Vice Captain of One Piece

Chapter 222 The Strange Demon Sword 2
On Shipbuilding Island, the house where the Straw Hat Pirates live temporarily.

On the tidy dining table lay a clean white knife, with a long ribbon coiled around one side.Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Nami, Robin, and Chopper sat around the table, looking at the quiet knife above with serious eyes.Outside the window, Usopp was hiding there furtively.

"Is this the knife that suddenly froze the city of water?" Nami looked at the knife with her chin in disbelief, "It looks so beautiful, how could it be a demon knife?"

Robin paid attention to the faint pattern on the knife, and wrote and drew on the paper in front of him from time to time, "This knife feels full of chills, even if we don't touch it now, we still feel very cold. Moreover, the knife The pattern on the body looks very old, it should be a knife with a lot of history."

"However, since it was sealed by someone else, shall we just take it out?" Sanji said lightly, "If there is no way to suppress it, the city of water will face winter again."

Sauron stretched out his hand to hold the handle of the knife, and then stood up the knife and looked at its sharp blade silently. Suddenly, he frowned tightly, and his right hand holding the knife trembled slightly.After gritting his teeth to force back the cold and dark breath pouring into his heart, Sauron heaved a sigh of relief and put the demon knife back on the table, then whispered: "You guys had better not touch this knife casually, this is not an ordinary demon knife. Willpower If it’s not enough, it’s easy to be swallowed up by it.”

"Is it a lie? So scary??" Chopper, who was immediately frightened by this sentence, sat back a little tremblingly, staying away from the knife as much as possible.

"Then what should we do now? This knife doesn't have a sheath, so it's not very convenient to carry it..." Nami scratched her head in annoyance, then looked at Luffy who had been staring at the knife without saying a word, " Luffy? What are you going to do?"

Luffy just looked at the knife expressionlessly, trying hard to find out the information about the previous ice sculpture in his mind, but it still didn't work.He obviously felt very familiar, but he really didn't have any impression.Even when the unintentionally dripping blood from the fingertips flowed through the person's left pupil, the pain that almost spread to the whole body at that moment and the fragments of struggling in the depths of the memory carried the heat of burning the soul.But even so, she still couldn't remember what was missing from her seemingly complete life and memory...

Slowly stretching out his right hand, under the surprised eyes of everyone, Luffy held the knife and held it in front of his eyes.After quietly looking at the snow-like pure white knife for a while, he closed his eyes and pressed his forehead against the cold blade, silently waiting for the demon knife to answer his full of questions.It's a pity that Yaodao has tried its best to convey what he wanted to say just now, and now he is powerless to do anything else. After all, the master who can know its mind and exert its power has disappeared from everyone's memory.Moreover, Yaodao, who had already sworn an oath to her, wanted to protect the young man, so he could only desperately suppress his evil nature so as not to make him feel uncomfortable.

Except for the coldness that went straight to the bone marrow, he didn't hear the previous voice and didn't feel the strong sadness just now. Luffy sighed and put the knife back on the table, and then said lightly: "Zoro, take it .One day, we will meet its owner..."

"Wait a minute! Luffy! Do you want to take this unknown knife with you?" Nami stood up abruptly and asked loudly, "What if it gets out of control and turns the surrounding area into ice? manage?"

"Yes, yes," Chopper nodded in agreement, the animal's intuition made it very clear that the knife was dangerous, "It's better for us to seal it back, maybe it's because its owner doesn't want it. It's sealed there."

"No, this sword doesn't feel like an ordinary demon sword. At least it can exert its power without a medium, so it may be guarding something or waiting for something.", has been Robin, who writes and draws, said lightly: "Didn't it make an ice sculpture of a child earlier? That should be its master. Although I don't know that it will choose a child as its master, but I think the two of them There must be an inseparable connection between them.”

"If I'm not wrong..." Sanji paused in a deep voice, and waited until everyone focused on him before saying the next sentence pretending to be solemn, "It must have Koi, Tong, addiction!"

"...", everyone, including those peeping outside the window, collectively gave Sanji a contemptuous look, and then collectively ignored him and continued the discussion.

