One Piece Codex

Levi spent the morning teaching Lorna how to use a pistol.

Fortunately, the flintlock gun was not as backward as imagined, and it had to be slowly loaded with gunpowder and lead bullets.The gun is loaded and the bolt is pulled to fire.

Leaving Lorna alone in the tree house for target shooting, Levi returned to the palace gate.

With the guard's notification, he entered the palace smoothly.

It has to be said that a real aristocratic residence close to the center of power is really not comparable to the small villa of Li Wei's family.

The marble dome building is magnificent, gold and silver decorations can be seen everywhere, and the water of all fountains is covered with fresh rose petals, which is simply inhumane.

Walking in the corridor, he tried to look for Mads, but found nothing. Instead, he saw the second prince Jimmy rushing to the king's palace.

Jimmy walked in a hurry and had no energy to pay attention to the unfamiliar faces.Even so, Li Wei is not used to the habit of coming forward to greet someone.

Following his memory, he came to Williams' mansion.It's strange that the mansion is very deserted, and the servants and guards are not even one-tenth of what they were last time.He was led into a side room in the backyard by the housekeeper.

A familiar figure more than two meters tall was pruning in front of the flower bed, but the originally messy chicken coop turned into a shiny braised egg.

Li Wei looked at it for a long time, feeling like he was seeing "Flower Monk" Lu Zhishen.

"Why, boy, don't you recognize me?"

Williams put down the scissors and turned around.

[The familiar voice is definitely Williams. 】

Li Wei joked: "Uncle, your new hair style is good. You look much younger."

"Really, it seems to be working well..." Williams scratched his beard, "Boy, the time you came here is a little unlucky, is there something wrong?"

"Nanako has recently researched afternoon tea and asked me to bring some to my uncle and father." Levi took out a bag of exquisite tips from his sleeve robe. "Uncle, do you know where my father is now?"

Williams: "Unfortunately, I don't know where Brother Mark is. Logically speaking, since I'm dead, I shouldn't know where he is."

He took the kit and put it to the tip of his nose, smelled it, and couldn't help but sigh, "Boy, your mother's craftsmanship is as worthy of praise as ever."

Williams has a good relationship with the Mark family, and there is not much red tape in their normal interactions.He and Mads were more like relatives than colleagues.

It's hard to imagine that this count, who looks calm on the outside and is no less fierce than the pirates in terms of appearance, is actually an extremely kind and upright boring man in his heart.

【already dead?】

Levi blinked and expressed confusion about Williams' words. He asked curiously:

"Uncle, aren't you fine? Why do you say you are dead?"

“God knows why, it’s His Majesty’s order that I should not show up recently.

Your Majesty spread the news of my death in battle with pirates among the nobles, and suppressed the news outside.Hey, I've been bored in this room for almost a month. "

Williams depressedly took out a cigar, put it in his mouth, and started smoking.

"In order not to be easily recognized, I even changed my hairstyle to a younger one. I didn't expect that your aesthetic level is not bad."

Li Wei: "..."

Although I don’t know how high the threshold of Williams’ so-called aesthetic level is, the information in his words is not unimportant.

The country was at war with pirates, but the king gave the commander of the royal army an order to feign death.

Concealing the news from outside should be to prevent the soldiers' momentum from being suppressed, so what is the purpose of spreading the news within the aristocratic circle?

The situation began to become strange and strange.

In front of outsiders, Li Wei couldn't think about it for too long. He rolled his eyes and said:

"Uncle, do I have to keep it a secret?"

"Nonsense! This is His Majesty's secret order!" Williams puffed his beard and glared.

[You also know it’s a secret order...]

Levi twitched the corner of his mouth, but still showed a troubled expression and said:

"But there are many new varieties of tea made by Nanako. If I always go to uncle, will it arouse others' suspicion?

Otherwise, or—”

"fine."

Williams waved his hand, interrupting Levi.

"The guards at the gate of the palace are all mine, so just send them over."

After all, he is a count, and he still has the energy to conceal the news of a child entering the palace.

"That's interesting. I'll bring you more next time, uncle."

"necessary!"

……

The other side of the palace.

