[One Piece] Hello, Single Dog Warring States Marshal!

"Miss, we have purchased all the items you need. Please take a look."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work."

I pointed to the table at the entrance of the room and told the waiter to put down the things. I took out two [-]-dollar Bailey bills and put them on the waiter's plate. I told him to keep the remaining money as a tip. The waiter's attitude was obviously different. Much better.

The waiter said good night with a smile and left. I immediately locked the door and hung the safety chain to prevent the door from opening. Then I carried the plate of groceries he sent through the living room of the suite and went straight to the private bedroom. As soon as he opened the door, he saw the skinny little child sitting at the small coffee table, eating happily in front of the table full of food.

...But it makes the child hungry.

I sighed, silently put down a bunch of groceries and started to sort out the items I needed, leaving little Rosinandi to frantically sweep the food on the table - strange to say, I had been running around all day, and I didn't have much appetite or even food. Why am I so sleepy...Do I still have the non-consumable buff bonus in Pikachu mode?

After sorting medicines, clothes and other sundries into categories, I guessed that Rocinante would need some time to eat, so I sat in front of the dressing table to remove makeup, wipe my face and pick off jewelry.

Thank you to the system for having the last conscience to adjust my clothing back to the way it was before I started messing around with Sengoku. If I were more ruthless, I would probably have to wrap myself in a blanket and return to my human form with disheveled hair...

The multi-layered pearl necklace, the sparkling shell pearl headdress inlaid with gems, and the bracelet inlaid with gems on the wrist, etc. I looked at the six pieces of jewelry that were removed from my body with mixed emotions, thinking that maybe Soon they will no longer belong to me, and I am full of regret...

These are the first things the Warring States Period gave me. I never thought that one day I would need to sell them for money for emergencies...

This high-end hotel has great privacy and is very suitable for Luo Nandi to stay temporarily, but the cost is also ridiculously high. The few thousand-yuan Baileys I grabbed today are all gone. The room fee for tomorrow has not been paid yet, and most of the system functions are paralyzed. I can't even withdraw money, and my bank card and other items are all in the system warehouse... After thinking about it for a while, I have no other choice but to pawn these pieces of jewelry to cash them out.

I stroked the exquisite gemstone egg on the shell and pearl hair ornament, gritted my teeth, no longer hesitated, and immediately picked up the daily dress that the waiter had just given me and entered the dressing room. While changing clothes, I asked through the door panel. Little Rosie Nandi, who was still eating, said: "Rosie, I have to go out and I'll be back within 10 minutes. Just stay in your room and don't open the door no matter who knocks." The system maintenance will be completed in an hour. I will definitely not be able to maintain my human form, so I must solve it quickly.

Little Rossi, who was still struggling with food, responded obediently. I smiled and told him to eat slowly, for fear that the child would choke.

I put on a convenient daily dress, put on the big cloak and put on the hood, put these few pieces of jewelry in a small low-key bag, and checked again whether the curtains were tightly closed, and then I went with Luo Nannan Dee said goodbye and went out.I remember that on the way here just now, I saw a pawn shop with a 24-hour sign, right next to the hotel. It seems that this area is really an area dedicated to serving aristocrats - all kinds of prodigal people pawn their belongings to cash out. Then he turns around and comes to the hotel here with his affair, dancer, etc. to have a good time... These operations really exist no matter which world he is in.

So, after doing a lot of mental preparation, I walked into the pawn shop that I knew was extremely rich just by looking at its appearance, ignoring the malicious looks from the pawnbrokers behind the counter. After haggling, the jewelry was discounted.

Six pieces of jewelry were sold for a total of only 50 beli...

This is...dirty.

I bet the price of these jewelry during the Warring States Period was five times higher!These people are really - dark to the core!

I was annoyed and reluctant to give up. When I walked out of the pawn shop with 50 Baileys in cash, I was so angry that I burst into tears...

Ah...it's so miserable. Now...