"Although I don't know why, I always feel that we must find its owner." Reaching out and gently stroking the cold blade, Luffy said in a low voice: "I always feel that she is very important to me, although I don't have anything. Know……"

"Bump!!" After a loud bang when her head hit the table and fell to the ground, Nami clenched her fists and growled, "You won't be affected by this knife. Brain cells, right? Since people who don’t know anything are very important to you, it’s clear that this knife controls your mind, okay?!”

Luffy just lay face down on the ground silently, his silent appearance was very different from the previous noisy appearance.He knew that the knife hadn't done anything to him, and he just wanted to know what that empty feeling was all about...

"Luffy?" Seeing Luffy's motionless appearance, Nami withdrew her vicious expression and looked worriedly at the uncharacteristically captain, wondering if what she just said had irritated him.

"How about, let's throw it away..." Chopper, who was speaking in a low voice, suddenly stopped his words, and then pulled the hat on his head with a confused expression.I don't know why... As soon as the word 'lose' was mentioned, it stopped talking reflexively, and the panic spreading in its heart seemed to prevent it from finishing that sentence.

"Chopper?", looking strangely at the reindeer biting his lip so that he could not finish the sentence, Sanji looked at the demon sword lying alone on the table, and then did not speak.When I was on the fountain just now, although most of the doll was blocked by Luffy and Sauron, I could still see a little of its face from the gap between the two of them. Once I think about it, it will bring me a strange feeling A cute face, a face that I feel familiar but can guarantee that I have never seen it before.

Slowly sitting up on the ground, Luffy put on the straw hat and pulled the brim of the hat to cover his eyes. He said lightly, with unquestionable firmness, "I want to keep this knife!"

"I see.", reaching out and grabbing the handle of the knife, Sauron stood up and said lightly: "Then, I'll go out and see if there is anything that can hold it, and then I'll bring it back to you." After finishing speaking, Just turn around and leave.

"Zoro," Luffy suddenly called out to stop Sauron who was walking out, and slowly raised his head to look at his back standing there, "You know, this knife doesn't have a sheath."

"I know..." Looking at the cold white knife in his hand and the long ribbon dragging on the ground, Zoro bent his elbow and put it on his shoulder before continuing to walk forward.

"Hehehe..." Seeing Sauron go out with that beautiful knife, Robin suddenly laughed, "I don't know why, but I always feel that a very girly knife doesn't go well with Mr. Swordsman. What~~~"

I imagined the picture of Zoro with a cold and ferocious face together with a beautiful knife with a ribbon, and there was a huge roar of laughter in the whole room, which suddenly overwhelmed the previous heavy atmosphere. scattered.

"Haha, then this matter is decided." After standing up, Luffy also walked to the door, and took Chopper who was sitting there by the way, "Let's go, Chopper, we still have to find Habi, Then go find Bluefin."

"Yeah, I don't know if she's okay."

After watching the two of them go out, Sanji also stretched and walked towards the door: "I need to buy ingredients for the new ship, see you later, Miss Nami, Miss Robin~"

"See you later, Mr. Cook." After nodding politely, Robin continued to write and draw in his notebook.And Nami sat there helplessly, propped her cheeks and asked lazily: "Robin, do you also agree that Luffy should bring that strange knife with him?"

"Since it is Luffy's decision, I have no objection. Moreover, I am also very concerned about the blurred fragments that appear in my mind when I see the ice sculpture. I don't think it is simply the influence of the demon sword."

"A similar situation happened to me at that time. Robin, what do you think is going on now?" Nami's face became serious. Since everyone has experienced the same thing, there are only two possibilities, either The demon knife controlled everyone's thinking at the same time, and another possibility is...

"I'm not sure yet. I'm going to look up the information in the next few days, look up the origin of the knife and the symbols on the water capital. Moreover, since seeing the ice sculpture, everyone has become a little strange, which also requires Just watch it."

"It's true. Although Lu Fei's brain is not very good, his intuition is extremely accurate. Since he said that the owner of this knife may have something to do with us, then there must be something related to it."

After closing the notebook and standing up, Robin went out, "Then, I'll go out first. I will buy the things I need to buy when I come back."

"That's right, what I bought..." Nami, who just now remembered her shopping bag, paused for a moment, and then screamed, "Ah!! Where's my shopping bag??"

