantly threw the documents in his hand aside, and took a piece of paper and a pen Come over and talk while writing, "The Straw Hat Pirates have 7 members plus Franky, a total of 8 people. Let the relevant departments designate the reward amount for these lucky guys later..."

"I remember that Frankie doesn't seem to belong to the Straw Hat Pirates, right? Are you violating the order?"

"Let go of the dozens of pirates who came to mess around!" The marshal angrily crumpled up the paper written in his hand and threw it to the goat in front of the table.

"Hahaha, don't be so angry, do you want a senbei?"

"roll!"

The old man who laughed heartily at this moment has forgotten the tragic battle five years ago, and the lovely girl who was rescued by him and sent to his grandson five years ago...

——Sometimes, a person disappears from the world, and the world will not change because of it. It is still turning and advancing.Whether right or wrong, whether love or hatred, or inseparable friendship, will disappear as if it never existed without a trace.

If even the memory of that person is forgotten, how can I find her out of this world that no longer has her?Can the fate that was deliberately cut off continue?

(End of this chapter)