The most miserable time since time travel is now...

At least I didn’t need to worry too much about money before. After all, I could earn money by completing tasks and I had my own small treasury that could be exchanged for Baileys. Even in the Flower Street, life was going smoothly, unlike now - now, now is too much. I’m so frustrated! !

Money is a very scary thing. Once you lose the protection of money, you will have no choice but to give it away regardless of whether you love it or not... The key is that the things you love are still being priced down by others, which makes your heart feel sad. The priceless treasure turned into what he called a 'bastard thing not worth the money'...

"...Ugh," I was angry and aggrieved. The heavy box of money in my hand was like evidence of my betrayal of the Warring States Period. It made me breathless and burst into tears.

God, this is so uncomfortable.

Even at my old age, I will have this day... selling my beloved things for money. I have never suffered this kind of injustice in my mother's life for more than 20 years! !

Oh my god... I feel so uncomfortable... Those jewelry were carefully selected for me by Warring States...

The night was extremely cold, and no matter how hot the tears were, they were dried by the night wind in a short time and turned into faint tear stains on the face.I took a deep breath, tried my best to suppress all the emotions, wiped my face randomly, and hurried to the hotel with my suitcase - go back quickly, I felt so wronged. I went back to the room and hid crying, carrying a suitcase of money in the middle of the night. Are you waiting to be robbed outside or something? Rosinandi is still waiting for me. I can't let anything go wrong.

I picked up my feet and walked back quickly. Maybe it was because I picked up little Luo Nandi, but I suddenly felt that I should be strong as a mother. All my grievances were suppressed immediately, and my mind was filled with thoughts about what would happen next. What to do, how to contact the navy to find Sengoku while ensuring the safety of Rosinandi...

As soon as I stepped into the lobby, the big clock hanging in the center of the lobby reminded me that there were less than 3 minutes left until [-]am. I was startled and hurriedly ran upstairs. As soon as I stepped into the room and the door was locked, I heard the clock hanging. The pendulum clock on the wall clicked and stopped at one o'clock——

"Woo..." The familiar feeling of dizziness and the discomfort of bone deformation suddenly came over me, and the vision in my eyes dropped rapidly. When the dizziness subsided, I raised my hand, and sure enough...

"...Pikapi... (Okay, he turned into a big yellow mouse again)" Pikachu, a chubby little man covered in golden fluff, came out of the cloak dejectedly, dragging him with his two chubby hands in a bitter and resentful way. The box full of money was dragged into the living room and stuffed behind the sofa.

【锵锵锵~~Madam, are you okay~I'm online~~~】

When the voice of the little A5 fool reappeared in my mind, I actually felt a strange sense of peace of mind - after experiencing the dilemma of being so isolated and helpless that I had to sell my beloved things at a low price, the company of the system AI actually gave me a lot of help. A sense of comfort.

Me: Well, it’s okay. Welcome back.

【…………Hey, madam, what’s wrong with you?This is the first time you... have said such things. emmm...there's something wrong with you! 】A5 seemed a little surprised, and just before it continued to dig into the reasons for my "wrongness", I grabbed the conversation first——

Me: No, I just sighed suddenly... Okay, don't bash, you can do some work after the system maintenance is completed!Quickly search to see if there are any other functions I can use, especially the contact area.

[Okay, okay, I’m going to work soon. It’s getting late. Madam, you should go to bed early~] A5 is a system AI after all, and it doesn’t have a particularly high understanding of human emotions. I also took advantage of the situation and put the The shameful crying incident at the door of the pawn shop was revealed...

Let’s solve the current problem and don’t think about anything else first…

With a long sigh, I walked to the bedroom door, jumped up, hugged the door handle, and opened the door: "Pikachu, Bika Pika——(Rosinandi~I'm back~)"

"Ah..." The little boy with blond hair was about to open the door. I pushed the door open before him and almost hit him. When I went out, I was still in human form, but when I came back, I became Pikachu. I saw it clearly in Rosinandi's eyes. This child is even more convinced by the words I said before about 'cursed princess' to deceive children.