"Didn't you let Mr. Swordsman hold it earlier? When he was about to climb up the fountain, he left it on the street." After opening the door, Robin answered with a smile, slipped out immediately and closed the door tightly.Sure enough, the next second there was a scream that almost shattered the house
"AH!!! MY MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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On the reef by the sea, Sauron was sitting on it, holding a white knife and looking at it quietly.For a swordsman, this is a fine knife, with a sharp edge and a beautiful shape, every inch seems to be the perfect work of careful design and many considerations.The icy cold light shining against the sun, and the evil spirit that can lower the surrounding temperature, ruthlessly declared his identity.

"What kind of person is your master..." With a twist of his wrist, Sauron stared at his own face reflected on the knife, but couldn't help but recall the exquisite ice sculpture that was fleeting.Even though he doesn't know how to appreciate beautiful things, he still really thinks that child is very beautiful. Although the ice sculpture image created by the demon knife has no color, it still can't capture that exquisite look.Especially when Luffy accidentally broke his fingertip and dropped a drop of bright blood on her face, he somehow felt that it was the most suitable color for her.But when the drop of blood crossed his left pupil and rolled down his face with sad tears, he only felt a stabbing pain in his head and a suffocating pain in his heart.

It was a kind of pain that he had never met but secretly tied his heart. Unfortunately, until now, he still couldn't figure out whether he had seen that child.Sighing, Sauron took the knife and waved it lightly, and there seemed to be looming snowflakes passing around the white blade.

"If only you could talk..." Sauron laughed self-deprecatingly after saying something inexplicably, "What am I talking about? Forget it, let's find something to put you in before talking, otherwise the road Flying that guy will definitely get cut..."

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On the street, Sanji was dragging a cart full of food and walking along the commercial street, thinking about what condiments or ingredients he didn't buy.

"Mom, I want to eat cake~~~", on the street, a little girl was acting like a baby to her mother, while pointing to a cake shop with cute and cartoon decorations on the side of the road.

"But, you already ate yesterday..." The gentle woman was a little helpless, but full of pampering.

"No, no, I want to eat~~I want a little squirrel cake this time~~"

"This..." After hesitating for a while, the woman could only helplessly agree, "But, it can only be the youngest..."

"Hurry up, hurry up~~hahahaha~~", the successful child triumphantly took his mother's hand and ran towards the cake shop.

This is a very common scene on the street, usually if you see it, you will just laugh it off.But for some reason, Sanji, who happened to see this scene, suddenly stopped and stared blankly at the cake shop they walked into.It should be a cake shop mainly open to children. There are toys that children like hanging on the facade, and all kinds of cute cartoon cakes are displayed on the glass window.

Originally, Sanji seldom enters such a facade, not to mention that he can make these cakes himself, and there is no one in the pirate group who particularly likes cakes, except for Chopper who prefers sweets, especially cotton candy.

"Forget it, maybe it's good to have a cake once in a while, let's treat it as a snack..." With strange thoughts, Sanji put the cart aside, and then walked into this children's cake shop.

"Oh, isn't this Mr. Cook from the Straw Hat Boys?" After recognizing the guy at once, the store manager greeted him enthusiastically, "Thank you so much for yesterday's banquet, please sit down, please sit down. Do you want some cake?? Please!"

"Haha, you don't need to be so polite, I just came in to have a sit...", a little frightened by the owner's overly polite, Sanji smiled shamelessly, but he was still warmly invited to sit down at the table.

"This is the most popular cake in our store. If you don't mind, please try it~ Because it is for children, so it is a bit sweet.", smiling and holding a bunny-shaped cake in front of Sanji, the owner proudly said introducing.

"thanks……"

"Dingling, Dingling", the wind chime hanging at the door rang, and another mother and daughter walked in.After the shopkeeper nodded to Sanji, he went to greet those customers.

"The shape is cute, it smells good, I don't know how it tastes..." Sanji took a fork and put a small piece into his mouth, then slowly tasted it.But then he frowned slightly because of the slightly sweeter taste than ordinary cakes, "Sure enough, it's a bit too sweet for adults..." Thinking of this, Sanji suddenly stretched out his hands to hold his head, and squeezed staring at the cake in front of him with lips full of surprise,
'Why, it's already very sweet...why don't you think it's not enough?I'm not a person who likes sweets very much...'

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On a certain coast, Usopp is holding a pen in one hand and a record book in the other, practicing how to return to the dialogue of the Straw Hat Pirates.