Girod had just received the news that the second prince had been summoned by the king. He paced back and forth in the room anxiously. He murmured in confusion, "Why did the old man summon Jimmy at this time? Is there anything I have done badly recently?..."

Nowadays, most of the apparent military power in the kingdom is directly in the hands of Girod. If the king wants Jimmy to participate in the "annihilation" of pirates, the military power in Girod's hands will be divided, which he never wants to see. Arrived.

"No, that loser has dizziness. How could the old man let him go to the battlefield?"

Girod smiled, feeling that he had been too suspicious recently.After planning for so long, the overall situation will soon be under control, and he needs to relieve his fatigue.

Prying open a bottle of red wine, Girod walked to the bed.

A woman with her hands and feet bound by iron chains and naked lay there quietly.

The woman's hair was disheveled, and from her collarbone to her navel, there were staggered whip marks and red marks burned by candles.

She stared blankly at the crystal chandelier above her head. After experiencing inhuman torture, all that was left was a dead silence.

"Tsk, it's boring. It's really boring."

Girod took a sip of red wine and shook his head in disappointment, dissatisfied with his "artwork".

He grabbed the woman's hair, pointed at the corner of the table and ordered:

"You lowly slave, bite it and that's it for you."

When she heard that the pain could be ended, a light flashed in the woman's eyes, and she struggled and bit the foot of the stone table.

"Very good, then..."

Girod licked his scarlet lips excitedly, raised his right hand, and aimed his elbow at the back of the woman's head.

Boom!

a bit.

Boom!

Click.

Twice.

three times...

"Your Highness, Count Hubert wishes to see you." The servant outside the door reported.

"Hubert?"

Girod took out his handkerchief and wiped the blood on his face.

"Let His Excellency Earl wait in the hall for a while."

Hubert Gris is currently the prospective father-in-law of His Royal Highness the Grand Prince. Her daughter Fanny just held an engagement ceremony with Girod not long ago.

In the reception hall, short and fat Hubert was sitting on a chair with his eyes closed and meditating, holding his cane with both hands.

As soon as Girod appeared, the smell of blood immediately hit his nostrils.

Hubert frowned and said displeased:

"Girod, I hope you can moderate your unique hobbies. I don't want my baby daughter to see this after she gets married."

"Just a slave."

Girod chuckled.

"Besides, you'd better put down your tricks in front of me, Hubert, and just tell me why you're here."

Seeing that the majesty of his future father-in-law didn't seem to be working, Hubert was very straightforward. He raised an eyelid and said:

"Can the war be postponed for another month?"

The main industry of the Gris family is arms, and war represents a steady stream of wealth to them.

The longer and larger the war, the more they earn.Although part of it had to be turned over to the royal family, the rest was enough for Hubert to earn a lot of money.

"Too greedy, Hubert."

Girod tapped his fingers rhythmically on the table.

Hubert snorted, "Don't forget the name of the family that supports you!"

"Don't be angry, father-in-law, of course I will not forget my friend." Girod smiled and poured a glass of red wine for Hubert. "I will be able to sit in that seat soon, and everything will be ours." House's."

He deliberately emphasized the last three words "our family".

Seeing that Hubert, the old fox, didn't seem to want to admit his fault, Girod was not annoyed either. He shook the goblet in his hand and said slowly:

"I need money, Hubert, lots of money...

You know, although Luruta is not weak, it is at best a small kingdom in the corner of the corner.Our noble status is not recognized by the world government at all. I have had the pleasure to meet that group of people. "

Speaking of this, Jirod's eyes suddenly burst out with almost fanatical desire.

The guy wearing a bubble hood and calling himself [Dragon Man].Just a look of contempt can make his father, the king of a country, grovel.

What honor and glory!

He faced the sky and opened his arms.

"They are true nobles!

They are above the world and are the descendants of gods recognized by everyone! "

The bright red wine splashed from the glass, like rubies shining in the sun.

Hubert: "Girod...you want to be that kind of person?"

"That's right! But in order to join them, Luluta first needs to pay [Heavenly Gold] and become a member of the World Government."

"How much is it?"

"80 million Baileys."

"..."