Okay, as long as the child can understand that both humanoid and non-humanoid are the same person.

"Bika Bika~ (Are you full?)" I pointed to the empty bowl with only a little soup left and touched my fat belly. Rosinandi miraculously understood what I meant, He nodded obediently to indicate that he was full.

Good boy~

Now that you’re full, let’s get down to business——

I jumped up on the chair, stood on tiptoes and took out some wound treatment medicines and a pair of small tweezers from the various medicines that had been sorted just now. I turned around and showed a bright smile to the little boy who was a little scared:

"Pika, Pikachu~ (Be good, let's take care of the wound~)"

"..." Little Luo Nandi swallowed subconsciously, and then, under my intense gaze, he obediently sat on the small stool in front of me, and stretched out his right arm as if he was dead...

I looked at the big wound that the child had sustained while escaping with distress. I sighed softly, but I still had the courage to turn on the medical iodine.

The wound must be treated well, otherwise it will be troublesome if it becomes infected.

……

So, for the next two hours, the luxurious suite room kept echoing with the crying gasps of the little boy and the soothing pickup sounds of the big yellow mouse that looked clumsy and chubby but actually had nimble fingers. …

It wasn't until late in the night, after I had taken care of all the injuries on the child's body and carefully wiped him, that we fell on the bed exhausted and fell into a deep sleep.

In his sleep, the little blond boy curled up into a ball and cuddled closely with Pikachu. There was a band-aid stuck to the corner of his eyes that were red from crying. His washed little face was pale and thin, looking extremely miserable...

However, this was the most peaceful and comfortable night he had had all year.

A ray of light finally poured into his world...

A golden light with sharp lightning...

The sky... is gradually breaking.

-

And the marginal waters of the North Sea hundreds of nautical miles away——

"Mr. Sengoku, can I come in?"

The adjutant knocked on his boss's door with the birdcage in hand. After receiving permission, he pushed the door open and stepped into the admiral's office suite in the early hours of the night.

"What's the matter?" The black-haired officer, who was still immersed in the documents, didn't even raise his head. The dark circles under his eyes were already very obvious, but the determined naval admiral was still working conscientiously.

The boss works too hard, and even his subordinates dare not relax rashly...

The adjutant sighed in his heart, cheered up and said, "There are two things. The first is that there is new information coming from Beihai."

As he spoke, the adjutant placed the unopened letter in his hand on Seng Guo's desk. Seng Guo took it over and opened the wax seal, took out the letter and read it——

"...What's going on? Why are those people from the original Rocks Pirates involved in it?" The letter was not long, and I read it in just a few glances, but Sengoku sensed a faint feeling from these few sentences. With a dangerous aura, he immediately frowned: "Charlotte Lingling, Kaido, and the earthquake man Edward Newgate of the original Rocks Pirates and their respective gangs had already arrived two days ago We have reached the high seas of the North Sea and are planning to land in a small country. They say it is for supplies, but they are just going to loot some towns."

"It turned out to be the remnants of the Rocks Pirates... Haven't the three parties parted ways a long time ago? Why did they suddenly gather together again?" The adjutant's heart tightened, and he understood the seriousness of the matter: "If we maintain the current situation If we continue on our course, we will be able to intercept them before they leave... Mr. Sengoku, what do you think? Do we need to engage in a head-on firefight with them?"

"Fighting head-on..." Warring States looked at the letter thoughtfully over and over again, and after careful consideration, he finally shook his head: "No, these people are very strong individually, and they have recently recruited a lot of vicious people. The wanted criminals, with our current fleet strength, it is unlikely that we can capture them, so we should try to avoid confrontation with them...at least not now."

If Zefa, Garp, and Ahe were all here, he would have gone to war with them without any scruples, but now he is the only super-level combat power in the entire fleet, and there are three on the opposite side... It seems that the ones in Beihai are about to be destroyed. They couldn't help the sacked town this time.