"What? Luffy, you want me to go back now? I really can't stand you~ You really can't do anything without me~~ But since we've talked about this, I'll go back to your group~~" , stopped walking back and forth, and Usopp wrote and drew in a small notebook, "Is it enough to say this? This is the 23rd statement."

After finishing writing, Usopp immediately put on a cheerful expression and said enthusiastically: "Hey, Chopper, the weather is good today, let's go fishing~~~ Hahaha, oh, Luffy, do you want to come together?? "

After rehearsing on his own, he felt good, and Usopp continued to add an entry in the notebook, "This is not bad, as if nothing happened. Natural fusion and big battle~~"

"However, what did Luffy and the others see on the fountain? I always feel weird when I come back. There is something wrong with that knife..." After a pause, Usopp suddenly raised his long nose and smiled triumphantly. : "Sure enough, I can't do without those guys~~~, wait a little longer~~~ I will take care of that unknown knife after I go back, hahahaha!!!"

Sanji, who just passed by and saw the whole process clearly, smiled and looked at Usopp, who had not changed in any way, shook his head, and then took the shuttle bus full of food back to his residence.

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'Luffy seems to be planning to find the owner of the knife, so we need to find out if anyone has gone to the fountain recently.The crystals there are still new, probably from the last few weeks.So now let's investigate whether there are any suspicious people in the past few weeks...', Robin is sitting on a BULL, slowly driving towards the direction of the fountain, intending to revisit the above, which is very researching for her An ancient symbol of value.

"Although I only took a look at the ice sculpture, it should be possible to draw the general appearance, and it will be easier to find it this way..." Robin took out his notebook and began to draw on the blank pages. People remember, after all, a face as cute as a doll is still rare.

In the house of the Straw Hat Pirates on Shipbuilding Island, Nami was trying to suppress the anger that she planned to tear Zoro into pieces, and kept walking around trying to persuade herself to be patient for the time being.Next to it lay the wreckage of a table, the innocent victim of Nami's fist as a substitute for Zoro.

"Damn it! I'm going to kill you! How dare you throw away my precious shopping bag!!" After yelling again, Nami took a few deep breaths to suppress her anger temporarily.Then he walked towards a large pile of luggage stacked in the corner (after being sent back, he held a banquet all night before he had time to sort it out), intending to see if he could find any clues related to the knife.

'Fortunately, I didn't mess up my luggage too much because of my mood at the time, but the luggage bags of these guys are also too messy, right?It's like stuffing everything together...', Nami, who was rummaging through a pile of luggage, frowned and looked at the messy luggage of the boys, and after a thorough inspection, curled her lips and threw it aside.Then, her eyes were attracted by a small package that was pressed at the bottom. There were five people who moved to the hotel, plus Robin who was not there at the time, there were a total of six packages of luggage and orange trees.So, what is that extra outfit?
'Is it someone else's? ', with a hint of curiosity, Nami took the package over, and immediately opened her eyes in amazement after unpacking it: inside was a pile of neatly stacked clothes, and on top were two thick photo albums.

Slowly took the top photo album and opened it, and was surprised when I saw the first photo: it was a group photo before they were about to enter the great voyage, and their faces were full of youthful vigor with open smiles.Scrolling down is all about the records of their adventures along the way, from Rogge Town to the panorama of Water Capital.Every trip leaves a fragment of memory.I know every face in it and can call out its name.

Taking out a group photo taken on Sky Island, Nami smiled and looked at the seven smiling people on it, her eyes were slowly closing with moisture, "This is what Usopp left... We all Bring it here..."

After holding that photo in silence for a long time, Nami put it back, then picked up the two photo albums and put them aside.Then she looked at the clothes under the photo album with a strange face, picked up the yellow dress on the top and spread it out in front of her for a long time, and then found that it was a child's clothes. Nami nodded to show that she knew this. The origin of the bag of clothes, "Did the hotel owner make a mistake? When the clothes should be recycled, he panicked and put our photo album and other children's clothes together, and then brought them together~~, how careless~~"

"If you send this package back, there must be a lot of thanks~~~~", Nami, who was full of Bailey, put the clothes back with a smile, then packed all the clothes in the bag and picked them up. The photo album was placed on the table, and then he rushed out towards the door with the small package
"Investigation completed!! My shopping bag!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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(End of this chapter)