Since the God's Canyon incident, he has more intuitively realized the strength of these people. It is no exaggeration to say that the disbandment of the Rocks Pirates has increased the strength of these people much more quickly. Now he has to fight with When they face each other, without sufficient preparation, they can easily fall into a disadvantage.

Not being able to make fearless sacrifices is the pros and cons that Sengoku must weigh as a high-ranking leader.

"Yes, I understand." The adjutant breathed a sigh of relief in his heart without having to face that group of ferocious pirates, and then suddenly remembered one more thing: "Ah, by the way, there is one more thing."

"Let's talk." Warring States put down the letter and raised his hand to pinch the bridge of his nose tiredly to wake himself up.

The adjutant put the birdcage containing the paper crane on the desk and said, "Mr. Warring States, this paper crane that pointed the way suddenly stopped moving."

"What?!" Warring States immediately slapped the case with a 'bump' sound, frightening the unprepared adjutant!

What, what happened? ?Mr. Warring States was obviously very calm when he was talking about the remnants of Rocks, so why did he start talking about these Thousand Paper Cranes——

The Warring States Period didn't care about the startled adjutant. He immediately opened the birdcage and took out the paper crane and put it in the palm of his hand... Sure enough, after looking left and right, after waiting for a long time, this one suddenly flew for a while. Time passes. The paper crane lies quietly in the palm of my hand as it has for the past 12 years, motionless like a dead thing!

How is this going? ! !

Irene, what happened to her again? ! !

Or……

Suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind. Warring States looked at the adjutant who was still in a state of confusion and roared: "At what time did this paper crane suddenly stop moving?! Is it one o'clock in the morning? all?!"

The adjutant was so excited by his yelling that he even stuttered when he spoke: "Ah, this... seems... no! It's indeed exactly the same! That's right!!"

Under the high-pressure gaze of the Warring States Period, the adjutant stood upright with a military posture, his scalp numb.After receiving his affirmative answer, Warring States seemed to be even more irritated: "...Do you have anything else to do?"

How can you dare to say that there is such a thing? ! !

The adjutant received the evacuation signal from his superior, immediately bowed with a military salute, and retreated in a hurry, leaving only Seng Guo standing alone holding the unresponsive paper crane, his frowning brows unable to relax for a long time... …

"What happened to you..." After a long time, Warring States murmured.

Zhi He reacted between midnight and one o'clock. As far as he knew, this time period happened to be when Irene's 'system' was offline for maintenance.

Why can Zhihe identify her direction only after the system is offline... What is her current condition?

One after another, doubts were running through his mind repeatedly. Zeng Guo wiped his face tiredly, feeling increasingly uneasy in his heart.

...Beihai, chaos, Tianlong people.These few words are already troublesome enough, but now we have to add the three remnants of Rocks with unknown purposes...

Erin...

……

The paper crane was finally put back into the cage. Warring States once again picked up the letter that had just arrived, thinking about many things in his mind——

The situation is getting more and more complicated. His trip is no longer just to bring back Irene. The appearance of Rocks' remnants has fundamentally changed the entire incident... It seems necessary to call Garp over. .

Things in his mind are complicated and complex. Sengoku can sit in this position where power and risk coexist. While carefully weighing the interests of all parties, he must do his best to implement his own justice...

But no matter how big or small things were running through his mind, his eyes never left the paper crane that was no longer moving.

……

…………

After a long time, all thoughts gradually stopped. In the end, Warring States had no choice but to discover that all his plans were invariably leading to the same goal——

Pick up his soon-to-be fiancée who has disappeared for 12 years, his silly girlfriend Miss Irene.

Damn it, this is the only thing on his mind now.

"… Just hold on, I'll be there soon."

No matter the remnants of Rocks, the Celestial Dragons, or the rioters, screw them.